Sylvan Hills High School - Bruin Yearbook (Sherwood, AR)

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Improving paper is fulltime job The paper staff started last year with nothing. No equipment, no experience, no journalistic tradi- tion: nothing. Since then a head- liner, a waxer, two electric type- writers and a light board have been purchased. Several people have gained the experience that is need- ed to publish a paper. The depart- ment established a reputation on the state level, winning the AHSPA presidency, and individuals won awards on both the state and re- gional levels. That success was brought with hard work and desire, which brought with it the frustration of coming a long way, and then realizing that you haven’t even started. Hours spent over light boards, waste baskets filled with first, sec- ond and twenty-second drafts of a story, ruined rolls of film, deadlines missed - these experiences altered each journalist at least a little. The old moral easier said than done must have been especially thought up with the BANNER in mind. Upholding the reputation of being Arkansas' only weekly high school paper takes a lot more than an hour or two of work. - Three hours dur- ing school time and many more af- ter keep the staff quite busy pre- paring a paper that, in the end, still isn't as satisfying as it could be. The finished product is run over for misspelled words, balance, and writing quality, then set aside as a guideline in an effort to im- prove next week’s issue that is al- ready taking form on the light ta- ble. Easy? Not quite. The enormous job of covering all school activities falls into the hands of the reporter, each one as- signed to a specific beat. Their duty is to: 1) track down connect- 26

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FIRST ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: Beck)' Venable, Christy Harvey. Lisa Botcan, Janie Armellini, Janet Hicks. Sandra Calva. Patricia McKclvey. Toni Edmonston, Terri Edmonston, Vikki McCraw, Lisa Lollar, Debbie Frazier. Linda Painter, Vikki Pennington, Debra Terry, Ann Ethridge, Beverly Comer, SECOND ROW; Becky Stewart, Cindy Healey, JanisLawhen. Jackie Jernigan, Verna Dorsey, Gina Hatfield. Cheryl Blain, Debbie Benetz, Brenda Broyles, Janet Long, Carla Smith, Linda Dent. Joyce Hoover, Cheryl Wood, Cheryl Mitchell, Missy Pride, Jane Bondhus. THIRD ROW: Donna Brush, Connie Bentley, Shannon Hagerman. Suzanne Milner, Cyntnia Scroggins, Phyllis Miller, Patty Wright. Connie Holland, Debbie Parks, Brenda Bridges, Susan Fuller, Desiree Archer, Jeany Fetzer. Carolyn Brush, Cynthia Henry, Dcirdre Saville, Donna Morgan Beverly Staggs. Cathy Hicherson, FOURTH ROW; Tamcra Ratcliff. Cathy Dcarman, Lydia Downs. Becky Thompson. Becky Simpson, Carolyn Padgett, Paula Williams, Maureen O’Nale, Gail Mantooth. Mandy Hall, Donna Rinks, Vic- kie Frazier. Lou Ellen Tedford. Carma Westcnhaver. Debi Nesbitt, Billie Ard, Naoma Holland. Aronia Bernard. Nancy McKay, Darlene Davis.

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ed persons; 2) get all informa- tion on the subject (using the same old 5 W's); 3) arrange the crypto- gram in readable fashion; and 4) proofread material. From the imaginative mind of its writer, the copy travels into the paper bails of an old manual type- writer, for roughing and justifying, then to an IBM for final typing. Moving away from a pair of magic fingers on the keyboard, the same piece of paper is again checked for errors and then put through the waxer to be forever glued on final layout sheets. The last and final step in taking the new-born paper to the publishers for printing - hoping to get it back by Friday afternoon. OPPOSITE LEFT: Eugene Atha and Gina Hatfield brood over the BANNER. Eugene masqueraded as Mr. Sports and Gina served as the resident jack-of-all-trades. LEFT; Carl Bainbridge. editor of the BANNER, gives tne old sales pitch to convince a manager that an ad would boost business. BELOW; Guitar pickers aren’t the only people who getcallused finger tips. Donita Hanson keeps her fingers in shape playing the role of head typist for the newspaper. 27