William Chrisman High School - Gleam Yearbook (Independence, MO)

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SEATED Cleft to rightl: Kay Turner, Doris Hays, Frances Kearney, Carol Anway, Martha Oatman, William Hinde, Curtis Weddle. STANDING: Leona Dye, Paul Clurn, Miss Janie Chiles, Fae Abbott, Johnnie Chrisrnan. ga' ancf14 Sllaff The Business and Advertising Staff of the GLEAM is a group of hard-working students. They spend many after-school hours and sometimes their study hall hours so that this part of the GLEAM may be a success. This year's advertising staff is composed of six faithful students: Paul Clum, Carol Anway, Martha Oatman, Curtis Weddle, Kay Turner, Fae Abbott, and Bill Hinde. The business managers are three students who have the re- sponsibility of handling all the GLEAM rnoneyf they keep strict accounts, and record the home room GLEAM sales. The managers are Leona Dye, Doris Hays, and Frances Kear- ney. The duties of the advertising staff consists chiefly of securing the advertisements which appear in the GLEAM. Staff members are assigned by their sponsor various busi- ness and professional houses in and near lndependence from which to solicit advertis- ing. Since these are often Widely separated, students often spend much time in obtaining their advertisements. The response from these firms has been very good. Some houses have even called the staff requesting space in the GLEAM without having been solicited at all. The staff also measures the space which has been allotted to advertising matter. The duties of the business managers are collecting and keeping careful account of GLEAM money, by no means a small task. The entire staff assists in the distribution of the GLEAMs at the end of the year. Much of the Work of the Business and Advertising Staff is meticulous and time-con- surning. These students and their capable sponsor, Miss Ianie Chiles, are to be compli- mented on an important task well and promptly executed. 29

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. 1 H. A . ,Z 4 Mx, g L15-.Q-,517-'-:avi-f1'. '- ' Y ' WWTH , FIRST ROW: Alice Fitzgerel, Shirley Campbell, Carol Anway, Lita Lou Fisk, Marilyn lohnson, Marianne McBride. SECOND ROW: Mr. Leo Donohew, Earline Snedeger, Kathleen Harcourt, Frances Howard, Shirley Payne, Martha Oatman, Rosemary Olson. '7WW UG!! The typing staff of the GLEAM has one main task to accomplish: lt must prepare all copy for the printer. This is very important work in the publishing of the GLEAM each year. This duty of the members of the staff is to type the articles which 'have been prepar- ed by the literary staff. Copy is then checked for typographical errors. The work of this staff must be done in a relatively short space of time, since the work of the layout and literary staffs is preliminary to the typing of copy and cannot be com- pleted' until near the day of printing. The members of the staff are Shirley Campbell, Shirley Payne, Frances Howard, Lita Lou Fisk, Carol Anway, Marilyn Iohnson, Martha Oatman, Marianne McBride, Earline Snedeger, Kathleen Harcourt, Alice Fitzgerald, and Rosemary Olson. This group was care- fully chosen from many pupils whose ability merited their becoming GLEAM typists. ,They were selected on the basis of their ability to type rapidly and accurately, their thorough- ness in checking material, and their ability to spell correctly. Much extra time is required for this task, but all of these students are willing to give their time in helping make the GLEAM a success. They do most of the typing in the morn- ings before school starts, at noons, after school, and during their study hall periods Even with all this work and their other extra-corricular activities, they rank among the highest in scholarship. The typing staff was very fortunate this year to have Mr. Leo Donohue as .sponsor U d h' ' ' ' ' n er is competent leadership and his capable assistance, the staff has done its work promptly and accurately and has contributed much to the success of- this year's GLEAM. 28

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SEATED fleft to rightk loy Holman, Fae Abbott, Dolores LeMasters, Frances Oeser, lean Bruce, Pat Ramsey, Mary Ann Hartwell, Shirley Payne, Virginia Gard, Suzanne Carpenter, Neldine Gragg, Barbara Morrnan, Mary Taylor, Bernell Stinson, Kay Turner, Milton Hughes, Johnnie Chrisman. y STANDING: Bernie Cudworth, Betty Thomas, loan Grenawalt, Lena White, jackie French, Miss Mabel Potter. '7fze Znacuf, Um Safran! Www The William Chrisman High School newspaper has been variously named since those first days in 1898 when a group of students first started a paper, The School Advocate, which ran but one year. ln l9l7 a club made up of students interested in newspaper work and organized by Miss Nellie Begey published a paper called the Booster, but it sur- vived only one year. However, in l92l a small paper called the Gleam was published biweekly until 1931, when the name was changed to The Chrisman Envoy. Later the Board of Education gave its permission to add to the high school's curriculum a regular course in journalism, in which the students would receive credit for the time and effort put forth on the paper. . Thus in 1942 journalism was introduced in William Chrisman with Miss Mable Potter as instructor. Since then the paper has increased in size and value to the school. lt provides Chrismanites with a record of all school events and offers experience in actual publica- tion for future journalists. The students have a regular textbook, study the various types of newspaper articles, and put samples of these, taken from local newspapers, in a spec- ial notebook. - The class in journalism composes the Envoy staff, the various positions passing in turn to different students so that they may gain experience in the publishing of all parts of the paper. During the second semester the class elects the staff members, each serving one quarter of the year. Milton Hughes and Suzanne Carpenter served as editors-in-chief: Dolores LeMaster and Shirley Payne as assistant editors, Fay Abbott, Ioan Grenawalt, Nel- dine Gragq, Betty Thomas, Kay Turner, Marianne Hartwell, Pat Ramsey, and Bernell Stin- son as page editors: Ioan Grenawalt and jackie French as business managers: and Su- zanne Carpenter as art editor. - ' Besides its regular duties in publishing the Envoy, which number this year more than the usual eagerly-awaited twelve issues, the staff also published a special edition for the Board of Education. 30