Northrop High School - Bear Tracks Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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hard work to publish weekly newspaper Patty Mertz, What ' s Bruin Sports Editor con- centrates on pasting up the newspaper.

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What ' s Bruins staff uses skill, dedication, and The What ' s Brain staff front I to r: Mike Wolfe, Rob Green. Bob Aker, Sharon Vaughn, Gary Paugh, Deb Stark. Ken McBride, Kathy Combs. Rich Ingey. Karen Lyons. Back L to r. : Jeff Landgrebe. Greg Papagiannis. Scott Kopecky, Jeff Dewcese, Joel Moss, Dave Swain, Bill Coleman. Tami This years newspaper had more in the way of completeness in stories and cover- age, comments the advisor Mr. Sweeney. There was a lot more experience on equip- ment and stvle and there was more con- This is the second year that the North- rop staff has made up and printed their own advertisements and paper. They also started delivering the papers to the in- dividual lockers this year. This is a much more efficient way to get the papers to the student body. The 1974-75 -What ' s Bruin staff and beginning journalism students sold a to- tal of approximately S3. 100.00 worth of ads. Advertising editor Gary Paugh sold approximately from SI, 200.00 to SI, 300 worth of ads. Mr. Sweeney feels that Gary is a commendable asset to the staff and would be to any staff. During the school year, the newspaper staff went to visit a few elementary I ;y talked about newspapers and why they are needed. They vent to J. State University for Day. While there, the staff members participated in many different workshops concerning the different as- pects of newspaper work and commun- Smith, Mary Mertz, Patty Mertz, Bob Pea, Kevin Dunn, Olden Ray, Bob Landolfi, Dan Mollison. Colleen Guilder, Willie Hamilton, Deb Thomas, andGwin Smith. Not pictured, Cindy Lambert. Hank Hankey, Scott Zook, Bonnie Griffith, Dave Billings, and Barb Bistol. Senior Kevin Dune; Feature Editor for What ' s Bruin, lakes his frustrations out on his pencil. Does it] taste go id Kevin?

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Photographers and Typists form the backbone Sophmore Cindy Johnson was really a help to the journalism department as she worked as a composer operator. Two areas in the Northrop publications program are teh composer operaters and photographers. These areas didn ' t exist in igram in the state until a few years ago and they are now on an upswing. Composer operaters are typist who are taught to use a special IBM computer type writer and they actually set copy that will appear in the What ' s Bruin newspaper or in the Bear Tracks yearbook. Jobs for composer operaters are rela- tively new in business, but more and more offices are installing them. Photograph} ' is still in the growing stages at Northrop but is gaining in popularity. There is no class, so the people interested have to learn on their own time, either after school of during a study hall. There were over twenty people in the photograph} ' program this year with the majority of them taking pictures for the yearbook and newspaper. Seniors on the photo staff included Tom Black. Dan Turner, Larry Edmundson, Chervl Skinner, and Bob Pea. enioi vas a important part of the journalism depart • a composer operato r. Judy is shown typing copy for the year hook. 1 JH