A B Davis High School - Maroon and White Yearbook (Mount Vernon, NY)

Page 46 text:

cwizi i - new EDITORIAL BOARD ROW 1: M. Cronin, C. LaGuardia, L. Hoey, D. Branner, N. Hochman, R. Harris, M. Maccoby, M. Harris, D. Klein, S. Morgenstern, B. Goldstein, E. Swallow, B. Mitchell, F. Stolmaker, ROW 2: S. Knoll, J. Surtes, P. Peyser, B. Wehbring, C. Masia, N. Robison, D. Slote, T. Warm, E. Yavelow, L. Tyor, H. Levy, A. Kulka, S. Rashkin, M. Maccoby, D. Leaf, ROW 3: .l. Smoleroff, M. Werber, N. Taft, R. Bael, R. Zambrano, M. Copeland, J. Honeck, M. Barrett, C. Victorsohn, M. I-Iudes, V. Balaban, J. Feld, B. Cronin, Mr. Cohen, ROW 4: L. Lotz, S. Boone, L. Goldner, J. Barnett, C. Wolf, F. Baena, N. Wosstroff, R. Mann, S. Harris, M. Cohn, N. Lynn, D. Licht, G. Rona Cuckoo? Who's Cuckoo? Why the HI- NEWS, of course! Not all the time or it would never have been able to walk away with first honors at the Columbia Press Convention each year, but the annual April Fool's Issue was cer- tainly '6Cuckoo.9 April Fool's Day came in with a bang this year as the bright orange uDazed Lo-News was distributed to the students. The paper featured many unusual stories. Perhaps you remember the article uChink Foils Brink, which had a half page picture of the former's notorious auto- mobile in front of the freight yards with uban- dits Cliff Storms and Frank Spicciati 'cshooting it out, or maybe you recall the picture of Davis going up in smoke as a result of a direct hit from an H-Bomb. At the Columbia Scholastic Press Con- vention Martin I-Iarris, Editor-in-chief, was chair- man of a forum 'iMake-up in a School News- paper . Several other members of the uI'Ii-News Staff participated in the discussion along with student editors from all parts of the country. All the members of the staff were permitted to attend the convention, which lasted for three 42 days. On the last day, a luncheon was held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City at which the Sunday Editor of the NEW YORK TIMES spoke to the group. From little acorns big oak trees grow, and the MO1'acle , the infant Hi-News, started in 1900 as a semi-monthly journal. But an energetic EDITORIAL BOARD could not be kept down. Within a few years, its publication became a monthly journal, containing news, literary work, sports stories, and even gossip. When the name of our school was changed to Davis High School in 1933, the uOracle went through a metamor- phosis and emerged as the A. B. Davis uI'Ii-News . In order to get all the work done in its proper place, the present Editorial Board was divided into four main sections-news, feature, sports, and make-up, with Mr. George Cohen, Davis teacher, as the faculty adviser. This year, for the first time since the MI'Ii-News has been in operation, the paper changed its size and make-up. The six-page, four- column edition was no more, but in its place was a more effectively printed four-page, six- column paper.

Page 45 text:

aroon 82 Wife EDITORIAL BOARD ROW 1: H. Schwartz, D. Brown, J. Furman, ROW 2: T. Warm, E. Lewittes, S. Ostrowsky, E. Terzakis, H. Levy, E. Callahan, L. Celentanog ROW 3: R. Goldstein, F. Lucadamo, H. Prosser, B. Myers, Miss Cahalan, S. Subit, Miss Hall, P. Libby, R. Petre, C. Buck, R. Pielli, S. Morgensterng ROW 3: M. Hudes, C. Bower, M. George, R. Ivers, R. Blair, R. Silber, P. Mulaire, J. Kramer, L. Sprinz Back in the early 1900's, the Mount Ver- non High School ANNUAL reproduced pictures of coy flappers, stern teachers and romantic ath- letes. As the times changed, so did the Annual, and in 1926 the MAROON and WHITE emerged -a new name and a modern format. On bright, sunny afternoons, when most Davisites were enjoying cherished freedom, the ambitious members of the MAROON AND WHITE EDITORIAL STAFF labored amidst clicking typewriters, past annuals, pictures to be identified, senior polls, hundreds of reports, stories and art plates. In charge of the less glamorous side of producing the yearbook was the MAROON AND WHITE BUSINESS BOARD. If it were not for the seemingly endless task of arranging student and faculty photo appointments, selling sub- scriptions to students, selling advertisements, securing payments, filing letters, bank statements and financial reports, keeping the books bal- anced, plus delivering the yearbook to the awaiting subscribers, the job of the Business Board would be a comparatively simple one. However, under the expert guidance of Mr. Sundermann, who this year assisted with his twelfth issue of the uMaroon and White , every- thing was done efficiently and promptly. Much credit for this year's Annual goes to Harold Schwartz and Josh Furman, co-editors, Richard Pielli, whose beautiful cover design we are proud of, Paul Mulaire, who completed three years of service on the art staff, Miss Hall and Mr. Dodds, who supervised the art work, Miss Cahalan, the guiding light of the Editorial Board, Mr. Sundermann, and their combined staffs of approximately fifty Writers, artists, typists and business assistants. The first annual, appearing in 1900, was produced with a much smaller staff. Started by only four editors, the complete book cost less than one hundred dollars, many times less than today's expenses. We were fortunate to have one of those original editors, Mr. Albert S. Davis, return fifty years later to pose with his young successors of 1950 as shown on the opposite page. 41

Page 47 text:

BUSINESS BOARD ROW 1: J. Woolf, H. Benwit, B. Kronish, T. Weil, ROW 2: E. Sprinz, E. Corwin. C. Murphy M. McEvoy, B. Freedenberg, J. Fontana, M. Stern, J. Posner, T. Altobellig ROW 3: R. Warshauel J. Feld, B. Cannellos, P. Doyle, M. Friedman, A. Katzenstein, R. Gulker, L. Karp, R. Karen, D. S0001 M. Pucci, Mr. Altschuler Behind the door of 204B, mysterious and isolated, at the end of the second floor, one could see the hurly-burly, confusion, and disputation that went into the making up of each issue of the f'Hi-News . In 1901, the paper was called the Oracle , but after the building of A. B. Davis High School on the hilltop, it took the name of the dHi-Newsw to coincide with its high position. The main duty of the H1-NEWS BUSI- NESS BOARD was the financial responsibility of the paper. Perhaps this accounted for the tendency of some of the members of the staff to write on the walls! They were trying to balance the books! Another important and highly diffi- cult job was obtaining subscriptions from the students. This past year, with the aid of the force- ful MHi-News Reps, more than eleven hundred persons subscribed. A new plan was introduced in taking subscriptions. If someone was desirous of buying the paper, but was not able to do so at the time of the drive, he could give a fraction of the sum to the Rep and pay the rest when he was financially prepared. Such a plan proved very successful in helping those students who daily frequented ltchums and the Broken Drum. Students on the Board learned the best method of approaching people when asking for ads, the art of cooperating with others, and the actual work involved in publishing a high school newspaper. Entirely written, edited, copy-read, galley-read, proofread, and circulated by the staffs, the HHi-Newsf' was available only by sub- scription. ' This year, the staff again attended the Annual Columbia Scholastic Press Association Conference at Columbia University, where they conducted a forum on 'Tinancing a School Paper Through Advertisingw. The paper received first honor rating for the sixth consecutive year, along with first place in the National Scholastic Press Association Contest of Minnesota, and the Empire State Award given by the University of Syracuse. With these excellent awards went Mr. Altschuler's thirteenth year as a very able faculty adviser and forty-nine years of praise for a wonderful news- paper. 43