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ey ow. VOL. l, No. I HE first edition of THE RAILSPLITTER, official school newspaper. was printed May 1925, as a literary attempt on the part of memloers of that memorahle first class of Ahraham Lincoln High School. The cut of the loaloy appearing on this page is I7 years old, having been treasured hy lVlrs. Goldie Arnold. registrar, after it was run on the front page of that first RAll.-SPl.lPl+l-ER to typify the infant newspaper with its appealing cut-line. Help us make him growl He .iw-at ailspl itt-ev' i Z? 49 l 1 f 2: ,ig cw, L lr, use Ny, Q' 152 -K if 30 l K I r , r dxf Blk N y '- D Vlmmalmf 'X Q0 Help uS make, him raw. K.E.-+8615 The cartoon was drawn hy Kate Eldridge and Billy Strangeg and the paper was edited hy Frances Roloerts. Somewhat miniature compared to today's RAILSPIJT- TERS. the first edition measured ten lay fourteen inches. and consisted of two sheets. No rules divided the four columns allotted each page. No section was set aside for sports and none for edi- torials. Carrying 45 inches of advertising. the first edi- tion displayed a I0-inch, 2-column ad of Frankels a firm which still huys space in THE RAILSPLITTER. Sports news disclosed that hoys were looking forward to a horse-shoe tournament among homerooms and were hoping for a city tournarnentl The year following its initial appearance. THE RAIL- SPLITTER hegan to he issued regularly, and was pulo- lished hy a staff which included the 15 members of the first journalism class. ln the third year of its existence, on January 21, 1927, a special senior numher of THE RAILSPLITTER was puhlished commemorating activities of the first class ever to graduate from Ahraham Lincoln High School. And thus, the first SENIOR RAILSPLITTER was evolved and is preserved today in newspaper form as a part of the regular RAILSPLITTER . . . Vol. 5, No. S. Office Staff-.fTop Picturel-Left to right: Braclish, Westeroaard, Crawford, Petit, Bloom- quist, Bradish, Darns, Calvert, Mrs. Arnold. Advisers' Staff- First Row, seated left to right: York, Carman, Mr. Betz, Mrs. Hall, Vestal. Second Row: Small, Hines, Iackson, Pilmer, Sonneborne, Mapel, lohnson, Clemmer. Monitcrs-t'irst Row, left to right: Holmes, Pandall, St. Iohn, Mitchell, Stanton, Osipchack, Durand, Murphey, Wilson. Second Bow: De Pino, Iohnson, Hines, Evans, Carl, Greenfield, De Appolonia, Stevens, Mr. Betz. Third Row: Uhlman, Peppers, Clark, Robinson, Helms, lefiries, Martin. Fourth Row: Bulwan, Bell, Buckley, Brown, Van Trisk, Warrick, Deever, Bushong, Burgett, Roland. Tennis and Golf-First ROW, left to right: Clark, Davis, Mote. Second Row: Comiskey, Bradley, Gasperi, Newton, D. Clark, York. Third Bow: Mr, Morgenthaler, Lester, Iohnson, Morris, H. Iohnson, Mr. Baskerville, Barber, Sonneborne. Fourth Row: Brightman, Wallace, Pefferle, Lurie, Moore.
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