Aiken High School - Hornet Yearbook (Aiken, SC)

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Hornet Slade HobnCT Aiken High School’s year-The Hobnei, n Jf. in a short erarv rcQuircrncots. . fr Becoming a member of the H.msrr staff an honor, but it is not honor without ork. The average student does not realize ie headaches and heartaches encountered , trying to plan a Ik,ok that will please zer eight hundred students. Many e'en lgs and weekends, when other students ere dating and dancing, the Hornet staff as busy at work. Above: The business staff prepares the ad section for the 1955 Hornet. Miss Barlow shows Chartee Muckenfuss a technical detail as Sybil McNeil and Ann Schwertfeger check the dummy. Right: Emily Parker. Hermeine Tovey, Laird Slade, Tommy Heyward, and Jim Overbeck check the last-minute details before taking the dummy to The R. L. Bryan Company in Columbia on February 16. 24

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On December seventh several members of the Aiken High School band were selected to audition for the All State Band. Auditions were held in Charleston, South Carolina. Freda Dorman, Kenneth Caver, B u d d y Holley, Jim Meyer, Fred Gentry, Walter Rogers, and John Pope were chosen to participate in this event. In the spring the band competed in the district meet at Orangeburg, later going on to the state contest held at Winthrop College in Rock Hill, S. C. The band closed the season by presenting a spring concert featuring the long practiced pieces used in the district and state competitions. The success of the Aiken High Band should be credited to Mr. William T. Slaughter, director, who had unlimited energies and expectations. Patsy McGee, secretary'; Nookie Rifkin, assistant librarian; Jack Dorn, sargeant-at-arms; Buddy Holley, manager; Walter Rogers, student conductor; Dent Johnson, president; Jon Lackey, vice-president; Virginia Cumbee. librarian; Jimmy Miller, assistant manager; Freda Dorman, assistant librarian; Tom Moseley, treasurer.

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During one of the Thursday Hornet meetings Sydney White (standing) shows the class editors—(left to right) Mary Virginia Wahl, Sandy Voigt, Diane Vander Voort, and Linda Sue Howard—how the class cony should he written and how photographs should be drawn up. Under the leadership of Laird Slade, editor, Sydney White, assistant editor, and Miss Mary Lou Barlow, adviser, the staff began meeting in August. Soon after the 1955 theme and skeletal organization were agreed upon, the detailed planning got under way. Headed by business manager, Chartee Muc-kenfuss, Ann Schwertfeger planned and carried out the advertising campaign and Sybil McNeil organized the subscription drive. When the pictures of students were completed, the class editors—Sandy Voigt, senior; Linda Sue Howard, junior; Diane Vander Voort, sophomore; and Mary Virginia Wahl, freshman-identified and alphabetized each class as that class appeared in the yearbook. After the written material was collected, Jim Overbeck, copy editor, was kept busy proof reading and typing. Emily Parker arranged the feature and activity sections; Henneine Tovey prepared and arranged the art work; and Tommy Heyward planned the sports section. The success of the Hornet this year can be attributed to the “drive” of Laird Slade, the co-operation of the entire staff, and the adviser-ship of Miss Mary Lou Barlow. 25