Aiken High School - Hornet Yearbook (Aiken, SC)

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Money is an important part of any organization. Alice Willing, business manager, counts the receipts from the sale of an issue of Hi-Times. This year’s Hi-Times will be remembered for the reworked typography and advanced layout. The photographs were sharper, the paper was whiter, and new standards of accuracy were set. Miss June Geiger, in her first year of teaching at Aiken High, was the publication’s faculty adviser. The reporters and section editors found a number of opportunities open to them— membership in Quill and Scroll, recognition in Winthrop College’s Storij-of-tlie-Month contest, and participation in statewide press conventions. Hi-Times is a member of Quill and Scroll and the South Carolina Scholastic Press Association. At the beginning of each semester the Hi-Times business staff plans the advertising campaign and subscription drive. Alice Willing, Ruth Worley, Martha Rushton, Loretta Plott. Donna Lucas, and Ramona Pierce are the individual ! wilt) perform these unacclaimed but essential duties. Before each issue goes to the printer. Cissy Slayton, Lucy Sloan. Anne Giboney, Janice Baird, and Sue Markland type the copy so that the linotype operator will be sure to set the copy correctly. These members are the ones who give many afternoons of work that the AHS paper will come out on schedule.

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Hi-Times Faye Rackley, editor, inspects some of the most modern printing equipment at one of the local printing shops. Hi-Times, the oldest of the school’s publications, prints eight issues each year. The twenty-seven members of the staff publish on four pages of newsprint a chronicle of past events, a glimpse of things to come, and amusing and interesting features of the present. Directed by Faye Rackley, editor the staff engaged in all phases of putting out a newspaper — selling ads, copywriting, editing, drawing layouts, and supervising the work right at the print shop. Top ton-: Mrs. Geiger, Adviser, Fred Maxwell, Johnny Wingfield, Judy Turner, Pete Wallace, Karen Hansen, Cecil Etherredge, Clyde Davis, Sue Markland. Bottom: Lucy Sloan, Dee Chandler, Jill Ryon, Linda Leifermann, Rose Mary Ram, Faye Rackley, Cissy Slayton, Janice Baird. Judy Cotter, Barbara Wright, Beverly Jones. 26

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Cheerleaders Six girls and two boys formed the 1954-55 varsity cheerleaders. The boys were chosen from the student hodv at large and the girls were chosen from the sophomore, junior, and senior classes—one from the sophomore, two from the junior, and three from the senior. This group led the student body’s cheering at all the football and basketball games. They were awarded cheerleading letters and had the pleasure of attending the football banquet. Following the “scrub”, or “B ”, team was a group of girls—volunteers from the freshman class — who called themselves the junior cheerleaders. Wendv Riven bark Louise Nlallette, Larry Courtney, Sissy Cothran, Wendy Rivenbark, Chartee Muckenfuss. head cheerleader, Gaye Galloway, James Bsjbb, Rose Mary Seigler.