Birmingham Southern College - Southern Accent Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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GOVERNMENT The Hilltop Honor Council reflected in its membership and activities the long-established tradition of vork vith honor which has become a cemented facet of Hilltop life. Led by Bill Acker, president, the Council helped to supervise student elections, and student activities. They carried out the task of acquainting each Hilltopper with the provisions of the Honor Code by explaining the code to freshmen at orientation and by having each student sign the honor pledge. HONOR COUNCIL First Row, left In right — Elrod, B r i 1 1 a i n. Acker, Chappie, Thomas.

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DL STUDENT Seated, left to right — Calderbank, Shepherd, Zicarelli, Norton, Real, Foss. Second Row, left In light — B r o w n, Timbcrlake, Pool, (liapple, Shores, U r a n d c s, Sea y, Doerr, HoUey. THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL Executive Council saw to it that El- bert ' s energetic freshmen were well oriented and welcomed at an all-cam- pus gym party. Councilors Bill Acker and Ruth Shapard helped stage the Southern Accent Beauty Ball. When winter came, Zic wasn ' t far behind. The new president created quite a stir by introducing voting ma- chines into Hilltop election days — as if the campaigns weren ' t sensational enough. All year long Bern Calderbank and company slaved over the constitution. Their revised version will permit more student participation, cut out a lot of red tape and bottlenecks and provide a more efficient and effective govern- ment.

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ke S e a t e d, left to right — Deagon, St. John. Allgood, Ogle, Standing — Shap- aid. Cross, Barnes, Shiigcrman, Day, Hughes, Jackson, lewis. Brown, Cun- iiiff, Dovel, Grace, Kt)binson, The woes and avails of the editor were many. There were all sorts of problems to publishing a yearbook which one, just entering the business, Avould never dream of. The job of collecting wheels and just plain people for pictures, long and late evenings at the engravers, harried con- ferences with the staff, hours and hours hammering out copy on the ' trusty Royal, and the ever-present deadlines. The end of the year brought rueful glances at report cards. Sharing the burden of both work and play on the editorial side were Joe Ctui- niff, Anne Lewis, and Bib Hughes, who covered the sports field with an eye for news-makers; Donald Deagon and Stony Jackson, who chased down Greek re- porters for that section; Ruth Shapard, Roddy Cross, and Jimmy St. John, vho handled the tedious job of collecting and arranging names, pictures and data for the class section; Kathelyn Day, who labored long hours on second floor Munger getting the last word on organ- izations; and Daphna Barnes, who kept her fingers keyed to the typewriter and S.A. copy. Dave Shugerman and his trusty Speed Graphic were steadily at work for months, foctising their atten- tion on every phase of Hilltop life. The majority of pictures in this book are his skilled handiwork. Beating the streets of Birmingham for backers in the book were Ogle and his trustees, Dudley Dovel, Morwenna Rob- inson, Charlie Brown, and Bob Grace. Thanks to them the monthly reports to the P-B were favorable in a year when operating costs climbed relentlessly up and out-of-bounds. The 1948 Accent reflects more than just a year on the Hill. It is the offer- ing laid by the staff upon an altar of hard labor, cooperation, friendly asso- ciations, and the tmtold headaches of the fourth estate.