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

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SOUTHERN ACCENT (L diior ELSA ALLCOOD Dropping her Yankee brogue, Elsa took an intensive course in the crea- tion of a Southern Accent. Adopting tlie traditional diet o£ coftee, she beat a steady jjath around the edi- torial circuit and managed to keep her wires connected to the AOPi ' s, IRC ' s, basketball court, and the his- tory department. Her greatest joy — synchronized activities; her constant enemy — Time. K:l uiiiteii anaqer JIMMY OGLE The T-formation backed up the labors of advertising tycoon. Ogle, who kept a line drawn straight across the Accent ' s debits and credits. Fi- nancial demands of an inflationary year kept him knocking on the doors of Birmingham businessmen, and his successful balancing act brought plau- dits from all departments. His pet theory — a little hard work; his basic philosophy — but you gotta have fun.

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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.

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3. HILLTOP The staff -was ahvays large but come Tuesday noon typists covild not be found nor were reporters available. There were always a few old faithfuls though vho Avould dig up something to write for the weekly reviews. Phyllis and then Dottie always had social ne ' ws, and Joe Cunniff or Coker vould come through with the sports. As long as Johnson had a right arm, he ' d turn in Impressions, and Ogle was good for a rather lousy column inconsistently. Jimmie Nell did lots of typing and of course Marilynn held up the business staff single-handed. Shug Tvould keep his camera going -when and if the bud- get warranted it. To keep the record clear Foss came through regularly with a financial report fi ' om the Exec Coun- cil vhich no one would read. The office ' as grand central station for gym parasites and telephone users, for the Book Exchange and money changers. We all learned a lot about column inches, ems and type, about campus doings and recurrent problems. It vas all reflected in some thirty-five issues, good, bad, and indifferent — the product of a weekly grind vhich man- aged to be harrowing, but pleasant and profitable. Seated, left to right — Cooper. Edwards. Doerr. Standing — Row 1, Martin. Lewis, McDonald, Paxton, Brentzel, Stacey, Kidd, Sutton. Roju 2, Boutwell, Coker, Shugerman, Brown, Foss, Howard.