Bishop McGuinness High School - Chi Rho Yearbook (Oklahoma City, OK)

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-3 414 . ' f X Watching the printer set up the type for the school paper are Editor Evelyn Gengler, Mary Mideke, and Dorothy Pat- ten, City Editor. The Journalism Class, under the advisorship of Sister .lane Marie, O.S.B., took up publishing the school paper, the Chi Rhoan, last September with Evelyn Gen- gler and Dorothy Patten as editor and city editor, re- spectively. From the start it moved toward its goal of making the students aware of their vocation as students. Some of the columns which were regular features ot the paper this year were Hi Lights, devoted to amusing and unusual happenings of school lite written by Nancy King, and Alumni Notes by Kathleen Snare which reported happenings of our past seniors. Tim Sprehe penned Around the Keyhole and Frank Man- ni H' ' ng its and Hurdles for the sports-minded. Nancy Price brought out the teatures ot the library in The Book Shelf, and Ann Bott, managing editor, gave the paper a taste ofthe old country with her Lite in Europe column. Proofreoding is serious business, agree re porters Kathleen Snare, Carol Strahl, Bob Thomp son, Quentina Steinke, and Catherine Grout, Page 20

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Voting can be funl Assisting Dorothy Nave in this process are Ruth Fritz, Sara Evans, Ka- ren Steichen, and Bar- bara Evansg while Ann Bott conducts Sally Zoeller into the voting booth. 1 OH WG mor li elec ll H Ike or Adlal?SalIy Zoeller casts her vote OCTOBER 28 The American History Class under the sponsorship of Sister Mary Alicia R S M put on a little stunt for the whole school In order to show them their duty to vote when they get the chance Feeling ran high as the asptrlng politicians of the school campaigned to the last minute for their candn dates ln the two different political parties groups were formed to carry out the different duties of respectable campaigns Then Sister Alicia along with Robert Bor chers appointed groups for the registering of the stu dents and the building of the booths Buttons of all sizes and shapes displaying the title of Ike or Adlal suddenly sprang up on the shirts socks shoes and heads of the students in an Incredible display of political sentiment After a short while the whole school had as much interest In the sublect as did the American History students who first conceived the idea Surprisingly enough the whole task of registration and ballotlng took place in a very dignified manner with very little borsterousness The credit for this was probably due to the wonderful way In which Catherine Grout Car olyn Grout Kathleen McGinnis Janeway McCann Pat Daley Phyllis Worlow Anita Rerner and Richard Baylor handled this situation x Page I9 1 W ' ' skx, ...- ,Q-, Q. X A 2 X y N is ' K. x c . - Aw - - Ai v 4 .1 .1 4 - o . . . ' I 1 - - -1 - 1 . , ' I . . . . . ' 1 I .. .. 1. -r. - -. , ,' .H V A I I 5' , A , . . . 1 QV- 5 I, ' 1 . . . 1 , - ' , ! 1 - - . A 1 V 3 N . . . . E5 l'- M W 1 1 1 if . . . hifi?-'eXgA'X.,N ' 1 Ts' M, 4. 4.'

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1 Copyreading the reporters' stories are Nancy Price, Ann Bott, Frank Manning, Marga- ret Walt and Charles Kelsey. c Editorials are the voice of a paper and the Chi Rhoan always had a good strong voice. Pat Barker's on the materialism in Christmas was one of the top. Several other writers hit their peak in editorials. Bob Cody at- tacked the evils of teen-age vices, while Vince Rieger and Tim Sprehe aired views on social questions. All the work was not confined to the class room, however. Trips to the Oklahoman and Times and the Oklahoma lnterscholastic Press Association conferences, held in the fall and spring, enlivened the year. The Okla- homan and Times trip was to instruct the students in the mechanical operation of the paper while the O.I.P.A. meets concerned the writing side of the paper. ln addition to publishing the Chi Rhoan, during De- cember the stat? also put out the Christmas issue of the O. K. Student the official Y.C.S. paper in the state. The pride and joy of the stat? was what is known in newspaper parlance as a scoop, This comes when the paper is the first to release a piece of news. The Chi Rhoan got three of these during the course of the year. After the mock election, it was the first to announce that Eisenhower had landslided to victory. ln April it scooped Pat Keough's election as May Queen and in May it released the secret of new editor appointments. The fact that the Chi Rhoan was the only highschool in Oklahoma City to win the With Highest Honors award in the state contest is some indication ofthe qual- ity of work that went into each issue of the paper. Rhoan T Criticizing editorial material with Sister Jane Maries help are Tim Sprehe, Robert Cody, PatBarker, and Vincent Rieger. Sister Jane Marie, O.S.B., is journalism and English instructor and yearbook advisor. Page 21 it