Brookneal High School - Memoriae Gratae Yearbook (Brookneal, VA)

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Comments on 1947 Publications Contests ANNUALS Judge: Professor £. if. dithers The Journalism Foundation (Vaahingt on-Lee University Lexington, Virginia Group III. Memoriae Gratae . Brookneal High School. Brookneal. Memoriae Gratae is a good and effective yearbook. Perhaps receipts and expenditures could not be forecast in time to permit enlargements and improvements. Your profit of $199 is too much to make on a $133 book. The annual needs first a title page, with its f}§G§g§§{» data. In the administrative section you should have carried ' gigeuroS 7 °ur principal, sponsor, and faculty. I doubt the value of wills, prophecies, and valedictories which are orepared to be spoken and not to be read. Some of your pictures are fair quality, others are poor} and never use a poor snapshot on a page of otherwise good ones. I am not suggesting that you try to publish a letterpress annual, but I think that you should try to make full use of the medium which you use. Study carefully the best yearbooks in all groups, take from them ideas which you can make your own, and try to make Memoriae Gratae a compre- hensive, lively annual, with individuality. Creditable