Central High School - Arrow Yearbook (Aberdeen, SD)

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THE PRINT SHOP The Central high school print shop had its origin in 1914, at which time Mr. K. H. Patrick gathered a few cases of type, a 10x15 platen press, a 25-inch lever paper cutter, and set to work in what is now room 27 of the Central building. In the fall of 1916 Mr. J. H. Schott became the instructor of printing and, with the addition of more type and other material, led the destinies of the boys enrolled in the course until the spring of 1919. At that time Mr. R. R. Deimer assumed charge of the shop and began asystematic addition to the equipment of the plant until it outgrew its quar- ters and had to be moved, in 1923, to what is now room 17 of the Central bu l- ding. There it prospered to the extent of several type cabinets filled with fonts of more modern type faces, and the purchase of a new 12 X18 Chand- ler and Price platen press. Publication of the Blue and Gold was begun. and at a later date f1920J the school yearbook, the Arrow, first appeared. Following Mr. Deimer's appointment to the principalship during the spring of 1931, crowded conditions forced the removal of the plant to the basement of the Washington building, where it was installed in a room that had previously been a gymnasium. Mr. Bert Popowski took over the duties of the shop in the fall of the year, new body type for the Arrow and cases and cabinets to house it were purchased, a second-hand 8x10 press was added to the two already on hand, and the shop opened its doors to the influx of print- ing students for the seventeenth year of its existence. At the present time the shop does all of the composition, presswork, and binding on the Arrow, prints a weekly Blue Sz Gold, and takes care of printing all school forms.

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JOURNALISM The make-up room of the Blue and Gold and a portion of the staff during the fall semester is shown above. Dick Walker, advertising mana- ger, may be seen standing near the files in which all material is kept. Doug Trish, business manager is also near the files. Leaning over the make - up table is Leo Winfrey, managing editor. Seated are Arlene Cassidy and Bernice Ribnick, editors of the Blue and Gold at that time. Until this fall a great part of the work was done by local printing concerns. Owing to present conditions, the paper is now completed almost entirely by the students, at a reduced cost of 50 per cent. Naturally this necessitated more space, therefore the above room was fitted up for the use of the journalists, and there they struggle with a weekly issue of the paper. The Blue and Gold is the only printed weekly high school paper in South Dakota. Alternating staffs, one named Blue and the other Gold, pub- lish the paper on alternate weeks throughout the school year. Comprising the two outstanding papers of the fall semester were the Thanksgiving and Christmas editions. A turkey background on the front page and a fitting sport background on the sport page, made the Thanks- giving issue attractive. The edition was edited by the Gold Staff. A ten page Christmas paper, the largest of the semester, was edited by the Gold Staff. A five-column cut of the toys perfected by the Home Economics Department, the Art and Shop departments were the main fea- tures of the front page. Letters to Santa Claus were sprinkled throughout the paper. Dwight Coursey is the advisor of the Blue Sz Gold publication.

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TI-l E LIBRARY The Aberdeen High Library was introduced on a small scale in 1905, the shelves for the book being in the assembly hall, and part of them in a small room of the high school. In 1911, a room was arranged and given over entirely to library use. Since then it has been enlarged by the addition of an adjoining classroom which is used mainly for a place to study for the students and as a room for all magazines and reference books. Miss Thomas on a full-time schedule and a specially-trained librarian, is in charge of the library. Assisting Miss Thomas are high school girls, who work at the desk during their free periods. Two girls work at the desk each period of the day. They check out books and magazines in addition to helping find diff- erent books and references for students in all High School classes. The library has a very complete set of encyclopedias much in demand and use of the students in the library for looking up various references need- ed in their work. The library in the school enables the students to do their work there instead of having to go to the city library. At the present time the library is ranked as 95 per cent equipped. During the school year about an average of 275 students use the library for at least one hour a day. Every night about 200 books are checked out by different pupils wishing material for book reports or other references. There are now over 7000 books in the library, including all the leading publications and reference books. It also has its share of the leading newspapers, including the New York Times, the Minneapolis Journal and the Christian Science Monitor.