Coker College - Milestone Yearbook (Hartsville, SC)

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92 LEFT TO RIGHT: Reaves, Banks, White, Frances Gurley. ok Gateway Sally Banks, Editor Budding literary minds have a chance to express themselves through contributions to the annual spring publication of the Gateway. This is Coker’s literary maga- zine comprised of essays, short stories, sketches, and poetry by student authors. Awards are offered for the best work in each division. Work on the Gateway begins far in advance of the publication date, as Editor Sally Banks and her Assistant Editor Charlotte Reaves read and re-read all material sub- mitted. Conferences with Art Editor Frances Gurley fol- low; the aid of Typist Marian White is enlisted; the lay- out is planned; and the Gateway is well on its way! Not until the cover has been chosen and the last proof sheet corrected, however, is the staff's work completed. Then comes the satisfaction of offering to all, Coker’s “proudest products of the pen.”

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Look through the Periscope for a students’ eye view of campus news and features! Coker’s bi-monthly newspaper, the Periscope is edited by students who are interested in journalism. The paper is a member of the South Carolina Collegiate Press Association and the Associated Collegiate Press. Extra! Extra! The Periscope is off the press. Circulation Manager Dixie Whittington distributes the papers and mails copies to off-campus subscribers. It is the job of Exchange Edi- tor Hazel Johnson to send papers to other colleges. Business Manager Louise Price posts bills to the advertisers. Yet the assembled group in Editor Ann Boatwrigh t’s room has little time to enjoy its finished product. Already plans for the next edition of the Periscope are in the making. Ann con- fers with the Assistant Editor Frances Ligon and News Editor Delores McCracken; news possibilities must be explored, pic- tures planned, articles assigned . . . “What events will make interesting features?” ponders Feature Editor Sally Banks. Re- porters Jane Collins, Bobbi Finch, and Mary Kay must meet that deadline! “Who goes to town this afternoon with Pat Rosey?” Ad- vertising Assistants Louise Harper, Jane Howie, Carol Prigden, and Peggy Stogner know they must pound the pavement for those seventy inches of ads necessary for each edition of the Periscope. LEFT TO RIGHT: Price, Rafletis, McGuirt, Whittington, Hosey, Pridgen. ABSENT when picture was made: Ann Boatwright, Editor Louise Price, Business Manager Finally, the last assignments are completed, but still the editors burn the midnight oil. Rewrite that article... cut an inch here . . . construct headlines . . . compose an editorial. The typewriters of Louise Harper, Anne McGuirt, Yvonne Raftelis, and Gene Townsend click busily. Then the material is off to be printed by the Hartsville Messenger, which so will- ingly co-operates with the Periscope. Surely the staff can now breathe a sigh of relief! But back come the proof sheets to be corrected by Copy Editor Virginia Hall Brinson, and the final dummy is set up. Only then is work on this edition completed. As the papers are distributed, again the staff assembles in the editor’s room—and again we know we will have a Periscope to be proud of! Harper, Howie, Stogner, Townsend. f i 4 H i i

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Sophiades The staff with the fluttering blue and gold ribbons pauses over a girl, then gently taps her on the shoulder. The hushed auditorium resounds with our applause as another of our classmates is tapped for Sophiades, Coker’s honorary scholastic society. New members are selected on the basis of scholastic achievement and contribution to college life. Only one- sixth of the senior class and one-half of the eligible juniors may be admitted. Suphiades gives awards annually for the best student re- search work and creative work. Personalities fg il aes moo] ‘ tt SEATED: Langford, Dr. Matthews, Miss Floyd, Douglass—President, Ward, Baxley. ; STANDING: Plowden, DuRant, Boatwright, S. Rodgers, Dr. Keuhner, Stoll, Ruthven, Dr. Barry. 0 Whe We are proud of our upper-class leaders on campus, and each fall we let the world know about it by electing them to WHO'S WHO AMONG STUDENTS IN AMERICAN COL- LEGES AND UNIVERSITIES. These students are selected for this honor by the faculty and the senior class. Scholarship, leadership, and contribution to college life are the outstanding characteristics for which these girls are chosen. Yet we would add another quality—that extra spark ‘of friendliness that is the Coker spirit. SEATED: Martha Langford, Barbara Ward. ; STANDING: Sylvia Sweet, Lib Plowden, Ann Boat- wright, Faye Baxley. nani fag Te 4 93