Columbus North High School - Log Yearbook (Columbus, IN)

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Log celebrates its fifty-year For a book to be published fifty years and gain in volume, interest, and sales each year, is quite a feat. This has been the progress of the Log, a very special book. Every year it has forged ahead, usually vith marked improve- ment. The vriters, editors, spon- sors, and publishers have changed, but the purpose has remained lui- laltered and retained its freslmess e en after fifty years. The Log is what is left of every year. The faces on the pages change, and even the year is lost, but a little is captured forever in a high school yearbook. The Class of ' 16 originated a yearbook to give the seniors (the only people allowed on the staff) prestige and to fill a huge gap in the high school circle. The only other attempt made before 1916 to create a yearbook, was in 1896 vhen a small book called the L ' Envoye was published, but it lasted only one year and failed because of lack of interest. From four 1916 Los. staff mem- bers, honored at the yearbook ' s golden birthday party, Mrs. Lucille Spannagel Keller, Mrs. Ruth Ne ' Som Hiniter, Mr. Lloyd Click, and Mr. Robert Harden, it was learned that the first Log sold for 75 and the staff was con- fronted vith the problem of breaking e en or making a profit. They vere told that if the project was not successful in the first year, it voidd not be tried again. There vere selling problems, because the students vere fearfid of trying out the new idea. The joke section was to create interest and acted as one of the main sell- ing points of the Log. W ji2n Lo6

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THE FIFTIETH LOG RTHOLOMEW CODHTY LIBRART Columbu . Indiana 4TW1 1916 A Word In Advance Here ' s a conglomeration of pictures and type we call The 1916 Log. If •e ' ve instituted a custom which will endine in Co lumbus High School for some time, that ' s enuff ; we ' re satisfied. Reprinted from the 1916 Log. 1966 A Word In Reply Yes, the custom was instituted and is thriving after fifty years of existence. In 1966, it is no longer enuff to merely continue a tradition; the Log is an integral part of CHS— its history book and memory file. COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL COLUMBUS INDIANA

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existence with golden anniversary edition One of the difficult tasks the 1916 staff faced was namins: the book. The Pest and the Hash were considered, but rejected. So ni 1916, Christopher Columbus sailed on a joiuney through the halls of CHS, and the ledger of his trip, his Log, was presented as the first yearbook. The seal of Columbus bedecked the first Log as -ell as the fiftieth anniversary edition. The only break in the fifty years of Log was from 1918-1920 when the yearbook vas not pub- lished because of World War I. The custom did not die, ho vever, and in 1921 the Log rolled back vith a war-time theme. Approximately 300 Logs were sold the first year; for 1966, 2000 were printed. 1 12 pages filled the first book hich has gro vn to 196 pages in fifty years. In paper-back form, as were the first five editions, the 1916 Log was the only book to be published in a horizontal layout measuring 81 2 by 6 inches. From 1917 through 1958, the size was 6 by 81 9 inches with a ertical page face, and since 1959, the Log has been its present size of 9i by 12 inches. Li£BpilPI ' ill iiRTHDAY