Covington High School - Puffs and Patches Yearbook (Covington, VA)

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VIRGINIA HIGH SCHOOL LITERARY AMD ATHLETIC LEAGUE Box 1487, Charlottesville, Virginia COMMENTS ON THE 1945 PUBLICATIONS CONTEST Annuals Group 2: Puffs and Patches , Covington High School; Rating, Distinguished I greatly enjoyed seeing for the first time in this contest, if I remember rightly the very excellent Covington High School annual, Puffs and Patches, clearly one of the outstandin g yearbook publications of Class 2. Your cover is attractive and sturdy; you were wise to call upon your class artists to decorate at least a few of the division pages, and you explain neatly the significance of the unusual title of your annual. You are aware, no doubt, that youhave a very good photographer, whose work helped you not a little, in attaining the distinguished rating. You strive successfully to record both in pictures and in writing a rounded picture of life in your school. You are democratic enought and sufficiently wealthy to include individuals of all four classes; your group pictures are generally gracefully and naturally posed; particularly I liked the Science Club and Home Economics pictures; the composite of snapshots appropriate to a parti¬ cular section carried on certain of your division pages is indeed a splendid and novel idea; your claendar of highlights is written entertainingly and with verve, although I have difficulty understanding why you put all the pictorial emphasis on one sport. On the other hand, you greatly impaired the historical value of your publication by failing to identify carefully the individuals on a rather large number of your group pictures. Ten or fifteen years from now parts of your annual will be useless. This fault is even more grievous when one dis¬ covers that you include no listing of senior activities. Remember that the shy individual who appears unnamed on only one activity group picture is just as proud of his interest and achievement at the leader whose picture appears frequently; without even a mention of that activity elsewhere he is practically a forgotten person. Judge: C. William Miller Instructor of English University of Virginia