Dallas High School - Dragon Yearbook (Dallas, OR)

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dragon tales Advisor Notes Imor ovement High expectations and pleasing results were the outcome of a year of continued hard work for the 1977-78 Dragon Tales staff. Co-Editors Jane Lehto and Barb Reimer began work in the middle of the preceding summer and, along with their advisor Maureen Stallard, they planned the issues for the coming year. The introduction of in-depth features held the paper together. Highlighted themes included contact lenses, driving your first car. Vice Principal Bill Fischer's retirement and competencies. An increase in advertising volume led to the production of a twelve page Thanksgiving issue and a sixteen page Christmas issue. A first for the staff was the separate eight page senior issue produced at the year's end. Parties were held frequently as the staff celebrated the completion of issues. Mrs. Stallard commented, Improvement was seen in all aspects of our production; I was really pleased. Far Top Loft: Jackie libolt works with negatives for the yearbook. Top Left: Dragon photographer, Hal Lindstrom waits for the right pose. Top Right: Randy White updates advertising accounts for the newspaper. For Bottom Left: Yearbook and newspaper staffers share lunch at Farrels while at the O.S.P. conference. Middle Bottom John Marshall, from the Gazette Times in Corvallis, speaks to the Dragon Tales class. Bottom Right: Photographers Mike Rickards and Mike Lowrey enjoy a game of foosball after the O.S.P. conference. Dragon Tales 19

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yearbook DRAGON Though plagued by ongoing problems of staff commitment, personality conflicts and turnover, the writers, designers and photographers of the Dragon still managed to turn in a respectable performance. Working under the awareness that skill and care were necessary to bring the book's national rating up from last year's second class, editors found time to check and recheck details. Reducing total page numbers and making extensive changes in terms of organization, was a necessary but difficult task. As compensation, more and better quality process color was used and this meant earlier deadlines. With more than one-half the staff as seniors, experience often led to complacency and even boredom. Individuals worked best under pressure and little extra time was spent by most. The annual trek to the Oregon State Press Convention attracted nine members and most felt that the experience was helpful as well as fun. While attending the conference two editors, Jane Lehto and Randy White, won top honors in yearbook layout and competition. Through a mixup on trophies, however, the staff found out several months later. In any case, members of the Dragon staff felt that their work helped to make the 1977-78 Dragon a book D.H.S.ers both admire and remember. 18 Dragon

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 Top Left: Lori Caldwell completes a routine in a football pep assembly. Top Right: Varsity Rally: (top) Suzanne Troth, (bottom, left to right) Kathy Sweet, Lynnie Michaels, Lori Caldwell, Lisa Shipley, Lisa Caldwell. Left Bottom: Kathy Sweet and Lisa Caldwell do Dallas at the Forest Grove Basketball game. Right Bottom: The excitement and spirit of Homecoming is shown on the face of Lisa Caldwell. Far Top Right: Varsity Rally and Dexter perform o yell during a home basketball game. Middle Top: Suzanne Troth shows involvement with football action at home. Bottom Left: Rally members present a skit to students at a pep assembly. 20 Varsity Rally