Goshen High School - Crimson Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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THE CRIMSON IINI1IIIIIIIIIIII III THE STORY OF THE STAFF iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii lllllllllllll tllllllllllllllllllllllllllllMJIIIIIIIIIItlllllllllllflM iriiNiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiir ti t is practically general custom that the staff of the school magazine or annual is first selected or nominated by a faculty advisory corrmittee, which considers the merits of several people for each of the positions on the staff, on the basis of scholarship and estimated ability. The list of candidates is then submitted to the senior class, and the election of any individual to a position on the staff is made by popular vote. The advantages of an early election of the staff cannot be stressed too much. The major factor among these being that plenty of time is afforded for making plans for the entire year and that all of the staff members may become thoroughly accus- tomed to the routine. Moreover, this course is more greatly emphasized when the staff must initiate a change in the type of publication, as was the case this year when the senior class voted a change from the annual to the monthly magazine. In this event, the staff in forming its plans, cannot lean on prece- dent but must strike out for itself. As this was the condition under which the Crimson of 1924-25 was published it is from the angle of the organized staff that this article is written. When all formalities, with the selecting of the senior staff have been completed the staff enters upon its duties. First among these especially this year was laying out of the new magazine, as to the number of issues, size of the book, quality and kind of paper to be used in the cover and body of the magazine, arrange- ment of type, columns, general makeup, and other innumerable details. To mention only a few of the business side of the venture, there was the cost of the magazine to the staff in connection with printing and engraving, the amount of advertising to be used, and fixing the cost of advertising space and subscriptions. The magazine then must be presented to the assembly and all tentative plans regarding it be ex- plained, and as many as possible of the students ' signatures be placed on the dotted line of later-to-be- redeemed pledge cards. The problem of securing money that follows is the business manager ' s affair. His struggle for paid in subscribers takes the form of a large, drawn out campaign, with the members of the editorial staff rendering all the aid possible to supplement the sales psychology of the business manager. With a normal staff success for the magazine is determintd by the amount of financial support in its coffers. This is a tight and immovable law, and holds true equally in the publication of a pamphlet of a natural journal. The staff at first decided upon a sixteen page. 7 issue, size 1 y i x 10 4 magazine with cover and design to be changed to suit occasions ; the body of the book was to be enamel paper of good quality, type columns were 3 b} ' Sj ' s inches, using 10 point cas ' on type, lines spaced one point; the advertising was to constitute about one-fifth of the magazine. For purpose of economy and of securing novelty of design, it was decided to use, in lieu of zinc etchinss, wood-cuts drawn and cut by members of the com- mercial art class, under the direction of Mr. Arthur Sprunger, who has already described the process in the December issue of the Crimson. After these preliminary, but much discussed prob- lems were settled, attention was turned to staff organization. A junior staff consisting of two members from each class representing that organ- ization were selected by the senior staff, which voted upon the several high honor students of each respect- ive class. The various heads of departments, having by observation and direct information been broken into their tasks, began their routine work; and gradually as far as it was possible, the staff became welded into a smoothly acting group which must have all the essentials of a large family, where all jarrings and personal antagonisms are unthinkable. It will perhaps be interesting to know in just what does staff routine consist. After carefully surveying the field, the editor and his associate editors make out what is known as a news sheet, which is nothing more than a co ' lection of assign- ments for the members of the staff, stating the assignment, perhaps a feature, news item, or an 24

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THE CRIMSON schools ! Inch by inch, let us grow until we reach the top-notch in school spirit. Lei us measure up! Thelma Goldsmith, ' 25 GOOD-BYE G. H. S. For four years we have been traversing a trail, the culmination of which we could not see. We accepted events as they cam.e, made the best of them, and then turned our faces ahead in that form of buoyant expectancy that only youth, full of the warmth and softness of spring, can possess. Now as we are nearing the end, the sheltering mists of our brief sojourn here are parting, and we know that we have made no mistake in choosing our path — that the veil served only to permit our de- velopment to proceed, unmolested by the thundering reality of a busv and hustling outside world. We begin now to grasp the proper perspective, and to get a glimpse of what we have gained. Not until we have stepped for the last time from old .G H. S. can we realize in full what a wealth of treasure we possess. But already we can see that the habit of consistent labor, when our more natural inclinations would have had us do otherwise, was a gain of inestimable value. During the past four years we have learned to respect constituted authority, and to follow the finest clauses of discipline, even though we felt that we had ver y just and logical reasons for believing that certain rulings should have been abolished. We learned of the spirit of pure democracy ; and without becoming bitterly partisan, we have been fitted to take our positions in a free and democratic society. As the curtain is falling on our high school life, we feel that the intellectual and social attainments we ha e beached here can be measured and their full worth realized only after the successive years nave shed their infinite light of understanding about us. We know not the details ; but we do know that the general state will be one of complete satisfaction to ourselves and, we sincerely believe, to those about us. As we press on toward that happy destination, our eyes must be turned to the future and to those things which it holds in store. But we can never forget the dear, old days in Goshen High School. Now and then, we shall halt in the onward journey, and take a fond look at the scene of our early ex- periences; and it can be only with a spirit of regret that we see that spot fading farther and farther into the distance. Paul Kauffman, ' 25 LESLIE DIVELY The Clock -atcJi -ill nou: go off duty. — T N T — Future grades closed at par today. A rise in the market is predicted. — T N T — Here lies a student named Sessex With the sod all o ' er his feet; His class room rules and ethics Were to bluff and crib and cheat. TNT We notice that the doubled up time has not prevented the faculty from searching for excuses for U s. — T N T — C. I. Tackelum undoubtedly be next year ' s flatiron star. — T N T — Dr. Burket has not yet made any definite state- ment as to the precise time when the school of Janitory will close. Rumor has it, however, that there is another hall to sweep. TNT We notice that a certain editor was foolish enough to ask the readers for comments upon his work . — T N T — This year has not been entirely unfruitful; we have learned that the Humor editor makes a wonderful dupe for practical jokes. — T N T — There are those who believe Class Day exercises are some form of calesthenics. — T N T — We hear that many seniors are having lists of desirable presents printed for sending with their invitations. — T N T — Freshman girl, at first base ball game: Oh goody, we win, don ' t we? See, our pitcher hit that fellow. TNT Trim-but-not-to-lean. — T N T — ADVICE TO ANYONE Don ' t attempt to write a column. — T N T — TRINITROTOLUENE P ronounced ( Try-nitr-toll -oo-een ) 23

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THE CRIMSON order of some nature, the person who is to convey it, and the day that it is to be turned in. This part of the routine is sometimes dropped after the staff becomes accustomed to its worlc, or the directions are given directh ' . If the assignment is handed in or collected from contributors on time, it is checked and sometimes handed back to be written or revised. It is then typed, read, and corrected and perhaps retyped. The finished material is then classified as to the section of the magazine to which it belongs; for example, in this year ' s Crimson, a combination of a magazine and newspaper, the make-up essentially consisted of three feature articles at the front of the book, the editorial section, current ne« ' s pace departmental news, athletics, literar. - section, and humor section. The pronounced characteristics of the article in question determine its classification. This collected material is known in newspaper parlance as copy . 1 he words of every article having been counted and marked, the editor proceeds to fit the copy into the dummy , or exact reproduction of the magazine, in that the type columns are exactly measured off on 16 sheets of blank paper. The fitting in consists in calculating the amount of space the typewritten copy will fill in the printed page. It is done in this way: an article on Pirates, which, for no other reason than that the editor things so, is to appear on page one of the magazine, contains about 750 vords. Now it has already been ascertained that for every running inch on the three-inch wide columns of 10 point tvpe, 50 words are required, a column of the Crimson being 8 inches long containing 8 times 50 or 400 words. Therefore, we iind that by dividing 750, the number of words in Pirates by 50, that the article will fill about 15 vertical running inches on the printed page. Allowing 2 inches for the placing of a decorati e title-head to the page, there are 12 running inches of space available on page one for the article or 600 -ords fitted in. There remains 150 words, or three inches of printing space; these are continued back to one of the upper inside corners of the ad page, where they serve the double purpose of filling space and attracting attention to the ads. In this way the entire dummy is gone through, and all measurements marked on the pages on which they are to appear. All marks for special printing refinements such as initial letters, boxed headlines, different sized type, and italicized words must be marked on the copy as well as on the dummy. The business manager also makes a dummy, on which is measured and plotted out the various advertise- ments, as well as attached copy, and direction for use as size of type, position of cut in ad, etc. When all this is completed, the entire copv is seal- ed in an envelope and delivered to tl-.e pi inter, who begins to set it up on his linotype, or typeslug cast- ing machine, and the staff is gi en a brief respite to ha-ie the plates and wood cuts ready for the issue. If a cartoon is required, it is drawn somewhat larger, perhaps twice the size that it is to appear in print. The copy or draw ' ing is marked the size that the finished etching is to be, and is sent to the engraver who reduces the drawing by the photo engraving process, and returns the final cut , as it is called. When a picture is to be reproduced, the process is essentially the same, except that, the photographer takes the picture. The picture is trimmed to he proportionate and to exclude all unnecessary hack ground; the size and line screen, usually 133 lines to the inch, is specified and when the cut, in this case called a halftone, is returned, the cuts are deli ered to the printer and placed as marked on the dummy. Ry this time, the printer, if finished with the t pesetting, returns the dummy and the proofs of the type on long semi-tissue paper sheets, with two long columns of print to the sheet. This proof is called galley proof The proofs, some 14 columns of it, are then trimmed and pasted into the dummy in their proper places as before calculated, and except for the fact that the proof is obviously pasted into the dumm , the latter is the same in appearance as the finished magazine. The dummy is then returned to the printer, who later returns what is known as page proof ; that is, proof made up so that it has the identical appear- ance of the finished page in the printed magazine. This is corrected and again sent to the printer. Occasionally, a third proof is corrected. The m agazine is then run oft ' and later distrib- uted. The staff of ' 24- ' 25 got out seven issues of the Crimson — the first magazine being of 16 pages ; five, of 20 pages; and the augmented senior edition, of 48 pages. Although the work was heavy at times, the staff of eighteen people accomplishd the task 25