Holy Cross High School - The Cross Yearbook (Flushing, NY)

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96 CROSS A new school year brought with it the problem of commencing production of another yearbook. Last year's initial issue of the.CROSS had been well received by the students and faculty, and it was hoped that a new staff would be equal to the task of producing a volume of equal caliber again this year. After close to a hundred seniors answered the call for volunteers, and a staff list of approximately forty-five members was accepted, work on the annual began in earnest. Schedules were arranged for portraits for the three-hundred seniors with the DELMA STUDIOS of Manhattan. Their represent- atives set up a miniature studio in the art room and in a few short days the entire class had been photographed, with a minimum of class interruption. A few weeks later, the studio again returned and photographed the groups of underclassmen. Fifty-nine pictures were taken at this time. Meanwhile, the Publications office buzzed Cand frequently roaredj with the click of typewriters and confusion of the other staffs as they set about layout work and the identification of photos. Perhaps one of the most tedious of jobs fell to the Underclass Staff, whose job it was to check the identity and spelling of the twelve hundred names of underclassmen. They knew that there were bound to be errors in spelling, but they determined that they would be reduced to the smallest number possible. The Art Editor began his work on the pen and ink sketch of the school building and the Literary Editor began parceling out assignments for the various writeups. After careful deliberation and many doubts, the moderators and editors determined that the book would be arranged in a unique manner-completely according to departments, without the use of the usual divider pages, faculty section, social section or classroom section. Instead, they determined that the book would progress in an orderly fashion from department to department, including all activities-scholastic and social- pertinent to each departmental group. The dangers of such an organization of material were obvious from the start, but the desire to produce a book that reads from cover to cover as a single unified narrative was strong enough to carry the day. Some unforeseen difficulties did crop up, but we hope that they have been dealt with as gracefully as possible and that this issue of the CROSS will be a source of pleasure and inspira tion to all who come in contact with it. AN ENERGETIC STAFF EMIL BACSO- Photography Editor . . . rpent an indeterminable number of hour: keeping the darkroom work on rthedule. A great deal of the suffer: of the CROSS goer to there two Seniort, erperially to Emil, whore generority war an in- ,rpiration to all. BROTHER PETER CLARK-Aniftant Moderator, and ION ZEGERS-Co-Editor, double cheek one of the nunzerou: rcheduler neterrary for the Jmooth funrtioning of the rtaff, Brother Peter war a fa- miliar right paging through hir dictionary in an attempt to cheek up on the errorr of the rlaff , and jon :pent much of hir :miling time doing 24 just about everything that needed doing-especially running up to the radio room with .reuenth perioa Jrnohe rignalf' from the moderator.

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STRIKES OUT IN NEW DIRECTIONS TOWARDS DYNAMIC PUBLICATIONS and PAUL 1AVoRA, bi: auittant . . . BILL DOLAN-Literary Editor tackled a monumen- tal tack in axfigning and anembling tbe copy for tbe boobhwbicb amounted to more tban ten timer tbe 'amount appearing in print la.rt year. DAVE FULTON-Sport: Miter, Jerued not only the Yearbook in tbir capacity but tbe .rcbool newxpaper af well. A: uxual, bi: work wax accurate and of tbe bigbett caliber. BROTHER IOHN CAPISTRAN-Pbotograpby Moderator not only .ret up tbe efficient darkroom procedure and trained the men, but alto contributed many bourt of field work during tbe .rportf Jeafon. ffl BROTHER JAMES MADIGAN - M0de1'ator, and BILL YONESCU-Co-Editor, confer on a cboice of pocfible cover materialt. Bill contributed invaluable aniftance in euery department of tbe book, andtde- zfeloped into a fine layout man. VINNY COSTA-Art Editor, contributed many bourx of bit exceptional talent toward the artiftic excellence of tbe book. During tbe protect, be mailer- ed a number of new art tecbniquet.