Howard University - Bison Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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MARIAN ATKINSON Litcrory Editor J. L. PRATTIS Associcte Editor DORIS MAY Associote Literary Editor ERNESTINE C. KENO SjKJfti Editur JOHN H. THOMAS HELEN V. WILSON GWENDOLYN G. HACKLEY Advertising Monoger Art Editor Business Mancger I

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J lie Atomic (Cnerytj behind the 1946 )3i lAon The 1946 BISON, solely o student publication, is the result of the combined idcos ond energies of on oble Boord of Editors end Monogers, supported by the cooperative efforts of o group of Staff Workers, with the advice and assistance of many other friends and members of the Class of '46. As the reader peruses this finished product, he may well consider the extensive variety of creotive, business, mechanical, and humon interest problems whose solution was the sine quo non for its production. The creative phose entailed many hours of careful planning for the overall format and for each individual page, the vost job of literary composition necessary for the written material, and the tedious art work involved in designing and drawing the cover and the introductory pages. Endless negotiations with printer, engraver, photographer, and advertisers, the tremendous task of contacting and following up campus groups and individuals for pictures ond information, and a continuous succession of financial activities ond arrangements were all part of the business end of the BISON. The mechanical tosks of typewriting copy sheets, cutting and posting pictures for dummy pages, mimeegrophing ond circulating notices, making signs for publicity, editing and proof-reading material also played an important role in the production. Nor ore the humon interest problems of working schedules, orrongements for meetings, division of labor, motivation, and supervision of activity to be minimized The Board of Editors ond Monogers hereby extends grateful acknowledgment to A. Hertzel Brown, Jr. for his guidance and valuable assistance as contact man, to Gustav Auzenne, Jr. for his counsel and help with contract forms, to Tcrongi H. Dunconson for the benefit of his experience with previous editions of the BISON, to J. Victor Wallace for services in typewriting ond mimeographing, to Aileen Clark for the use of the Hilltop Office and telephone, to Mr. Gough for providing furniture, to Bill Spaulding for his work cs former Associate Editor, to Herman Gibson for help with advertisements, to Rusty Ramoutar for general utility, to the patrons, and to the mony ether friends who helped make possible the 1946 BISON. 8

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 BISON LITERARY STACF B'SON FINANCIAL STAFF 10