Latin School of Chicago - Sigillum Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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SIGILLUM B1,ossoM, SEIPP, CROWE, GREENEBAL'M, Edilor, Lavinia, EELLS, PETERSEN, BRENNAN, GRAHAM. THE NEWS The Nfws was first published in October 1933 as a supplement to the Folio. Although it answered the primary need for a news organ, its purpose was manifest. The aims of the first board were, briefly, to create school spirit, to strengthen student government, to voice and give voice to undergraduate thought and opinion, and lastly to publish general and sports news that is timely. Here is the program which has changed but little in essence, but which, through interpretation, has embraced many diversified and chang- ing subjects. ln that first February it was found necessary to change the size of the paper from that of the Folio to one similar to today's. The editorial columns boosted the Athletic Association and urged mem- bership, while the Alumni Association found a voice in an Alumni Column. Several complete letters from graduates or travelling under- graduates were published. These proved so successful that the following year also found interesting travel talks in the Nfwf. In passing the paper on to a new board, Philip VV. Seipp Qfounder of the Nfwsj, Richard Florsheim, and Jere Patterson expressed the wish that the same ideals would be striven for. In taking up the challenge for the first News Board, Francis Broomell and Robert lWcCracken, co-editors of the News in 1935, added a new principle. They attempted to form a closer relation- ship among faculty, alumni, and students, through an exchange of ideas and opinions. Toward this end a series of Brief Biographies

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SIGILLUM FRANK, Eats, SEIPP, Editors THE FOLIO The Fofio first appeared in the fall of IQOI, started by Arlene K. Niiller, it was a small magazine, which carried both literary material and notes about the school activities and athletics. The cover was designed by A. IC. Bates, and the magazine was financed through subscriptions and advertisements. The Folio was intensely popular, and it quickly developed into a very complete magazine. Nlr. Bosworth and R, P. were instrumental in its development, helping out and improving it. The Folio was soon made larger, continuing to run literary contributions as Well as write-ups about the school activities. The magazine provided a line stimulus for literary development and was edited by many persons who have since become notable. When, in 1926, the school moved, the format of the Folio was changed, the cover utilizing the bookplate of Rock- well Kent which had just recently been presented to the school, was adopted, as well as a change in the style and size of the mag- azine. The content, however, remained much the same, and was not changed until the adoption of the News which allowed the Folio to become a purely literary magazine. As such, it is indeed unusual, especially for a school of the size of Latin. It is certainly hoped that the high literary standard can be maintained.

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SIGILLUM of teachers was initiated, likewise letters from important alumni and an inquiring reporter's column were started. Crossword puzzles, then a vogue, also found their place in the News, along with a con- tinuance of the popular Dribble column. An important prece- dent was established when the incoming board pulbished the last issue of the year. Under Rhodes Bucklin the paper was an eagle-eyed sentinel for students' rights, school spirit, and extra-curricular activities. The vigorous editorials of the third year of the News will long be remem- bered. Especially do we remember the urgent request for a new school song and for early announcements of assemblies. It was immediately before the change of size and format, due to the desire of making the News in part financially independent of the Folio through advertisements, that such familiar titles as Here and There , The Drain Pipew, and others came into being. Many of these are today incorporated in one feature. The year closed with a photographic contest and an ad for the senior prom almost the size of the News itself. i Under William Callender all that was considered good in the past's originality was retained in the reversion to the former-sized paper. The Front Page turned into c'News Nibbles , while a vigorous Student Activities column was conducted. The editorials of this year were concentrated on participation in athletics. A letter form, Now It's YOUR Turn , proved to be one of the most popular innovations and helped to relieve the burden from the editorial page. And so the News has changed, never forgetting its basic prin- ciples, always hopeful of a new, entertaining and instructive feature for the school. The articles of the past still live today, unconsciously revitalized in new headings, topics, and articles. In every printed word is embodied the spirit of the News, its founder, and of the Latin School itself. 214 Sk wk Confident that in the rapid development of the News, readjust- ment to changing conditions must be accomplished through con- scientious thought, the News Board of 1937-38 has introduced, and abandoned, policies in reporting and writing news which, it believes, help to form a paper vital to the school. In these attempts toward a more perfectly fitting journalistic style, the paper has been reorganized so that it reflected Latin's true spirit. A platform announced in the spring of 1937 was revised in subsequent issues, until today we may proudly say that the News has helped further each cause and today finds its work three-fourths accomplished. This, We feel, does reflect the Latin outlook .