Lewiston High School - Bengal Yearbook (Lewiston, ID)

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FOTQEWORD HIS iS IT. The Bengal OT '48 ThaT had a daTe wiTh TaTe-and The Class oT l948. Like all oTher war and posTwar producTions, This yearbook had To overcome exTraordinary diTTiculTies beTween The opening oT school and The end OT The Term To be ready Tor disTribuTion by mid-May. ShorTages-Those banes OT The liTe oT a publisher--were sTill on hand during mosT oT The year To play drawback Tor The STaTT. Spiraling cosTs also imposed anoTher boTTleneck ThaT had The Business STaTT iumping mosT of The Term. WiTh publicaTions expenses conTinuing To mounT, iT Took considerable Tinagling Tor The Manager To balance The books. Small increases in sub- scripTions and adverTising raTes could noT be expecTed To absorb The climb in pro- ducTion cosTs wiThouT careful managemenT. PublicaTion was no snap The STaTT discovered as They checked and double-checked This iTem and ThaT. Members spenT hours geTTing The guys and gals ouT Tor picTures- on a day when iT did noT rain. More hours were devoTed To geTTing in individual and group reporTs. Making oT panels plagued STaTTers Trom December Through February and The wriTing oT copy consumed weeks in March and April. BuT publishing means The keeping alive oT anoTher school TradiTion. The aim has been To Tell The sTory oT The year in picTure and wriTeup. in carToon and TeaTure. No doubT a Tew errors crepT in despiTe all eTTorTs To eliminaTe Them. We TrusT They are minor in characTer and ThaT The meriTs oT The book will overbalance such inconsis- Tencies. To Seniors, we say Good Luck. To oThers: We'll be seein' you.-THE STAFF.

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Purr s Hel Ted Lindley . . . J - Pal Ruddell . . . R. L. Holbrook . . . Staff an ' Edi Ass1'. Mng. Edifor . . Ciry Ediror Joan Madison .... . Assignmenr Ediror Feafure Edifor . . . . Advisor Be'rl1 Lillard .... Business Manager Bernice Fox . . . Assr. Bus. Manager Belly Herman ...... Circulalion Feafuresz Bearrice Helander Delberl Granr Joella Pearson Laura Paulsen General News: Maureen Flynn Donna Brown Fern Brown Sporfsz Donna Fosler Karl Berger Janice Gordon George Ruddell Bob While Gene Sfrehlou Rex Fouse NeilTl'1ornJron f 1 rf if ML 1,

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DEDICATION The Annual sTaTT oT I948 Takes pleasure in dedicaTing This ediTion oT The yearbook To a real old Timer aT LewisTon High School. Dean S. ThornTon. Mr. ThornTon came To LewisTon in I929 and TaughT aT This'high school unTil he leTT Tor The army as a FirsT LieuTenanT in I942. He reTurned Trom The service as Major ThornTon in I946. Major ThornTon was saluTed by several Tormer Bengal gridiron and hoop sTars during his island hop Trom down under in AusTralia To Manila in The Philippines. - Mr. ThornTon received his Bachelor of ArTs degree aT The UniversiTy oT MonTana. aT Missoula. He also aTTended The UniversiTy of WashingTon. SeaTTle. He is now a candidaTe aT WashingTon STaTe College Tor his MasTer of ArTs degree. . Mr. ThornTon has headed The EducaTional Guidance DeparTmenT in Lewis- Ton High School This year. His oTher classes include Typing and business ariThme- Tic. He is also advisor oT The Commercial Club.