Lincoln High School - Links Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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Choosing the best pictures is one of Lisa Allisons jobs on the LINKS Staff. Lisa and the other photographers may take many pictures before they find the perfect picture among their negatives. Reflection is often an important part of Year book work and Pam Gal! uses some extra time to do just that. Pam was the Business Manager for the LINKS. Head bent over lay-outs was a common sight in the yearbook room. Tracy Lightbody’s job on the LINKS Staff was to draw up lay-outs following the general design of the section. 28 Publications

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Members find time Organizations membership varies In finding members for organizations, such as Math Club, Student Coun- cil, Band, Mummers, Chess Club, Computer Club, etc..., the members and sponsors have many ways of finding new membership. These members and spon- sors try to find students interested in the kinds of things that particular or- ganization has to offer. In Student Council, the junior and senior represen- tatives go to sophomore English classes to find per- spective sophomores for Student Council; “We go to their (sophomore) clas- ses to try and get new people interested in Student Council,” President Shelly Loos said. “We tell them about some of the past activities and about some new activities being plan- ned, it seems we’ve had pretty good success with it.” Shelly went on to say that in 1983 less than 100 sophomores voted for who they wished to represent them in the Student Coun- cil. In 1984,22 sophomores ran. and about 270 voted. The junior and senior representatives also tell the sophomores about the Student Council as a whole, “We tell them it’s fun, but it takes a lot of time. Some of this time is out of school. We also tell them it’s not a normal activity in that it is a class, and a member of Student Council gets nor- mal class credit.” “As a whole, I like the sophomores’ creative ideas,” Shelly said, “They bring new ideas to Student Council, and therefore make it a better organiza- tion.” Mrs. Patience Fischer, from Math Club, said they depend mainly on “word of mouth.” “New members are usu- ally friends of old members interested in Math, she said, “The members tell their friends about Math Club and hope they participate.” In the Organization Section: Publications....................Pg. 28 Spirit .........................Pg. 32 Membership......................Pg. 38 Government......................Pg. 44 Music...........................Pg. 48 Fine Arts.......................Pg. 58 Productions.....................Pg. 64 Planning the next activity. Student Council members Dan Sweeney, Shelly Loos and Trevor Bassen decide the details. A total of five sophomores were elected to Student Council. Showing definite leadership, Advocate Editors critique the latest issue. The Advocate is published 12 times a year. Meeting the deadline, the yearbook staff decides on a certain picture. This is just one of the seven deadlines the staff had to meet throughout the year. Organizations—27

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Reviewing lay-outs, the LINKS Co-Editors agree on design. Gregg Peterson and Robin Re-touching makes the photo look polished Rathjen had to recheck copy and photo and ready for the yearbook. Deb Placek does measurements so that all the “puzzle pieces” fit most of the touch-ups. together. Staffs need responsibility Journalists share important characteristics Kip Koll described this person as “Curious, responsible and dependable.” Pam Gall described this person as “knowledgeable, responsible and constantly on the ‘go’. Kris Yates described this person as a real individual “With a better- than-average taste for literature.” Kip, Pam, and Kris were all describing a journalist. With these important characteristics, the per- son in the descriptions could easily be on and of the three journalism staffs at LHS—Advocate, Links or Image. For instance, the person could be Kip on the Advocate staff. Kip liked being on the Advocate staff because as a writer she was allowed a lot of creativity. “You find your own way,” Kip said. “No one is telling you what to do.” Carolyn Goodwin, Advocate staff advisor, said that she was “really impressed by the staffs ability to get beyond personalities for the good of the paper.” She attributes this to the staffs sensitivity. “They really don’t want to hurt each other,” Ms. Goodwin said. Ms. Goodwin also thought that because the staff had overcome the personality problems, the staff worked better as a whole. There wasn’t one person doing all the work, the whole staff worked hard to get the paper out. And every person did what they could, utilizing their talents (and patience) to the fullest. Pam, the business manager for the Links staff felt that same level of cooperation had been reached on the yearbook staff. She felt that the Cont. on page 30 Publications-29