Memorial High School - Reata Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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MW Training ground for future Reata and Anvil members, iournulism classes emphasized the study of modern communications in addition to learning the basics of newspaper work. Challenging Hollywood with their three films, one a teaching film on editorials, one class documentary on hair, the other a satire called Clean, students also produced a video-taped probing- What Kind of School is This? Conducting polls for feature stories or looking for news tips, their efforts were occasionally rewarded with stories breaking into the Anvil. For those excelling in some phase of iournalism and in the upper third of their class, there was membership in Quill and Scroll, an international society. The club was perfect for students not having time for activities but still desiring to belong to an organization. Meetings somehow never met their deadlines until spring when the sole assembly was held to elect new officers. W . ,ie, , fin '55 fm Quill and Scroll officers Ileftl Margaret Hull, Secretary, Joni Dren- dul, Parliamentariang Liz Riedel, Historian, Nancye Hinkley, President, Carol Pennington, Treasurer, and Sheila Silver, Vice-President, plan the journalism picnic. Quill and Scroll members Kabovel Chip Bowron, Kay Wellen, Paul Babb, Barbera Clark, Claudia Brice, and Bill Spencer plan the 1970 club ac- tivities. Academics-16 I

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Journalism classes Ctop rightj pur- sue the study of the daily news- paper as one mean of communi- cation. Mrs. Elaine Pritchett fright! explains reporting techniques to students. 160-Academics

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ff g. 1 ,N-f' aww, , l aw-f , Q2-M . nf ff bf at fl Returning from Trinity and ABM Workshop with honors, staff members of the Anvil refined the magazine-type format for their paper. When not fighting over the one dependable DE-loaned typewriter, journalists were sacrificing school work to write headlines or captions, interview story sources or race back and forth to the printers. From their efforts came the bi-weekly news-magazine which received one of Columbia's few Medalists Awards and a coveted Gallup Award from Quill and Scroll, Joining the Reata Reindeer, the sheet-and-halo-clad Anvil Angels won an Honorable Mention in the Sangerfest. Staff members made a movie about editorial writing for iournalistic study and traveled to Austin in March for a weekend interscholastic League Press Conference at the University of Texas where they again won a Distinguished Merit Award. Birthdays, holidays, and deadlines alike were either recognized by sheer panic or celebration. 162-Academics