North Huntingdon High School - Norhiscope Yearbook (Irwin, PA)

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Building the Norwin The 1934 Year Book was early planned. General johnson's price boosting NRA made this necessary in order to obtain the lowest possible rates in photography, engraving, and printing. September saw the foundation of the year book. In that month the thinkers thought and thought, and decided to turn out a year book that would go down in history as something different-an informal year book. Up to this time, the formal yearbook, stiff, dull, colorless, was the trend of annuals at Norwin. They contained page after page of group pictures and portraits resembling rogue gallaries and drab military platoons without the color and beauty of uniforms. This, the thinkers decided, would never, never do. A radical change had to be made. It was. The foundation laid, we set about to build the wall. Fortunate was the staff in contact- ing one Mr. Wise, Pittsburgh agent of the firm that did our engraving-Jahn and Ollier, of Chicago. Mr. Wise, radically against the moth-eaten conventional in year books, brought us many examples of informal year-booking to ex- amine, and applying the acid test of his well- based counsels, we decided our foundation was well laid. This new-found friend also helped us with many technical problems in putting out a different book. Mr. Frank H. Steele of Wilkinsburg, ro- bust, fussy, experienced, was chosen as photographer. He, too, an informalist, was delighted with our plans, and he and Mr. Wise found little difficulty in cooperating with us. Mr. Steele immediately set to work on the senior portraits. I-le made the auditorium stage his studio, snapped all seniors in this se- cluded spot. Retakes were made both at Nor- win and in his home studio at Wilkinsburg. Next on the program came the underclasses and the juniors. On nice days, these classes squatted patiently on the terrace fronting the east wing of the building. These groups tin- ished, more outdoor scenes were snapped. Best among them, a view of the school, taken from across the brook, was truly a work of art. . Other outdoor scenes were students stroll- ing on the school walks, class officers loiter- ing on the bridge, and the football squad and the line-up of the first string varsity as they appeared in the Turtle Creek game. When inclement weather forced the pic- ture taking indoors, he took an interior scene of the school portal, affording an excellent vista of the two busts which guard our main doorway, a view of the school board in action, our faculty, dignified and aloof, the bi-weekly and year book staffs, musical organizations, the basketball squad, the first string cagers in action, and many scenes, vivid, interesting, of gymnasts in action. In the meantime, the staffs were picked. The editorial board consisted of the three edi- tors of the bi-weekly-Paul Fulton, Marion Wilson, and Elbert Barclay. Charlotte Mil- len, Bruce Boyle, Marie Prengamen, Albert Powell, and Lorraine Neiman were chosen respectively senior, junior, sophomore, fresh- man, and ninth grade class editors. Marga- ret Collier was chosen feature editor, and Gale Vifohlert, Florence Daily and Florene Garlow, picked as activities editors. The sports re- porter, Bill Leaf, was transferred from the bi- weekly staff. Art editors were Art Lindh and Oscar Craycraft, staff artists of the '33 Year- book. Typists were the regular bi-weekly key pounders with fancy titles. The business staff consisted of Bill Crooks- ton, Bill Ralph, Dick Battiston, Art Herbster, John Datz, Harry White, and Scott Lauffer. George Sistek, fussy, persistent, ambitious, although not a regular business staffer, con- tributed much to the success of the book through his fruitful salesmanship. The business staff, energetic and enterpris- ing, organized and began the extensive cam- paign to sell the book. The school profusely canvassed, the sales staff turned their heads toward getting support from community busi- four

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DEDICATION... To MISS JONES, friend, helper, confidant of our four happy years at Norwin, patient sharer of our troubles, and willing arbiter of just causes, we affectionately dedicate this volume, in the hope that she may thus realize our appreciation of her efforts in our behalf.

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Building the Norwin 1. ness men in the form of boosts , lloosters, one-time termed advertisers, are listed hon- orably on the last page. lluring this campaign, the editorial staff, never lazy, was busy gathering up the material that tills these pages. The boys' sports scribe summed up all the varsity football and basket- ball games, and wrote on intra-mural and ine terclass competitive sports. The girls' sports editor related the year's actiyity i11 girl's sports. The class historians were busy recounting the days spent here by their respective classes. Associate editors plunged into work on various subjects: Norwin traditions, the musical or-- ganizations, math club, and other activities, versed the poetry, described the drama of the year, and wrote up the Norwin bi-weekly and year book staffs. Staff artists drew the care toons for the book. and aided in the layout of the annual. The editorial board read, corrected. and re- wrote to their hearts' content, then presented all this manuscript, which is scrawly and il- legible to all but a typester, to be hammered into type-written copy by those two hard- working young ladies-the stall: typists. Massive l'ittsburgh l'rinting Company. contracted to print the book, transformed the typewritten copy into lead and antimony. Proofs were made from all the galleys of type and many were the hours sweated away by the proof-reading static. Proof, read three times, thoroughly, seemed practically memorized. The galley proofs, well corrected, were then submitted to the printer and the corresponding corrections made in the type. Once more proofed were the corrected galleys, and once more the stall' sat down to a few more hours of marking cor- rections on the new proofs. This process was repeated until, to the best of the stat:f's knowl- edge. all copy was absolutely correct. The many bunches of slugs were now ready to be arranged in their proper order. The printer, following the instructions sent him. then arranged the ditlierent sections of the book, matched phimto-engravings with cor- responding type. The ditferent forms were then placed in the press and printed, sixteen pages to the sheet, eight on each side. These sheets were folded, cut, made into booklets. and these booklets bound to form the book. As a tinal touch. the attractive twoftone blue cover, made by the National I'ublishing Coin- pany of l'hiladelphia, was attached. The 1934 Year llook, no longer a dream or an ideal, has become a reality!