North Salem High School - Viking Yearbook (Salem, OR)

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ROGER lVllI.LER Clarion Editor ALL of you perhaps are well acquainted with stories or pictures of the busy scenes behind the black and white of a newspaper. Doubtless, you have seen nrovies of a busy city room with confusion and bedlam making the scene a noisy one. I f you have the advantage of a fertile imagination try to picture the above synopsis condensed from a large spacious office with an unaccountable number of desks and typewriters to a triangular hole of some twenty square feet, one desk, one typewriter and eighty slip-loving staff members. To such a scene as this the Clarion Editor comes and goes every school day of the year. Wearied in mind and body, thinning in hair, and timed in temper it is the constant effort of this public servant to bring forth twice monthly UD the pride and joy of the school, The Clarion . But even the above description is handicapped in appropriately and correctly describing his activities. First, and far more important, on the list of the edits headaches is the be- smirched dirt column. Openly admitted and granted the most widely-read section of the sheet , it is the cause of more of the rifts and strained feelings than any of the remaining columns. The remaining headaches on the list are many and frequent. Late stories, forgotten assignments, lost copy, and incorrect proof-reading all tend to make the life of the editor an uneasy one. Not enough emphasis can be given to the interference met in successfully pro- ducing every issue of the paper. lnterferences arise at every turn, tearing down patience and building up downheartedness to such an extent that it makes coopera- tion quite impossible. There are always people that wish to keep an article out of the paper or to put one in. So you see that the job of editing a schoolpaper is one that requires an abundance of patience, integrity, and perserverance. Here one is in a position to be criticized, dictated to, and beseeched, all in one breath. At the end of his term, the editor has become an experienced diplomat of no little ability to evade questions and straddle a fence. I-lis friends wonder at his indirectness, his teachers marvel at his alibies, and his parents question his sanity. Strange as it appears in print, it is always the ambition of the editor to obtain revenge on his friend who nominated him for the office: to wish the job on someone he particularly doesn't care forg and to appear as reluctant as possible at leaving the office. He believes he has obtained his pound of flesh from the student body for their electing him by the monstrosity of journalism he has put before them during the year. Anyway this editor does. ROGER MILLER. 80 l

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Clarion Editorial and Business Staff THE students who work on the i'Clarion newspaper are divided into two groupsgthe editorial and business staffs. Students on the news staff not only have to concoct an interesting lead but also must obtain the basis of their stories. New type faces and different arrangement of stories were the ideas Editor Roger Miller incorporated in this years paper. It was unusual that he should be able to handle the Clarion so eapably as he had had no previous experience. Roger always had the front-page layout planned before the assignments were given out so that staff members would hear, Your assignment is number one story- make it long . The members of the staff who managed to find time from studying and other interests to write news stories were: Associate Editor-Bill De Souza Exchange Editor Qsecond semesterjf Sports Editor-Bruce Williams Mary l?350U I Exchange Editor Cnrst semesterl- Somew L1Cl1f0f-THUG MHCRCUZIC Alice Chandler Adviser-Miss Ada Ross News Staff: George Cooper, David Compton, Marjorie Craney, Margaret Uunigan, Dean Goodman, Ruth Grant, Margaret Mackenzie, Earle Maynard, Del McDonough, Natalie Neer, Genevera Selander, Ruth Kellogg, Deryl Shields, jere Simncons, Earbara Scott, Alan Smith, Rowena Upjohn, Dorothy Williams, Josephine Whitney, and Barbara Young. Sports Staff: Eugene Beall, Albert Currey, Rodney Hawkins, Gene Huntley, Harry Mason, and jack Pollock. The business staff was headed by Terry Randall who left school at midterm after earning his required credits. james Sehon acted as his assistant during that term. Upon leaving ofnce, Terry recommended Marquis jones as his successor as Clarion business ncanager. This recommendation w hieh was accepted by the student council automatically put Marquis in office. Both managers strove to get enough advertising so that the Clarion could be issued every tw'o weeks, and though they weren't always successful, their results on the whole were satisfactory. Members of the business staff have also found that it takes most of their spare time to contact the Salem business men for Mads . Marquis jones was assisted by: Circulation Manager-james Cole, Assistant Manager-Barbara Scott. Collectors: Orville Beardsley, Nina Fahey, Betty Hamilton, Eleanor Means, Elizabeth Morehouse, and Margie Pickens. Sl

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Clarion Annual Business Staff 'fl IE Annual business staff has the responsibility of raising approximately S1600 to hnance the publication of the yearbook. No money comes from any other seourees. Working on this basis means that a strict budget must be maintained. Members of the sales staff sold 552 picture receipts compared to last year's total of 300 sales. About -L80 Annual receipts had been sold by May l I . Sales Manager Dayton Robertson could well be called 'iylohn D. alter receiving the money from a good day of sales. Ronald Adams advertising staff of go-gettersu increased the number of ads and the amount taken in as compared to last year also. Free Annuals will be given to Mary Eason, Eleanor Swift, Maxine Ge-odenough, David Compton, andklames lX'icAlvin for securing more than 5530 worth of advertising. xlames McAlvin had the largest total of 55125. Ronald Adams was particularly appreciative of the efforts expended by Ruth Starrett in gaining Mads . The staffs are as followsi BUSINESS MANAGERJBOB HILL SALES STAFF lX'lANAGER4lDAYTON ROBERTSON SALESMEN: A DVERTI Ronald Adams George Arbuckle Jeanette Brown Alice Chandler Shirley Cronemiller Alice Cunningham slNG STAFF iVlANAGER'RONALD ADAMS Soucironsz Ruth Anunsen Percy Blundell Marjorie Crancy David Compton Mary Eason Maxine Goodenough Eileen Goodcnough lvlaxine Goodenough Tom Hill Dorothy Kibbe Earle Maynard Shirley Rogers Ruth Grant Dorothy Kibbe Margaret Mackenzie james McAlvin Janet Robertson Ruth Starrett STAFF 'l'YP1s'rAMARGARET CAMPBELL Ruth Starrett Esther Vehrs Dorothy Williams Rex Wirt ,I can Vv'ilcy Alice Swift Eleanor Swift Arnold 'fhonstad Esther Vehrs ,lean Wiley 79