Northwest Classen High School - Round Table Yearbook (Oklahoma City, OK)

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Now adays all things appear in print, sooner or later. -Shelley. I l Coming to grips with yearbook nomenclature is one of the first hurdles for a beginning staff. Neophytes,Judv Harbach, Ann Smith, Carolyn Little, Nancy Smith and Sharon Seward scan layouts and type sizes. Their poker face ex- Whatja mean, makeup? I don't see no makeup.' pressions bear evidence of little appreciation for this technique. Before the final page layout and copy draft begins each staff member must read 25 articles from professional mag- azines dealing with yearbook technicalities. This project gets ughs and groans from new staff members. Fortunately underclassmen are in the majority in this years staff. With this nucleus maybe Sarge can relax next year. Standbys, Connie Kamp and LaCretia Albright, beam over re- visions in the '58 dummy, Recruit Verna Auer is nonplussed. Will we look like that? she- protests. Patience with newcomer's lack of understanding is hard. Connie was assistant sports editor of the '57 book and LaCretia worked on Classes. 'Cree' chose Features this year. Connie stayed with Sports. Verna, a freshman, is giving good account of herself. She will be a key person on the '59 staff. The whys and wherefores of yearbook business are not learned so readily that staffers attain the saturation point in one year. They are eager to try again. V 2 0 Al Robins, Robert Hollis and Susie Goucher look at Mrs. Sartin as she remembers the words, patience, tact, and perseverance. Each member of the Round Table staff has his assigned pages and through the commotion tries to complete them by the dead line. Though it may sound like all work, we thoroughly enjoy working together in year- book. The period is kept from any monotony by the re- marks and stunts made by the industrious staff. Sarge is the cry of the helpless and mixed up student of sixth hour. While frantically trying to get each member of the class straightened out the period ends. 5 -X

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The Shield When it was established in '55 that students at North- west Classen were to be Knights and Ladies it became immediately evident they'd need a shield to herald their triumphs, interpret their traditions and defend their honor. With this cause in mind the student news- paper chose its banner and launched its career. THE SHIELD is an independent public relations agent supported by subscription and sale of advertis- ing space. In its third year it proudly displays quite an array of top awards. Under pencil-pushin', pistol-packin', Pickens, Knights of the Press perpetrated the prescribed amount of succulent, savory string this year. Black- wood's parsimonious news coverage kept reader sus- pense at an all time high. Hagan, and the other two horsemen, kept up a grave and leaky page. Marlin's concern for the lovelorn and the salvation of our souls added savor to our stew. Safdi's impious edit- orial page crusaded with ardor and sufferance. Shellshocked often left us stunned, but throughout furor scribendi was ever present. A Florida breeze dumped a newcomer-Ted Chambers, into our cauldron, Brooklyn brogue and all. His innocence, along with a capacity for hard- work and detail, landed him the managing editor's job. Thereafter battles over deadlines only smoul- dered, the printer's panic subdued and we finished with a balance. Hey, Sarge, where are the keys? We want to hang these '58 awards. lf there's any doubt about the industry required to produce al- most 8,000 words of perfect copy every other week, this pic- ture should dispel it. There's also the item of raising some S300 a month. Nancy Pickens, editor, Linda Blackwood, news, Shelley Safdi, page 2, and Jonnie Johnson work toward a dead- line. Pride in a job that demands their best gives a staff se- curity and maturity not found in other school activities. Linda Marlin, makeup editor, insisted that Larry Lusk, take pictures that fit. An' they gotta be clean, tool Larry pro- tested. Well, film don't come out ofa faucet. Bill Stewart and Rink Graves tried hard to beat deadlines by refuting the seven day week. Abrupt though it is, it took more than mute calendar promptings to bludgeon copy out of them. Proud as Puck of our department library, knuckle-rappin', George Bucklin, librar ian,, sees that we keep that way. Files af- ford a ready research record. An ex- change index is checked daily l9 Ted Chambers, our patient but persistent, managing editor, installed his own proc- ess of procedures and made every last one of us pull up by our own bootstraps. It was hard. But we done it! Now we're glad.

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When only four persons were enrolled for year- book, panic struck. The first impulse was to aban- don the project. But th ree of the four, carry overs, excited about the theme of outer space, rockets and maybe a trip to the moon, couldn't let the FIRST INTERNATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL YEAR go by unrecorded. Respect in the eyes of their grandchildren was at stake. While they recruited, Judy Harback, on loan from THE SHIELD staff, herded 2,000 students, members of four pep clubs and the faculty through the camercifsieye.Typists were pulled in from the commercial department and by Turkey- time the class section was in the mill. Recruits straggled in. But untouched by experience or the thrill of achievement, deadlines, extra hours, Sat- urday and holiday work on a yearbook were items beyond their comprehension. We struggled on. Hope never died that we'd be selected for a trip to Mars, or some region beyond chance of return. Our dummy alone, laid out in advance, detained us from mayhem. Maneuvering Northwest Classen's popula- tion and activities into l80 pages takes plan- ning. As the fray thickened nerves thinned. With- out the art department's deft touch, the book would be far less appealing. Finally if you take the whole mess, age it, compare it with other books, allow for original mistakes, you can at least show your grandchil- dren we were not so benighted as to be unaware of '58 as the beginning of a new age. Fun for the staff lies in the discovery of self reliance. The job can use only the best students, and the best they can give. Even then it can leave each wondering why he couldn't possibly have done better. Past ROUND TABLE ratings have been tops-we have tried to sustain the record. Be indulgent, please. These clever people, Ray Hughes, Julee Linn, Marilyn Melton, Kay Carlson, Joan Hartman, Ann Williams and Nancy Smith are called the art staff. Just what crazy idea they'll hatch is anvbody's guess. But it must pass. muster with Miss Lewis, to say naught of Sarge's blast if she doesn't like it. -5 Marilee Lewis, Nancy Robertson and Betty Gardner, ponder copy. Gosh, it's not something to say, wails Betty, lt's makin' it fit, l thought characters were something in the funnies 'til I got in year- book . Believe me, l'll even appreciate magazine ads now. Layout's somethin' different in journalism. lt sure can count a fellow out. Marilee can be smug. She was a one-man staff on a book in Formosa last year. How many words in a yearbook? Ask Rhoda Welborn, Carol Atwell, Belva Long or Judy Creech. They should have an idea. Their plaint rose on the tenth draft of the same copy. Why con't they get it right the first time? they howled. On loan from Mr. Cunningham's section, their help let us make our first deadline. xv? ' 'TWV .. -Xi ,F- um-gk