Northwood University - Northwood Yearbook (Midland, MI)

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38 The Northwood Times staff meets in the studio for a session of copy-reading. Shown are Tom Hoepf, Nancy Redington, Kathy Murray, Barb Senger, Tom Bentley and Penny Banks. Converting the Times to an eye-appealing magazine format this year kept the hard-working staff busy and they could seldom be found all in the same place even long enough to get a picture.

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Journalism aay Classes resumed as usual Monday morning, in the Journalism Department, but there was some- thing definitely lacking. An outsider might think it would be the heat, but for one who knew, it was the sound of shuffling footsteps on the stairs leading to the studio and the big, hearty “Good Morning” to the first person in his path. It was the sight of a white Texas Stetson hat moving behind the filing cabinets in the studio of the Northwood Times and seeing cigarette smoke curl around the head of the man who made sure that people did things and did them right. Don Burchard is gone. He left dressed in the new suit his children gave him for Christmas, eagerly anticipating his “jaunt down south”. He had waited for this vacation for a long time and as a display of his happiness, he gave all his classes the next day off. His last words to the class were, “Goodbye, Merry Christmas and come back here scrounging for news.” 37

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Northwood’s Publicity Director David L. Rogers took over the late Don Burchard’s journalism classes in January. A former newspaper man, Rogers also advised the Times staff and made good use of his ex- perience on the Chicago Tribune and Associated Press. | Times editor Bob France works over an edi- torial before sending the paper to press. 39