Oklahoma City University - Keshena Yearbook (Oklahoma City, OK)

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BLICATIUNS 4 4 . 3 a. m., and 7 more galleys of proof to read . . . its funny, the things you think about when you're reading proof 4 . . Spanish class in 5 hours, and l'm already overcut . . . 7 more galleys . . 4 Oh, Lord . . . who reads this lousey rag, anyway? . . . who cares about wrong-font Ss and transpositions? . . . the wind is coming up , . . it's a soft Wind and l can see a watermelon moon . . . a watermelon moon and a soft, silent Wind . . . that used to mean lovin' . . . that used to mean Ianey and me, out under the sycamores . . . sycamores . . . sycamore bark 4 4 . white as paper . . . paper . 4 . paper and ink . . . Oh, Lord, 7 more galleys . . 3 o'clock . . , Where's Ianey now? . . . never see her anymore . , . no time, she says . . . no time for a stooge . . it's that darn paper all the time, she says . . . laney . . . that darn paper , . , O. K. . . . lt's mine, gal . . it's my paper . . . these ideas that buzz around in my bean . . 4 l can turn 'em loose here on this paper . . . for a bunch of dumb clucks to read . . . yeah, but some of 'em don't want to be dumb . . . some of 'em take my spark and set themselves on tire . . . some of 'em . . . stick around, gal . . . wait till l stir some of these sleeping giants , . . stick around . . . 3 o'clock . . . that means 5 more hours . . . 5 more hours and only 7 galleys to read-KH. C. DJ Qu 21 fr-

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ance oard TOP ROW: Margaret Mit- 'Tg chell, Christine Chattin, ' l I ' Bob Lobaugh, Margare. A Q y me Mrlby, Willard Boone. sEcoND Row. virginia Estes, Iarnes Brown, Marian Buchanan, Hi D o t y, Maurine Mc- Knight. TIIIRD ROW: Marvin Mc- Innis, Doug Yeager, Iess Fronterhouse, I a m e s ,,. 'P Vanderpool, Billye Rob- inson, Rebecca Harri- son. BOTTOM ROW: Zelma Rice, Emma Lou Brown Harry Hahn, Elizabeth McNeese, Ruth Heggen ps OFFICERS MARGARET MITCHELL .................... President MARGARET MILBY .... .,.... S ecretary CHRISTINE CI-IAEFIN ,,.. ...,... V ice-President BOB LOBAUGI-I ..... ,........ T reasurer ANCE BOARD meetings, at election time, are little more than an open comparison oi strength by the rival combines, but there have been few heated battles this year. Phi combine was in power when school opened, and Billie Davis was elected Dance Board prexy. When the committee ot deans removed him, twelve weeks later, Delta combine had come into power and Margaret Mitchell was elected. The Board promoted the annual Leap Week hop, and an all-school dance alter the men's and womens banquets. Scarabians were good boys and girls this year, and the Board was not forced to take any disciplinary action. Only one really big battle, other than the matter ot elections, occurred this year. It started when the Kappa Phis protested that they shouldn't have to pay any on the Leap Week dance, because none ot their boys would be asked.-Virginia Estes. 'Fr 20 H+

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Margaret Mitchell and Hi Doty, Co-editors. SC TBANGE to tell, putting out an annual like the Scarab is an all-year's job. That's what 25 staff writers and co-edi- tors Hi Doty and Margaret Mitchell learned during nine months of work that went into the production of the i937 Scarab. From the call of the first staff meeting in late September until the moment the book was delivered into your hands, there was plenty of work for all. School had hardly opened before Tom Heggen, Miller Hays, Pamela Prigmore and Norman Glass, class editors, were jingling phone dials to remind negligent Scarabians that they must make the deadline for having their pictures snap- ped--that is, if they wished to see their likenesses in the annual. By Columbus Day, 525 stooges who ap- pear in this book had stepped before the Rembrandt camera. Next came long hours of drudgery-fas- cinating at that-for the editors as they worked to get panels to the engraver ahead of the November l5 deadline for the 407, discount. And they did, too, thereby saving almost S400 on the engraving bill, more than ever before had been saved. This neat chip off the estimated cost went into added pages and more pictures for groups that were formed on the campus later in the year. And then, while they might have been resting but werent the editors skipped about the city in hurried conferences with leading typographers for bids on printing the book. ln late December Clarence Page and company were awarded the contract and the race to produce copy was on. A real race, against time it was, for nothing is more uselss than a book that doesnt come out. From a tentative staff of more than 40, an- nounced earlier in the year, the editors an- nounced their choices and passed out as- signments with reminders that deadlines must be met ,... or else. Named assistant editor late in the year be- cause of his slave-like devotion to copy grinding on numerous last minute assign- ments, was Paul Bennett, Campus editor. When Bennett was moved up, his original position of student administration editor was filled by Romney Philpott, who also writes features. Crganization copy flowed in under guid- ance of Wishard Lemons. Virginia Estes and Mary V. Elliott, Campus society editors, found that Greek writeups for the Scarab worked in well with their newspaper assign- ments. As Greek editors these girls gave the '37 Scarab a refreshing slant on copy that usually is notable only for its dullness. Marian Buchanan, though laying no claim to journalistic ambition, did an exhaustive job in running down faculty degrees, honors, and other statistics and incorporating them into readable shorts. Esther Mae Wymore did the same service for the fine arts section. But most remarkable of allestill a source of wonder to the whole staff, was the way Stan Pate found time to turn in sports copy, what with his staff job on The Campus, stint at The Oklahoman, and editing The Gold- brick. -exp.. Hio-