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

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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-

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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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lt was hard to decide who should produce the feature section with two such funsters as Phil Dessauer and Bill Beasley hanging around anxious for work. lf we get along as co-editors of the whole book, reasoned Hi and Margaret, the idea ought to be tops with the feature section. So features by Phil and Bill became the order of the day. Helen Snipes, always an individualist, further set herself apart by getting every as- signment to the editors on time. When she was commissioned copy editor with orders to hunt down and seize delinquent manu- scripts from slothful scribes she was none the less successful. And then there were a number of unhon- ored and unsung individuals whose satis- faction in work well done must be about their only reward. These are the folk listed under the nondescript moniker of Staff Writers. These are the folk who really make a representative annual possible, by their affable Willingness to produce, on short notice, facts or copy on a subject with which they are more familiar than anyone else. These were Virginia Williamson, Spec Way- land, Bob Spooner, Bay Doty, Orlan Lago, Charline Garrison, and Peter Kamitchis. Artists were scarce on the campus this year, so there were none of the home-grown cartoons and character sketches that have delighted readers of former Scarabs. Co- editor Doty designed the cover, Flight of the Scarab. I Howard Thornton, public relations direc- tor and guardian angel of O. C. U. publica- tions, served as typographical advisor to the editors.-Romney Philpott. -:avg .33 ll 'Pe -, in GF 'S Q , TOP ROW: Paul Bennett, Esther Mae Wymore, Romney Philpott, Howard Thornton, Bill Beasley. MIDDLE ROW: Wishard Lemons, Virginia Estes, Helen Snipes, Mary Virginia Elliott, Stan Pate. BOTTOM ROW: Miller Hays, Marian Buchanan, Norman Glass, Pamela Prigmore, Tom Heggen. -JP- 23 -9