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

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PRESS CL ..... HERE was nothing to suggest the important position which the Press club was presently to assume when seven members of the near non-existant order gathered about a Var- sity Shoppe table one Friday noon last September to elect officers. ln fact, the anxious scribes did well to hear each other above the competing noises so loud that no one ever knew for certain who the nominees really were. At any rate, when the votes had been counted, the tally sheet read: Hi Doty, president, Margaret Mitchell, vice- president, and Virginia Estes, secretary-treasurer. Doty started the year off with a precedent-smashing pace that would do credit to the rankest New Dealer when he announced weekly meetings-which actually came off. After three months of preparation, the Press club presented its Gridiron show, March 24. The members wrote ten skits, none too gently chiding the Vanities of student leaders and faculty big shots and the show was on. Phil Dessauer, director-manager, turned out a production that even exceeded the state Gridiron Show in some respects, downtown news- paper men were quick to acknowledge. With the curtain hardly down on the Gridiron, the Press club took over the supervision of Scarab Stunt Nite, May 8. This they did in fine style, and to faculty advisor Howard Thornton should go the lion's share of the credit. For it was Thornton whom the club named as its general manager and coordinator for the event. ln November, seven members attended the State Collegiate Press convention at Still- water where Paul Bennett, Campus editor, was named vice-president of the state association. As such he will preside at the convention next year. Membership in the Press club is an honor coveted by all, but attained by only a few journalism students since membership is limited to fourteen. Pledges must write a speci- fied amount of copy for The Campus or Scarab, and cannot be taken into membership until their sophomore year.-Paul Bennett. TOP ROW: Hi Doty, Margaret Mitchell, Virginia Estes, Wishard Lemons, Mary Virginia Elliott, Phil Des- sauer, Bob Spooner. BOTTOM ROW: Paul Bennett, Opal Haymes, Zelma Rice, Clara Neal Srnissen, Stan Pate, A. G.'Myers, Bo- nita Carpenter. -2- 26 -+-

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campus social chatter is written in a light, airy style that will send its author far to- ward journalistic distinction. Staff columnists, Phil Dessauer and Hi Doty have kept Scarabia in fine humor with their weekly offerings, l'Goldbuggy and l'Snap Shots. Goldbuggy, under Doty's clever authorship is in its third year, and deals in choice campus small talk. Snap Shots, started by Dessauer this year, pre- tends more to literary finery. Doty is em- ployed by The Oklahoma News and Des- sauer works in the editorial room of The Daily Oklahoman. The Campus is a four-page tabloid of five columns by 16 inches in depth and is pub- lished 31 issues during the school year. The University Press, school owned and operat- ed printery, 25lO Blackwelder, has printed the paper most of the time since founding of the plant in 1924. On December ll, Bennett stepped aside to let Freshman Editor Melvin Shepherd take the paper for an issue. ln lanuary The Campus conducted a poll to determine popularity of its policies. ln this check, covering opinion of more than 300 students, it was found that the 'lGold- buggy humor column, the most popular de- partment, was read by 90 '70 of O. C. U. un- dergraduates. Editorials were followed reg- ularly by more than SO 70. Clever feature copy has appeared under the by-lines of Romney Philpott and Tom l-leggen, freshman journalism find of the year, who also writes excellent news copy. Others who have Worked on The Cam- pus are: Bonita Carpenter, dramatics, Bob- ert Bowles and Bob Spooner, interfraternity sports, Wishard Lemons, Margaret Mitchell, l-lerbert Siegal, Opal Haymes, and Marian Buchanan, campus news, Editor for the following year is named in May by the board of publications. There is no attempt on the part of the administra- tion to censor Campus editorials and news copy. Several members of the Oklahoma Colle- giate Press association, of which Bennett is vice-president, have followed The Campus method of sponsoring student polls.-Rom- ney Philpott. TWT' TOP ROW: Virginia Estes, Mary Virginia Elliott, Stan Pate, Bonita Carpenter, Clara Neal Smissen, Bob Spooner, Hi Doty. BOTTOM ROW: Wishard Lemans, Margaret Mitchell, Opal Haymes, Bob Bowles, Marian Buchanan, Phil Dessauer, Tom Heggen. es- 25 HQ.

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B0 RD 0F P BLICATIUNS OFFICERS PROP. E. M. CASTLEBERRY ............ Chairman MARGARET MITCHELL ...... ......... S ecretary EN years of highly successful faculty-student administration is the record of the Board oi Publications, which supervises all matters concerning production of The Campus and The Scarab. Prof. E. M. Castleberry, faculty chairmang Prof. L. A. Iones, University registrar, and How- ard Thornton, public relations director, are faculty members appointed annually by the presie dent. Editors of both The Campus and The Scarab, and The Campus business manager are automatically voting members of the board. This year's students are Paul Bennett, Hi Doty, Margaret Mitchell, and Spec Wayland. Willard Boone, student council president, is, by virtue of his office, an ex-officio non-voting member ofthe group. Besides the task of seeing that publication work runs smoothly, the board meets to award photography, engraving and printing contracts for both the newspaper and the yearbook, and it periodically inspects and passes upon bills and salaries incurred in the production of both. This year the board has had the delicate job of financing The Scarab without aid of advertising revenue. The book is now paid for entirely out of the student activity fund. By board action last September, the football bulletin was combined with and run as a part of The Campus on occasions of home football games. Other publications of the University, not under management of the board, are the month- ly O. C. U. Bulletin, published by the administration, and the Student Handbook issued each fall under Student Council supervision. Ostrakon, the organ of the Ostrakon poetry club, is mimeographed several times during the yeary and the Barbangle, also mimeographed, is re- leased every other week by the University's organization for independent students. The Gold Brick humor magazine is not connected with any branch of the school,-Paul Bennett. 59,1 TOP ROW: Margaret Mitchell, Spec Wayland, Willard if Boone, Hi Doty. BOTTOM ROW: Paul Bennett, L. A. lones, E, M. Castleber- ry, Howard Thornton. 42- 27 -4-