Pflugerville High School - Panther Paw Yearbook (Pflugerville, TX)

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I earbook Staff Faces Trials And Tribulations The headline read Staff faces trials and tribulations. Little did we know at the beginning of the year how many problems we would actually face. From supplies disappearing to no pictures, the staffers of the Panther Paw faced it all, but came out on top with the 1985-86 edition of the Paw going to press. While missing supplies were begin- ning to be a normal thing for the staff, another problem cropped up. As the se- mester changed we lost three photogra- phers and were left with only one. Noel Wagner, junior photography editor, soon became our sole source for pictures, aside from those taken at special events by other staff members. We began to depend on him for quite a bit, but he never let us down. Everyday he'd come into class and either Mrs. Sutton or I would give him a new list of things to do, stated senior editor Misty Johnson. He kept a slow tedious pace but did get everything done. Another problem the staff faces was the lack of typewriters. Many times the members would come into the class to Kim McDonald's voice saying I call the typewriter today. So everyone else who needed to type would just have to wait for another day. Some staffers would go down to the teacher's lounge to type, un- til Mr. Bradley put a ban on them. Then we were right back where we started . . . with one typewriter. Many times it seemed as though the deadlines would not be met. Even the hard work of the loyal staff members did not help when it came to the final dead- line. Johnson and Sutton, along with members Jill Eary, Tasha Moss, Heather McAuley, Leah Blain, McDonald, and Randy Thweatt were working into the summer finishing the pages still to be done. But the 1985-86 edition of the Pan- ther Paw finally went to press, and to those who helped finish it — thanks!! — 68 Yearbook -

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Senior Karen Brown hangs around while another senior Jeff Garner gets stuck in a glass case. 2. New Sponsor Virginia Sutton helps guide the newspaper through an outstanding year. N ewspaper Set Backs, No Problem Typewriters tapping, papers shuf- fling, and total chaos: this is the state that the newspaper room is commonly found in. Passers-by often wonder how a paper gets put out at all, but somehow the Panther Prowler managed to roll of the printing press on time each month. The staff had many set backs this year. One of the major problems was the lack of students on the staff. It was hard for seven people to turn out a paper in a month. At the beginning of the year the Prowler was given a mark of excellence from Quill and Scroll for the preceeding year's paper. The goal this year was to prove that this award was well deserved and to produce the best newspaper the PHS had ever seen. The staff, led by Virginia Sutton, the new advisor, and Karen Brown, editor, added several new touches this year. Full page photo layouts were added to two issues, and a gray screen border was put around the ads to set them off. In May, the staff produced the biggest paper that PHS had ever seen. A 20 page paper dedcated to the senior class was put out. The Prowler staff learned to han- dle a lot of responsibility. They had to work hard to sell ads for the pa- per, since this is the way the paper is financed. Several times the staff did not sell enough ads to cover the cost of the paper, so they had to get a head start the next month extra ads to make up for the loss. The staff also learned to deal with criticism. With a new advisor, and almost all new faces on the staff, they all had to adapt to each other and learn what was expected of them. — Newspaper 67 -

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