Reed College - Griffin Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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ihthLLAL REED COLLEGE ELLIS H. JONES Third and Sixth Editor WILLIAM BODDY Fourth Editor cepted by the Student Council. The spelling recommended by the first three lists of the Simplified Spelling Board was adopted in September, 1913. After the first of October the paper was scheduled to appear weekly insted of bi-weekly. The size of the pages was reduced to four colums in the third week and contim ued in this uniform style for the rest of the year. There was a lapse in the publication between October fifteenth and twenty- ninth, which was explaind in the succeeding paper by an an- 1 .. 1915 BN nouncenient that the editor had been on a vacation. Ellis H. Jones became editor by appointment on November seventh, and continued with the stat in this capacity for the rest of the semester. The Quest was organized under the present charter on December ninth, 1913, and the first editor elected in February according to the new provisions was William Boddy, who held ofhs until the folloing June. His associate was Arthur Caylor, who undertook a large part of the work and responsibility. Edgar Piper was elected editor for the folloing semester, and occupied the position until Janu- ary, 1915, when he was suc- ceeded by Ellis H. Jones, who thus came into offis for the sec- ond time. The fourth list of the Simplified Spelling Board was adopted at the beginning of the college year. The development of the Quest has been markt by frequent changes in composition, since its editors have taken a strong interest in its typografical make-up. The present general style of the Quest was adopted after con- EDGAR PIPER Fifth Editor c't'Hhiuwki'r . ' . r nua- 5,..V,M' .w...i .

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I821 REED CANOE CLUB N the fall of 1913 a group of ten women interested in water sports organized themsele into a canoe Club and contributed equally toward a fund for the 5! purchase of a canoe to be used on Crystal Springs $ Lake. Interest in this form of recreation increast .- baa stedily, and by this year so many women wer eager to join the club that it was thought necessary to buy a new canoe. Elizabeth Havely was the first president of the Canoe Club and Dorothy Elliott was tresurer. The offisers this year ar Inez Goltra and Elsie Clair. THE QUEST NE of the most important Reed College student ac- tivities is the publication of a weekly newspaper. The Quest is now in its third year, and is edited QJ by Ellis H. Jones, who has been connected with the staf since the first year of publication. The first issue appealed on January sixteenth, 1913, at the close of the first semester in the second year of the college. The staf of the first year included Everett A. Trousdale as editor, E. Evelyn Fatland, associate editor, David K. Brace, Edgar E. Piper, Frank Scott, and Lois VVil- COLLEGE ANNUAL e 1915 liams as assistant editors, and Milton Runyan as business man- ager. At this time the paper was issued every two weeks, and containd four five-colum pages in a seventeen-ineh form. Pub- lication continued thru the year with most of the original staf in offis. Ellis H. Jones became a member of the staf in May, when he was elected to an assistant editorship. Frank Scott occupied the editors chair from September sixteenth to November seventh, when his resignation was ac- FRANK SCOTT Second Editor EVERETT TROUSDALE First Editor .-.'. .' hear ..-...-.s..e.r. .7. . ......

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I841 siderable experience with different kinds of printing, and has been taken for a standard. By exercising care in the make-up, the pages ar drest according to the best newspaper standards, and the result has been entirely satisfactory. The editorial management of the Quest is according to the charter adopted on December ninth, 1913, by the student body. The board elects new members every semester, or when- ever vacancies occur. The attempt to divide the work of news .4.-.;V ,Vxl-a-34Lg.-.srr. REED ..-a..+. .V..:;;.ia..- .., s.;.x.r. a.:;,, ,, COLLEGE ANNUAL + 1915 gathering has been persistent, but there is stil complaint that more people should be traind for the Quest. Positions on the staf hav been reservd for consistent workers, with the result that the work of the stat increases in quality each semester. For the present semester new appointments have been made on this basis, and the work of issuing the Quest is being done by a larger force, which the editor proposes to increase as rapidly as is practicable.