Smith Academy - Echo Yearbook (Hatfield, MA)

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PUBLIC YEARBOOK This year the yearbook staff worked especially hard to produce a book different from the tradi- tional Smith Academy yearbook. Heading the staff of industrious contributors was Bernard Saydlowski, the editor-in-chief. His two chief as- sistants were Mary Belden, business manager, and Donald Jandzinski, associate editor. Literary edi- tor, Janet Vollinger headed the staff which pro- vided the book with most of its written material; other staff members were Helen Backiel, Ann Kennedy, Elinor Vollinger, Phyllis Kochan, Mil- dred Novak, Ann Foster and Joyce Cantwell. Carol Levitre was editor of the art staff, which included Thomas Prucnal and Eugene La France. The photography was under control of Ann Ken- nedy and her assistants, Janet Vollinger, Dorothy Goodwin, and Francis Godin. The difficult job of soliciting advertisements was under the super vision of the advertising managers John Barrett and Joyce Cantwell. They received help fiom many of the other members of the yearbook staff. Robert Widelo, Phyllis Pelis and Joan Moriarty were in charge of subscriptions and Dorothea Fortsch was the treasurer for the year. Mr. Cas- sidy, the advisor, gave much valuable counsel to make this an outstanding book. With the com- bined effort of all these people, this volume of the ECHO was produced.

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Thespians I ' m dying, hey ! Unhand that Woman ! Don ' t hurt him, Francis!

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ATIONS SCHOOL PAPER This year there was a very good turnout for the school paper staff. In September the follow ing staff was organized: editor-in-chief, Bernard Saydlowski; associate editors, Phyllis Kochan and Mary Belden: literary editors, Ann Kennedy and Joyce Cantwell; art editor, Dorothea Fortsch: art staff, Thomas Prucnal and Dorothy Goodwin; typists, Carol Levitre, Helen Backiel, Phyllis Pel- is, Donald Jandzinksi and Eugene La France; business manager, Carol Levitre; business staff, Robert Widelo and Phyllis Pelis; reporters, Joan Moriarty, Mildred Novak, George Klocko, Fred Belden, Ann Foster and Helen Backiel; and ad- visors, Miss Ryan and Mrs. Pruzynski. Besides the regular staff, we had several people who wrote columns for us. Our feature section was replaced by a gossip column, Soup to Nuts , by Janet Vollinger; and the sports section was re- placed by a sports column by John Barrett. There have also been some new additions: a joke col- umn, Side Busters , by Leonard Majesky and Eugene Staszko: a music column by Ann Ken- nedy; a society column, Mary-Go-Round , by Joyce Cantwell; and a fashion column by Elea- nor Vollinger. Another column which drew a great deal of attention was Man About Town by an alumnus of Smith Academy who wished to remain anonymous. The staff was well represented at W.M.L.S.P. convention in October and May. At the May convention we learned that the newspaper had won the cup for general excellence for the sec- ond time. The entire staff hopes that soon the cup will remain at Smith Academy forever. The school paper has been greatly improved, but it is hoped that posterity will make it even better.