South Side High School - Totem Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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Er.1z.xBiarH Annts LUCILLE GASKILL Dokis BAXTER .4t1'r'r'r'f1.r1rnf tlfazlngfrf' Bizszzzrxr illtunigfuz' Asxzxlrznl Hiisiintrs tlfulnzyfvz' To the surprise of everyone. the following week at the Regional Tournament a paper, equal in size and quality to the first. was published Again advertisers responded, the staff worked. the people bought. and a prolit of forty-two dollars was made. Both big issues were printed on white enameled paper in green ink, and were eight pages in size. The hrst Tourney issue contained twenty-two pictures, one cartoon, and two maps. The second contained thirteen pictures. one cartoon and two maps. Beginning April 1. the remaining ten weeks of the term was divided between Donald Smith and Helene XYhite as general managers. Donald had been copy and make-up editor, and Helene had been news editor previous to their appoint- ments. Donald's first issue was the April Fool's Issue, which caused many people to hold their sides with laughter. The paper was written up with everything in it ialse, and was printed in a crazy fashion on pink. yellow and orange paper. Neither semester did the Times have quite a one-hundred percent subscription in the school, but there were many outside subscribers. The exchange list num- bers three hundred. Approximately 1,200 papers are printed weekly. The paper is set up by the Superior Typsetting Company, and is printed at the school print shop at Central High School, under the direction of Mr. Hill. The average cost of each issue was 5100. The average cost of each paper was between 9 and 10 cents. l Page 103 I

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Mun ni Yun:-in Hl'lil-,li'l' limit Zoe M,m.xnRi,Ns lfdilnr ,llttmzlffimf lfdilnr Liflx' lffliim' AX retwgztnizatimi pf the stall' was inatle at the beginning uf the second semester. The uftiee tif eclitnr-in-chief was tlisposeel uf. .X general manager was 1,1111 at the hezifl uf the entire paper. 'lun etlitors of equal rank. the inztnaging eflitur anrl the erlitur. are directly unrler the general manager. 'lihe nianaging erlitpr has charge nf the eupy ancl nialce-up etlitnr, :intl the news emlitpr untler whpni is the clepartnient ewlitors, the feature writers :intl the lG1tOl'It'l'w. The erlitnr supervises the eclitprial writers, the eclituriztl writing antl the etlitnriztl policy pf the paper. The general manager also has clirect charge over the lnusiness manager, who in turn has three assistants: namely, the assistant husiness manager, the circulation manager anml the arlyertising manager. 'lihe arlvertising sUliCitHl's are untler the latter's care. The Hin .Yzrzizlterx were pulrlishetl in March nf the seconrl seniester. Then the 'liinies stall tlirl what nu une tlnutgltt it cnulcl flu and that was tn puhlish two large. eight-page Twurnatneut Specials in twu successive weeks. 'lihe eight-page Sectional 'liOUl'llZ11'llCllI lssue was tlecicletl upon after a staff meeting where nearly every nieniher of the stall' prmnisetl not only tp write more than usual, hut pruniiserl tp get atlvertisenients anrl to sell the papers at the games. The zulvertisers respnnrlerl reaflily and more than enough advertisements were procured. l.etters anfl telt-grains were sent to schools entering teams, and pictures and write-ups were uhtainerl. More than ennugh copy, mp, was haurlefl in. Two thousantl cnpies of the lirst hig issue were solfl, and the Times nut only broke even, hut they niarle a prntit of twenty-eight dollars. I Page 10.2 I

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Dwtotir Mriius l'1IDW.XRI1 Hl'I.Sbi RLXRY Moxkoii 1ill.YIlIt'.YX ,lltinutfur tiirrzrltitiiui AlftIHt7tIt'l' Cllftrltlfmn ,lItIVItlglt'l' Many line coiiiplitiit-tits have hcen given the South Side Tiincs. Xniong those who cotnplitnented it was the .lottrnal tiztzctte, which puhlishcd an editorial aftcr the return from Madison as follows: It rt-mains for thc South Sidc High School of Fort Nlvaync but to kccp its Hag at the peak of the mast, Thx' gleaming folds of that lianncr now tioat in victory and flap triuniphautly zilniivc all otlicrs, in acknowledged suprcinztcy. 'lihc South Side Tiincs. a weekly newspaper of that school, has het-u voted unconditionally the host high schtiol litililicatinii in thc United Stzttcs. il verdict rcndcrcd at thc annual convcntion of the Ccntrxtl lntcrscholastic Press Assiiciatinti, just cluscd at Mztclison, XYisconsin. The Times now bt1t'gc-nits its standard as the All-.-Xntt-rican high sclioul paper. That is a stipt-rlzttix'c distinction, indeed. hut ont- which gathers added lt-mor from scrt-ral circutnstanccs. chief of which is conipletc dcscrt to 21 title so illustrious, but of which anothcr is that it is the splendor of an aclticvcitictit but scant in its st'ciind yt-ar. iliht- South Sidc 'liinics won a high place in thc lntcrscholastic Prt-ss :XsiHClZltli1ll'5 awards zt ycar ago, suffering an untlcscrvccl rlctncrit and taking a slightly inferior honor by rt-:tson nf a technical olntrttsinn. Hut thc- triumph just sccurccl atuncs for that and adds sonic-tlting. It is a tint- llL'XYNll2lIPk'I'. -ludgc-d hy thc critical standards and lwofessiciltal canons of regular journalism, tht- Tiincs ranks high. It is an cxzunplc of ncwspapcr protluction which conforms tu and iiotzthly rt-Hccts what is hast aiiprovttcl in ncwspapcr art and crztfttnanship. Its arrztngctncnt and inztkt-tip are such as In plc-asc thc cyc and arrest thc attention. lt is cditt-il with ability, writtt-n with ihtith spriglttlincss and judgntcnt and ntanagctl with not only striking ctitt-i'prisc hut with husincss ctlicicncy. In its tit-ld it is c-iiiililctc. It is niarkccl by dignity tit conduct, soundness of policy and scriotistit--s of pttrii-ist: The studt-nts in chargc of it-a l1I'C1lUlltlk'I'3lll nuinbt-r of them young wutnt-n-arc not playing at journztlisnig they arc getting out a ncwspapcr. Ot that iiiiciwicusiii called the South Side High it pix-sciits caclt wcek a bright and graphic stuninziry. Miss Harvcy, in chargc of thc class in journalism at that school, has accoinplishcd wwindcrs with hcr classcs. as witnnss that within a year their school newspaper wins thc cttulgt-nt rt'niiwn nf .-Xll-:Xiiicriczfs liest. Iljage 10-1 I