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

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n DON.XI.D SMITH l'TIiI.liNE XVHWE tIt'm'r'r1I dltlllllfffl' fEL'!It'I'tIl ,lflIlIt1l!lt'f Eleven students and Miss Harvey attended the Li. l. P. A. Convention, Thanksgiving vacation, at Madison, XYlSCl'PllSlll, in the interests of both Times and Totem. The were: Ehrman Kiclclev, llubert Beck, Donald Smith, Miriam Yoder, Helene XYliite, Zoe Marahrens, Margaret Diserens, Marv lfallc, Ruth Eickineyer, Elizabeth Adams. and Yivian Crates. It was at this convention that the Times emerged winner of winners. It was in competition with 238 other papers from thirty-tive states, and was selected as one of the two from its division to receive an All-American rating. Eleven other papers from other divisions received this rating also, The Times was then selected as best of the All-American papers or Best In United States. Good work and general quality was the basis of all judging, which was done by three inenibers of the department of journalism of the University of 'XYis- consin. The first of December, Ehrman Kiclqlev resigned his position as editor-in- chief of the Times, in order that he might devote his entire time to the Totem of which he is editor-in-chief. He was succeeded by Vivian Crates, who held the position of editor-in-chief and general manager until April 1, I Page 101 1

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it .fr I' 'Ei' s:'z24'Efi ' Ixiiitirxx Ixiriqugx' X ixrxx Lit,x'l'r.s. lfi1'1lm'-If:-Cilzirf lfdilm'-in-C'llit'j The South Side Times Best Iii Limited States! Xtheii mit- hears that cry. The South Side Times! is said iii the same lgreath. Th e South Side 'limes has het-ii the utlticizd puhlicntiuii uf Smith Side High Sehtmi since its existence, and is piihlished ezieh week hv the two classes of j'Jlll'H2liiSlll, uiider the direetimt tif Kliss Ruweiizl Ilztrvey. 'Iih e hrst pzilwr ttf the tirst semester was puhlished :md distrihuted to every- Qiie fm the hrst dziy tif seliutil, September 10. Vi ider the editctr-in-eliiefsliip ul' Iihrmzm Kieldey, The Times achieved the greatest liuiiurs in tht- history uf the paper. It wits Iilirmztti liiekley who edited the three edititms which were pmelziiiiied, Best High School l ztper in United States, hy the hivlllflli Iiiterschnlztslic Press Xsstmeizitiuit. Izhiiii in md tht tttt ' z : - s z H made tuitiriiig effort tu make the three issues preceding the Lf I. I', .X, Qilll1YL'llfitJH, prize-wiimitig issues and-Tl IIZY DID! I Page 100 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