Stonewall High School - Confederate Yearbook (Clearbrook, VA)

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Comments on 1947 Publications Contests ANNUALS Judge: Professor B, W. Withers The Journal!an Foundation u;j shington-Lee University Lexington, Virginia Group III. The Confederat e. Stonewall High School, Clearbrook. Hi 3 Confederate is one of the most expensive annuals in any group; yet, unfortunately, it is not so handsome or individual or well edited and effective as saveral others. Inaid; its handsome and expensive covers are badly printed end sheets and throughout the rest of the book there are poorly trimned pages, wrong font letters and defective letters, fingerprints, and work that is inferior to that of a vast majority of yearbooks. Photographs certainly are not inspired and they are poorly reproduced, the fault lying vdth one or all of these: the photographer, the engraver, and the printer. The layout and arrangement of pages is awkwardly done, the hand lettering usually detracts from the pages, and the annual itself is amateurishly produced. Nor has the copy boen carefully edited; there are careless abbreviations in the too-detailed table of contents, misspellings in tho Calendar of Events ( calende r and inla t ion. for example), and one wonders about proper names like JoJbe (page 49). The class poem, will, and prophecy are not of good high school standards and the pages of jokes are most doubtful value. So are the two pages given to scenes and acts of the senior play. Club and activity copy ' is too general and lifeless and headlines are of different sizes and type faces. A much more effective book might be produced if the 1948 staff were to study the best annuals and use more imagination. Creditable

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