Syracuse High School - Rocket Yearbook (Syracuse, NE)

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Typists, Sherry Lucas, Patty Schutz, and Karan Baldwin typed the stencils for the student newspaper. COUNTDOWN bl' h d b pu as e y busy staff. An ambitious newspaper staff and advisor, Mrs. Orton, worked vigorously to gather ten pages of news, features and editorials so that the Countdown could once again come out every three weeks this year. The number of sales grew as the paper improved. Staff members temporarily took care of one handicap, no camera, by drawing cartoons to fit the articles and occasions. At the beginning of the year, the Countdown staff attended the Journalism Clinic at the Nebraska Center for Continuing Education in Lincoln sponsored by the Nebraska High School Press Association. The day was spent attending classes dealing with editorials, features, headlines, and news articles. In the later part of the year in conjunction with the FTA, the newspaper staff helped to sponsor a St. Patrick's Day Carnival and dance. A large crowd, approximately 275 Editor, Sandra severs and advisor, Mrs. Orton, look people, was in attendance at the Senior High over stories for the Countdown. School for the annual event'

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view Jerry Wiebusch and Larry H111 dig out in home track meet against Nebraska City. ,