Thomas Carr Howe Community High School - Hilltopper Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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TI-IEREKS A LONG, LONG TRAIL A-WINDING Climb up the winding staircase and end panting in the cloudy reaches of the I-IILLTOPPER room. There staff members prepared the book which you are now reading. Work on the book began early in the spring-as soon as staff members had been appointed. Regular Monday staff meetings were held until such important items as the cover, general theme, and the new side binding were settled. Early in the fall, the annual HILLTOPPER assembly was given, with a chorus line composed of the male members of the staff, and a vocal chorus made up of the girls of the staff. All the students were given hints as to what this masterpiece would be like, and then it was time for the business managers to get busy. Subscriptions were sold under the leadership of Harold Crawford, business manager, and his assistant, Iudy Wear. A student agent was appointed in each homeroom and everyone Was given the opportunity to order a copy of the 1949 I-IILLTOPPER. Two dances, the Spring Swing and the Brown and Gold, were given to help with the finances. Not that danc- ing was work, but decorating for the affairs certainly was not what one might consider an afternoon of leisure. Anita Strahl was the first to start working with the home- room pictures and identifications. All homeroom pictures had to be taken Cand some retakenl after they had been planned. Anita then had the job of deciphering the hand- writing of the many I-Ioweites who were in a hurry when they wrote their lohn I-Ienry's. TOP PICTURE LOWER PICTURE STANDING - Marilyn Bowers, STANDING - Io Ann Wood, Iudy Wear, Paul Taylor. Anita Strahl, Mike Wagoner. SEATED -- Marilyn Cranston, SEATED-Carter Means, Anne Norma Stultz, Harold Crawford. Moreland, Ioyce Mitzner.

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VERS TENTI-l YEAR After the writers have returned with their stories, the copy is copyread, names checked, okayed by the editors, and sent to the printer. The copy returns in the form of galley proofs. These are proofread, cut up, and pasted onto the dummy layout forms as they will appear when printed. TOWER members are not so hard at Work that they cannot find time for a little recreation now and then. Together with the HILLTOPPER staff, they plan and give the annual Christmas and Spring Birthday parties for the staffs and Iournalism classes. Also, many TOWER and HILLTOPPER staff members attend the Indiana High School Press Association at Franklin, and the But- ler Iournalism Field Day at Butler Univer- sity. s TOP PICTURE STANDING-William Welch, Rita Miller, Carolyn Schuster, Mary Iune Stultz, Ann Fennell, Mary Tor- rence, Charlotte Walton, Charlot Thorne, Ianice Samp- son, Barbara Larnb, Dean Morrow. SEATED-Barbara Pletcher, Iackie Abraham, Bar- bara Davis, Ioan Hockersmith, Iennie Konold. LOWER PICTURE STANDING-Iudy Charnley, Carolyn Walther, David Williams, lane Kirkhoff, Mary Io Reed, Dan Meininger, Ianet Hook, Carolyn Ienkins, Virginia Bruce, Barbara Miller, Kent Pierce, Robert Fields, Don Franz, SEATEDWIQ Ann Morell, Kathryn McCartney, Bar- bara Hall, Iudy Pierce, Marcia Scovell, Karen Arnold, Iane Keith.

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Mike Wagoner and Carter Means had the headache of writing the copy for the sports section of the HILLTOPPER. All team pic- tures had to be scheduled and then the next job was trying to get team members to hold still While their pictures were taken. Correct schedules and records of the different sports also had to be obtained. Paul Taylor and Marilyn Bowers, co-make- up editors, struggled over the proportions of pictures, and Paul had the extra Worry andf or fun of drawing all the sketches. lt has been rumored that several boxes of aspirin were used in producing that part of the 'Topper. Io Ann Wood, senior editor, saw that all the lovely seniors had their 'T forms were sent out on which were listed the activities of each senior during his years at Howe. These also had to be compiled. Anne Moreland, club editor, and loyce Mitzner, activities editor, had charge of plan- ning pictures and writing copy for the activi- ties section. For Anne, it was a constant bat- tle to get sponsor and club together to have their picture taken. Then came another job of deciphering. loyce was responsible for pictures and information about the musical organizations and publications. Marilyn Cranston, editor, and Norma Stultz, associate editor, commanded the entire staff and spent many afternoons acquiring gray hairs over the book. They were also in charge of introductory and division page copy. Miss Ellen L. Kroll, adviser, Was general chairman over everything and supervised the entire book. The masterpiece was completed by March, and the juniors on the staff began preparing for the next year's book. Our thanks go to Clarence E. Crippin and Son, lnc., printers, Loudermilk's-Ramos-Pon ter, photographerg Indianapolis Engraving Companyg and Kingskraft Cover Company. T smiling countenances pictured in their section of the book. Arrangements had to be made with the photog- rapher as to when each senior was to have his or her picture taken. Later HILLTOPPER STAFF STANDING-Joyce Mitzner, Paul Taylor, Anita Strahl, Mike Wagoner. SEATED-Iudy Wear, Anne Moreland, Marilyn Bowers, Io Anne Wood, Harold Crawford, Marilyn Cranston, Norma Stultz. l