Wilburton High School - Diggers Yearbook (Wilburton, OK)

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Journalism Trip Polishes Writing Techniques DIGGER SPIRIT NEWSPAPER staff members publish a mimeographed edition bi-monthly, including a special edition for the Elementary Division. Staff members attended the Oklahoma Inter-Collegiate Press Association workshop on the University of Oklahoma campus in October, when they were instructed in general and fine points of high school newspaper publication. Fourteen staff members gather news, prepare layouts, duplicate, and distribute copies every second Friday. Editorials feature opinions and facts researched by the editorial department. Special feature articles include items of interest from world events and attitudes. Student polls provide basis for in- teresting feature articles on student opinions, student dress, and pro- posed changes in student life. Publishing bi-monthly requires working hours that often extend after regular class time. Editors also researched special textbooks and references in the Journalism section of the library to up-date writing and editing techniques. Editors Improve and Expand News Coverage WORKING AFTER polls, class sketches, and SCHOOL, three members the latest gossip are col- of the Digger Spirit looted and published bi- newspaper staff hurry to monthly, meet deadlines. School 19

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Teenagers Join Organizations PHIL RATLIFF PRESIDES, as vice- president, over a meeting of the Boys' Lettermen Club in place of absent president, John Crane. The members discuss plans pertaining to the football and basketball coronations, arrival of football jackets and sweaters, and the problems, and outcome of a game. BAKE SALE PLANS are discussed by mem- bers of the Girl's Lettermen Club presided over by president, Sandra Taylor and spon- sored by Coach Sam Taylor. A motion is made and carried that the proceeds will help sponsor a trip to Miami for club members. Clubs, Groups Offer Extra-Class Activities LOU WATKINS POINTS out the local vicinity of Okla- homa on a map of the world to mem- bers of the History Club. Students meet monthly and talk over recent events which affect our way of life. The club and Okla- homa History Classes made a trip to the Rhunestone located near Heavener. SCIENCE CLUB MEMBERS explore a new world of tiny creatures under the lens of a microscope. Taking turn, they look at an onion skin, an amoeba, or maybe a part of a dissected animal. Nancy Taylor sponsors the twenty-two member club monthly.

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ROBERT STANFIELD IDENTIFIES photographs for the Student Life section of the 1969 Digger year- book. Features this year include an opening section printed on colored contemporare paper, extensive photography coverage, twenty-two extra pages and a completely new advertising section. The cover was created for the Digger by American Yearbook Company, Topeka, Kansas, which published the book for seven years. YEARBOOK STAFF MEMBERS attend both fall and spring meetings of the Oklahoma Inter-Collegiate Press Association on the University of Oklahoma, Norman, campus. Experts in yearbook production instruct students in layout, copywriting, and pho- tography divisions. A special section instructs business managers in planning budgets and con- ducting sales and distribution. Digger Adds Color, Pages YEARBOOK STAFF MEMBERS include Robert Stanfield, Editor; Janet Carlin, Copy Editor; Brenda Enis and Rita Sivic, Secretaries; David Brown, Edi- tor; Vicki Puckett, Business Manager; and Foy Ledbetter, Advisor. Each department works to meet three copy schedule deadlines to provide spring delivery of yearbooks. Staff members research textbooks on yearbook pro- duction to gain ideas for presenting the work, efforts, and achievements of WHS. Production of the 1969 yearbooks requires staff work on weekends, holi- days, and several nights, in addition to regular classtime activities. Nowmen Glenn, American Yearbook Company representative, assisted staff members in planning and coordinating the 1969 edition of the Digger. 20