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Show Les Gardiner, Dewey Hudson, Ed Anderson, Marjorie Vowles Ada Weir. signpost The birth of the Signpost, three seasons ago, was generally a mild thing. Nilsson whispered inoffensively and the sheet was conceived. As if to prove that the only hindrance to more frequent publication was a lack of money, the staff beg an in true journalistic fashion frittering away the first week of the fort-nightly vacation between issues and moaning softly for weekly publication. Then about three days before publication the staff would go into a semi-frenzy. A meticulous care for some insignificant details and a magnificent contempt for other important matters contributed to the originality of each issue. So has it been; so shall it be. Ray Freeman, Bill Sander, Nell Barnett, Helen Williams, Marva Jensen, Spencer Laughton. Dallas Burton, David Belnap, Mr. Nilsson, Gerald Wright, Opal Rogerson, Hosea Ellison. Sitting: Budd Johnson, Margaret Peterson, Jay Bachman. J. M. Demos: Editor Ardell Russell: Business Manager Cluster Nilsson: Sponsor The monotony of faculty straight-jacket regulation and the confused exuberance of ungoverned student idealism were more or less successfully evaded this year. The staff was composed of an assortment of, to treat them gently, queer individuals. Editor Demos fondly imagined himself a sort of Steve Wilson, the journalistic power of Big Town. Threatening to expose sordid conditions, to revise time worn journalistic standards, and to spur the school on to noble objectives, he nevertheless contented himself with writing a couple of articles for the scandal section each issue, specializing in the biting phrase guaranteed to make girl victims weep . . . Ardell Russell, business manager, deftly handled advertisers but be came lost in the intricacies of simple addition. Some say she was the power behind the throne . . . Let the remainder of the staff rest in kindly oblivion. |