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THE GRANTONIAN
September 26, 1969
Editorials
Letters to t he Editor
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A. Student Body Card . . . O-Wow!
Who really wants one of them? Who
wants to go to those dumb old
dances? Why would anyone want to
watch our championship winning
athletic teams for half price?
What’s so important about getting
special student rates at public per
formances by showing your Student
Body Card for identification?
Even if you don’t use your Student
Body Card for these purposes, think
of what you could do with it later.
You could use it as a book mark, as
a funnel for filling salt shakers, or as
part of a mobile representing high
school life, or you could use if to wipe
the excess oil off the dipstick after
you check the oil in your car.
You could also use it as an ice
scraper, a patch for your Peechee, a
lever for getting the lids off dog food,
a teepee for your plastic Indians or
as confetti at next year’s football
games.
There really are thousands of
things you could use your Student.
Body Card for—a lipstick blotter, a
substitute for the tissue paper in your
kazoo, a guide to trim your mustache
by, part of a kite tail or a slide for
your pet turtles.
BUT if you’re going to the games
next year to use up this year’s card
as confetti you’re really going to
need a Student Body Card to get into
the game cheap.
SO buy a Student Body Card and
flash it at your Franklin friends and
watch them cry after we win—we
will win—won’t we—?
On The Shelf
¡yZ* I M
by Ma rth a O j a rd
Dear Editor:
We would like to express our opinions,
pro and con, on the 1969 Memoirs. First
of all, the time of distribution was com
pletely unsatisfactory. We understand
one of the reasons for holding up distri
bution until fall was the aspect of more
senior coverage. This was a fine idea but
it’s too bad it didn’t materialize to the
extent that we envisioned. Only two
pages were devoted to graduation and
likewise to the Senior Prom. If there was
any extra coverage other than these four
pages, it was camouflaged by the array
of mistakes found throughout the book.
We hope that next year the publishing
company, (who, we understand, is re
sponsible for the mislabeled pictures)
will be a different one, if this is possible.
Do they not send some kind of proofs
back for correction purposes, though?
Another problem was that many sen
iors were not notified when the books
would be passed out and knew nothing
about it.
We could not help drawing a qualita
tive comparison between the yearbook of
1966-67 (excluding the athletic section
candid shots which were excellent this
year). We wondered what happened to
the N.H.S. pictures, coverage of the Hi-Q
team, any information whatsoever, be
sides the names, about the seniors such
as their activities and colleges that they
will attend. We would like to see these
included in next year’s book.
We hope that all this will be consid
ered, (along with not having the book
all summer and not being able to obtain
hardly any signatures of friends), when
the decision for publication date of next
year’s book arrives. Also, wasn’t the
amount of money saved by fall publica
tion slashed considerably by mailing
costs to get the books to the out-of-town
seniors? And with all the money saved,
why was the cost of the book not low
ered?
Thank you for publishing this.
Joe Stilwell, Mark Powell, John
Othus, John White, Bruce Hoevet,
Jeff Pittman, Larry Wheeler, Alan
Mayberry, Bart Wilson, David
Clark.
'Room 222' challenges 'Hillbillies'
Along with the new school year come
fall premiers on television. ABC, CBS,
NBC—all have “Weeks.” ABC seems to
be probing various problems, as is typi
fied in one of its new series for this sea
son—“Room 222.” An advance premier
of “222” was shown on September 17:
the regular show began on Septem
ber 22 at 8:30 p.m. on Channel 2.
LLOYD HAYNES stars as Pete Dick
son, a black U.S. History teacher. Mi
chael Constantine', who portrays the prin-
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Vol. 75, No. 3 — September 26, 1969
Editor .................... .........Martha Ojard
Page 1 Editor.......... Margaret Hadden
Page 2 Editor............. Kathi Robinson
Page 3 Editor .................. Gary Cogill
Page 4 Editor.................... Jenni Raies
Reporters...... .$ue Gottsch, Mary Ann
Hutton, Chris Hawes, Steve John
son, Jean Taylor
Advertising Mgr..... Mary Ann Hutton
Business Mgr. ................... Sue Gottsch
Advisor.......................... Willard Mohn
cipal, Seymour Kaufman, shows great
wit throughout the show. Karen Valen
REPLY:
tine, who plays Miss Johnson—Mr. Dick
To have or not to have fall delivery of
son’s student teacher, succeeds in getting
yearbooks. That is the question which
on peoples’ nerves quite easily. However,
will be left to the student body to decide
she is a bubbly, happy person who, with and which has concerned a number of
the principal, provides comedic relief students who have written their concern
from the seriousness of the plot. Denise in a letter to the editor.
“On September 30 every student in the
Nichols portrays a school official—Miss four classes will be able to vote on spring
MacIntyre.
versus fall delivery,” declared Mr. Wil
THE FIRST of the series probes the lard Mohn, publications advisor. “The
school-oriented problems of a Negro boy majority of the staff, being familiar with
—Richie. Although Richie lives in one the problems of publishing the book, are
in favor of fall delivery although if we
school district—Tyler’s—he has given a had spring delivery, their work for the
false address so he can go to Whitman year would be completed April 1 instead
High. He was “sick of cops in the hall of June 15.” He added that spring deliv
and a riot every time I raised my head.” ery would cause a cut in pages from this
Much of “Mr. Dickson’s” and “Mr. Kauf year’s book.
man’s” time is spent in debates about so
Jan Cumpston, Memoirs editor, con
lutions to Richie’s situation. The only firmed the cut-by saying that spring de
plausible reason for Richie to remain at livery would mean a cut of 39 pages
Whitman is by taking a course not of from this year’s book, with 22 of those
fered at Tyler. The only classes available sports and 17 activities. All spring sports
under this category are calculus and He coverage would be cut in half with only
brew. As a result, Richie enrolls in the group pictures, if any at all. There would
Hebrew course.
be nothing on the Rose Festival, com
Principal Kaufman seems to be the mencement, senior prom, spring musical,
only “real” person, and even he seems to spring show or any other activities
be too unreal to be a principal—his hu which would occur after April 1. Drama
mor is good, but does not fit in with the would also be cut.
conception of a principal. When he is
Christy Scott, staff member, also add
confronted with the problem of Richie, ed, “We can’t set the deadlines—compa
he declares that he is a louse. “In the nies set deadlines. So many schools go
civil service test they asked, ‘Can you be fall delivery now that the spring deliv
a louse?’ I said yes, and they made me a eries deadline was pushed up. Nothing
principal,” Kaufman said.
that happens from April on would be
“Room 222” seems to be an enjoyable covered in the book.”
program, and should evolve into an en
Mr. Mohn further verified the dead
joyable half hour. It should prove to be line: “Because all printers require 8-10
a challenge to “The Beverly Hillbillies.” weeks from the time the last page goes
to the printers, anything that occurs
after April 1 is generally left out unless
an 8-page supplement is distributed in
the fall of the year (with the bulk of
students in school not bothering to pick
them up).” The decision for fall or spring
delivery must be decided by October 1
as the first copy pictures and coverage
must be at the printers by December 15.
In response to the Letter to the Editor,
Mr. Mohn stated, “Perhaps students mis
understand that fall delivery would
mean coverage of only senior events. For
their information we (Mr. Mohn and the
Memoirs staff) found that exetended
coverage of spring sports: baseball cov
ered in its entirety, track, gymnastics,
girls’ sports and intramurals were cov
ered in greater detail this year than in
previous years.
“Because of reversal of numbers on
pictures, mistakes occurred on pages 27,
28, 30, 160-61, and 290. Transposition of
names were errors made by the publish
ing company, which was notified imme
diately upon receiving the books. Book
corrections would have been made pro
vided I had a staff large enough1 to paste
down the corrections in 2500 books,” Mr.
Mohn continued. “Other errors, i.e. Miss
instead of Mrs. and vice versa, were
'made, name spellings are in error, how
ever these are taken from cards filled
out by individual students and faculty
members and were not cross checked
ocmpletely by the staff.”
Answering the authors’ of Letter to the
Editor wonderance about certain activi
ties, Mr. Mohn replied, “National Honor
Society was covered, and High Q was
not because we were not notified that
Grant would be participating. It is diffi
cult to add something late—for each ad
dition something must be cut or elim
inated.
“For point number 3 seniors were no
tified by radio and books were distrib
uted within 48 hours of receipt at Grant.
Twenty-two yearbooks have been mailed
to students, seniors and underclassmen,
who have moved, and this number is
10 fewer than were mailed last year
with spring delivery.” Some books re
main to be picked up by students, the
bulk of whom are enrolled at Adams
High School. These books are available
in the main office from 8 a.m -5 p.m.
each day.
“The individuals who wrote the Let
ter to the Editor also asked why the cost
of the book was not lowered,” com
mented Mr. Mohn. “For the information
of these people, the delivery in the fall
financed the color that was included in
the book, and 16 extra pages over the
content of the previous year. The sav
ings of fall delivery over delivery in
spring is approximately 5% which went
into increased coverage. (The cost for
the 1970 printing of a spring yearbook
will be $12,548 while the same coverage
and same number of pages for fall de
livery would cost $11,869.99.)
“At press time 2,000 copies of the book
at $4.50 have been sold for a total of
$9,000. The additional cost of publica
tion comes from the sale of advertising
by staff members,” continued Mr. Mohn.
“Not included—but in addition to the
printing cost is photography, supplies,
etc. none of which are supplied by the
school. One local printer submitted a
bid for publication—that bid was $16,-
044.20. All bids are on file in Dr. Malo’s
office.” All publications are self-sustain
ing, no deficits are made up by the
school board.
In conclusion Mr. Mohn said, “The
staff and advisor are concerned about
the cost, the best book available; we are
unable to satisfy the personal interests
of each of the 2500 students and produce
a book within the budget approved by
Dr. Roy Malo.”
Every student who wants a voice about
spring versus fall delivery must express
their feelings with a vote for one or the
other on September 30.