ward Allen Plaque to Redlands
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ty year SC's School of Journalism graduates a class of j trained men and women who are eager to make their I i the field of journalism. SC can point with pride at i ?r mounting total of graduates in journalism who, be- , their training and ability, have distinguished them- j
i selves.
! Gen. Ira C. Eaker. former deputy i chief of the United States army air, ! force and a graduate of "34. was at i j cne time head of all air force public j ( relations. General Eaker. who has | j written three books on the army. I air force, is sponsor of the Ruth j ! Apperson Eaker award for the best1 editorial written by a member of the editorial writing ciass and published; in the Daily Trojan each year.
Another outstanding alumnus is J Virgil Pinkley, graduate of '29. Mr. ■ Pinkley is is now vice-president and ; European business manager of the! United Press association.
Hazel P. Haraog. now Mrs. Wal-
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Weekly Staff Makes
Greatest Improvement
The Redlands Hobachi today won the Crombie Allen award for the high school paper that showed the greatest improvement in its issues covering the period 1947 to 1948. A representative from the staff of that paper will receive the trophy at the 26th annual Newspaper day awards assembly in Bovard auditorium at 11:30 today.
News Majors Offered SC Scholarships
Outstanding Seniors Will Vie for Two Four-Year Awards
ROY L. FRENCH . . . the coach
Finds Born in ;y Room Din
b> Evonne Berr>
lacking typewriters, a steady jble of voices, and loud guffaws lie a din of activity and con->n in the Daily Trojan city and present a formidable front nyone not acquainted with the ?r workings. Here the DT is recut, scrambled, and finally (ipiled and printed: a fact w-hich constant souroe of amazement |any visitor to this Fourth Floor ite.
the walk up the four flights Student Union stairs to DT of-isn’t sure to discourage any er individuals from majoring Jurnalism, the bedlam encoun-in this city room should be jh. One-finger typists happily ^ng away at their news, repor-rusaing out on assignments, [ng of idlers laughing at jokes ie corner; two journalism ►rs eating their lunch in ano-the desk editor saving breath |the next frustrated yell and nocent commerce major ask-“Who do I see to get this in japer?” . . . just the happen-ol one minute in this inter-fiitg madhouse.
"he greyed walls hold their (ui-e of plaques and bulletin irds of ‘Slips in the News." On le side are the current DTs which live been evaluated by the edi-in his own inimitable style, isionally, however, it calms f>wn enough some afternoons to a lone freshman journalism ijor cautiously inch his way into >e room. It is somewhat of a irine to him for it is here that I [any famous journaiitst start their ireer—perhaps in the same un-I’tntful way as he. But through ie dust and haze left from the iy's work, there is still that feel-of activity just momentarily iet. In a few hours the mad will begin again and once
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GEN. IRA EAKER . . . donor
iace R. Tow', graduate of ’40 and member of the United Press staff, was the first woman reporter to enter Tokyo after the war. Miss Hartzog was formerly UP’s corres- j pondent in Honolulu.
William Colm Payette, the pres- j include Bobbie Jo Scott, winner of ent manager of the Los Angeles >44; Benson Srere. winner of ’45; bureau of tne United Press, grad- Yolanda D Amico and Ed Riley, uated from SC in ’35. Mr. Payette| winners of '46; and Evonne Berry was the former managing editor of and Jim Deger, last year’s winners, the Santa Monica Topics.	Many of Hhe former scholarship
Virginia MacPherson, graduate holders are now active in the field
Two four-year scholarships to SC's School of Journalism are again to be presented to a boy and girl from southern California. These awards, which cover tuition fees and are valued at $750 a year, are offered annually by the General Alumni association and the School of Journalism.
The rules this year are the same as before. Any high school in southern California may select one boy or one girl, the outstanding journalism student in either the February or June graduating classes.
Candidates are to be selected on the basis of high scholarship in all classes, contribution of valuable services to his high school publication. and a journalistic career as his goal. Complete information and application blanks were mailed to journalism teachers.
Applicants before the final selection, were Interviewed by a representative of the Alumni association. a member of the School of Journalism faculty, and an outstanding senior in journalism.
Journalism award winners who are now attending the university
TODAY'S PROGRAM
of '42. is currently writing a Hollywood UP column which is published in more than 100 newspapers, some of them abroad.
Aviation editor and staff reporter on the Los Angeles Times is
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VIRGINIA MacPHERSON . . . Hollywood
Marvin G. Miles, an SC graduate of '33.
Another prominent graduate of the walls of the city room ’3o is John W. “Sky" Dunlap, edi-11 crack and loosen another inch | tor. publisher, and founder of the the DT is created.	! Santa Ana Sunday Globe.
Eaker Award To Be Given
Ruth Apperson Eaker editorial award, established by Lt. Gen. Ira C. Eaker in 1934, is presented each year to the SC student who writes the best editorial appearing in the Daily Trojan.
General Eaker. a Troy alumnus, and Mrs. Eaker maintain the award to encourage the development of skill in presenting good editorial opinion. The annual winner receives a prize of $20 and has his name inscribed on the plaque wiiich hangs in the Daily Trojan city room.
Past winners, in chronological order, are Hans Poppe. Roland Applegate. Lionel Van Deerlin, John F. Golay, Albert Colegrove. Cleve I. Herman, Stanley Gortikov, Richard H. Mulcahy. Myron K. Minnick, Robert Bra.ndson, William I. Griffith, and Edward L Prizer.
Members of the School of Journalism staff served as judges this year and have announced that William Sunday, Daily Trojan staff member, is the winner of the award. His winning editorial is published 011 page 3 of this issue. Dick Eshleman. DT editor, will present the award in Bovard auditorium today.
The schedule for the 23rd annual Newspaper day has been outlined by its originator, Marc N. Goodnow, lecturer and field worker in journalism, as follows:
9—Registration in arcade of Admainistration building.
9:30—Assembly in Bovard auditorium.
Greeting by Richard Eshleman, Daily Trojan editor. Introduction by Prof. Roy L. French, chairman. Welcome by President Fred D. Fagg.
“Journalism in the Field of Communication,” by William C. Payette, manager, Los Angeles Bureau, United Press association.
“A Woman Mans the City Desk,” by Miss Agness Under wood, city editor, Los Angeles Herald-Express. 11:30—Announcement of journalism scholarship by Roy L. French.
Ruth Apperson Eaker Editorial Award by Richard Eshleman.
The Crombie Allen Award.
Presented by Joseph Vurgason, publisher, National City News; president, California Newspaper Publishers association.
Announcements (Luncheon; escorts; tour of campus; clinics).
12—Box luncheon in patio.
1—Clinics, panels, discussions.
High school editors and staffs. Prof. Russell J. Ham-margren, chairman; Richard Eshleman, assistant. (Administration 206). Junior college editors and staffs. Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, chairman; Mabel A. Stanford, assistant. (Administration 305).
High school and junior college newspaper business staffs. Forest Foster, chairman; Joe Mohl, assistant. (Administration 156).
High school and junior college yearbook staffs. Mr. John Morley, chairman; Morey Thomas, assistant. (Administration 251).
DT Editor Plans
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Tour of England
R. E. Eshleman, editor of the Daily Trojan, hopes to continue his studies in France and England after he is graduated from SC. The 23-year-old editor has tentative plans to attend the Alliance Francaise in Paris and later study at Cambridge.
OUi rLQ.1 Lsts, Jokesters Join Eager Journalists *	*	*	★ Help Trojan Owl
iterary Talents in Wampus
Literary wrecks from the School Journalism as well as other people w'ho are morally kaput, put out sometime monthly and sometime lumorous humor magazine called
Wampus. Wampus is German humor.
weekends Al is closely guarded by two trusty members of the Trojan Knights, an honorary labor group on campus.
Associated with the Wampus is a peculiar looking bird that walked in one day with a package of fritos in one hand and a bottle of suds Editor Al Hix. chief down-and- '■ in the other. Since then he has iter of the publication, accepts j been named Willie the Wampus-^fferings—money, scripts, cartoons, bird and since then he has been ideas—from anyone who is in- j blamed for anything foul assoc 1-lerested m this subrosa activity. aued with the humor magazine. He Even light satire, humcr of all sorts, also doesn’t look like any bird that fnd witty articles are accepted by any bird has ever looked like, he funny magazine.	j An auxiliary publication of the
When Hix; isn't editing the Wamp Wampus is one not so humorous, he writes a humor column for the It is the SC yearbook, called the Daily Trojan and works as an as- El Rodeo or El Rod which is short instant news editor. His work, how- for El Rodeo. The Rod which ap-rver. is closely supervised to assure pears sometime between January (innocent DT fans that any Warn- and July of the spring semester is pu»-related humor will not infil- edited this year by Morey Thomas rr*A* too the news columns. On | who is not a journalism student.
SC journalism students help to publish the Trojan Owl, weekly publication of the University College.
Students aid as reporters, copy, readers, and editors on the four page, five column, tabloid paper which is published every Monday.
Needles Newsmen In Longest Trip
Six delegates to Troy’s Newspaper day who have traveled farthest to take in today’s events are those who have journeyed o'er hill and dale from distant Needles Union high school.
Four staff and two faculty members, under the chairmanship of Reginald T. Ogan. will represent the sharp Needles publication. Get the point?
Eshleman first saw action in the city room of the DT in 1941 when “the manpower shortage even al-lowed freshmen to work as desk editors.” Most of his efforts were directed to the sports page under the tutelage of then Sports Editor Bion Abbott.
In 1942 he was drafted into the infantry as a private. Two years later, in June 1944, after many transfers, he wras commissioned a second lieutenont in the air corps at Hondo, Tex.
CAPTURED IN GERMANY Lieutenant Eshleman saw action as a navigator in a B-17 in the eighth air force and later became a captain under the command of General Jimmy Doolittle. He was taken prisoner by the Germans and released at the end of the war.
Back at SC in March 1£>46. the Hamilton high graduate became drama editor for the paper in the fall semester.
In the spring semester, 1947, he became associate editor to Edward Prizer. In May of the same year he was named editor in chief of the Daily Trojan, and spent the summer editing the Summer News.
“Trying to coordinate 300 different temperaments is one of the toughest problems an editor faces,” Eshleman said wThen asked about the problems confronting a newspaper editor. Administrative details also take up much of his time in getting out the paper, he said.
POLITICS POSE PROBLEM “I look forward with dread to the coming ASSC elections because of the school politics involved.” he said. Eshleman went on to say that “the Trojan staff will maintain a non-partisan attituae and will call the turns as it sees them.” Staff promotions and maintaining fluidity of personnel also play a large part in the headaches of an editor.
“Because this is a laboratory, we want to keep members of the staff moving from job to job so they may gain Experience in the various newspaper aepartments,” he said. Keeping the staff on its toes and assuming the responsibility of being a school bulletin is an important job the editor must take into account in his work, he added.
Experience, Eshleman feels, is the greatest reward a college new-spaper editor receives. From a persona! standpoint he said “I enjoy the satisfaction of knowing that this is probably the only time I’ll direct the destiny of a newspaper.”
He believes the quality of the
paper has been improved since the war by the older, more experienced men now working on the DT. “Attention to things beyond the campus have tended to make the paper a better one,” he said.
Panels to List Prep Problems
Problems of high school and jun ior college journalists will be considered today by Newspaper day delegates in panel discussions directed by SC faculty members and student executives of the Daily Trojan and El Rodeo.
Answers to questions arising in the writing and editing of news, the preparation of layout and make-up, and the functions of the business departments of newspapers and yearbooks will be sought in four conferences.
EDITORS CONVENE
High school editors and their staffs convene in Administration 206 for a general discussion to be conducted by Prof. Russell J. Ham-margren assisted by Richard Eshleman, DT editor. Each editor will be given the cluoice of comparing his paper with those of other schools.
Junior college editors and their staffs wrill meet in Administration 305. Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, assistant professor of journalism, is chairman of this conference and will be aided by Miss Mabel A. Stanford, junior college journalism instructor. The purpose of the conference will be to bring under discussion newswrit-ing, feature writing, and make-up.
BUSINESS STAFFS MEET
Business managers and their staffs of both high schools and junior colleges will convene in Administration 156. Chairman of the conference is Forest Foster, business manager of the Daily Trojan, who will be aided by Joe Mohl, business manager of El Rodeo, university yearbook. Advertising and the financing of a newrspaper will be discussed.
Editors, business managers, and staffs of high school and junior college yearbooks will convene in Administratin 251. Mr. John Morley, SC graduate in journalism, is chairman of the group. His assistant is Morey Thomas, editor of El Rodeo.
Prep Scribes Invade Troy For N-Day
City Editor, U.P. Man To Address Group; Box Lunch Planned
•The presentation will be made by Joseph Vurgason. publisher of the National City News and president of the California Newspaper Publishers association. The trophy won by the Redlands paper was established by Crombie Allen, former publisher of the Ontario Daily Report.
“Por those who may not be familiar with the basis on which the award is made,” said Marc N. Goodnow, field representative of the School of Journalism, “it should be explained that in this contest the papers compete among their own staffs and not with other papers. The attempt of the judges is to find the paper whose present staff has been able to improve most on the work of last year's staff.
“The degree of improvement is shown in the scoring table as 1, 2
Three hundred and fifty high school and junior coiiege editors and their staffs are expected to attend the 23rd annual Newspaper day at SC. Journalism students from the southland will make the trek from as far away as Needles to attend the meeting here today.
Registration for the program will take place at 9 in the arcade of| the Administration building and will be followed by an assembly in Bovard auditorium at 9:30.
FAGG TO SPEAK Dick Eshleman, Daily Trojan editor, will open the program with a greeting to visiting journalists.
Prof. Roy L. French, chairman, will then introduce President Fred D.
Fagg who will extend a welcome to the visitors.
William C. Payette, manager of the Los Angeles bureau of the United Press associations will speak on “Journalism in the Field of Communication.”
“A Woman Mans the City Desk” is the topic to be discussed by Miss Agness Underwood, city editor, Los Angeles Herald-Express.
ANNOUNCE TOP EDITORIAL At 11:30 Professor French will announce journalism scholarships.
Richard Eshleman will then announce the Ruth Apperson Eaker ^he award, however, was originally editorial award for the best edit- j made for the purpose of raising the orial written by an SC student pub- 1 standard and quality of high school lished in the Daily Trojan.	papers and not to make Just an-
Here’s Schedule For News Clinics
Clinics at 1 p.m. today include: High school editors and staffs.
206 Administration.
Junior college editors and staffs.
305 Administration.
High school and junior college newspaper business staffs. 156 Administration.
High school and junior college yearbook staffs. 251 Administra-Uon.
or 3. No improvement is marked 0. A drop in quality may be indicated by minus one or minus two.
“Under this system of judging,” continued Mr. Goqdnow. “papers which are consistently good are seen to score less than those which by change of format or some other factor achieve a great improvement.
The entries are taken from assignments for the fall semester’s class in editorial writing.
Joseph Vurgason, publisher of the National City News and president of the California Newspaper Publishers association, will present the Crombie Allen award for general improvement in a high school paper.
Marc N. Goodnow, lecturer in journalism, will conclude the morning program with announcements concerning luncheon, escorts, tour of the campus, and clinics.
BOX LUNCH SPECIAL A box luncheon will be served in the patio between Bovard and the PE building at noon.
Afternoon clinics, panels, and discussion groups start at 1. High school editors and staffs will meet in 206 Administration. Russell J. Hammargren, assisted by Richard Eshleman, will preside.
Junior college editors and staffs, under the direction of Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, meets in 305 Administration.
High school and junior college newspaper business staffs will meet in 156 Administration for a panel discussion led by Forest Foster and Joe Mohl.
High school and junior college yearbook staffs will join John Morley and Morey Thomas in 251 Administration.
other competition between high schools.”
Selection of the winner was made by four judges from the School of Journalism faculty. Judging was done on the basis of nine factors. These were typography, make-up, readability, art and attractiveness, press work, editorial page, sport page, features, variety of interest and enterprise, and newspaper style.
The Redlands Hobachi scored IS points under these criteria, and was closely followed by the Banning Portlight which made 11 points. The Bell Chimes and the Alhambra Aztec tied for third place with 10 points each.
SDX, Theta Sig Lead Troy Tours
High school and junior college {editors attending the 23rd annual Newspaper day Saturday will be conducted on their tours of the campus by members of the chapters of Sigma Delta Chi and Theta Sigma Phi, journalistic fraternity and sorority.
The tours will begin at 12:30, immediately following the box lunch in the patio.
Trojan Paper
Set Up Like Big City Daily
40 Staff Members Put Out Publication On Student Activities
SC’s Daily Trojan staff, composed of more than 40 students, is moiled after the organization set-up ot' the average metropolitan daily newspaper. Separate sports, society, feature, and editorial departments augment the general news coverage efforts of a city room.
The city room is the busy home of a score of reporters every afternoon. Here the news editor, Ted Shields, the DT counterpart of a hard-boiled city editor, holds sway. Also in the city room are iocatet the half-dozen copy readers aivi the desk editor who makes up the pages as the stories are turned in by reporters.
SPORTS COVERED
A complete page of sports news and editorial comment on sports is furnished daily by the sports department, housed in a separate office on the same floor as the city room.
The society news is handled, as is fitting, by a woman editor. Astrid Carlson directs the activities of those reporters assigned to gather information on campus social happenings.
A five-man editorial board is headed by Al Lalane, who in addition to being chief editorial writer, doubles as editor of the Trojan Owl, the weekly paper for afterdark students of University College.
FEATURES EDITED
Once a week, feature stories art given full spread in the DT. Lloyd Hearn, feature editor, collects and edits student endeavors of this nature.
Dick Bshleroan, DT editor, has his office in a room adjacent to the city room, where he can observe the paper during its final preparation each afternoon. Just outside the rfty room, the managing editor, George Anderson, supervises the complete make-up of the DT in his office.
Like any food, modern daily, the DT has a staff photographer. Date Wolper scurries around the camptM with his camera and furnishes the paper with news-worthy pictures.
-ALLEN AWARD SCORING-
EXPLANATION: Juditment was bused on the decree of improvement ia Is**** of January 1948 over those of January 1947. The nine factors scored were:
A—Typography; B—Pace 1 Make-up; C—Readability. Art and Attractiveness; I)—Press Work: E—Editorial Pare: F—Sports Pace; G—Features; H—Variety *f Interest and Enterprise; J—Newspaper Style.
High School Paper
Bell Chim Alhambra
Downey Norseman
San Pedro Fore ’n Aft----
Los Angeles Poly Optimist (Vista Panther Tale not judged; issues not comparable.)
A	B	c	D	E F G			H J Total		
.2	1	1	0	2	2	1	1	2	12
?,	1	1	0	1	3	1	2	0	11
1	2	2	2	1	0	0	1	1	10
0	1	2	0	1	2	1	2	1	10
2	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	8
.2	0	2	0	2	0	2	0	0	8
,1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	7
1	1	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	6
.1	0	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	5
-2	0	1	0	2	1	2	1	0	5
1	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	5
.0	0	1	0	2	1	0	0	0	4
,1	0	1	0	1	-1	1	1	0	4
1	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	4
.0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2
Social Eds Tell Women 's Angle
by the Seeiety Editors
“Isn’t that just like a woman I"
How often you women in journalism hear that, but don't flUi* for a moment that the life is strictly on the bad side of the ledger.
A mere comma in the wrong place will bring the thundering wrath of the editors down upon you, but not for long. Although they may scream and tear their hair while accusing you of using your femininity, they really thrive on the opportunity to be Mg rugged males who can solve aH your problems.
With men outnumbering th* fairer sex in journalism, the atmosphere of the office is apt to become a btt too masculine. It to difficult for a woman to outer into the casual camaraderie and still remain a lady. After you have proved that you are not completely stupid and hetplees, you are as* cep ted as one of the gang. An hesitation to coffeetime, any time, to a signal that you are in!
On the more practical side, you will find that the editorial experience will be a big help to you in the professional fields that you will enter after graduation. The technical problems of makeup, writing, and printing on a student publication are identical to those of an actual newspaper. The time spent working in the print shop gives you knowledge of the mechanical side of Journalism.
On a newspaper, you. as a woman, will probably find that you are most happy in a division of work where you are concerned with the Interests of women rather than men: the society page. You may even achieve the ambition of every newspaper person and write the Great American NoveL