Yearbook staffer tells the whole storv
To the editor:
There have been many
articles and rumors as to the
status of the 1978 annual. I
have been a member of the
staff froi"
kept silent through most of
the controversy, but recent
events have necessitated my
writing. The record of this
year’s events needs to be set
straight to make way for next
years effort...
In the beginning the annual
had a volunteer staff of ap
proximately eight people with
an editor, Judi Plyler, and an
associate editor, Lisa
Wolhnan. The first deadline
date was in November and
Campaign on schedule
As of Monday morning, the
Laurinburg Campaign of the
St. Andrews Anniial Fund had
reached 85 percent of its goal
of $90,000, reports Oiarles G.
Buie, general chairman.
“The community has
responded very positively to
our 80 volunteers,” Buie said.
“However, we still have a
number of prospective con
tributors to see.”
Campaign workers hi Mon
day had received gifts and
pledges of $76,500 from 215
contributors. Approximately
400 businesses and individuals
are to be contacted. Overall
goal of the St. Andrews An
nual Fund is $525,000, and 85
percent or $445,000 has beoi
received. The college fiscal
year ends on May 31.
Laurinburg Campaign cap
tains will meet at the college
at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday fw
a final report luncheon. Team
members have been en
couraged to get all of their
materials to their respective
captain prior to the luncheon.
“The last 15 percent is
always the toughest," Buie
commented, “but with the
caliber of people we have in
volved in thus campaign, I am
confident we will surpass our
;goal.”
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starring JOE DON BAKER
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C.U.B.
meets
The 1978-79 St. Andrews
College Union Board met last
night at 10 p.m. in the Belk
Center Meditation Room.
President Craig Withron
chaired this meeting, which
was called for the expressed
purpose of passing, a budget
proposal to be given to the
Inter-Dormitory Senate.
An itemized document was
gone over in detailed
discussion before this entire
budget proposal passed
unanimously in a role-call
vote.
Contract and follow-up
forms for dorm parties were
also discussed and passed, as
a must, for party ap
propriations in residence
halls. Hall social chairpersons
will be expected to file an
itemized contract to the CUB
before a dorm will be con
sidered for any funds.
‘‘Quiet man” to
air on Sunday
The C.V.B. Film of the Week -
“The Quiet Man”. Directed
by John Ford, with John
Wayne, Maureen O’Hara,
Victor McHaglen and Barry
Fitzgerald. 7 p.m. Sunday in
Avinger Auditorium. Free.
One of the joys of director
Ford’s fihns is the manner in
which he could take his stock
cast-the names listed above-
and do so many things with
them. Here Wayne is a
prizefighter who kills a man
in the ring accidentally. He
renounces violence and
returns from America to his
birthplace in Ireland, where
he falls in love with Maureen
O’Hara.
Her elder brother, (Victor
McHaglen) won’t give her
away, and Wayne has to jump
through any number of hoops
to win big brother’s favor, all
to no avail. Finally he gets
knonked off enough to pick a
fight with McHaglen, and the
two frail each other across
the Irish countryside for
twenty miles in one of the
funniest fight scenes ever.
Barry Fitzgerald plays a
tipsy matchmaker, and the
whole film seems to support
the old saying that if God
hadn’t invented whiskey the
Irish would have conquered
the world.
involved one signature or 16
pages. The editor along with
Robert Poston and myself
completed the first signature
on the due date and drove the
signature to Winston-Salem to
the publisher.
During this initial period
Judi proved to be an exem-
plaiy editor and won the
staff s faith. F ollowing the
completion of the first
signature, however the staff
was not given an indication of
when the next deadline was
due.
Lisa Wollman was in
charge of the photography for
the annual. Between the first
deadline and winter term,
Lisa took all the group and
senior photos. Robert and I
began work on the layouts for
the photos before Christmas
and Robert produced 12 pages
which have never surfaced
again.
Lisa and Robert left for
winter term and no work was
done until February despite
the availability of Lisa’s
photos and Judi’s presence on
campus in the evenings. In
addition, no meetings or other
attempts were made to
contact the staff as to future
directives on the remaining
work.
In February the
representative from Hunter
came down to meet with
Russell Strong and when
asked, informed me that,
except for the initial
signature, we had missed all
of our deadlines and that all
work was, therefore, past
due. This was the first threat
to our planned May
publication date and the
beginning of the staff’s decay.
It should be noted that there
had been no posting of the
deadline schedule though the
editor had a copy of the
contract available. Judi in
formed me later that af
ternoon that she had
negotiated an extension which
placed the final deadline at
the Monday following spring
break and with one less
signature than originally
planned for but our May
publication date was assured.
By now the staff had
completely dispersed into
other activities including
Robert who was tied up in the
laboritories and in the CCC.
This left Judi, Lisa and
myself on the active staff and
80 pages due in 4 weeks.
The first week was lost to
organization of materials. No
faculty photos had been taken
and none of Lisa’s pictures
were labeled, meaning that
all photos had to be identified
with the student directory.
Judi explained the format to
be used and how the pages
would be divided into sec
tions. The work was the
unofficially distributed into
three parts: Lisa in charge of
photography, Judi in charge
of copy and myself in charge
of layouts with Judi presiding
over all.
Lisa divided the faculty nd
administration photos into
four categories and assigned
them to David Swanson,
Knight Chamberlain, Mike
Snider and herself. She was
given a deadline for all photos
to be printed but because of
classes, both the professors
and her own, the
unavailability of the
darkroom at times and
conflicting editorial direc
tives Lisa missed the
deadline by several days.
David and Knight produced
what amounted to a 3 inch
stack of photos of faculty,
administration and candids,
some on their own initiative]
during the assigned deadline
time and even took on ad
ditional work not completed
oy the other two
photographers. Lisa turned in
the majority of her work
approximately four days after
the deadline, many with
uneven borders which made
layouts difficult. Mike only
turned in a hand full of photos
in total.
In the beginning of the
second week of work, I along
with the help of Craig Lemons
produced 30 pages of layouts,
complete with photos both
identified and numbered with
copy lines drawn, ready for
the typing of final copy. Then
we were told that Judi had
ordered the photos too large
and that they could not be
reduced. The remainder of
the week was spent redoing
the 30 pages to compensate
for the sizing error. Two days
after the completion of the
second set of pages we
learned that the photos could
in fact have been reduced and
the original 30 pages had been
correct.
The 30 pages were then
turned over to Judi so that the
needed copy could be typed.
The only additional copy Judi
had generated, besides the
student directory, was one
sheet of student quotes, one
questionnaire from the ones I
had printed and distributed
(the only one out of 200 the
student body bothered to
answer) and a few of her own
poems. No copy was typed for
a week.
Meanwhile the layouts for
the faculty and ad
ministration photos were
turned in with approximately
twenty photos missing, eight
of which have never been
added. We had over one half
of the needed work complete
and all but 16 pages laid out.
None of the completed work
was mailed in at this time.
The final section was for
sports and events. Lisa, the
sole photographer assigned to
this section, only turned in a
handful of soccer and
baseball photos; nothing else.
The remainder of the sports
and missing faculty pictures
that were acquired came
from a late night raid on
Marsha Lamm and Rooney
Coffman’s files.
By then there were only a
few days until spring break
and the final deadline. The
layouts were completed but
unchecked and copy was still
untyped. Johnny Hieser was
ultimately hired to complete
the copy. Charlotte Graham,
Curtis Leonard, and Jean
Lyerly assisted in checking
the layouts before mailing.
Eighty pages, the completed
annual, was left with Judi to
mail in for the Monday
deadline before spring break.
Judi spent spring break in
Winston-Salem and turned the
signatures in on Tuesday
thinking the offices would be
closed on Monday.
The only thing left to do was
wait for the galley proofs to
come back for final correction
and prepare for distribution
of annuals the week before
exams. Judi had organized
one sale in December at the
rate of $10 per annual and had
planned to increase the price
of the annual gradually to
encourage students to buy
early. There was only one
sale and the annuals in
creased price without an
nouncements. In addition, the
checks which were paid in
December were not cashed
until February so that several
students encountered banking
problems.
Now we come to the reason
this article was written. The
sole motivation for Craig’s
and my work was to prove
you, who said S.A. could not
produce an annual on time
wrong. And we did. The anual
was turned in in plenty of
time to come out in early May
except for one very major
mistake. When the editor
turned in the 80 pages of work
to Hunter she left out 4 pages
of copy. Without the copy
Hunter was unable to publish.
Judi did not check on the
status of the galley proofs and
the incident would have gone
undetected except that a
rumor reached me about 4
missing pages and I began
asking questions.
When I first heard the
rumor, from an informed
source, last Wens. I asked
Judi point blank if 4 pages
had been missing. She
assured me that all pages had
been sent in the first time. I
could not believe my source
was so mis-informed so I went
to Russell Strong on Thur
sday. On his desk were the
untouched galley proofs with
5 blank pages in the final
signature. After going over
the galleys and correcting the
mistakes, I once again con
fronted Judi who claimed this
time that the missing copy
had been mailed “around
Friday” of the previous week.
I also learned that the cover,
the very first piece of work I
did on the annual, had never
been submitted and was now
being scraped for a simpler
design. There was an attempt
over the week-end to fill in the
missing faculty photos but
due to the festivities, they
were not available on Monday
and Judi mailed the proofs in
without them.
What this incident now
means is that from the time
Hunter receives the proofs it
will be a minimum of eight
weeks until the book can be
printed which means we will
not receive delivery until at
least July. All of our effort in
racing against time was
ruined by four missing copy
sheets.
Now then the question is
will next years annual have to
pay for this years mailing
error? It is up to you, the
student body. Charlotte
Graham is next years editor
and is one of the most ef
fective administrators of the
1980 class. Charlotte has
already began a schedule of
working deadlines and a
series of depsrtments with
individual editors to insure
that next years annual does
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