Colgate University 1939 Yearbook (Hamilton, NY) - Full Access

Everything Fit To Print Back Row: Thompson, Cleveland, McVeigh, Goewey, J. Dona hue, Mayers, Eusucc. Fourth Row Good, Adams, W. Roberts, Kolyer, Sharp, Burns, Gedney. Th1rd Row: Sayers, La Forte, Clarke, Ma rshall, Mulford, G. Donahue, Forbes. Second Row: Young, rgc, Quick, onkhn, J. Roberts, W. Roehrs. Front Row: Henion, \ ells. Boyce (Ed•tor-in-Ch•ef), William , asm1th The mell of fre h ink permeates the room . Presses begin to roll and clack, hungry to be fed clean white sheets of paper pap r which emerges with the Late t news of Colgate, eager to be read by a thousand waiting tudents. The newly printed sheets are folded, gathered up and distributed to the J. C . Union and the fraternity house . Friday afternoon has arrived . The laroon i out. But this most important publication of the students does not stop within the small limits of Hamilton. It's an international paper for its news storie , editorial , column , and humorous features are carried to all parts of the country, even to points across the sea. Not only do the eyes of the faculty and students see the Maroon's printed pages, but al o tho e of alumni in alifornia, Texas, Honolulu, the Philippines, Brazil, and numerou other far away places alumni happy to receive the remaining thread that binds them to the inti– mate life of olgat . Parents, too, mile away and anxious to hear about that thrilling score made by on, Jack, and other friends of the college, deeply inter sted in the colleg affairs, welcome the journalistic endeavors of forty boys. Gordy Boyce, (F . Gordon, on important documents) was at the helm and steered a brilliant course through rough seas . Working with him as managing editor wa Gu Nasmith, who handled the more technical details. The Maroon is not a local paper, but an international dispatch, bringing the n ws of one campus to large cities all over the world . As a result, stories must b accurate and to the point. They must be well written and "right" in the journalistic en e of the word and this they are in the Maroon . Before an undergraduate paper with so important a responsibility can be " right" how– ever, it must have capable leaders with the willing and co-operative assi tance of an alert staff. The Maroon was fortunate this year, for it had both . 128