Brighton High School 1954 Yearbook (Rochester, NY) - Full Access

The 1953-54 "Trapezoid" meets a deadline, CLOCKWISE: Gail Farash, chief typist; Ray Farber, exchange manager; Eleanor Ross, associate editor; Bob Critchley, Editor-in-Chief; Nancy Hecht, associate editor; Leora Cass, girls• sports editor; Mike Cole, staff photographer; Rob Trost, sports editor; Yonne Jordan, feature writer; Pat Owen, feature editor; Anne Densmore and Nancy Fair– bank, public relations. Mrs. O'Donnell scans past issue with Bob in the nev– er-ending search for improvements. GALAXY STAFF: SEATED LEFT TO RIGHT: Yonne Jordon, Joan Rosenthal, Gail Greenfield, STAND– ING: Joan Clarridge and Jane Roudabush. "STUDENT TICKET FALLS by Wayside, ••• "Council Fair Storms Gyms Tonight" ... With controversial leads as these, "Trapezoid" ·initiated its progressive policy of publishing every three weeks to provide for greater news coverage. Experimenting in the more modern aspects of journalism, the staff printed several issues on newsprint, but because of the poorer picture qua Iity, switched to white book paper. Latest "Trapezoid" enterprise is "GALAXY" literary maga– zine. Under the leadership of managing editor Joan Rosenthal, with assistants Gail Greenfield, Joan Clarridge, and Jane Roud– abush, and copy-and-layout ed– itor Yonne Jordan, "GALAXY" rolled on to its early March dead– line. leaving their headlines and deadlines for two days, Bob Critchley, NancyHecht, Eleanor Ross, and Mrs. Gertrude 0 'Don– nell, adviser, attended the annual Empire State School Press Asso– ciation convention. Maintain~ng its All New York and All-Amer– ican honors, "Trap" enjoyed a year of active publication. Rob, Bob, and Nancy laugh over Eleanor's headline miscount at an Executive Board meeting.