Since I started this I've tried to think of something to say about the Chieftain. There must be something that we can say about our school newspaper.
As I remember, there really wasn't that much 'news' in it. Some sanitized stuff that was okayed by the office and a whole lot of gossip in that ugly old memeographed print. I may be wrong, but in my mind's eye I can see Wayne Poole cranking on that machine, I'm not sure if it was the Chieftain or not though.
I would dare say that at one time or another every pop song from '66 to '70 appeared somewhere in those pages, "dedicated" to someone or other. Some songs made it a bunch of times. I enjoyed scanning through it just as everybody else did, trying to figure out who a.b. was when they dedicated "I' m A Believer" to y.z., or who the d.e. was that was seen holding hands with w.x. It usually wasn't all that hard to figure out. :) I honestly don't remember ever being in the Chieftain.
Do they still make it? I bet it's a damn site easier to put together now than it was back then.
Does anyone have any Chieftain stories to share? Does anyone still have a copy of it somewhere? Kathey, you kept a list of locker combinations, is there an old Chieftain in there someplace too? It would be fun to look at if there were.
While I'm on that subject, if anyone has anything they might want to share, get it to me and I'll get it on here one way or another.
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I remember working on the Chieftain in Journalism Class under Miss Mize. We would make boxes on paper and write out our stories in the boxes. Then we spaced the letters so it would form one column. Wasn't there just three columns on a page? In my mind, I know how we did it but it's hard for me to explain. It was a fun class (even with Miss Mize). Doug, I bet you were in there, under the "Squaw" knows. D.P were you smoking the the boys bathroom?
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