Evening star., 1939-03-26
Just
Between
Ourselves
Barnard Pupils
Present News
In Novel Wav
BY PHILIP H. LOVE,
Junior Star Editor.

1t contains news of the world, H.
Illustrated with photographs, yet it
is not printed, multigraphed, mimeo-
graphed, photographed or typewrit-
ten, and its pages cannot be turned.
A riddle? No-just a description
of the unusual newspaper published
every week by fifth-grade pupils Of
Barnard School. (See photograph
at bottom of page)
Except for the manner in which it
is presented, the Barnard Weekly
Press Is very much like any other
newspaper. 1t has a staff of re-
porteTs, who turn in their stories and
articles to the various editors; it
even has a photographer. Here Is
the editorial lineup:
Marilyn Appelbaum, 10, of 5OO8
Second street NV, editor in chief:
Bessie Sheer, 10, of 1924 Eighth street
NV. assistant editor; Philip Trupp,
10. of 4837 Kansas avenue NV,
front page editor: Alvin RoSenthal,
10, Of 470l Kansas avenue NV, as
siStant front page editor; Billy
Speer, 10, Of 1922 Illinois avenue
NV. society editor; Robert Gluck.
10, of 48l5 Fourth street NV, sports
editor; Vivian Margolis, 10, of 45O5
Fifth street NV. dramatic editor;
Betty Hinckley, 10, of 8l4 Buchanan
street NV, women's editor, and Lee
Frazier, 10, of 1900 Fourth street
NV, photographer. Stanley Silver
berg. l3, of l20 Webster street NV.
and Randall Proctor, 10. of 440 Bu-
chanan street NV are reporters.
Members Of the staff write their
stories and articles on ordinary COM
position paper, then turn them over
to the editor in chief, who writes
headlines on them. All the written
material, together with any pictures
turned in by Lee, then is pasted on
large sheet of cardboard or heavy
paper, and this, in turn, is mounted
on one of the classroom blackboards.
Although the paper is laid out in
single sheet, its contents repre-
sent eight pages. The children do
their work on the paper during regu-
lar class periods, and their teacher,
Miss Mary Louise Allen. gives them
credit for it on their reports.
advertising is our biggest prob
lem said Editor in Chief Marilyn.
We carry some ads-mostly from
children who have lost dog, or want
to swap something, or something like
that-but nobody wants to paw for
them. And no newspaper can afford
to give its advertising space away
not even a blackboard newspaper"
At the request of Miss Allen, we
examined the latest issue of the
paper and then gave the class a
little talk on Journalism. A few DAYS
later, we received a large envelope
containing seven letters from as
many members of the class. all
thanking us for our visit and invit-
ing us to come again.
Those notes-signed by Editor in
Chief Marilyn. Society Editor Billy,
Florence Milzman, Richard Blanken,
Adele Feller, Pauline Way and Billy
Waters-showed spirit of thought
fulneSs, for which we take this op-
portunity to thank the writer's. All
the letters were we'll written, and
we hope Miss Allen will credit their
authors with "A's" or 100 per
cents or whatever marks are used
to denote excellence in English.
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Junior jottingS: Our list of high
school correspondents is growing
daily. Today we welcome another
newcomer, Mildred WEIGH of Mount
Rainier. Also, excellent contribu-
tions have been received from
Philomena Sampagna. IS, of Ana
costa. and Jane Winnings. Is, of
Bethesda Chevy Chase, and will be
published as soon as space limita-
tions permit :. Mildred Gray, our
Bladensburg High School cor
respondent, reports that Miss
Claudia Morgan's home economics
class will present style show In
the B. H. S. Auditorium at 2:3O pm.
Thursday and $3.50 pm. Sunday.
About 100 girls will participate. all
modelling dresses made by them
selves.