The Junior Ranger (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, March 26, 1937 Page: 2 of 4
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THE
RANGER
March 26, 1937
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EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor
Bernice Barnett
"Time Cannot Stale---”
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—Bernice Barnett
Business Manager
Assistant Business Manager
Circulation Manager
Advertising Manager
Sponsors
Associate Editor
Managing Editor
Assistant Managing Editor
Feature Editor
Sports Editors
BUSINESS STAFF
Bert B. Thompson, Jr.
Dorothy Caruthers
Merrill Craze
---------Virgil Hagy
-----Miss Lena Koch
Mrs. J. E. Nelson
First Ranger Editions Contain Netos
And Editorial Pleas Not Unlike Today's
The RANGER has a birthday, an eleventh birthday,
to be exact. Yes, eleven years ago today, the first issue of
the JUNIOR RANGER made its appearance on the campus
of a new college. A few ambitious students felt the need
of a student publication to voice the needs, to publicize the
activities of San Antonio’s new Junior College.
Today, we, the present students of Junior College, may
well stop to pay tribute to those who had the initiative,
the push to put out the first edition of a college newspaper.
Thea Goldschmidt and her staff worked valiently for the
paper, had high hopes for it. Witness this excerpt from the
first editorial in the first JUNIOR RANGER:
Catherine Dullnig
Jack Howard
----Raymond White
--------Sara Rowe
Murray Le Sturgeon
Thad Weaver
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iBaugnuprs IFrum
1926
(Continued from page 1.)
vils,” a sorority. These two or-
ganizations were reported to have
serenaded the lovers in Bracken-
ridge Park. Space is also given
to the proposed organization of a
girls’ club, name unstated.
Even then the condition existed
in which about a half a dozen cam-
pus figures monopolized the “joke”
columns. There were no dirt col-
umns. There was a Criterion, go-
ing under a different name, which
presented the lives of the staff
members.
Since that time the RANGER
has steadily grown until today it
is the only weekly school or col-
lege paper in San Antonio, and one
of the best Junior College papers
In Texas. The editors whose ef-
forts have combined over the years
o improve the RANGER so much
re as follows:
1926 ------Thea Goldschmidt
1927 --------- Herbert May
(Continued on page 3.)
And so the kid, Junior Ranger, was introduced to the
students. Quickly the small weekly gained popularity on
the campus, quickly it improved and grew bigger. Notable
too is the rapidity wifh which the paper took up the cam-
paign to get day classes as well as night classes for the col-
lege, to get a plant for the college, to advance in every way
the interests of the San Antonio Junior College.
Today, then, when J. C. students and the RANGER put
up a fight for better facilities of work for the college, it’s
only a continuation of an old battle started back in ’26 by
the first editors of the RANGER.
To them goes credit for pioneering, for opening the
road for future J. C. collegians to follow, and a splendid
road it is, for they were first class editors. If Thea Gold-
schmidt, Clyde Lightfoot, Joe Serna, Dick McMahan, and
the rest of the RANGER staff of 1926 were to see the paper
today that they began eleven years ago, they would have
no doubt about the phenomenal growth of their beloved
Junior, nor would they, I think, be disappointed in him.
Their work has been continued, their ideas have been per-
petuated until the RANGER is still a living expression of
the aims and intentions of those first editors.
It is because of this that it is a pleasure today for one
editor to dedicate an issue of th eRANGER to those first
editors in recognition of their work in the founding of the
JUNIOR RANGER.
Apr. 6. “Mr. Barnes entertained
his Eco. class with a charming lec-
ture on Supply and Demand. Mr.
Barnes was attired in the custom-
ary black. The class was enchant-
ed with the lecture to the point of
slumber. Mr. Barnes planned a
delightful little surprise at the
close of the hour by waking the
students by launching on one of
his oratorical speeches before the
bell rang.”
lege obtain a building of its own
and hold classes in the daytime.
For running story the RANGER
rsed the efforts of the school and
he paper to get a float in the
parade. In issue number one it
/as a suggestion; in issue number
;wo it was a donation from the
fiesta association; in issue number
■>ur it was a discussion of the
Tree floats entered in the parade
>y the Student Council, the fresh-
an class, and the RANGER.
The beginnings of several cam-
'us orgspiizations pan be found
dated in these early issues. The
May 4 issue recounts the first
eeting of the “Unofficial Senate,”
which was originally supposed to
consist of six students chosen for
their leadership. Mention is made
in this issue also of the “Filthy
Five,” a “limited fraternity of five
members,” and of the “Gay De-
SOCIAL NOTES: Mar. 25. “The
sophs are making plans for an-
other picnic which will take place
in a few weeks. The last picnic
was an unparalleled success. A
party of fifteen motored to New
Braunfels where they enjoyed a
moonlight supper. Later there
was dancing, and the evening
closed with Texas songs and yells.
“Dean Dupre, who recently un-
derwent an operation for appen-
dicitis, is rapidly recovering and
will be back at school next week.”
(Continued on page 3)
Apr. 6’. “Extra copies of the
Junior Ranger will be distributed
during the Fiesta Parade. More
copies have been printed for this
purpose and will be distributed
from the Ranger float by members
of the Ranger staff. It is hoped
that this will increase the circula-
tion.”
May 4. “Students of the Univer-
sity Junior College will be inter-
ested to know that Reynolds An-
dricks, ‘the little boy with the big
harmonica’, will be featured on the
Palace Theatre program t hi s
week.”
May 4. “ ‘Frats’ Serenade Park.
Monday night, April 26, was a gay
time for the Junior College Frat
Brothers and Frat Sisters, to open
‘exam’ week, when they participat-
ed in the serenading of a few
moonlight lovers near the Lily
Pond and Sunken Gardens in Bra-
ckenridge Park. The ‘Filthy Five’,
well-known limited fraternity of
five members, provided the musi-
cal string instruments and horns
while the ‘Gay Devils’ and a few
choice Co-eds furnished the voices.
“The serenade extended from
the AJpine Drive, over the
tire north side of the city.
“Upon the merry-makers return-
ing to the campus, all students
were awakened from their slum-
ber, and the Prof, went on with
the lecture.”
Hello, there, meet the kid, Junior Ranger. Perhaps he’s
not exactly what you might call a chip off the old block, but
wait ’till he is grown up. You can hardly expect a kid
his age to be collegiate. Yes, this is the first time we’ve
taken him out in public.
We are expecting a lot from Junior. Probably he will
even be linotyped when he gets a little older. Just at pre-
sent, however, we want you to watch this youngster and
take an interest in him because he is really very clever.
Remarkably precocious.
as possible. We must let people
know we are here. We can do this
literally and figuratively.” (Does
that have a familiar ring ? ) “As
to the former, how about a Junior
College float in the Fiesta parade?
The presidents of the organizations
will undertake the solving of this
problem.”
Exactly eleven, years ago, Junior College issued its first
JUNIOR RANGER. They had no Criterion column and had
no way to honor the outstanding members of the campus.
So today we honor those people who were outstanding stu-
dents then, and who are outstanding citizens today.
The editor of that first edition, mimeographed as it
was, the girl whose enterprise and initiative led to the pub-
lishing of that first issue was----
THEA GOLDSCHMIDT. Today she is married to Mr.
Lowell Field, residing in New York.. Since leaving Junior
College, she secured a Fellowship of Anthropology under
rhe direction of Dr. Pearce at the University of Texas. At
present she is working toward her Ph. D. degree in Sociology,
while her husband is working toward his degree in the de-
partment of Government.
Another prominent student here at that time was BILL
DARLEY. Now he is William Darley, E. E. (the E. E.
stands for Electrical Engineer), working on problems of
Llumination for the General Electric Co.
When that first issue of the RANGFR appeared, there
was a mention in it of A. D. ZUCHT “tickling the ivories”.
It must have been a prophecy, for now he is a practicing
dentist here in San Antonio. His brother, Earl Zucht, is
here now, following in his footsteps.
One of the reporters on the first JUNIOR RANGER
Since leaving here, he has gone to
Hollywood, where he is writing scenarios at a fabulous sal-
ary. Who knows, maybe some of our most entertaining
“hits” have been the product of Hal Long who used to trod
the same walks, strain his eyes at the same blackboards as we-
Jo today.
Some of the other students mentioned in that first is-
sue were:
REYNOLDS ANDRICKS who was mentioned as being
first class contortionist, is now teaching dancing at Tech.
FERNANDO URIBE is now practicing law in Mexico.
YALE SHAFER is now working on his Ph. I), in the
University of Texas.
HELEN UPSHULTE is teaching at Mark Twain here
in San Antonio.
JESSE FLETCHER is now president of the San Antonio
Junior Chamber of Commerce.
All in all, those students who were mentioned in that
first issue of the JUNIOR RANGER have continued to be
prominent in this old world.
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