Extra! Extra! PioLog Reunion Held
The tools of the trade may be different—no more manual typewriters, Linotype machines, or rotary presses—but the late-night writing and editing sessions for the student newspaper haven’t changed. In September, several formerPioneer Log staffers from the late ’40s and early ’50s met to reminisce and talk shop with 2002-03 Editor in Chief Erin Haick ’03. From left: Ray Poindexter ’49, cartoonist; Joan Hills Schwinge ’51, reporter; Duane Dozier, reporter; Norman Schwinge ’51, coeditor-in-chief; Darlene Deffenbaugh Young Mai, reporter; and Jean McIntyre Gaittens ’50, society editor. Gordon Makinster ’56, MA ’61, feature editor, and Rick Rubin ’52, writer, also attended the reunion.
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