THE
1934
PERUVIAN
Pedagog ian The College Newspaper
* WILMA JAMES
CAMILLA HAS KINS
M ERL PEEK
TH E STAFF WILMA JAMES Editor-in-Chief CAMILLA HASKINS . Business Manager J. W. TYLER .
MERL PEEK GERA LD TYLER
Business Manager Make-up Editor Adviser
The school grew, and there came a time when the students who attended desired some record of the society meetings, debates, campus life and a publishing of articles inspirational to the prospective teacher and alumni in the field. That desire taking form in the minds of Peruvians became a reality in "The Normal School Courier," 1892. That forerunner of the newspaper was more nearly a magazine as was its successor, "The Normal School Messenger," 1898 . The best in literature from the campus and the world found its way into the pages of these little magazines, and the records of the campus activities show that Peruvians were truly enjoying themselves . "The Normal School Journal" came to life in 1905, only to give way to "The Normalite" the following year. Though still in magazine form and published only once a month until 1915, when it achieved t he size and form of a newspaper, the Normalite gives readers a distinct picture of Peru athletics, organizations, music, debates, social life until 192 I, when the changing of the school from a normal to a state teachers college necessitated another name. The Peru Pedagogian most aptly named proved its worthy successor. Certain persons must ever be indelibly linked with these campus records. T. L. Van Vleet was edito r of the 1892 "Normal Courier" with James E. Delzell and James H. Ha yes as business managers, and J . A. Beattie edited the "State Normal School Messenger" of 1898. J. L. Akers, J. E. Morgan, John Hanna, Bert Swenson, Delzells, and D. H. Weber labored to publish the first Normalites. When the name became Pedagogian Paul Wilcox headed the staff. Names of those of jo urnal istic leanings since that date seem more familiar to readers today: Arthur Ma jo rs, George R. Willy, Merritt Whitten, Jere Mickel, Joe Jones, C. E. Lefler, J. A. Jimmerson, John S. Boswell, Nona Palmer, Don Tyler, Merna Brownson, Iva Pierce , and Florence Martin. 104