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GOLD BUG STAFF SEATED, LEFT TO RIGHT: Cadet Lewis, K. Waring, J. Del Vecchio, L. Jackson, V. Voorhees, M. Webb, H. Buck; STAND- ING: R. Adams, L. Holloway. The year 1943-'44 marks the coming of age themselves in the student newspaper. The of the Gold Bug. For twenty-one years this Gold Brick, a feature column created by student publication has presented the news Cadets Stuart Massie and Walter West, and and views of Western Maryland College. carried on by fellow cadets, gave civilians an Recording each year the traditions of the enlightening and humorous account of the life college! the Gold Bug has become a tradition of Johnny Cadet. in itself. To this tradition belong the harried Experiments in make-up were many. The "office nights!' of the editor and staff! the smell of printer's ink that lingers on fresh streamlined but conservative appearance of copy, the Thursday evening chat about "what the front page added much to the attractive- I saw in the Gold Bug." ness of the paper. Girls' sports appeared on Preserving these traditional features and the sports page, which also paid tribute to adding new ones were the services performed former Terrors now in the armed forces. this year by Editor Lillian Jackson and her With all these changes, the paper has re- staff. One important addition was the Cadet mained true to its never-changing policy of Editorial Council, through which the cadets on holding student interest and at the same time the Hill found an opportunity to express maintaining a high ideal of journalism. STANDING, LEFT TO RIGHT: Cadet Gilkeson, L. Jackson, D. Blizzard; SEATED IN CIRCLE: Cadets Snyder and Smallwood, L. Holloway, R. Adams, Cadets Massie and Burrus, D. Rovecamp, Cadet Morgan, V. Voorhees, M. V. Webb. 'Twas the night before ...