Objects of Substance- Grammar Gazette

The original committee charged with the production of this publication was determined to make it as professional as possible and this attitude was carried over to the organisation of personnel. The editorial group consisted of student editors and subeditors; student reporters and photographers, and two staff consultants: IT specialist and teacher, Paul Bennett, and me. The founding student editors were Naomi Just and Joanna Sing with sections managed by Erica Dunstan and Jo Larsen [sport], Kym Smith [arts], and Taryn Burns [features]. Design components were overseen by Eva Wood. In addition, a student cartoonist was “head hunted” and provided original illustrations to comment on school life and add interest and section headers. Cartoons started to appear in Issue 2, Term 1 1993. One clever and popular cartoon appeared in Volume 2, No 3, Term 2 1993. It accompanied an article about a program that provided Grammar girls with the opportunity to visit real-life workplaces to observe professions of interest.

1993 Gazette, Vol 2 No3. How cleverly tongue-in-cheek was this cartoon. It makes the reader smile using just one image and a few words.

Heated discussion about what stories and photographs were to be given precedence on the front and back pages, as well as what should inhabit the preferred right-hand pages always eventuated. Each newspaper was then completely set up digitally by the staff consultants with lively input from the student editors before being sent out to professional printers. There were even advertisements