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Show they spend afternoons in the Dark-eyed and efficient, Shirley Hos-kins, first girl to be editor of the daily, expertly headed the staff. From its humble beginning as the weekly, The Lantern, fifty-eight years ago, the Chronicle has grown to be an outstanding college newspaper, a publication which for five consecutive years has won an "all-American rating. The Chrony is a big business; it has a circulation of 15,288 and operates on a budget of approximately $7,000. At present, the Chronicle is the fifth largest daily in Utah. Six years ago it became one of the thirty-six college dailies in the nation, the other collegiate publications operating on a weekly basis. The Chrony office is almost always filled with stacks of galley proofs and the clack of typewriters, and the bigger wheels spend many after-dark hours at Century Press. Present Editor Shirley Hoskins, third woman editor in the history of the sheet, has established some editorial precedents while raising the circulation to its highest peak. Easygoing but efficient, Des Barker acts as Associate Editor, with John Singleton as the on-the-ball Business Manager. In addition, there are all kinds of unheralded heroes from the boy who gets ads to the girl who checks the proofs. This year's staff has been helped by ideas gleaned from a convention of the Associated Collegiate Press which was held this fall in Chicago. Editor Hoskins and Business Manger Singleton were the delegates from the University of Utah. Aims of the Chronicle, as stated in an editorial at the beginning of the year, are to "render service to the University as a whole, to be an asset as an organ of infor- / mation presenting student and school news to students actively interested and concerned in their institution, and to unify ASUU ideals and ob-jectives." Personable Des Barker, able associate editor, also helped in keeping the campus well informed. 246 |