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History of the Newspaper at Del Mar
One of the great things about working on the newspaper is that a copy of every issue of the newspaper that is created is saved in the journalism archives, (a drawer), thus creating an entire written history of Del Mar since the first newspaper was published in the school year 1962-1963. We don’t actually have the very first issue – Vol. 1, No. 1, but we do have No. 2, from February 8, 1963. It’s old, yellowing, and crumbling along the edges. A few of the pages are ripped, but most of it is still intact. The name of the newspaper was the Excelsior, which, in addition to meaning ‘higher,’ is oddly enough a type of wood shavings. The year ’66-’67, listed as Vol. 5, began as the Excelsior, however, after Issue 3, it was changed to the Galleon, in what I understand to be a tribute to the Don. (A Spanish galleon was a part of the nameplate for a while.) The Galleon sailed along through thick and thin, reaching Vol. 20 in ’80-‘81, after which two years are missing, presumably because Del Mar did not have a newspaper for that time, and the next newspaper is in the ’83-’84 school year, as The Dawning, Vol. 21.
If you notice, the Volume number this year reads 48, and if you do your math, you’ll realize this is the number of school years since Del Mar was founded in 1959, disregarding the fact that the first newspaper was printed in the school year beginning in 1962, three years later. Over the years, (as you’ll notice if you’ve been doing your math as you read this), there have been years without papers, and years where the Volume number has suddenly grown, reflecting neither the number of years the school has been open or the years the newspaper has been published; reaching 20 in 1980 is one, and appears to have been caused by a discrepancy in the three years after ’67-’68 that resulted in the 1971 newspaper being called Volume 11.
After the first year of The Dawning, our files are empty until the same name resurfaced in ’86-’87, with Vol. 25; this numbering reverts to the original counting starting from 1962. Subsequently, volume numbers disappeared for a while, until 33 in ’91, which really doesn’t make any sense at all, inferring that Del Mar was founded in 1958, which we all know it wasn’t, but, due to tradition, is the numbering system we are still on today. Thus, the newspaper will reach Vol. 50 the year before Del Mar’s 50th anniversary, although the paper’s 50th anniversary won’t be until the school year beginning 2012.
On Sept. 8, 1993, a nameless paper printed an entry form into a “Name the Newspaper” contest on it’s back page (listing dinner for two at Chevy’s as the prize), while it’s front page listed the changes going on at Del Mar, which, incidentally, included Ms. Goytia moving from a regular classroom to the “new air conditioned portables, dubbed ‘Del Mar East Side,’ because of their location,” which she commented on as being “more visually soothing.” On an unrelated, but nonetheless humorous note, the authorless article also remarked that “John Crapper invented the toilet, but Mr. Robbins [the principal] is responsible for bringing the latest in flush technology to the Del.”
The next issue, printed Sept. 30, 1993, continued publicizing the contest, in addition to mentioning a violent gang incident at Leigh and what the principal, one Mr. Jim Russell, was trying to do to prevent it from happening again. Del Mar’s principal at the time, (Mr. Robbins), indicated that he felt Del Mar’s zero tolerance policy and visible police kept the campus safe.
The full original title to win the “Name the Newspaper” contest, printed in November, was From the Dons’ Perspective, beating out other submissions such as The Del Martian, and The Break of Dawn. The name of the person who submitted the winning entry was never published. The first part of the title was dropped in ’98-’99, after a year with no paper, and it turned into just The Perspective. Halfway through this year, we dropped The, and it’s nameplate now reads Del Mar High School Perspective.
-Clarissa Harrison, DM07EIC
If you notice, the Volume number this year reads 48, and if you do your math, you’ll realize this is the number of school years since Del Mar was founded in 1959, disregarding the fact that the first newspaper was printed in the school year beginning in 1962, three years later. Over the years, (as you’ll notice if you’ve been doing your math as you read this), there have been years without papers, and years where the Volume number has suddenly grown, reflecting neither the number of years the school has been open or the years the newspaper has been published; reaching 20 in 1980 is one, and appears to have been caused by a discrepancy in the three years after ’67-’68 that resulted in the 1971 newspaper being called Volume 11.
After the first year of The Dawning, our files are empty until the same name resurfaced in ’86-’87, with Vol. 25; this numbering reverts to the original counting starting from 1962. Subsequently, volume numbers disappeared for a while, until 33 in ’91, which really doesn’t make any sense at all, inferring that Del Mar was founded in 1958, which we all know it wasn’t, but, due to tradition, is the numbering system we are still on today. Thus, the newspaper will reach Vol. 50 the year before Del Mar’s 50th anniversary, although the paper’s 50th anniversary won’t be until the school year beginning 2012.
On Sept. 8, 1993, a nameless paper printed an entry form into a “Name the Newspaper” contest on it’s back page (listing dinner for two at Chevy’s as the prize), while it’s front page listed the changes going on at Del Mar, which, incidentally, included Ms. Goytia moving from a regular classroom to the “new air conditioned portables, dubbed ‘Del Mar East Side,’ because of their location,” which she commented on as being “more visually soothing.” On an unrelated, but nonetheless humorous note, the authorless article also remarked that “John Crapper invented the toilet, but Mr. Robbins [the principal] is responsible for bringing the latest in flush technology to the Del.”
The next issue, printed Sept. 30, 1993, continued publicizing the contest, in addition to mentioning a violent gang incident at Leigh and what the principal, one Mr. Jim Russell, was trying to do to prevent it from happening again. Del Mar’s principal at the time, (Mr. Robbins), indicated that he felt Del Mar’s zero tolerance policy and visible police kept the campus safe.
The full original title to win the “Name the Newspaper” contest, printed in November, was From the Dons’ Perspective, beating out other submissions such as The Del Martian, and The Break of Dawn. The name of the person who submitted the winning entry was never published. The first part of the title was dropped in ’98-’99, after a year with no paper, and it turned into just The Perspective. Halfway through this year, we dropped The, and it’s nameplate now reads Del Mar High School Perspective.
-Clarissa Harrison, DM07EIC
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