School humor: the lampoon at the Press Dinner

Mishawaka High School · documented 1963 · the publications stand in Newspapers and Schools

The documented morsel: the school's humor of record survives where school humor usually does, in its own yearbook. The 1963 Miskodeed — Mishawaka High School's yearbook, digitized from the public library's copy — records the publications staffs' annual Press Dinner in its own words: "Quill and Scroll coloring books with remarks lampooning members of the newspaper and yearbook staffs delighted guests at the 1963 Press Dinner along with a humorous film satirizing the life of the MHS students." The same yearbook's newspaper pages carry a column heading, "Catterlin's Chatterin'," in the Alltold's coverage; the name is the record, and its contents were not sampled. The publications themselves — the Alltold, printed in the school's own print shop, and the Miskodeed — stand in the newspapers and schools records of this build; no humor magazine, satirical issue or April-fools edition of either is documented in the record reached, and the settling sources are the yearbook run itself and the school's own archive.

Sources

1. Miskodeed 1963 (Mishawaka High School yearbook), digitized by the Internet Archive from the Mishawaka-Penn Public Library's copy — the Press Dinner account as quoted; the "Catterlin's Chatterin'" heading in the newspaper pages.
2. This build's newspapers and schools files — the Alltold and Miskodeed as publications, on the sources given there.