Ruthe S Wheeler

Helen in the Editor's Chair Ruthe S Wheeler

What magic lay in those two words. By supper time the Rolfe Herald would be in every home in town and, when families sat down to their evening meal, they would have the paper beside them. Helen's father, Hugh Blair, was the editor and publisher of the Herald. Her brother, Tom, a junior in high school, wrote part of the news and operated the Linotype, while Helen helped in the office every night after school and on Saturdays. On Thursday her work comprised folding the papers as they came off the clanking press. Her arms ached long before her task was done, but she prided herself on the neatness of the stacks of papers that grew as she worked. "Aren't you going to stay for the final sophomore debate tryouts?" asked Margaret Stevens.