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UNIVERSITY PRESS staff me presses' newest book. Mrs. Wellin DuBose, director, and Bess Milling about 10,000 circulars advertising (Gamecock photo by Landis Perry USC Pre But Peo By BETTY EHRHARDT Assistant Managing Editor "The problems of operating a small pr.-zs are many, and the work is tedious, often involving doing everything from editing, proofreading, designing or lick ing stamps, but the rewards re ceived in personal satisfaction are great. You feel as if the book is really yours. when it comes 'home to roost'-that is, when it re turns from the printers in finished form, all dressed up in the shiny wrapper of a brand new jacket." This is how the people who run the University of South Carolina Press feel about their work. They may g-amble occasionally about being overworked, understaffed and underpaid, but don't let them kid you, they love it. The University Press occupies three rooms on the second floor of the administration building. A member of the American Associa tion of University Presses, it publishes about nine books a year. Mrs. Louise Jones DuBose, di rector, better known as Nancy Telfair to the literary world, is author of a "History of Columbus, Georgia," several plays, and a number of magazine serials. She has contributed some 500 feature articles to various publications, many of them to the South Caro lina magazine, of which she is a former associate editor. She has had about 300 poems published, and has been active in both radio and newspaper work. A graduate of the university, she has taught both sociology and English .here. In fact, during World War II she taught Naval airplane navigation to NROTC students. "Don't laugh, I was good," she asserts. While a student here, she was a mermber of The Gamecock and The Carolinian, now the Carolina Review. Editor Charles E. Lee also got his start in the world of journal ism here at the university as edi tor of The Gamecock. He did graduate work in history at the University of Chicago and taught history here and at Roosevelt College in Chicago before becom ing associated with the University Press In September of 1952. Their duties are not clearly defined as they often overlap. "Anyone getting his start in the publishing world should begin on a small press because there he has the opportunity to learn the job from every aspect," Mr. Lee says. They see a book through from the stage when it is a raw author's manuscript to when It returns from the printers in published form. What happens when a would-be author submits a book to the press for consideration ? First it is read by either the director or the edi tor, who, if he feels that it is worth while, submits a recommen dation that it be published to the University Press Committee, com posed of five faculty members. He also recommends that certain selected critics, at least two npecialists in the field, read the rnbers are always busy making prept 1ton Galletly, secretary, examines an student assistant from Columbia, ha the book. Editor Charles Lee was a ss Work le There book. If the committee approves this, the book is given to the critic to read and his criticism is sub mitted to the committee. If the group recommends that the press publish the book, it is given to Donald Russell, president of the university, for final approval. And that's only the beginning. Then there's the job of editing the book and carrying on a con tinuous correspondence with the often temperamental author who usually doesn't want anything in his masterpiece changed. A jacket has to be designed, "blurbs" written, about 10,000 cir culars advertising the book distrib uted, a contract to the printers awarded, and publicity material on the book sent out to all news papers in the state plus countless other small taska that go into the publishing of a book. After a book is published, how ever, the work of the press has only begun. There is the tremen doims job of distributing them. "You just can't let several thous and copies of a new book lie around your living room very long," Mrs. DuBose says. About two-thirds of the authors who have had books published by the press are professors or former professors at the university. Al though the press has published three volumes of poetry and two volumes of short stories, the majority of its books are of the scholarly type. University Press books have been sold in all of the 48 states and in every corner of the globe. Just recently the press received inquiries from two , European countries to republish two of its books. The beginnings of the press were modest. No philanthropic grants or endowments were showered upon it, nor were their any trust funds established for its perpetuation. It was founded through the efforts of two mem bers of the University Research committee. In 1945 Dr. S. M. Derrick, now dean of the School of Business PAUL LaRO Finest In Sol With Outstandih AL COHE T. K. J. BLEA For Music ART J, Ph. 2-3241 j. pA PA U Clothes for Paul NATIONAL C] 1324 MAIN ST. Complete Outfitter. of I - CT:IIES & A irations for the publishing of the engraving while Mrs. Louise Jones ve the tedious task of sending out isent when this picture was taken. fs Hard, Love It Administration, and Dr. W. H. Callcott, dean of the graduate school, approached the president cf the university and the board of trustees with a request for $3,000 to publish one book. They agreed that funds received from its sale should be reinvested in similar enterprises' Dr. Leonard T. Baker, then president of the university, ap proved the project and the board authorized it. The book, "South Carolina: Economic and Social," written by eight economic specialists, sold well. The two men then ap proached the board on the forma tion of a University Press to make posAi6le similar projects. The board agreed and the press was born. In 1946, Frank Harper Ward law, associate p)rofessor of jour nalism, became the first editor of the University Press. Before his appointment, the press had been governedl by a school graduate committee, a faculty press com mittee and various others. Mr. Wardlawv resigned in 1951 to be come head of 'the University of Texas press. It was then that Mrs DuBose, then managing editor, became editor-in-chief. The success of the press is proven by the many lengthy, favorable reviews that its books receive in such publications as "The Saturday Review of Litera ture," "The Atlantic Monthly," "The New York Times," "The New Yorker," and manly others. Delta Sigma Pi Meeta Delta Sigma Pi held its first meeting of the fall semester this week. A second meeting has been set for Monday, Oct. 11, at 7 p.m. in Harper 101. All mem bere are urged to be present. D)elta Sigma Pi is a professional fraternity in the field of bus iness administration. SA SEXTET ith Carolina ig Personalities N SE Make Your ACOB Dance A CE Success L La ROSA LaRosa Sextet by [JOTHES, INC. COLUMBIA, S. C. \ten's and Young Men's PORTS WEAR Religiow Council Rihee PIa Pilo~,i For Thanksgivig The Carolina Religious council will cooperate with the Vespers Committee. and the University Players in presenting a. Thanks giving program, it was decided at a meeting held early this week. The council's committee to work out plans for the program will be appointed later. -The group hear Chaplain Lauren B. Brubaker speak on his trip to the World Student Christian Fed eration Conference during August in Evanston, Ill. A booklet on religious organiza tions and programs at the univer sity was published and sent to al' new students, Shirley Person. president, reported. Aline White; chairman of the committee on preparation foi Religious Emphasis Week, pre sented ta bulletin of suggestions for reading, study and discussion to be used by various religious groups in their programs during November. Catalogs Listing, Reviewing Books Next For Press The University Press is now in the process of issuing 12,000 catalogs listing and reviewing all of its G0 book<s that remain In print. The publication of this issue of the catalogue celebrates the 10th anniversary of the USC Press. Books of the University Press have been read throughout the world. Three books that have been published this fall by the Press are "Justice William Johnson: The First Dissenter," by Donald G. Morgan; "Sea Is lands to Sand Hills," with photographs by Carl Julien, in troduction by Chlotilde R. Mar tin; and "South Carolina Cook Book," by the S. C. Council of Farm Women. Two trail-bb4 America's pioneer transc< line paIssenger plane, the was a Boein)g. Today, An transport is another Boe This qluarter-century of c sign leadership is parallel dlesign leadership ranging B-9 bomber to the fight B-47 and 1152 jet h)omhei For 38 years Boeing e blazed exciting new trails search and production. T them today in jet aircraft siles. and research in suj and the application of to aircraft. If such new-horizon er poea tom..u Boein oa, APTo6~s Political Sce Ways oMe At At Meet'h 4Bg At MetiZigThe 26th meeting of the South The South Carolina Associated orn Political Science Association Press News Council will. meet at will be held at the university Nov. the university's School of Journal- 4-6 as part of the - universtwe fim tomorrow to discuss ways of Sesqui-Centennial celebration. improving South Carolina daily Dr. George R. Sberrill of the newspapers,- Dean R. P. Schlabach university is chairman of the con has announced. mittee on local arrangements and John McKpight of--the Sumter has announced that the head Daily Item will preside over the quarters for the meeting will be liscussion. Between 20 and 80 the Wade Hampton Hotel. other representativer will be University faculty members who present. will lead discussions include Dr. SO LIGHT .SO FLEXIBL...0 Comanche., H America's number one genuine handsewn moc, Fully flexible upper lea $10-65 and heel. 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