Cat’s Claw appears online after 70 years in print
Senior Morgan Knobloch and junior Maurisha Murphy work on the Cat’s Claw website at a summer work shop in Frisco. The staff plans to have the Cat’s Claw on social media soon as well.
After 70 years in print, the Cat’s Claw student newspaper has an online presence.
Senior Morgan Knobloch and junior Maurisha Murphy attended a Student Newspapers Online workshop with adviser Carol Cox July 28-29 to learn how to build and manage a website.
“The workshop was extremely informative,” Ms. Cox said. “The staff, led by Morgan and Maurisha, is very excited to keep the community better informed through our new website, catsclaw.news.”
Attending the SNO workshop taught the girls a lot, Murphy said.
“It was definitely a new experience,” she said. “We had a short amount of time to soak in a lot of information.”
I think we can make lots of new connections.
— junior Maurisha Murphy
The staff will also be taking to social media to provide more timely information.
“I’m really excited to get our newspaper caught up with today’s age of social media,” Knobloch said. “I think people will find it really helpful and easy to use.”
The newspaper is on Twitter, @catsclawnews, and hopes to eventually be on Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat.
Murphy said she hopes to attract more readers through social media.
“I think we can make lots of new connections,” she said.
Mary Ballowe • Oct 10, 2015 at 8:00 am
Congratulations for going online! I worked on the Cat’s Claw almost 50 years ago. We typed the text on blue wax stencils, ran them through a cylinder printer on legal size paper (8 1/2 x 14), assembled them by hand, and delivered them to subscribers’ open lockers in the main hall on the third floor of the old building now being demolished. Nell Barton was the business teacher who oversaw the operation. She taught bookkeeping, typing, and shorthand. There were only two electric typewriters in her classroom, and we used those to get clear print, for the old manual typewriters didn’t work so well. When you made a typo, you had to roll the stencil back, lift the wax sheet off the backing, and paint carefully with a liquid wax. When it dried, you rolled the stencil back into position and continued typing. Artwork was done carefully by hand.
Thanks for the memories and GO CATS GO!