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X-acto Mundo

June 21, 2010 by Hank Stuever 14 Comments

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The young man pictured here comes to us courtesy of the Mary Degnan Archives. (Mary was inspired to re-examine a box of old photos after seeing her work on this particular subject matter here at Tonsil a month ago.) This picture was taken in the spring of 1987, when I was 18 and a freshman at Loyola University in New Orleans.

Don’t be afraid of the dilated stare and the sharp knife — it’s just another Wednesday production night at the offices of the Maroon. I was good with an X-acto.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: 1987, Apple Mac Plus computer, bordertape, journalism, Layout Club, Loyola Univeristy, Mary Degnan, New Orleans, newspaper design, newspaper layout, typesetting, waxers, X-acto

Good grades in everything but math and hair

May 11, 2010 by Hank Stuever 4 Comments

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Right on schedule, I’ve become one of those tedious people who measures the passage of time in varying degrees of disbelief and iPod playlists.

According to reunion literature that came in the mail and which I tossed in the trash, it’s been 20 years since I graduated from Loyola. (Bachelor of Arts — major in journalism, minor in religion.)

Thanks to Mary Degnan, who took several rolls of film of me and so many other people back then, I have pictures like these, taken before baccalaureate Mass on that rainy, frizzy, swampy New Orleans Sunday afternoon — May 13, 1990.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Class of 1990, hairdon't, Loyola Univeristy, Mary Degnan, New Orleans

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