The Journalism Class of the Fountain Green High School was organized in 1923 and was composed of seven students of the sophomore class.  They published the first issue of "The News" Sept. 17, 1923.  The second year of the class 1924-25 was more successful than the previous year.  Two new members enrolled.  The Journalism Class with the able supervision of Prof. Lester E. Foote, have made "The News" widely known.  "The News" has been self-supporting, as the advertising manager, Naomi Yetter, has sold around $2000 worth of advertising during the eighteen months that the paper has been published.  Members of the class are:  Top row, left to right, Anna Hillers, Naomi Yetter, Ivan Latherow, Lenora Larson, Leota Meyers; lower row: Harlan Lenix, Audrey Garrison, Melvin Latherow and Noreen Barbe.

[According to Allen Geddes, in his essay on early Fountain Green schools, Professor Foote was forced to discontinue publishing The News in 1928, "due to the depression and high cost of printing".]