"The Gazette", LCI (Lethbridge Collegiate Institute) Student Newspaper

Scope and Content: Collection consists of 20 issues of the gazette, the Lethbridge Collegiate Institute student newspaper. Issues run from Volume. 1 No. 1 to Volume. 3 No. 8, with only volume. 3 no. 4 missing. The gazette contains cartoons, short editorials, humourous stories, as well as general news of interest to…

History Biographical: Albertan - local. The LCI (Lethbridge Collegiate Institute) Gazette, 1932-; According to the donor "the gazette was founded by myself and some friends (Robin Ritchie, Francis Brink, William Domeier) in January 1932 as a semi-clandestine opposition to the Ballyhoo, the then school paper. Circulation was limited to half a dozen typed copies passed up and down the aisles. Somewhere along the route, Mr. A. J. Watson, the principal of LCI, told me that he could not permit the gazette to circulate thus another year but suggested that we might become the official school paper replacing the Ballyhoo which, as I recall, was a pretty illiterate affair. We decided to accept Mr. Watson's offer, and in the fall of that year we reappeared in mimeographed form, our stencils being run off on the machine in the office of Watson's secretary - the labour being supplied by ourselves. One interesting thing about the gazette was that Watson, a great believer in private enterprise, allowed its staff to split whatever profits they could make on the sales at five cents a copy. I made about $35.00 as my share and with the proceeds bought my first typewriter.

Scope and Content: Collection consists of 20 issues of the gazette, the Lethbridge Collegiate Institute student newspaper. Issues run from Volume. 1 No. 1 to Volume. 3 No. 8, with only volume. 3 no. 4 missing. The gazette contains cartoons, short editorials, humourous stories, as well as general news of interest to the students of LCI also in the collection is a letter from A. J. Watson to Philip Akrigg, bound in a heavy folder marked the gazette file.