{"id":3901,"date":"2018-03-27T11:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/?p=3901"},"modified":"2018-03-28T19:42:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T23:42:05","slug":"the-jester-1967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/the-jester-1967\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jester (1967)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>1967: Williston Academy’s Literary Society had, for many years, published an oh-so-serious magazine called The Scribe.\u00a0 <\/em>Imagine, then, the excitement when the Society announced that they would depart from venerable tradition and attempt a humor magazine.\u00a0 The first, and only issue of The Jester<\/em> appeared in the winter of 1967.\u00a0 Almost immediately, certain elements in the administrative hierarchy objected to the cover on grounds of taste, until it was pointed out that the navel in question, which belonged to our champion diver, was on display in the pool every afternoon.<\/p>\n

51 years later, this seems relatively innocuous.\u00a0 Tasteless, yes, but hardly provocative.\u00a0 But our plan to republish substantial excerpts here was somewhat modified when we realized that by 2018 standards, the magazine was so replete with trademark violations, potential libel suits, and what are now called “trigger warnings,” that we had to be very<\/em> selective.\u00a0 Plus: some of it was too insider-obscure to resonate today, or just wasn’t very funny.<\/p>\n

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The persons responsible, plus a couple of ringers.\u00a0 As with all these images, you may click to enlarge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But much of it was<\/em> funny, or clever, and still is.\u00a0 Perhaps against our better judgment, here are excerpts, beginning with a parody of that prep-school classic, The Catcher in the Rye.\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Poetry.\u00a0 After all, The Jester was published by a Literary Society.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Jester contained advertising.\u00a0 Of all the ads, this was the only one we thought we could safely reproduce.\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>And of course, there was an SAT parody.\u00a0 Apparently the College Board doesn’t ask those analogy questions any more, probably because almost no one could do them.\u00a0 Pity.\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>And finally, we have another poem.\u00a0 That spring, the Literary Society returned to publishing The Scribe.\u00a0 The Jester<\/em> never saw another issue, in part, perhaps, because by 1968 “mere anarchy [had been] loosed upon the world,” and student priorities were changing.\u00a0 Is it an artifact of a simpler time?\"\"<\/a>And did you miss these favorite posts from the past?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0“Loyalty” <\/a><\/strong>The Great Red Scare briefly rears its ugly head at 1953 Williston.\u00a0 This one is personal.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Heroic”<\/strong><\/a> Some Northampton School for Girls faculty who made a difference.<\/span><\/p>\n

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