A new school years opens. A whole new set of circumstances beckons. Now is a chance for one and all to become actively interested and concerned with making the new Maine West the best.

Clubs will be starting. Brand new clubs. But clubs can develop and grow only if you become the organizers and the active members of them. Anyone can start something, but no project can be carried through successfully without the hard work and cooperation of active, interested backers. The same idea applies to your new newspaper.

The Westerner is working under as new and different conditions as you are. In the first place, we are working with far fewer staff members than our school paper has in the past ‑  16 seniors and one junior. This means we will need the help of every interested student in the school, not just the members of the journalism class. It means that anyone interested, freshman through senior, can help put out issues of the Westerner.

A second change, for those of you familiar with last year's paper, will be the added features. There will be a college corner feature in every issue, the college interviews based on a school-wide poll taken in homerooms of favorite colleges and universities in the United States. The top 14 will be featured starting in the next issue. Another feature will be an exchange column, the Trading Post, with tales of the goings-on in other high schools around the country.

Then there is Morfit, our cunning and contrary sheepdog, and his friends Duane McDroon, a senior letterman; Duane's girlfriend, Voronica Biltmor, and his freshman brother, Munro McDroon ‑ and Professor Barnawl, an illustrious biology instructor.

Many of the features found in last year's paper will be seen here, also. The personalities of the week, ‑ Totem Poles; the Warrior of the Week, and a column on GAA will be presented as usual.

This year we will need homeroom and department reporters. We will need writers, artists and typists. If you have no interest in any of these fields but wish to air a complaint, write letters to the editor. We will be glad to print your pet peeves.

We have the "organizers," but we need the active workers to make our project a success. If you are interested in helping just stop in at room 111A any day eighth period or immediately after school to talk to staff members.

A.B.