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Show Page A8 Thursday, March 17, 1988 Park Record Sac ha Baumann: on line for the outlines and the headlines By RON GEORG Record staff writer After only two years here in Park City, 17-year-old high school senior Sacha Baumann has created a legacy. When she came to Park City two years ago, the high school was lacking in its journalism program. After catching up to Park City's curriculum, she moved here from Alaska, Sacha joined the staff of the "Revalator" last year. Having worked for the Park Record, and having written for a paper in Alaska, she had a good deal of experience. It was immediately im-mediately apparent she was already beyond the "Revalator." "Without trying to sound vain," said Sacha, "the difference is phenomenal. Last year's paper had no columns, pictures, standing heads, and the writing was a little boring." She came into the class ready to take her place at the bottom of the ladder, but she soon found herself running the paper. "It ended up that I knew more than the editor and everyone else about production." produc-tion." She started out by overhauling the paper's looks, and the school acquired some Macintosh computers. com-puters. The Macs are famous for their desk-top publishing capabilities, and Sacha found them to be a great advantage over the old IBM computers the paper had been using. The next phase in overhauling the paper was coming up with a less archaic name. "Revalator was ugly and unattractive, and it sounds almost religious." A graphics assignment to create a masthead fit into her plans for the paper nicely. "We were supposed suppos-ed to create a head for a business, but I needed to come up with something for the paper anyway, so I did that instead. I came up with the name by looking through dictionaries dic-tionaries and thesauruses for words that meant new or modern. I came up with neoteric, but no one knew what it was. They weren't too concerned, con-cerned, though. No one else had any names, so they just said to go ahead." The next step was the tough one. A good-looking paper doesn't carry much weight if no one reads it, so Sacha set out to improve the writing in the paper. The trick was, I , I 1 . ' . . , T f. i ' , 'hvJA' , . ' , ' ' -'! I I -r" 7";. . . ' Jr ' " ' . ;' 7:1 i- tji -t i . , , t '.4vxi i ; . , S A . 'y '"f-"- li ' , , 1 ; , J ' ' l m ' i ; ii i i. Sacha Baumann il the writers from the previous year had graduated, and a new batch hadn't been properly nutured. "This year was really hard because we had a lot of freshmen on the staff, and they hadn't had as much English. We spent about a month just working on writing. Now the freshmen writers are bringing br-inging in more, and they are starting star-ting to show definite style. That's good, because they can carry it on." The final challenge before she graduates will be to pass on the production expertise she has gained to the freshmen. "I learned a lot here the Park Record, and I've learned even more by teaching what I know to the others on the staff. The only problem is, all the people who know production are seniors. This next paper, we're going go-ing to have to switch jobs so the freshmen can learn." IPark CMy Profile With this sort of guidance, the paper should be ready when Sacha leaves to go to the University of Utah next year. She's thought about going somewhere else to school, but she seems rather comfortable com-fortable here. "It's scary going off to school. I wasn't sure if I could actually take the huge step to an out-of-state school. Besides, if I stay here, I can afford to get a car." That bit of freedom, being able to drive from Salt Lake to Park City regularly, is something Sacha can appreciate more than most of us. "In Juneau, the only way to get out of town was by boat or plane... I like Park City because it's so close to Salt Lake, but you still get to live in a beautiful place." Actually, it is hard to imagine Sacha living some place she doesn't find beautiful. "I'm always at peace with myself. It helps me to be happy." To understand Sacha, one needs to understand that. When she says she loves Park City, it doesn't diminish the sentiment she holds for Alaska, or California, where she was born. It seems she manages to enjoy herself no matter where she might be. Most would think, "well, of course she can enjoy herself here in Park City, look at all there is to do." However, Sacha isn't generally general-ly doing what most folks around here are. While many of her classmates are off on the slopes, Sacha doesn't Ron Georg see the excitement to skiing. "I don't ski, so I feel like I should wear a scarlet letter. But I do love to be outside. In the summer I like to hike in the hills around Park Meadows. I bring a couple water bottles and I water the cactus." Watering cactus? I had to point out, Cactus don't need much water. "I know, but I feel sorry for them anyway. Next year, I bet there will be more of them." Sacha's imagination is often a step ahead like that. She is already beginning to sound like a former editor of Neoteric, she seems ready to pass the baton. "I'm looking forward for-ward to being an underling at the Chronicle at the U of U, I won't have the responsibility of teaching as much, and I'll be learning. I hope I can offer the paper something, It's is a little amatuerish," said Sacha. Beyond that, she hopes she can create her own paper someday, Watering cactus? cac-tus? I had to point out, cactus don't need water. "I know, but I feel sorry for them anyway. Next year, I bet there will be more of them' something like Junction City News. "I'd like to have my own creative sort of paper. I would like to be able to write about things I know people want to read." Her ultimate goal, like most journalists, jour-nalists, is to transcend that objective, objec-tive, journalist label and become a writer. Toward that end, she says she enjoys creating characters, though she has never come up with a complete story. She says she hasn't lived enough to reach any conclusions. "I can only write what I know," she said. It is completely fitting, then, that the characters she creates are self-assured, self-assured, younger women. She says she can only hope to be like her characters. If she continues con-tinues to nuture everything in her life with the care and imagination she has shown Neoteric and the Park Meadows Cactus, she won't be able to help living up to her characters. : - 'PROFESS 10NAL nW f J I MEDICAL.DOCTORS Holy Cross Family Health and Emergency Center 649-7640 Holiday Village Shopping Mall (between Albertsons and Hermans). Adult and Pediatric Medical Care. Obstetrics, Family Planning, Medical Emergencies and Trauma. Diplomates, American Board of Family Practice Robert W. Barnett, MD Lisa A. Bollen, MD Robert J. 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