[Vision2020] Moscow High's "underground" "Cerberus," 1967
Ted Moffett
starbliss at gmail.com
Sat Feb 28 20:45:40 PST 2009
I have a copy of the 1969 "Bear Tracks" yearbook, which you can borrow to
scan. "Off list" in the subject heading for this, if you wish, so I don't
miss it. I do not have a scanner. Or someone else may have already
accommodated...
As to finding a copy of "Cerberus," I have no clue, or at least no clues I
now wish to pursue. Most of the copies were seized by Moscow High
authorities, before anyone could read them. There was only one issue, as
far as I remember. Issues of the followup to "Cerberus," "The Word," may be
more accessible, somewhere...
Ted Moffett
On 2/26/09, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
>
> Ted -
>
> Would you do me a great favor?
>
> Could you scan page 85 of the 1969 Bear Tracks and send it to me?
>
> Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease . . .
>
> I have a few of the 60s Bear Tracks (1963, 1965, and 1966).
>
> As you know, I have made copies of the 1970 UI underground newspaper "The
> Buffalo Free Press" and posted them. I would like to research the MHS'
> Cerberus and locate a copy (if there is a copy in existence).
>
> Thanks.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> > I'll do that. I have the yearbook, I think.
> >
> > Sue
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Ted Moffett
> > To: Sue Hovey
> > Cc: Tom Hansen ; debismith at moscow.com ; ngier at uidaho.edu ;
> > vision2020 at moscow.com
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 3:31 PM
> > Subject: Re: Moscow High's "underground" "Cerberus," 1967
> >
> >
> > Just look on page 85 of the 1969 Moscow High yearbook "Bear Tracks"
> > and you can discover the identities of the originators of "Cerberus."
> > There might be a few of the contributors who are not pictured, but a few
> > of the ring leaders are...
> >
> > Ted Moffett
> >
> >
> > On 2/21/09, Sue Hovey <suehovey at moscow.com> wrote:
> > Ted, I didn't know about that one. I started teaching in Moscow the
> > next year so don't recall it or any references to it. I could probably
> > figure out some of the hs kids who might have been involved based on
> > their interests and their tenacity.
> >
> > Sue H.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Ted Moffett
> > To: Tom Hansen
> > Cc: suehovey at moscow.com ; debismith at moscow.com ; ngier at uidaho.edu
> > ; vision2020 at moscow.com
> > Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 1:46 PM
> > Subject: Moscow High's "underground" "Cerberus," 1967
> >
> >
> > A group of Moscow High students in 1967 produced an "underground"
> > print media production containing prose, poetry and commentary, titled
> > "Cerberus," named after the mythological creature that guards that gates
> > of hell. The brains behind this production considered our education to
> > be oriented toward masking unpleasant truths about our world, as those
> > in hell were kept from escaping by the mythical multi-headed Cerberus,
> > and entry to the underworld also denied:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus
> >
> > "The common depiction of Cerberus in Greek mythology and art is as
> > having three heads, a mane of live serpents and a dragon's tail."
> > -----------------
> > We widely distributed issues of this production, featuring a
> > picture of Cerberus on the cover, without official notice to anyone,
> > throughout Moscow High. Given the production featured satirical pieces
> > about a teacher or two at Moscow High, and other content that was
> > controversial, the issues were seized by Moscow High authorities, and
> > those who wrote for this production were hauled into the principle's
> > office for a tongue lashing, threats, etc. Our parents were notified.
> >
> > The guardians of the gates of hell at Moscow High decided to allow
> > organization of a monitored club to ensure that future issues of our
> > little experiment in free speech were not quite so free... in other
> > words, censored. The name of the production was re-named "The Word," a
> > rather silly lame moniker compared to the bold and provocative
> > "Cerberus."
> >
> > On page 85 of the 1969 Moscow High yearbook "Bear tracks" is a
> > page, with photos of the "staff," regarding "The Word." At least two of
> > those pictured also later wrote for "Buffalo Free Press," censors
> > banished.
> >
> > The 1969 Bear Tracks features this commentary on "The Word:"
> >
> > "The Word was begun in 1967 as a complement to the official school
> > journal, the Wosco. The original Word staff felt that a more relevant,
> > if sometimes more radical, copy should be published for the benefit of
> > the MSHS student body. The paper is published in a rather elastic
> > bi-weekly schedule."
> >
> > Ted Moffett
> >
> > On 2/19/09, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
> > The thing is you just ain't lived until you read your name in
> > the LA Free
> > Press following a sit-in at LA's McArthur Park during the summer
> > of '68.
> >
> > But that was back before records of it were expunged (turning 18
> > and all).
> >
> > It was bitchin', man!
> >
> > Tom Hansen
> > Moscow, Idaho
> >
> > > Ted,
> > > There was an "underground" newspaper in the high school in the
> > very
> > > early 70s (probably a year or so after you graduated.) It was
> > > mimeographed and didn't publish more than a couple of
> > editions. It was
> > > during the days of the high school paper, the Wocsomonian (I
> > never
> > > understood the title either) and I think the kids in the
> > journalism
> > > class had a hand in its publication, as well. It dealt more
> > with
> > > school issues than other political events. I remember one was
> > dress
> > > codes, but that didn't get much play because it was about that
> > time the
> > > dress codes pretty much disappeared in the high school for
> > both students
> > > and teachers. The printing was done off campus, but the
> > distribution
> > > was on campus.
> > >
> > > Maybe some of you early 70s grads remember it.
> > >
> > > Sue H.
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Ted Moffett
> > > To: deb ; Nick Gier
> > > Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
> > > Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 2:47 PM
> > > Subject: [Vision2020] Buffalo Free Press,Early Seventies
> > Underground
> > > Newspaper
> > >
> > >
> > > Not an "urban legend."
> > >
> > > I was wondering what the readers of Vision2020 really knew
> > about
> > > "underground" newspapers in our area during the sixties or
> > early
> > > seventies, given I worked and wrote for such a newspaper, that
> > was
> > > distributed throughout the Northwest, and based in Moscow,
> > Idaho. So I
> > > asked first, hoping someone would remember... I'm not sure how
> > exactly
> > > to define an "underground"newspaper, but this newspaper was
> > not done for
> > > profit, and had little if any advertising, with content of a
> > very
> > > "radical" social political nature.
> > >
> > > It was printed on the "Daily Idahonian" (I might have this
> > wrong, but
> > > that's what "The Daily News" was called then) printing
> > presses. We
> > > sometimes worked out of the Campus Christian Center during
> > brainstorming
> > > sessions that I wish I had audio tapes of... I could name at
> > least three
> > > of the staff (not including me), all capable thinkers and
> > writers, one
> > > of whom I know Nick Gier knew personally (Nick, if you can
> > guess who,
> > > please keep it to yourself). I clearly recall once accepting
> > a large
> > > shipment of this newspaper that I distributed freely, with
> > some
> > > trepidation, given the "radical" content, to the citizens of
> > the Twin
> > > Falls, Idaho area, when I was visiting friends in Twin Falls.
> > >
> > > Apparently, Vision2020 has no one reading or inclined to
> > respond who
> > > recalls the brilliant and well distributed "underground"
> > newspaper (yes,
> > > a real newspaper on newsprint, not a mimeograph machine)
> > published in
> > > the early 1970s in Moscow, Idaho, "Buffalo Free Press."
> > Though printed
> > > as though a newspaper, it was more of a sophisticated social
> > political
> > > activist journal.
> > >
> > > If anyone reading this by some miracle has a copy of one or
> > more of
> > > the editions of this newspaper I would love to at least copy
> > it...
> > >
> > > Ted Moffett
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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