Summer and fall yearbooks can be sent to Jane Blystone as soon as you receive them for judging. Note, yearbooks must be received by September 15 in order to be judged in the 2009-2010 All State competition. After that the book will be critiqued, but will be submitted to the 2010-2011 All State competition if the book earns a Gold Award critique.
For more direct information contact Jane Blystone at
JEA will be providing Pennsylvania advisers opportunity to take the national CJE or MJE exams at the state convention. If you have questions visit www.jea.org/certification or contact Jane Blystone at You must register with JEA for the exam plus we must have five people registered with Journalism Education Association headquarters by the October deadline to administer the exam.
PSPA treasurer, Carissa Pokorny-Golden passed her dissertation defense today. Bravo, Dr. Pokorny-Golden
Hey, Everyone,
Don’t forget that Saturday is the postmark deadline for PSPA summer critique entries. I am so excited the piles of yearbooks and literary magazines are coming to my house every day.
Can’t wait to see your great work for the year.
jb
You can read and hear Henry Rome’s speech presented at the JEA/NSPA Portland convention at this URL:
http://friendsofthespoke–latestnews.blogspot.com/2010/04/rome-censorship-threat-to-democracy.html
Seth Zweifler, PA School Press Association Student Journalist of the Year, earned one of the four runner-up scholarships today at the JEA national convention. Zweifler, of The Spoke, Conestoga High School , Berwyn, Pa. received a $2000 scholarship. Thirty-six states submitted an entry to the national scholarship opportunity.
More events at the JEA convention can be see online at www.jea.org. Several events were live streamed to the website for viewing.
Two Pennsylvania have received JEA certification during this school year. Wanda Pletcher, from Altoona, received Certified Journalism Educator (CJE) certification at the Washington convention and Susan Houseman, Berwyn, received Master Jouranlism Educator (MJE) certification at the Portland convention. If you are interested in taking the CJE or MJE exam at the PA School Press Association state convention in November, contact Jane Blystone today at blystone@roadrunner.com. If we have five interested, we can offer this exam in November in Harrisburg.
Advisers,
Don’t forget to submit your convention session proposals at this website: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dFJoRnA0YkxvUDlmX0lQVzhWMnN4T3c6MA
We have added several days to this and we will confirm all sessions by the end of April.
We look forward to giving you the opportunity to share your great work to other advisers and staffs across the state.
Jane Blystone
PSPA Convention Co-chair
This month’s issue is highlighted by an amazing double truck cover story about the dual between pitcher and hitter focused on the fastball in both baseball and softball. But that is just the start of our magazine content. Page designs are by Courtney Sabo, who serves as our production editor and our editor in chief. Page content is as always by the R&W staff and editors.
We are looking forward to your comments, sharing of ideas and other musings about our issue or about scholastic journalism in general. Drop us a line… we will get back to you if needed – we love to share ideas.
Check out our entire issue at: http://paschoolpress.org/home/members/sbidleman/album
Congratulations to Penn Points at Penn Manor High School in Millersville, Pa. for being nominated as an NSPA online finalist. Check out their current edition at: http://www.pennmanor.net/pennpoints/
Robert Henry, editor
Susan Baldrige, adviser
