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P01.V52.I4 BLACK CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW FALL 2013 PAGE14A FA L L 2013 ROUNDUP P ost your state, regional or national association’s activities in Adviser Roundup by dropping editor George Taylor ([email protected]) a line with your information. Photos with captions from events are welcome. Next deadline is Dec. 1. AEJMC Monica Hill, director of the North Carolina Scholastic Media Association (NCSMA), received the Monica Hill Scholastic Journalism Division’s David Adams Journalism Educator of the Year Award during the SJD’s business meeting at the AEJMC convention in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 9.   Hill is a national leader in journalism education. She has contributed as either chair, board member, committee member or judge to the work of every national scholastic journalism organization.   The David Adams Journalism Educator of the Year Award is given annually during AEJMC’s summer convention to recognize a deserving division member for his/her outstanding performance in the college/university classroom and in scholastic journalism workshops and conferences. CSPA The 2014 recipients of five prestigious honors to be bestowed by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association of Columbia University will be announced Dec. 1.   The awards presentation will take place at CSPA’s 90th annual Spring Scholastic Convention which will be held at Columbia University from Wednesday, March 19, through Friday, March 21, 2014.   The awards convocation ceremony will be held March 21 in the Low Library rotunda on the university campus.   The honors include: The Joseph M. Murphy Award which recognizes outstanding service to the association over many years. It is intended as the ultimate distinction ADVISER UPDATE News Fund names scholarship winners T his fall Maryssa Sklaroff left Palo Alto (Calif.) HS for Northwestern University, but she took along a $1,000 scholarship, a reminder of the singular honor awarded to her adviser, Ellen Austin.   Austin, former adviser to the Viking Sports newsmagazine and co-adviser of INfocus, the daily school broadcast program, was the 2012 National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year. She started the new school year as director of journalism programs at The Harker School, San Jose.   Maryssa was executive producer for INfocus in her senior year and ran the publication along with two of her peers.   She wrote, “Ms. Austin is a teacher who does whatever she thinks is best for her students. She has a strong passion for English and journalism and she genuinely wants her students to thrive and to love English and journalism the way she does. This is what I admire and respect most in her as a teacher and mentor.   “I love broadcast journalism and multimedia in general because I feel that when used in the right way, videos have the ability to spread a message to an enormous amount of people in an extremely powerful way. With this principle in mind, I am starting at Northwestern University this year and pursuing a major in radio/television/ film production. I am especially interested in offered by the association for service by a person. This honor is named for the CSPA’s founding director and honors his 45 years of distinguished service to the student press and to Columbia University.  The Charles R. O’Malley Award for Excellence in Teaching recognizes “a sustained record of outstanding teaching” in support of student journalism or student publishing. It is intended to be the CSPA’s highest accolade in support of the core function of teaching as related to student-practiced journalism. The award is named for the CSPA’s second director and honors his generous service to the student press and to Columbia University, his alma mater.  The James F. Paschal Award for long-form video journalism (like the projects I produced my junior year) and documentary filmmaking. I plan to learn how to use the correct tools in the best way to spread my and others’ messages through Maryssa Sklaroff multimedia,” she said.   Examples of her work can be seen on YouTube. PSA: Sportsmanship PSA Feature: 28:30 A Day In the Life of Paly Students News: Daily broadcast Jeremy Lin Anchor: Daily broadcast 2/8/13   Kevin Dukovic was the alternate at Palo Alto. He, too, is attending Northwestern University.   Students of Distinguished Advisers Jim Streisel of Carmel (Ind.) HS and Bretton Zinger, then of Chantilly (Va.) HS, received $500 scholarships.   Lindsey Walker, Streisel’s student, is enrolled at Indiana University. Joshua Wallace, Zinger’s student, attends the state or regional school press association officials who have distinguished themselves in the field . This award honors the late James Frederick Paschal, a former director of the Oklahoma Interscholastic Press Association and a former editor of the CSPAA Bulletin.    The CSPA Gold Key is given “In recognition of outstanding devotion to the cause of the school press, encouragement to the student editors in their several endeavors, service above and beyond the call of delegated duty, leadership in the field of education, and support of the high ideals from which the Association has drawn its strength and inspiration.” The Gold Key tradition began in 1929.  The Edmund J. Sullivan Award is Lindsey Walker JOURNALISTS — These three student journalists won DJNF scholarships for excellence in writing. The scholarships are provided by the News Fund for one student from the Teacher of the Year’s school, and one student each from the Distinguished Advisers’ schools. University of Virginia. Lindsey and Josh were selected for scholarships after winning writing competitions at their schools in May.   Lindsey wrote a profile on the head of safety officers at her high school. James Benedict, who also attends Indiana University, was the alternate at Carmel HS.   Josh wrote about Mary Kay Downes, English department head, adviser to Chantilly HS’s yearbook and a former president of the Columbia Scholastic Press Advisers Asso