FALL 2013
ADVISER UPDATE
SPECIAL
RECOGNITION
ADVISERS
Continued from page 4A
Michele Dunaway
Francis Howell HS,
St. Charles, Mo.
Service: Advises Francis
Howell Spotlight newspaper
and Spotlight online, the
yearbook, literary magazine and
FHHSToday.com
Education: B.S., elementary
education, University of
Missouri, St. Louis; M.A. media
communications, Webster
University, 30 graduate hours
post master’s at various
universities
Background: Dunaway
taught at several Missouri
elementary, middle and
high schools before arriving
at Francis Howell HS. She
holds a 2010 Gold Key from
the Columbia Scholastic Press
Association and a JEA Medal of
Merit. She was the 2012 Missouri
Interscholastic Press Association
Journalism Teacher of the Year,
2012 JEA Distinguished Yearbook
Adviser of the Year and the
recipient of the First Amendment
Press Freedom Award in 2013.
She is the author of 23 novels for
Harlequin Enterprises.
Issue facing scholastic
journalism:
“Reduction in programming is one
of the most pressing issues facing
scholastic journalism. In many
places, our student numbers are
shrinking and our classes are
disappearing. As advisers, we
need to find a way to work well
with fewer staff members, and we
need to find ways to prove that
just because programs are small,
they are no less valid or essential
… The smaller a program is, the
more endangered it seems to