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SUMMER 2012
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Adviser Update
Add a touch of class to your media program
Use Quill and Scroll’s resources, awards, contests
By KAREN FLOWERS
ontests. Scholarships. EvaluaC
tions. Honor Society. Publications.
All of these resources and
awards are available from Quill
and Scroll, an international organization organized in 1926 by a
group of high school advisers and
renowned pollster George H. Gallup to encourage and recognize
individual student achievement
in academics, journalism and
scholastic media.
Advisers who talk about Quill
and Scroll usually talk about the
honor society into which their students can be inducted, and access
to such an honor is an important
aspect of the society, but Quill and
Scroll has so much more.
The charter. If you are not
one of the 14,267 high schools
in all 50 states and 44 foreign
countries that have been granted
a charter, you need to be. Having this impressive document
hanging in the media/news room
invites an environment of professionalism.
Once your school has a charter,
it never has to apply again. Charters are granted for the lifetime
of the school and there are no
annual dues. The school’s chapter
of Quill and Scroll will receive a
handbook with organizational
suggestions and ideas for services
to be performed by chapter members.
If you don’t know whether your
school is a member or not, email
([email protected]) or phone:
(319) 335-3457, or just check the
website: www.uiowa.edu/~quillsc/MemberSchools.html.
The honors. All media advisers in chartered schools, or member schools as they are sometimes
referred to, can induct students
into the International Honor Society of Quill and Scroll. Membership should be to the high school
journalist just as much (or more)
of an honor as to be inducted into
the Beta Club or the National
Honor Society.
The standards are clear. They
(1) must be in the upper third of
their class in general scholastic
standing or maintain the equivalent of a B average, either for the
year of their election or for the
Quill and Scroll Honor Society inductees and returning members from the 2010-11 school year, attended the
annual membership initiation ceremony at Belvidere North HS for all news media staff — yearbook, newspaper
and website. The event is held in the school library and is attended by parents and includes a welcome from the
principal. Seated: Callie Lee, Joanna Sawallisch, Nicole Smiley, Chloe Balabuszko, North View newspaper editor
Kelsey Ford and Katie Hernandez. Standing: Jennifer Symonds, Sarah Cooper, Jennifer Bowley, Nick McDowell,
Quinn Martensen, Gloria Young, adviser Michael Doyle, Hannah Terrinoni, North View website editor Melissa
Nellis, Bailey Murphy, Equus yearbook editor Kelsi Shawd and Ainsley Billesbach. Lee, Sawallisch, Smiley, Balabuszko, Hernandez, Symonds, Cooper, Bowley, McDowell, Martensen and Murphy all graduated in 2011. All are
in college.
cumulative total of all high school
work; (2) must have done superior
work in some phase of journalism
or school media – news or literary
magazine, newspaper, yearbook,
website, news bureau or radio/
television station; (3) must be recommended by the teacher, adviser, supervisor or by the committee
governing media; (4) must be of
sophomore, junior or senior classification; and (5) must be approved
by the Quill and Scroll executive
director. This last qualification
means the adviser needs to send
in the list of student member recommendations to headquarters.
Nomination forms are available
on the Quill and Scroll website
www.uiowa.edu/~quill-sc, where
advisers can also order membership materials such as honor
cords for graduating members,
pins to recognize staff achievements and T-shirts.
Members receive membership
certificates, pins and Quill &
Scroll magazine. They also have
access to resources including:
(1) CDs with a PowerPoint presentation of the contest winners,
(2) the popular Quill and Scroll
Stylebook and (3) the Principal’s
Guide.
The magazine and website.
The Quill & Scroll magazine and
website keep advisers and students informed of the latest developments and current practices
in the production of good school
media. They provide announcements and reports of the society’s
contests and activities and carry
up-to-date and authoritative
information about careers in journalism and developments in the
field of scholastic journalism. The
magazine is provided