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SUMMER 2013
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A coach’s story
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his spread appears in our yearbook supplement. We
had already finished and sent the bound book and the
supplement was due April 19.
When we found out one of our teachers, our head
track coach, was at the event cheering on his wife, we
reallocated space and decided to cover it. Our reporter,
Dagne Milasiute conducted the interview with Jeff
Bliven, the teacher. When she returned, her eyes were
red from tears. Jeff also broke down in the interview. I’ll
admit I cried when I read the transcription. After Dagne
transcribed the entire interview, we realized there was no
way we could tell the story better than Jeff had. So, we
just edited and cleaned up some of his comments and
ran it exactly as he told us.
Our lead photographer, Ian Marynowski, took the
portrait with Jeff and the text message he received. The
photo of the debris from his hotel room and the photo of
his wife (running in a Smoky Hill track team T-shirt) were
provided by Jeff and were taken with his cell phone.
Our editor-in-chief, Kara Gruenberg, designed the
page which uses the same layout we used for the Aurora
Theater Shootings on page 20-21 of our book (we had
students there, too). We thought that symmetry was
important.
Carrie Faust, adviser
Summit Yearbook
Smoky Hill HS
Aurora, Colo.
[email protected]
Home and abroad
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nline coverage: Patriot’s Day is a state holiday in
Massachusetts and falls on the third Monday in April
each year so schools across the state are out for April
Vacation week. Many students and teachers at Scituate
HS were travelling both domestically and abroad, but
were drawn to the coverage of the Boston Marathon
Bombing happening back home.
At SHS a large group of students and teachers were
midway through a two-week Spanish exchange trip when
they heard the news of the event. Returning home at the
end of the surreal week, students began processing the
events in different ways as they heard stories of their
friends and classmates, some who were at the marathon.
From the attacks to the subsequent police action and
lock-down of the Boston metropolitan area, the week’s
events were felt by those here and afar. Full coverage at
http://www.scituation.net/opinions/2013/04/27/4249/
Print coverage: As time passed, covering the Boston
Marathon bombing was no longer timely, but people
were curious how the recent high profile cases across
the country would be prosecuted and how the varying
laws would play into sentences for those convicted. The
news story in our May 21 issue was about the use of the
death penalty and how the state of Massachusetts does
not have the death penalty, but the accused bomber
could potentially be put through the federal court
system and that would change the likelihood.
Colleen Gacic Simpson,adviser
The Scituation
Scituate HS
Scituate, Mass.
[email protected]
Adviser Update