1990-91
OFFICERS:
President: Sandy Finerman
Vice-president: Carmen Wendt
Secretary: Gary Lentz
Treasurer: Carolyn Rivera
Workshop
Director: Michael Fox
In-service: Faith Harris
JEA Director: Peggy Gregory
Contest
Coordinator: Susan
Lindsey
1991
Fall
Convention:
Oct 11-12, Holidome, Diane Houpt,
$2,432.67 profit
Spring
Convention:
Summer
Workshop: Summer
workshop was held At NAU July 28-Aug. 1 Attendance was about 100. Teachers
were paid $500 plus room and board.
Counselors were paid $200 plus room and board. Workshop teachers
include: John Baab, Santa Rita High School; Burdette
Bee, Palo Verde High School; Kerry Benson, Chandler High School; Dianne Braden,
Carl Hayden High School, Peggy Gregory, Greenway High School; Carmen Wendt, Sahuaro High School; and Al Leonard, El Dorado High School,
Anaheim, CA.
Board
Business:
• In 1990 the Arizona Republic and the Phoenix Gazette donated $5,000 to AIPA. A
total of $1,500 was set aside for the Summer Workshop at NAU (12 $100
scholarships to deserving students and three $100 scholarships to new teachers
who needed training.)
• Colleen DiBiase
agreed to keep books for a one-year transition period.
• At the March AIPA meeting, many members
expressed the need for better communication between the Board and membership.
Tony Gomez suggested that a slate of officers and ballots be sent out prior to
the election.
• At the May 5 AIPA board meeting Cheryl Sackman, CSPA vice-president, expressed a need for sessions
dealing with literary magazines to be included at conventions and at the summer
workshop.
• AIPA, as a representative of Arizona,
gave $100 as a contribution to the Athmann defense
fund in behalf of an adviser defending her dismissal as yearbook adviser
over First Amendment rights.
• AIPA bought a new Macintosh LC computer with image printer from Simutec for about $3,000 to be used by the Membership-Treasurer.
• Joe Pfeiff
was to query state universities about possible affiliation with AIPA.
-Updated by Sherry Casillas, January, 2001
1991-92
OFFICERS:
President: Carmen Wendt
Vice-president: Dave Cosgrove
Secretary: Gary Lentz
Treasurer: Carolyn Rivera
Workshop
Director: Michael Fox
In-Service: Faith Harris
Past
President: Sandy Fox
JEA Director: Peggy Gregory
1992
Fall
Convention:
Nov. 22, YWCA of USA Leadership and Development Center in Phoenix, November
22 Numbers were limited because the
Board did not have time to put together a large, convention and the facility
would only hold 300 people.
Spring
Convention:
The board suggested a quality, well-organized convention be
held during the second week of March, one full day on a Friday held at a
facility in
Summer
Workshop: The
summer workshop was held at NAU.
Attendance was approximately the same as it had been for the last three
years—around 100. Students gave good
critiques of all the teachers.
Faculty: Kerry Benson, John Babb, Ray Sly, Cheryl Sackmann, Dave Cosgrove, Al Leonard (
Board
Business:
• John Bowen of JEA wrote a letter to
AIPA about states that are attempting to pass anti-Hazelwood legislation. Jim Patton at the U of A is pursuing this.
• Two resignations: Cheryl Sackmann as fall convention coordinator; Dave Cosgrove as
vice-president. The board discussed the need for an executive secretary to
alleviate some of the work load on officers. Joe Pfeiff
checked with other state organizations. Most were affiliated with a college or
university that paid a portion of their salary and the state organization paid
the rest—sometimes up to $10,000.
• After considerable discussion about the
contest categories for newspaper and yearbook and the viability of the
Sweepstakes Award, the Board made these changes:
1)
Abolish the Sweepstakes Award and make the General Excellence Award for
both newspaper and yearbook.
2)
Expand and revise the categories in newspaper, yearbook and literary
magazine to encourage more participation.
• In an effort to reach out to the
community, the Board voted to ask every convention participant to bring two
food items to donate to local charities.
Recognition was given to the school who brought
the most food.
• It was decided that the JEA Student
Journalist winner must be from a school that is also an AIPA member.
• The Board was reorganized so that no
member would have an extremely difficult job (such as Membership/Treasurer now
has), and so that more advisers would be involved and be a part of the
board. Suggested changes include two
vice-presidents (one in charge of membership and one in charge of PR), two
secretaries (one to be in charge of minutes and one to be in charge of the
newsletter), more coordinators—one per county, four for Maricopa, two for Pima,
and cluster non-member counties, the treasurer in charge of money-related
matters with remaining positions staying the same.
-Updated by Sherry Casillas, January, 2001
1992-93
OFFICERS:
President: Carmen Wendt
Vice-president: Jacki
Romey
Recording
Secretary: Carolyn Rivera
Corresponding
Secretary: Gary Lentz
Treasurer: Jill Farkas
Workshop
Director: Michael Fox
Contest
Coordinator: Kerry
Benson
Past
President: Sandy Fox
Area Coordinators: Greg Anderson, Yvonne Lopez,
Sheila Carter, Deanne Hutchison, Jill Green, Steve Abaroa,
Romy Harder
JEA Director: Peggy Gregory
Executive
Secretary: Jim Martin,
1993
Fall
Convention:
Oct. 20, ASU; Kathy Daly spoke to yearbook delegates. The Arizona Republic provided speakers for newspaper. Board members
Jill Farkas, Faith Harris, Peggy Gregory, Yvonne
Lopez, Steve Abaroa and Sandy Fox helped organize the
convention. 56 schools attended: 447
newspaper students, 231 yearbook students, and 60-65 advisers.
Spring
Convention:
March 27,
Summer
Workshop: Summer
Workshop was held August 2-6 at NAU.
Faculty included Kerry Benson, Peggy Gregory, Al Leonard, Carmen Wendt,
Diane Braden, Mary Sverdrup, and Sydni
Simon. Attendance was 108, and the workshop made an approximate $1,000 profit.
Board
Business:
• Jim Martin of
• At the January meeting Jill Farkas volunteered to serve as vice-president until the new
elections in the spring. Steve Abaroa compiled a new
newsletter to be mailed out to the membership.
• Contests Coordinator Kerry Benson
reported that 25 schools entered the newspaper contests and 10 schools entered
the yearbook contests. Some new categories were suggested for next year's contests:
for yearbook, a people's section category, a mini-mag
category, and an organizations category; for newspaper, an advertising
category.
• Concerning a convention chair for fall,
two proposals were given: (1) That the
past president assume this job and (2) that four area
coordinators work on one convention, and then the other four work on the other.
• The yearbook and literary magazine
contests at this year's fall convention will be on-site contests. Advisers will
bring their yearbooks and literary magazines to the convention and they will be
judged the day of the convention. There will be one newspaper write-off
contest.
• Nothing yet has been resolved about AIPA's affiliation with a university or college. Jim Martin of
Recognition: Michael J. Fox
received Medal of Merit at JEA Spring Convention. Peggy Gregory was nationally recognized by
Dow Jones as one of 14 outstanding teachers. Riley Staven-Wilkinson
from
-Updated by Sherry Casillas, January, 2001
1993-94
OFFICERS:
President: Kerry
Benson
Vice-President: Jackie Romey
Corresponding
Secretary: Gary Lentz
Recording
Secretary: Carolyn Rivera
Treasurer: Jill Farkas
Workshop
Director: Michael Fox
In-Service: Sandy Fox
Contest
Coordinator: Steve Abaroa
Coordinators: Steve Abaroa , Greg Anderson, Romy
Harder, Jennie Maden, Jill Green, Yvonne Lopez, Linda
Zello, Faith Harris, Deanne Hutchison
Past President: Carment
Wendt
Executive
Secretary: Jim Martin,
JEA Director: Peggy Gregory
Fall
Convention:
Oct. 11, ASU. Keynote speaker: Barbara Neder,
education and literacy manager for LA Times. There were 54 schools that
attended with approximately 750 students.
Profit was $7,765.
Spring
Convention:
Summer
Workshop: Summer
workshop was held at NAU August 1-5. Dave Fitzsimmons, political cartoonist for
the Arizona Daily Star, was the
keynote speaker.
Board
Business:
• It is felt that AIPA is a volunteer
organization, but that board members should not be incurring expense to serve.
A motion was passed that as of
• Vice-president Jacki
Romey resigned her position because she moved out of
state. Faith Harris was appointed new vice-president.
• Linda Pearce of
• Lack of support at the summer workshop
caused concern. By June only 54 students
had registered, and 97 were needed to break even. Should summer workshop continue? Suggestions included moving the locale and
making it a 3-day workshop instead of a week.
• Riley Staven-Wilkinson
from
• Board
approved a position statement on free speech for high school students by Deanne
Hutchison
National Recognition:
The
-Updated by Sherry Casillas, January, 2001
1994-95
OFFICERS:
President: Kerry Benson
Vice-president: Faith Harris
Recording
Secretary: Deanne Hutchison
Corresponding
Secretary: Sandy Fox
Treasurer: Jill Farkas
Workshop
Director: Michael Fox
Contest Coordinator: Steve Aboroa
JEA Director: Peggy Gregory
1995
State
Journalist Award: Cristin Murphy,
Fall
convention:
ASU, October 10. A total of 324 newspaper students, 159 yearbook students, 51
photo students and 49 advisers attended. Thirty-four schools were represented
(down from 43 schools the previous year).
Spring
convention:
Summer
workshop:
The
1994 summer workshop was held at NAU July 31-Aug 4. Only 84 students attended. It was Michael Fox's last year as workshop
director. Over 50 choices of different
types of classes for newspaper and yearbook students highlighted the week-long
workshop.
Peggy
Gregory and Dave Cosgrove will co-direct the 1995 summer workshop to be held
June 25-29 at the Wyndham Metrocenter Hotel in
Board
Business:
• Carmen Wendt
was elected as the new JEA director.
Recognition: The following
schools (listed in alphabetical order) won statewide, regional and national
awards: CDO newspaper: George H. Gallup Quill & Scroll National
1st place award; Cortez newspaper: George H. Gallup Quill & Scroll National
1st Place Award, C.S.P.A. Medalist 1st Place Award; Globe (newspaper) Rocky
Mountain Journalism Skills Contest--8th Place Sweepstakes; Greenway (newspaper)
All American N.S.P.A. National Award, C.S.P.A. Medalist 1st Place Award; Palo
Verde High (yearbook) A.S.P.A. 1st Place National Award; Saguaro (newspaper)
1st Place Quill & Scroll National Award (yearbook) 1st Place with 3 marks
of distinction N.S.P.A., 1st Place with special merit A. S. P. A.
-Updated by Sherry Casillas, January, 2001