1995-96
OFFICERS:
Vice-President: Greg
Anderson
Past President: Faith
Harris
Recording Secretary: Linda
Zello
Treasurer: Jill Farkas
In-service: Gary Lentz
Contests: Yvonne Lopez
Spring Convention: Cathie Parks
Workshop Directors: Peggy Gregory
Dave Cosgrove
Area Coordinators: Carol Carney, Romy Harder,
Kathy Jennings, Eric Johnson, Jennie Madden, Cathy Parks, Micki
Remos, Phyllis Stanfield
1996
Fall Convention: ASU.
Attendance: 40 schools, 510
students including 333 newspaper, 158 yearbook, 19
other students. Profit: $860
Spring Convention: UofA. The focus was on a hands-on experience for
the students. The sessions were set for
newspaper, yearbook, photography and computer labs. Facilities and parking were problems, but Jim
Patten worked closely with Cathie.
Attendance: 33 schools, 385
students including 207 newspaper, 137 yearbook, 41 other students and 51
advisers. Profit $1,327.
Spring Contest:
• General Excellence
Newspapers: First,The Crusader; Salpointe
Catholic; Second, Wolver News, Tolleson Union; Third, The
Demon Dispatch, Greenway.
• Arizona Student Journalist
of the Year: First, Kirsten Searer, feature editor, McClintock newspaper; Second, Kenny
Stewart, editor-in-chief, Centennial newspaper
AIPA Summer
Workshop: The 37th annual
workshop was held at the Wyndham Metrocenter Hotel in
Board Business:
• 124 schools are members
• An amendment was passes that
will allow the board to fight for students’ rights to a free press.
• Starting in the spring some
officers will be elected for a two-year term, and the next year the rest of the
officers will be elected for a two-year term.
This was done for better continuity.
• A motion to pay the
treasurer $500 and convention coordinators $200 passed.
• Student Journalist of the
Year Awards were set at $200 for first place and $100
for second place.
• Steve Abaroa
typed and updated the constitution.
• A motion passed to create a
special recognition award called Friends of the Press Award for Diane
Rutherford of Newspapers In Education at the
Republic/Gazette for her help to AIPA.
The award was presented at the spring convention.
• A new adviser award to be
named “The Freeman Hover Award” was created for outstanding advisers with less
than five years of experience.
• The board voted to change
the AIPA logo.
• Two student positions on the
board were created—one representing newspaper and one representing
yearbook. Brian Gregory from
• $3,500 was approved for
scholarships to AIPA Summer Workshop.
National Recognition: Greenway High School Demon Dispatch, Gold Crown; Globe High School, Gold Circle; Dave
Cosgrove, Salpointe Catholic High School,
Distinguished Adviser.
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by Peggy Gregory, January, 2001
1996-97
OFFICERS:
Vice-President: Greg
Anderson
Past President: Faith
Harris
Recording Secretary: Linda
Zello
Treasurer: Jill Farkas
In-service:
Contests: Yvonne Lopez
Fall Convention: Kathy Jennings
Spring Convention: Carmen Wendt
Workshop Directors: Peggy Gregory
Dave Cosgrove
Area Coordinators: Carol Carney, Romy Harder,
Kathy Jennings, Eric Johnson, Jennie Madden, Cathy Parks, Micki
Remos, Phyllis Stanfield
1996 Freeman Hover Award:
1997
Fall Convention: Oct. 28, ASU.
Theme: Youth Has Its Day. An emphasis was placed on students teaching
students. Attendance: 49 schools, 761 students including 442 newspaper, 162 yearbook, 86 other and 71 advisers. Profit:
$3,515
Fall Contests: Entered:
14 yearbooks, 17 newspapers, 7 literary magazines. Tribune Newspapers judged. General Excellence for Yearbooks: First,
Spring Convention: Downtown
Spring Awards:
General Excellence, Newspaper: First, Horizon; Second, Salpointe
Catholic; Third, Westview; HM, Canyon del Oro
General Excellence, Broadcast: First, Mountain Pointe; Second,
AIPA Summer
Workshop: The 38th annual
workshop was held at the Wyndham Metrocenter Hotel in
Board Business:
• 117 schools are members
• Gary Lentz resigned for personal reasons; Jackie Romey resigned due to her husband’s new job out of state. Steve made new appointments.
• Membership dues: $60/school or $25/publication before fall convention. $30/publication after fall
• Board supported Senator Joe Eddie Lopez’ bill before the state legislature that would eliminate prior review by administrators and would add some security to adviser positions. The bill did not make it out of committee.
• Board reaffirmed that the Forest Martin Award is a once in a lifetime award.
• Conventions should be
standardized to fall near the end of October and April.
• $3,500 was approved for
scholarships for the AIPA Summer Workshop
• Greg created a new database
for the membership records.
• To increase membership and
promote incentives to join AIPA yet streamline mailings, the board decided to
send spring mailings to newspaper, yearbook and broadcast advisers with fall
mailings going to the above as well as photo and literary magazine teachers.
National Recognition:
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by Peggy Gregory, January, 2001
1997-98
OFFICERS:
Vice-President: Greg
Anderson
Past President: Steve
Abaroa
Recording Secretary: Linda
Zello
Treasurer: Jill Farkas
In-service: Faith Harris
Contests: Steve Abaroa
Fall Convention:
Spring Convention:
Workshop Directors: Peggy Gregory
Dave Cosgrove
Area Coordinators: Tina Cleavelin, Mary Kay Devner, Deanne Hutchison, Cathie Parks, Marianne Moriarty,
Tony Gomez, Bob Snider, Irene Frias
Student Reps: Ben Thomson,
1997 Freeman Hover Award: Kelly Munoz
1998
Fall Convention: Oct. 20, ASU.
Theme: Catch the Wave of Change Keynote
speaker: Kimberly Crockett, a senior
editor of The Arizona Republic. Troy
Thomas, chair;
Cathie Parks, schedule. Attendance: 39 schools, 921 students including 456 newspaper, 315 yearbook, 81 photojournalism, 52 broadcast,
17 literary magazine and 66 advisers.
Profit: $7,406
Fall Contests: Entered:
524 (a record)
General Excellence, yearbook: First, Marcos de Niza,
Second, Mountain Ridge; Third, Tolleson
General Excellence, literary
magazine: First, Corona del Sol; Second,
Tolleson; Third, Mountain Pointe
Spring Convention: March 27 (because of facility availability),
AIPA Summer
Workshop: The 39th annual
workshop was held at the Wyndham Metrocenter Hotel in
Board Business:
• 145 member schools
• Dave Cosgrove created a membership/informational brochure.
• Committee formed to restructure contests after concern about judging for fall contests.
• John Fearing, Executive Director or the Arizona Newspapers Association, met with the board during a meeting at the AIPA Summer Workshop and offered the services of his group to AIPA. Board members mentioned concerns for journalism programs in schools and the need for a central headquarters and executive director to handle general AIPA business.
• Membership fees raised: $30 early, $35 late, $75 school wide, association—same as individual publication.
• ANA’s response to board requests: AIPA may use ANA address as a central communications point; some staff time can be used to help with mailings (postage not included), will work with AIPA and Arizona Board of Regents, AIPA president should become a regular part of ANA’s annual meeting, will help with speakers for meetings when asked, will sponsor some scholarships, are interested in sponsoring or helping to sponsor contests for high school journalists.
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by Peggy Gregory, January, 2001
1998-99
50th
Anniversary of AIPA 1999
OFFICERS:
Vice-President: Greg
Anderson
Past President: Steve
Abaroa
Recording Secretary: Candace
Adams
Treasurer: Dave Cosgrove
In-service: Faith Harris
Contests: Tom Mihalchick
Fall Convention: Tina Klecka
Spring Convention: Tony Gomez
Workshop Directors: Peggy Gregory
Dave Cosgrove
ANA Liaison: Paula Casey
Area Coordinators: Tina Cleavelin, Mary Kay Devner, Patti Duncan, Cathie Parks, Stephanie Sapakie, Tony Gomez, Bob Snider, Jill Farkas,
Sheila Carter
Student Reps: Vinita Anahotri, yearbook; Michael Linton, newspaper, Sahuaro
1998 Freeman Hover Award: Bob Snider
1999
Fall Convention: Oct. 19, ASU.
Theme: From the Ground Up. Keynote speaker: H.L. Hall; Attended: Total, 936; 461,
newspaper; 305 yearbook; 47 photo, 71 broadcast, 52
advisers. Profit: $5,991.76
Fall Contests: Tina helped Tom with the contests.
Entries:
313 with 11 yearbooks; 11 newspapers, 7 literary magazines
General Excellence, Literary
Magazines: First, Salpointe
Catholic; Second, Safford, Third, Mountain Ridge
General Excellence, Yearbooks: First, Salpointe
Catholic; Second, Gilbert; Second, Sabino; Third,
Mountain Pointe; Third, Westwood; Honorable Mentions: Sunnyslope, Tolleson,
Spring Convention: March 27,
Spring Contests: Included honorable mentions; a write-off
contest was held and judged on-site by board members, and scholarships of $500
to the UofA were awarded in each category—news,
feature writing and editorial writing— for first place.
Entries:
556; 490 newspaper entries, 14 broadcasting, 58 yearbooks
General Excellence, Newspapers: First, Salpointe
Catholic; Second,
AIPA Summer
Workshop: June 16-20. The 40th annual workshop was moved
back to NAU in
Board Business:
• 132 members; three lifetime members: Freeman Hover, Phyllis Stanfield, Jan Watson
• 179 associates added to database by Greg Anderson
• New job descriptions and guidelines for Area Coordinator notebooks done by Greg Anderson.
• AIPA bylaws were amended to authorize ANA to conduct mailings and correspondence from their central office. A formal liaison was thus established with ANA.
• Student rep, Michael Linton, recruited 30 students to form committees—workshop, spring convention, communication—to help AIPA.
• $3,800 used for half scholarships to the summer workshop
• Committee formed to revise contests and create judging criteria
• Carmen Wendt created a quilt square for
National Recognition:
NSPA Pacemaker, Corona del Sol, yearbook
Pacemaker Finalsts:
CSPA Gold Crown: Newspaper, Salpointe
Catholic; Yearbook,
CSPA Silver Crown:
Yearbooks, Dobson, Salpointe Catholic,
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by Peggy Gregory, January, 2001
1999-2000
50th
Anniversary of AIPA 1999
OFFICERS:
Vice-President: Greg
Anderson
Past President: Troy
Thomas
Recording Secretary: Patti
Duncan
Treasurer: Dave Cosgrove
In-service: Faith Harris
Contests: Tom Mihalchick
Fall Convention: Tina Klecka
Spring Convention: Tony Gomez
Workshop Directors: Peggy Gregory
Dave Cosgrove
ANA Liaison: Paula Casey
Area Coordinators: Mary Jo Case, Tina Klecka,
Mary Kay Devner, Patti Duncan, Cathie Parks,
Stephanie Sapakie, Bob Snider, Jill Farkas,
Student Reps: Frank Lewis, Chandler,
yearbook; Mary Kate Sullivan, Deer Valley, newspaper
1999 Freeman Hover Award: Jim Nichols,
2000
Fall Convention: Oct. 18, ASU.
Keynote speaker: Richard de Uriarte, reader advocate, The Arizona Republic. A
historical newspaper display was one of the exhibits. Attendance: 799 including 435 newspaper
students, 266 yearbook students, 62 advisers and 11 lit mag,
20 broadcast and 5 photo students. Profit: $12,375.73
Fall Contests: Entries: 652. Judging was done by AIPA board members and any other AIPA member interested as well as two professionals for the first time. The committee (Tina Klecka, Cathie Parks, Mary Kay Devner, Tom Mihalchick, Bob Snider, Yvonne Johnson, Dave Cosgrove, Stephanie Hutsell, Mary Jo Case, Greg Anderson) to revise contests gathered a great deal of material. Contest coordinator Tom Mihalchick did preliminary rubrics which were formatted and edited by Peggy Gregory with material also taken from the descriptions for the contests done by Dave Cosgrove. The board was generally pleased with the usefulness and better consistency created by the rubrics. Also, awards were changed to Superior (no more than 10% of entries in the category), Excellent and Honorable Mention with the idea that more students’ work could be honored with multiple awards for each category. Finally, the contests were broken down by large school (4A & 5A) and small school (1A-3A) at the urging of Yvonne Johnson who has taught and advised in both types of schools.
General Excellence, Magazines, 4A-5A: First, Salpointe Catholic; Second, No Award; Third, Highland; 1A-3A: First, Safford; No Second or Third
General Excellence, 4A-5A: First, Salpointe; Second, Gilbert, Third, Sabino; 1A-3A, No First or Second; Third, TseHo Tso Middle School
Spring Convention: March 22, Pueblo High Magnet School,
Tucson. Keynote speaker: David Levy, amateur astonomer
and author of 19 books and writer for Parade
magazine, and Larry Labofcki. Attendance: 90 Students again took advantage
of the many computer labs at
Spring Contests: Entries: 700. Over 600 newspaper entries were judged by The Arizona Republic staff; yearbook judged by board with general excellence sent out of state for judging; lit mag judged by board.
AIPA Summer
Workshop: The 41st annual workshop was held at NAU in
Board
Business:
• 145 members
• Far more meetings were held with board consensus to get business back to normal; some meetings were for committee work.
• The board published a first-ever 36-page, soft cover booklet (conceptualized and created by Yvonne Johnson) containing all convention and contest information for the year as well as membership forms, nomination forms for awards and many pages of information about the organization. The idea was to have everything in one place for advisers across the state, to hopefully increase membership and to cut down on other mailings. Board members devoted many hours in June and August to help with the completion of the project.
• One meeting was devoted solely to judging the entries for the fall contest (see above).
• More specific guidelines were set for conventions for programs, vendors and sponsors. New formats were also tried for the conventions.
• Nancy Philipovich from ANA attended most meetings to help with the creation of a “home base” for AIPA. Executive Director John Fearing downloaded our database in the summer to help with mailings and Executive Assistant Paula Casey took over most of the financial records and tax preparation. ANA donated countless hours to help get AIPA back into good shape with records. Paula attended conventions and helped with and then took over registration again to ease work loads and give our organization a more professional demeanor with the schools in the state.
• ANA sponsored a Student Journalist of the Year through AIPA.
• Goals: to work with ANA to communicate with the Arizona Board of Regents on the dilemma facing journalism programs in the state—we need to be recognized as a fine/performing art to be counted toward graduation other than as an elective; to create a web site; to update the history; to revise the constitution
• The board moved to honor all “retiring” board members with a plaque
•
• Mary Jo and Greg worked on general editing and small revisions on the constitution to bring before the membership at the fall convention.
National Recognition:
NSPA Yearbook Pacemaker Finalists: Mountain View, Dobson, Horizon, Sabino
NSPA Newspaper Pacemaker Finalists: Westwood, Salpointe Catholic
CSPA Gold Crown-Newspaper: Salpointe Catholic
CSPA Gold Crown-Yearbook: Naylor Middle School
CSPA Silver Crown-Yearbook: Dobson, Salpointe
Catholic,
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by Peggy Gregory, January, 2001