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Teantwork Crucial Elentent

Time And Dedication Help In Winning Awards

-Wendi Hansen-
'Twas the night before deadline and all Time and dedication also played a big
was well in the high school, not a janitor was part. Focus Editor Nikki Murdock said, "It was so
stirring not even a mouse, when low and behold time consuming to find your outside sources.
what did one hear but people working furiously, in Sometimes people did not realize the extreme
Room 321. amount of pressure we were under to get things
Late nights seemed inevitable if the staffs done on deadline."
.- wanted to meet the deadlines. Jennie Alberry, The time and dedication paid off though
editor-in-chief of the Hoofbeat said, "Even though when the staffs saw the final product. In the state
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I t I felt like I spent my whole life in the journalism competition of 1990 all three staffs won awards
room, the friends I made made it all worthwhile." Cartoonist Eric Johnson said " It was extremely
Junior Kelli Mahoney also said, "The deadlines difficult competing against other really good
were pretty hectic; however, there were some cartoonists." For the past ten years all three staffs
positive rewards like making life-long friends." received fustclass ratings. In addition the Hoofbeat
Working together was a major part of received the superior rating ofCornhusker in 1989,"
journalism. "The hardest part of photography was said Advisor Sheila Pedersen. · Also the 1990
getting everyone to work as a team. If you couldn't Stampede was chosen by Walsworth Publishing
get them to do that then everything fell apart," said Company as a marketing example to circulate
Photography Chief Reed Rassmussen. "The nationwide as a quality yearbook.
challenging part was getting everyone from all When the last photograph was printed,
three staffs to cooperate and get things done on the last paper produced and distributed, and the
deadlines," said Photo Chief Sarah Alukonis. last yearbook was distributed, a feeling of
accomplishment and relief prevailed. Junior
State competitions gave members of all staffs the opportunity Valerie Arms said, "Once I saw the final product,
to see how good they really were. Photographer Mark Brookstein
prepares his pictures for the state competition. The judges are the time that it took seemed like nothing because
picky right down to the way it is mounted on the paper. (J. the reward was overwhelming."

Stampede editor-in-chief Steve Van Buren checks over
everyone else's work after they have completed it to make sure
it is all done correctly. After the editor checks it, the pages get
sent to the Walsworth Publishing Plant in Marceline, MO. (J.
Bums)
Editor-in-Chief Jennie AI berry boots up the computer to plug
in her newspaper story and her layout. During deadlines open
computers were hard to find, and with the Journalism room
only having threecomputers deadlines were tight. (J. Burns)
Journalism