High school students from Broward and Palm Beach counties were recognized on Thursday by the Sun-Sentinel for their accomplishments as members of their campus newspaper staffs.
The Sun-Sentinel honored students, schools and newspapers in its 1992 High School Journalism Awards ceremony at the Boca Raton Marriott Crocker Center hotel in Boca Raton.
Jodie Needle of Piper High School in Sunrise won the $4,000 Sun-Sentinel Journalism/Advertising scholarship.
“I am so shocked,” Needle said through tears. She will attend the University of Florida and plans a career at a daily newspaper. “There’s a need to express your opinions as well as the community’s opinions. We need to inform the public about things that are affecting them,” she said.
Other students were selected by either their journalism advisers or classmates, or both, as “most valuable” members of their newspaper staffs.
Before the ceremonies on Thursday night, the Sun-Sentinel was awarded a media citation by the Journalism Education Association for its contributions to high school journalism.
MOST VALUABLE STAFF MEMBERS AT BROWARD COUNTY SCHOOLS, IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY SCHOOL
–Lanessa Stokes of Boyd Anderson High, Edward Benditt of Cardinal Gibbons High, Joshua Schwartz of Chaminade-Madonna High, Kristin McCoy of Coconut Creek High, Cory Nightingale of Cooper City High, Elizabeth Leiba of Dillard High, Richard Cherskov of Ely High, David Brown of Fort Lauderdale High, Mindy Gray of Hallandale High, Courtney Rubin of Hollywood Hills High, Heather Perry of J.P. Taravella High, Joan Canal of McArthur High, Rachel Glasener of Miramar High, Melissa Rosenthal of Nova High, Joe Juisai of Pine Crest School, Jodie Needle of Piper High, Simon Duvall of Plantation High, Elizabeth Silveira of South Broward High, Bradley Ritter of South Plantation High, Jamie Nessel of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, Kim Foreman of Stranahan High, and April Worsdell of Western High.
BROWARD COUNTY “BEST OVERALL” NEWSPAPERS
–High school with more than 2,000 students: Western High’s Paw Prints.
–Smaller high schools: South Plantation High’s Sword & Shield.
OTHER AWARDS FOR LARGER SCHOOLS IN BROWARD COUNTY
–Western High’s Paw Prints won best layout and design, best editorials and best columns; Coconut Creek High’s Harbinger won best news coverage and best features; Boyd Anderson High’s B.A. Express won best sports coverage; and Plantation High School’s The Colonels’ Journal won best entertainment.
OTHER AWARDS FOR SMALLER SCHOOLS IN BROWARD COUNTY
–South Plantation High’s Sword & Shield won best layout and design, best columns and best features; Piper High’s Pipeline News won for best entertainment coverage and received an honorable mention for best features; Ely High’s Tiger’s Roar won best editorial; Hollywood Hills High’s Hills Hi Point won for best news coverage; Fort Lauderdale High’s Navigator won best sports coverage. An honorable mention was awarded to Hallandale High’s Charger Express for editorials.
INDIVIDUAL AWARDS
–Sun-Sentinel’s Broward County High School Correspondent of the Year: Bret Feldman of Nova High School.
–Other awards to high school correspondents: The best story/reporting went to Darren Samuelsohn of Cooper City High for a two-story package on teen-age gamblers. The best story/writing award went to Jeremy Milarsky of South Plantation High for a commentary on the real meaning of success.
–Best photograph award: Mike Walsh of Marjory Stoneham Douglas High.
–Best illustration award: Thomas Hayles Jr. of Boyd Anderson High for his cover illustration for a feature on Black History Month.
–Best writing/project award: “Working the Material World,” a package geared toward the student job-seeker. Winners were: Brent Allison and Nick Newell of Fort Lauderdale High, Christine Cain of Coconut Creek High, Danny Cruz of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, Claude Gard of Miramar High, Ken Khouri of South Plantation High, Presscott McDonald of Boyd Anderson High, and Alex Sanz of Stranahan High.
–Best reporting/project: “Planning Your Future,” the first team project the correspondents took on. It explained college testing and application procedures. The winners were Kathy Bushouse of Western High, Christine Cain of Coconut Creek High, Simon Duvall of Plantation High, Suzanne Lye of Saint Thomas Aquinas High, Amy May of Nova High, John Marek of McArthur High, Jeremy Milarsky of South Plantation High, Jodie Needle of Piper High, Alex Sanz of Stranahan High, Sonya Strange of Piper High, Marshall Vickness of Nova High, and Michael Walsh of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High.
–TEENTIME! awards: Awards also were presented to students who contributed to the TEENTIME! section in Showtime. The “best TEENTIME! movie reviewer” award was presented to Judd Blaise of Plantation High School, and the “best music reviewer” award was given to Gabrielle Zevin of Spanish River High School in Boca Raton.
