Leigh Ivey, Editor-in-Chief
Last year, with no offical title in the newspaper world, I never truly understood
how much work goes into publishing a paper.
Yes, I wrote articles, worked on Page Maker, and pasted up the pages when we
were ready to put the paper to bed. Yet I didn’t fully appreciate how much
work our editors did.
While I was taking my time thinking of article ideas or what would be the prettiest
way to lay out my page, they were in here working on things I only recently
learned about--gradient, photo shop, page headers, and thousands of other things
that are sometimes taken for granted when reading The Charger.
This year, everything changed. It was a rude awakening--I had to learn how
to create items that I knew almost nothing about. Luckily, with help from Kristen
Mitchelle, one of last year’s editors, I have managed to make it through
the first issue.
Emilee Chaffin and I have stayed after school for hours on end, designing page
headers, lining up text, and sizing the millions of pictures needed for the
issue. Staying late wasn’t all bad, though, especially when our wonderful
advisor Sharon Anderson brought us cookies (by the way, the new Double Delight
Mint and Cream Oreos are excellent, as are the Chips Ahoy Candy Blasts) to give
us our much needed energy.
Although I have learned that publishing a newspaper isn’t all fun and
games, I know that this is going to be an excellent year for The Charger.
And seriously, try those cookies.
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Article prepared for web by J. Wheeler 6-Sept-2002