The  
Challenge
2009
First Place
with Special Merit
American Scholastic Press Association
NEW EDITORS
Editor-in-Chief - Erika Firestone
 
  
Morgan Hartmoyer
Elizabeth Rakow
Hayley Amerman
   
SENIOR EDITORS
   
Editor-in-Chief - Lauren Faust
Elizabeth Decker
Marykate McShane
Ryan Morrison
Jessica Stachura
     
 
This school year, the readers may look forward to five issues, one each in October, December, February, March and May.
 
Signed letters to the editor my be sent to challetters@lebanoncatholicschool.org
 
Former Editors Continue Journalistic Work
 

Jennifer (Kissinger) Reed, 1995 The Challenge Editor-in-Chief
-- Managing editor of the Harrisburg Diocese Catholic newspaper
--The Catholic Witness .

 



Jonathan Klick, 1993 The Challenge Editor-in-Chief
-- Editor of Villanova’s newspaper The Villanova
-- had been chosen by the Anti-Defamation League
--as one of the top 14 ---college editors in the nation
--to receive an all-expense paid trip to Israel and
--
Poland when he was in college.

Natalie Hope McDonald, a 1993 The Challenge
Editor and artist
-- edited a Lebanon Valley College student paper,
-- a freelance writer and photographer in Philadelphia
-- a regular columnist for the “ Philadelphia Citypaper”
-- work has appeared in “ Philadelphia Magazine,” “Vibe,”
--“Essence,”
-- “ Boston Magazine,” and other publications.

 

Maggie Gerrity, a 1997 Editor of The Challenge
-- was editor of the national literary journal Harpur Palate
-- visiting assistant professor in the writing department of Ithaca College
-- teaches Advanced Fiction Workshop at Binghamton University
-- doctoral degree from Binghamton University 

Vanessa Schneider, 2003 The Challenge Editor-in-Chief
-- Editor of The Ithacan, Ithaca College’s newspaper
-- interned with In Style magazine in the summer of 2006.
-- News assistant for the Community Team of the New York Times
--
Web site ( nytimes.com)

Kevin Hess, a 2007 Editor of The Challenge
-- as a sophomore, was named Associate Sports Editor, then promoted to
--Assistant Sports-Editor of The Towerlight at Towson State

(Others who have also made journalistic accomplishments
will be added to the list as we hear from them.)

Advisor- Gail Vojtko

Lebanon Catholic School
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Phone – 273-3731
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