Most Outstanding High School Newspaper of 2009
First place with Special Merit -2009
American Scholastic Press Association

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NEW Editors

Editor-in-Chief
BRYANNA HEILMAN

Assistant Editors
Megan Lough
Deryn Fink

 

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Senior Editors
Editor-in-Chief Erika Firestone
Elizabeth Rakow Hayley Amerman

  Signed letters to the editor may be sent to
  This school year, the readers may look forward to five issues,
one each in October, December, February, March and May.
 

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~ Past Staff of The Challenge
~ Awards won by The Challenge

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 Villanovan

-- 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

1400 Chestnut Street

Lebanon, Pennsylvania 17042

Phone – 273-3731

www.lebanoncatholicschool.org
Member: American Scholastic Press Association