Olympia School Newspaper A Success
By Christen Roberts
November 30, 2007
The Torch staff is well underway on producing their first issue of the year with a “going green” theme promoting recycling and saving money to Olympia High School students.
After nine weeks of learning the history and composition of journalism, the fifty-four students of Mrs. Hapgood’s journalism classes are working hard everyday on the fall issues. The first issue was circulated the week after Thanksgiving break, at the price of one dollar by the Torch staff in their new black “get the scoop” staff t-shirts. “This issue is the biggest one ever,” announced Mrs. Hapgood, “thirty-two pages. We have a lot of students and a lot of pages.”
Editors-in-chief of the staff this year are: Seniors Eric Biehl and Christen Roberts and Juniors Taylor Eichelberger and Abbie Hardesty.
To raise money to publish the issue, students sold suckers from WOW Fundraising around the school at fifty cents each, which was a huge hit.
On Friday, November 16, journalist Erin Frost visited a workday of The Torch and produced a wonderful article which was featured in the Lincoln Courier on Saturday, November 17.
With everyone working hard, the Torch team of 2007 is sure to be a success! Editor-in-Chief Abbie Hardesty agrees, “I’m so flabbergasted at how hard everyone is working and how great things are coming together. We had some pretty big shoes to fill from last year’s Torch but so far, so good!”
The December issue of The Torch is in production and will hit stands on December 18!
