Mid-Atlantic, Great Lakes Region 6 Report
Submitted by Region 6 Director Rod Satterthwaite, MJE
•Membership
The Great Lakes/Mid-Atlantic Region has 343 JEA members spread out over nine states. This number is down 43 from the same time last year. We have 53 CJEs and 25 MJEs. Virginia leads the way in our region with 95 active members.
•Happenings
Michigan has a new state director, Jesse McLean from Waterford Kettering High School. She replaces Brian Wilson who stepped down to focus more time and energy on his NCTE liaison role within JEA.
The Delaware state director position is still vacant.
We’re excited that a national convention will make its way to our region twice in the next four years. The fall 2014 convention will be in Washington, D.C. and the fall 2016 convention will be in Indianapolis.
If you are part of Region 6 but haven’t joined our Facebook group, please do so. Search for the group name “JEA Mid-Atlantic/Great Lakes Region 6″ and request to join. It’s a great way to keep up with happenings in our region and share/celebrate all our region has to offer.
I was fortunate enough to attend and present at three events in our region this year: the Ohio Scholastic Media Association’s state convention at Kent State University, the Indiana High School Press Association’s fall convention at Franklin College and the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association’s fall conference in Lansing, Mich. I continue to be amazed at the quality of students and advisers in our region. The passion and expertise I witnessed at these three events was truly awe-inspiring and represents the best of what education can and should be.
•Awards and honors
Congratulations to the following people from Region 6 who will receive national recognition at the fall convention in San Antonio:
Medal of Merit, Mary Kay Downes, MJE, media adviser, Chantilly (Va.) High School
NSPA Pioneer, Jim Streisel, teacher and adviser at Carmel (Ind.) High School
Down Jones Newspaper Fund Distinguished advisers: Jim Streisel of Carmel (Ind.) High School and Bretton Zinger of Chantilly (Va.) High School.
Delaware
Delaware has no state director and only one JEA member. Please contact me at rod.satterthwaite@gmail.com if you would be interested in serving as Delaware state director or if you’d like to nominate someone for this position.
Indiana
Submitted by state director Nancy Hastings, MJE
•Membership
Indiana membership stands at 64, up six since last spring. Included in those numbers are 12 CJEs and 13 MJEs. I’ve tried to encourage membership by attending state and regional conferences and by starting a JEA Indiana Facebook group.
•Events
Boasting its biggest attendance in years, the Indiana High School Press Association hosted its annual state convention Oct. 18 and 19 as more that 40 schools and 500 students and advisers Got Connected. JEA members Rachel McCarver, of Columbus North HS, Nicole Wilson of Carmel HS and Melissa Deavers-Lowie of Portage HS planned the Get Connected program.
Keynoting the convention, George Srour, an Indianapolis North Central High School graduate and 2001 State and National Student Journalist of the Year, inspired those in attendance about how his high school journalism skills helped him build his Building Tomorrow program. Just 11 years out of high school, Srour founded Building Tomorrow, which has raised over a million dollars for the construction of schools in rural Uganda, including a recent $500,000 gift from the Clinton Global Initiative. He explained that the journalistic skills of learning to create, question, listen and take a stand helped him lead this foundation.
The Thursday evening portion of the convention provided a bonus as a record 140 students participated in the Write Off On-Site contests. Robin Bilinski of NorthWood HS and Bill Caulton of Chesterton HS took charge of organizing the competitions and judging panels.
Highlighting the convention, Julie Elston, of Crown Point High School, won the Ella Sengenberger Journalism Teacher of the Year honors. Elston, CJE, has taught journalism for 22 years. She advises the Inklings newspaper.
Also honored at the convention Dr. Patricia Flowers of Connersville High School and Jeff Butts, superintendent of the Metropolitan School District of Wayne Township, which includes Ben Davis High School, earned Administrators of the Year recognition for their support of the journalism programs in their schools. Both were nominated by their journalism teachers.
Plans are already underway for the IHSPA First Amendment Symposium, March 6 in Indianapolis at the Statehouse
Excitement is also starting to build as Indianapolis will host the Fall 2016 JEA/NSPA Convention.
•Awards and Honors
Congratulations to Jim Streisel, MJE, of Carmel High School. Not only will Streisel be recognized as an NSPA Pioneer at the fall NSPA/JEA convention in San Antonio, but also as a Dow Jones Distinguished Adviser. Jim has taught at Carmel for 18 years, where he advises the award-winning HiLite newsmagazine and online edition.
Indiana is especially proud of Indiana’s Student Journalist of the Year, Beatriz Costa Lima from Munster High School. At last spring’s national convention in Seattle, she was named one of six runners-up in the nation. She currently is a freshman at Missouri, majoring in journalism.
Indiana is also especially proud of Kim Green, MJE, yearbook adviser at Columbus North High School, who is the current Journalism Education Association’s 2011 HL Hall Yearbook Adviser of the Year, and Brian Hayes, Ball State University Secondary
Education Sequence Coordinator and Director of the Summer Journalism Workshops, who is the current Linda S. Putney Teacher Inspiration Award recipient.
•Student Media Honors
2012 NSPA Newspaper/Newsmagazine Pacemaker Finalists
Inklings, Crown Point High School, Crown Point, Julie Elston, adviser
HiLite, Carmel High School, Carmel, Jim Streisel, adviser
2012 NSPA Design of the Year Finalist in Infographic
Ben Alderfer, North Central High School, Indianapolis, Tom Gayda, adviser
2012 NSPA Story of the Year Finalist in Diversity
Lindsey Walker, Carmel High School, Jim Streisel, adviser
Honors from last spring:
Yearbook Pacemakers:
The Log, Columbus North High School, Kim Green adviser
Quiver, Lake Central High School, Sarah Verpooten/Carrie Wadycki, advisers
Online Pacemaker:
NCHS Live!, North Central High School, Indianapolis, Tom Gayda, adviser
CSPA Newspaper Gold Crown
Crier, Munster High School, Munster, Rebecca Hoyle, adviser
•Concerns
Teacher morale is suffering as all Indiana teachers face the uncertainty of state’s new Teacher Evaluation Law and RISE, the teacher evaluation and development system. A key feature of the new law requires districts to link teacher performance to pay. Merit pay is probably the most controversial provision of the legislation, at least for teachers. A part of their effectiveness score has to come from student performance test data.
Stress is high over the Highly Effective rating. A 4 in every category, ranks the perfect teacher. The Highly Effective rating describes an educator who is exceeding expectations; Effective, a 3, indicates that the teacher is meeting expectations. Those teachers who rank at 2, Improvement Necessary, or 1, Ineffective, could face termination.
This added stress on top of scheduling challenges, and budget and class cuts, is making many Indiana teachers start to look into leaving the classroom for other occupations.
Kentucky
Submitted by State director Bobbi Templet, CJE
• Membership
Membership is Kentucky currently 17 active JEA memberships, but there are 35 advisers following the Kentucky JEA group. I am hoping to encourage more membership at the Kentucky High School Journalism Association meeting Jan. 24, 2013. Over 100 advisers will be bringing journalism students to the conference in Louisville.
• Happenings
Kentucky High School Journalism Association Annual Conference, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013
This year’s conference will be held in conjunction with the Professional Kentucky Press Association conference.
Western Kentucky University J Day – Nov. 30
The 2012 High School Journalism Scholars Day Conference, a 40-year tradition at Western Kentucky University, promises to attract more than 400 Kentucky high school journalism students from across the state to the University campus. The four-hour conference includes breakout sessions, a keynote address, a writing scholarship contest and the Mark of Excellence yearbook contest awards ceremony.
The conference goal is to encourage excellence in high school media classes. It also provides high school students with the opportunity to increase their knowledge and skills. Staffers and their advisers will find breakout sessions with topics ranging from yearbook design and photography to multimedia storytelling to editorial cartooning. The sessions will be presented by SJ&B faculty and industry professionals.
JUMP START! High School Workshop at Eastern Kentucky University was held on Oct. 12, 2012.
Murray State University’s annual high school journalism workshop at the Curris Center on campus was held on Friday, Sept. 28, 2012.
•Awards
Congratulations to everyone involved in newspapering at DuPont Manual High School in Kentucky. SPLC has awarded six student editors the 2012 Courage in Student Journalism, but the students also credited their teachers–Jamie Miller, Liz Palmer and Amy Ritchie–in the story below:
www.splc.org/news/newsflash.asp?id=2447
KyStudentMedia.com is a collaboration of many people who contribute ideas and content. The site is edited by Josh Moore, a copy editor at the Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer and a 2011 WKU graduate. Josh was both a high school and college newspaper editor. While a college student, he coordinated the push for a Kentucky Student Press Bill and spoke about student press rights at numerous workshops.
kystudentmedia.com/
Ohio
Submitted by State Director Georgia Dunn, CJE
• Membership
Membership holds steady in Ohio. Currently there are at 57 JEA members with more new memberships to be forwarded from OSMA, the state affiliate organization. In addition, seven mentees are still signing up for their memberships.
We are attempting to reach more advisers in the state. A graduate student at Kent State is working on finding up-to-date emails and addresses for schools having yearbook, newspaper, newsmagazine and/or broadcast.
• Happenings
Ohio Scholastic Media Association (OSMA)
The Ohio Scholastic Media Association has just completed its whirlwind of fall workshops. The Road Show consisted of Candace Perkins Bowen (Executive Director), Wayne Dunn and Georgia Dunn with various college and high school teachers joining them at each of the locations.
The first workshop was Region 2 at Kent State on Oct. 2 followed by Region 3 at Muskingum University on Oct. 4. Region 1 was at Findlay University on Oct. 9 and Region 5 ended the season at Otterbein University on Oct. 10. More than 1000 students and advisers attended the four sessions. Region 4 is still looking for a facility to hold its workshop.
The group will hold its second state conference at Kent on April 5 & 6, 2013. We are very close to confirming a nationally-syndicated writer as our keynote for that event.
•Mentoring
We have begun the sixth year of the JEA mentoring project. The first year mentors Wayne and Georgia Dunn mentored four advisers. This year they are mentoring two advisers in Central Ohio, two in Northeastern Ohio and two in Southwestern Ohio. Over the past years, they have worked with 16 different advisers.
• Awards & Honors
Congratulations to these students and schools from Ohio who have been named finalists or honorable mentions in the National Scholastic Press Association’s individual and Pacemaker Awards.
Infographic of the Year (NSPA)
Honorable Mention
Lindsay Huth
The Visor, Archbishop Hoban HS, Akron, Ohio
Honorable Mention
Irfan Ibrahim, Jeff Back
Spark, Lakota East HS, Liberty Township, Ohio
Editorial Cartoon of the Year (NSPA)
Honorable Mention
Ajay Agrawal
The Chronicle, William Mason HS, Mason, Ohio
Feature Story of the Year (NSPA)
Finalist
Staff
The Courier, Olentangy Orange HS, Lewis Center, Ohio
Close to home: A look at sex trafficking in Central Ohio
Sports Story of the Year (NSPA)
Finalist
Drew Souders
Spark, Lakota East HS, Liberty Township, Ohio
The sisterhood of success
Diversity Story of the Year (NSPA)
Honorable Mention
Drew Souders
Spark, Lakota East HS, Liberty Township, Ohio
Bonding on the front lines
Broadcast Features
Honorable Mention
Kevin Crane
WGLH-TV, Gahanna Lincoln HS, Gahanna, Ohio
Field of Dreams
Honorable Mention
Nate Hengstebeck
WGLH-TV, Gahanna Lincoln HS, Gahanna, Ohio
Sign Spinning
Newspaper Pacemaker Finalists
The Chronicle, William Mason HS, Mason, Ohio
Janica Kaneshiro, editor
Dale Conner, adviser
Spark, Lakota East HS, Liberty Township, Ohio
Devin Casey, Christian Roehm, Rachel Podnar, editors
Dean Hume, adviser
Maryland
Submitted by State Director Karen A. Hott, CJE
• Membership
Not much change here. Membership is still low. I know of two new members, both from Montgomery County, Md., and three publications advisers in my county who plan to join.
• Happenings
After months of stymied efforts to reach out to advisers in Anne Arundel County, I have finally managed to organize — thanks to the persistence of another adviser — a J-Day for advisers and editors, scheduled for Nov. 19, 2012. We will have a keynote speaker and four break-out sessions. At this point it is still in the planning stage, and I will not know for a few weeks how many will attend.
Carol Lange held the first adviser/editor workshop at the Newseum on Saturday, Oct. 13. “The Washington Post,” the Newseum and D.C. JEA sponsor the program. Four Maryland advisers attended on their own; three of my students accompanied me. The topic for the day was feature writing. Washington Post feature writer DeNeen Brown spoke to the group.
The adviser/editor workshops came from discussions with a core group of “Second Saturday” participants from last school year. We had suggested bringing in students this year, and I think it’s a very positive change. The people Carol brings in and the resources she provides are so inspiring for advisers that we thought students should get the chance to be inspired.
Carol and I discussed organizing a D.C. metro-area J-Day in February or March.
Unfortunately, Towson University suspended its October Journalism Day this year.
Progress in Maryland is slow, but I feel we are actually starting to make some headway.
• Awards and Honors
The editor of the Rockville Rampage won the journalist of the year for Maryland.
• First Amendment Challenges
Two private school advisers are hoping to work together to address censorship and prior review in their schools. They may participate in a workshop that Carol Lange has organized featuring Mary Beth Tinker.
• Items for the Board
Attending the fall convention in San Antonio is so prohibitively expensive that I am not bringing any students with me this year. I had a parent checking flights daily for me over the summer and through September, and it’s just too expensive and too inconvenient—no direct flights from Baltimore-Washington airport. With no public transportation, getting from the airport to the hotel adds another $40 per attendee. I could not justify asking my staffers for $500.
Venues like Kansas City and St. Louis had little appeal to my students. What is the rationale in having the “east coast” convention so far from the coast? I’m glad that the next conventions are in Boston and Washington.
Another beef that I have is with the nickel-and-diming that comes with the JEA conventions. I attended CSPA in the spring, and while I think JEA does a much better convention, I appreciated the fact that almost everything was included in the registration. We charge $110 for registration and then add on expenses for the Thursday workshops (worth it to me if we can get there affordably), write-offs, break with a pro and entering Best of Show.
Is there a way to bring costs down? As a speaker, I don’t need or want a little gift or box of chocolates, and I’m sure that adds up. Just something to think (and gripe) about.
Michigan
Submitted by State Director Jesse McLean, CJE
•Membership
We are currently at 76 members in Michigan, which is up six members from the Spring. I currently have 32 of those members in our Facebook group and have sent out personal messages to at least 20 more that I could find. I hope to continue to find ways to make our membership grow.
•Happenings
Fall Conference
The Michigan Interscholastic Press Association Fall Conference was held on Oct. 23, 2012 in Lansing. More than 1800 student journalists and advisers attended. There were some great sessions in yearbook, newspaper, broadcast and social media. Scott Winter, assistant professor of journalism at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was the featured speaker.
Think Tank
On Oct. 27 Julia and Rod Satterthwaite hosted 1a MIPA members at Harsens Island to discuss plans for the 2013 Summer Workshop. The theme of the workshop is “Learn it. Love it. Live it.” It will be held at Michigan State from July 27 -Aug. 1.
Common Core
A small group of the Michigan advisers are still working on completely aligning beginning journalism, yearbook, newspaper, broadcast and photojournalism classes with the Common Core curriculum. We are also trying to work on a more formal way to present our work on the national scale.
Michigan Facebook Group
Former state director Brian Wilson set up a Facebook group for Michigan JEA Members: www.facebook.com/groups/michiganjea/. I have now taken it over. There are currently 32 members in the group, and I have sent personalized messages to any other members whom I could find on Facebook to invite them to be a part of the group. I’ve used it as a platform to communicate about anything going on with JEA (including convention plans) and also to celebrate the great things going on in the Michigan Journalism world.
•Awards and Honors
NSPA:
The Communicator from Community HS in Ann Arbor, Michigan was named as a Newspaper Pacemaker finalist
DTV News Live from Davison HS in Davison, Michigan was named as a Broadcast Pacemaker finalist (although they are not members of JEA. I will work on this)
News Story of the Year
Finalist
Nida Ashraf, Adviser: Paula Pantano, Vanguard, Stevenson HS, Sterling Heights, Mich.
Crowding hurts learning
Honorable Mention
Matt Pitlock, Nick Cruz, Lindsey Scullen, Adviser: Gayle A. Martin, The Source, Stoney Creek HS, Rochester Hills, Mich.
Economic storm sinks RCS finances
Multimedia News Story of the Year
Finalist
Kate Summers, Adviser: Tracy Anderson, Communicator, Community HS, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Honorable Mention
Staff, Adviser: Tracy Anderson, Communicator, Community HS, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Honorable Mention
Talia Woods, Kathleen Bailey, Adviser: Rod Satterthwaite, The Squall, Dexter HS, Dexter, Mich.
Feature Picture
Finalist
Emily Darrow, Adviser: Rod Satterthwaite, The Squall, Dexter HS, Dexter, Mich.
Newspaper Page One
Honorable Mention
Emily Darrow, James Simonds, Adviser: Rod Satterthwaite, The Squall, Dexter HS, Dexter, Mich.
Nate Barton, Adviser: Julia Satterthwaite, The Talon, Rochester HS, Rochester Hills, Mich., Newsmagazine Cover Finalist
Colleen O’Brien, Adviser: Tracy Anderson, Communicator, Community HS, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Infographic
Finalist
Nick Cruz, The Source, Adviser: Gayle Martin, Stoney Creek HS, Rochester Hills, Mich.
•First Amendment Challenges
There are currently no First Amendment issues that I’m aware of.
•Miscellaneous
I am so honored and excited to be the new Michigan state director. Thank you so much for this opportunity. I can’t wait to continue Michigan’s dedication to journalism education excellence.
Virginia
Submitted by Val Kibler, CJE
•Membership
We have 88 JEA members currently. There are 53 members of VAJTA and 47 members who are both JEA and VAJTA. This is down from previous years.
•Events/happenings
VAJTA will be hosting jDay April 12-13 in Harrisonburg, VA. Keynote speakers will include Sarah Nichols, Steve Johnson and Bradley Wilson. Students will participate in write-offs and multiple workshops. VAJTA and Washington and Lee University will be hosting jCamp 2013 at W & L, June 23-27. Bobby Hawthorne will be a lead writing teacher and advising coach. Other
instructors will include Robin Sawyer, Bradley Wilson, Tyler Dukes, Chris Waugaman and Valerie Kibler.
•Awards and honors
Chantilly High School yearbook adviser Mary Kay Downes is receiving JEA’s Medal of Merit Award in San Antonio this November.
Washington, D.C.
Submitted by State Director Carol Lange, CJE
•Membership Changes
In early September, Carol Lange, assisted by Mary Stapp, contacted D.C. public, private and charter schools to update her file of journalism/media activities in each high school. Carol mailed the JEA-prepared renewal form to all teacher-advisers and others who had accepted the free introductory JEA membership in the 2011-12 academic year. The note she wrote emphasized the benefits of JEA and activities within D.C. At present, two of these individuals have renewed. Although this is a low number, Carol has confirmed that seven teachers have not returned to the classroom, been assigned other jobs or moved. Another does not feel JEA provides for her broadcast/media arts classes.
One loss to D.C. JEA is a gain to The Center for News Literacy at Stony Brook. Mike Spikes, radio broadcast and media arts educator at Roosevelt Senior High School, moved to New York at the end of the school year. Mike had joined the Center for News Literacy Director Dean Miller in April 2012 to teach news literacy concepts in Bhutan, launch school media clubs to host school newspapers and broadcasts, and to encourage teachers to think about democratic traditions. Mike was also a member of the Newseum’s Educators Advisory Team.
Following the update of school records, Carol mailed a note to all returning and new teacher-advisers. She encouraged them to join JEA and become active in D.C. JEA activities. The form included a listing of the many benefits of membership. At present, one of these individuals has joined JEA. Carol will continue to contact D.C. teachers to join JEA.
•Educational Initiatives and Seminars
Following the successful series of Second Saturday workshops in the 2011-2012 academic year, Carol approached Jaye Linnen at “The Washington Post” and Barbara McCormack at the Newseum to continue the co-sponsored training workshops. Although the Post’s YJDP did not want to be involved in a long-term monthly project, Linnen agreed to co-sponsor with the Newseum and D.C. JEA four seminars: feature writing, sports writing, photography and online news and photography.
Just as Second Saturday was team taught by a post-professional and a high school teacher-adviser, the four sections of the Journalism Adviser and Student Editor Seminars team taught. All seminars are held at the Newseum. The first seminar was held on October 13. Barbara McCormack, the Newseum’s Education Director, welcomed the group and provided Newseum materials. DeNeen Brown, the Post’s award-winning culture and arts feature writer, shared 30 tips for feature writers, and the group explored three of her works for the application of these approaches. All advisers and student editors received a digital packet of her works. Carol Lange led the second half of the four-hour workshop, presenting ways to incorporate feature writing in student publications. Chris Janson, The Washington Post’s NIE program, shared programs and offered all educators a free subscription to The Post’s e-Replica. Carol also shared JEA and SPLC material and D.C. JEA membership forms.
Additional seminars will be held on Oct. 20 (photography and online news and photography) with a Post photographer, Alan Weintraut and members of the Post’s online staff. In November a sports writing seminar will be held.
•Progress on a Student Free Expression Act for Washington, D.C.
This fall Mary Beth Tinker joined a group of advocates for a D.C. student free expression law that would go to Congress for a vote if D.C. Council members pass it first. SPLC Board Member Mary Stapp (also a former D.C. journalism teacher and adviser) has been working behind the scenes to garner support for the anti-Hazelwood legislation. She began the effort with her former Wilson High School newspaper co- adviser, Joe Riener, after they attended a CSPA convention in March 2011. The two of them went to SPLC where Adam Goldstein began drafting a law, which was then shared with two litigators from Hunton Williams.
Stapp explained the issue in two PowerPoints to a group of dedicated Wilson High School Beacon writers and editors, who then went to D.C. Council member Mary Cheh, asking for her sponsorship of the legislation. Cheh was lukewarm to the idea, and ultimately asked the students to take it to some other council members to see how they would vote. To bolster their case, Frank LoMonte, Stapp, and a Beacon editor presented the idea to the school board who have expressed interest. Mary Beth Tinker learned about the movement this August and will be joining Beacon editors, Stapp, LoMonte and Joe Esposito (who wrote the proposed legislation) when they anticipate meeting in October with Laura Slover, president of the State Board
of Education.
Once the SBOE gives their approval, the group will take it to other D.C. Council members to garner support, and then go back to Cheh for sponsorship. All D.C. legislation must go to Congress for approval, so, while they still have a long way to go, the group is hoping for national attention on the issue.
•Next Steps Towards a Student Free Expression Act for Washington, D.C.
Frank LoMonte and Carol Lange have talked about a meeting of D.C. public, private and charter school journalism/media/media arts teachers and their students in early December. We will share the basics of press rights that all should know. Mary Beth Tinker is willing to share her experience as a student and why she supports a Student Free Expression Act for Washington, D.C. Mary Stapp will share the work done so far and open the door for all D.C. journalism/media teachers and students to be involved in the
initiative.
•Support for Student Initiatives
D.C. JEA Director Carol Lange has talked with Melissa Wong, AdCamp manager, education services & events, of the American Advertising Federation and with Stacey Finkel who works with Pearson Foundation and the My Voice National Student Mock Election. In summer 2012 the American Advertising Federation hosted the first D.C. AdCamp. They had 12 active student participants from Virginia and Maryland high schools; unfortunately, none from D.C. Ms. Wong and Carol are committed to getting information of the 2013 AdCamp out sooner to D.C. journalism teachers and their students. At the Oct. 20 Journalism Adviser and Student Editor Seminar information will be provided. Also, she and Carol have discussed holding two advertising workshops at their D.C. offices as a way to educate and stimulate interest.
Carol will share mock election information with all D.C. JEA members and other journalism/media arts teachers in public, private and charter schools as well as JEA state directors in Maryland and Virginia. While Carol discussed the My Voice project, Finkel shared with her another Pearson Foundation-supported project that was in draft form — Digital StoryMakers Award. Carol forwarded draft information about the award to Aaron Manfull and Michael Hernandez.
•The Future
Carol will continue efforts to encourage membership in JEA and attendance at D.C. JEA-sponsored and other journalism-related events. Carol will hold a planning meeting with D.C. journalism and media teachers to plan events in 2013. The Journalism Adviser and Student Editor Seminars will continue in mid-October and November and a Student Free Expression event will be held.
West Virginia
Submitted by State Director Heather Gates-Rusher, CJE
• Membership
There have been no changes to our membership numbers.
• Happenings
None
• Award & Honors
None
• For the Board
Nothing to add at this time.
