Manchester Township School District: Student Journalists Inducted Into Quill And Scroll Honor Society

Press release from the Manchester Township School District:

2021-12-02

By Jill Ocone, MTHS Journalism Teacher

Ten student journalists were inducted into the Manchester Township High School Chapter of the Quill and Scroll International Honor Society for High School Journalists on Tuesday, November 30. 

The Quill and Scroll International Honorary Society for High School Journalists was organized April 10, 1926, at the University of Iowa by renowned pollster George H. Gallup and a group of high school advisers for the purpose of encouraging and recognizing individual student achievement in journalism and scholastic publication.

Since its founding, school charters have been granted to more than 11,300 high schools in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and 29 foreign countries. Media advisers in chartered schools are eligible to recommend outstanding high school journalism students for membership in Quill and Scroll International Honorary Society.

Candidates for membership must meet five qualifications: student must be of junior or senior classification; student must be scholastically in the upper third of their high school class and/or must have done superior work in some phase of high school journalism; student must be recommended by the teacher/adviser of journalistic work in their high school; and student must be approved as being worthy of membership by the Society’s executive director.

Current Quill and Scroll member, Caylyne Kozyra (senior and yearbook co-editor) assisted with the induction ceremony, which was attended by family, friends, and invited guests.

Manchester’s ten new members join three current members and 24 members in perpetuity. This year’s inductees are:

• Adriana Adametz – 12th Grade
  Introduction to Journalism, Advanced Journalism (2 years)
• Madison Boyce – 12th Grade
  Introduction to Journalism, Advanced Journalism, Career Journalism. Sidenote: Boyce publishes her own music magazine “Legends of Tomorrow” and is a music photographer.
• Alexis Cervenak – 11th Grade
  Introduction to Journalism, Advanced Journalism, Career Journalism
• Arlette Jaimez Ilagorre – 12th Grade
  Introduction to Journalism, Advanced Journalism (2 years), Career Journalism
• Valerie Kohan – 11th Grade
  Introduction to Journalism, Advanced Journalism (2 years), Career Journalism, Co-Editor-In-Chief, The Talon 2.0 Cybersite. Sidenote: Kohan has written over 30 articles for the MTHS Student News Website.
• Jasmine Panora– 12th Grade
  Introduction to Journalism, Advanced Journalism (2 years), Career Journalism
• Alexis Peterson – 12th Grade
  Introduction to Journalism, Advanced Journalism, Career Journalism
• Abigail Peluso – 11th Grade
  Introduction to Journalism, Advanced Journalism, Career Journalism
• Kaila Rosario – 12th Grade
  Advanced Journalism (2 years), Career Journalism
• Samantha Verdi – 11th Grade
  Introduction to Journalism, Advanced Journalism (2 years), Co-Editor-In-Chief, The Talon 2.0 Cybersite

Current Quill and Scroll Members – MTHS Class of 2022:

• Emma Horowitz – 12th Grade
  Introduction to Journalism, Advanced Journalism (3 years), Career Journalism (2 years), 2022 déjà vu yearbook Co-Editor In Chief
• Noelle Jean-Denis – 12th Grade
  Introduction to Journalism, Advanced Journalism (3 years), Career Journalism
• Caylyne Kozyra – 12th Grade
  Introduction to Journalism, Advanced Journalism (3 years), Career Journalism (2 years), 2022 déjà vu yearbookCo-Editor In Chief

Manchester Township High School Quill and Scroll Chapter Alumni – Members in Perpetuity:

• Class of 2021: Desirae Ferrara, Michael Horowitz, Nicholas Jensen, Angela Lyons Madison Moss, Ally Nielsen, Felicia Roehm, Kylie Roessle, Joseph Russomano, Navit Sanchez Del-Valle, Anna Umlauf, Claudia Wallace
• Class of 2020: Ariel Blumensteel, Skyler Britton, Andrea Gunnell, Morgan Lyons, Gabrielle Wetzel, Carley Polchak
• Class of 2019: Kaitlin Clutter, Alan Dang, Kaiah Guthridge, William Homenuk, Jr., Elisabeth Hudak, Lauren Lane

To learn more about the Quill and Scroll International Honor Society or High School Journalists, visit their website at quillandscroll.org.

New members of the Manchester Township High School Chapter of the Quill and Scroll International Honor Society for High School Journalists, from left to right: Samantha Verdi, Kaila Rosario, Jasmine Panora, Arlette Jaimez-Ilagorre, Alexis Cervenak, Madison Boyce, Adriana Adametz, Valerie Kohan, Abigail Peluso. Missing from photo: Alexis Peterson. Photo by Jill Ocone.

This press release was produced by the Manchester Township School District. The views expressed here are the author’s own.