Dow Tate

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C. Dow Tate, 1997 Dow Jones Newspaper Fund National Journalism Teacher of the Year and Texas' Max Haddick Teacher of the Year, has advised Shawnee Mission East High School's student publications since August 2002. Shawnee Mission East, located in the Shawnee Mission School District, is in Prairie Village, Kansas. The Harbinger is the school's newspaper and The Hauberk is the yearbook. He is also co-author of Scholastic Journalism, a journalism textbook in its 10th edition. He also occasionally writes for magazines and yearbook companies. He runs the Gloria Shields Publications Workshop each summer in Dallas, Texas. In 2006, the workshop offered 21 different courses for writers, designers, photographers and graphics students for both yearbook and newspaper.

[edit] With the Harbinger and the Hauberk

The Harbinger, previously an unknown newspaper, skyrocketed onto the national circuit after only two years of Dow Tate's advisorship with a Pacemaker Finalist nomination. Under editor in chief Alex Abnos, the 2003-2004 Harbinger also placed 4th overall at the National Scholastic Press Association convention in Washington, D.C.

2004-2005 Harbinger editor in chief Libby Nelson was named the 2005 National High School Journalist of the Year, the first student from Kansas ever to receive the honor. Under her leadership, the paper won both a Pacemaker and a Gold Crown award, the two most prestigious awards for high school journalism.

The 2005-2006 Harbinger under editor in chief Annie Fuhrman was honored with a second Pacemaker at the November 2006 JEA/NSPA convention in Nashville and a second Gold Crown in the spring of 2007.

In April 2007, Amanda Allison, the Harbinger's 2006-2007 editor in chief, was named the National High School Journalist of the Year. Only one other high school nationally has had two students win the honor.

The Hauberk had been nationally recognized before under Donna Skates, an adviser in the mid-90s. But since Tate's arrival in 2003, The Hauberk also shot back into the national circuit with Pacemaker and Interactive Yearbook Pacemaker nominations for successive years. In the spring of 2006, the Kansas Scholastic Press Association named The Hauberk's 2005-2006 assistant editor, Allison Quick, the Kansas High School Journalist of the Year.

[edit] Year by Year

Each year, students from both publications place in the National Scholastic Press Association's Design, Story or Photo of the Year contests, as well as the Columbia Scholastic Press Association's Gold Circle Awards. The paper, the yearbook and their staffs win numerous national, regional and state-wide awards for writing, design and photography.