Crown Finalists Named

Last year’s ReMarker newspaper and the 2010 Marksmen yearbook have been named as Crown finalists, the highest award given, by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA), the organization announced Dec. 15.

This is the eighth consecutive year that The ReMarker has been named a finalist for the Crown. For the past seven years, the publication has won the most prestigious designation given by CSPA, the Gold Crown — the longest successive streak by a secondary school in the history of the organization.

Crown finalists will learn in March whether they earn Gold or Silver Crown distinctions.

For the Marksmen, this is the seventh Crown designation in eight years. Both the 2008 and 2009 editions of the Marksmen were named Gold Crown winners.

CSPA’s Crown finalists include 42 newspapers and 57 yearbooks from among 1771 total entries. Publications are evaluated by a committee consisting of journalism educators and professional journalists on writing and editing, coverage, editorial leadership, design, graphics and artwork and photography.

Editor of The ReMarker was Zach Wolfe ‘10, who is now a student at the University of Texas at Austin. Other alums who held key staff positions include Aaron Campbell, L.C. Chandler, Ritodhi Chatterjee, Tom Duffy, Adam Eichenwald, Getty Hall, Shibi Kannan, Sam Mallick, John Michel, Matt Miller, Blake Montgomery, John Montgomery, Shashwat Samudra and Ross Yudkin.

Editor of the Marksmen was Sloan Rudberg ‘10, now attending Princeton University. Other members of the class of 2010 who held key staff positions include Fred Addy, Ronan Anand, Noah Bricker, Daniel Rafkin, Charles Branch, Davis Johnson, Zach Jolly, Getty Hall, Matt Miller, Michael Shulman, Jonathan Swygert.

Current students who contributed to The ReMarker’s efforts include seniors Reece Cannady, Ben Chesnut, Andrew Dorsaneo, Jeffrey Eichenholz, Will Golden, Spencer Heim, Dean Itani, Josh Izzard, Chris Kim, Greg Kinman, Aidan Kirksey, Christian Larrave, Patrick McGee, Max Naseck, Roberto Toto, Dare Ogundipe, Robert Pruser, John Wetzel, Hayden Wolf and juniors Evan Berkowitz, Ross Crawford, Noe Hinojosa, Nick Mahowald, Max Marshall, Naeem Muscatwalla, Jairo Nevarez, Patrick Ng, Lee Perkins, Marshall Stone, Josh Way, and Sam Yonack.

Current students who contributed to the Marksmen’s efforts include seniors Ben Chesnut, Jeff Eichenholz, Aidan Kirksey, Will McNamara, Patrick McGee, Lincoln Neely, Hayden Wolf; juniors Peter Addy, Corey Brooks, Greg Kinman, Duncan Smart, Reid Weisberg and sophomores Michael Doorey, Andrew Goodman, Parker Matthews and Jay Park.

Founded in 1925, CSPA is the nation’s oldest organization for scholastic journalists and is headquartered at Columbia University. Sixteen journalism students and adviser Ray Westbrook will attend CSPA’s annual convention this March in New York.