FACULTY
Kathy Craghead, Mexico HS (Mo.)
Kathy Craghead advised All-American publications for more than 30 years. Craghead was named the 1986 Missouri Journalism Teacher of the Year and is a NSPA Pioneer and JEA Medal of Merit winner. She was also named the 2003 National Yearbook Adviser of the Year.
Craghead has also been named a Dow Jones Special Recognition Adviser. A former board member of JEA, Kathy has been a workshop/seminar speaker in 25 states.
Beth Fitts, Mississippi Scholastic Press Association (Miss.)
Beth Fitts, 2003 Dow Jones National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year and a five-time winner of the Mississippi Adviser of the Year Award, is the director of the Mississippi Scholastic Press Association at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. She advised high school publications for 27 years prior to her taking on the MSPA directorship. Her publications won top state, regional and national awards including NSPA's PaceMaker and All-American, and SIPA's All-Southern and Best in State Award.
Fitts has her master's of journalism and a master's of English, serves as JEA state director and is a member of the SIPA Executive Board. In addition to other awards, she has received the SIPA Distinguished Service Award, the Dow Jones Distinguished Adviser Award, a USA Today All-Star Teacher Team Honorable Mention and has been the Mississippi Teacher of the Year Alternate.
Fitts is a regular speaker at regional and national conventions. She also teaches at numerous summer workshops across the country.
Stephanie Gruber, University of South Carolina Salkehatchie (S.C.)
Stephanie Gruber is the former director of technology and adviser of the student newspaper and broadcast programs at Dorchester Academy.
She also served as secretary for the S.C. Scholastic Press Association.
Gruber is now employed as a computer applications and Web programming instructor for University of South Carolina Salkehatchie in Allendale, S. C.
Nancy Hastings, Munster HS (Ind.)
Nancy Hastings was adviser to the Gold/Silver Crown and Pacemaker Paragon yearbook and Crier newspaper. She taught at Munster HS for 38 years and is a frequent speaker at state and national conferences and summer workshops. She was named JEA's 1997 National Yearbook Adviser of the Year.
Dean Hume, Lakota East HS (Ohio)
A summer workshop speaker at a number of venues across the country, Dean Hume, CJE, advises the Spark newsmagazine at Lakota East High School, Liberty Township, Ohio. Spark is an NSPA Pacemaker and All-American winner, a Quill and Scroll Gallup winner and Columbia Gold Crown winner. A former sportswriter and columnist, Hume has taught news writing and editing at the high school level and advised publications for 28 years. He also severed as an adjunct professor in the School of Journalism at Kent State University for a time. He is a past executive director of the Journalism Association of Ohio Schools at Ohio State University and a current board member of the Ohio Scholastic media Association at Kent State University.
A 1993 Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Distinguished Adviser, and a U. S. Department of Education Presidential Scholars Educator, Hume is a member of the NOSPA Adviser Hall of Fame.
David Knight, Lancaster County School District (S.C.)
David Knight is the Public Information Director for the Lancaster County (S.C.) School District. He also teaches broadcast journalism at Lancaster High School. He has served as public information director for USC-Lancaster and as a student newspaper and literary magazine adviser for Spring Valley High School in Columbia, S.C.
While at Spring Valley, the newspaper and individual staff members received awards from state and national associations. The literary magazine also received top state awards. Knight is a favorite at journalism workshops across the country.
Honors Knight has received include SCSPA's Scroggins Award, SIPA’s Distinguished Service Award, CSPA's Gold Key and the 1977 Dent Junior High School Teacher of the Year.
Susan Massy, Shawnee Mission Northwest HS (Kan.)
Susan Massy, a former JEA National Yearbook Adviser of the Year, is the adviser of the Northwest Passage and The Lair, the newspaper and yearbook of Shawnee Mission Northwest High School, both of which regularly receive high honors in national competition. The Lair has been a NSPA Pacemaker winner numerous times and the Passage has won a Pacemaker the past two years.
Massy is currently the Kansas State director for JEA. She is a regular speaker at the national conventions. Massy also teaches at numerous summer workshops across the country.
In 1994, she received JEA’s Medal of Merit and was named Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Distinguished Adviser.
Amy Medlock-Greene, Dutch Fork HS (S.C.)
After advising more than 100 issues of Dutch Fork High School's Renaissance newsmagazine and almost 200 episodes of "The Silver Screen Report," Amy Medlock-Greene has begun her second decade of advising with a renewed passion for scholastic journalism. She and her students are active participants in both the South Carolina and Southern Interscholastic Press Associations and hold multiple positions on both organizations’ boards.
Named SCSPA's Reid H. Montgomery Adviser of the Year in 2008, Medlock-Greene has also been twice nominated as the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund's National Journalism Teacher of the Year. She has been the recipient of SIPA's Elizabeth Dickey Distinguished Service Award and C.E. Savedge Fellowship. Her experience with SIPA dates back to 1992 when, as a high school senior, she was awarded SIPA's J. Grady Locklear Scholarship to attend the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of South Carolina.
Mark Murray, Arlington ISD (Texas)
After teaching photography at Lamar High School in Arlington, Texas for 12 years, Mark Murray moved to the administration building to assist in managing the technology being implemented in the Arlington public schools. While at Lamar he helped begin the award-winning élan literary and art magazine, named an NSPA Pacemaker, a CSPA Silver Crown and annually recognized as All-Southern by SIPA.
Murray is executive director of the Association of Texas Photography Instructors, an organization made up of photo teachers from art, journalism, industrial technology and vocational curriculum areas – one of the only state organizations of its kind in the United States. He was a founding member of the international Photo Imaging Education Association and served as its first chairperson.
He is the recipient of the JEA Medal of Merit, the NSPA Pioneer Award, the CSPA Gold Key and the TAJE Trailblazer Award. ATPI has also recognized him with their Star of Texas award for his contributions to photo education.
Jake Palenske, NCompass Media, LLC (Texas)
Jake Palenske is the President and CEO of NCompass Media, a Dallas-based
converged media company. He co-directed the 2006 JEA Austria workshop and
was also co-director of the 2007, 2008 and 2009 European Exposure workshops.
He's instructed and spoken at scholastic journalism conventions and
workshops across the nation, including the Columbia Scholastic Press
Association fall, spring and summer conferences and workshops, the Carolina
Journalism Institute and the Poynter Institute Summer Workshop. He received
the SIPA Elizabeth B. Dickey Distinguished Service Award in 2009.
Tamela Watkins, Wando HS (S.C.)
Tamela Watkins has been the Tribal Tribune adviser for 25 years at Wando High School in Mt. Pleasant, S.C. The Tribal Tribune has won various state, regional and national awards, including the prestigious National Scholastic Press Association Pacemaker Award in 2009. As a former sports reporter herself, she loves sports and the art of covering them effectively and creatively.
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