Journalism is an elective class in Ike and has history throughout the years. Journalism would start within Eisenhower high school when the Eisenhower newspaper would first come out. The newspaper would consist of talking about the school’s new campus, the student parking lot, football dance, and Federal survey cards being due. Over time, the school’s Journalism would publish many things, such as: school ground changes, school events, students, and school achievements such as the Azurettes winning the float prize. There would even be a drawing for the newspaper of October 30th, 1959.
In more recent years, Journalism has improved more and more, both with quality and production. While the school would still use newspapers back in the early 2000’s, the school would receive advertisements and get paid by putting those advertisements in the school newspaper. The school would receive money from the companies that gave the ads, the school would get paid from $200-$500. Though, if the school didn’t get the article turned in on time: the school would lose money from the companies that sold the ads due to that school would lose money from the companies that sold the ads due to the school not getting turned in on time. However, in more recent years the school has stopped using ads due to the computers using articles to publish school news.
The Journalism class had stopped being an Elective class for a while. A new Adviser for Journalism was needed. The former Adviser for Journalism was Chad Rickard, who was the Adviser for ten years. Before he would become the adviser of Journalism, Chad Rickard states he “Felt unqualified” before becoming the Adviser for Journalism. Despite this, he still had become the Adviser for Journalism and taught many kids and loved spending time with them. Many of them would grow to be better writers because of Journalism. Chad Rickard would say that time with the students was, “It was good times teaching the kids the human aspect of it.” In fact, an article published during Chad Rickard’s time as Adviser called “Journalism: To Know and Be Known” goes into more depth about this quote. Over all, Chad Rickard helped many students grow both in writing skills and speaking skills. Advice Chard Rickard would give to Journalism students and new Journalism students would be, “To recognize every human wants to know and be known.”
Nowadays, Journalism is still an Elective class in Ike today: producing articles and strengthening students in writing and social skills.
