Join The Tiger Times Staff in 2011!

During the past three years, I have been a member of the Fleetwood Area High School newspaper, The Tiger Times. For the past two years, I have been a primary editor for the paper. In that time, I have worked with Mrs. Nancy Mellon and Mr. Zachary Houp to create the newspaper that you are all privileged enough to receive at no expense. To be perfectly honest, it has been my most favorite class of my high school career.

In Journalism, the class in which Tiger Times reporters are enrolled, you are free to write about anything and everything that is newsworthy, using your own writing style and having fun at the same time. Every member of the newspaper staff has his or her writing displayed in both the paper and the website, TheTigerTimes.com, which was a recent addition to the club made by the new advisor, Mr. Houp. This is Houp’s first year, and he has many ideas for the future of the newspaper.

“I want every home in the school district, even those without school-age children, to regularly see either the website or a print edition of our newspaper,” says Houp.  “I consider it to be a community and district newspaper.  The fact that it is written and produced by FAHS students makes it more unique but no less relevant to everyone in the area.”

“Journalism gives me the opportunity to spend time with the best teacher in this school,” says Curtis Ryan, who is also the treasurer of the newspaper.

Ryan has been in enrolled in Journalism for the past two years and served as the vice president last year.

A newcomer to the paper, senior Chad Dymeck, added, “Writing for the newspaper has given me an opportunity to expand my horizons and try something new.”

The Tiger Times is an opportunity of which students should take advantage. If you want to work in a writing, photography, or news field someday, taking this class will strengthen your résumé and credentials. Even if you are not interested in those fields, taking journalism would be an enjoyable class to take while still expanding your English skills.

As the newspaper grows, it will need more and more writers and viewpoints. To have your voice heard, your opinions expressed, and your words read, join The Tiger Times staff of the 2011-12 school year by signing up for Journalism during the upcoming months of course scheduling.

You won’t regret it.