Silhouette

Issue date: 11/2/06 Section: News

Media Credit: Carla Thomlinson Convention Competitors: Students from the Silhouette newspaper entered the September 14 issue of the Silhouette to be judged nationally among other two-year college broadsheet newspapers. Overall, the Silhouette took National Best of Show, second place.

ries added to the frenzied excitement as GC3 Student Media garnered four national awards.

Silhouette staff members, along with more than 2,600 journalists, attended the 85th Annual National College Media Convention in St. Louis Oct. 23-29.

Silhouette newspaper earned 2nd place in Associated Collegiate Press, on-site Best of Show contest for 2-year non-weekly broadsheet newspapers.

"Students in this college should feel very fortunate to have the passion and commitment and the work product that these students put forth," Laura York, student media adviser, said. "It speaks volumes I think for not just GC3 student media, but for the Garden City community overall."

Breakaway magazine seized two Collegiate Best of Design awards. James Merideth's, Cheyenne, Wyo., Table of Contents design in the "Unconventional" winter issue placed first and Ana Hinojos, Stana Rose, and Taos Myers' all of Garden City, for "Beauty and the B-otch" earned third place in feature design.

"The Best of Design category pits all magazine designers against one another," York said. "So you have two-year competing against four-year [colleges]. To win not only one, but two awards, is astonishing."

Breakaway designs and awards are published in College Media Advisers, 14th edition of "The Best of Collegiate Design."

Along with the success of student media, York was named Distinguished Two-Year Adviser of the Year Award.

Stacy Sparks, York's undergrad adviser at St. Mary of the Plains College, said York was commendable of the award because of her many years of advising student publications and important contributions to state and national organizations.

"The theme of my nomination letter was that as a first-year adviser, she revived the newspaper which has been dormant for many years," Sparks, assistant professor of journalism at Southwestern College, said. "I thought that anybody foolish enough and ambitious enough to launch a project like that deserved some attention and some recognition from her peers."

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