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Hockaday Publications Earn Top Awards
It has been another successful year for Hockaday publications, writers and illustrators. Catherine Jiang received a Gold Key and a Silver Key in the Scholastic Arts & Writing Awards, and Meredith Burk and Stejara Dinulescu received Honorable Mentions;Meredith for Drawing and Illustration, and Stejara for Printmaking.
The Dallas Morning News announced the Annual High School Conference and Competition finalists. This year there is a new format. Instead of having schools compete by size, all schools in the metropolitan area compete against one another, and they will award Gold, Silver and Bronze in each category—making the process more competitive. Winners will be announced on March 26 during the DMN High School Journalism Day. Hockaday finalists include:
- Best Newspaper
- News Reporting: Ashna Kumar
- News Reporting : Jenny Zhu
- Long Feature: Inaara Padani
- Photo Feature: Claire Fletcher
- Illustration Portfolio: Wendy Ho
The Columbia Scholastic Press Association announced the Gold Circle winners for the 2014 yearbooks. The Cornerstones was recognized with:
- Feature writing: Student Life Honorable Mention : Morgan Hurst, “Community Service”
- Organization/Greek writing: Organization/Greek Writing Honorable Mention: Talia Meidan, “Student Council”
- Editors-in Chief – Kendall Ernst & Katya Lopatko received the following awards:
- Cover Design: 3rd Place
- End Sheets: 2nd Place
- Title Page: 1st Place
- Table of Contents: Honorable Mention
- Info graphics: 3rd Place
- Opening and Closing Design: 1st Place
- Division Page Design: 1st Place
- Design Portfolio: 1st Place
The Fourcast and Vibrato received Gold Circle Awards as well.
The Fourcast
- Single feature photograph Commendable Mention Audrey Kim, “Out of the Box,”
- Overall Design Tabloid and News Magazine Format CM. Staff, The Fourcast,
- News Page Design 3rd Place Amy Tao, “Flash Factor Not Worth the Danger,”
- Single Subject News or Special Section Design CM. Tiffany Le, “Friends With Drawbacks,”
- Single Subject News or Feature Package, Design Portfolio of work 1st Place Tiffany Le Computer generated art/illustration 2nd place Kate Cooper, “Totally Spies,”
- Art/illustration: Portfolio of work 3rd Place Kate Cooper,
Vibrato
- Experimental fiction 2nd Place Mary Margaret Hancock, “Peaches,”
- CM. Kendall Ernst, “9,000,001,”
- CM. Mary Margaret Hancock, “Cherry Jello,”
- Table of Contents Page Design 1st Place Mary Margaret Hancock and Taylor Pak, Vibrato, General use of typography throughout magazine 1st Place Staff, Vibrato, Literary single spread page design 1st Place Mary Kate Korinek, “Kamikaze,” CM. Paige Goodman, “Lingerer,”
- Literary Multi-page presentation page design 1st Place Mary Margaret Hancock, “900,000,001”
- Literary portfolio page design 2nd Place Julia Teeter
The Columbia Scholastic Press Association announced the 2015 Crown Awards finalists at the end of December. The Fourcast, Cornerstones and Vibrato are all finalists this year. Crown Awards are the highest recognition given by the CSPA to a student print or digital medium for overall excellence. This year a total of 1,203 newspapers, magazines and yearbooks and digital publications issued during the 2013-2014 academic year were eligible for judging in the 2015 Crown Awards Program. All finalists will receive either a Gold or Silver Crown. The final announcement will be made at the CSPA convention in New York on March 20, 2015 at the CSPA 91st spring convention.
The Hockaday School
Within the private school community, The Hockaday School is an independent college-preparatory day school for girls from grades PK–12 located in Dallas, Texas. Students realize their limitless potential through challenging academic curricula, arts, athletics, and extracurricular programs so that they are inspired to lead lives of purpose and impact.
The Hockaday School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, creed, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or any other status protected by applicable law in the administration of its educational, admissions, financial aid, athletic, and other policies and programs.
The Hockaday School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, creed, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or any other status protected by applicable law in the administration of its educational, admissions, financial aid, athletic, and other policies and programs.