Student Publications Bring Home State Awards!

ommack High School's newspa-

C per, The Courant, and yearbook,
Crossroads, each won awards in the
2009 Empire State Scholastic Press
Association's Annual Student Jour-
nalism competition.
For the first time, Crossroads
placed in six categories in addition
to receiving an overall state rating of
Silver. The 2009 edition titled "Meta-
morphosis" received five individual
awards: Bronze Awards for Best
Cover and Endsheet design, for Best
Theme Presentation, and for Best
Feature Photograph (Photographer:
Morissa Glatman, Senior), a Gold and
a Bronze award for Best Copy Port-
folio (Writers: Zack Feldman, Mary
Palmer and Sarah Corey, Juniors).
For the fourth year in a row The Special Event Coverage: Shalini formed"
Courant received a Gold Award/All Pammal (Class of 2009), Mary Gold Award Layout and Typogra-
New York rating. In addition, the publi- Palmer and Zack Feldman, "Holi- phy: Tammy Kim (Class of 2009),
cation received 11 individual awards: day Special" and Elyssa Sternberg, "Features
Best Editorial Page Honorable Sports Feature Honorable Men- Double Trucks"
Mention: Alexandra Kranidis tion: Chris Balestras (Class of Gold Award News Story: Shalini
(Class of 2009) 2009) "The recruitment process: Pammal, "Absence totals soar
Gold Award Feature Story: Ka- Playing a sport in college" around mid-week holidays"
tie Maronski, "On a typical after- Sports News Honorable Mention: Silver Award News Story: Elyssa
noon, two students gave America Chris Balestras (Class of 2009) Sternberg, "High school loses
a wake up call" "Levine Signs with Yale" some of its 'honor"
• Gold Award In Depth Cover- Sports News Honorable Mention: Silver Award News Story: Jackie
age: Tammy Kim (Class of 2009) Amy Lewis (Class of 2009) "Right Salo, "School budget makes the
"Technology Double Truck" up their alley: Girls bowling team cut."