2000 Committee Meetings
Summary of the Dec. 7,
2000, Meeting
The New Jersey Newspaper in
Education committee met at noon on Thursday,
December 7, at the New Jersey Press Association
headquarters in West Trenton.
Committee members present were:
Annette Bementre-Walter, Burlington County Times,
Willingboro; Linda Cammarata, The Daily Record,
Parsippany; Sherry Cole, The Record, Hackensack;
Cynthia Forster, The Record, Hackensack; Wendy
Halle, The Courier News, Bridgewater; Harry
"Buddy" Hart, The Courier-Post, Cherry
Hill; Milli Kerner, The Times of Trenton; Melissa
Edwards, Princeton Packet; Liza Mattison, The
Express-Times, Easton; Jackie Mickelburgh, The
Star-Ledger, Newark; Shirley Sasor, Hunterdon
County Democrat, Flemington; Jeanne Schexnider,
Asbury Park Press, Neptune; Howard Scott, Twin
Visions Publications, Newark; Beverly Seitz, The
Daily Record, Parsippany; Anne Sculley-Carrell,
The Courier-Post, Cherry Hill; Karen Theer, Home
News Tribune, East Brunswick; Marian Wait, The
Daily Journal, Vineland; Amy Winter; The Daily
Journal, Vineland. Also present by invitation was
Irma Getz, NIE Consultant, Cherry Hill.
Tom Engleman, director of the
New Jersey Press Foundation, welcomed the
committee to the NJPA headquarters, distributed
minutes from the October meeting and outlined the
cost of the NIE display at the NJEA convention on
November 9-10. Total cost for the display,
including booth, table, chairs and electricity
was $997.40. Cost for publication of 3,000 NIE
Committee booklets was $939. Cost of the New
Jersey NIE directory leaflet was $1,007. Total
cost was $3,143.40.
Cynthia Forster and Shirley
Sasor co-chaired the meeting.
A discussion was held about the
necessity for committee by-laws and the members
set up the following subcommittees:
- Bylaws: Antonette
Bementre-Walter, chair; Melissa Edwards,
Jeanne Schexnider, Wendy Halle.
- Financial Development:
Beverly Seitz, chair; Buddy Hart, Amy
Winter.
- Special Events and
Programs: Buddy Hart, chair; Jackie
Mickelburgh, Karen Theer, Mili Kerner,
Howard Scott, Wendy Halle.
- Public Relations/Advocacy:
Milli Kerner, chair; Cynthia Forster,
Beverly Seitz, Melissa Edwards, Jeanne
Schexnider.
- Curriculum Development:
Liza Mattison, chair; Melissa Edwards,
Irma Getz, Anne Sculley-Carrel.
The subcommittees agreed to
formulate ideas and report to the whole committee
at the next meeting. Cynthia Forster distributed
sample by-laws from statewide NIE organizations
in Pennsylvania and Connecticut for the
information of the members.
The members decided the spring
special event would be to provide promotional
material for the national NIE Week celebration,
scheduled for March 5-9, 2001. While materials
are available from the NAA Foundation, members
decided to purchase those individually. Antonette
Walter suggested creating a one-page item that
would focus on a lighthouse in the middle,
imparting curriculum ideas in four subject areas.
These would include language arts, social
studies, math and science. Room would be left for
the statewide committee logo and an individual
newspaper logo. This item could be reproduced as
either a flier or an in-paper insert. Sharon Cole
volunteered to produce this item and distribute
it to member newspapers in time for NIE Week.
The members voted against doing
a statewide activity for Read Across America
because of the lack of time.
Howard Scott noted the need for
more information about running an NIE program
from the perspective of a weekly publication. It
was decided that this outreach would be covered
under the Public Relations/Advocacy subcommittee.
Members voted to allow Scott to receive 200
copies of the NAA booklet, "Teaching with
the Newspaper."
Shirley Sasor compiled and
distributed a survey for member organizations
about the content of their NIE programs. These
are to be returned at the next meeting, which is
scheduled for Thursday, February 1, 2001, at the
NJPA headquarters. It was suggested that the
meeting time be extended to begin at 11 a.m. to
allow more business time.
The meeting was adjourned at
2:30 p.m.
Summary
of the October 5, 2000, Meeting
The New Jersey Newspaper in
Education committee met at noon on Thursday,
October 5, at the New Jersey Press Association
headquarters in West Trenton.
Committee members present were:
Burlington County Times (Gloria Bowser and
Antonette Walter), Home News Tribune (Karen
Theer), Hunterdon County Democrat (Shirley
Sasor), The Daily Record (Beverly Seitz), The
Record (Cynthia Forster). Also present were NIE
Consultant Irma Feld Getz of Cherry Hill and Tom
Engleman, director of the New Jersey Press
Foundation.
Tom Engleman welcomed the
committee to the NJPA headquarters, opened the
meeting and ask the committee members present to
elect a committee chair.
Cynthia Forster from The Record
and Shirley Sasor from the Hunterdon County
Democrat volunteered to be co-chairs of the
committee for the first year. Their terms of
office will run from October 1, 2000 through
September 30, 2001.
The committee members chose the
large convention display (10 feet wide) provided
by NJPA for the committee's booth at the New
Jersey Education Association convention November
9-10 in Atlantic City. The top line of the
display will read Newspaper in Education.
Immediately below that there will be a heading
"Statewide Committee" and a logo for
New Jersey NIE to be prepared by Karen Theer and
her staff at the Home News Tribune. Below those
two elements will be the nameplates of all of the
newspapers that are members of the NIE committee.
The bottom of the display will read: Commitment
to education, community and the future.
Gloria Bowser agreed to poll
the committee members to arrange times for the
booth to have a committee member present to
answer questions. Tom Engleman agreed to order a
booklet, Teaching with the Newspaper, from the
NAA Foundation, order plastic bags with an NIE
logo printed on the front, and to deliver and set
up the display at the NJEA convention. Cynthia
Forster agreed to assemble activity packets and
Karen Theer agreed to put together a directory of
NIE Committee members to hand out at the
convention. Those two handouts will be printed by
the NJPF. Cynthia Forster also agreed to prepare
a sign-up sheet for educators to register to
receive further information from the committee
and will contact NJEA to arrange to get a table
and chairs for the booth. Antonette Walter agreed
to bring candy and a bowl for the table at the
front of the display.
The committee set its next
meeting for noon on Thursday, December 7, at the
NJPA headquarters in West Trenton. The agenda
items will include: Curriculum Guide,
Read-Across-America Event, NIE Week and Speakers
Bureau. Lunch will be provided by NJPF.
The meeting was adjourned at
2:30 p.m.
Summary
of the July 27, 2000, Meeting
The First Meeting of the Statewide NIE Committee
Newspaper in Education
coordinators from nine newspapers met on July 27
in West Trenton to organize a Newspaper in
Education Committee of the New Jersey Press
Foundation.
Foundation Director Tom
Engleman said, "Our role (at the Foundation)
will be to help you start something that will
benefit the entire industry in our state and
achieve long-range goals rather than short-term
goals."
The newspapaer representatives
agreed that the committee's mission will be:
"To advance New Jersey newspapers as an
educational tool."
Susan Morgan, diversity and
educational outreach director of the Pennsylvania
Newspaper Association, and Ron Bonadonna,
president of the Garden State Scholastic Press
Association, opened the meeting, suggesting
several approaches the newspapers could take at
the start of a statewide initiative.
Two specific goals were
discussed and approved by the committee as a step
toward a more comprehensive mission statement and
committee objectives:
- Develop educational
materials and resources for life-long
learning by using the newspaper as an
instructional tool in New Jersey schools.
- Help newspapers integrate
the NIE mission throughout the paper.
The committee agreed on three
projects:
- Sponsor a Newspaper in
Education booth at the New Jersey
Education Association convention in
November in Atlantic City.
- Develop and distribute one
curriculum guide that meshes with the
State Department of Education's social
studies curriculum.
- Write monthly columns in inPRINT
to describe the benefits of Newspaper in
Education Programs.
Other ideas for future programs
included developing special sections of the
newspaper that tie into the public school
curriculum, operating NIE workshops for teachers
and finding a way to increase NIE efforts at the
high school level.
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