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Contact: Logan Aimone, executive director, (612) 625-7359
National Scholastic Press Association appoints members to Board of Directors, Finance Committee
MINNEAPOLIS (October 1, 2008) – The Board of Directors of the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) has appointed two new members to its Board of Directors and an outside adviser to its finance/investment committee. The two new directors will join seven directors. All new members have two-year terms.
Tim Dorway has been principal of Mayo High School in Rochester, Minn., since 2006. He is a former journalism educator, advising the newspaper and yearbook staffs at Park High School in Cottage Grove, Minn., from 1996-2002. He was an assistant principal at Owatonna (Minn.) High School for four years. He earned a B.S. in English language arts from Winona State University and a M.A. and administrative credential from St. Mary’s University. While Dorway was publications adviser, Park High School was nationally recognized twice for its support of the First Amendment. Dorway will serve NSPA’s board in the role of treasurer.
Monica Hill is the director of the North Carolina Scholastic Media Association, based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is also working to establish the North Carolina College Media Association. She previously directed the Alabama Scholastic Press Association. She earned a B.A. in journalism from Auburn University, a M.A. in journalism from the University of Alabama and a M.Ed. from the University of Montevallo. Hill served as vice head and head of the Scholastic Journalism Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
David Therkelsen is currently the executive director of Crisis Connection. From 1978-2006, he served in a variety of senior management roles with the American Red Cross, including CEO of the St. Paul Area chapter. He holds a B.A. in journalism and political science form Metropolitan State University and the University of Minnesota and a M.B.A. from the University of St. Thomas. He also writes, teaches and lectures in journalism and public relations. Therkelsen will participate on NSPA’s Finance and Investment Committee with three members of the Board of Directors.
About NSPA
NSPA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit membership organization headquartered and incorporated in Minnesota. Memberships for middle school, junior high school and high school student media are organized under the Minnesota High School Press Association division of NSPA. Memberships for college, university and professional and technical school student media are organized under the Associated Collegiate Press division of NSPA. Memberships are open to all student media at public and private schools at an annual membership fee.
Each division of NSPA provides journalism education training programs, publishes journalism education materials, provides media critique and recognition programs for members, provides information on developments in journalism and student media and provides a forum for members to communicate with others and share their work. NSPA and its divisions cooperate with other student media associations and other non-student groups and businesses that share its mission to educate and recognize the work of student journalists, to improve the quality of student media and to foster careers in media.
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