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Echo Yearbook Staffers Receive #8
“Best in Show” at Nationwide Scholastic Journalism Conference

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Grand Blanc High School’s Echo Yearbook is built on a long and rich history at Grand Blanc Community Schools. In early November, four yearbook staffers attended a national journalism convention in Chicago, Illinois. They joined with over 6300 scholastic journalists from around the country at the JEA/NSPA Fall National High School Journalism Convention.

 Lucas Hartwell, a sophomore and current Photo Editor, earned a top award for his photo story and captions from the Westboro Baptist Church protest/counter-protest that took place at Grand Blanc High School on Homecoming day in October. There were only 3 Superior Awards given in this category, so this was an impressive achievement.

The 2017-18 Echo yearbook staff earned was #8 in the “Best in Show” Yearbook category. This, too, is a triumph, as our yearbook staff has only earned a “Best in Show” award once before, in 2016.

Attendees were able to meet Pete Souza, who was the keynote speaker at the conference. Souza is a freelance photographer in the Washington, D.C., area and professor emeritus of visual communication at Ohio University. Souza was the chief official White House photographer for President Barack Obama and the director of the White House photo office. As a freelancer, his photographs have been published in magazines and newspapers around the world including on the covers of Life, Fortune, Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report. Souza autographed a classroom copy of his book, Obama: An Intimate Portrait, for the yearbook staff.

The staff would like to thank the Grand Blanc Educational Foundation for helping students afford the trip to Chicago.


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