The School's annual summer journalism workshop was held this year from June 15-21. Students learned from industry professionals and School faculty before producing The Mercury, a 16-page tabloid newspaper.

Special thanks are due to Fred Stickel, publisher of The Oregonian, for ensuring the success of the 1997 Summer High School Journalism Workshop. The Oregonian, through the Newhouse Foundation, provided a generous grant that supported the workshop this year and will carry it forward through 1999.

Thanks are also due the four Oregon newspapers that provided professional mentors during the workshop week. For Grant Butler, Lisa Daniels, Michael Ottey, Osker Spicer and Steve Johnson, the workshop was a repeat performance.

Special thanks go to graduate students Anne Burnett and Kathy Campbell and to chaperones Erica Pereira and Jack Orozco.

Others who helped out behind the scenes were Etta Howard, Maggie Young, Linda Manley and Joyce Brinton of the office staff of the School of Journalism and Communication and Mick Westrick, the School's director of instructional technology.

Participants

Students
Heather Cain, Benson H.S.
Jenny Hsu, Sprague H.S.
Andrea Kezar, Dallas H.S.
Cruz Lopez, Central H.S.
Natalie Lopez, Ontario H.S.
Eric Mashia, Jefferson H.S.
Meliah Masiba, Marshfield H.S.
Karina Morales, Gervais H.S.
Yvonne Ngal, Milwaukie H.S.
Annalisa Perez, Marshall H.S.
Wasim Rahman, Lincoln H.S.
Brandy Rochelle, Churchill H.S.
Angelic Rome, Hermiston H.S.
Rebecca Sanchez, Thurston H.S.
Ana Laura Villalobos, Reedsport H.S.
Mo Young, South Eugene H.S.

Newspapers
Grant Butler, The Oregonian
Clifton Chestnut, The Oregonian
Lisa Daniels, The Oregonian
Beth Hege Piatote, The Register-Guard
Steve Johnson, The Mail Tribune
Gary Nelson, The Mail Tribune
Michael Ottey, The Oregonian
Kaly Soto, The Statesman Journal
Osker Spicer, The Oregonian

University
Steve Asbury
Anne Patrick Burnett
Kathy Campbell
Tim Gleason
Ken Metzler
Ta Liu Jay-E Shih
Kellee Weinhold
John Russial, director