SOUTHWORDS 10 South His;
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May |y. 2(KK)
Graduate makes Maine South proud NEWS Pulitzer prize winner: Patricia Callahan -p.2 Constitution team - p.3 Science Olympiad-p.3
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Broadcasting awards-p.3 -
COMMENTARY
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Mother-p.4 Seinfeld; two years later-p.4 Voices in my head-p.5 End of the year blues-p.6 FEATURES Focusing on excellence-p.7 Focus: Steve Natali-p. 7 Truth and justice-p.8 Social science quiz-p-9 SPORTS Boys tennis and baseball-p.lO South stats -p. 10 Boys track -p. 11 Girls badmiton-p. 11 Boys volleyball and girls track p. 12
Mr Deines with students Ms. Chris Albright and Ms. Patricia Callahan, who graduated in 1989. photo courtesy of Eyrie by Meghan McCall Recently, a graduate from Maine South was involved in a project that was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for breaking-news reporting of their coverage of the Columbine High School tragedy. She is Trish Callahan, who has been working at the Denver Post for four and a half years, and one of her articles was among ten that were sent in with the application for the award. Before taking this position, she attended the Northwestern Medill School of Journalism and graduated with highest hon-
ors in 1993. After she graduated, she won a fellowship with the Henry Luce Foundation. The foundation was started by the man who founded Time Magazine. Every year the foundation chooses fourteen professionals under the age of thirty to work in Asia for a year, and Trish was the only journalist chosen that year. Trish first worked as a joumahst in Thailand. She then worked in several interships at prestigious publications, mcluding the Chicago Tribune for one year as a resident and then she made her move Continued on page 2