Post Convention Thoughts: Let Me Know If I Can Help

Diana Hadley

The flurry of October activities leading up to the 2011 convention have evolved into memory links on the IHSPA website. You can visit the photos, multimedia projects and contest results by clicking here. But remember that IHSPA services and activities continue throughout the year.

I continue to help advisers and their staffs plan local/regional activities on a variety of topics. Sometimes I help staffs mediate conflicts with administrators, and sometimes I just share some time with advisers and/or students to discuss common issues in the world of high school journalism.

A true story I shared at the convention advisers meeting:

After a recent on-site workshop that was scheduled at the school for the entire day, the adviser asked the yearbook students if they thought the day was worthwhile.

They said they thought it was. Whew!

Then one of the students asked how much I charged, and the adviser replied, “Nothing.”

To which the student said, “She was really worth nothing.”

I can be worth nothing to others too. Just let me know how I can help.