Journalists and journalistic jargon ruled Thursday as high school journalism students met in the auditorium to talk shop.
Participating in the second annual high school journalism workshop, approximately 200 high school students and their sponsors registered at 9 a.m.
The annual workshop is designed to acquaint the students with the fields, various phases, and jargon of the field of journalism and to bring in experts to discuss various aspects of the fields, according to KC News Director Bill Hughes.
Beginning at 9:30, the program featured Richard T. Bentley, general manager of the Petty newspaper, who spoke on grooming of the editors in journalism; national editorial award winner Robert Fisher, coach and publisher of the Corsicana. Review, New Observer, who discussed editorial writing; and Rudolph Gandhi, director of public relations at Southern State College, Magnolia, Ark., a former sports editor who talked on sports writing.
Other platform guests were Miss Patricia Nickels, assistant editor of the TC Kennel and an employee at the Texarkana Gazette, and Joe Norton, feature writer at the Shreveport Times. In luncheon, Kennel editor and host of the meeting welcomed all the presses and Texarkana College.
The Wayne Roe Singers, a quartet who sing, pop, quartet and spirituals entertained the high school staff. The group is composed of Wayne Roe, Jim Hickey, Mary Beth Dugan and David Osborne.
Last year the workshop drew about 185 students and not all.
Included among the high schools attending the workshop are: Ashdown, Nash, Texarkana, Avery; Texas; Dunbar G; Texarkana; Garland, Ark; Hooks; Leary; Lewisville, Ark; Liberty-Eylau; New Boston; Atlanta; Texas High; Texas; Pleasant Grove; Hooks Bivins.
Hughes said that he felt the workshop was well-received, would contribute to the students of the high school journalistic staff and their right to good learning.