Please join the JEA Awards Committee in congratulating our spring 2013 honorees:

2013 Linda S. Puntney Teacher Inspiration Award

Candace Perkins Bowen, MJE, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio

2013 Rising Stars

Angela Banfield, CJE, Coronado High School, Colorado Springs, Colo.
Colleen Bennett, CJE, Oak Ridge High School, Orlando, Fla.
Keith Carlson, CJE, Naperville Central High School, Naperville, Ill.
Tara Stepanek, CJE, Parkway Central High School, Chesterfield, Mo.
Anthony Whitten, CJE, Westfield High School, Chantilly, Va.

These honorees will be recognized during the Saturday adviser luncheon at the JEA/NSPA Spring National High School Journalism Convention in San Francisco on April 25-28.

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