Fall 2012 award winners announced

The Journalism Education Association has announced the 2012 winners of its annual individual fall awards. The recipients will be honored at the Fall JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention in San Antonio, Nov. 15-18.

Robert Greenman, a retired publications adviser and author from New York, won the Carl Towley Award – considered JEA’s highest honor — given each year to the organization’s member whose work has been of superior value to the JEA.

Carl Towley Award

• Robert Greenman, retired publications adviser and author, New York, N.Y.

Administrator of the Year

• Susan Enfield, superintendent of schools, Highline Public Schools, Burien, Wash.

Medal of Merit Award

• Vincent DeMiero, media adviser, Mountlake Terrace (Wash.) High School
• Mary Kay Downes, MJE, media adviser, Chantilly (Va.) High School
• Peggy Gregory, CJE, language arts specialist, Dysart Unified School District, Surprise, Ariz.

Friend of Scholastic Journalism

• The Sacramento (Calif.) Bee
• William Dussling, board member, Township High School District 214, Arlington Heights, Ill.
• Phyllis Fletcher, KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio, Seattle, Wash.
• William Macfadyen, founder and publisher of noozhawk.com, Santa Barbara, Calif.
• Bobby Malish, Canon USA, Dallas, Texas

Lifetime Achievement Award

• Sharleen K. Ball, Omaha, Neb.
• Sam Bidleman, Bloomsburg, Pa.
• Edward Bray, Canon City, Colo.
• Phyllis Cooper, Asheville, N.C.
• Jill Farkas, CJE, Window Rock, Ariz.
• Sue Farlow, CJE, Asheboro, N.C.
• Cornelia Harris, Charlotte, N.C.
• Janice L. Hatfield, CJE, Mount Morris, Pa.
• Yvonne Johnson, Mesa, Ariz.
• Sheila Jones, CJE, Littleton, Colo.
• Joy Lessard, Ellensburg, Wash.
• Susan Miller, Greensboro, N.C.
• Marie Parsons, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
• Janet K. Raddish, Omaha, Neb.
• Steve Slagle, CJE, Walnut, Calif.
• Patricia Turley, Junction City, Ore.
• Kathleen D. Zwiebel, CJE, Pottsville, Pa.