{"id":5281,"date":"2010-05-31T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=5281"},"modified":"2010-05-28T12:32:42","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T17:32:42","slug":"remembering-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2010\/05\/31\/remembering-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering the beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s hard for me to say goodbye.\u00a0 No matter how many times I have to say it, goodbye never gets easier.\u00a0 Leaving the Clarion<\/em> is no different.<\/p>\n

I remember taking my first journalism class at Sinclair Community College.\u00a0 Sandy Hilt gently drilled free speech, free press and free democracy into each of her students\u2019 heads class after class.\u00a0 She spoke quietly but quickly with passion and grace, and I couldn\u2019t help but catch her enthusiasm.<\/p>\n

Neither could some of my classmates.\u00a0 I remember one guy in the back of the class would come up with some of the craziest comments.\u00a0 I especially remember him talking about how Nadya Suleman was inviting a media frenzy if she continued to put herself and her children in the spotlight.\u00a0 At the time I thought he was crazy and even callused, but Joseph Stueve turned out to be right.\u00a0 He also turned out to be my editor this year.<\/p>\n

I remember another guy whose perspective couldn\u2019t be topped.\u00a0 When Sandy would ask us for story ideas, he would say someone should do a story on the longest tenured employee at Sinclair, the oldest athlete on campus or the maintenance workers who kept the campus clean for everyone.\u00a0 Samuel Huist published each of those stories this year.<\/p>\n

Joe has grown from a guy with a knack for sports writing into an editor capable of making split-second decisions while managing calls from school administrators, coaches and staff.\u00a0 Sam, the once reserved staff writer, is now the undisputed king of human interest stories and humorous life columns.\u00a0 I can\u2019t wait to see what happens for both of them as they mature even further in their careers.<\/p>\n

No matter how many stories we wrote we couldn\u2019t have published them without Heather Stamm and Alex Linton.\u00a0 Their creativity, flexibility and dedication have made this year\u2019s paper a sight to behold.\u00a0 I think the five of us made a great team this year, and I will miss each and every one of them.<\/p>\n

Most of all I will miss the paper itself.\u00a0 I feel like this office is my home and this school is my home turf.\u00a0 I have experienced so much of what Sinclair has to offer because of this paper.\u00a0 I have discovered passion through my work at this paper.\u00a0 There\u2019s no way I could ever forget the Clarion\u2019s<\/em> influence on my life.<\/p>\n

With that said, I say my final goodbye to the Clarion<\/em> and its staff.\u00a0 I know when I look back on this, I will not think of this as goodbye.\u00a0 For all of us, this is only the beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s hard for me to say goodbye.\u00a0 No matter how many times I have to say it, goodbye never gets easier.\u00a0 Leaving the Clarion is no different. I remember taking my first journalism class at Sinclair Community College.\u00a0 Sandy Hilt gently drilled free speech, free press and free democracy into each of her students\u2019 heads […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[1271,230,1270,1272,1402,14],"class_list":["post-5281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tartan-news","tag-beginning","tag-clarion","tag-goodbye","tag-joseph-stueve","tag-samuel-huist","tag-sinclair"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5s3vR-1nb","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5283,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281\/revisions\/5283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}