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CSPA James Frederick Paschal Award Recipients

The James Frederick Paschal Award is presented by the Columbia Scholastic Press Advisers Association for outstanding service to a state scholastic press association.

Each year, the Columbia Scholastic Press Advisers Association honors a state or regional school press association official who has distinguished themselves in the field. The James Frederick Paschal Award, named for the late director of the Oklahoma Interscholastic Press Association and former editor of the CSPAA Bulletin, is presented at Columbia University in New York during the annual spring convention in March.

Recipients

1987 Wilma T. Taylor, Indiana High School Press Association

1988 Elizabeth B. Dickey, Southern Interscholastic Press Association

1989 Robert P. Knight, Missouri Interscholastic Press Association

1990 Bobby F. Hawthorne, Interscholastic Press League Conference

1991 Mary P. Arnold, Iowa High School Press Association

1992 William D. Downs, Arkansas High School Press Association

1993 C. Marshall Matlock, Empire State School Press Association

1994 Bruce E. Konkle, South Carolina Scholastic Press Association

1995 Julie E. Dodd, Florida Scholastic Press Association

1996 Ken Tilley, Virginia High School League

1997 Virginia Keimel Dixon, Pennsylvania Scholastic Press Association

1998 Cheryl Pell, Michigan Interscholastic Press Association

1999 Linda Fritz-Glomski, Great Lakes Interscholastic Press Association

2000 John Hudnall, Kansas Scholastic Press Association

2001 Kay Phillips, North Carolina Scholastic Media Association

2002 Laura Schaub, Oklahoma Interscholastic Press Association

2003 Candace Perkins Bowen, Ohio Scholastic Media Association

2004 Helen Smith, New England Scholastic Press Association

2005 Jane Blystone, Pennsylvania School Press Association

2006 Margaret "Peggy" Gregory, Arizona Interscholastic Press Association

2007 Monica Hill, North Carolina Scholastic Media Association

2008 Steve O'Donoghue, California Scholastic Journalism Initiative

2009 Jeanne Acton, Interscholastic League Press Conference (Texas)

2010 Karen Flowers, South Carolina Scholastic Press Association (SCSPA)

2012 Beth Fitts, Mississippi Scholastic Press Association (MSPA)

2014 Meredith Cummings, Alabama Scholastic Press Association (ASPA)

2016 Joe Humphrey, Florida Scholastic Press Association {FSPA)

2018 Leslie Dennis, Scholastic Media Organizations in the School of journalism and Mass Communications at University of South Carolina