2008 Woodie Awards
Final Editors Comment
Michael Hamann
Issue date: 4/21/06 Section: Opinion
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I wasn't even a student here when I picked up Horizons for the first time. My family and I happened to be spending the weekend in Prescott over Christmas break and we decided to stop by campus to check it out. Ever since I was seven years old, I knew I wanted to be a pilot.
My parents bought me Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.0 for our computer. My simulated first flight departed Merrill C. Meigs Field in Chicago, Ill. in a Cessna 182RG. I departed the airport using the keyboard to control the aircraft and made a right-hand traffic pattern around the field. On final approach I flew too low and crashed into Lake Michigan.
Since that day I knew I was going to fly airplanes for a living. In fourth grade while working on a future career report, I stumbled upon Embry-Riddle. Years later I was sleeping in the Village at the 2000 Flight Expo (Echo flight). Three years later I moved in with my freshman roommates Chad, Dan, Jim, Joe, and Sam.
I joined Horizons at the beginning of the fall semester. When I signed up at the fall club fair, I discovered that I would be the only person on staff with journalism experience. In high school, I was a reporter/photographer/director for my high school's closed circuit television news program and had two columns published in the Arizona Republic.
It was here that I met our present News Editor Andrew Polgreen and Managing Editor Marissa Lentoswki. We all spent time as office assistants doing busy work and sometimes homework to pass the time.
In a blink of an eye here I am writing my final editor's comment. Some 36 issues of Horizons later, I finally write my "retirement" comment on page C5, joining the ranks of Charles Miller, Diane Jacoby and Kyle Szary as former Editor in Chief of Horizons Newspaper.
I have sincerely enjoyed my time with the newspaper and on this campus. Some of the people I have met through all avenues of this school are my best friends. Relationships come and relationships go, but the ones that stick around are truly the greatest.
Every member of Horizons deserves credit for how the newspaper has changed this year. Unless you're on Horizons, you never really understand how much work goes into creating a large publication that is distributed on campus and nationally to subscribers. Hours of work go into researching, reporting, photographing, designing and editing every issue. Don't forget that we're not communications majors. We're putting together Horizons and attending classes focusing on aviation or security.
Thank you to everyone that I have contacted either directly or indirectly over the past three years. I know that in the next year, Andrew Polgreen will help Horizons grow and improve.
Well, I think that about does it for me as Editor in Chief. Good luck and congratulations class of 2006!
My parents bought me Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.0 for our computer. My simulated first flight departed Merrill C. Meigs Field in Chicago, Ill. in a Cessna 182RG. I departed the airport using the keyboard to control the aircraft and made a right-hand traffic pattern around the field. On final approach I flew too low and crashed into Lake Michigan.
Since that day I knew I was going to fly airplanes for a living. In fourth grade while working on a future career report, I stumbled upon Embry-Riddle. Years later I was sleeping in the Village at the 2000 Flight Expo (Echo flight). Three years later I moved in with my freshman roommates Chad, Dan, Jim, Joe, and Sam.
I joined Horizons at the beginning of the fall semester. When I signed up at the fall club fair, I discovered that I would be the only person on staff with journalism experience. In high school, I was a reporter/photographer/director for my high school's closed circuit television news program and had two columns published in the Arizona Republic.
It was here that I met our present News Editor Andrew Polgreen and Managing Editor Marissa Lentoswki. We all spent time as office assistants doing busy work and sometimes homework to pass the time.
In a blink of an eye here I am writing my final editor's comment. Some 36 issues of Horizons later, I finally write my "retirement" comment on page C5, joining the ranks of Charles Miller, Diane Jacoby and Kyle Szary as former Editor in Chief of Horizons Newspaper.
I have sincerely enjoyed my time with the newspaper and on this campus. Some of the people I have met through all avenues of this school are my best friends. Relationships come and relationships go, but the ones that stick around are truly the greatest.
Every member of Horizons deserves credit for how the newspaper has changed this year. Unless you're on Horizons, you never really understand how much work goes into creating a large publication that is distributed on campus and nationally to subscribers. Hours of work go into researching, reporting, photographing, designing and editing every issue. Don't forget that we're not communications majors. We're putting together Horizons and attending classes focusing on aviation or security.
Thank you to everyone that I have contacted either directly or indirectly over the past three years. I know that in the next year, Andrew Polgreen will help Horizons grow and improve.
Well, I think that about does it for me as Editor in Chief. Good luck and congratulations class of 2006!
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