Blake Beat needs donations to continue publishing
As many of you know, The Blake Beat is currently ranked as the best high school newspaper in Maryland (by the journalism department at Towson State University) and as the best high school newspaper in America (by the Association of Educational Publishers and Weekly Reader). However, if we were being ranked on our financial well being—at least so far this school year–we would be rated quite a bit lower, especially since we are hemorrhaging money at an alarming rate and lost about $1,500 in publishing our most recent issue last week.
As a stopgap measure, we are setting up a page in our December issue that will wish holiday greetings to the Blake community. We’d love to add your family’s name to that page for a mere $5 donation (note for the record: we’ll accept a donation of any amount, but we would be grateful for your support of us for $5).
To donate your $5 to The Beat (check payable to James Hubert Blake High School) on or before December 1, please send your family name as you would like it to appear (The Thracklebush family, for example, or The family of Horatio Thracklebush) to Journalism teacher Kevin Keegan, James Hubert Blake HS, 300 Norwood Road, Silver Spring, Maryland 20905. Thanks in advance for your support of my students’ efforts.
Posted: November 18th, 2009 under Donations requested.