Adviser Update Winter 2014

Adviser Update DOW JONES NEWS FUND Copyright © 2014 Dow Jones News Fund, Inc. WINTER 2014 VOLUME 54, NUMBER 3 Inside https://www.Newsfund.org Be a journalism rock star Review ‘Searchlights and Sunglasses’ Page A12 f my ancy yellow Update photo by Bradley Wilson By Jim Streisel DJNF TOY yet, like us on Facebook. Really. You should.  We play all over the Indianapolis area from bars and nightclubs to American Legion posts to restaurants and festivals. Along the way, we’ve met some pretty interesting people.  And for me, I guess my love of performing never left. Playing music is an outlet for me, a creative path. It’s a hobby. Some people collect stamps — my dad, for example. Some people build model airplanes. I do this.  But today’s presentation isn’t really See ROCK STAR on page 2A Tinker Tour Fall 2013 Pages C1-C8 P01.V52.I4 I wasn’t always going to be a journalism teacher. In high school, I wasn’t a member of my school’s newspaper or yearbook staff. Instead, I participated on the speech team. I was in the show choir. I performed in future, unless, of course, I win the lottery, in which case, there will be a job opening soon.  But there’s a side of me — a creative side — that never really left ever since those performance days of yesteryear. Some of you know this side of me.   I’m in a band, technically, a musical duo. We call ourselves The Dead Squirrels, and we play cover tunes from artists like Jason Mraz to Tom Petty to John Mayer. We’ve got a growing list of original tunes, too.   Feel free to read about us at TheDeadSquirrels.com or, better black Editor’s note: The following is taken from the text of the speech News Fund’s 2013 Teacher of the Year Jim Streisel delivered at the Advisers’ Luncheon at the JEA/NSPA Convention in Boston in November. musicals. I was a class officer.  Bottom line, I loved to perform. I loved the feeling I got from being on stage in front of an audience. I loved the energy. I loved the satisfaction I felt from working on something and seeing it come to fruition.   Fast-forward about 25 years. This is me today. A mild-mannered journalism teacher for the past 19 years at the same school in the conservative Midwest. I’ve been working with the HiLite staff and its subsequent offshoots for most of those 19 years, and I expect that journey to continue at least into the foreseeable cyan Blogging It’s all connected Pages B1-B8 magenta SPEECH — News Fund National Journalism Teacher of the Year Jim Streisel tells his Advisers’ Luncheon audience at the JEA/NSPA National Convention in Boston about his creative side.