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Tom Winski to receive JEA's Medal of Merit Award will be presented Saturday at Opryland The Journalism Education Association (JEA) will honor Tom Winski of Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia, KY, with its Medal of Merit award during the organization's national convention next month. The award will be presented at a luncheon at Gaylord Opryland in Nashville, TN, Saturday, November 11. JEA's Medal of Merit recognizes educators and other JEA members who have made substantial contributions to JEA and to scholastic journalism. Winski, a Certified Journalism Educator, is one of five individuals around the country selected for this award in 2006. "For 35 years, Tom Winski has been a teacher, adviser and mentor to hundreds of students who have been fortunate to study under his tutelage," wrote Melinda Foys, retired Illinois journalism teacher, in supporting Winski for the award. "Besides manning the front lines in the classroom and publications office, he has also been instrumental in helping to found an organization for advisers named IJEA which links the State of Illinois to it parent group, JEA." Until 2004, when he relocated to Kentucky, Winski was in Illinois as a high school journalism teacher and publications adviser continuously from 1971, except for 1995-97, when he worked in public relations. Winski's contributions range from teaching and advising publications at Monmouth and Morrison high schools, leading students to produce award-winning publications, to working with a group of advisers to pass a student freedom of expression bill. "He was instrumental in helping to get the Illinois General Assembly to support legislation on students press rights," wrote Randy Swikle, JEA State Director for Illinois, in supporting Winski's nomination. "He lobbied state legislators and rallied support for the bill that passed the House 109-4 and the Senate 57-0. Unfortunately, the governor vetoed the bill."Throughout his career, Winski has been a strong advocate of First Amendment rights for high school journalists.+ "Tom was a fantastic mentor," wrote Matthew Johnson, former student, in support of Winski's nomination. "He always seemed to balance wisdom and grace with criticism and challenge. He was an avid defender of free speech, encouraged the pursuit of the controversial stories, and he made us feel like we really were part of something greater even in the cornfields of DeKalb County." On the national level, Winski was the JEA State Director for Illinois, was on the local committee for the 1996 Chicago JEA/NSPA national high school journalism convention, has spoken and judged at numerous JEA/NSPA conventions and has judged for various state, regional and national scholastic journalism contests, including Quill and Scroll, National Scholastic Press Association, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, and Southern Interscholastic Press Association. From 1985 to 1997, he directed the Eastern Illinois University Summer Newspaper Workshop and taught at the Ball State University Summer Journalism Workshops in 1988 and 1989. "Until 1988, we had no central journalism adviser organization in Illinois," wrote Susan Tantillo, fellow Illinois adviser and IJEA Board member, in nominating Winski for the award. "Rather, each university with a scholastic press association and annual conference had its own adviser group. As a result of Tom's efforts - and those of the other founders - we now have a recognized state adviser group that has initiated new programs for students and advisers." Reflecting on the success of the statewide organization and Winski's role in it, Foys wrote: "Winski was a leader who was successful not only in the classroom but also in the state. His role in the founding of IJEA provided a resource strictly for advisers. As a teacher in a small school like Monmouth, Winski helped others like himself who felt they were isolated on tiny islands across the state. He linked them up, especially with the large schools in the northern part of the state. The unification led to stronger journalism programs throughout the state."Winski is also the co-author of "Journalism: Writing for Publication," a journalism textbook published by the Center for Learning and available from the JEA Bookstore. "While he is now teaching at the college level, Tom has had a long and distinguished record in scholastic journalism," wrote James Tidwell, professor and chair of the Department of Journalism, Eastern Illinois University, in support of Winski's nomination. JEA is a national organization of secondary school scholastic journalism advisers and is headquartered at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. This story was posted on 2006-11-08 16:04:43
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