Summer 1999 CJF Newsletter

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Summer 1999 CJF Newsletter

Designate Funds

When donating to the Broward Education Foundation, Broward School Board personnel can have their donation be designated to the Culpepper Journalism Foundation. Indicate the CJF on the payroll deduction card and let us know by calling (954) 587-3060.

Leave A Lasting Legacy

Reprinted with permission from the Sun-Sentinel

  1. Prepare a will.
  2. Leave a gift in your will for the charitable organization which made a difference in your life.
  3. Leave a specific dollar amount or a percentage of your assets in your will to your favorite charity.
  4. Consider using assets (such as stocks, bonds, CDs and other investments, rather than cash) for your charitable gift. Such gifts may provide tax savings.
  5. Name your favorite charity as the beneficiary of your individual retirement plan or pension.
  6. Purchase a new life insurance policy naming your favorite charity as the beneficiary.
  7. Name your favorite charity as the beneficiary of an existing life insurance policy.
  8. Remember deceased loved ones with memorial gifts to charity.
  9. Encourage family members and friends to leave gifts to charities in their wills.

1999 Culpepper Journalism Foundation Award Recipients

To help raise the scholastic journalism standards in South Florida, three Broward students received stipends to help them attend summer journalism institutes. Yoleine Dumarsais (Northeast High), Jenya Rhone (Boyd Anderson High) and Beth Stone (South Plantation High) , all earned Culpepper Journalism Foundation Fellowships for 1999.

Comcast Communications funded a special television award which allowed Dumarsais to attend the Summer Journalism Institute at the University of Florida to study television productions. “I not only learned, but I also had the feeling I was in college,” Dumarsais said. “The TV students had to put together an SJI package about all the journalism programs there. Thank you for the fellowship. I hope more students will get to experience what I did!”

Beth Stone attended the UF program along with the CJF alternate Kathleen Pai. Because they will be coeditors next year, they were in the workshop for yearbook editors. “SJI gave us the opportunity to get a head start on our yearbook,” she said. “The experience was rewarding and beneficial to me because I can now go into the school year more confident about this year’s book.”

At the Herff Jones Summer Yearbook Workshop, Jenya Rhone learned technical skills to help produce the yearbook at her school. “I learned there is more to creating a yearbook than just taking pictures and placing captions next to them,” she said. “First I plan to bring in more ideas to improve the yearbook and its staff and to relieve some of the deadline pressure.”

1999 Executive Board Meeting

At the second annual meeting of the CJF, the Executive Board voted to provide another fellowship for the summer of 2000 if the money could be raised. All would go to underclass students: one from South Plantation High, one from another Broward County public high school and a third at large. Comcast Communications will fund a fourth to a television production student.

Eventually the CJF hopes to have enough endowment money to award a fellowship at every high school. The board agreed to encumber $5,000 of the funds for long-term investment by the Broward Education Foundation to earn 10 percent interest. Half of the money would be reinvested and the other half would be available for fellowships.

The board approved Vision and Mission statements which are on the back of this newsletter.

Linda Topping Streitfeld, Broward Editor of the Hometown Herald of the Miami Herald, was welcomed as a new board member. She is a South Plantation alumnus.

The meeting was held April 21, 1999 at the Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale. Eight board members attended and two were available for conference calls.

Where are They Now?

Each CJF Newsletter Features Former Scholastic Journalists

If YOU are a former South Plantation High journalist, please submit your current information!

The following former students are featured in the Summer 1999 Issue Where are They Now? feature. See WHERE your classmates are!

  • Linda Topping Streitfeld, 1977
  • Gail Gedan Spencer, 1980
  • Christina Tucker Semmens, 1986
  • Mica Bredoff, 1988
  • Cheryl Moss, 1988
  • Adam Green, 1989
  • Jim Walter, 1990

For additional information concerning becoming a donor to the Culpepper Journalism Foundation contact:

Culpepper Journalism Foundation
100 S.W. 75 Terrace
Plantation, FL 33317-3205
Phone: (954) 587-3060
FAX: (954) 731-7805
E-mail: ACulpeppe@aol.com

Broward Education Foundation
Broward County Schools
600 S.E. 3rd Avenue
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
(954) 765-6200

Thank you to these contributors through Summer 1999

  • Comcast Communications
  • Marti Levey Cohen
  • Alyce and Lee Culpepper
  • Dante DePanicis
  • Amy Gabelman van Esso
  • Julie J. Herbst
  • Mary and Ray Justice, Jr.
  • Mark and Edie Liner
  • Cheryl Moss
  • John and Elena Pesola
  • Cindy and Tom Renzo
  • Christina Tucker Semmens
  • Bonnie Swinford
    In Memorium
  • Dorothy Cake
  • Mary Christie
  • Dr. William Sarchet
CJF Award Winners South Plantation Journalism Alumnus CJF Board of Directors CJF Newsletter Where are they Now? Donate to the CJF Apply for a CJF Fellowship Alyce Culpepper

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