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East’s Tim Shedor named Kansas HS Journalist of the Year

March 8, 2010

Senior Tim Shedor from Shawnee Mission East High School has been named the Kansas 2010 High School Journalist of the Year. Shedor is the co-editor-in-chief of East’s award-winning newspaper, The Harbinger. “I do journalism because I have not found a class that can teach me, reprimand me, and correct me as quickly as journalism can,” Shedor wrote in the essay that accompanied his voluminous JOY application. Shedor has been on the Harbinger staff since his sophomore year, when he first caught adviser Dow Tate’s... 

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