By:Stephanie Nebeker

Stephanie Nebeker

4862 Lorraine WayOrlando FL, 32812

nebekerclan@msn.com(360)609-8935

May 25, 2011

Renee BurkeYearbook Advisor2000 S. MillsOrlando, Fl 32816

Dear Ms Burke:

I know that the Legend yearbook has been looking for a new People section editor. If you are looking for some-one with journalism back round, a passion for writing and who will get the work done then the search is over. I have attached my resume for you to take a look at. I believe I have these qualities and the resume´ will show you an example of all the things you are looking for.

I understand that I have only been a staffer on the Legend yearbook for one year. Some may see this as a dis-advantage but I see it more as a great trait. When I became a staffer I applied for the position with out taking a year of Journalism 1 and this did not hurt my performance at all. In the past year I have stayed on top of every-thing expected of me and I have met every expectation. Peoples section editor would be another opportunity that I would be able to succeed in. I believe in a face to face conversation and interview with you would prove I am more than qualified.

My year experience in yearbook has taught me about Indesign, designs, and journalism writing and editing. These skills would be beneficial to the Peoples section editor to have. Another thing I have learned as a youth leader at my church is that I have learned just that, how to be a leader. I have proven that I am dedicated and can get people interested and passionate about what task they have to face.

Even though you can see my qualifications on the resume´ I believe in would be more beneficial for you to have a talk with me in person. I will not disappoint you.

Respectfully yours,

Stephanie Nebeker

Enclosed: resume´

STEPHANIE NEBEKER

4862 Lorraine WayOrlando, FL 32812

nebekerclan@msn.com(360) 609-8935

OBJECTIVETo obtain the position of Peoples section editor and learn more about communications and publications

EDUCATIONCompleted three years at Boone High SchoolG.P.A. 3.6.

EXPERIENCEYearbook staff member, Boone High School - Aug 2010 - Present. Wrote yearbook articles and worked with indesign and photoshop

Girls Water Polo, Boone High School - Jan 2009 - May 2011. Worked with a team and overcame hardships as a team

Student Government Assistant, Boone High School - 2009 - 2010

Experience in Adobe Photoshop CS3 and CS5

Proficient in Adobe Photoshop CS3 and CS5

AWARDS, HONORS AND MEMBERSHIPSNational Honor Society - Had to keep above a 3.0 GPA and do five hours or more of service hours every nine weeks

Second Place in Art Festival - I received a second place award for my photography

ince I was younger I have always wanted to be involved in making the yearbook. Making something for years and years peo-ple would look back and remember their wonder years. I have always wanted to do

this but never knew how to get started or in-volved. I moved to Florida and I made it a goal of mine to finally get involved in Yearbook. I applied and got the position of a staffer with out having taken any journalism At the beginning of the year I felt maybe I should have taken Journalism 1 because everyone was using these terms that I have never heard of. Slowly but surely I caught up with what I had to do. When applying for Yearbook I thought it was one person takes pictures and one person writes. I was very interested in the picture taking part. When finding out I had to write real sto-ries, that was not what I expected. Writing has never ever been my strong point but I was deter-mined to succeed even if it meant getting big X’s through my stories. Deadline after dead-line I liked writing stories more. Now they are equivalent or even more like than picture tak-ing. I love journalism. I think the whole pic-ture of it all with the interviewing and de-tailed writing has taught me significantly. My spelling is still not the best but I am more confident in my writing skills than I use to be.

think out of any class I have ever taken I have learned the most in this one class. I have learned more than I ever knew about writing skills than I have in any Eng-lish class. I understand that the format of the an Eng-lish paper is quite different than a yearbook story but grammar wise I have learned more. In other classes you have homework due on a certain day but it is completely different when the deadline is dependent on you. Most

the time I didn’t even care about the grades. I wanted to stay on deadline because I signed up for this and didn’t want people to worry about my unfinished work. The deadlines taught me over all how to be responsible and time management. This will be used in the future in any job I have. I will no longer be given a letter grade but my co. workers or boss will be expecting me to follow through with what I set out to do. Regarding teamwork in the future everyone is going to go through harder teammates to work with than others. This year I learned two different sides of teamwork which with both I have learned something from. First you can’t depend on anyone. Or in a more positive way to say it you have to be flexible enough to pick up your teammates slack. Not everyone is going to have the same work ethics. Second thing I learned is teamwork is impor-tant to be able to do. If you are not patient in a team environ-ment nothing will get done. If everyone tries working together and do their best than working with a team can be very success-ful. When trying to sell ads this year I believe I had more “real life” experience than many high schoolers. I learned how to be told no but to keep on going I learned to talk up the product with out lying and how to talk to new older business people alone. Being determined to sell the ads made it easier to not give up. During the course of the year, having to do interview after interview it was hard to get the perfect quote. I am proud to say I haven’t done made up any quotes and they are all straight from the person. In the future trials and life ethics will be put in front of you and if you start off cheating your way through things it will only get harder. Having done the honest thing all year has made me proud of my work. The dedication I had to put forward this year I think has taught me the most. I learned that it wasn’t just me being ef-fected if I didn’t complete a deadline to my best ability but the editors. My perspective of deadlines has changed from the beginning of the year. In my future I know that deadlines being met will just be expected. They will want them met and to be ac-curate.

he story I did on interesting jobs I consider to be my best work. I think this because it was my first page and I got the most from it. I also think the qualities of the photos and story are my best I have done. My purpose of the page was to

find people with interesting jobs and explain them. The process of doing the page was not easy because I had the whole page done and had to wait for just one person who wouldn’t work with me. This made me stress out and from this I learned to be flexible. I found a different person I could use and it actually turned out better than I had planned. This whole experience helped me on future deadlines.

he page on the Ping Pong Wizard was my piece that could use more work. I don’t think the overall look of the page is as great as it could have been. I learned from this piece that I need to go

more than one time to take pictures of an action filled activity. During the whole deadline I kept putting different pictures as my dominant photo and it was really hard to decide which one to use. If I had more time on this page I would have found a different picture. I don’t want to say it’s an overall bad piece because the story I feel I put all I could into it. It just doesn’t feel the way I expected.

am proud of this photo because it shows action and the reactions of the players when either trying to shoot or getting hit. It

has good elements of composition with depth of field. It brings it forward while the other players in the back you can see are watching the game. The thing that attracts me most to this picture is the other teams player and how he is scrunching down and seeing his leg muscle. VarsityLacrosse_3-23 nebeker

was an asset to the Legend yearbook staff of 2011 and not a burden because I made every deadline. I worked hard to

complete everything and tried not to procrastinate. I believe I brought well written stories and pictures. I was committed to yearbook because I came after school when it was not mandatory or not. I would write stories at home and go do interviews not during school hours. An example of this is on my page about car accidents I couldn’t ever get in touch with a person I needed to interview. I gave her a call and on a Saturday stopped by her house to do the interview

y hardship I faced this year would be unreliable people. I learned from being put in this situation is you can’t count on people. I had a situation where my partner got sick and wasn’t able to come for the

whole week when our deadline had to be met. Not to put blame on her but it was just unexpected. I had to suck it up and step up to the plate. I worked as usual and ended up making deadline. If this were to happen again I would do the same thing but not stress out as much. When you stress about something it just makes it ten times harder. I believe I handled the situation well.

y greatest weakness during the first semester was procrastination. After I realized my weakness I began to work on it. I would

to interviews and body’s before my next deadline really began. My stress level went down after I stopped procrastination and by our last deadline I made it with a day or two to spare. I increasingly saw myself and my abilities improve My work was less rushed and over all a more enjoyable experience.

Y1/ A Negative Plus/ Pg 38-39

chose this piece because when assigned this page I was not looking forward to doing it at all. During

the course of writing it and interviews I began to see the story start to form. I feel the opening paragraph describes how any teenager would feel if they found out they were pregnant. Another thing is all the different sides I got. From the boyfriend, both parents and the teen mom. In the end I believe the over all page but especially the page wound up to be better than I could have imagined.

Y39/ Up, Up and Away/pg 10-11

would like to submit this whole spread about interesting jobs. I

think the photos, layout and thresholded pictures make the page come together. The over all look is eye catching and make you want to read over the story and captions. It was also an enjoyable learning experience while writing it.

Y7/ Lacrosse Page/ Pg10-11

his sidebar added to the page because the quote that was used was well

said and made the page come together. The quote summed up how lacrosse really is in one sentence. It made the people reading the page understand the lacrosse players and how they feel about their sport.

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Gabrielle Figueroa

Sarah FigueroaTravis Finley

Kathryn Fiorelli

Amanda FlemingerGray Floyd

Marie Formica

Rayce FoskettElton Frederick

Sarah Fricke

Shaniece FryeLelah Gainey

Rebecca Galatowitsch

Kaitlyn GallagherCristian GalloHaley GardnerSydney GarlichZachary Garrett

Katelyn GaylordHillary GeigerAnna GentryAustin GentryJoshua Gentry

Nidia GermainCarisa GidelMatthew GiesAnnie GilliamNicholas Glover

Spencer GoerlerTaylor GolatChad GollenKatherine GomezAnthony Gonzalez

Taylor GonzalezGabriel GordonRachael GorodnickNicholas GoshulakSamuel Graham

Laura GrantLogan GravesAlexandria GreenCourtland GreenRyan Grether

5 THINGS

[Not] par ticipating in more activities. I can see at the reunion everyone talking about the clubs they were in and I won’t be able to join in.LouIs EffroN

n STepHaNIe Nebeker

wHaT wIll embarrass

Drooling while asleep in class. KayDENE rIcharDs

[I make] shor t f ilms and videos of my friends. They are improv f ilms.MarTIN MoraN

Taking dumb pictures with my friends because I don’t know what I am going to be when I grow up and it might af fect me. TIffaNy MarIa

Taking hoPE as asenior. ZachEry BrowN

[I am] obsessed with harry Potter right now; he is embarrassing [but] come on, it’s the greatest thing ever.aLExIs sMITh

Skipping school toomuch. It was nice sleeping in, but I should have been at school whenI look back on it.HudSon duFF

you IN 10 yearS?

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1. I’ve been to Tanzina, africa.2. My family had a re”huhn”ion.

4. I had a cockatoo that lived to be 22.3. I like to wakeboard.

5. I’ve participated in over 8 sports.bradley royal

1. I used to wrestle.2. I’m lefthanded.

4. I’m really scared of sharks.3. I love Nike 6.0’s.

5. I’ve been to Ireland.