Take the journey with her as she shares just a few stories of the Creek HiLife family. I do not have another 30 years in me but I will keep going as long as I am having fun. It is the absolute best job in the universe. I know where most of my former editors are today. I know where they are working, how many children they have and so on. The Creek HiLife continues to grow on a daily basis. HiLifers
have won Pulitzer Prizes, worked at the Boston Globe, Washington Post, Huffington Post and LA Times to name a few. Journalism changes every day so that makes life and teaching very interesting. We keep up with all technology news on a daily basis. Our students have done walk-ons at major universities with just the knowledge they have learned in our room. Recently we were blessed with a brand new Mac lab with 27 inch monitors. We take great care of the gifts that we are given so it will continue our winning tradition. We also have an iPad loaded with the most useful journalism apps. Our keyword is SUCCESS and we get excited about each new happening. New this year we are have made a brand new page just for you-our readers, our 21st century audience. It is easy to remember-http://creekhilife.com Our print issues for many years can be found here http://issuu.com/creekhilife
Creek’s journalism department persists in the winning tradition that makes it one of the most forward-looking programs in the country. Journalism teachers Wynette Jameson and Jan O’Neil traveled to Malibu, California to the Dan Eldon Center for Creative Activism to work with Kathy Eldon and Amy Eldon Turteltaub. Jameson is featured in the 2012 books, Dan Eldon Safari As A Way ofLife by Jennifer New. Jameson was highlighted as well as Down the Mississippi: A Modern Day Huck on America’s River Road by Neal Moore. Moore just visited the Creek journalism classes to speak about the life and times of a citizen journalist and bestselling author before returning to South Africa. Jameson had the book Crossing Paths by Melanie Stinnett dedicated to her by the HiLifer. Jameson is also featured in the book Dog Scratching about rescue dogs. The HiLife continues to bring you news you can use. Staff members are always working to publish their print editions printed at Mirror Publishing in Texas City by Marty Blick. The staff is excited to be working on an award winning edition of the print paper. Creek's HiLife can be found on multiple sites: We have photo albums on the here and a print library here http://issuu.com/creekhilife .We have videos here http://www.youtube.com/user/creekhilife08 on our own youtube channel
*We have a page here https://www.facebook.com/clearcreekhilife/?fref=ts for anyone who wants to keep in touch withCREEK.
*We have twitter to tweet breaking news or just fun facts http://twitter.com/creekhilife
*We have an instagram account we just started for photo shoots to share at creekhilife on instagram. We put stories that may be in print as well on this online paper.
*We were in on the ground floor of the Huffington Post's HighSchool page. HILIFER HALL OF FAME-just a few-too many to post all
Our Long Chu, class of 1989, co-founded Writers in the Schools in Houston, has written an opera performed by the Houston Grand Opera and so much more. A VERY impressive young man. http://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/arts-theater/article/Family-is-at-the-heart-of-Bound-5215134.php -5843257
Our Chris Kirkham, class of 2002, was a paid reporter for the Huffington Post business page. He was then with the Los Angeles Times. He is currently with the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Check him out here http://topics.wsj.com/person/K/chris-kirkham/8387
Our Lee Hutchinson, class of 1998 recently joined the Conde Nast group of publications as an online editor for Ars Technica. His bio is here along with his recent technology articles http://www.arstechnica.com/author/lee-hutchinson
Our Chris Schmidt, class of 2006, is the Communications Coordinator for UIL in the state of Texas http://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismschmidt
Our Sydney O’Drobinak, class of 2009, is a CCISD Communications Specialist. Our Haley Rush, class of 2009, is the newest reporter for station KRQE in Albuquerque, NM http://krqe.com/staff/haley-rush/
HiLifers cover the globe with Nathan Weyer, class of 1990, as acreative director for Frog Design in Amsterdam
Honorary HiLifer Lovetta Conto of Strongheart Fellowship in Liberia is at the Parsons School of Design in Paris. Dixie Hairston 2007 took medical supplies to our orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya. She was also chosen as a representative to the UN to make global changes for good. She works to stop Human Trafficking in the US. Olivia Huynh is a google doodler. http://fortune.com/2015/05/26/artist-sally-ride-google-doodle/
Allie Hinga 2011 http://www.joplinglobe.com/news/local_news/allie-hinga-budding-artist-looking-to-make-her-name-known/article_a3aa2663-b041-552b-bed1-dbe000ed7740.html
Valerie Hellinghausen 2013 is currently at Mizzou and just finished up an internship in Barcelona, Spain and then at Newsday in New York. There really are too many to list so let me end here with a recent Facebook post…
Fun Fact: I graduated from Clear Creek High School in 2008 (DrewWalker) and Mark Jensen, owner of The ABGB in Austin,graduated from there in 1986. We had the same journalism teacher who introduced us because she knew we were both in the live music game. Mark ended up booking Taylor and the Wild Now (Drew’s group) to play ABGB next Wednesday at 9 PM
The HiLife has worked with and done fundraising for many activities including soldier care package drives, started the Ray Hutchinson scholarship for our fallen soldier who was a former HiLife photographer, Invisible Children, the 9/11Red Cross fund and Tsunami survivors twice. We are putting two orphans through school at the Cura Orphanage in Kenya through our partnership with the Creative Visions Foundation http://www.creativevisions.org/
We continue to work with and for the Eldon family led by the spark of inspiration who was the photojournalist slain in Somalia, Dan Eldon http://www.daneldon.org/site/ and http://kathyeldon.com
The movie about Dan Eldon~ Journey was recently filmed in South Africa and will be released in 2017. It will first be shown at the Toronto Film Festival in September of 2016. Let us know how we may better serve you. We are here for YOU, the people who care about CREEK~the best high school in TEXAS. We are leading CREEK journalism under the mandate provided by CCISD-
Clear Creek Independent School District Mission Statement
The mission of the Clear Creek Independent School District, a diverse community unified by a spirit of exploration and excellence, is to develop students who will lead the way to the future by educating and equipping them with the skills necessary to excel in the 21st century through a system characterized by meaningful community relationships and a comprehensive curriculum facilitated by a highly qualified team committed to Courage, Collaboration, Innovation, and Self-Direction.
