Dear The Beakon readers,
My name is Olivia DeCesare. You may know me personally from my time at St. Charles, Cardinal Mooney, or you may know my name from the bylines in The Beakon. I have been a newspaper staff member and editor for two years now (as long as The Beakon has been revived) and am going to graduate this year. Unfortunately, this also means that this is the final edition of The Beakon that I will be working on.
Ms. Joy Huber, the organizing supervisor of the newspaper, approached me two years ago about taking Journalism II. Her plan for the class was to use each period to revive the former Cardinal Mooney newspaper. As you can assume, I jumped on board. Every other newspaper member that year was a senior, so I continued what we started as chief editor and staff.
The Beakon is not new. It is the revived Cardinal Mooney newspaper from the early 2000’s and prior. It is a tradition that I am proud to be a part of and proud to help bring back. I hope the new members of the newspaper feel the same and decide to keep this vital informational outlet alive. My goal with The Beakon has always been to inform and entertain the students, parents, alumni, and other members of the Mooney family. I trust the underclassmen and incoming students to keep this goal in mind.
I understand the newspaper staff The Beakon is running off is relatively small, but I ask readers and members not to be discouraged. With teamwork and determination, I have found the quality of my work and that of others has continuously improved. I also am confident that as The Beakon grows in quality, it will also grow in quantity.
With my departure, I implore future Beakon writers and editors to abide by journalistic writing style and code, report the facts and exciting stories, and, most importantly, make The Beakon fun for every party involved.
Thank you, readers, reporters, editors, and importantly Ms. Huber, for sticking with The Beakon the past two years, and I hope to be reading many more editions in the future.
-Olivia DeCesare 22'
My name is Olivia DeCesare. You may know me personally from my time at St. Charles, Cardinal Mooney, or you may know my name from the bylines in The Beakon. I have been a newspaper staff member and editor for two years now (as long as The Beakon has been revived) and am going to graduate this year. Unfortunately, this also means that this is the final edition of The Beakon that I will be working on.
Ms. Joy Huber, the organizing supervisor of the newspaper, approached me two years ago about taking Journalism II. Her plan for the class was to use each period to revive the former Cardinal Mooney newspaper. As you can assume, I jumped on board. Every other newspaper member that year was a senior, so I continued what we started as chief editor and staff.
The Beakon is not new. It is the revived Cardinal Mooney newspaper from the early 2000’s and prior. It is a tradition that I am proud to be a part of and proud to help bring back. I hope the new members of the newspaper feel the same and decide to keep this vital informational outlet alive. My goal with The Beakon has always been to inform and entertain the students, parents, alumni, and other members of the Mooney family. I trust the underclassmen and incoming students to keep this goal in mind.
I understand the newspaper staff The Beakon is running off is relatively small, but I ask readers and members not to be discouraged. With teamwork and determination, I have found the quality of my work and that of others has continuously improved. I also am confident that as The Beakon grows in quality, it will also grow in quantity.
With my departure, I implore future Beakon writers and editors to abide by journalistic writing style and code, report the facts and exciting stories, and, most importantly, make The Beakon fun for every party involved.
Thank you, readers, reporters, editors, and importantly Ms. Huber, for sticking with The Beakon the past two years, and I hope to be reading many more editions in the future.
-Olivia DeCesare 22'