THE EAGLE ONE NEWS TEAM 1999

The Eagle One News Team produces a TV news program twice a week. The news broadcast is shown to

over 650 students and teachers at the school. The system which transmits the show was provided by the State

Department of Education. The 1997-1998 school year was the first year Pageland Middle School had a

newsteam. The name "Eagle One News" was the idea for the name of the show by its four original anchors.

Advisor Barbara Leaird stated, " Working with the Eagle One News gives me the opportunity to work with

the other end of "exceptionality" in students. These students are creative and very enthusiastic. They come to

school early and stay late, when needed. They run the video camera, look up facts from all kinds of sources

and set up the formats on the computer. I think this is a great experience for these students to show off their

talents in such a technological and communicative way." The news crew consists of Brittany Huntley, Quentin

Tyson, Ashley Deason, Hayley Brock, Kenny Riddle, LaTosha Blakney, Sacha Brock, and Darron Kirkley.