Casey Cavanagh

Casey Cavanagh is a 2008 graduate of Middletown High School. He served as the co-editor-in-chief of RT Magazine in the 2007-08 school year. He also was one of the originators of RT Magazine Online. Casvanagh currently attends James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va. He is majoring in Media Arts and Design. He is a contributing sports writer for JMU’s newspaper, The Breeze.  His current articles to date can be found at http://breezejmu.org/author/casey-cavanagh/. In addition, he is writing his own music and performing it live in both Harrisonburg and Frederick. His MySpace music page can be found at http://www.myspace.com/caseycavanagh.

Carrie Spade

Carrie Spade is a graduate of Middletown High School, class of 2008. She is currently a freshman at Bridewater College with a major in English and a minor in Communication. During the fall semester, Spade was published in the weekly Bridgewater College newspaper, the “Veritas,” twice as a contributer. She will join the staff in the upcoming spring semester. Future plans for Spade include graduating and obtaining a position at a newspaper as a reporter or copy editor before teaching English at the secondary level.

Jordan Schlotterback

Jordan Schlotterback is a 2007 graduate of Middletown High School. He is a student at The Culinary Institute of America and majoring in Professional Sciences in Culinary Arts Business. He is serving on the editorial board for CIA’s school newspaper, “La Papillote.” Schlotterback has also begun working for Manhattan’s based Saveur Magazine, a nationally recognized culinary arts monthly publication. His work at the magazine will include writing, researching, culinary consulting and testing.

Tess Colwell

Tess Colwell is a 2003 graduate of Middletown High School. She received a Bachelor of Science in Visual Communications from Ohio University with a concentration in photojournalism in 2007. While at OU, Colwell attended the Scotland Visual Field School and interned at both The Columbus Dispatch and The Reading Eagle. She worked as a campus staff photographer for The Athens News throughout her college career. She received the prestigious Provost Undergraduate Research Grant from Ohio University to pursue an ongoing documentary project on Appalachian midwives. She was treasurer of the National Press Photographer’s Association student chapter. Since graduating, Tess has been a freelance photographer in the Washington, D.C., area and is working on a documentary project on immigrant female crab pickers on the Eastern Shore. She expects to finish a Masters of Arts degree at Hood College in 2009. This summer she will be traveling to Nigeria to document a University of Maryland medical project to help treat HIV and AIDS. You can view her portfolio at www.tesscolwell.blogspot.com.

Jeff Colsh

A veteran from the ancient days of heated wax, Jeff Colsh now studies The Round Table on-line and can appreciate the awe people growing up with horse and buggy must have felt like at the first sight of an automobile.  As a writer and a section editor, Jeff served under several strong women who, along with the help of others, turned The Round Table from heated wax to award-winner. After graduating from Middletown High School in 2000, Colsh wrote sports for a year at James Madison University’s student paper, The Breeze, an experience which helped him during a year’s thesis work interviewing soccer fanatics of a local professional team.  Even after college, journalism never dies–he writes game updates for the MHS boys soccer team and still salivates at the smell of heated wax.

Sara (Jerome) Baker

Sara (Jerome) Baker is currently the senior editor for AmericanStyle and NICHE, two national art magazines located in Baltimore. Sara served as the co-editor-in-chief for The Round Table during the 1999-2000 school year. After graduating from Middletown High School in 2000, she received a degree in journalism from Loyola College in Maryland. She has been working as a magazine editor since 2004. She lives with her husband Mike in White Marsh, Md.