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The Upper School newspaper, Earthquake, is created, edited and designed by students. On October 30, 2010, Earthquake sponsored the first Philadelphia High School Journalism Conference. Editors, staff and advisors of high school papers and other student writers from Philadelphia-area schools were invited to campus to hear keynote speaker Buzz Bissinger, nationally-acclaimed journalist and author of Friday Night Lights, and attended writing workshops led by local journalists, including Inquirer Columnist Karen Heller and Temple Journalism Professor Linn Washington.
 
“Journalism is taking off in new forms and many students want to write for publication—not just in newspapers but on-line and in blogs,” says Anne Gerbner, English Department Faculty. “Earthquake was inspired last spring to sponsor a Philadelphia journalism conference after attending a student round table at the national journalism conference at Columbia University. We thought that local public and private Philadelphia schools students could meet to talk about common concerns: ethics, reporting facts, the future of news, online publishing.” The three-hour program ended with a brown-bag round table discussion. Read more at right about this year's conference.

Polyphony

Faculty Advisors:
Adam Hotek and Susan Lowry
Student Leaders: Amanda Shur, Laura Biester, Kristin Kelly, Lody Friedman
Polyphony is the literary magazine of Germantown Friends School, featuring poetry, prose, and visual art from the student body. The publication, which comes out in April of every year, has been an integral part of the school's writing life since 1950s. Upper school students in grades 9-12 lead the publication process from start to finish, collecting submissions and fundraising in the first half of the year and editing and designing the final product in the second half. In the last ten years, Polyphony has consistently earned high honors in the National Council of English Teachers Program to Recognize Excellence in Literary Magazines, and in 2005, the publication was named a Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold Crown Magazine.

Students may submit work to the 2012 edition of Polyphony by email to polyphony@gfsnet.org.

Anno

Faculty Advisors: Susan Lowry, Della Micah
Student Leaders: Charlie Bentley, Sami Clark, Sarah Murayama

Anno is the name of the GFS Upper School Yearbook, designed and created by students in Grade 12. Late each spring the signing of the yearbook is one of the culminating experiences for GFS graduating seniors.