2018-2019 Staff
Lucas Behrens
Editor
Lucas is an editor for the broadcasting class and creator of the Trojan Minute. The Trojan Minute is a short video segment to help students get to know others around AHS. Behrens once made a video about Nate Renz and said it mak...
Reagan Pellett
Editor
Reagan Pellett became involved in journalism because of her older friends and her interest in taking pictures. Pellet is a yearbook editor, so she takes pictures for and designs pages in the yearbook. Pellett’s favorite part of jo...
Anna Lowary
Editor
Junior Annamaria Lowary has been involved in journalism since her sophomore year, which is when the class is first offered to students. Lowary creates many of the ads for Eye of the Needle (EON) with Kenzie Waters and Chloe Da...
Grace Bruckner
Editor
Grace Bruckner, a junior at AHS, has been involved in cross country, track, journalism and AHS Fuel. Bruckner has been a journalism student for two years and her role as a member of the Eye of the Needle team is to create challe...
Brandon Woodard
Editor
Brandon Woodard is an editor for the broadcasting class. At the beginning of his junior year, Woodard decided to sign up for journalism as he thought it would be neat to learn about the behind the scenes activities. Woodard is a...
Connor Church
Editor
Journalism editor Connor Church (Churchy) has a few stories under his belt from his time as a journalist. His first ever published piece is titled, “AHS Finds a Lack of Student Participation in School Events,” and was writt...
Grace Clay
Editor
A new school year also means another year of writing AHSneedle stories for editor Grace Clay. Now a junior in high school, Clay enjoys writing stories for the website and says it’s “just really fun.” She enjoys the environm...
Emma Templeton
Editor
Emma Templeton joined journalism as a sophomore, because “my brother Logan took it so I decided to take it.” So far she has liked journalism and how they have done Eye of the Needle and also went to Omaha, NE to visit the ...
Pluma Pross
Editor
Junior Pluma Pross has been involved in journalism for two years. Pross works on the broadcasting team for Eye of the Needle with Grace Bruckner and together they create challenge videos involving students around the school. Pro...
Kylie Neal
Editor
Kylie Neal's favorite part about journalism is taking pictures and playing a role in creating the yearbook. Last summer Neal attended journalism camp to stretch her skills. She said, “I enjoyed going to the Media Now camp...
Ashley Wendt
Lead Editor
Journalism is a family affair for the Wendts, as Ashley Wendt’s siblings got her involved in Journalism. Her brother Trevor was the first to join and he was the producer of Eye of the Needle during the 2017-18 school year. Wendt...
Anastasia Muell
Editor
With the aspiration of reaching her audience and providing them with accurate and engaging information, Anastasia Muell acts as an editor of AHSneedle, the official news website of Atlantic High School. Muell is currently t...
Hana Holtz
Editor
Hana Holtz is a member of the AHSneedle team, where she works with other journalists to keep the news website updated. “We work very hard,” she said. According to Holtz, she didn’t want to do journalism at first but jour...
Alyssa Brockob
Editor
Alyssa Brockob is an active member in the journalism department for AHS, acting as an author and editor for the AHSneedle website. In the near future, she will also be co-editor for the Senior Spotlight Magazine. Outside of journalism...
Kathryn Saluk
Editor
When Katie Saluk isn’t “hangin’ with the bros,” she can be found participating in multiple activities at AHS. Saluk is a member of the anchor team for Eye of the Needle, where she reports fine arts. Her favorite part of...
Chloe Davis
Editor
Junior Chloe Davis is a member of the AHS broadcasting team, and her job includes producing ads for local businesses that sponsor the journalism department. The ads air on Eye of the Needle each week and her favorite part of j...
McKenzie Waters
Editor
Each week, McKenzie Waters and the ad team set out to create a funny 30-second video to be published on Eye of the Needle (EON). Businesses in town can buy an ad for $25. Waters said, “I love to make ads because it challeng...
Noah Rutherford
Editor
Noah Rutherford has been a journalist since his sophomore year of high school. According to journalism advisor Allison Berryhill, Rutherford’s main focus is broadcasting. He edits videos and sometimes even stars in them. Rutherford ...
Sarah Schorle
Editor in Chief
From looking at the middle school and high school yearbooks, Sarah Schorle has had a passion for journalism for a while. Schorle is one of the co-editors in chief for the Javelin, working with Hannah Alff to ensure the pages are de...
Erin Wendt
Business Manager/Editor
Serving as a lead editor and one of the business managers, senior Erin Wendt has been involved in journalism since the beginning of her sophomore year. Wendt works alongside her sister Ashley in the lead-editor position for AH...
Hannah Alff
Editor in Chief
Senior Hannah Alff is one of the co-editors in chief of the Javelin. This is her third year participating as a member of the AHS Journalism team, and she said, “I like to make the layouts for the yearbook and take pictures....