The Holiday I’ll Never Forget
Maritza Cosano Gomez, Editor-in-Chief
December 20, 2011
I’ll never forget the girl with the red scarf. She was eleven, as was I, but where my legs were short and skinny, hers seemed to go on forever, all the way up to her underarms—unusual for a Spanish girl from Madrid, Spain, but not as much as her pale skin and curly, red hair. We shouldn’t have... Read more »
Editor’s Note: An Epic Generation
Maritza Cosano Gomez, Editor-in-Chief
November 2, 2011
The next generation is one we think we know. The things we know about them will be common icons twenty years later: like their smart phones with extended texting keyboards, skinny jeans, Vans and Converse brands, Facebook, YouTube videos, and plastic rubber bands shaped as animals (AKA—Silly Bands),... Read more »
Editor’s Note
Maritza Cosano Gomez
July 14, 2011
Summer is here, and with it the end of the 2010-2011 school year. The Messenger staff will be taking a summer break and will resume production in the fall, with some new student journalists joining our team. We sadly but proudly say goodbye to our managing editor, Aileen Alegre who will be part of the... Read more »
Editor’s Note
Editor's Note by Maritza Cosano Gomez
April 8, 2011
Introducing Mesenger’s New Editorial Staff No editor-in-chief worth her salt needs to be reminded that in every successful newsroom there is a veritable mountain of good editors that help to add flavor to the mix—that creative blend of writers, designers, and photographers. The editor-in-chief knows—oh,... Read more »
Turn your talents into a journey
Maritza Cosano Gomez
January 6, 2011
There comes a point in a person’s life when you begin to ask yourself, “What are my talents, REALLY?” Sometimes your doubts cause you to question whether you have any gifts at all. Others may tell you what they think they are, or maybe you find something that you like to do and think,... Read more »
Be Tomorrow’s Great Communicators—Today
Maritza Cosano Gomez, Editor-in-Chief
November 3, 2010
Sometimes change is the only thing that seems constant. And that can very well be said of this publication, The Messenger, your high school news magazine. In the winter of 2008, it began as an online newspaper and while the publishing industry has seen national and local papers going the opposite way... Read more »
Editor’s Note: What’s Your Story?
Maritza Cosano Gomez, Editor-in-Chief
June 9, 2010
Just as the middle school Choir and Band Spring Concert was coming to an end last Monday night, a parent turned to me and offered this thought. “These students are incredible. But I hope they leave the legacy that you might not always be the most talented group, or you might not have the best voice,... Read more »
Editorial: Writing His Message
Maritza Cosano Gomez
December 10, 2009
“What’s black and white and completely over?” Jon Stewart quipped last year around this time on his Comedy Central show. “It’s newspapers.” Not so fast, Mr. Stewart, say publishers, writers and readers across the nation. Okay, so the Internet certainly is giving dailies a run for their money... Read more »
What We Can Learn at CCA
Jessica Matthews
May 28, 2009
Tomorrow, the Class of 2009 will take one last look around the halls where we spent the last four years of our lives. And no doubt the one thing in our minds will be all the great things we learned from CCA and all the good times we had here. But on this day in late May, some will also take a last look... Read more »
Purity
Jessica Matthews
February 25, 2009
Somewhere along the line of trying to understand purity, I think we have missed the point. Well educated by purity conferences and lectures on abstinence, still some Christian students may have begun to view purity as an endless list of guidelines, or barriers regarding relations with the opposite sex—a... Read more »