Carrie Hendrix, adviser for the journalism staff at Lewis-Palmer High School has recently won the Adviser of the Year award for her work among the school’s production groups. Hendrix has been employed at Lewis-Palmer for thirteen years and has been an adviser for Westwind Yearbook for thirteen years and an adviser for the Ranger Review Newspaper for seven years.

Sandi Brandl, principal at Lewis-Palmer, had announced Hendrix as the Adviser of the Year, which was followed by loud cheering and a pep song from the Palmer Ridge band.  

“We’re all really proud of her, especially me since I’ve known her since I was little,” Levi Bunkers, 10, said.

“It was really exciting because I’ve been on her yearbook staff for all four years I have been in high school. I’ve always thought that she was an amazing adviser and wanted other people to vote for her, I guess I just felt mostly excited for her, but happy to be apart of her staff,” Kimberly Loidolt, 12, Co Editor-in Chief of the Westwind yearbook said.

As Hendrix went up and had gotten recognized by the board, the students went down and took pictures of her and Brandl. The crowd was cheering as Hendrix had given a short speech about her accomplishment.

“I was honored, I was a little bit embarrassed because I don’t like being out in the light. I really do believe that I’m just kind of the one who oversees the program and it’s really the students, both the news and yearbook students, they’re the ones who really run the program. So I was embarrassed to be highlighted like that, but I was still excited,” Hendrix said

For all the work Hendrix has done for both productions, it was not all that surprising that she was given this honor. Her students were excited for her, happy that she had gotten the recognition she deserved.

“I was happy, I wasn’t surprised though, I knew she would get it. She’s really good at finding out what to fix in your article and in yearbook so you can improve and get better,” Elizabeth Beagle, 10, said.
This is an accomplishment that Hendrix had earned through her work at Lewis-Palmer for years. She and the remainder of her staff hope she can continue to perform at such an excellent level.