Tory Osment | Web Editor in Chief

Tory has been a journalism nerd for quite some time; she is the Web Editor in Chief and has been the last two years. She can do just about anything required in the journalism room. She started as a photographer/writer, then developed into a designer with a knack for magazine-y feature headlines. She landed the job of Web Editor her junior year. She traveled to St. Loius and Washington D.C. for journalism conventions. She was taking a year off from school after graduation to work.

 Newspaper, yearbook, student council, Bison Performance Team, wrestling manager, speech and debate, work, band, homework. Life gets stressful for her at times, she has almost no time to enjoy lounging.

Taco Johns – No.5, Dr. Pepper. Thanks!

Jesse Whyte | News Editor

Born in Helena and raised in Great Falls, Jesse Whyte has lived in Montana her entire life. Her strengths are in language and biology; striving to become fluent in German. Even though she is not pursuing a career in journalism, she wanted to learn how to design and she believes the news pages best fit her personality. Applying to become News Editor for the Iniwa, she successfully received the position. The professional look and feel reminds her of her one true love, debate, which she has participated in since middle school and plans to continue throughout college.

Shafer Higgins | Co-Copy Editor

Shafer Higgins is the Copy Editor. He was formerly the Entertainment Editor. He edits copy on his own terms, refusing to bow to political pressures. His articles are generally entertainment review and commentary because he doesn’t lack in opinions on culture or the world at large. This is his 3rd year in the Journalism department. Ask him about his views on philosophy, astrophysics and South American geopolitics.

Zach Meddock | Photo Editor

Hey there,

There was once a boy who lived many miles away from civilization. His name was Zachary and he has come to be known as a photographer, a painter and a boy. Zach has been one for outdoors and fun ever since he was a little chap. He is particularly fond of the colors green and orange and has become so attached to them that his room is painted those vary colors. Zach has few plans for the future and well, he feels that if you plan everything out then you are bound to miss out on the best things in life. So the goal with this life is to just live and see what happens.

Sara Graybill | Advertising Editor

Sara Graybill is the advertising editor of the Iniwa.  She is a sophomore at GFH; this is her second year on the job.  Her duties include selling and designing the ads for the Iniwa.  After high school she plans to go to college to pursue a career in zoology.  She also plans on giving pep talks to high school newspaper staffs all over the country.

Connor McCormick | Special Correspondent

Connor moved to Great Falls two days before the first day of his freshman year from East Glacier. He started writing for the Iniwa as a sophomore, wrote on and off for the publication, and now writes exclusively for the website as a special correspondent. His writing has oft been described as “sardonic” or “facetious” and occasionally as “a load of horse crap.”

Melissa Horacek | Co-Executive Editor

Melissa has been a part of the Iniwa since the first semester of her freshmen year, her sophomore year (Circulations Editor), junior (Opinion editor) and this, her senior year, she shares responsibility as one of two Executive editors.

She focuses mostly on writing Entertainment and Opinion pieces. Melissa feels that censorship in print media and online publications has of late, been taken to an unnecessary extreme and in her writing, strives to right the boundaries mistakenly set.

Melissa also designs the Entertainment section and has contributed to every section of the Iniwa, spanning her 3 ½ year career.

Melissa Horacek is a sucker for Rolling Stone, Dani Hertz and Loaded Baked Potato Pringles. She would like all for her b-day.

David Cerotzke | Co-Copy Editor

From a young age, David Cerotzke showed an interest in and understanding of all things technical; from computers to cars. For the last five years, he has worked as a mechanic for his family, maintaining and repairing various pieces of equipment at their cabin and home.  For the Iniwa, he fulfills the positions of copy editor and journalist; providing a tech blog for the newspaper website.

Cerotzke moved to Montana in 2004 from Aurora, Illinois. Since then, he has attended Holy Spirit school in Great Falls and moved on to Great Falls High in 2007.

In the last two years, Cerotzke has worked with the Great Falls High Spanish department in their Adult Computer Education Program as a volunteer teacher. He skis avidly and has served as an Eagle Mount volunteer for a ski season.

David Cerotzke moved to Montana in 2004 from Aurora, Illinois. Since then, he has attended Holy Spirit school in Great Falls and moved on to Great Falls High in 2007.

Donovan Dennis | Opinion Editor

Donovan has been involved with the Journalism department ever since his freshman year. Working on finishing his second year with the department, Donovan is currently the Opinion Section editor and enjoys every waking minute of it. When he is not scouring his brain for story ideas, emptying his brain writing copy or pushing a bullet through his brain designing, he swims for the Great Falls High swim team, and takes piano and cello lessons. He and photographer Katherine Leonard occasionally team up to write a combined specialty blog, D & K, for iniwa.com so watch for them.

Mary Koppy | Editor in Chief

Mary Koppy:

Mary Koppy actually wanted to be an actress. Unfortunately, she gets stage fright.

So when that wound up not panning out, she found herself, then a sophomore, at the door of room 112A. Mary started off her impromptu newspaper career as Sports Editor, moving on to Associate Editor her junior year and eventually to her current senior year position: Editor-in-chief.

Some of her favorite journalism memories include trips to St. Louis and Washington D.C. for journalism conferences where she competed in write off competitions. Her senior year she won an Excellent in Editorial Writing.

She plans on spending the remainder of her senior year stressing out over scholarship applications and driving her ancient station wagon until it dies. She also works part time as Tory’s muse.