Verde

Verde

Verde, a general feature magazine produced by and for students at Palo Alto High School, published its first issue in Fall 1999 under adviser Esther Wojcicki and a team of 20 initial staff members. Their product that year, an 80-page quarterly magazine, was received warmly by the Paly campus community and the scholastic journalism community at large. Notably, that first year’s issues won a Pacemaker, one of the two most prestigious awards in scholastic journalism, from the National Scholastic Press Association.

A year later, under new adviser Paul B. Kandell, Verde took the other major national award, a Gold Crown, from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. It has been seeking to improve itself ever since.