As the 2024-2025 school year winds down, we look back with admiration and gratitude on our last three years in the King Street Chronicle Newsroom. Since entering as freshmen in 2021, the Class of 2025 has endeavored to Achieve through Believing in the classroom, in the art room, on the fields and courts, on the stage, and, of course, on the Editorial Board of the King Street Chronicle. We are forever appreciative of all the lessons and values we have learned as leaders of this publication, and we are just as proud of all the hard work and achievements we have attained.
We entered the Newsroom nearly three years ago, giddy and excited to be a part of the publication. Little did we know how much the King Street Chronicle would mean to each of us and all the lessons we would learn from our time on the staff. We revered our editors and absorbed their infinite wisdom. Soon, we picked up on all the Newsroom traditions, such as chocolate bark and the gong, grinning as the upperclassmen welcomed us to the publication.
In the autumn of 2023, we returned to the King Street Chronicle as section editors and even gained a few more fellow Class of 2025 members onboard the staff. We gained courage and confidence in our journalistic writing style, editing abilities, interview conducting, and multimedia producing. Most importantly, we remained hardworking and learned from the seniors patience, industry, and reliance.
In our final year as a part of the Newsroom, we welcomed with gratitude and humility the honor of leading the Senior Editorial Board and, ultimately, the King Street Chronicle. While our fearless leader and advisor Ms. Mathilde Larson, former Upper School English Teacher, left King Street for the 2024-2025 school year, we carried her lessons with us in our hearts as we embraced Mrs. Sarah Martin, Upper School English Teacher and Upper and Middle School English Chair, as our new mentor and advisor. We took our editorial seats, both literally and figuratively, with dignity and illustrated to the underclassmen that the first step toward achieving anything in life comes with believing in yourself. In our journalistic context, this meant taking risks and staying impartial and unbiased as well as remaining confident in our work.
This fall, the King Street Chronicle welcomed 14 new staff writers to the Newsroom. Nurtured and inspired by their editors, they began to develop their own individualistic voices. From memorizing the Style Guide to differentiating between passive and active voice, our reporters have become not only journalists but also comrades and teammates. Staff writers, we are so proud of your commitment and loyalty to the King Street Chronicle this year. Your dedication to our paper has not gone unnoticed, and we cannot wait to see how your journalistic voices grow and strengthen.
We are immeasurably appreciative of our outstanding editorial staff. Editors, without you, there would be no King Street Chronicle. With a limited Senior Editorial Staff, your constant devotion to both your articles and your edits fueled our “machine” to function with efficiency. In journalism, communication and collaborative thinking are the most essential tools. As Senior Editors, we have relied on your constant support, and we cannot thank you enough. It is because of you that we are able to bring our paper to success.
Ultimately, we wish to honor our adviser, Mrs. Martin, for her care and diligence this year. Although her name does not appear in our publications, she is the light that guides our paper through the dark. Her determination and care for every article that we publish is apparent to anyone who walks by the Newsroom. Without her wealth of knowledge and advice, our paper would not stand as tall as it does today.
Mrs. Martin, thank you for your endless perseverance and strength throughout the 2024-2025 school year. You have been a crucial pillar toward our success. As we look past King Street and proceed out into the world, we will always hold in our hearts the memories, advice, and wisdom that you have imparted to us. “Thank you” will never be strong enough to encapsulate our gratitude for you.
After many late-night Pending Review deadlines, Editorial Board meetings, learning curves, and memories full of joy throughout our years of the staff of the King Street Chronicle, the Senior Editorial Board signs off. We look forward with courage and confidence in the underclassmen and all their work to come.
With love and gratitude,
The Class of 2025
Featured Image by Emily Shull ’25
