PEMBROKE LIVE!
Deandre Hampton, a student at Lorenzo R. Smith School in Pembroke, Ill., was among nearly two dozen students who participated this summer in the iWriteADream journalism camp created by John W. Fountain, a former New York Times national correspondent and currently a journalism professor at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He and his wife Monica Fountain, a former Chicago Tribune reporter, head the journalism program. The students call their body of work (photographs, stories and poetic essays) produced in the workshop and presented here: Pembroke Live!
About the Founder/Director
In a journalism career that has spanned 20 years, Fountain has been a reporter at some of the country's top newspapers. From 2000 to 2003, he was a national correspondent for The New York Times. He also has been a staff writer at the Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune. He is currently a professor of journalism at Roosevelt University in Chicago.
About the Assistant Director
Monica Fountain is a former reporter for the Chicago Tribune. Her work has appeared in national publications, including the Style section of the Washington Post, the Womanews section of the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, Black MBA Magazine and Black Enterprise.
A drawing by student Jacquil Rivers stands as just one sample of his artwork and of the creativity of students like him in Pembroke.
The emblem of the Lorenzo R. Smith school hangs proudly in the gymnasium. (Photo by Tommie Thomas)
Mission Accomplished
Students and teachers who participated this summer in the iWriteADream journalism camp.
And the wheels on the bus go 'round and 'round. Three little girls seated for the journey home from summer school. (Photo by Demarckus Lee Thomas)
Summer School is in at Lorenzo Smith and there is much work to do for students shown here as well as teacher Joy Hertzberg. (Photo by Darrin Lee Thomas)
Nothing but blue skies and green fields as a car peels down a Pembroke road in June. (Photo by Deandre Hampton)
Monica Fountain instructs students at this summer's workshop.
Students and teachers at the iWriteADream workshop in Pembroke, Ill.