Staff Report
Cassie Cox joins the Greensburg Daily News as the youngest writer on the team.
Cox is a senior at North Decatur High School. She is working at the Greensburg Daily News under a program called ICE, Interdisciplinary Cooperative Education. The program is offered to seniors as a way to combine work and school. Cox goes to school for three class periods; Spanish III, English 12, and ND Singers. Then she spends the other half of her usual school day working for the newspaper. She’s only been in the trenches for two days and can’t wait to get the hang of things and start writing for the youth section and perhaps even a column of her own.
She is pretty well-known around North Decatur and is involved in drama, Spell Bowl, Winter Guard, National Honor Society, FCCLA, and ND Singers. She is Vice President of all the choirs. The one title Cox wants to win more than anything in all her 13 years at North Decatur is Homecoming Queen. She was on the Homecoming Court her freshman and sophomore year, but didn’t win the crown. Now that football season is here, Cox has been busily making locker posters and more than 100 cookies to give to her fellow seniors. The cookies proclaimed “Vote Cassie” in edible marker.
“I believe the way to winning is just to simply ask. Most people win because nobody realized someone else wanted it. I’m not going to fight or beg for the title. I think people would rather vote for the girl who is nice throughout the whole process and truly represents the school with respect. The Homecoming Queen should be a senior who can talk to anyone, because that should be the definition of a popularity contest,” Cox said.
She also is debating bringing in candy for all the seventh through 12th grade if she makes it on the court.
Cox spends her free time baby-sitting for her neighbor’s daughters, telling her mom all about her day, spending time with her boyfriend, Robert Saylor, applying for scholarships, and oil painting. She likes to go to the Skyline Drive-In or walk along the railroad tracks by her house on fall weekends. She is the only child of Tim and Maricarol Cox. She has two cats, Vinnie and Bleeker. She wants to attend Valparaiso University next year and major in creative writing. She prefers writing poems and maybe novels, but writing for the paper is a good beginning.
“I have always wanted to get my name out there and have people know a little bit about who I am. The other day, my grandma, Antoinette Schwering, showed me a book from the library written by a ‘Cassie.’ She wanted me to see what it will look like when my name is on a book cover. Now I know she will be holding up this article with a smile on her face, happy to say that’s her ‘Cassie’ this time.”
