Strake Jesuit College Preparatory
Name & title: Rick Rivers, Director of Communications
Institution & publication: Strake Jesuit College Preparatory
Type of publication: magazine
Readership audience: alumni, parents, donors, faculty/staff, etc.
Number of pages: 24
Frequency of publication: quarterly
Circulation: 10,500
Color: 4-color
Basic style manual: AP Stylebook
Reason for using the manual: generally well accepted
Dictionary: Merriam-Webster
Reason for using dictionary: It was on my bookshelf when I started to work here.
Items on our house style sheet not covered in our manual: We are beginning to reference 'S.J.' as 'SJ'. Per Company magazine reasoning that 1) there was no official right or wrong way and 2) it looks cleaner and doesn't make it confusing when it ends a sentence.
Items on our house stylesheet that override our manual: Debating listing times as PM rather than as p.m. as AP Style Book calls for.
Unresolved issues: Trying to get people to stop referring to the school simply as Strake and officially being Strake, Jesuit, or Strake Jesuit.
Trying to stop references to 'scholarships' and instead use 'financial aid' or 'tuition assistance'. This is a UIL issue since we now compete against the public schools.
rrivers@strakejesuit.org