11/4/2008
The Bexley High School student newspaper, The Torch has received the All-American rating from the National Scholastic Press Association. This overall rating, which is the highest awarded by the NSPA, is for The Torch staff’s work in the 2007 - 2008 school year. The NSPA also awarded The Torch marks of distinction for outstanding work in four areas: coverage and content; writing and editing; layout and design; and leadership. The staff was led by co-editors Lucy First, Adrienne Liefeld, and Libby Ashton, all members of the Class of 2008. The staff is advised by Julie Horger. NSPA is a nonprofit organization exclusively for high school and other secondary school publications, such as yearbooks, newspapers, magazines, broadcast programs, and online publications.

The Torch has also received a Gold Medalist award from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association for work during the 2007-08 school year. The Gold Medalist award is the highest granted by CSPA, an association for student media that is affiliated with Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. The CSPA also recognized The Torch with special “All-Columbian Honors” in three categories: coverage, writing and editing, and business operations.

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8/14/2008
Molly Feesler will fill the position of Athletic Director for Bexley City Schools starting this fall.  She will lead a department which recently won, for a second consecutive year, the All-Sports competition for the Ohio Division of the Mid State League and earned the Ohio High School Athletic Association’s Meyer Sportsmanship Award for its program promoting sportsmanship, ethics and integrity.  Bexley’s Athletic Director oversees some 50 coaches and volunteers and about 500 student athletes in grades seven through twelve.

Ms. Feesler comes to Bexley with 20+ years of experience as a teacher, coach and administrator.  She has taught Mathematics in the Pickerington Local School District since 2000.  Prior to her service in Pickerington, Ms. Feesler was Assistant Principal and Athletic Director at St. Francis DeSales High School in Columbus.  DeSales won six state championships during her five year tenure as Athletic Director.

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6/22/2008
Television actor and 1992 Bexley grad Josh Radnor addressed the crowd at graduation ceremonies on June 1 saying, in part, “You’re probably a little sad and a little scared.  You’re pretty freaked out that something is supposed to be ‘commencing’ here.  Our brains want things to stay the same while circumstances are telling us we have to change.”  Stating that the things in his life he is most proud of are the things he leaped into, the star of the sitcom HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER advised the graduates to embrace change.