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Show Bountiful journalist serves as navy editor rent, she is raising two daughters, Rachel, 6, and Adrienne, 2. "As a member of the Navy and a mother," she quipped, "I fight for life, liberty and a clean living room." She joined the Navy in 1982. Following Fol-lowing recruit training in Orlando, Fla., she attended the Defense Information In-formation School basic journalism program at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Harri-son, Indianapolis, Ind., where she was the top student in a class of 2 1 . As a journalist seaman, she was the lowest-ranking service member : ever to attend the newspaper editor course at the all-service school. "The service taught me every-thing every-thing I know about photography and publication design," she said. , "Journalism was something I just wanted to try out for a couple of ; years. I discovered I had the talent and drive it takes to make a satis- fying career of writing, photographing photo-graphing and producing military publications." She earned a 3.8 grade point average av-erage during the first semester, ranking second among the 18 students stu-dents when she graduated. Mrs. Shaw also finds a heavy workload at home. As a single pa- BOUNTIFUL - A Navy" journalist jour-nalist second class from Bountiful, recently served as editor of the military class magazine at Syracuse Syra-cuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Marjie J. Shaw was the first woman to edit the publication in the 23 years of the Newhouse military milit-ary photojournalism program. Mrs. Shaw is the daughter of Curtis R. and Mary T. Johnson of 213 E. 800 N.f Bountiful. Now in her second four-year enlistment, she says she plans to make a career of the Navy. The 1970 Viewmont High School graduate was selected number one in a Navy-wide competition among journalists and photographer's mates to participate in the nine-month nine-month program during 1985-86, along with people from the Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. The program provides an intensive 33-semester-hour curriculum curri-culum in photography, news writing, writ-ing, feature writing, graphic arts, and social issues and the media. The 44-page magazine, Action People, is the capstone of the program. prog-ram. It incorporates all that the students stu-dents have learned at the school into a major practical experience. "Editing the magazine was an immense load on top of the regular course work," Mrs. Shaw said. "I think the team spirit taught by the" military helped to pull the class together. Everyone united to produce pro-duce a magazine we can all be proud of." |