Rosenfeld discovers distinct path as editor-in-chief

By Jessie Rosenfeld

Editor-in-Chief

After spending 1,056 hours in room 101 (previously room 6), writing at least 50 articles, and being a part of 29 issues, I would like to finally admit something to the editors that came before me, the current staff and the readers: I was supposed to be in Yearbook.   

Everything was set in stone for me to join Yearbook, until I came across a Facebook post that shook up my world. The post read: “Come to room 6 tomorrow if you are looking to be a staff writer on La Vista next year,” and was followed by a plethora of likes from students who planned on joining.

There has always been something about La Vista that has gone deeper than these 24 pages, so deep that it even runs through my blood lines. After years of watching my brother (LV editor-in-chief 2011-12) come home from production at two o’clock in the morning with loving memories of La Vista, I was filled with envy knowing that all of those students who had liked the post would have the same experience in La Vista as my brother, which I would be missing out on if I stayed in Yearbook.

The next day, I went into La Vista to pick up my first assignment sheet. I never looked back.

Whether it be running the News section with Kate Roback last year, whose brother gave my brother the title of editor-in-chief, or having editor-in-chief passed down to me by Jack Allen, whose brother was co-editor-in-chief with mine, La Vista has felt  nothing short of a family to me.

I like to believe that there has always been a fighter inside of me that has worked to keep the legacy of my predecessors alive.

Last year, after a group of La Vista editors with heavy familial ties to the paper graduated, it was scary thinking what was next as I became the editor-in-chief with Julia Sheth. At the same time as the seniors were leaving, I gained a new family member to keep their legacy alive.

From  having to deal with the smell of moldy butter in our office, sitting with each other through one too many tears, and singing “History” by One Direction as we looked back at the whirlwind of a time we have spent in La Vista, Julia, you have become a sister to me. With Julia by my side and the help of  25 new editors, we have been able to pave our own path down the La Vista terrain.

I walked into La Vista three years ago to get my first assignment sheet. I was expecting to have the same experience as my brother, but what I ended up getting is an experience of my own.