Thoughts on Tom Witherspoon

I come from a small town that loves their high school sports. It's something to do in boring old towns with populations that total less than 500 people. One thing I've learned by now, in my third year of being in Wichita, is that just because this isn't the same small towns I'm used to, they love their high school sports none the less.

For a magazine like Vype to stick around this long really speaks to the market. This is something Wichita is interested in and something they want. That's where the credit goes to Tom Witherspoon for putting the tremendous amount of effort into this publication as he does to give this market what it wants.

I've seen Vype around and I have a friend that always has the latest copy. I always find it to be very well done, especially with so much of the writing being done by freelancers. To have a crop of freelance writers to get published in Vype, you know again that there is a huge interest in high school sports in Wichita.

As far was Tom's presentation, I felt like he said all the same things guest speakers usually tell us in the Elliott School. You have to have a passion for what you do, get an internship, remain focused and things like that. The one thing I didn't like about his talk was that he kept pushing for writers. At times it felt like he was there more to recruit than he was to actually teach.