Student Memberships

Membership is open to all publication staff members in a chartered high school. The membership form and and fees are available here.

There are no annual dues. When a candidate is recommended for membership, he or she pays a one-time initiation fee. The Society then provides the initiate with an official membership card, a membership pin and a one-year subscription to Quill & Scroll magazine.

According to the Constitution, members of Quill and Scroll must be chosen from students enrolled in the high school who, at the time of their election, meet the following requirements:

  1. They must be of sophomore, junior or senior classification.
  2. They must be in the upper third of their class in general scholastic standing, either for the year of their election or for the cumulative total of all high school work.
  3. They must have done superior work in some phase of journalism or school media work. They may be staffers of a magazine, newspaper, yearbook, news bureau, online site or radio/television station.
  4. They must be recommended by the supervisor or by the committee governing media.
  5. They must be approved by the Quill and Scroll Executive Director.