Rebekah Bushmire, Editor-in-Chief
Rebekah Bushmire has been on The Trail staff for four years and will be serving as the editor-in-chief for the 2023-2024 school year, as well as the managing editor for the Legend Yearbook, a program she has been a part of for four years.
Bushmire worked at City Hall as an intern in the Public Communications Department over the summer. She has been serving as a Student Press Law Center New Voices Georgia Student Leader for two years. She is in Quill and Scroll, the International Honor Society for high school journalists and the NSPA Honor Roll.
Bushmire will have served two years as GSPA Student Ambassador come graduation. She has been awarded an All-Georgia Feature Photograph, Superior Social Media Breaking News, Superior Social Media Promotion, Superior Feature/Entertainment Photograph, Superior Portrait Photograph and Superior House Editorials from the GSPA award program.
Bushmire is also the co-president for the International Thespian Society, an honor program for high school theatre students along with having been nominated for the Governor's Honors Program in the Theatre category. She has either worked as a tech crew or performed in eight McIntosh shows.
In her free time, Bushmire enjoys hanging out with her friends, sleeping or watching a good show. She loves cows and everything cow print. A fun fact is Bushmire hates scary movies and refuses to watch them. Post-graduation, Bushmire plans on staying local for college and working while in school.