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Date: Monday, March 3

Time: 5:30 p.m.

Location: CSS 226

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Rollins College Communiqué Wins Public Relations Award for "Baking for Breast Cancer" Community Service Project

April 25, 2008

Rollins student organization Communiqué, the student chapter of the Florida Public Relations Association (FPRA) won the only award presented to students during the 2008 Image Awards. The awards ceremony was held Thursday, April 20 at the CityArts Factory in downtown Orlando. 

Rollins College Hamilton Holt School students Marja Kolomyski and Nicole Webb, and Rollins College Director of News & Media Relations Jeni Hatter won an Award of Distinction for "Baking for Breast Cancer."

The community service project, organized by Communiqué, the Rollins College student chapter of FPRA, included collecting money during bake sales. As a result, $1,000 was raised for breast cancer awareness and proceeds were donated to the Susan
G. Komen for The Cure Foundation.

The award entry will now be submitted to the state Image Awards competition. Winners will
be announced at the FPRA state conference to be held next month in Orlando. This is the second
public award Communiqué has received in the past two years.

The Image Awards competition is conducted annually by the Florida Public Relations
Association to recognize outstanding public relations programs in Florida and to encourage
and promote the development of public relations professionalism in our state.

The Image Awards have become a standard of public relations excellence in the state of
Florida. Winners demonstrate the very best examples of innovation, planning and design. The
awards competition includes four divisions of categories: Public Relations Programs, Printed
Tools of Public Relations, Audio/Visual Tools of Public Relations and Student Projects in
Public Relations. To qualify for judging, an entry must incorporate sound public relations
research and planning. Entries also must meet the highest standard of production,
execution, and evaluation of results and budget.

Thank you to everyone who helped with the bake sales! It truly was a successful effort.

Welcome to Communiqué!

Hello. I am Marja Kolomyski, your 2007-08 Communiqué president. I am excited to be the leader of this student organization and with your help, believe we will be able to continue to accomplish great things this year.

Our spring semester meetings will be held in CSS 226 at 5:30 p.m. Meeting dates are as follows:

* Tuesday, February 12
* Monday, March 3
* Tuesday, April 8

Here is what we’re working on this spring:

  • Sweater Drive – We are helping with a sweater drive in honor of Fred Rogers. Collection boxes are located throughout the Rollins campus and at the Winter Park Public Library. This will culminate Wednesday, February 27 with a visit to Rollins by a former associate producer of Mister Rogers Neighborhood. Please visit http://news.rollins.edu/fredrogers.shtml or e-mail Jeni Hatter at jhatter@rollins.edu for more information.

  • Hamilton Holt School’s MLS Program Celebrates 20th Anniversary – This semester, the Hamilton Holt School’s Master of Liberal Studies (MLS) program celebrates 20 years. In honor of that, New York Times journalist and best-selling author Frank Rich will hold a public talk at Rollins on Saturday, April 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the Alfond Sports Center. Members will assist with planning this event.

  • Ripple Effect – We look forward to working with the Ripple Effect to help feed the homeless. This organization was founded by a Rollins alumni.

  • Helping with Events – Members will also have the opportunity to volunteer at a variety of Florida Public Relations Association (FPRA) events, as well as Starry, Starry Night, a Hamilton Holt School fundraiser. The FPRA Roast & Toast will be held Thursday, March 20 and the FPRA Image Awards will be held Thursday, April 24. For more information, visit www.fpra-orlando.org. Starry, Starry Night will be held at the Alfond Sports Center Friday, April 18.

  • Recruiting New Members – We will be working hard to build the membership of our organization. One of our goals is to involve more Arts & Sciences students in Communiqué.

  • FPRA Monthly Meetings – As members, you have the opportunity to attend an FPRA monthly luncheon meeting for free. Please e-mail Jeni Hatter at jhatter@rollins.edu for more information.

Here are some highlights of projects we worked on this past fall:

  • Adopt a Unit – We teamed up with the Rollins men’s and women’s lacrosse teams in this community service project to help them collect items to send overseas to the troops. Through their “Adopt-a-Unit” outreach campaign, the inaugural men’s and women’s Tars lacrosse teams mailed a total of 60 boxes filled with supplies to our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.

  • Baking for Breast Cancer - In honor of October being National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we raised money through bake sales for the Susan G. Komen Foundation. Bake sales were held in front of the Cornell Campus Center. Money collected was donated to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

    Pictured         (from left to right): Rollins College Director of News & Media Relations and Communique Advisor Jeni Hatter, Susan G. Komen President of Grants Rob Thompson and Rollins student and reigning Miss Orlando USA Nicole Webb.

  • Networking Roundtable – More than 50 students attended our signature event November 8, 2007 during which they had the opportunity to network with local communications professionals.

Please take the opportunity to get involved!

Sincerely,

Marja

For more information, e-mail me at kolomyski@

 

 

 

 
 

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