Club celebrates 2010 winners
Ann Allen, left, receives the Honeycomb Award from contest director Jackie Davies. Allen also won the Communicator of Achievement award.(Photo by Kendal Miller)
WPCI members and guests applauded members and scholarship recipients during the annual communications contest luncheon May 21 in Indianapolis.
Top honors went to Margaret Nelson, winner of the Kate Milner Rabb Award, WPCI's highest honor given to a member who achieves professional excellent and exceptional service to the organization.
Ann Allen won the Communicator of Achievement Award, and she will compete with other communicators during the National Federation of Press Women's conference in September.
Shelly Bradbury of Huntington College in is the winner of the Hortense Myers scholarship. Former UPI statehouse reporter Myers is remembered by her colleagues on the beat and in the journalism classroom as a fair but relentless reporter who sought the truth in every story she pursued.
Ann Allen also won the Honeycomb Award for attaining the highest number of points in the Woman's Press Club of Indiana's 2011 Communications Contest.
Winners and their categories are:
- Ann Allen, Akron:
- First for 1B, news reporting; 8B personality profiles; 9B specialty articles, agriculture, agribusiness; 75D nonfiction book, history.
- Second place for 7C feature story, magazine.
- Gena Asher, Bloomington:
- First for 34B, website development/creation, corporate or for-profit sites;
- Second for 33C, website edited by entrant; and for 34C, website development/creation special interest sites.
- Honorable mention 32C, writing for the Web, nonprofit; 33A website edited by entrant, nonprofit; and 34A website development/creation nonprofit.
- Shirley Lynn Bushey, Bloomington:
- First place for 10B columns, general.
- Stephanie Taylor Ferriell, Salem:
- First for 1A, news reporting, 10D columns, 18B photography.
- Honorable mention, 7A feature story; 16A page layout; 18A photography.
- Elizabeth Granger, Indianapolis:
- First for 7C feature story, magazine; 9Q specialty stories, travel; 73 faculty adviser of student publications.
- Fred Granger, Indianapolis:
- Second for 20B, photography in printed publication other than newspaper, magazine feature.
- Rita Kohn, Indianapolis:
- First place, 25B Radio/television; 75A nonfiction book, general.
- Kendal R. Miller, Dillsboro:
- First for 20B, photography in printed publication other than newspaper, feature; 20D, photography in printed publication, postcard.
- Second place for 20E, photography in printed publication other than newspaper; and 36C blogs, Web content, special interest sites.
- Donna Penticuff, Marion:
- First place for 33A website edited by entrant; 50A public relations materials, external annual report; 53A PR materials, one to three color pint; 56A PR materials, direct mail marketing.
- Tara Puckey, Pendleton:
- First place for 62A collegiate news writing, magazine; 63A collegiate feature writing, magazine; 63C collegiate feature writing, Web.
- Pam Robinson, Mt. Vernon:
- Second place for 8B, personality profiles, newspaper; 10B columns.
- Honorable mention for 10A columns, humorous; 18B photography, nondaily newspaper feature.
- Vivian Sade, Churubusco:
- First for 33C, website edited by entrant, special interest; 34C website development creation, special interest sites.
- Elise Sims, Crown Point:
- First place, 51B PR materials, magazine; 58A information for media, news release.
- Julie Slaymaker, Indianapolis:
- First for 9C speciality articles, arts and entertainment.
From left, Davis congratulates Julie Slaymaker on the end of her presidency and the her first place award in the communications contest. (Photo by Kendal Miller)
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