2006-07 News
Public Relations alum receives international award for Katrina cookbook
Amy Cyrex Sins, A'98, was honored in June 2007 with an international cookbook award for her book Ruby Slippers Cookbook: Life, Culture, Family & Food After Katrina. The judges of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards reviewed thousands of published cookbooks and chose Ruby Slippers Cookbook by Sins as a winner of the Special Award of the Jury alongside books by Morgan Freeman and Oprah's Chef, Art Smith. Sins received her award during a ceremony in Beijing, China. To purchase the cookbook online, go to http://www.rubyslippersnola.com/
Public Relations professor to teach at The Advertising Council in New York City
Dr. Cathy Rogers, associate professor and public relations sequence head in the School of Mass Communication, will teach in summer 2007 as a visiting professor at The Advertising Council in New York City. Rogers was chosen for the job because of her work with non-profitsthrough Loyola's Shawn M. Donnelley Center for Nonprofit Communications.
The Donnelley Center assists nonprofit organizations with advertising and promotional campaigns. The program allows students to gain invaluable hands-on design, advertising, and public relations experience while providing a service to organizations that can not afford to hire professionals to promote their organization and its mission. As a visiting professor, Rogers will collaborate with peers in the mass communication field to create public service campaigns sponsored by the council.
The Advertising Council is a private, non-profit organization that organizes volunteers and resources to distribute critical messages to the American public. The council creates, distributes and endorses thousands of public service campaigns for non-profit organizations and government agencies on topics that include improving the quality of life for children, preventative health, education, community well being, environmental preservation and strengthening families.
Students complete final news broadcast; Campus news station says goodbye
Students studying broadcast journalism and broadcast production conducted their final news show for WLDC-TV, Loyola University New Orleans' campus TV station, on May 2, 2007.
Advertising professor joins School of Mass Communication
Dr. Anita G. Day was hired in Spring 2007 to join the faculty of the School of Mass Communication as the Advertising Sequence Head.
Dr. Day received her Ph.D. from Louisiana State University in December 2006. She has worked in the mass communication field for 20 years since receiving her FCC license at the age of 16. She began as a disc jockey before moving to television producing and writing.
Dr. Day’s research interests include corporate influence and public opinion, religion and media and indirect media effects.
Dr. Day has earned honors and awards during her education. She graduated from the University of Houston with a bachelor of arts in journalism, where she received the first Women in Communications Scholarship awarded in the School of Communications. She was also awarded the Charles P. Manship Outstanding graduate student award while studying for her Master of Mass Communication degree at LSU.
Dr. Day has also won top paper in the law division at the national conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
School of Mass Communication hosts Tom Bell Silver Scribe
High School Journalism Competition
The School of Mass Communication hosted the 31st Annual Tom Bell Silver Scribe High School Journalism Competition on Saturday, March 24, 2007. The event was held on the third floor of the Communications/Music Complex.
Dafna Goldwasser of Grace King High School was awarded the Silver Scribe Grand Award. Irish Eyes, the Grace King High School newspaper, was named best newspaper, and Grace King was awarded the Sweepstakes Award for most points amassed by students from one school.
More than 40 students from eight local high schools participated. The annual daylong competition is co-sponsored by the Press Club of New Orleans and Loyola’s School of Mass Communication. The event is named after its founder, the late Tom Bell, a longtime Loyola journalism professor and a former Press Club president.
- The Maroon staff takes home Press Club of New Orleans Awards (July 2007)
- Public Relations alum receives international award for Katrina cookbook (June 2007)
- Journalism alum writes chapter in book about Katrina (June 2007)
- Public Relations Sequence Head selected to teach at the Advertising Council In New York City (May 2007)
- Loyola Bateman Team places in national top 10 (April 2007)
- Loyola Maroon staff wins multiple awards (April 2007)
- Loyola hosts 31st annual Tom Bell Silver Scribe Competition (March 2007)
- Bateman team kicks off 2007 campaign (February 2007)
- New Orleans District Attorney visits Communications Class (January 2007)
- The Maroon Wins Five Awards at The Southeast Journalism Conference (January 2007)
- PR alum named PR Week's Agency Executive of the Year (November 2006)
- The Maroon takes home 2006 Pacemaker Award (October 2006)
- Communications professor teaches at courts workshop (September 2006)