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AWARD WINNERS: Assistant professor Kathryn Jenson White, Oklahoma Daily adviser Jack Willis and students from the Daily staff attended the 2006 SPJ award banquet. Willis won the inaugural Journalism Teacher of the Year award and White won 1st place in Feature Writing.

Students
The Sooner and Crimson Traditions yearbook staff members won 10 individual awards, and The Oklahoma Daily staff won six individual awards. Nearly 4,000 entries were submitted. Sooner winners included: Sarah Lai, third place, Feature Writing: Student Life; Augie Frost, second place, Organization/Greek Writing; Debby Adams, first place, and Lauren Parajon, certificate of merit, Personality Profile; staff, second place, headline writing; Eric Thurstin, third place, End Sheets; staff, first place, Sports Spread; Brittany Kennemer, first place, People Spread; Geneva Daniel, first place, Academic Photo, and second place, Feature Photo. The Oklahoma Daily winners included: Scooby Axson, third place, News Writing; Ryan McGhee, certificate of merit, Sports Feature Writing; Calvin Son and Brianna Bailey, certificates of merit, General Feature; Sarah Waldrop, certificate of merit, In-Depth News/Feature Story; advertising staff, certificate of merit, Advertising Page.

College

Two charitable foundations established by the late Edith Kinney Gaylord have joined to make the largest grant in their 24-year history – $7 million – to build the second phase of a University of Oklahoma facility originally constructed with gifts from Gaylord and her brother, Edward L. Gaylord. Grants of $5 million from the Inasmuch Foundation and $2 million from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation have been committed and represent the lead donations for Phase II of Gaylord Hall.

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Meta G. Carstarphen was recognized as the outstanding faculty adviser for the Adopt-a-Prof program.

The OU AdClub sponsored a series of workshops in April in which several alumni who worked with students on portfolios and interview techniques. Three advertising agencies interviewed students for internships and jobs. Brad Karsh, president of JobBound, spoke to the attendees about “Getting a Job in Advertising.”

The Edward R. Murrow
Program for Journalists from Latin America, South America and Canada came to Oklahoma under a U.S. State Dept. global training initiative. OU was one of five universities that participated in the program along with the Aspen Institute.

Oklahoma Scholastic Media/Oklahoma Interscholastic Press Association brought more than 500 high-school journalism students and their media advisers to the OU campus for the 2006 Spring Media Monday in April. OSM/OIPA Executive Director Kathryn Jenson White, assistant professor of journalism, oversaw the event and statewide writing competition.

In March, the OU Regents approved the Gaylord College’s Doctoral Program in mass communication. The program will begin accepting students in fall 2007.

The Oklahoma Chapter of Society of Professional Journalists held its annual awards banquet in February and Daily adviser Jack Willis was honored with SPJ’s first Journalism Teacher of the Year award. Kathryn Jenson White took first place in the magazine feature writing contest. Adjunct professor Steve Sisney also took first place in general photography. OU students also won many awards: investigative/individual reporting – first place, Chris Terbruegen; third place, Kendal Kelly; In-depth enterprise reporting/individual – first place, Sarah Waldrop, second place, Brianna Bailey; third place, Courtney Roach; In-depth enterprise reporting/team – first place, Danny Marroquin, Matthew Miller and James Nghiem; second place, William W. Savage II, Marlena Chavira, and Andrew May; third place, The Oklahoma Daily staff; Political/governmental reporting – second place, Annie Gasparro; Spot news – first place, Bonnie Thompson; third place, Zachary Warmbrodt; Feature writing – first place, Kendal Kelly; General news reporting – first place, Kendal Kelly; third place, Sarah Waldrop; Special projects – first place, The Oklahoma Daily staff; Health, science and technology reporting – third place, Keaton Fuchs; Business reporting – first place, Sarah Waldrop; second place, Julianna Parker; Sports reporting – second place, Jenny Dial; Sports column – first place, Daniel Dillard; Page One layout and design – second place, Ryan Newberry; third place, Ryan Newberry; Feature page layout and design – first place, Ryan Newberry; Feature photography – second place, Billy Adams; Story/photo essay – third place, Jonathan Stapleton; Spot news photography – second place, Samuel Perry; Best reporting portfolio – first place, Kendal Kelly; honorable mention, Sarah Waldrop. KGOU/KROU also were winners. They were: General news reporting – honorable mention, Scott Gurian; Series/documentary – second place, Scott Gurian; Feature – honorable mention, Scott Gurian; Best news talk show – first place, KGOU; second place, KGOU; Best radio reporting portfolio – first place, Scott Gurian.

Eight Gaylord College students brought home nine gold and silver AAF ADDYs from the annual Oklahoma City Ad Club award event held in February at the Bricktown Coca Cola Event Center. In front of more than 700 professionals, senior Jared Thompson also was named by the AAF to receive the top Graphic Achievement Award for 2006. Winning gold ADDYs were Lindsey Pulliam for her Think Pink! direct marketing campaign for Victoria’s Secret; Lindsay Siler for The Wire is Live! poster campaign; Evan Benedetto for his Crayola Crayons campaign; Michael Byrne for The Geek Squad poster campaign and Andrew Wilson for his Bombay Spin the Bottle campaign. Winning silver were Jennifer Rickard for point of purchase, Shakespeare in the Park; Jared Thompson for PlayDoh, The Little Artist in Us All; Evan Benedetto for Fruit of the Loom campaign and Rhiannon Roblyer for The Gap catalog.

 

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