News 02/13/02

Tesch, Young & von Neiderhausern named top JCOM seniors

By the department of journalism and communication

The department of journalism and communication has named its outstanding seniors for the 2001-02 academic year.

RACHEL von NEIDERHAUSERN has just completed her term as executive director of ComUSU, JCOM's senior public relations agency, where she supervised six PR teams and created a marketing plan for her client, CISCO. She also works for Milieu Design in Logan and is media relations coordinator for the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at USU. A native of College Ward in Cache Valley, Rachel is on the USU Dean's List with a 3.8 GPA, has been president of Lambda Delta Sigma Sorority, and has completed minor degrees in music and business. Rachel starts work on her MBA at USU next fall.

JENNACA TESCH is working as a broadcast assistant during the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City with International Sports Broadcasting, the 2002 Olympics international host broadcaster. A native of West Valley City, Utah, Jennaca was editor of the Tri-Color Times at Granger High School, and has been a reporter and anchor on Aggie TV News, the student-produced newscast airing on Aggie Cable. She is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, is on the Dean's list with a GPA of 3.7 and has completed an English major at USU. Upon graduation, Jennaca plans to go to work in TV news.

MARCIE YOUNG is working at the 2002 Olympic Games with International Sports Broadcasting, the Olympic Games' international host broadcaster, at the hockey venues at the E Center in West Valley City. This is just the latest of Marcie's professional media experiences. A Salt Lake City native and the 1998 Utah Scholastic Journalist of the Year at Judge Memorial High School, she was world & nation editor for The Utah Statesman this year, and has worked as a reporter for The Logan Herald-Journal and The Diamondback at the University of Maryland while on a year-long exchange in 1999. During that year, Marcie also was a press intern in the office of U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., in Washington, D.C. She also has worked on the assignment desk of KUTV-Channel 2 in Salt Lake City, and is a JCOM teaching assistant and webmaster for the JCOM Department homepage. She spent a year abroad at Utrecht University in the Netherlands in 2001. Marcie graduates with a GPA of 3.9 and plans a career in newspaper journalism.




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