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Ellingford, Evans, Stettler named top seniors of JCOM A
letter to our friends from Department Head Ted Pease
I am pleased to announce the Department of Journalism & Communication's 2000-2001 Outstanding Seniors, Outstanding Graduate Student, and JCOM faculty awards. Each year, the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences has ceremonies to honor three outstanding seniors from each of the departments in the college, along with the college's teacher, researcher and humanist of the year. This year's HASS Awards Night is at 7 p.m. April 17 in the Morgan Theater at the Chase Fine Arts Center. Our honorees as Outstanding Graduating Seniors of the year, selected by the JCOM faculty, are: Broadcasting and Electronic Media: Season Ellingford (Bios of these three terrific students are at the bottom of this page.) In addition, three outstanding JCOM juniors, sophomores and freshmen will be announced later in the semester. The faculty also have selected Tiffany Zachry as JCOM Outstanding Graduate Student of the Year. A bio of Tiffany will follow. Last year, we revived faculty awards in three categories: teaching, research and service. The 2000-2001 JCOM faculty awards are: Teacher of the Year: Michael S. Sweeney
Mike also is the College of HASS Researcher of the Year, and will be on the stage at HASS Awards Night. Jim, who retired last spring but continues this year in the classroom, is honored for his long service to the department as former department head, longtime graduate coordinator, devoted teacher and valued colleague. He was named emeritus associate professor by the provost's office earlier this semester. Brenda, who leads the faculty in her research published in some of the top juried scholarly journals in the field, has five manuscripts either in print or under review this year alone. I'm sure you all join me in congratulating all these outstanding folks on their accomplishments. --Ted Pease DEPARTMENT
OF JOURNALISM AND COMMUNICATION SEASON M. ELLINGFORD Season M. Ellingford is the Department of Journalism & Communication's 2001 Outstanding Senior in Broadcast Journalism. In addition to her journalism degree, Season has completed a minor in political science and graduates with a GPA of 3.15. A native of Evanston, Wyo., Season came to USU as a transfer student from the University of Wyoming in 1998, and promptly became a mainstay of the student news program, ATV-News. On the ATV set, broadcasting USU and Cache Valley news on the Aggie TV cable system, Season has been a producer, scriptwriter and a key news anchor. Writing from KIFI-TV8 in Idaho Falls, where Season interned last summer, her boss, Sean Whiting writes: "Season was my right-hand. I think I stole her from my producer, but it was a crime that paid off big for the entire news station. Within two weeks, Season was a full-fledged reporter, out in the field shooting, writing and editing. Season brought to KIFI solid experience, determination and a winning personality. It doesn't surprise me that USU is recognizing Season for her achievements." This experience will pay off for Season when she goes to work during the 2002 Olympics for the host broadcaster, working on coverage of the Olympics for clients worldwide. She plans a career as a news producer or news anchor in broadcast news. MONICA L. EVANS Monica L. Evans is the Department of Journalism & Communication's 2001 Outstanding Senior in Public Relations/Corporate Communications. In addition to her journalism major, the Tooele native has also completed a minor in women's studies and graduates with a GPA of 3.65. Monica has been active in leading student organizations at USU, serving as president and vice president of her sorority, Alpha Chi Omega, as public relations coordinator for the HASS Council, and as president of the Newman Club. For the past year, Monica has served as an officer in the department's student-run public relations agency, ComUSU, finishing up this semester as its external director, supervising six student teams who work with Cache Valley clients on media relations projects. She was one of 13 USU students selected to intern at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City this year, working for ShowBizData.com, a Los Angeles company specializing in business information on the entertainment industry. For the past year, Monica has worked on campus as a travel study coordinator, doing publicity and event planning for USU's student travel office. All those experiences will serve Monica well, as she is considering a career in international travel and special events planning. That will begin immediately after commencement, when she flies to London to work for several months before returning to the United States to work in corporate public relations. JEREMIAH D. STETTLER Jeremiah D. Stettler is the Department of Journalism & Communication's 2001 Outstanding Senior in Print Journalism. He is a double major in journalism and political science/pre-law who has also worked as a newspaper reporter for the Logan Herald Journal since 1999, and for a year before that at the Sun-Advocate in Price, Utah, while he was a student at the College of Eastern Utah. He has an overall GPA of 3.8, which isn't bad considering that he also is the Herald Journal's full-time government and political reporter. Though still "just a student," his professors consider him the best reporter at the paper. A native of Cleveland, Utah, Jeremiah was an Eagle Scout, served an LDS mission to Denmark, and has won awards from the Utah Press Association and CEU, where he was outstanding journalist of the year in 1999, and outstanding foreign language student of the year in 1998. Jeremiah is current recipient of USU's highest honor for print journalists, the Jay W. Glasmann Family Scholarship. Next year, Jeremiah will begin a master's degree program here at USU. He writes: "Though I have toyed with pursuing an academic career in political science, my passion lies in journalism and more specifically in political reporting. My tenure at the Herald Journal has introduced me to the intricacies of budgeting, planning and zoning, abuses of power, water and sewer, and dozens of other issues pertaining to Logan city government. . . . Graduate school is vital to expanding my occupational horizons. Perhaps I'm too critical of newspapers, but a shortfall of the business is its disregard for analytical thinking. Reporters are trained to regurgitate information, rather than to analyze the issues at hand. The resulting stories are often ill-conceived and incomplete. I hope to break that stereotype by acquiring a greater aptitude for analytical thinking." The public life of politics and journalism has much to look forward to in Jeremiah Stettler.
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