Heather Bardinelli and Tim Suda are relieved to be completed with their capstone presentations and now wait serenely for their evaluations. Remember those days? It was fun to reminisce after the presentations with alumni Brian Carter, Daniela Guevara, Ruben Mendez, Cale Padgett and Justin Poole.
Last month, the faculty and SLC were involved in our first Mass Comm Experience Day. About 30 high school juniors and seniors toured the Swanson Center, ate in the caf, and took mini-classes from professors Arbitter, Moss, Simon and Van Cantfort. What fun! We got a lot of help from our friends Gwen and Mark Childers from Herff Jones, the yearbook people. Look here for pictures from the event: http://www.speakingyearbook.com/
Put these dates on your calendar: Friday/Saturday, April 16 & 17. That's Alumni Weekend at Piedmont, and the MCOM department is planning a special event for our alumni and students. More on that later.
Here is some news from your fellow alumni:
- Crystal Brooks recently got engaged to the love of her life, Matt, and they'll be getting married in March, 2010. She's still working on her masters in education and just got accepted into a million dollar American History grant program through the USDOE for history teachers.
- Per Nyberg is contributing reports from Europe for CNN. Here are some examples of his work posted on CNN.com. http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/11/07/iran.danish.arrest/index.html http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/10/25/uk.lockerbie.investigation/index.html
- Gabby Parham (Pitts) is still enjoying her work designing ads, handling legals and laying out the Bulletin Board publication (among other things) at The Northeast Georgian.
- Brandon Ridgway and his wife Sarah are expecting their first child in January. It's a boy! They've decided to name him Noah Daniel Ridgway.
Happy holidays to all of our alumni and their families from the Mass Comm faculty!
