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Spring Meeting Events 2009

Date: Tuesday, January 13

Time: 5:30 p.m.

Location: Faculty Club

Reminders: Renew your FPRA membership - contact jsperber@rollins.edu

Date: Tuesday, February 3

Time: 5:30 p.m.

Location: Faculty Club

Details: Guest Speakers: Melanie Forbrick and Laura Guitar

Date: Tuesday, March 3

Time: 5:30 p.m.

Location: Faculty Club

Details: Open Meeting and Planning Session

Date: Saturday, April 18

Time: 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Location: Galloway Room

Details: Networking Roundtable

Fall 2008

Date: Saturday, Nov. 1

Time: 7 a.m.- 1 p.m.

Location: Farmer's Market

Details: Booth to promote "Stroll-a-thon" event benefiting Children's Miracle Network

Date: Saturday, Nov. 8

Time: 7 a.m.- 1 p.m.

Location: Farmer's Market

Details: Booth to promote "Stroll-Athon" event benefiting Children's Miracle Network

Date: Saturday, Nov 15

Time: 9-11 a.m.

Location: Rollins Campus

Detailss: Stroll-Athon Community Walk to benefit Chrildren's Miracle Network

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Welcome to Communiqué!

Spring of 2009

Upcoming Events

 

End-of-Semester Celebration & Members Interest Meeting

May 5, 2009

Join us in the Faculty Club from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. to celebrate the year.  Interested members can learn more about Communiqué, the variety of leadership opportunities (see back) and meet Carolyn Planck, 2009-10 Communiqué Advisor.  Communiqué Officer and leadership opportunities include:

President – Leader of the organization. Works closely with the advisor to research and implement organization goals. Creates agenda for monthly meetings, acts as facilitator during meetings and helps with recruitment. Attends FPRA functions as time permits.

Vice President – Assists and supports the president with all efforts. Handles communications between leadership positions and serves as membership contact liaison.

Secretary – Records minutes during all meetings and e-mails them to Web Site Chair for posting on the Web.

Community Service Chair – Manages the community service efforts of the organization. Serves as contact/liaison for nonprofit organizations, sets up speakers and coordinates job shadows for interested members.

Public Relations Chair – Manages the public relations efforts of the organization. Works with advisor and president on media story pitches and external public relations.

Web Site Chair – Regularly maintains and updates the Communiqué Web site. This includes posting monthly meeting minutes, stories, calendar information, etc.

 

Networking Round Table

 

Networking Roundtable

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Networking Roundtable & Professional Development Workshop
Saturday, April 18, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Galloway Room, Mills Memorial Hall

Dozens of students had the chance to hear from Central Florida professionals in a variety of industries and network with them during lunch.  The 2009 Networking Roundtable & Professional Development Workshop wraped up with advice from Rollins Career Counselor Marian Cacciatore on “Navigating the Job Market in a Downturn Economy.”

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Roast & Toast

Postponed untill the Fall of 2009

Details to Follow

 

February Meeting

On Tuesday, February 3, Communique held a members-only conversation with two Central Florida professionals who shared about their careers in public relations ...

Melanie Forbrick, Communications Director, Siemens Energy - Melanie oversees communications activities in the Americas, including strategic communications planning, events, tradeshows, global advertising, media relations, internal communications, marketing communications and visual graphic production. In 2006, Melanie was named by the Orlando Business Journal as one of Central Florida's "40 under 40" business leaders.  She received a BA in journalism from the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida, in 1987.

Laura Guitar, Senior Vice President, Edelman Public Relations - A Rollins alumna from the Class of 1992, Laura Guitar leads the Orlando-based team of Edelman, the world's largest independent public relations firm.  Laura has more than 13 years of experience and was most recently named an "Up and Comer" in the Orlando Sentinel's Power Ranking List.  In 2006, she was recognized as a young leader in Central Florida with the Orlando Business Journal's "40 under 40" award and in 2007 was an Orlando Business Journal 'Women Who Mean Business' finalist. 

Here's what we worked on last year:

 

Fall of 2008

Communiqué Holiday Mixer!

Communiqué members celebrate the holiday season at Dexter's in Winter Park, Fl.

 

 

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Rollins Communiqué and Dance Marathon members raise funds for Children's Miracle Network at Winter Park Farmer's Market

Rollins College Communique Participates in Fund Raising for Rollins Dance Marathon to benefit Chrildren's Miracle Network

Rollins student organization Communiqué, the student chapter of the Florida Public Relations Association (FPRA) chose the Second Annual Rollins Dance Marathon to benefit the Children's Miracle Network as its fall community service project. Communiqué members assisted Rollins with publicity, promotion and fundraising for Dance Marathon. Communiqué assisted with the donation drive at The Winter Park Farmer's Market and the first-ever Stroll-A-Thon. Stroll-a-thon

Spring of 2008

Rollins College Communique Wins Public Relations Award for "Baking for Breat Cancer" Community Service Project.

Rollins student organization Communiqué, the student chapter of the Florida Public Relations Association (FPRA) won the only award presented to students during the 2008 Image Awards. The awards ceremony was held Thursday, April 20 at the CityArts Factory in downtown Orlando. 

Rollins College Hamilton Holt School students Marja Kolomyski and Nicole Webb, and Rollins College Director of News & Media Relations Jeni Hatter won an Award of Distinction for "Baking for Breast Cancer."

The community service project, organized by Communique, included collecting money during bake sales. As a result, $1,000 was raised for breast cancer awareness and proceeds were donated to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation. This is the second public award Communique has received in two years.

The Image Awards competition is conducted annually byt he Florida Public Relations Association to recognize outstanding public relations programs in Florida and to encourage abd promote development of public relations professionalism in our state.

The Image Awards have become a standard of public relations excellence in the state of Florida. Winners demonstrate the very best examples of innovation, planning and design. The awards competition includes four divisions of categories: Public Relations Programs, Printed Tools of Public Relations, Audio/Visual Tools of Public Relations and Student Projects in Public Relations. To qualify for judging, an entry must incorporate sound public relations research and planning. Entries also must meet the highest standard of production, execution, and evaluation of results and budget.

Sweater Drive

Communique members helped with a sweater drive in honor of Fred Rogers. Collection boxes were located throughout the Rollins campus and at the Winter Park Public Library. This event concluded with a visit to Rollins by a former associate producer of Mister Rogers Neighborhood. Please visit http://news.rollins.edu/fredrogers.shtml for more information.

Ripple Effect

We worked with the Ripple Effect to help feed the homeless. This organization was founded by a Rollins alumni.

Hamilton Holt School’s MLS Program Celebrates 20th Anniversary

This semester, the Hamilton Holt School’s Master of Liberal Studies (MLS) program celebrated 20 years. In honor of that, New York Times journalist and best-selling author Frank Rich held a public talk at Rollins in the Alfond Sports Center. Members assisted with planning this event.

Other Event Support

Members joined efforts with other volunteers at a variety of Florida Public Relations Association (FPRA) events, as well as Starry, Starry Night, a Hamilton Holt School fundraiser. The FPRA Roast & Toast was held Thursday, March 20 and the FPRA Image Awards were held Thursday, April 24. For more information, visit www.fpra-orlando.org. Starry, Starry Night was held at the Alfond Sports Center Friday, April 18.

Fall of 2007

Adopt a Unit

We teamed up with the Rollins men’s and women’s lacrosse teams in this community service project to help them collect items to send overseas to the troops. Through their “Adopt-a-Unit” outreach campaign, the inaugural men’s and women’s Tars lacrosse teams mailed a total of 60 boxes filled with supplies to our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Baking for Breast Cancer

In honor of October being National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we raised money through bake sales for the Susan G. Komen Foundation. Bake sales were held in front of the Cornell Campus Center. Money collected was donated to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

Networking Roundtable

More than 50 students attended our signature event November 8, 2007 during which they had the opportunity to network with local communications professionals.

 

 

 

 
 

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