Events/activities for 2011-12:
Thurs., Nov. 3, 2011: Dinner and networking session with Charlotte pro chapter of SPJ. Met at Sir Edmund Halley's Tavern in Charlotte. Featured speaker: Charlotte Observer columnist Tommy Tomlinson. Guy Reel and I were there, along with WU students Hannah Schwartz, Amie Detar, Connor de Bruler, Claire Byun and Sarah Aulin.
Thurs., Feb. 2, 2012: Dinner and networking/Q&A session with Mark Kemp, editor-in-chief of Charlotte Creative Loafing Magazine. Met with Kemp and the Charlotte pro chapter of SPJ at Sir Edmund Halley's Tavern in Charlotte.
Thurs., April 19, 2012: Reception and recognition/awards (at Winthrop University) for the top four area high school essayists in the SPJ-sponsored writing competition on freedom of the press. This year our chapter received 31 essays. Students from the following schools entered our essay competition: North Myrtle Beach High School, Gaffney High School, Homeschool, Northwest Academy, Heritage High School, Lexington High School, Brookland-Cayce High School, Porter-Gaud School, Pinewood Preparatory School, Wando High School, and Westminster Catawba Christian School.
The winning essays (as determined by the student president of the Winthrop SPJ chapter and by a Winthrop mass communication professor and a journalism professor emeritus) were:
First Place, Mary Alexander Barron, Westminster Catawba Christian School
Second Place, Chien-Hsiang Huang, Lexington High School
Third Place, Amy Duvall, Gaffney High School
Honorable Mention, MaryAnn Mills, Westminster Catawba Christian School
All of the students who entered the contest, as well as their teachers, parents and other family members, were invited to the reception. The first, second, third place, and honorable mention winners read their essays to us. An audience was on hand to hear their work. Certificates and prizes (from the Winthrop Bookstore and from the Winthrop Department of Mass Communication) were presented to our top four winners.
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