NewsBreak February 2010 - Vol. 21, No. 3

In This Issue:

• The Business of You! – Time Management Expert to Speak at February DPA Meeting

• President’s Corner: Focus, Plan, Rededicate to Excellence – Off and Running in 2010

• Spotlight: 2010 COA Theresa Gawlas Medoff Personifies the Joys of Freelancing

• Obama’s Win Credited to Decision Not to Play by the “Rules” – David Plouffe Tells All

• WordPlay . . . for Wordsmiths

• The Power of the Pen, the Allure of the Coin

• Deborah Pace Takes New DPA Board Position: Web and Social Media Director

• DPA Welcomes New Members

• DPA Media Mavens & Mavericks

• Calendar of Events

The Business of You!

Double Your Productivity, Reduce Your Stress & Balance Your Life

Steve McClatchy, international speaker, writer, consultant, trainer and expert on time management, will be the speaker at the February 19 Delaware Press Association meeting. We’ll gather at the DuPont Country Club at 11:30 a.m. for lunch and to hear his talk, “The Business of You!,” a fast-paced, interactive presentation in which you will learn how to better prioritize, plan and make decisions regarding your time. You also will learn how to gain control over your to-do list, calendar, contacts and information. If you want to double your productivity, reduce your stress and balance your life, this is a don’t miss presentation.

Founder and president of Alleer Training & Consulting, McClatchy says, “In this age of social networking, text messages, instant messaging, e-mail, voice mail, cell phone calls, face-to-face meetings, virtual meetings, drop-ins and a to-do list that never seems to end, a new approach to managing it is all that’s needed: a fresh, practical every-day approach that will help you to accomplish more in less time and with less stress.”

After attending this session, McClatchy says the participants will be able to:

• Execute specific tasks that create work/life balance.

• Plan in a way that reduces stress and saves time.

• Get more done in less time.

• Better document, retrieve and organize information.

• End e-mail addiction and keep a two-minute interruption to two minutes.

McClatchy, whose client list includes the NFL, Merck, Microsoft, Disney and Comcast, has spoken before thousands of audiences on the topics of time management, leadership and consultative selling skills. He says participants walk away from his presentations with knowledge, skills and strategies that put them in greater control and make them more productive.

One of twelve children, McClatchy grew up outside of Philadelphia. He has a BA in both finance and economics from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

Please join us on Friday, February 19, at the DuPont Country Club, Black Gates and Rockland roads, Wilmington, at 11:30 a.m. for registration and networking with DPA friends and colleagues. Lunch and program at noon.

Directions to the DuPont Country Club

The DuPont Country Club is located at 1001 Rockland Road (intersection of Black Gates and Rockland roads), Wilmington. Click here for directions and a map to the DuPont Country Club.

Reservations

Cost: Members $25; Non-members $30.

Registration and Payment Options: – MAKE LUNCHEON RESERVATIONS –
 

Please sign up no later than Monday, February 15.

See you on February 19 for a lively program that will double your productivity, reduce your stress and balance your life!

Allan Loudell is the DPA Programs Vice President. For more information, contact Allan at 302-478-2700 or aloudell@wdel.com.

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Focus, Plan, Rededicate to Excellence

Off and Running in 2010

by Mark Fowser

So, we’ll just ease out of 2009 and begin 2010 with time to focus, plan and rededicate ourselves to striving for excellence in the New Year and the new decade . . .

Or so I thought.

We have had a series of remarkable news events that, while exciting to cover and report on, tax the resources of a modern-day newsroom like WILM’s.

The blizzard of December 19 became a six-day coverage event: the day before was spent previewing the storm and determining our own scheduling needs for a weekend storm; Saturday and Sunday were devoted to providing updates on canceled events, traffic conditions and the ever-changing forecast; and Monday through Wednesday the majority of schools called in with closings, beginning their holiday breaks early.

Even on the morning of Christmas Eve, we were catching up with Delaware’s U.S. Senators Carper and Kaufman following their votes on health care reform in Washington. The day after Christmas, we kept an eye on the flood potential due to heavy rain and all that melting snow. Also, we were getting reaction to the arrest of a suspected terrorist, accused of trying to blow up a plane with explosives smuggled in his underwear.

The final day of 2009 brought a surprise one-inch snowfall that triggered a large number of accidents.

Already in 2010 we have reported on the passing of Vice President Joe Biden’s mother and the visit of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama to Wilmington for Mrs. Biden’s funeral. Any presidential visit requires extensive planning and credentialing, as well as a close watch on traffic conditions because local roads are closed for the motorcade.

At this writing, we are gathering various reactions to the devastating earthquake in Haiti and reporting on the many ways Delawareans and organizations are stepping forward to assist in the relief efforts.

All this, in less than a month!

And guess what? We wouldn’t have it any other way.

However, it sounds like we could profit from learning more about time management. Fortunately, that happens to be the focus of our initial DPA event in 2010, on Friday, February 19 (read full story on “The Business of You!”).

Now more than ever, as we deal with increasing demands and time pressures, your investment in a DPA membership pays dividends in networking opportunities, educational and entertaining programs, avenues for peer recognition in the annual Communications Contest and so much more.

And don’t forget, at the national level, our parent organization, NFPW, offers great networking, a prestigious annual communications contest, an online job bank and professional development through an affordable, top-notch annual communications conference (in Chicago this year, details in the spring). Want to know more about trends and issues in communications? Connect with national by checking out the twice-weekly blog from NFPW president Cynthia Price at cynthiapricecommunique.wordpress.com.

Now, back to where we started: focus, plan and rededicate ourselves to excellence in the New Year.

Contact Mark Fowser at 302-395-9857 or markfowser@wilm.com.


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Spotlight: Theresa Gawlas Medoff Named 2010 DPA Communicator of Achievement

Award-winning Writer Personifies the Joys of Freelancing

by Ralph Begleiter

Theresa Medoff, a prolific, award-winning freelance writer and a longtime member and mainstay of Delaware Press Association, was named the 2010 Communicator of Achievement at the DPA Holiday Luncheon in December. The COA award – given for a lifetime of achievement in the communications profession and for exemplary service to the community, to humanity and to the profession – is the highest honor DPA bestows on its members.

After college – Bucknell University, where she was graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in English and Political Science and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa – Theresa got a foothold on a writing career. She moved to Massachusetts, where she copy-edited articles for six technical and scientific journals. At Regis College in Weston, Mass., she took charge of the quarterly alumni magazine and all college publications. And later, at the University of Delaware, she taught writing to undergrads and served the university as a technical writer, while earning a master's degree in English and American literature.

Over the years, the broad scope of Theresa’s interests has made her conversant with subject matter that ranges from education and health to history, travel and social issues. Her editors think very highly of her work. So do DPA and the National Federation of Press Women, which have honored her with awards for essay, advertorial, photo essay and feature writing.

Since 1996, she has written for an incredible array of publications from her perch here in Delaware. Her work has appeared locally and regionally in AAA World, Delaware Today, Delaware Bride, Delaware Health and Fitness Guide, Bucknell Magazine, Delaware Beach Life, Recreation News and others. Theresa also takes photos, many of which have appeared in newspapers and magazines.

Her articles also have been published in major newspapers around the U.S.

Theresa says, “If I could pick any career in the world, being a freelance writer would be it. I have always loved to learn, to get to know new people, to go to new places and try new things, and that’s all part of my job description. I love to work with words – reading, writing, editing, even proofreading – again, all part of my job description. I’m a curious person, always wondering, asking questions – and that’s my job.”

Addressing other joys of freelance writing, Theresa says, “Like many journalists, I’ve met, interviewed and written about my share of celebrities, but I enjoy more the articles I write about everyday people. We are privileged that people are willing to share their stories with us when we are usually total strangers to them. I am especially touched to gain the trust of people like the young woman who knew she was dying from breast cancer, or the man who told me what it meant to his life when finally, as an adult, he learned to read, or the mothers of soldiers killed in Iraq, or the woman who nearly died from undiagnosed AIDS and now works as a counselor to others with HIV/AIDS. Through our gift as writers and the power of the press, we can pass these stories along.

“Freelancing also has allowed me to be a mom in the way that I wanted to be. I could have a career as a writer (how great is it that I get to do what I love every day!), but also I could be there for my girls after school and could attend the shows and the games and the parent nights at school.

“As a freelancer, I spend much of my time at home alone, on the phone or on the computer. I don’t have traditional co-workers, but another great joy in work is the variety of colleagues I have come to know. Like my editors, some of whom helped me get started in this career, who gave generously of their time to help me become better at my craft. Like the administrative assistants, the PR and marketing people who provide story background and research groundwork, who help set up interviews and track down images and fact check articles. Like my fellow writers, some here in Delaware, others all over the country, with whom I share ideas and tips, commiserate and celebrate. And like my fellow members of DPA. We are lucky to have this group – not just because of the programs that DPA sponsors, but because of the people who are its members, people who support each other and cheer each other on and can always be counted on.”

But Theresa is about more than just writing. She’s also about her community. For many years, Theresa chaired the Social Action Committee at her church, the Unitarian Universalist Society of Mill Creek. She started the annual Souperbowl Sunday soup-and-bread sale at her church to raise money for the Food Bank of Delaware. She also arranged for her church to switch to Fair Trade coffee. And she has tutored students whose first language is not English.

The COA award also recognizes service to Delaware Press Association, and Theresa has filled that bill many times. She has served in several leadership roles, including president. In 2003, when DPA hosted the National Federation of Press Women’s annual Communications Conference in Wilmington, Theresa was a key player lining up outstanding speakers from across the U.S. and helping Delaware to show off well. She has helped organize and present other major DPA public events, including a recent panel discussion on the economic collapse in the U.S., and another last year on freedom of information issues.

Through the nature and breadth of her writing, her service to the community and to DPA, Theresa Medoff indeed personifies the Communicator of Achievement award.

Ralph Begleiter is Director of the Center for Political Communication at the University of Delaware and the DPA 2009 Communicator of Achievement. Contact Ralph at Ralph.Begleiter@udel.com.
Contact Theresa Medoff at tgmedoff@aol.com.

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Obama’s Win Credited to Decision Not to Play by the “Rules”

Campaign Mastermind David Plouffe Tells All in Wilmington

by Rita K. Farrell ©

David Plouffe, the 42-year-old Delaware native who masterminded Barack Obama’s successful presidential campaign, credited the “historical” win to a decision not to play by the rules.

“The playbook of campaigns is dusty,” Plouffe told an audience of about 200 at a Wilmington University-sponsored event on December 18. Plouffe was there to promote his book, The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama’s Historic Victory.

“We defied conventional political wisdom,” he said, by making the campaign’s goal one of changing the electorate instead of pitching to an existing one. “We knew that younger, black, under-35’s do not consume political news – no cable, no newspapers – like older voters do.”

“We started low, building on Barack Obama’s unique voice and unique ideas. Obama treats the American public like adults,” Plouffe explained. “And the American people understood where we were, so they chose Obama.”

The next step was to build on that choice by encouraging this new, younger demographic group to organize itself around the technology that connected it: e-mail, voicemail, Short Message Services, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, instant messaging.

Plouffe posited that people do not trust institutions of old, including the “snarky prism of American media coverage. They trust their friends and family . . . and it was the people who built the Obama organization. Voters organized themselves. When we stayed out of people’s way, we won. No one had ever changed the electorate on a grand scale.”

The scale of Obama’s win in the January 2008 Iowa caucus that kicked off the national primary both astonished and elated the campaign staff and volunteers. They were convinced that the new strategy worked: jettison the conventional wisdom of top-down campaigns and step back so that a legitimate grassroots movement can evolve on its own.

“The Iowa caucuses reversed the old versus the young in the primary,” Plouffe said. “Young voters turned out and made the difference. Older folks, over 65, were outnumbered.”

The press and many political pundits agreed, with The Washington Post declaring Iowa a decisive win for Obama. “Senator Barack Obama, riding a message of hope and change and buoyed by an extraordinary turnout,” dealt a “significant setback to Senator Hillary Clinton,” the once-anointed candidate who in Iowa was able to prevail only with voters older than 60.

Plouffe said the challenge after Iowa was to export the lessons learned from that state’s new youth demographic to every other state and to end the Democratic Party practice of not funding campaigns in those states where, in previous elections, Democratic candidates had been swamped by Republican voters. Plouffe said campaign insiders constantly asked themselves, “Are we adhering to the goals of building the complexion of the electorate?”

When the race ended months later, one headline proclaimed: “Flawless run wins Obama campaign.”

“It was not ‘flawless’,” corrected Plouffe, choosing instead to praise the campaign as notable for having been free of the usual internal rancor and backbiting that marks many political campaigns.

The boyish-looking Plouffe, who dropped out of the University of Delaware in his third year to begin a career by working on Senator Tom Harkin’s 1990 reelection campaign, spoke for 20 minutes without notes or hesitation, then answered questions for nearly an hour with similar aplomb.

In the audience were his father James E. Plouffe and sister Elizabeth Plouffe Jordan, both on the adjunct faculty at Wilmington University, as well as a smattering of Delaware political figures, including County Executive Chris Coons; attorney David Swayze, once the chief of staff to former Governor Pete du Pont; state legislator Vince Lofink; and Wilmington City Councilman Charles “Bud” Freel.

Q: How did Obama persuade Plouffe to join the campaign?
A: “He was not pining to run, there was no ‘weirdness’ in the campaign,” and he wanted to do it with his family.

Q: Will the same strategy work in 2012?
A: “No. But Obama is not thinking about the 2012 campaign. He is thinking about repairing the country, about collaborative relations and our becoming leaders in energy. So he can’t worry about the next election.”

Q: Will you have a role in President Obama’s reelection campaign?
A: “When the time comes, I’ll be involved in some way.”

Plouffe took a year off after the election to write the book, his first, but said he was in frequent touch with President Obama.

In an interview conducted while he signed books, Plouffe dismissed a reporter’s comparison of the Obama campaign’s Internet-based, 50-state strategy with that of Howard Dean’s 2003 presidential campaign strategy. Dean pioneered the use of the Internet for political fundraising and placed volunteers on the ground in every state, overriding objections by the Democratic Party leadership at the time.

Plouffe claimed there was no comparison, saying “We took it beyond sentiment and made it work.”

On the night of his Iowa victory, Obama declared “We are one nation. We are one people. And our time for change has come.”

In one year of actually governing, that audacious hope is struggling to stay relevant in a contentious political climate.

But during an inaugural concert at the Lincoln Memorial, while all eyes were on headliner Bono, Plouffe watched as the newly elected president fixed his gaze on the commanding visage of Abraham Lincoln, who 146 years before said of his own audacious hope to unite the nation, “The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.”

Rita Farrell, a former DuPont chemist, is an adjunct professor of communication at Wilmington University. A Reuters correspondent since 1987 and Delaware Bureau Chief from 1999 until the bureau was closed in 2002, she continues a 25-year stint as a correspondent for Variety and strings for Agence France Presse, The New York Times, Condé Nast and People magazine. Contact Rita at ritakfarrell@earthlink.net.

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WordPlay . . . for Wordsmiths

by Bob Yearick

Out, Damned Word (and Phrase)

For 35 years, Lake Superior State University, a small college on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, has been compiling an annual “List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness.”

According to the school’s Web site, former LSSU Public Relations Director Bill Rabe and friends created the first list in 1975 at a New Year's Eve party. Since then, LSSU has received tens of thousands of nominations for the list, which includes words and phrases from marketing, media, education, technology and more.

This year, the school sifted through about 5,000 nominations and selected these 15 words and phrases for banishment:

czar
shovel-ready
tweet
transparent/transparency
sexting
teachable moment
app (short for application, as in i-Phones)
stimulus
toxic assets
too big to fail
chillaxin’
bromance
friend (as a verb)
in these economic times
Obama-prefix or roots (Obamanomics, Obamanation, Obamification, Obamaland, etc.)

A commendable list, but I liked last year’s better. It included my two all-time un-favorites: “It is what it is” (second cousin to “whatever”), and “organic,” the default word for those who want to sound erudite and can’t bring themselves to say “natural.”

Grammar Mug

The best present I received this past Christmas was a coffee mug from son Tim and family. On one side is artwork from grandsons Ryan and Ian. On the opposite side, there are two short sentences that illustrate my three top grammar peeves:

We literally surveyed everyone. The other grandpa’s got less votes.

Drop me an e-mail with your edit of these two sentences, and if you’re correct, we’ll give you proper credit in the next “WordPlay.”

Till next time, don’t forget to send your pet peeves, suggestions and questions for WordPlay to: allwriter@comcast.net.

And remember: Always write right – and tight.

Contact WordPlay columnist Bob Yearick at allwriter@comcast.net.

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The Power of the Pen, the Allure of the Coin

How responding to an ad led to a job, a husband and a developing career

by Mary Leah Christmas

The February 2008 Media Mavens column reported that at the Delaware Book Festival in November 2007, I crossed paths with featured national author Carolyn Coman, instructor for a fiction-writing workshop I took in the spring of 1990 at the Harvard University Extension School. My other writing-related adventure in 1990 was attending a writers conference at Hannibal-LaGrange College in Hannibal, Mo., after having seen a small display ad for the event in Writer's Digest magazine. In those days, I was working in Boston, Mass., as an editorial assistant for a legal publisher. When summer arrived, I decided to take a "working vacation," rolled up my sleeves and stretched my mind instead of stretching out on a blanket at the beach.

As a result of attending the HLG conference, I landed two major freelance assignments from conference sponsor Hannibal Books. Those were the first freelance assignments I had ever been given. The following summer, I was hired as a staffer at Hannibal Books and drove myself from Boston to Hannibal with all of my belongings in a U-Haul trailer hitched behind the car.

While helping with the HLG conference during the next two years, I met then-contributing editor for Writer's Digest magazine, Dr. Michael J. Bugeja, author of such books as the Poet's Guide: How to Publish and Perform Your Work (1995), The Art And Craft Of Poetry (2001), and collections of his own poetry such as Flight from Valhalla (1994). He also is known as a journalist and writer with books by Oxford University Press and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (1990). He won the latter prize with a short story about a boy coin collector. I met Dr. Bugeja when he was the keynote speaker at one of those HLG conferences, and I was given the whimsical task of replacing the fortunes with lines of poetry in a quantity of fortune cookies to be used in one of his presentations.

Fast-forward to 2010. The January 18, 2010, issue of Coin World magazine – edited by NFPW member and Ohio Professional Writers immediate past president Beth Deisher – contained the announcement of a new columnist: none other than
Dr. Michael J. Bugeja, now director of the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University. His column, "Home Hobbyist," is about the joys experienced by those who "collect rather than invest in coins . . . seek knowledge on the history and artistry of coins . . . and [who] nurture the next generation" of collectors.

I was excited to drop Dr. Bugeja a line, update him on all that had transpired as a result of our mutual time in Hannibal and welcome him to Coin World. I wrote that my husband, Donald, who has been a Coin World subscriber since the mid-1970s, introduced me to coin collecting and to metal detecting. I added that we met and married during my time in Hannibal – thanks to the wife of the publisher of Hannibal Books, who paved the way for our meeting, and thanks to the publisher himself, also an ordained minister, who officiated at our wedding.

I soon learned, via Dr. Bugeja's enthusiastic reply, that he, too, is a metal detectorist, as well as president and Web master of the Ames Coin Club and member of the Iowa Numismatic Association and the American Numismatic Association.

Dr. Bugeja also posed some questions that have given me much to consider, especially about how a coin can be emblematic of a place and time as well as a place in time. The February 2008 Media Mavens column noted that I have shied from fiction writing. But with the prompting of
Dr. Bugeja’s insightful questions, I am venturing further into that new realm – in December, I entered my first-ever piece of time-travel/historical fiction in a regional contest – and am exploring some others.

A job, a husband and a career that continues to develop in new directions: all because I responded to a small ad in a writers magazine twenty years ago. Such is the power of the pen and the allure of the coin.

Mary Leah Christmas, former DPA NewsBreak editor, is in the graduate program at Wilmington University-Dover and working on her Master's thesis related to Hannibal, Mo., business and tourism. Contact Mary Leah at lexetlibris@yahoo.com.

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New Board Position to Help DPA Face the Future

Deborah Pace to Serve as Web and Social Media Director

Deborah (Kaye) Pace, founder, president and CEO of BizCom LLC – a copywriting, media relations and advertising firm in Wilmington – and a member of DPA for more than a decade, was a natural fit for the newly created DPA board position of Web and Social Media Director. In that position, she will handle updates to the DPA Web site as well as other social-networking projects. For her first project, she created a Facebook page for DPA. Check out the page and become a fan!

Deborah was a freelance journalist with The Mergermarket Group and Debtwire, divisions of the London-based Financial Times Group for more than four years. Now, with the recently launched BizCom LLC, Deborah is pairing her journalism background – including that as a U.S. Navy journalist – with experience gained as a morning co-anchor and reporter at 1450 WILM NewsRadio and 1150-AM WDEL News Talk Radio. In total, she brings nearly two decades of writing, editing, marketing, public relations, radio and television broadcasting and other communications experience to form BizCom LLC.

Read the January 22 news release about Deborah, “Wilmington University Alum Opens Business in Tough Economy,” by DPA member Suki Deen, Public Relations Associate for Wilmington University.

Deborah invites you to contact her regarding any topic for the DPA Web site or any social networking ideas you may have at: debpace@bizcomllc.com. For immediate matters, call her at 302-521-8283.
Contact Deborah Pace at debpace@bizcomllc.com or 302-521-8283.

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DPA Welcomes New Members

DPA extends a warm welcome to each of our new members. Any new members whose contact information has not been included in the online DPA Membership Directory, please click here and ask for directions: DelawarePress@aol.com.
 

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DPA Media Mavens & Mavericks

. . . is a column about our members’ personal and professional achievements. Names of new DPA members featured in this column are starred.

Please send any information about your honors, achievements and awards to news@delawarepressassociation.org by the 1st of any month for publication in the next issue.

DPA members featured in this issue:

JoAnn Balingit *
Ralph Begleiter
Kim Burdick
Chris Carl / Allan Loudell
Diana Wolf Hirsch
Fay Jacobs
Jenifer Jurden *
Ryan Kennedy *
Lynn Maniscalco
Beth Miller
Lise Monty
Barbara Roewe
John Sadak
Rachel Simon
Crabmeat Thompson
John Watson

• Spire Press held a book launch and reading at The Nightingale Lounge in Greenwich Village where Delaware’s poet laureate, JoAnn Balingit, performed with other Spire Press poets when her chapbook, Your Heart and How It Works, was released by Spire in August 2009. In September, JoAnn completed a residency at The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts as a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation creative fellow. In January 2010, she read her poetry at The KGB Bar in New York City and for the members of AAUW Delaware, Newark Branch. Coming events include a workshop for young writers at Diamond State Reading Association’s “Young Author’s Conference” on March 6 and a poetry reading at The Wellness Community–Delaware on March 19. JoAnn’s recent work appears in fall and summer 2009 issues of Harpur Palate, Philadelphia Stories, Kweli Journal and The Pedestal Magazine.
Contact JoAnn Balingit at jbaling@udel.edu. Visit her Web site at joannbalingit.org.

• Ralph Begleiter, former CNN world affairs correspondent, recipient of the University of Delaware's 2009 Excellence in Teaching award and DPA's 2009 Communicator of Achievement, says his new title at UD, as of January 1, is Director of the Center for Political Communication. He invites you to visit the Center for Political Communication Web site. Ralph is almost finished lining up a host of speakers for the SRO Global Agenda series he puts together each year for the benefit of the university community and the public at large. Look for an e-blast soon with full details.
Contact Ralph Begleiter at Ralph.Begleiter@udel.edu.

• The Board of Managers of the Major Robert Kirkwood Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution will present their Silver Good Citizenship Medal to Kim Burdick at the chapter’s annual meeting at the Newark Country Club on March 13. National Chairman of the Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route Association (W3R-USA) and general coordinator from 2003–2009, Kim will be honored for her work over the past ten years to develop a 685-mile-long national historic trail from Newport, R.I., to Yorktown, Va, commemorating the march of the allied American and French soldiers of the American Revolution. The bill designating W3R a National Historic Trail was passed in the House and the Senate and signed into law by the President of the United States on March 30, 2009. She also has been co-chairman of the 4th of July bell-ringing ceremony in historic New Castle since 2006 and is the founder of the American Revolution Round Table of Northern Delaware. Kim will give a talk, "The Cries of the People: Impact of the Philadelphia Campaign of the American Revolution on Delawareans,” when she receives the prestigious SAR award next month.

Over the years, Kim has received many honors for her accomplishments and is now writing a blog to share her expertise so that others may achieve their goals. For great tips on such things as how to write a successful grant application or questions your board should discuss about your mission statement and vision statement, read Kim's blog.
Contact Kim Burdick at KimRBurdick@aol.com.

• A few months ago Chris Carl, director of news and programming at 1150 WDEL-AM, was appointed to the national board of directors for the Radio Television Digital News Association, representing Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. Stacey Woelfel, RTDNA chairman, said that with the input and hard work of Chris and the other talented members of the board, old and new, “we’ll make progress on our agenda to advocate for First Amendment protection, promotion of Freedom of Information, ethics in reporting, improving coverage, implementing technology and the promotion of all news industry issues.”

RTDNA is the world’s largest professional organization devoted exclusively to electronic journalism and represents local and network news professionals in broadcasting, cable and other electronic media in more than 30 countries. Visit the RTDNA Web site.

Also president of the Delaware Coalition for Open Government, Chris asks that you circle March 17 on your calendar and plan to attend a DELCOG-sponsored panel discussion focused on the important Delaware state budget process: how it is put together, why it is made available to the legislators who must vote on it only a few minutes before the vote is taken and what can be done to improve the timing so that both the legislators and the public can read the budget bill well before the vote. The discussion will be moderated by WDEL news anchor Allan Loudell, and panelists will include Sen. Colin Bonini and Rep. Greg Lavelle. See the Calendar of Events for details.
Contact Chris Carl at ccarl@wdel.com.
Contact Allan Loudell at aloudell@wdel.com.

• Former DPA Communications Contest co-director and prolific freelance writer Diana Wolf Hirsch bid us farewell a few years ago when her husband took a job in Detroit. She is now a member of the Michigan affiliate of NFPW, which means attending meetings sometimes requires a two- to three-hour drive. Diana wrote recently to say hello and to give an update on how she’s faring in the Upper Midwest. “Writing has been tough here,” she says. “I found a few freelance opportunities in 2006 when I first moved here, but nothing since mid-2007. The Detroit newspaper is mostly online, with home delivery only three times a week. The Ann Arbor paper closed completely and is just an online service now. With these cutbacks, I'm sure whatever freelancers they have are enough for them. With the unemployment rate as high as it is here, there are easily five times the number of applicants for any one job. I have a job at the University of Michigan in administration, but I am looking for an open position with a more creative aspect to it. I do miss the writing opportunities in Del./Philly/N.J. I wonder if the print media has been affected as much there as it has here.”
Contact Diana Hirsch at diwolf@aol.com.

• Writer/publisher Fay Jacobs of A&M Books of Rehoboth Beach is set to publish the novel The Carousel by writer/television producer Stefani Deoul. The books comes off the press in early April with the first reading and signing on April 10 at CAMP Rehoboth Community Center in Rehoboth Beach. Visit Fay’s Web site at www.aandmbooks.com.
Contact Fay Jacobs at fayjacobsrb@aol.com.

• Wizard “cartoonologist” Jen Jurden has an infectious sense of humor that has not only made her president of Jenifer Jurden LLC but also CHO – Chief Humor Officer. A Wilmington native, Jen is the creator of Jurdy®, her charming, sassy green, gender neutral, alter-ego cartoon character who, she says, “is a spokes-being for corporations to motivate, educate and bring comic relief to the everyday workday and also for all that is environmentally friendly by offering motivation, education and comic relief to the plight of our planet's safety.”

A compassionate, human-loving character, Jurdy entertains and informs with a friendly, wise and witty sarcasm but, as Jen says, “also gets what it’s like to be overworked, overwhelmed and a little dismayed when life gets frantic and tense.” So move over Dilbert, there’s a new kid in town . . . or in the office . . . who, in Jen’s creative hands, “puts a positive spin on life's earthly woes, shoring up the ‘we’re all in this together’ cultural alliance and producing bottom-line results for businesses and the environment.” For more information, Jen invites you to visit her and Jurdy on the Web at www.jurdy.com.
Contact Jenifer Jurden at jurdentoons@gmail.com or 302-383-5582.

• Ryan Kennedy worked in radio from 2000 to 2009, most recently as the director of marketing and promotions for Clear Channel Radio – Delaware. He also held marketing jobs at WMMR in Philadelphia and WGMD–AM in Rehoboth Beach. He found himself among the 4,000 employees laid off on January 20, 2009 (Inauguration Day), when Clear Channel was restructuring across the company. Having acted as a freelance marketing consultant helped him land his current position as director of marketing for commercial redevelopment/real estate company Harvey, Hanna & Associates in New Castle. Ryan manages and directs all marketing and advertising for HHA and says, “My responsibilities include writing press releases, Web site management, public relations and event management, while acting as a liaison between HHA and local media groups.”
Contact Ryan Kennedy at rkennedy@harveyhanna.com.

• A photograph by Lynn Troy Maniscalco was selected as the best human interest print entered in the 2010 Wilmington International Exhibition of Photography. Three of her digital entries also were selected by the guest judges on January 23 for the exhibition at Arsht Hall on February 21 and 28 (opening at 12:30 p.m. with projected shows at 1, 2 and 3 p.m.).
Contact Lynn Maniscalco at LTMphoto@juno.com.

• An old hand at covering news from the front lines, longtime News Journal reporter Beth Miller, accompanying a medical team from Delaware, provided continual updates from Jacmel, Haiti, this past week in the wake of the disastrous earthquakes that recently devastated that island nation. Beth, who is the immediate past president of Delaware Press Association, twice shipped out of the Dover Air Force base with Delaware troops to travel to the front lines in Afghanistan to cover the war on terror. In March 2002, after reporting from Germany on the mission of the C-5 cargo planes that operate out of the Dover Air Force Base, she flew to Afghanistan. For eight days, she reported on Delaware troops stationed there. She returned to Afghanistan in August 2002 to write a follow-up series on the war. As a sports writer, Beth covered the Olympics in Sarajevo in 1984 and in Calgary in 1988. Read Beth's coverage from Haiti through delawareonline.com/haiti. Beth has been a reporter for The News Journal for nearly 30 years.
Contact Beth Miller at bmiller@delawareonline.com or 302-324-2784.

• As chair of the Delaware State Arts Council, Lise Monty leads the group in its work as the advisory board to the Delaware Division of the Arts. The council advises on policy, funding, advocacy and other relevant issues. Its members are dedicated to helping Delawareans recognize the arts as vital to education, the economy and quality of life. Delaware arts organizations, with their traditionally lean budgets, are especially hard hit by the economic crisis. Lise encourages DPA members to support museums, performing arts organizations and other arts presenters. Attend a performance, become a member, volunteer or send a check.
Contact Lise Monty at montyleary@aol.com.

• Past DPA president and our 2008 Communicator of Achievement Barbara Roewe will be honored with this year's YWCA Leadership in Racial Justice Award in recognition of her commitment to the elimination of racism. She has been participating in the Y's Study Circles program since its inception in 1997. The Study Circle process, which has a proven track record of creating positive action and change, brings people together over the course of several weeks or months for an open dialogue with the goal of building a healthy multicultural society. The award will be made at the Y's "Evening of Style" event on February 27 at the Hotel du Pont in Wilmington.
Contact Barbara Roewe at bcroewe@aol.com.

• John Sadak, director for broadcasting and lead play-by-play announcer for the Wilmington Blue Rocks, has just been named Delaware’s Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sportscasters & Sportswriters Association, the only organization dedicated to the crafts of sportscasting and sportswriting in the U.S. John also has been calling college football, soccer and even water polo for Verizon’s regional programming in the New York market on FiOS1 TV. This winter he has entered his sixth season as the voice of Blue Hens women’s basketball and Princeton University men’s basketball on radio. A multiple DPA award winner, John will receive the Delaware Sportscaster of the Year award in May in Salisbury, N.C. Read more about John and the sportscaster of the year award.
Contact John Sadak at jsadak@bluerocks.com.

• Rachel Simon, author of Riding the Bus with My Sister, has just made a short, fun video for her most recent book, Building a Home With My Husband. She says, “It highlights the aspects of the book that so many of my readers have e-mailed about, discussed at my appearances, and said they related to. If you've read the book,” she adds, “you'll see lots of photos and quotes that will remind you of many details you enjoyed. If you haven't had a chance to read it, you'll get a feel for the depth, humor, and emotional resonance of the story in a way that book jackets can't convey.”

There are two versions: a quick, two-minute video (have the volume on) and an interactive version (for those who wish to linger). Watch Rachel’s video.

If you like the video, created by the design firm Möbius New Media of Wilmington, Rachel invites you to send the link to your friends via e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Contact Rachel Simon at rachelsimon2002@yahoo.com. Visit her Web site at www.rachelsimon.com.

• Known as Delaware’s troubadour, Jerry “Crabmeat” Thompson has won a 2010 fellowship as an established professional from the Delaware Division of the Arts. He sings, plays guitar, has written the unofficial Delaware State Song and has made several CDs of his original music. Over the years, he’s kept toes tapping and audiences entertained in libraries, coffeehouses, bars and restaurants throughout Delaware and nearby states. He mixes blues ballads and Irish folk tunes with his own clever lyrics in crowd pleasers such as “Bigfoot’s Baby,” “The Night of the Vegetables” and “Poodles from Hell.” Professor Crab also writes poetry and will be a featured poet, along with Tom Lillard, at 1 p.m., Sunday, February 28, at the Gilbert Perry Arts Center in Middletown (go to Calendar of Events for directions). Featured poets spend part of their time "teaching" or offering insight into some aspect of poetry from musicality to metaphor to structure to "The Influence of the Guitar on Poetry." The reading will be followed by an open mic.
Contact Crabmeat Thompson at jcrabmeatt@gmail.com.

• John Watson, talk show host at 1450 WILM NewsRadio, was recently among those filmed by documentary filmmaker Tim Reid, for the Archives at the R. R. Moton High School Museum in Farmville, Va. In the winter of 1950, John was a member of the Student Strike Committee, headed by 16-year-old Barbara Johns, that led the school on a strike against Segregation and the deplorable conditions at the school. He also was a student litigant in the 1952 U.S. District Court case, Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, seeking integration of the public schools. That case – the only one organized and run by teenage students – together with similar cases from four other states, including Delaware (Belton v. Gebhart), became the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case. Brown struck down the doctrine of “separate but equal” with the unanimous decision “to admit the parties to these cases to public schools on a racially nondiscriminatory basis with all deliberate speed.”

After the High Court’s ruling and in an attempt to prevent public school desegregation, the Prince Edward County School Board refused to fund public education – for both blacks and whites – under a policy that was called Massive Resistance.

Private academies were opened for white students who could afford them. And blacks either were educated by going to live with relatives or by being sent by the Quakers to live with white families. Five years later, a subsequent Federal Court order forced them to reopen the desegregated schools.
Contact John Watson at johnwatson@clearchannel.com.


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Calendar of Events

Pick your own date: Free Writes. On any given Monday, Wednesday, Friday or Saturday, you can jump-start your creative process and experiment with your writing styles in the company of other writers at all skill levels. Just show up with pen and paper or laptop. No RSVP required. Free and facilitated by the Rehoboth Beach Writers Guild. For more info: 302-226-8210 or contactus@rehobothbeachwritersguild.com.

2010

FEBRUARY

02 Inaugural meeting of YconnectWomen, the Wilmington area’s newest networking and mentoring group. 5:30–7:30 p.m. Speakers: Deborah Walden, Executive VP of Customer and Marketing Services, Chase Card Services, part of global financial services firm JPMorgan Chase, and Genevieve (Ginny) Burke Marino, Chief Executive of YWCA Delaware. Networking can be a powerful tool in challenging times, whether seeking a new career path, looking for a rewarding volunteer opportunity or wanting support from others trying to balance many roles. For women of all ages, career types and stages in their professional lives – and for students and stay-at-home moms too. YconnectWomen is a collaboration of women’s groups from JPMorgan Chase, Accenture, AstraZeneca, Wilmington Trust, Barclays, Bank of America and YWCA Delaware. The Baby Grand, 818 North Market Street, Wilmington. 5:30–6 p.m., light hors d’oeuvres & registration; 6–7:30 p.m., program and networking exercise. Cost: $10. Register online from January 15–29 and send a check, payable to YWCA Delaware, to Kathy Harrigan, YWCA Delaware, 100 West 10th Street, Suite 515, Wilmington, DE 19801. Pay at the door: cash only. For more info, call Kathy Harrigan, 302-655-0039 ext. 230.

04 “Turbo Charge Your Press Release: Reach More Readers with Business Wire's Upgraded Distribution.” 1 p.m. Learn more about how Business Wire's new "Global-Mobile-Social-Measurable" press release upgrades can help you make the most out of your releases. Part of Business Wire’s award-winning Webinar series. FREE. Click here to RSVP.

06 "Writing for Young Adults." Noon–3:30 p.m. Workshop hosted by the Delaware Literary Connection. Presenter: Elizabeth Mosier, author of the novel My Life as a Girl (Random House) and numerous short stories that have appeared in literary and popular magazines, including Seventeen, Cimarron Review, Child, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Poets & Writers. Writing successfully for young adults requires us to (temporarily) inhabit our teenage selves in order to understand and communicate an adolescent sensibility in our work. This interactive workshop will explore the Young Adult category in terms of subject and style. Participants will generate plot ideas, learn to structure a short story to convey immediacy and experiment with style and tone. 237 Cayman Court, Wilmington. Cost: $30 (includes lunch). Limited to 12 participants. For more info or to register, contact Barbara Gray at graybeg@comcast.net.

16 “From Wilmington to the World Wide Web: An Approach to Online Social Media.” Hosted by the Public Relations Society of America, Delaware Chapter. Speaker: Gary Spangler, e-Marketing Manager for DuPont will discuss how to integrate social media, marketing and public relations efforts to maximize communication campaign results. Hilton Wilmington/Christiana, 100 Continental Drive, Newark. Registration: 11:30 a.m. Lunch and program: Noon–1 p.m. Cost: $30 members; $35 non-members. Register online by February 11.

17 “Understanding Twitter: Marketing Meets Technology.” Noon–1:30 p.m. Hosted by Center City Proprietors Association. Speaker: Neal Wiser, digital strategist and president of Neal Wiser Consulting, Ivyland, Pa. With 15 years’ experience in the interactive marketing and entertainment industries, he will explain the marketing mechanism behind Twitter, and you will get 101-level knowledge that will allow you to take the first steps toward using Twitter for business. 1635 Market Street, 7 Penn Center, 11th Floor, Philadelphia, Pa. Cost: $10 Members; $20 Non-members Reservations required. Call CCPA at 215-545-7766.

18 Branding Boot Camp. 8 a.m. Hosted by the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Marketing Association (PAMA). Boot Camp will help you evaluate your current brand, identify ways to strengthen and improve your brand and develop plans and tactics for implementation in order to establish competitive differentiation and customer loyalty regardless of your industry, product or service. DeVry University, Fort Washington Campus, Fort Washington, Pa. Cost: $595 Members; $740 Non-members. Click to register.

18 “Search Engine Optimization for Your Press Release.” 1 p.m. Business Wire EON Product Manager and SEO expert Joseph Miller shares insights on identifying keywords and optimizing your press release for search engines. Part of Business Wire’s award-winning Webinar series. FREE. Click here to RSVP.

19 DPA meeting: “The Business of You! Double Your Productivity, Reduce Your Stress & Balance Your Life.” Speaker: Steve McClatchy, international speaker, writer, consultant, trainer and expert on time management, will teach you how to better prioritize, plan and make decisions regarding your time. You also will learn how to gain control over your to-do list, calendar, contacts and information. DuPont Country Club, Rockland and Black Gates Roads, Wilmington. Registration and networking: 11:30 a.m. Lunch and program: Noon. Cost: $25 Members; $30 Non-members. For more info, contact delawarepress@aol.com.

21 77th Wilmington International Exhibition of Photography. Noon–5 p.m. The annual event is sponsored by Delaware Photographic Society. Print docents will give gallery talks, a multi-media show will be presented at 1, 2 and 3 p.m., and music will be provided by a jazz combo and a pianist. Juried by nine acclaimed photographers, the projected images and several hundred prints on display were selected from among thousands of entries submitted from more than 30 countries. Arsht Hall, 2600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Wilmington. Get directions to Arsht Hall. Admission and parking are FREE. (See also February 28.)

25 “Reviving Face-to-Face Communications: The ‘Anti-Social Media Guy’ Offers Proven Approaches.” 5:30–8 p.m. Hosted by IABC Philadelphia. In this interactive session, the "Anti-Social Media Guy," David Grossman, turns off the Blackberry and offers the business case for face-to-face as a preferred communication approach. While the technology of Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace might seem faster and easier, it doesn't necessarily motivate us. Research tells us employees crave a real connection. They want to be inspired and engaged, not through blogs, but through conversation. Grossman will provide artful tips and hands-on tools for creating dialogue and having tough conversations as well as proven techniques for coaching leaders to motivate employees by listening and responding. La Salle University, Montgomery County Center, Plymouth Meeting, Pa. Cost: $30 Members; $40 Non-members; $10 Students. To register, contact Lee Flogaus, 610-296-4211 or lflogaus@devonofficecenter.com.

28 M.O.T. Open Mic Poetry at the Gibby, featuring Crabmeat Thompson and Tom Lillard. 1 p.m. Gilbert W. Perry Jr. Center, 51 W. Main Street, Middletown. Featured poets spend part of their time "teaching" or offering insight into some aspect of poetry from musicality to metaphor to structure to "The Influence of the Guitar on Poetry." The reading will be followed by an open mic. For the open mic portion, all ages and levels of skill are welcome. Please choose “family friendly” poems. Five-minute limit. No charge, but donations to support programs at The Gibby Center are welcome. Suggested donation, $5. Get directions to The Gibby.

28 77th Wilmington International Exhibition of Photography. Noon–5 p.m. The annual event is sponsored by Delaware Photographic Society. Print docents will give gallery talks, a multi-media show will be presented at 1, 2 and 3 p.m., and music will be provided by a jazz combo and a pianist. Juried by nine acclaimed photographers, the projected images and several hundred prints on display were selected from among thousands of entries submitted from more than 30 countries. Arsht Hall, 2600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Wilmington. Get directions to Arsht Hall. Admission and parking are FREE.

28 “Shakespeare on Sunday,” sponsored by the English Speaking Union, Delaware. Time TBA. University of Delaware Roselle Center for the Arts. The event will feature teacher and student workshops and two contests: the statewide ESU DE Shakespeare contest for Delaware secondary students in which contestants recite a Shakespeare monologue and read a sonnet (the winner gets a cash prize and competes in New York City with winners from other states) and the New Castle Shakespeare Festival competition, in which individual schools from across the state compete in a series of costumed scenes from Shakespeare’s plays. For more information about the festival: gdjmshort@erols.com or 302-234-2031.

MARCH

March is National Women’s History Month. 2010 marks the 30th anniversary of the National Women’s History Project. President Jimmy Carter issued a Presidential Proclamation declaring the week of March 8, 1980, the first National Women’s History Week. Successful lobbying in 1987 resulted in Congress expanding the week into a month. The theme for 2010 and the 30th Anniversary celebration is Writing Women Back into History.

05 March “Art on the Town.” 5–8 p.m. Be sure to visit Gallery 919 on the Wilmington Art Loop for the opening of Kathy Buckalew’s latest photographic exhibit, "Stone, Water, Tree: Images from Hagley.” Staff photographer for the Hagley Museum for the past ten years, Kathy will display photos of buildings, trees, flowers, wildlife and various places around the museum’s grounds whose many acres lie along the banks of the Brandywine, the river that powered the black powder mills of the DuPont Company for more than a hundred years. The exhibit will include an interesting combination of photographic styles and techniques to be seen in Kathy’s straight color photos and panoramics as well as in black-and-white infrared images like “Spring House,” seen at right. The exhibit runs through March.

Kathy says, “There will be a reception . . . and music, I hope! Still working on that one. Good photography, good eats, good company. Hope y'all can make it.” 919 Market Street, Wilmington. Open to the public. FREE. For more info, contact Kathy Buckalew at 302-658-2400 x 221 or kbuckalew@hagley.org.
 

06 Annual Delaware Women’s Conference. 7 a.m.–Noon. Sponsored by the Delaware Commission for Women, the Junior League of Wilmington, Wilmington Women in Business and YWCA of New Castle County. Keynote speaker: Kay Frances, “Lighten Up, Stress Less and Embrace Change.” Waterfall Banquet and Conference Center, 3416 Philadelphia Pike, Claymont. Get directions to Waterfall. Registration fee is $25 and includes 2 workshops, breakfast and snack, and all that the conference has to offer. Online Registration closes on March 4, 2010, at midnight. Walk up registration is NOT guaranteed. For more info: 302-792-2600.

10 DPA Board Meeting. 6:30 p.m. Methodist Country House, 4830 Kennett Pike, Wilmington. All DPA members are welcome to attend.

14–20 Sunshine Week. Although spearheaded by journalists, Sunshine Week is about the public's right to know what its government is doing and why. Sunshine Week seeks to enlighten and empower people to play an active role in their government at all levels and to give them access to information that makes their lives better and their communities stronger.
For more info: www.sunshineweek.org

17 DELCOG MEETING: “The Annual Delaware Budget Bind: Show Me the Money (Before You Take the Vote).” 7 p.m. Hosted by the Delaware Coalition for Open Government. Panel discussion on the need to make Delaware’s budget process more open and accountable, including the need to publish the budget bills well in advance of the date for voting to approve them. In current practice not even the state legislators, let alone the public, have time to completely read and understand the operating budget bill and the bond bill before the vote is taken – only a few minutes before the clock runs out on the last day of the annual legislative session. The panel will include state legislators, representatives of government agencies, open government advocates and reporters who cover legislative issues. Levy Court Building, 555 Bay Road, Dover. Registration: 6:30 p.m. Panel discussion: 7–9 p.m. Light refreshments. FREE and open to the public. For more info, contact Chris Carl at ccarl@wdel.com.

26–28 Writers at the Beach: Pure Sea Glass 2010 Writers Conference. Atlantic Sands Hotel, Rehoboth Beach. Full descriptions of workshops (limited to 12 participants) and discussions, with a list of who is teaching/participating, including several DPA members (Anne Colwell, Fay Jacobs, Terry Plowman), can be found in the conference schedule. For information about manuscript reviews, the venue and to get the Writers at the Beach registration form, go to: writersatthebeach.com.

APRIL

April is National Poetry Month! Founded in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets, National Poetry Month is described as "now the largest literary celebration in the world." Events and activities include a month-long Poem-A-Day e-mail distribution list; national "Poem in Your Pocket" Day on April 29; the photography-and-poetry Free Verse Project on Flickr and Facebook; and the Poetry & The Creative Mind Gala at Lincoln Center on April 20.

24–26 39th Annual ASJA Writers Conference, “INSPIRATION: Finding the Spark, Unlocking the Doors.” American Society of Journalists and Authors. Roosevelt Hotel, 45 East 45th Street, New York, N.Y. Keynote speakers: Jane Chesnutt, editor-in-chief of Woman's Day magazine and senior vice president of Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. from 1991 though 2009. Her particular passion is women's heart health. Peter Shankman, recognized worldwide for radically new ways of thinking about Social Media, PR, marketing, advertising, creativity and customer service; well known for founding Help A Reporter Out (HARO), now the standard for thousands of journalists on deadline looking for sources. Seminars and individual opportunities to work with editors, established writers and other experts to help sharpen writing, marketing and technological skills. For conference registration form and complete schedule of workshops and fees, visit the ASJA Web site.

27 First State High School Communications Contest Awards Luncheon. 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Co-sponsored by Delaware Press Association and The News Journal. Speaker TBA. Bill Frank Conference Room, The News Journal, 950 W. Basin Road, New Castle, Delaware. Registration 9:30 a.m., Speaker and Awards Presentation 10 a.m., Lunch 11:30 a.m., Tour of News Journal 12:30 p.m. For more information, call contest co-director Barbara Roewe, 302-239-4552.

29 DPA Communications Contest Awards Banquet. Speaker: Kathy Buckalew. 5:30 p.m. social gathering; 6:30 p.m. dinner, awards presentations and annual meeting. University & Whist Club, 805 N. Broom Street, Wilmington. For more info, call 302-594-0844 or e-mail s-frost@verizon.net.

AUGUST

26–28 NFPW/Illinois Woman’s Press Association: “Face 2 Face in Illinois.” NFPW Communications Conference hosted by Illinois Woman's Press Association in conjunction with the 125th Anniversary of IWPA’s founding. The conference will be held at the historic Union League Club of Chicago. Affordable pre-tours will be offered à la carte August 23–25 and promise a “taste of Chicago.” The post tour, August 29–31, travels from Chicago to Springfield along Rt. 66. Get more conference information and see a PowerPoint presentation on Chicago.

Send information for the Calendar of Events to news@delawarepressassociation.org.

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NewsBreak is the official newsletter of Delaware Press Association.

Janis D. Shields, Editor
Katherine Ward, Copy Editor/Layout
Mary Leah Christmas, Copy Editor
Mary E. Loewenstein-Anderson, Photo Editor

Submit editorial content to:
news@delawarepressassociation.org

Copy deadline for next newsletter: March 1, 2010

Contact Us:
Katherine Ward, Executive Director
Delaware Press Association

e-mail: delawarepress@aol.com
phone: 302-655-2175
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