APW News
APW Communicator, Spring 2005
 Mark Your Calendar
May 1: Silent auction and door prize
donations committed by this date get credit in the luncheon program.
May 1: Deadline to book local tours during the NFPW
conference in Seattle.
May 13: Deadline for APW luncheon ticket orders.
May 21: APW Spring Awards Luncheon
and board meeting
Sept. 8-10: NFPW
National Conference in Seattle
Spring luncheon set for May 21: It’s
“Time to Shine” for achievers, leaders and
friends on May 21 as women and men from across the state
gather for Arkansas Press Women’s 2005 Awards Luncheon in
Little Rock. Communications contest winners will be
announced at the luncheon, and new officers and board
members will be installed for 2005-06. APW’s
scholarship recipients for 2005 and winners in the APW
high school journalism contest will also be introduced. More ...
Entries impress contest judges: Judges
for the Communications Contest
gave high praise to Arkansas Press Women for their work
in 2004. Members of the North Dakota Press Women and the
executive communications office of Corning Inc. in
Corning, N.Y., donated their time and professional
opinions for this year’s contest. The contest had
more than 300 entries, with the feature writing category
receiving the most entries. First place winning entries
will be forward to the National Federation of Press Women
contest. Those winners will be notified soon. Second and
third place and honorable mention winners will be
notified later, with the final announcements at the May
21 luncheon in Little Rock.
Seventeen high schools enter
contest: Arkansas Press Women received 383
entries from 17 high schools in the 2005 High School Journalism Contest.
The winners will be announced at the Arkansas Scholastic
Press Association convention April 21-22 at the Peabody
Hotel in Little Rock. Certificates will be presented to
first, second and third place and honorable mention
winners. First-place entries will be forwarded to the
National Federation of Press Women high school contest.
They will compete against state winners from across the
country.
Schools which submitted entries were:
Alma High School, Bryant High School, Bauxite High
School, Beebe High School, Buffalo Island High School,
Cabot High School, Fort Smith Southside High School,
Greene County High School, Hot Springs Lakeside High
School, Little Rock Central High School, Little Rock
Mills High School, Nashville High School, Nettleton High
School, Pocahantas High School, Rogers High School,
Springdale High School and Yellville-Summit High School.
Jeani Johnson, the journalism adviser at
Conway High School, helped us again this year in getting
information out to the high schools. A special thanks to
the panel of judges: Sharla Bardin, Lori Harrison-Stone,
Julie Allison, Teresa Newton, Judy Howard, Debbie Miller,
Peggy Trieber and Brenda Blagg.
Scholarship winners to be announced
in April: The APW Scholarship
Committee is currently reviewing applications and
will announce the names of scholarship recipients in
April, scholarship chairwoman Malea Hargett said. The
committee contacted all known journalism and mass
communication programs in the state as well as financial
aid offices last fall to publicize the scholarship. APW
gives away two $500 scholarships each spring to junior
and senior college students seeking careers in the
journalism and mass communications fields. Preference is
given to students who are majoring in those fields. In
addition to the money, the recipients will have their
dues paid for one year to APW and NFPW. The recipients
will be invited to attend the spring awards luncheon in
Little Rock. Other committee members include Helen
Plotkin and Susan Thielemier.
The new APW Communicator editors
want to hear from you! Tell us what you’d
like to see in the next edition. Denise Malan: dmalan@nwaonline.net;
Kristin Netterstrom: knetterstrom@nwaonline.net.
Howard honored with UA outstanding
professional award: Judy Howard has been named
recipient of the Outstanding Professional Support Award
(Non-Classified) for 2005 for the University of Arkansas
Division of Agriculture. Howard is a graphic designer and
project manager for the Communication Services unit of
the Department of Agricultural and Extension Education.
She designs and manages print and electronic publications
for both the Agricultural Experiment Station and Bumpers
College. Howard has a B.A. degree in Art Education from
Arkansas Tech in Russellville. She joined the Division of
Agriculture in 1998 and is a member of Gamma Sigma Delta,
the Association for Communication Excellence in
Agriculture and Life Sciences, Arkansas Press Women,
National Federation of Press Women, and Artists of
Northwest Arkansas. The award will be presented during
the Honors Day Convocation on April 21 in the Arkansas
Union on the University of Arkansas campus in
Fayetteville.
Welcome, New Members for 2005:
Ariston Jacks, SAFHS Cooperative
Extension, Pine Bluff; Allen Loibner,
Mills University Studies High School, Little Rock; Amy
Theriac, University of Arkansas at Little Rock; Susan
Van Dusen, Sherwood; Judy Williams,
Hendrix College, Conway
Arkansas Writer’s Conference is
June 3-4: The 61st annual Arkansas Writers’
Conference will feature two days of writers, speakers and
literary awards at the Holiday Inn Select in Little Rock,
June 3-4. Sponsored by the Arkansas Pioneer Branch of the
National League of American Pen Women, conference
sessions will include non-fiction writing and sparks for
creativity along with a focus on fiction, poetry and
playwriting.
The featured speakers will be
best-selling authors Laura Parker Castoro and Dusty
Richards. Castoro is president of the board of directors
of the Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow and a popular
speaker at lectures and workshops. Richards has spoken to
writers’ conferences and groups across the United
States and brings a “Will Rogers” style to his
how-to-write-better sessions.
Literary contests in 35 categories
ranging from poetry and short fiction to personal essays
and nonfiction prose offer cash prizes up to $100. The
deadline for entries is April 30. Awards rules and
categories are available on the Pen Women web site,
www.geocities.com/penwomen. Conference pre-registration
is $25 for both days or $15 for one day; luncheon and
banquet sessions are additional. For information, contact
Barbara Longstreth Mulkey, 9317 Claremore, Little Rock,
AR 72227, phone 501-312-1747, or e-mail blm@aristotle.net
Encyclopedia project seeks writers:
The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture project
(www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net) is
seeking authors to write about various historical people
and places around the state. The Web site features a page
with entries for which the project needs authors.
Nathania Sawyer, senior editor, said she
is especially interested in getting authors assigned to
the county and town entries. She also encourages APW
members to recommend entries for inclusion; the
seeking-authors-for list is far from comprehensive. This
page is located at http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/seeking.php.
For more information, contact Nathania at
the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, 100 Rock Street,
Little Rock, AR 72201; by phone at (501) 918-3026; or via
e-mail at nsawyer@encyclopediaofarkansas.net
FOI E-mail listserv available:
The Arkansas General Assembly has introduced several
bills aimed at closing some records or meetings to the
public. To stay on top of this important issue, join the
FOI Alert list. E-mail Brenda Blagg, regional editor of
The Morning News in Springdale and FOI Coalition leader
at bblagg@nwaonline.net
with the following information: Name, e-mail address, job
title, company, primary phone number, state senator and
representative, other legislators you know and could
contact. Also, the latest version of the FOIA Handbook is
available for download as a PDF document from the
Arkansas Press Association Web site at http://www.arkansaspress.org/foi(rev12-03).pdf
APW Board Meeting: The APW
board of directors met Feb. 5 in Little Rock. Minutes
were published in the spring issue of the print
newsletter, and on this
link.
NFPW Conference slated in Seattle
Sept. 8-10: The National Federation of Press
Women national conference — Sound Bites in
Seattle — will be Sept. 8-10 at the Renaissance
Seattle Hotel. Topics range from writing to photography,
and alternative newspapers to Web sites to plagiarism.
Registration costs $295, and the room rate is $129 a
night, plus tax. For more information, visit www.nfpw.org
or call conference chairwoman Barbara Nilson at
425-228-5903.
Recruiting tool: Share the
benefits of APW membership with a friend or co-worker and
help us build our organization and professional
opportunities. New member forms are online,
www.arkansaspresswomen.org. APW business cards are
available from membership chair, Emily Roberts, ecdenton@aristotle.net.
Moving? Send change of
address information to Emily Roberts, 2416 South Drive,
North Little Rock, AR 72118, ecdenton@aristotle.net.
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