MEETINGS
No meeting in July.
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Valuing and Managing Diversity
What is diversity, and why is it important? Estrus Tucker, chairman of the Fort Worth Human Relations Commission, says PR practitioners play important roles in valuing and managing diversity, and he will elaborate at the July PRSA meeting.
Tucker is president and CEO of Liberation Community, a faith-based community development corporation, and a former president of the Fort Worth/Tarrant County Minority Leaders and Citizens Council. Under his leadership, the MLCC established the annual Women's History Month; cultivated partnerships with the Fort Worth Public Library and UNT Health Science Center; hosted forums honoring outstanding educators; and established programming that celebrates the contributions of Hispanics, African-Americans and Native Americans.
Time & date: 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday, July 11
Place: Petroleum Club, Carter-Burgess Plaza, 777 Main St., 39th floor
Parking: free valet in parking garage at Seventh and Commerce streets
Cost: members $25, nonmembers $30, students $20
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STRAIGHT STUFF
Last call. Writers you never thought you'd meet -- UTA Shorthorn ex Christine Wicker, Joyce Carol Oates, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Nan Talese, Mary Roach, Kevin Fedarko, Burkart Bilger, William Nack -- will be at the 3rd Annual Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference of the Southwest, July 27-29 at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center in Grapevine. See mayborninstitute.unt.edu. ...
Why is a synopsis so hard to write, and why do you need one? What should it include? And what might a "spiritual push-up" be? Author Robyn Conley, the "Book Doctor," will answer these questions and more at the Monday, July 16, meeting of the Greater Dallas Writers' League of Texas at the Richardson Public Library, 900 Civic Center Drive. Starts at 7 p.m.; the public is invited. Conley has counseled hundreds of writers in one-on-one critiques and lectured at workshops and conferences across the United States. She has taught courses at TCU, UTA and Howard County Junior College on the mechanics and business of writing; how writing exercises can help heal emotional wounds; and for senior citizens, how to write your life story. Her books include "What Really Matters to Me: A Guided Journal" and "Living the Rapture." More on the Writers' League of Texas from Carol Woods at shurlock@flash.net. ...
Get hands-on experience through the second annual fellowship program for minority broadcast journalism students hosted by Meredith Corp., KPHO CBS 5 and Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Participants will spend Jan. 6-12 working with ASU profs and KPHO reporters, producers, editors and videographers to create a 30-minute newscast. Minority students majoring in broadcast journalism at a U.S. college or university and within 12 months of graduation are eligible. Deadline: Oct. 1. A stipend will cover travel, lodging and meals. See the Cronkite web site. ...
Applications deadline is Aug. 31 for the Milena Jesenská Fellowships for North American Journalists, sponsored by the Institute for Human Sciences at Boston University. Two U.S. or Canadian journalists will spend up to three months in Europe working on a European topic of their choice. Each recipient gets a $12,500 stipend, an office, a computer, travel money and access to the research services and programs of the institute's sister institution in Vienna, where the journalists will be based. Duration of the fellowships and start dates are negotiable for between Oct. 1, 2007, and Sept. 30, 2008.
IABC local update: Linda Mastaglio, ABC, principal, Thoughts, Words & Images PR in Van, Texas, and Steve Freeman, an adjunct professor at Marymount University in Washington, D.C., will present "Vital Connections: Building Relationships with Key Stakeholders" at the Dallas IABC meeting Tuesday, July 10. Register here.
PRSA local update: New location, new time. The August meeting won't be on the usual second Wednesday, nor will it be in Fort Worth. GFW PRSA will meet with Dallas PRSA on Thursday, Aug. 9, at the Las Colinas Country Club to plumb the intricacies of "Five Simple Steps to Effective Word of Mouth Marketing" with Andy Sernovitz, author of "How Smart Companies Get People Talking." Details next month. Register here. The regular date and time return in September with TCU professors Will Powers and Melissa Schroeder on "The Complexity and Consequences of Misunderstanding(s)."
