“Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision,” the first major retrospective in more than 25 years of the photographer’s work, starts a three-month run at the Amon Carter Museum on Feb. 14. Nearly
200 photos, from Crane’s internationally heralded early studies of human form through her chronicle of
Chicago city life to her recent explorations of nature, will be on view.
Critics have hailed the photographs as dynamic, bold and abstract, vibrant
depictions of the rural and urban, the familiar and esoteric. ...
The Hondo Group has announced a green partnership with the Joint US-China
Cooperation on Clean Energy. The agency will deliver a variety of creative
services, including green branding and development and web site redesign. Hondo
recently added green marketing strategies to its product line and is developing
one of the first ongoing quantitative tools for evaluating environmentally
sound business practices. A LEED-accredited professional on the Hondo staff can
perform assessments on buildings and advise recommendations to companies
interested in improving their sustainability and resource efficiency.
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GET A JOB
The Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association has an immediate opening
for a full-time circulation manager with accounts receivable experience to join
the staff of The Cattleman magazine, a monthly English-language cattle
publication. The position handles subscription renewals and ad billing and
processes contracts for the annual TSCRA trade show. The Cattleman has
published continuously since 1914 and is the business journal of the cattle
industry of the Southwest; it is mailed to more than 20,000 readers (TSCRA is
the 132-year-old trade association for cattle producers and landowners in Texas
and Oklahoma). Qualifications include at least three years of experience in a
full-time position. Knowledge of agriculture is a plus. Salary based on
experience. Send résumé and cover letter, by mail or e-mail, to editor
Ellen Brisendine, 1301 W. Seventh St., Fort Worth 76102, 817-916-1794, ehbrisendine@texascattleraisers.org. ...
The Trade Group in Carrollton will need a receptionist from March 1 through the
end of May while its receptionist is out on maternity leave. TTG also seeks a
finance/accounting manager. Must be hands-on with human resources, payroll,
vendor and acounts payable experience. Send résumé to Ellen Gepner at egepner@tradegroup.com. ...
Bashara Concepts seeks an entrepreneurial spirit to generate marketing,
advertising and sponsorship dollars for sports, entertainment and lifestyle
industries. Individual(s) will work with high-powered team on immediate project. Access to
marketing and ad representative databases a plus. Submit résumé and related experience to ebashara@basharaconcepts.com.
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NEW MEMBERS
PRSA ... Amanda Rae Sawyer (associate member, PRSSA grad), Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine ... Kevin Williams (associate member, PRSSA grad), Money Management International ... Sydney M. Carroll (associate member, PRSSA grad), Lockheed Martin ... Tonya Nichol Murry, Martin, Fletcher
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PRESIDENT’S COLUMN
Andra Bennett House, APR, Greater Fort Worth PRSA
As I write this, we’re three weeks into the year and already I need a vacation. Princess Cruise
Lines is calling my name. Hold on … OK, Classic Southern Caribbean cruise booked. Back to reality, which isn’t so bad. In fact, look at all the great things our fellow pros are doing.
Glenda Thompson, 2008-09 diversity chair, accepted national PRSA’s Chapter Diversity Award on behalf of the Greater Fort Worth chapter. Only
three chapters were awarded nationwide. Hear Glenda talk about the “Diversity of Thought” concept on PRSA’s podcast, Diversity Today.
Our chapter presented three local awards at the December luncheon: Unsung Hero
to Richie Escovedo, 2008-09 online chair and board director; Team Spirit to John Dycus, editor of this wonderful eChaser; and Lifetime Achievement to TCU’s Dr. Doug Newsom, APR, Fellow PRSA. Photos are on p. 2 and here. Join me in congratulating these talented colleagues one more time.
Giving a shout out to Mitch Schnurman, Star-Telegram columnist and January luncheon speaker, for an insightful look
at the way columnists work and his candid views on the future of newspapering,
including at the Star-Telegram. And don’t forget our Feb. 11 meeting, where motivational speaker, author and radio
personality Bryan Dodge will tell us how to have our best year ever. This year, you say? Yep, that’s right. Register here.
Finally, one last plug for the Best of the Southwest Communicators Conference, presented by the Texas Public Relations Association and the PRSA Southwest
District, Feb. 27-March 1 right here in our own backyard. In Frisco, to be
precise. Hey, no airfare! Among the great speakers: Peter Shankman, CEO of the Geek Factory and founder of Help a Reporter Out (HARO), and Kasey Pipes, Fort Worth native and former speechwriter in the Bush White House. Early-bird deadline is Feb. 9.
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OVER & OUT
John Dycus, Fort Worth SPJ
Hooray for good times connoisseurs Doug and Kristen Jumper, our first registrants for the SPJ Region 8 Conference, March 20 and 21 at the
Hilton-Fort Worth downtown. Now give me 130 more just like them. We’re talking 13 professional development sessions fronted by 26 talented pros, plus Texana chronicler Mike Cochran spinning yarns at the reception; opening remarks Saturday by a remarkable
investigative reporter at WCPO-TV, Cincinnati, who has nine Emmy Awards (that’s nine more than you, pal); and the luncheon address by an in-demand,
local-journalist-makes-good news practitioner and analyst who twice has been
named “One of the Top 100 Most Influential Hispanics” (two more times than you, pick any ethnicity you like). The opportunity to hear
Hagit Limor and Gilbert Bailón alone is worth the price of admission. Don’t wait for your muse to guide you here, as she’s too worried about getting laid off. Go on, make it happen. We’re saving some chicken for you. ...
About that p. 2 teaser in January touting a picture page on the Christmas party
JPS book benefit “coming next month.” Should’ve said “coming soon.” Sorry for the delay. Next month for sure. Probably. ...
Let’s give George W. Bush an attaboy for this. He set aside parts of three remote and uninhabited Pacific
island chains — some 195,274 square miles — as national monuments to protect them from oil and gas extraction and
commercial fishing in what will be the largest marine conservation effort in history. Each location harbors unique species and some of the rarest geological
formations on Earth, from the world’s largest land crab to a bird that incubates its eggs in the heat of underwater
volcanoes. ...
President Obama’s ethics order has a glaring loophole, his stimulus plan is excessively porkish and he’s too conciliatory toward Republicans, but I’ll live with it in exchange for more of this, the second paragraph of his Jan.
21 Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies: “The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption:
In the face of doubt, openness prevails. The Government should not keep
information confidential merely because public officials might be embarrassed
by disclosure, because errors and failures might be revealed, or because of
speculative or abstract fears. Nondisclosure should never be based on an effort
to protect the personal interests of Government officials at the expense of
those they are supposed to serve. In responding to requests under the FOIA,
executive branch agencies should act promptly and in a spirit of cooperation,
recognizing that such agencies are servants of the public.” ...
Misguided children of the corn. In Nebraska the privacy concerns of people who
have been dead 100 years trump sunshine statutes. SPJ joined an amicus brief authored by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
supporting the Adams County Historical Society in its request for the names of
almost 1,000 people buried in unmarked graves on the grounds of the Hastings
Regional Center, a state mental hospital. A trial court upheld the denial of
information based on its interpretation of the federal Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act. ...
Its web site’s a year behind, but DVDs from the Media Giraffe Project still merit your attention — “The New Pamphleteers: Entrepreneurs, Watchdogs and Citizens in the Digital Age,” an informal video view of the motivation challenges citizen-journalists face,
and “The State of Citizen Journalism,” a thought-provoking discussion featuring seven experts and a 150-person
audience on where newsrooms are headed.
Closing words: “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” — British reformer Edmund Burke (of whom a critic wrote that “one of the paradoxes of Burke’s career is the gap between his acknowledged eloquence admitted even by his
firmest opponents and his habitual inability to persuade”) ... “Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.” — E.L. Doctorow ... “The secret of happiness is to be happy already.” — Julian Barnes
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