MEETINGS
Event-planning Tips from a Master Event Planner
Patrick Grady. He's knowledgeable. He's funny. He plans events at RadioShack. Big events. Bigger events. He's the program this month. You'll laugh. You'll learn. Patrick Grady. He can really plan.
Time & date: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 5
Place: Petroleum Club, Carter-Burgess Plaza, 777 Main St., 39th floor
Parking: $2.50 in parking garage at Seventh and Commerce streets
Cost: $17 members, $25 nonmembers, $12 students
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Are Your True Colors Showing? Find Out at Fall Seminar
Kent Dean's interactive presentation "True Colors" -- morning seminar Oct. 13 at the Petroleum Club -- will help define your communication style and the style of those around you, including external audiences, co-workers, potential clients and reporters. Stick around for lunch and learn how to speak to your client's client.
Dean, an advertising/marketing expert with nearly 20 years consulting experience, is a certified trainer for True Colors, a widely recognized, entertaining approach to gauging personality types based on the studies of Myers-Briggs and David Keirsey. Dean serves on the board of directors for the Fort Worth Advertising Club and the Day Resource Center for the Homeless. He is president of the Reveille Toastmasters Club and immediate vice president of Fort Worth's Convention District Association.
Time & date: 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 13; lunch at noon
Place: Petroleum Club, Carter-Burgess Plaza, 777 Main St., 39th floor
Parking: free parking in garage C at Seventh and Commerce streets
Cost: members/nonmembers/students -- seminar and lunch $35/$45/$25; seminar only $20/$30/$15; lunch only $20/$23/$18; RSVP no-shows will be billed, and RSVPs after deadline will be charged the nonmember rate
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A Day of Mystery in Two Parts
Let the budding writer inside you burst forth Oct. 16 as a quartet of noted authors -- Tim Madigan, Doug Swanson, Parnell Hall and J.A. Jance -- discuss their craft at FW SPJ's build-your-own-meeting. Also, Irwin Gratz will be on hand to reinstate the tradition of Cowtown being the SPJ national president's first chapter visit following the coronation. Hall and Jance will be at a book signing that morning at the North Texas Booksellers Association Book and Paper Show at Roundup Inn, to which SPJ members are invited.
Star-Telegram scribe Madigan's latest book is "The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921." He also wrote "See No Evil: Blind Devotion and Bloodshed in David Koresh's Holy War." The Dallas Morning News' Swanson is the warped persona behind the Jack Flippo detective series ("Big Town," "Dreamboat," "96 Tears," "Umbrella Man" and "House of Corrections").
Jance has written 26 books; the most recent, "Partners in Crime," brings together her two characters, Joanna Brady and J.P. Beaumont, each of whom is featured in a series of mysteries. Hall has produced three series of novels running simultaneously -- "The Puzzle Lady," "Stanley Hastings" and "Steve Winslow" -- which have accounted for 25 books since 1987.
Time & date: 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 16
Place: Saloui's Stage Deli & Bar, 517 University Drive
Cost: you order it, you pay for it
Menu: everything you'd want in a deli, and then some
RSVP: not necessary
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STRAIGHT STUFF
Dr. Pat Gleason-Winn from the Baylor School of Social Work will discuss "Spirituality and Aging" to open a free, daylong conference Saturday, Oct. 16, at First Christian Church downtown on issues about aging and the questions most families ask. The event, organized by SPJ member Carmen Goldthwaite and sponsored by TCU, the First Christian Churches of Fort Worth and Arlington and the University and South Hills Christian Churches of Fort Worth, is billed as a "conversation for all ages, old and young." Forty-five-minute workshops will look at Social Security, managing assets and how to live at home independently. For children of seniors, information will be available on caregivers. For those ages 12-25, the workshop "What's Happening to Grandpa or Grandma?" will explore changes associated with aging. To register, call TCU at (817) 257-7132. ...
The D/FW Network of Hispanic Communicators will meet Wednesday, Oct. 13, at The Dallas Morning News, 508 Young St. The organization's Media Fair will be Oct. 20 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Community Arts Center in Fort Worth. Three days after that, the 2004 Journalism Workshop, co-sponsored with the UTA communication department, plays out in the Fine Arts Building on campus. Students register for $20, which includes lunch and a t-shirt. More on everything at dfwhispanic.org.
Mystery writer Parnell Hall will repeat as master of ceremonies at Fall Murder, Mystery and Mayhem, Part IV at Ridglea Country Club on Friday, Oct. 15. Authors Rick Riordan, Stephanie Kane, J.A. Jance and Claire Matturo are scheduled to appear. The North Texas Booksellers Association Book and Paper Show the next two days at Roundup Inn at Will Rogers Memorial Center (10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday) will feature author panels, book sales and signings. More here. ...
PRSA local update: Election of 2005 officers and directors will be held at the luncheon/annual meeting Wednesday, Oct. 13. The slate of officers: president, Heather Senter, APR; president-elect/membership, Holly Ellman; VP/programs, Marc Flake; secretary, Krista Brown; treasurer, Glenda Thompson; treasurer-elect, Laura Van Hoosier. Directors: term ending 2005, Gary Morey; '06, John Hoffmann; '07, Theresa Davis. Assembly delegates: term ending 2005, Kristie Aylett, APR; '07, Mary Dulle, APR, Fellow PRSA. ... Krista Brown, Carol Murray, Cathy Mueller, Lauren Olson and Julie O'Neil with the Greater Fort Worth PRSA community service committee recently presented PR strategy recommendations, including new brochure design and media training, to Cancer Care Services, an agency that provides direct post-diagnosis assistance to cancer patients and their families. CCS was selected from among 16 local nonprofit organizations to receive pro bono assistance. ... Dora Tovar of Tovar PR in Arlington, who recently presented to the PR Consultants SIG on Hispanic PR, is quoted in a Sept. 27 PR Week article on the topic.
