Friday, May 28, 2004
PRCC public relations staff captures 16 awards

     POPLARVILLE - Pearl River Community College’s public relations staff captured 
16 awards, including four first-place awards, in annual competition sponsored by the College Public Relations Association of Mississippi (CPRAM).
     The public relations staff also won nine second-place awards and three third-place awards. PRCC competes in the junior college division of CPRAM, which is open to all 15 community/junior colleges across the state.
     Senior college staff compete in a separate division. The awards were presented during CPRAM’s annual spring meeting this month in Natchez for work performed in 2003.
    Here are the PRCC award winners:
 > First place: News Story, “Former student gives PRCC $3.75 million,”
    Chuck Abadie, a news story on the school’s biggest donation in history.
 > First place: Sports Stories, “PRCC soccer teams take aim at state,”
    Chuck Abadie.
 > First place: Color Photography, “String of Pearls,” Mitch Deaver.
 > First place: Television Spots, “PRCC Recruitment Commercial,” Chuck
    Abadie and Ronn Hague.
 > Second place: News Story, “Some 250 attend ATC groundbreaking
    ceremony,” Chuck Abadie.
 > Second place: Institutional Magazine, “PRCC RiverSide,” Chuck Abadie,
    Mitch Deaver, Pam Luke, Ronn Hague and Kenny Russell.
 > Second place: Newsletter category, “RiverTEC,” (Forrest County
    Center), Pam Luke and Chuck Abadie.
 > Second place: Advertisements, “Come Join a Winning Team,” Ronn Hague.
 > Second place: Single piece of artwork: “The Message is...,” Chuck
    Abadie and Ronn Hague.
 > Second place: Color Photography, “Soccer Action,” Mitch Deaver.
 > Second place: Digital/Art Photography, “Chapel Ground Breaking,” Ronn
    Hague.
 > Second place: Television Programs, “A Very Wildcat Christmas,” Ronn
    Hague.
 > Second place: Public Relations Innovations, “Pearl River Community
    College Experience,” Chuck Abadie and Ronn Hague.
 > Third place: News Story, “GED classes offer adults better life,” Pam
    Luke.
 > Third place: Admissions and Recruitment Piece, Chuck Abadie and Ronn
    Hague.
 > Third place: Annual Report, “2002-2003 Annual Report,” PRCC public
    relations staff.
     “It's outstanding for our staff to receive high awards in competition with our colleagues at other community/junior colleges in the state,” said Chuck Abadie, Director of Public Relations at PRCC. “It speaks well of the information product PRCC offers daily to the public. “Everyone on the staff has worked hard this year and they deserve recognition.”
     Hague, a Petal native and 1999 PRCC graduate, is the school’s webmaster and yeardisk advisor. Deaver, a Purvis native and 1975 PRCC graduate, is assistant director of public relations and Dixie Drawl advisor. Luke is public relations assistant, and Russell is a compositor-printer.