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2025 COA: Terry Haycock

2025 COA: Terry Haycock

in Contests & Awards, News

Over a wide-ranging career, Haycock, a lifelong pianist and writer, makes music with words – and a major impact on the people, communities and nonprofits she serves RICHMOND, Va. — Terry Haycock, of Midlothian, a lifelong pianist who channels her musical talents into communications, has received the Virginia Professional Communicators’ 2025 Communicator of...

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2025 Communications Contest State-Level Results

2025 Communications Contest State-Level Results

in Contests & Awards, News

By Sunni Brown, Contest Chair Virginia Professional Communicators celebrated the winners of the state-level 2025 communications contest on May 3 at its annual Spring Conference, held at the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown.  The NFPW National Communications Contest is a two-tiered contest recognizing outstanding work by communicators from various fields,...

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A Remembrance of Ginger Levit

A Remembrance of Ginger Levit

in Member Profiles, News

By Martha Steger As the year wanes, I return to its beginning when VPC lost a former member and great friend on January 11: Heloise Bertman “Ginger” Levit, who was 86. Some of us will remember her as the hostess-with-the-mostest who opened her art-filled West End Richmond home to VPC (then VPW) members one evening before a meeting.  Those who knew...

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NFPW announces national communications contest results

NFPW announces national communications contest results

in Contests & Awards, News

VPC members take home nearly 20 awards, including three 1st-place awards By Sunni Brown Communicators from throughout the United States were honored June 22 when the National Federation of Press Women (NFPW) announced the winners of its 2024 Professional Communications Contest as the final event of the organization’s 2024 National Conference in St. Louis, Mo. Nearly...

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