Pictured above: Frances with her “twin,” advocting women’s rights, and starring as “The Witch” A Sandwich and a Glass of Wine with a Fascinating LadyBy Terry Haycock With this series of member profiles, we hope to enhance our knowledge of each other on personal as well as professional levels. If you consulted Wikipedia, you would find...
Read MoreFRECKLES, FRIENDSHIP, AND PHOTOGRAPHY A VISIT WITH LOUISA PRESTONBy Terry Haycock With this series of member profiles, we hope to enhance our knowledge of each other on personal as well as professional levels Kathie (remember her from the June story on Marge Swayne?) and I were off on another VPC adventure, this time to Manakin/Sabot to meet Louisa Preston. We...
Read MorePictured above: Annie spelunking in Australia’s Blue Mountains GOOD THINGS COME IN SMALL PACKAGES INTRODUCING ANNIE TOBEYBy Terry Haycock With this series of member profiles, we hope to enhance our knowledge of each other on personal as well as professional levels I was sitting at a table in the Boomer conference room waiting for my interviewee, whom I had...
Read MoreAnd the winners are… National Contest First-place winners in the Virginia Professional Communicators contest advanced to the National Federation of Press Women’s contest, where they competed with other first-place winners from state affiliates of NFPW. They were celebrated at a banquet on June 29 during the annual NFPW conference, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana....
Read MoreWelcome to Stillmeadow Farm! A visit with award-winning Marge Swayne at home By Terry Haycock Editor’s Note: With this series of member profiles, we hope to enhance our knowledge of each other on personal as well as professional levels. Turning off the highway west of Farmville (the farthest I’ve ventured in that direction since moving to Virginia from the...
Read MoreBy Mechelle Hankerson The Virginia Press Women Foundation is pleased to announce Alyse Johnson of Herndon as the 2019 recipient of the Agnes Cooke Memorial Scholarship. Johnson is a rising sophomore at Virginia Tech where she is studying multimedia journalism. In her spare time, she contributes to the university radio station, the award-winning campus newspaper, the...
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