By Pamela Stallsmith, VPWF President The Virginia Press Women Foundation’s first online auction to support the Agnes Cooke Scholarship was a smashing success, thanks to the generosity of VPC members. We raised $1,215 — more than enough to cover the cost of our annual $1,000 scholarship. Every year we hold an auction at the spring conference to raise money for the...
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FRECKLES, 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...
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Brush up your professional social networking skills. VPC members and guests are invited to a FREE LinkedIn workshop in Richmond Sept. 18 from 4:30-5:30 p.m. at the Tuckahoe Library, located at 1901 Starling Drive, Henrico, 23229. We encourage you to bring a friend, or two, who you think could benefit from VPC membership. Kenneth M. Jungersen, acclaimed author and...
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Pictured 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...
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And 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....
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Via nfpw.org Baton Rouge, Louisiana Details available at https://nfpw.org/conference/. Professional development, supporting freedom of the press and honoring the best in communications are the three pillars of the annual NFPW Professional Communications Conference. Our sessions are as diverse as our membership — professional women and men pursuing careers across the...
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Welcome 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...
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By 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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VPC’s spring conference was held April 27 at the University of Richmond. About 30 VPC members and guests enjoyed a morning of networking, learning, and celebrating. The day began with breakfast and networking. Attendees shared their elevator speeches. And members learned unique facts about each other they had not been aware of before. For example, both Michele...
Read MoreVirginia Press Women Foundation Hosts Silent Auction The Virginia Press Women Foundation, which is affiliated with Virginia Professional Communicators, is a 501(c)3 corporation with the purpose of administering and raising funds for college scholarships. The VPW Foundation offers an annual scholarship to a deserving Virginia college student who’s interested in...
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