Dear Volunteer Chapter Members:
Our PRSSA liaisons, Gary McCormick and Ellen Liston, met with the PRSSA
students at UT last Monday night and would like your assistance in regard to
the upcoming national PRSA conference in Atlanta. As you can imagine, this
is an added expense that few of the students have the
discretionary funds to attend this outstanding professional opportunity.
With the conference so close, I'm confident that many of our local
professionals will be attending at least a day session. I'd like to solicit
our chapter members for assistance for the students in one or all of the
following ways:
1. Sponsor a student(s) and provide a "scholarship" to one of the students
to cover their registration fee ($195) and additional housing costs, if
possible.
2. Offer to provide a ride to students in cars or vans that are going
to/from the conference.
3. Offer to share your housing/room with a student during the conference.
If anyone can assist in any way or would like additional information, please
contact Gary or Ellen directly (their contact info is at the end of this
email) and they will put you in contact with the PRSSA officers.
I am hopeful that we will make this opportunity possible for as many
students as possible. The national conference is an outstanding opportunity
for professional development and networking that none of us should miss.
Thanks for your help.
Gary McCormick, APR
Coleman Research Corporation
865-690-0383
865-690-0639 FAX
865-659-9743 CELL
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Ellen Liston
East Tennessee Children's Hospital
865-541-8165
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