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Eight Westminster College senior broadcast communications majors will showcase their capstone projects Monday, April 25, from 10:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. in various areas of the McKelvey Campus Center.
The final component of Liberal Studies at Westminster is a senior capstone course, which is at least a four-semester-hour course within the major designed to provide an opportunity for students to evaluate and assess the strengths and limitations of their major field.
At 10:30 a.m. students will unveil the broadcast communications capstone display located on the second floor hallway near Westminster Cable Network studios. At 11:30 a.m. Sebastian Salazar-Driver and Sarah Ubry make their presentations in the Mueller Theater.
"My presentation will focus on some of the projects I completed last semester," Ubry said. "One of my stories about the last milkman in Lawrence County was published in The Herald and the New Castle News. I also turned this story into a three-part series for the campus radio station. I will also report on my current internship with the McKelvey Foundation Newsletter I help to produce."
From 12:30-2:30 p.m., the Titan radio station will broadcast live from the Campus Center. The remote truck will be open for tours, and everyone is invited to sign a time capsule message book.
From 3-6 p.m. "The County Line" marathon is scheduled on the Westminster Cable Network.
Presentations begin again at 5:30 at the Mueller Theater when Ashley Roberts, Tandi Lane, and Megan Marshall present their projects.
"Each of us will focus on our own specialty. My presentation will feature my commercial broadcasting experience as the afternoon news anchor at WKST 1200 AM in New Castle and weekend disc jockey at Froggy 95.1," Marshall said. "I will play clips from newscasts, radio shifts, commercials, and promotions I've produced at those stations as well as from Titan Radio Digital 88.9 FM, especially my three-year running morning show, Pat and Megan in the Morning.' I'll also show some of my television reporting experience through stories I've done on our weekly television news magazine The County Line.'"
At 6:45 p.m. a reception is planned with all the participants near the entrance of Mueller Theater. The last presentations begin at 7:30 p.m. with presentations by Laura Krutschnitt, Ian Durham, and Pat Sandora.
The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Bradley Weaver, instructor of broadcast communications, at (724) 946-7238 or e-mail weaverbl@westminster.edu.
Senior Luke Garrett and junior Michael Wolenski, two Westminster College broadcast communication majors, have landed jobs as weekend television news/sports directors for two Youngstown, Ohio, television stations.
"I started the end of May between my sophomore and junior year," Wolenski said. "Westminster's chief engineer Chuck Chirozzi called me at home to alert me about the opening at WYTV channel 33 (ABC affiliate) in Youngstown. I applied, got an interview, and was offered the job later that week."
"Over the last Christmas break, I received a call from Dr. [David] Barner [associate professor of broadcast communications] and he told me about the opening at Youngstown television station WKBN channel 27 (CBS affiliate)." Garrett said. "Dr. Barner told me that a Westminster alumnus Greg Rhoton '93 had recommended Westminster as a place to look for candidates."
The students took different paths to their current positions.
When Garrett came to Westminster, he was a sociology/criminal justice major who quickly lost interest in that major.
"I had a math class with a broadcast communications major," Garrett said. "I liked what she told me about her major, so I changed majors again. This time I found what I liked. When I first declared this major, I took a sports practicum and worked with our director Amy Dalbon [graduated in Dec. 2004]. I knew then that I wanted to do what she was doing; working behind the scenes at sporting events."
Wolenski had known his career path since his high school days at Peters Township, where he worked on the high school television station.
"I liked working in television in high school and in college," Wolenski said. "I always knew this is where I wanted to be."
Both agree that students should take every opportunity to get experience.
"I learned in high school that you get whatever you put into it," Garrett said. "You must get involved in things not required by class and Westminster gives students many opportunities to gain experience needed in the workforce."
"My classes at Westminster gave me most of what I needed to know in my job, but Westminster also offers many other opportunities," Wolenski said. "You can do the minimum and still graduate, but if you want a job, you need to get involved and do what you can in the department."
"I truly believe that I got my job because Westminster gave me the skills I needed," Garrett said. "I was ready to do the work, all I had to learn was a little different terminology used at this station."
Garrett, a senior, is a son of David and Barb Garrett, New Wilmington, and a graduate of Wilmington Area High School.
Wolenski, a junior, is a son of M. Thomas Wolenski, Venetia, and Carol Oliver, Bridgeville. He is a graduate of Peters Township High School.
Contact Dr. David Barner, chair of the Department of Communication Studies, Theatre and Art at Westminster College, at (724) 946-7239 or e-mail barnerdl@westminster.edu for more information.
The Rev. James R. Mohr II will serve as the new chaplain of Westminster College Nov. 17.
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Janet M. Smith has recently joined Westminster College as assistant controller.
Amanda Downs, a senior business administration at Westminster College, recently received the Ann M. Kendlehart Scholarship.
The Westminster College Dance Theatre's largest production is scheduled Thursday-Friday, March 29-30 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, March 31, at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. in Orr Auditorium.
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Three Westminster College 2008 graduates who majored in biology or molecular biology will be attending master's programs in genetic counseling.
Westminster College's Drinko Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning awarded travel/presentation grants to the six students in Westminster's Horn Ensemble to attend the Mid-South Horn Workshop March 20-22 in Memphis, Tenn.
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