Month: July 2011

The attendees of the Arkansas SPJ annual membership meeting today elected a new board for the group. Your officers, mostly returning for a second year, are:

President: Kelly MacNeil
Vice-President: John Lyon (replacing Rob Moritz)
Treasurer: Kelly Kissell
Secretary: Andrew Demillo

Board members returning for a second term are:
Rob Moritz
Sonny Albarado
Ron Sitton
John Thompson

New board members are:
Sonny Rhodes, journalism professor at UALR
Sarah Morris, reporter at the Stuttgart Daily Leader
Eric Francis, freelancer

The board is scouting a new location for SPJ’s annual banquet this September. So if you know a reasonably-priced facility that can handle about 65 people and an a/v presentation, please let us know!

All Arkansas SPJ members are invited to come to the full-membership meeting next Monday, July 11th, at noon.

The meeting will be held at the Stephens Media office on Main St. in Little Rock.

We’ll be electing a new board for the year. Here are the nominations:

President: Kelly MacNeil
Vice-President: John Lyon
Treasurer: Kelly Kissel
Secretary: Andrew Demillo
Sonny Albarado
John Thompson
Rob Moritz
Ron Sitton
Eric Francis
Sonny Rhodes

We’ll also accept nominations from the floor.  There are still two openings.

The board will convene immediately after the full membership meeting adjourns, to address business including adjustments to the scholarship program, and plans for the annual banquet this fall.

Hope you can attend!