Alumni News & Notes

Tab Brockman, JMC/RTV ’81, is currently working as a consultant after several decades in management and public relations for a variety of well-known municipalities and organizations. He currently resides in Paducah, Kentucky.

Chrissy (Stubblefield) Driver, PR ’01, is currently working as a Territory Manager for Zoll Medical. She lives in Benton, Kentucky.

Curt Hart, TV ’72, is Assistant Professor of Teaching for the University of Memphis. He lives in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1877, Hart broke the story of the University of Evansville plane crash. He presented his paper “The Road to Jackie Robinson” in Cooperstown. Additionally, he has published seven nature books and worked as a nature photographer for more than 40 years.

Shelley (English) Hawkins, JMC/Mass Comm ’94 and ’99, is co-owner of Three Rivers Academy in Paducah, Kentucky.

AJ Vaughn, ADV ’06, is Assistant Manager and Senior Tax Specialist for H&R Block. He resides in Gleason, Tennessee.

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WKMS: Connecting Local Students to National Opportunities  

By Isabella Shevetz WKMS, Murray State’s local NPR station affiliate, won a prestigious Murrow Award, and the station continues to provide opportunities for student reporters to connect to the larger world of broadcast news.   Mason Galemore (‘23), a former student reporter at WKMS, authored and researched the piece that won. WKMS won the Murrow Award […]

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Alumni Update: David Barton Snow (JMC ’93)

Since last June, Snow has been staff writer for the Office of University Relations at the University of Tennessee at Martin. Prior to that he was a reporter with The Paducah Sun for nearly six years. Last January, Snow published the Governor’s Cup Region 1 Record Book, a compendium of records and statistics for high […]

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Public Relations Alum Accepts Position Managing all North America Communications for Amazon Logistics

We recently caught up with Murray State JMC Alumnus, Heather Mix (PR 2017), to discuss the journey that took her from the classrooms of Wilson HALL to Internal Communication Specialist for Amazon. Q: What did your professional path after college look like?A: I like to think of my professional path as more of a winding […]

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