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Representing Murray State were lecturers Gill Welsch and Bob Valentine and students Kirby Feldkamp and Abigail Goss.<\/p>\n
Welsch, head of the advertising major, said that the organizer of the annual training workshop requested the representatives because MSU\u2019s summer interns had performed so well.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s quite an honor to be asked to address the Omicon HR directors,\u201d Welsch said. \u201cI am particularly pleased that they liked the jobs that our interns did over the summer. The department faculty and I are very proud of our students. I\u2019m excited that will have an opportunity to let the Omicom people know more about our program and Murray State.<\/p>\n
Omnicom Group is a global holding company that owns some 230 companies engaged in advertising, marketing and public relations.<\/p>\n
Welsch joined the JMC faculty in 1992 as head of the advertising major and adviser to the MSU chapter of the American Advertising Federation.<\/p>\n
He holds the bachelor\u2019s degree in journalism and the master\u2019s degree in public relations from the University of Southern Mississippi. He has done doctoral study at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.<\/p>\n
In addition to Murray State, Welsch has taught advertising, journalism and public relations at the University of Southern Mississippi, Southeast Missouri State University and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.<\/p>\n
Valentine has been a member of MSU faculty since 1974. He has taught speech communications and theatre and served as guest director for both the MSU Theatre and Murray\u2019s Community Theatre (Playhouse in the Park).<\/p>\n
He began his teaching career at the University of Kentucky, where he earned his undergraduate degree in history and his master\u2019s degree in communications. He then served as lecturer in communications before coming to Murray State to teach speech and serve as the director of forensics.<\/p>\n
He joined the JMC Department in 1995. A former residential college head, he was the 2009 Regents Teaching Award winner for the College of Business.<\/p>\n
He is the publisher of\u00a0Murray Life<\/em>magazine and is known for his portrayal of Mark Twain, Nathan B. Stubblefield and most recently, Rainey Wells.<\/p>\n Feldkamp is a senior public relations major with a minor in advertising. She is scheduled to graduate as an honor student in May 2013.<\/p>\n In the fall 2011 semester, she studied at Humboldt State University in California as a part of the National Student Exchange program.<\/p>\n She has worked as a photographer and an advertising designer for\u00a0The Murray State News<\/em>and as layout director for the student magazine at Humboldt State.<\/p>\n She had a TV production internship for KEET-TV in Eureka, Calif., and an account management internship this past summer with DDB, an Omicom Group Affiliate in New York City.<\/p>\n Goss also has a public relations major with an advertising minor and will graduate next May.<\/p>\n She has been an events coordinator intern for the Champaign County (Ill.) Chamber of Commerce and currently is the advertising assistant for TapLogic LLC in Murray.<\/p>\n This past summer she was an account manager intern with Fathom Communications in Chicago, also an Omnicom company.<\/p>\n Leah Kirchoff, a May graduate, joined the departmental delegation. She interned with Fathom Communications in Chicago.<\/p>\n Fathom extended Kirchoff \u2018s internship through October and hired her in November.<\/p>\n Welsch and Valentine talked about MSU\u2019s program and the millennial generation. They also asked for feedback on what universities need to do to better prepare students for the professional world.<\/p>\n The HR directors said writing is of paramount importance, students need to learn social graces and professional behaviors, students need to know analytics, students need to demonstrate the ability to think critically and to think on their feet, and the department shouldn\u2019t foster \u201ccreatives\u201d who are not creative. The group concluded their session with Bob Valentine reading the resolution that names the department\u2019s outstanding senior in advertising award after Bob Norsworthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Four members of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications traveled to New York City Dec. 3-5 to make a presentation about the department to human resource directors of all of the Omni Group companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jmc-dept","eq-blocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1744,"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/1744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}