{"id":2259,"date":"2024-12-10T17:32:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T23:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/?p=2259"},"modified":"2024-12-12T16:05:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T22:05:44","slug":"department-hosts-cookout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/?p=2259","title":{"rendered":"Student Organizations Host JMC Cookout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br><em>By Josh Clinton<\/em><br><br>The JMC department hosted a free cookout for JMC students and friends. The event was a joint effort between PRSSA, TV Club, <em>The News<\/em> and Ads Club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Club volunteers cooked and served hamburgers and hotdogs (donated by \u201cOff the Hoof\u201d in Murray, Kentucky) chips and banana pudding. Murray State student Joe Reeves, junior TV production major\/sports comm minor, aka DJ Kuruk, provided music for the festivities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe thing I was happiest about was that all the student groups, PRSSA, <em>The Murray<br>State News<\/em>, and the Ads Club all came together, and it was a very good event,\u201d said Gill Welsch, Ads Club facuty adviser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first event of this type was hosted in September of 2019, according to Professor<br>Welsch, and was designed as a way to introduce the entire department&#8217;s enrollment to JMC&#8217;s student organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe had not done this since 2019, due to the problems with Covid, but I am glad it came back<br>and happy with how it went,\u201d said Welsch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event was designed to attract new interest in the JMC Department while fostering<br>community among students and faculty. The DJ kept the energy high with music, making the<br>cookout both a social and informative gathering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPRSSA president Ellie Krouse (PR \u201925) did a great job reaching out to student leaders of the other organizations,\u201d Marcie Hinton, public relations professor, said. \u201cIt was so good to see this student-led effort be so successful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a perfect blend of fun, food and networking, creating a memorable evening for everyone in attendance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Josh Clinton The JMC department hosted a free cookout for JMC students and friends. The event was a joint effort between PRSSA, TV Club, The News and Ads Club. Club volunteers cooked and served hamburgers and hotdogs (donated by \u201cOff the Hoof\u201d in Murray, Kentucky) chips and banana pudding. Murray State student Joe Reeves, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jmc-dept","category-students","category-uncategorized","eq-blocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259","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=2259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2285,"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions\/2285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}