Royal Roads Student Recipient of 2009 Denis Racine Student Bursary

 

Royal Roads student and CPRS-VI member Lindsay Nicole McPherson is the 2009 winner of the Denis Racine Student Bursary. McPherson is currently working on her BA in Professional Communications and expects to graduate in 2011. She is a long time volunteer and was Communications chair for the 2008 and 2009 Columbia Valley Relay for Life and has been involved in municipal and provincial political campaigns.

The annual $500 bursary is available to CPRS-VI student members who live on Vancouver Island or the Gulf Islands, are registered in a post-secondary educational program and have completed three or more courses. Recipients are chosen by a CPRS education committee of public relations professionals comprised of Marie Zirk from Integral PR & Design, Anita Wasiuta from BC Transit, Joan Yates from Camosun College, Maggie Kerr-Southin from Artemis PR & Design and David Alexander from Zero One Design.

Denis Racine was a prominent figure in Victoria's public relations community and a strong mentor for youth. He was president of both CPRS-VI and CPRS National as well as Tournament Director for the Times Colonist Open and an advisor for the University of Victoria. The bursary was renamed in his honour after his death this year.

Donations to the Denis Racine Student Bursary may be sent to:
Communications + Public Relations Foundation,
Suite 1515, 73 Widdicombe Hill Blvd,
Toronto, Ontario, M9R 4B3

Applications for the 2010 Denis Racine Student Bursary will be accepted Fall, 2010.

CPRS-VI Material at the Library

CPRS-VI’s Whistler Conference Fund supplied the Greater Victoria Public Library with a donation of $463.70 in early 2009 to purchase public relations-related material to benefit members. Material from the 2008 bursary have been ordered and catalogued and include the following titles:

• In the News: The Practice of Media Relations in Canada
• PR!: A Social History of Spin
• The New Influencers: A Marketer's Guide to the New Social Media
• The IABC Handbook of Organizational Communication: A Guide to Internal Communication, Public Relations, Marketing, and Leadership
• Excellence in Public Relations and Communication Management
• Public Relations Writing: Form and Style
• What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era
• Building Media Relationships: How to Establish, Maintain and Develop Long-Term Relationships with the Media
• All Too Human: A Political Education
• The Canadian Press Stylebook: A Guide for Writers and Editors
• Public Relations Strategies and Tactics
• Weathering the storm; protecting your brand in the worst of times

CPRS-VI members will find links to these and many other titles available at the library on the member-only section of this website, and can use their library card number to reserve the book through the library's on-line catalogue.

Non-member can visit the nearest local Victoria library to find these and many other public relations-related books and resources, or visit the library’s online catalogue at http://catalogue.gvpl.ca.