Student

Matt Boyd was elected NU homecoming king in October. A broadcasting major, Boyd is speaker of the senate of the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska. He is a student assistant in the broadcasting department and has been a New Student Enrollment orientation leader. His parents are David and Cynthia Boyd of Lexington.

The Nebraska Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America has donated $100 to UNL’s Public Relations Club in recognition of Dan Farley’s work. Farley interned at Boys Town during the summer and helped arrange the PRSA’s annual golf tournament.

The spring 1998 advertising campaigns class designed an integrated marketing communications plan for the Indian Health Center in Lincoln. The center received funding to implement the plan, and some of the students’ work was being used on Lincoln’s city busses already during the summer.

Linda Garcia, a news-editorial major, was one of seven students of color from colleges and universities across the United States accepted for the inaugural Chips Quinn Scholars School-Year Program. Sponsored by The Freedom Forum, the program offers academic training, paid internships, course credit and a scholarship to participants. The semester-long program began with a week-long orientation session at The Freedom Forum Pacific Coast Center in San Francisco, followed by a 12-week internship at a Bay Area newspaper. Garcia worked at The Oakland Tribune.

Tony Gauthier Jr., a graduate student at the college, is the president and founder of Gauthier Interactive Communications Inc., a full-service Internet advertising agency in Syracuse, N.Y. GIC provides companies and organizations throughout the Northeast with professional Internet marketing, media buying, Web site design and hosting, electronic commerce and on-line public relations solutions.

Gauthier, previously of Saatchi & Saatchi/NY, has developed comprehensive media and interactive campaigns for clients such as DuPont, Procter & Gamble, General Mills, Frontier Communications, GlaxoWellcome and Bausch & Lomb. He earned a B.A. from Le Moyne College in Syracuse, N.Y.

Matt Miller and Sandy Summers swept the college division of the Nebraska News Photographers annual contest last summer. Miller was named photographer of the year, and Summers was runner-up. Their other awards included the following:

Miller — 1st, 3rd in spot news; 2nd in general news; 1st, 2nd, 3rd in sports action; 1st, 2nd in sports feature; 1st, 2nd, 3rd in feature; 1st in picture story; 3rd in portrait.

Summers — 2nd in spots news; 1st, 3rd in general news; 3rd in sports feature; 1st, 2nd in illustration/fashion; 1st, 2nd in portrait.

Carrie Pierce, a senior advertising major, won one of the top three honors at the National Convention for Student Alumni Associations. The award for Outstanding Student Leader was presented during the association’s convention in Madison, Wis., last August. Pierce is vice president of the NU Student Alumni Association.

Clint! Runge received the E-cubed international design first place award for media graphics. The competition recognizes designers and designs internationally. The winners were featured in the November issue of WIRED magazine. He also received a 1998 Nebraska Gold ADDY for interactive media, a 1998 AAF 9th District Gold ADDY for interactive media and three gold medals from the 1998 Aurora Awards. Two were for fund-raising videos, and one was for a facility tour. All the awards were in non-student competitions.