Sorry it's taken so long for me to post this, but along with the rest of the newlyweds, Amanda is also pregnant! :-)
Everything is going well, the baby is developing normally, and the due date is October 12. (Looks like I'll miss Hunt Camp this year, but I'd say it's a very good reason!)
We went for the ultrasound last week, and got to see the hands and feet (and spine!), along with hearing the heartbeat (very exciting!) but we are NOT going to find out whether it's a boy or a girl at this time. We're excited enough for the moment, we want to save a little more excitement for the end!!! :-)
Hope everyone is doing well, and I hope that Cheryl and Ashley are also holding up OK!!
- Brian
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Congrats to Katie!
Hey everyone,
Since there is rarely anything exciting going on with me, I'll post any family news I'm aware of although I did post a comment about the Derby (so much fun!). Anyway, below is info on Katie's advertising team that placed in the top 5 in a national competition. Congrats Katie!!!
Patrick
WMU Home > WMU News >
Advertising team again among top five in national contest
May 9, 2008
KALAMAZOO--A team of Western Michigan University marketing students placed in the top five in a recent national competition.
The team of five students, all of them majors in the WMU Advertising and Promotion Program, competed in the EdVenture Partners Department of Defense National Case Study Competition against 25 teams from universities across the nation. WMU has participated in EdVenture competitions for the past four years, placing in the top 10, nationally, each year.
The WMU contingent was composed of recent WMU graduates Kathleen Brinnehl of Benton Harbor, Mich., Amy Cathcart of Troy, Mich., Bridget Jancarz of Vicksburg, Mich., Kathryn Rzpecki of Northville, Mich. and Danielle Thayer of Battle Creek, Mich.
In an EdVenture Partners National Case Study, small teams of students within a class are challenged to consider and answer a number of analytical questions regarding a client's brand positioning, a communication strategy or any other current strategic situation as identified by the sponsoring client. The WMU team, "Halyn Group," developed an integrated campaign for the Department of Defense. The goal was to recruit college-aged men and woman who speak a foreign language fluently and have specific skill sets, such as engineering, medicine or math/science, for more than 700 civilian roles within the agency. They used a variety of consumer touch points and carried the tagline "The Difference of Distinction."
Dr. JoAnn Atkin, WMU assistant professor of marketing and the team's advisor, uses the competition as the capstone project for advertising and promotion majors in the class Marketing 4810: Integrated Marketing Communications Campaigns. The students won the "right" to represent WMU in the competition by beating out three other student teams also taking the class.
"The competition this year was much more challenging than in previous years," says Atkin, "but, the process of developing a campaign from start to finish hasn't changed. I'm very proud of what the students accomplished this year. The team's hard work was rewarded with another WMU top-five placement."
Established in the mid-1960s, WMU's Advertising and Promotion Program is part of the Haworth College of Business' Department of Marketing. Roughly 300 students major in the area.
Media contact: Mark Schwerin, (269) 387-8400, mark.schwerin@wmich.edu
WMU NewsOffice of University RelationsWestern Michigan University1903 W Michigan AveKalamazoo MI 49008-5433 USA(269) 387-8400www.wmich.edu/wmu/news
Since there is rarely anything exciting going on with me, I'll post any family news I'm aware of although I did post a comment about the Derby (so much fun!). Anyway, below is info on Katie's advertising team that placed in the top 5 in a national competition. Congrats Katie!!!
Patrick
WMU Home > WMU News >
Advertising team again among top five in national contest
May 9, 2008
KALAMAZOO--A team of Western Michigan University marketing students placed in the top five in a recent national competition.
The team of five students, all of them majors in the WMU Advertising and Promotion Program, competed in the EdVenture Partners Department of Defense National Case Study Competition against 25 teams from universities across the nation. WMU has participated in EdVenture competitions for the past four years, placing in the top 10, nationally, each year.
The WMU contingent was composed of recent WMU graduates Kathleen Brinnehl of Benton Harbor, Mich., Amy Cathcart of Troy, Mich., Bridget Jancarz of Vicksburg, Mich., Kathryn Rzpecki of Northville, Mich. and Danielle Thayer of Battle Creek, Mich.
In an EdVenture Partners National Case Study, small teams of students within a class are challenged to consider and answer a number of analytical questions regarding a client's brand positioning, a communication strategy or any other current strategic situation as identified by the sponsoring client. The WMU team, "Halyn Group," developed an integrated campaign for the Department of Defense. The goal was to recruit college-aged men and woman who speak a foreign language fluently and have specific skill sets, such as engineering, medicine or math/science, for more than 700 civilian roles within the agency. They used a variety of consumer touch points and carried the tagline "The Difference of Distinction."
Dr. JoAnn Atkin, WMU assistant professor of marketing and the team's advisor, uses the competition as the capstone project for advertising and promotion majors in the class Marketing 4810: Integrated Marketing Communications Campaigns. The students won the "right" to represent WMU in the competition by beating out three other student teams also taking the class.
"The competition this year was much more challenging than in previous years," says Atkin, "but, the process of developing a campaign from start to finish hasn't changed. I'm very proud of what the students accomplished this year. The team's hard work was rewarded with another WMU top-five placement."
Established in the mid-1960s, WMU's Advertising and Promotion Program is part of the Haworth College of Business' Department of Marketing. Roughly 300 students major in the area.
Media contact: Mark Schwerin, (269) 387-8400, mark.schwerin@wmich.edu
WMU NewsOffice of University RelationsWestern Michigan University1903 W Michigan AveKalamazoo MI 49008-5433 USA(269) 387-8400www.wmich.edu/wmu/news
Sunday, May 4, 2008
A few pictures from DERBY DAY
If you look closely in the background .... HORSES
Our motley CREW
Hard to read ... INFIELD and OTTA MY MIND
Saturday, May 3, 2008
DERBY 2008
First comes the HATS
Then the beauty QUEENS
More HATS
Then to the INFIELD
Then comes the RAIN
and talking to ????? (barb)
Then the beauty QUEENS
More HATS
Then to the INFIELD
Then comes the RAIN
and talking to ????? (barb)
Hey it only LOOKS dry
and this is only OAKS
NEXT WE DO DERBY
NEXT WE DO DERBY
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