CUPRAP Spring Conference 2006

Immediate Past President Alan Janesch assists at the CUPRAP Registration Desk.
2006 Hale Award co-winners Kathy Ettinger, left, and Barb Meeker, congratulate each other after the awards ceremony at Hershey, Thursday, March 9.	Kathy Ettinger, left, and Barbara Meeker, who have served as CUPRAP's administrative support staff (Meeker from 1990 to 1996, and Ettinger since 1997), were co-recipients at the annual CUPRAP Spring Professional Development conference in Hershey of the Don Hale Award for service to CUPRAP.
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Mark S. Schweiker addresses the CUPRAP membership after receiving the 2006 Arthur V. Ciervo Award for his advocacy of higher education.	Former Pennsylvania Gov. Mark S. Schweiker, center was presented CUPRAP's Ciervo Award, for his career-long support of higher education and initiatives to improve education at all levels within the commonwealth. With Schweiker are CUPRAP President Sally Widman, left, and Tysen Kendig, Vice President of CUPRAP and chair of the Awards Committee.
Cassondra Lampkin, a senior at Susquehanna University, was winner of the 2006 CUPRAP Communications Internship Award for Students of Color.  Shown here with her mother, Lucinda McDowell, she was presented the award by CUPRAP Vice President Tysen Kendig on March 9.  Cassondra is majoring in journalism with a minor in women's studies, and carries a 3.45 grade point average. She balances her studies with part-time work for The Daily Item in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, where she copy edits and has earned bylines for her reporting coverage of various regional stories. In addition, Cassondra is the editor-in-chief and founder of Serenity, a University newsmagazine at Susquehanna, which features an eight-page layout focusing on women's issues. She aspires for a career as a newspaper reporter in a large media market.	2006 CUPRAP Communications Internship Award winner Cassondra Lampkin, center, a senior at Susquehanna University, with CUPRAP President Sally Widman, left, and Vice President Tysen Kendig, after receiving the award March 9 at Hershey.   Lunch!
CUPRAP members getting to know one another.