Media com students honored by General Assembly
WILMORE, KY—On March 16, 2010, members of the Asbury University media communications program were honored by the Kentucky House of Representatives, House Speaker Gregory Stumbo and House Representative Robert Damron for their participation at the 2010 Olympic games in Vancouver.
Asbury University media communications students just completed broadcasting efforts at their ninth consecutive Olympic games. Jim Owens, dean of the School of Communication Arts, and President Sandra Gray accompanied several students to Frankfort to accept this honor.
The following commendation was read during the General Assembly meeting:
“The House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky hereby offers its most sincere congratulations to the administrators, faculty and School of Communication Arts students at Asbury University and extends a warm welcome as esteemed representatives of the university join us in the House Chamber to be honored during the 2010 Regular Session of the General Assembly for their successful contributions to the scope of Asbury’s mission of outreach and global connections. Since 1984, more than 460 of Asbury’s School of Communication Arts students have worked in paid broadcasting positions in Vancouver, Beijing, Torino, Athens, Salt Lake, Sydney and Atlanta; and, this year’s forty students and four faculty members who traveled to Vancouver, British Columbia, to help broadcast the 2010 Winter Olympic Games represent the ninth consecutive Olympics that Asbury’s media communications students have filled paid broadcasting positions, the members of this honorable body are delighted to join with Representative Robert R. Damron in recognizing the Asbury students who, throughout the years, have worked as camera operators, camera assistants, liaison officers, audio assistants, and loggers for such broadcasters as NBC, CBS, BBC and the European Broadcast Union. Further, this august body applauds Asbury President Sandra C. Gray, under whose visionary leadership Asbury attained University status on March 5, 2010, and who, together with Dr. Jim Owens, who during his twenty-plus years at Asbury has helped build the media communications program from a minor to a school offer majors and minors in numerous communications studies to its now more than three hundred enthusiastic communications students, has seen the university take a major step in the building of a state-of-the-art communications facility with Asbury University whose support has led to its sterling tradition of excellence and opportunity.”
