WFU Magazine: new awards, new connections
When associate vice president Maria Henson (’82) judged senior orations earlier this month she brought copies of the spring issue of Wake Forest Magazine with her. She didn’t leave with any. “The students said, ‘Can we take these?’ It was music to my ears.”
Henson, who oversees the magazine and its website, says the student compliments are rewarding, just as the magazine wins two top awards from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). Wake Forest Magazine has won the Grand Award for District III (Southeast region) in two categories: Alumni Magazines (for schools with similar enrollment) and Magazine Publishing Improvement. The entries are judged on content, writing, design, photography, budget and resources.
The magazine has been working on a redesign since Henson returned to Wake Forest in June 2010. After a Pulitzer Prize-winning career in newspapers, Henson pored through 10 years’ worth of Wake Forest Magazines to learn where the publication had been and examined other college publications and general interest magazines. She, managing editor Cherin Poovey, deputy editor Janet Williamson, and freelance designer Julie Helsabeck, the daughter of an alumnus, brainstormed about what they wanted in the magazine’s redesign. Read more
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WFU wins photography, publication awards
Wake Forest won several awards in the 2011 University Photographers Association of America print and publications competition.
- The Viewbook won second place in the Viewbooks category of the publications competition. Julie Helsabeck was the designer, Cherin Poovey did the writing and Ken Bennett was the photographer.
- Bennett was awarded second place in the Photo Essay category for the “Verbal Victor” entry.
- A photograph of students outside the Pit won honorable mention in the Features category of the print competition.
Bennett finished 19th overall in the monthly image competition.
View a sample of Wake Forest’s winning entries (Flickr) »
View all the winners of the print competition here (PDF) »
View the covers of the publications winners here (PDF) »
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