MC&S Honors Members with Trayes Service Award

Nominations Sought

Nominations for the MC&S Division’s highest service honor, the Trayes Award, are being accepted through April 1, 2008. Established in 1985 to honor Edward Trayes, a leader in the division, AEJMC and the communications field, the award recognizes others who follow his service example. Among Trayes’ accomplishments was starting the division’s research journal, Mass Communication & Society, then known as Mass Comm Review.

Nomination letters should be sent to MC&S Division Head Diana Martinelli at Diana.Martinelli@mail.wvu.edu or may be mailed to her at the P. I. Reed School of Journalism, P.O. Box 6010, Morgantown, WV 26506-6010. Nomination correspondence may also include additional letters of support and the nominee’s curriculum vita. Self-nominations are accepted with one additional supporting letter. Winners are selected by the MC&S Division executive committee.

Past Trayes Award winners are listed below:

2006—Carol Pardun
2005—David Weaver
2004—Everette E. Dennis
2003—Donald L. Shaw
1998—Barbara Straus Reed
1997—Guido Stempel III
1996—Diana Stover Tillinghast
1996—Bill Tillinghast
1993—Maxwell McCombs
1991—John Merrill
1990—Del Brinkman
1987—Keith Sanders
1985—Edward Trayes