Roten, Burton named AWNY Scholarship recipients
Advertising student Jonathan Roten (left) received a $2,000 Advertising Women of New York Foundation Scholarship. It was presented to Roten by Department of Communication Scholarship Committee chair, Roger Gonce.
Melissa Burton (center), an advertising student in the Department of Communication, received a $750 scholarship from the Advertising Women of New York Foundation. Department of Communication chair, Janice Pope (left), and Department of Communication Scholarship Committee chair, Roger Gonce (right), presented Burton with the award.
Advertising students Jonathan Roten and Melissa Burton have been named the Advertising Women of New York (AWNY) Foundation’s Scholarship recipients.
Appalachian’s Department of Communication received a $2,750 scholarship donation from AWNY. The AWNY scholarship program provides advertising majors or students interested in advertising as a career choice with financial tuition assistance.
The Appalachian State Department of Communication Scholarship Committee announced the two recipients on Sept. 14. The five person scholarship committee, chaired by Roger Gonce, advertising design lecturer in the Department of Communication, awarded $2,000 of the scholarship donation to Roten and $750 to Burton. Both are members of the Appalachian State University Ad Club.
Those eligible for the scholarship were juniors or seniors graduating after December with a minimum GPA of 3.2 and demonstrated financial need. The recipients also must have past or current membership in the Appalachian State University Ad Club and knowledge of the advertising business. To apply for the scholarship, students were required to submit a resume; current GPA, both overall and major; and an essay that discusses the student’s desire to have a career in advertising, what he/she hopes to achieve through having a career in advertising and what area advertising the student would like to focus on and why.
AWNY is a professional organization of over 1,300 women and men in the communications industries in the metropolitan area of New York. The scholarship recipients will be invited to participate in AWNY’s 53rd annual Advertising Career Conference Nov. 13 and 14 at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York.