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Westminster College to Host WestPACS Arts Career Day April 1

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Posted on Thursday, March 18, 2004


NEW WILMINGTON, Pa.  --  Westminster College is hosting the WestPACS Art Career Day Thursday, April 1, at the McKelvey Campus Center.  The event features 27 professionals offering guidance on various careers in writing, journalism, advertising, film and other art-related careers.
 
The event starts at 4 p.m. in Beeghly Theater with keynote speaker Carl Kurlander, wrote the screen play for St. Elmo's Fire.  Kurlander, a Hollywood screenwriter, producer and professor at the University of Pittsburgh, is a Pittsburgh native.  He has written many episodes for sitcoms such as "Saved by the Bell" and its spin-offs, and has been a guest on the "Oprah Winfrey Show."

Six panels will offer students advice on: advertising/public relations; applied arts/design; broadcast/film/television; fine arts/arts administration; performing arts; and writing/publishing.  Among the 27 panelists are: Jim Cunningham, station manager for WQED FM; Rebecca Hower, meteorologist at KDKA TV; Gene Collier, columnist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; Jason Jordan, editor for Allyn-Bacon Publishing and Westminster College graduate; Rich Lord, columnist for Pittsburgh Magazine, and Nancy Martin, author of romance novels and Westminster College graduate.

Business casual dress is required.  Students can gain insight into the careers of the panel members at a networking reception, which wraps up the day's events.

Students from 43 colleges and universities have been invited to attend this event.  Registration is at 3:30 p.m. in Beeghly Theater.  The Career Day activities are open to the public for a $10 walk-in fee.  Students who register in advance pay $5.

For more information contact Jackie Meade, director of the career center at Westminster College, at (724) 946-7343 or e-mail meadelb@westminster.edu or visit the website: www.westpacs.org and click on the Arts Career Day link.