University of Florida - Tower / Seminole Yearbook (Gainesville, FL)

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I) Rock 104 disc jockey Jason Alexander, who has been on the staff over a year, sets up the next record. 2) Dr. Marilyn Fregly peers out a third floor office window of the journalism building for a breath of fresh air. 3) The five-year-old journalism building houses three radio stations and a television station. 180

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Nurses Work Program To REACH Community .-r. . 1) College of Health Related Professions 3) College of Health Related Professions OF Of the 500 students enrolled in the College of Nursing, approximately 11 percent of them are male. The college won the largest Health Fair award for displays at the Oaks Mall. They took second place at Gator Expo where they checked blood pressure, weight, hearing and gave stress tests, eye tests and typed blood. Graduate students participated in REACH (Rural Efforts to Assist Children at Home). For this program, run by the department of pediatrics, students made housecalls in rural communities to help children with chronic illnesses. The college operated a satellite master ' s degree program in Jacksonville and Orlando, with 300 students participating. As part of their degree program, students dents were required to intern for one semester. After six weeks in the college, they started clinical work in hospitals and clinics around Gainesville. In the college, there was a small student teacher ratio. Cathy Erdman, a senior, said she liked the small si ze and the opportunity to get to know the instructors in the college. Everyone ' s real close, she said. It ' s more like a family. — Debbie Schmidt 1) A child listens to student James McNair ' s heartbeat in the pediatrics clinic. 2) Student Undrea Bostic works with a child in the pediatrics clinic. 3) Under the direction of Professor Audrey Quarks, student Sharon McKee helps a couple in an Obstetrics Gynecology class. 4) College Of Nursing 179

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The Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) under President Andrea Hutchinson, accomplished many firsts. They established the Edward L. Bernays Scholarship fund to award money to public relations students. They also put on a ball to raise money for the Adam Walsh Resource Center. Members went to the national conference of PRSSA and PRSA and to the Southeastern District Conference. A student public relations team placed third nationally for their Levi-Strauss campaign, w hile an advertising team worked with Burger King in the American Advertising Federation competition. The department of advertising and public relations sponsored the A.P. Phillips Advertising Lecture and the Florida Magazine Associations annual editor ' s conference. Classes participated in the Bateman National Public Relations Case Study, from which they produced a one-half hour video tape and a campaigns book. There were career days and workshops for advertising and public relations. A $64,000 grant was provided by AT T to purchase new graphics equipment for a video-text class. The broadcasting department purchased some updated equipment for improved telecommunications in its six working newsrooms; three radio stations, WRUF-AM and FM; and a television station, WUFT. The college offered four degrees in broadcasting, journalism, advertising, and public relations. The college which ranked seventeen nationally had 1,632 students enrolled in it. Journalists Get Professional Practice p 1) The WUFT-5 newsvan holds a full studio control room and can operate up to four cameras. 2) Professor Marth teaches a reporting lab. In this class, students get experience writing local news and feature stories. 3) Paul Enriquez, a senior journalism major, works in the Campus page newsroom. College Of Journalism And Communications 181 I) C. West