April is Accreditation month at PRSA, a time to learn how Accreditation in Public Relations (APR) can take your career to the next level.

The 2011 James H. Bradley Memorial Scholarship will be presented in June at the Yankee Chapter’s annual meeting to a student with a declared major in a public relations-related field who is studying at an accredited college or university in Maine, New Hampshire, or Vermont.

Congratulations to Suzanne Spruce, APR, community relations director for Eastern Maine Healthcare, and Nancy Kerr, Ph.D., APR, program director for Media Communication at Champlain College, for achieving PRSA accreditation.

Three new members joined the Yankee Chapter last month: Kevin Flynn, NH Community Development Finance Authority, Michael O’Brien, Cityside Management Corporation, and Jeffrey Roosevelt, Maine Veterans’ Homes. Please join us in welcoming them! We welcome back to the Yankee Chapter Leslie Gouthro of Fidelity Investments.

Phil Auger, of the New Hampshire Cooperative Extension, was presented with the Patrick Jackson Award at this year’s Yankee Chapter PRSA annual meeting on Thursday, June 10. Auger was recognized for his many decades of services in Rockingham County to private landowners and communities in the management of their forest lands, including his [...]

At its annul meeting on June 10, the Yankee Chapter of PRSA introduce a new award, the Summit Award, in recognition of excellence in the use of social media as the primary tool utilized in a public relations campaign.  The inaugural presentation of the award went to Kelliher Samets Volk, of Burlington, Vermont. [...]

Congratulations to Rosemarie Rung Yankee Chapter’s newest accredited member.

The chapter is pleased to announce that Kelliher Samets Volk of Burlington, VT, has earned the inaugural PRSA Yankee Chapter “Summit Award,” in recognition of outstanding public relations work. This year, the Summit Award focused specifically on excellence in the use of social media, and the Kelliher Samets Volk entry [...]

Congratulations to Elizabeth LaRose, of LaRose Marketing Communications, Peterborough, NH, the chapter’s newest accredited member.