alumni profiles

alumni awards

Jake Fuller, JM 1975, won three state-wide awards in 2001 for his editorial cartoons in The Gainesville Sun. They were first place awards in the Sunshine State contest and from the Florida Press Club and third place Green Eyeshade Award.

Leslie Landry Snavely, PR 1986, has been named Marketing Director of the Year by the Sales and Marketing Council of the National Association of Homebuilders. She is director of marketing for ARVIDA, developer of master-planned communities. She and her husband, Mark, also a Gator, have four children—twins Emily and Cameron, both 8; Amanda, 4 and Lexi, 3 months.

Craig Levinson, TEL 1991, was one of three national award winners at the 2002 Sperion Marketers of the Year Awards. He earned a law degree from Boston University in 1994. He is business development manager at the law firm of Sills Cummis Radin Tischman Epstein & Gross. He received the “Marketing Initiative of the Year” award for a promotional campaign.

Ron O’Connor, TEL 1976, won a Biostar Award in August from the Farm Credit Council for his photograph of “Strawberries at Sunrise.” It was his fourth first-place award in the competition since 1996. The national awards recognize excellence in advertising and public relations. He is vice president of marketing for Farm Credit of Central Florida in Lakeland.

James A. Johnson Jr., TEL 1996, won the 2002 NETA (National Educational Telecommunications Association) Award for a promotional spot he created and edited for the series “Bargain Hunt.” He is the on-air image producer for WCEU in Daytona Beach.

William Mark Hartnett, JM 2000, and Kathleen Chapman, reporters for The Palm Beach Post, won a first place national award for education reporting from the Education Writers Association. Their story was "FCAT: More a Measure of Wealth than Performance."