MC&S Honors Members with Trayes Service Award

Nominations Sought

Nominations for the MC&S Division’s highest service honor, the Trayes Award, are being accepted through June 28, 2010. Established in 1985 to honor Edward Trayes, a leader in the division, AEJMC and the communications field, the award recognizes others who follow his service example. Among Trayes’ accomplishments was starting the division’s research journal, Mass Communication & Society, then known as Mass Comm Review.

Nomination letters should be sent to the MC&S Trayes Award Committee Chair, Seth Lewis, at seth.lewis@mail.utexas.edu. Nomination correspondence may also include additional letters of support and the nominee’s curriculum vita.

Self-nominations are accepted with one additional supporting letter. Winners are selected by the MC&S Division executive committee.

Past Trayes Award winners are:

2008 – Roy Moore
2007 – Carol Pardun
2005 - David Weaver
2004 - Everette E. Dennis
2003-Donald L. Shaw
1998-Barbara Straus Reed
1997-Guido Stempel III
1996-Diana Stover Tillinghast
1996-Bill Tillinghast
1993-Maxwell McCombs
1991-John Merrill
1990-Del Brinkman
1987-Keith Sanders
1985-Edward Trayes