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February, 2007
| Campus Events Professional - February, 2007 - Full Issue PDF … |
| When Hollywood Comes to Town: The Making of We Are Marshall On the evening of November 14, 1970, a Southern Airlines flight chartered to carry the Marshall University Thundering Herd football team to and from Greenville, North Carolina, for a game against East Carolina University crashed into a hillside during the descent of the return flight. The crash took the lives of all 75 passengers, including the bulk of the football team, much of the coaching staff, the athletic director and team trainers, and more than 20 boosters. In an instant, it devastated not only the friends and families of the deceased but the entire town of Huntington, West Virginia, home of Marshall University. |
| Editor's Letter I rarely have the time to see a movie in a theater these days, but I made a special point of going out to see We Are Marshall. Prior to movie publicity, I was unfamiliar with the story of the plane crash that took the lives of the bulk of the 1970 Marshall University Thundering Herd football team, its coaching staff, and many of its boosters. I am not a Marshall grad nor am I much of a football fan, but I was intrigued to learn more about how the university was able to field a team in 1971 and consequently help the tightly knit community of Huntington, West Virginia, recover somewhat from its losses. |
| How to…Survive (and Possibly Thrive) after Losing Your Job If you or someone you know has just lost a job, it may seem difficult to believe, but there is light at the end of the tunnel. This is the message from Susan Albertine, currently dean of the School of Culture and Society at the College of New Jersey and presenter of a recent Magna online seminar, “How to Survive (and Possibly Thrive) after Losing Your Job.” |
| When Charitable Giving Meets Technology: Tips on ePhilanthropy from Ted Hart An increasing amount of our daily work and communication is now done online, and fundraising for your university is no exception. However, raising funds online requires a different set of skills than does fundraising in person or by mail, and it helps to have the voice of experience to guide you through improving your online presence. |
| Fast Fact - The Results Are In! 2006 Readers’ Survey The results are in from our 2006 Readers’ Survey, and I would like to thank everyone who responded with feedback about our performance over the past year. You have told us what we are doing right and pointed the way for some areas of renewed focus in the coming months. It seems appropriate to share some of these results with you in the pages of this issue; if you didn’t get a chance to respond to our survey or would like to correspond with the editor about some of these topics, please email CEPEditor@magnapubs.com. |
| Conference Director or Circus Ringleader? By David Treber Each year I have students working for me who are very nervous about their future, and they share their fears with me. While I am happy to provide support (and even urge them to consider becoming a collegiate conferences and events director some day), I also make sure they know that during my 20s I struggled through several jobs. A little uncertainty is normal, albeit scary, at a time when you are looking forward to more than four decades of lifetime in which to build a career. But I was once where these students are, jumping from job to job in search of the one that was the best fit for me. At the time, I thought I was the worst possible failure. |
