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Kudos: Fall 2006

From Dance Educator of the Year and a Global Student Entrepreneur Award to a Bronze Telly and Marketing Case Competition grand prize, Frogs are earning top honors across the board.

Kudos: Fall 2006

From Dance Educator of the Year and a Global Student Entrepreneur Award to a Bronze Telly and Marketing Case Competition grand prize, Frogs are earning top honors across the board.

Elizabeth Gillaspy, assistant professor of ballet & modern dance at TCU, won the National Dance Association’s College/University National Dance Educator of the Year Award for 2006.

TCU’s Image magazine won a National Finalist award in the Best Student Magazine category and recent graduate Robyn Kriel ’05 was named National Winner in Television In-Depth Reporting for her feature titled “Our Neighbors, Ourselves.”

Entrepreneurial management senior Daniel Verboski was the Global Student Entrepreneur Award (GSEA) winner for the Sunbelt Region. The honor is bestowed upon the top collegiate entrepreneur chosen from five states. Verboski owns BossCrete, a company that provides stamped concrete, concrete coatings and acid stains.

Five RTVF students won a Bronze Telly Award in the narrative/documentary category for their documentary “Fort Worth Jazz.” The students produced, directed, wrote, shot and edited the film as a final project for their documentary class. The program was produced by Paul Garza, Rose Maginot, Eugenia Redondo, Ryan Flanagan, and directed by Chelsea Nollner.

Second year MBA student Priscila Soria Sanchez was on the grand prize team at Simon Marketing Association’s Marketing Case Competition in April. Her team was awarded $5,000. Two other students from the Neeley School placed in the top teams. Dana Kendall was on the first runner up team and Ed Poppe was on the second runner up team. Both are first year MBA students. Each participant is randomly assigned to a team of five MBA students the night before competition begins.