Public Relations Students To Be Honored for "Ageless Art" project

May 11, 2016

A team of Bradley University public relations students, will be awarded the Spring 2016 Ebeling PR-ize™ for the top senior public relations campaign completed this semester. The award will be presented at a luncheon Friday, May 13.

The Spring 2016 Ebeling PR-ize Luncheon will honor the winning team members of Millhouse Workings for their campaign "Ageless Art." The project was designed to bring art opportunities to residents of Lutheran Hillside Village. They partnered with Lutheran Hillside Village (LHV) senior residential home and Fired Up: Paint Your Own Pottery studio to create a pilot program focused on the benefits of fine arts to enhance the lives of senior citizens.

The team is comprised of:

Annaleah B. Emm
Caroline L. Maddalozzo
Josephine Bonnie M. Mallari
Hadley L. Wahlfeld

The Ebeling PR-ize™ was conceived by Bradley alumnus Chuck Ebeling and faculty member Dr. Ron Koperski in 2004, and is a competitive program among Bradley’s senior public relations students in their capstone course. Students form “agency” teams and are responsible for planning and implementing a real, coordinated public relations campaign on behalf of a local business and a compatible community service organization. Campaign submissions and judging criteria are based on the nationally recognized Silver Anvil Award competition administered by the Public Relations Society of America.

Ebeling served as a public affairs officer in the Army and later held public relations positions with several major agencies and national corporations before joining McDonald’s Corporation, where he rose to the position of chief spokesman and vice president of corporate communications. A 1966 graduate of Bradley, he was inducted into the University’s Centurion Society in October in recognition of his achievements in business, public life, and his profession.

Annaleah B. Emm, Caroline L. Maddalozzo, Chuck Ebeling, Hadley L. Wahlfeld and Josephine Bonnie M. Mallari