May 12, 1999
Texans, Standard take honors at communications awards
___JACKSONVILLE, Fla.-- Texas Baptist journalists took home three of the seven grand prizes in the annual awards competition of Baptist Communicators Association.
___Russell Rankin of the Buckner Foundation won both the Leonard Holloway Award for exceptional achievement in feature writing and the Fon Scofield Award for exceptional achievement in publication photography for "Romania: The Power of Touch."
___The series on ministry to Romanian orphans also won a first place in the magazine feature series category and an honorable mention in the magazine photography color series category.
___Ken Camp and Dan Martin from the communications office at the Baptist General Convention of Texas received the Frank Burkhalter Award for exceptional achievement in news writing for their series "Healing Communities."
___The series, which examined the role of churches in bringing about reconciliation and healing following catastrophes, also won first place in the interpretive reporting category.
___Camp also won second place in the single newspaper article category for reporting on the South Central Texas flood.
___Texas Baptists received 12 first place awards, five second place, two honorable mentions and one "creative ideas" award.
___The Baptist Standard won first place honors for print media and design in the state Baptist newspaper category.
___Baptist Standard Managing Editor Mark Wingfield also won three first place awards for writing published last year in the Western Recorder, the Kentucky newspaper he served as editor before joining the Standard.
___Those awards were for an editorial denouncing the hatred expressed by both extreme positions in the homosexuality debate, a news series examining current Baptist practices and Baptist history regarding church discipline and an investigative story on Woman's Missionary Union's claim to endowment funds originally given for the Carver School of Church Social Work and still held by Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
___Also, Real Life, a new quarterly magazine edited by Wingfield and published by the Western Recorder, received second place honors in the design category for national or regional magazines.
___Rankin of Buckner won first place honors in newspaper feature writing for his reporting on Texans helping Romanian orphans. He also won a first place and an honorable mention photography award for images related to hunger and Romania.
___Randy Shebek from the Buckner Foundation won first place in graphic art design of brochures or booklets for a publication on Buckner International.
___Scott Collins of the Buckner Foundation won second place honors in the electronic media division for a video commercial titled "Bales for Buckner" and an honorable mention for feature writing in the magazine article category.
___Buckner Foundation won second place in the public relations special project or event category for the "In Our Hands" campaign and second place in the print media and design limited audience magazine category for Buckner Today.
___Craig Bird, formerly of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, won a first place in opinion writing for a column titled "Communica-tions a Calling." He and Mary Candyce Sanders won a first place in print media and design for print advertising for a piece titled "Improve Your Vision."
___Kyle Mize, Bryan Mize and Louise Sharp of Howard Payne University won a first place award for print media and design in advertising and printed promotional materials, poster or flyer category, for a piece titled "Express Yourself Through Music."
___Brian Smith of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano won the "creative ideas award" in print media and design for Easter commitment cards used at the church and a second place award for best redesigned periodical for The Profile.Frontpage / Contents/ Masthead / Why We're Here / Links / Archive / E-mail us/ SUBSCRIBE!