1. Comm Connection 2007
Character, Calling & Careers
Comm Connection challenges us to
consider our vocations related to
communication. By vocation, we mean a
spiritual calling to a life of service
beyond a job or a career, yet the
conference does address careers. How
do career and vocation coexist?
Furthermore, how does one develop the
character to reconcile the ethical
tensions that arise between what a
career may seem to require and what a
spiritual calling compels. We'll hear
stories of those who have struggled with
fashioning their vocations, see examples
of their work and address traditional
topics about careers. The program will
also exhibit student work.
Funding for Comm Connection Provided by a
Generous Private Donation, the Center for
Faith and Learning, and the Inter Club
Council. Support provided by the Waves
Speech & Debate Team.
Communication Division
(310) 506-4211
Conference Committee:
Michael Murrie, Kevin Rinker, Ginger
Rosenkrans, Juanie Walker & Ken Waters
“What’sYourStory?”
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2. 2007 Character, Calling & Careers
Wednesday 2/14/07
What’s Your Story
and Are you Sticking to It?
11am CCB 100
Ed Klodt, Author ‘The Jonah Factor
13 Spiritual Steps to Finding the
Job of a Lifetime’
Peak Experiences through Mentoring
12:30pm CCB 100
Don Thompson, Professor Great Books
Who’s the Author of Your Story?
2pm CCB 100
>“My Story, Your Story, Sacred Story”
D’Esta Love, University Chaplain
>“Our Stories” Student Panel
>“Will you be Wearing the Puffy Shirt?”
Ed Klodt
Friday 2/16/07
Thursday 2/15/07
Getting Your Story Read – Life as a Publicist
10am CCB 140
> Susie Dobson, Susie Dobson Global PR
> Alyson Dutch, Brown and Dutch PR
> Alle Fister, Bolare PR
> Jessica Rodriguez, Wagstaff Worldwide
A Reporters Story
11am CCB 100
Lester Holt, Co-Anchor NBC
‘Today’ Show Weekend Edition,
and Correspondent for ‘NBC
Nightly News’
Courage and Calling: Rhetoric, Leadership and the
Civil Rights Movement
4pm CCB 140
> “(Re)masking the KKK: Fred Shuttlesworth’s Precept
Hermeneutic and the African American Rhetorical
Tradition of Critical Patriotism”
David Holmes, Associate Professor of English
> “Martin and Moses: Leadership and the Rhetorical
Persona in the Civil Rights Movement.”
Gary Selby, Professor of Communication
Communication and Conflict, Careers in Mediation
4pm CCB 257
Tim Pownall, Assistant Director of the Straus Institute
for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine School of Law
Finding Your Path –
A Career Self Exploration
1pm CCB 140
Debbie Wideroe, Visiting Professor of Commu-
nication, Director of Communication Division
Internship Program, Marketing Expert, and
Executive Coach
Advertising Ethically…
An Oxymoron?
2pm CCB 100
Dan Voetmann, Owner and
Chief Executive Officer of
Destination Marketing adver-
tising agency in Seattle.
A Discussion on Narrative
Paradigm and Ethics
4pm CCB 100
Walter Fisher, Emeritus Professor
USC Annenberg School for
Communication
What’s Your Story?
The theme of this year’s Comm Connection is,
What’s Your Story?” Story is inherent to the way
we all reason and think; it is part of what makes us
uniquely human. It is central to both human and
mass communication as a form and process, and
it represents the way in which our vocation
or calling is played out.
Telling Stories of Faith
10am CCB 140
Brian Bird, Screenwriter/
Producer of
‘The Last Sin Eater,’ FoxFaith;
Executive Producer, "Touched
by An Angel"; Producer and
Writer, "Step by Step."