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Monday, Dec. 22, 2008
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Winners announced in holiday card, commemorative plate design contests
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Marshall University’s annual design contests sponsored by MU President and Mrs. Stephen J. Kopp have been won by a Marshall alumna and a current student in the University’s College of Fine Arts.
Courtney Kania of Oak Hill, W.Va., a 2008 Marshall University graduate, is the winner of the 2008 Holiday Card Design Contest. Kania designed the winning card while she was a senior in the Department of Art and Design’s Graphic Design program.
Allyson Eyermann of Ashland, Ky., a Marshall senior in the Department of Art and Design’s Ceramics program, won the 2008 Commemorative Plate Design Contest.
The winners received $700 each for their designs.
President and Mrs. Kopp began the card design and plate design competition in 2007 as a way of recognizing the talent of Marshall’s students. The card designed by Kania is being mailed to everyone on President Kopp’s mailing list.
Kania’s card design features Marco in a green sleigh, complete with the Marshall logo, being pulled in the snow by four bison.
Eyermann’s plate design is divided into four sections and features line drawings of four new facilities on Marshall’s Huntington campus – the student recreation center, which will open in February; the First Year Freshman Residence Halls, the Dot Hicks Softball Complex and the Arthur Weisberg Family Engineering Laboratories.
In the card design contest, 2008 graduate Casey Pauley was the second-place winner and received $400, and Melissa Moran, a senior, was third and received $150.
In the commemorative plate design contest, William Andrew Burgess was the second-place winner and received $400, and third place went to Erin Brown, who won $150. Both Burgess and Brown are sophomores.
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