May 2008 Archives
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Media Professional Interview: Donna Wertalik of Speak Advertising
Donna Wertalik is the owner of MarketingWorks in New York and Speak Advertising Group in Roanoke. She also has two daughters and a husband who works both at Virginia Tech and as a professional glassblower. What follows is a selection of questions asked of Wertalik regarding her career and the businesses she owns. Doodling Leads To Success
“I was bored one day in class and started sketching and just came up with the design,” Leeper said. Leeper, 21, of Albany, N.Y., is the designer of the “hokEes” Hokies/New York Yankees shirts (shown in picture). |
Death Cab Hits Homerun off Curveball Tincher The Clincher It’s a wonder that Virginia Tech’s All-American softball pitcher can stay on the mound during her games. “I trip on my shoelaces a lot,” says Angela Tincher, “[but] luckily it’s usually only at practice.” A senior finance major at Virginia Tech, Tincher has led the Hokies to a 47-16 record so far this season including their second consecutive Atlantic Coast Conference Championship and a berth to the NCAA Championships for the fourth straight year. People and Places: The Lyric Theater On my right stood three enormous circular platters, placed horizontally with large gaps between them. The top most platter held about one and a half hours of physical film, which ran up to an instrument projecting it to the farthest wall outside. Through the window on its right, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day played on the big screen. Before she guided me back down the darkened stairs, projectionist Anna Hawthorne checked the equipment for any possible defects. Our presence went undetected as men; women and children listened carefully to the freshly reeling story, disregarding their popcorn. The tiny film that I had just seen frame by frame on a platter upstairs had manifested into a huge moving image with sound. It was captivating. |
She works two days a week in a dark, plain room in Pamplin building on campus. With her hectic schedule and other duties she hasn't had time to decorate. Storyboards and a picture drawn by her daughter are the only things in the room along with this energetic, and quite animated woman.
Those who have class with Heather Leeper may have seen her doodling in her notebook during class. Although the drawings may have been for distraction, or to keep from falling asleep, they turned out to be much more than that for Leeper