Fun Internship
Sport and Recreation Management senior, Dana Fitzpatrick from Grand Rapids, completed her internship this summer as the merchandise intern with the Traverse City Beach Bums. The Bums played 48 home games this season in the Frontier League. Dana spent her summer at the Wuerfel Park, home of the Bums, where she stocked the store, kept inventory, supervised game day staff, updated the store's website and many other responsibilities. Her administrative project was creating a catalog for the gift shop along with posting all new pictures of the merchandise on the website. Dana said, "I worked side-by-side with the Director of Merchandise, Scott McDowell, and learned the ins and outs of the merchandise department for a baseball team. I was also lucky to work with the promotions department a little and saw what they did with the on-field contest. It was a great internship and I loved living in Traverse City for the summer. It was a blast! The people at the Beach Bums were great, the staff was a lot of fun and they made work fun and exciting but still challenged us to strive to the next level. I worked long hours, learned a lot and loved it!
Russell Bruce Scholarship Recipient
Heather Hemming, Exercise Science major, was awarded the 2009-2010 Russell Bruce Scholarship recipient by the Department of Recreation Studies and Exercise Science. Pictured below are Debra McPherson, Department Chair, Dr. Russell Bruce, and Heather Hemming.
Department of Recreation Studies and
Exercise Science
Graduate Luncheon
Athletic Training
Graduates Kristi Morman,
Michael Shampo, Andy
Mendina and Matt McLeod
with Joe Susi, Instructor
and Nicola Gray, Clinical Instructor
Outstanding Athletic
Training Graduates
Kristi Morman and
Michael Shampo
Exercise Science Graduates
Kathleen Scott, Nathan Nichols,
Andrew Deshambo,
and Jaclyn Armstrong with Instructor Jody Susi
Outstanding Exercise
Science Graduates
Jaclyn Armstrong and
Kathleen Scott
Parks and Recreation
Graduates
Jamie Elliott, Dana
Skytta, Ryan Root, Ben Andrews, Eric Buttil,
Justin Bomers and
Aubree Lashbrook
with Natural Resource
Technology Instructor Dennis Merkel and Parks and Recreation
Instructor Sally Childs
Outstanding Parks
and Recreation Graduate
and
Outstanding Recreation
Club Member
Jamie Elliott
Sport and Recreation
Management Graduates Heather Howard, Dana
Fitzpatrick, Matthew Merian and Carrie Haselhuhn with Instructor Debra
McPherson
Outstanding Sport
and Recreation Management Graduate Heather Howard |
