Judy Arent-Morency, Chair

Judy Arent-Morency is marketing director for Quality Equipment Design Inc., a Tulsa, Okla., firm that specializes in the design and manufacture of electrical and instrumentation automation equipment for the petroleum, chemical, refining and pharmaceutical industries worldwide.  Arent-Morency has held similar positions with Zeeco, Inc, Radco, Inc., John Zink Company and The Metropolitan Tulsa Transit Authority.  Prior to moving to Oklahoma, she served as public information specialist for the Wisconsin Department of Regulation and Licensing.  While conducting research for a Consumer’s Guide to Charitable Giving, she uncovered many organizations that had little or no accountability to their givers and spent more money on administrative costs than on their stated purpose.  Her research resulted in strict regulation of charitable organizations in the State of Wisconsin and drove many questionable organizations out of the state.  As a key witness for the State Attorney General’s office, she was also instrumental in drafting legislation regulating the auto repair industry in Wisconsin and enacting one of the first “Lemon-Laws” in the nation.

Since moving to Tulsa in 1975, Arent-Morency has maintained an active freelance career turning out numerous scripts, feature articles, marketing and media plans, brochures and advertising campaigns for a variety of industrial and consumer product clients.  She actively serves on the Advisory Board of Woolaroc Museum and Wildlife Preserve and is a founding board member for Clarehouse, an alternative home for hospice patients during their final days.

She has been a member of AWC 35 years, joining the organization as a student when it was named Theta Sigma Phi.  She is a past president of the Tulsa Professional Chapter and has held numerous other board positions.  She is currently serving as chapter treasurer.

Arent-Morency holds a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism and a M.A. in Specialized Reporting and Technical Writing from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.  She has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Tulsa and Oklahoma State University in the advertising and marketing programs and currently teaches writing and oral communications at the University of Phoenix Tulsa campus.

Maria Henneberry, Vice Chair

Maria Henneberry started Contemporary Visuals, a multi-media production company, with her husband, a year after graduating from Illinois State University.  They've expanded their clients to include non-profit agencies and universities to fortune 500 companies.  Henneberry is also certified as an Assoc.  Chef and Instructor/Trainer through the Living Light Culinary Arts Institute in Fort Bragg, Calif.

She's an award-winning television journalist and anchor having aired reports all over the U.S and garnering two AP Best Reporter awards.  Plus, she's hosted and co-hosted shows on several radio stations.  Her on-air credentials include appearances on CBS News and QVC, as well as host of training videos in Eureka Steam Cleaner boxes and for Electrolux in-store displays.  She was chosen Bloomington-Normal Hometown Hero for helping bring an AWC Regional Conference to town generating thousands of dollars for the local economy.  Years later, as President of that AWC chapter, Henneberry received a national award for outstanding progress.  This year, Henneberry received the AWC Headliner Award in September, at the 2008 AWC National Conference.

She's been very involved with charities such as the American Red Cross of the Heartland, Special Olympics-Illinois, and United Way of McLean County.  She was especially proud to be asked to speak before Governor Jim Edgar's Task Force on Women's Issues.  In 2005, Henneberry was a chosen Woman of Distinction in Arts & Entertainment through a prestigious annual YWCA event in Bloomington.  She received the AWC Bloomington-Normal's highest honor - Crystal Award.  She was honored to be asked back to her alma mater, Black Hawk College, as Commencement Speaker - the first women to do that.  Henneberry is also an adjunct instructor for ISU journalism classes.

Sue Voyles, Treasurer

Sue Voyles is the president and founder of Logos Communications, Inc., a public relations and marketing firm in Canton, MI.  The firm’s clients represent diverse industries such as automotive, skin care, law, human resources, information technology, financial services, human services and business associations.

She has spent the past 19 years in the communications and marketing field.  Before founding Logos Communications in 1999, Sue held positions in public and media relations, marketing and fundraising for non-profit organizations in the arts, human services and higher education.  Sue possesses a master’s degree in journalism from Michigan State University and is a part-time journalism instructor at Schoolcraft College and a certified instructional designer for General Motors University.  She has also taught a public relations class at Eastern Michigan University.
She has been very involved with the Association for Women in Communications of Detroit, including serving as president.  She is currently serving as a board member for the National Association of Women Business Owners-Detroit Chapter.  In 2004, she received the Innovator Award from the National Association of Women Business Owners-Detroit Chapter and in 2005 she was honored with the Headliner Award from AWC of Detroit.

Billie L. Rodely, Secretary

Billie Rodely has more than 35 years of broadcast journalism experience.  She has reported, written, edited and anchored for radio and television in the Indianapolis, Kansas City and Oklahoma City broadcast markets.

Professional recognition of her work includes induction into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame.  She holds two Heartland Regional Emmy Awards, five national Aurora Awards and a national Clarion award in television documentary production, as well as state and regional recognition from the Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters, Associated Press, and Society of Professional Journalists in reporting, editing, anchoring, writing and production…even in sports reporting.

Rodely is a member and past President of the Oklahoma City Gridiron Club and Foundation (which provides scholarships to Oklahoma journalism students), the Association for Women in Communications, Central Oklahoma Turning Point (health initiative), Freedom of Information Oklahoma, Inc., Society of Professional Journalists, and the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame.  Rodely and her husband are elders and active members in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), and serve on the church board.

Currently, she is employed by the State of Oklahoma and is Executive Assistant to Corporation Commissioner Dana Murphy (state-wide elected official).

Billie Rodely was born in Southern Illinois, attended elementary and high school in the suburbs of Chicago, and is a graduate of Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana.

Rodely plays the role of Hillary Clinton in The Oklahoma City Gridiron Show:  www.okcgridiron.org.

Sheryl Liddle, Immediate Past Chair

Conveying a message through visual images, supported by audio, is one of the strongest forms of communication.  Sheryl Liddle has spent the majority of her career as an audio visual producer.  Liddle has worked with multi-image productions from the time it began in the industry.  She spent time as a college photographer and AV producer before joining an AV production company as a production manager and producer.  During that time she was involved with product introduction shows for The Perrier Group, as well as other major multi-image productions.  Then for several years Liddle, channeled her creativity into producing AV presentations for missionaries.  Throughout her career she has also been involved with directing plays and drama groups within the community and at churches.  Her passion has always been that the message is the most important part of a production, no matter which form of communication is being used.  Today, she works within the marketing department of a manufacturing company coordinating special projects, yet keeping her fingers within the areas of AV production and drama.  Liddle holds a BS and MA from Bob Jones University.

Jane Baxter Lynn

Jane Baxter Lynn is a professional marketing and communications practitioner with more than 20 years of international experience.  Her expertise and successes include development and implementation of effective branding campaigns, strategic planning, and coalition building of diverse groups to achieve common goals.  Baxter Lynn has lived and worked in South Africa, Belgium, and the United States, with responsibility for other parts of the world.  Now based in Austin, Texas, she has a strategic marketing and communications consulting practice, JBL Strategies (www.jblstrategies.com).  She is also executive director of the Central Texas-Balcones Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council.  An active member of AWC since 2006, she is actively involved in her local chapter and most recently served as Silent Auction chair for the chapter's 2009 Banner Brunch.  Previous experience includes serving on the regional board of the Public Relations Institute of South Africa;  as past president of the International Association of Business Communicators' Belgian Chapter, where she was responsible for revitalizing its membership, and is a long time member of the International Public Relations Association, for whom she served as alternate representative to the United Nations, working with the UN's communications department to develop and present public relations workshops for the UN's non-government organizations program.  Baxter Lynn also writes perspective pieces on public relations for various outlets and speaks on the subject whenever possible as she is passionate about contributing to the future of the communications profession.

Carla Capizzi

Carla Capizzi became hooked on the power of words as a pre-teen, writing for her grammar school paper.  The addiction to words continued into high school where she helped start the first school paper at the one-year-old school, and also wrote for the fledgling literary magazine and yearbook.  The addiction worsened at Montclair State University (New Jersey);  there, Carla not only was a reporter and an editor for the weekly student newspaper but expanded into a new medium, radio, writing news for the campus station.

Driven to explore as many forms of communications as possible, she started her professional career by writing about dead people –as an obituary writer at a daily newspaper, where she also was, at various times, a copy editor, a reporter and a columnist.

Branching out into corporate communications, Carla worked at Prudential Financial in Newark, N.J., for 14 years, doing everything from award-winning employee publications and client outreach to speech-writing.  Carla then worked with financial services clients as a freelance communications consultant before once again re-inventing herself, this time as a senior public relations specialist at Rutgers University in Newark, where she works in media relations, publications and public relations.  She also is the campus webpage editor and does ghost-writing for administrators.She became involved with AWC in 1997, when the Northern New Jersey Professional Chapter was founded, and was communications co-vice president before serving as co-president from 2007-2008 and 2008-2009.

Whitney Mason

Born & raised in Seattle, Whitney returned to Seattle in 2003 after 20+ years living mostly in the Midwest, Southeast, Japan & Europe.  While she has enjoyed all of her "homes" and local adventures, she is happy to be back home.  What brought her back to the Pacific Northwest?  After serving 11 years on active duty in the U.S. Marine Corps and actively drilling in the Marine Corps Reserve, she was invited to return to Seattle to establish a transition assistance program for Marines returning to civilian life in Western Washington.  Whitney, a lieutenant colonel in the USMCR, continues to serve with the Marine For Life program, Wounded Warrior Regiment, in this capacity as a drilling reservist.

Prior to returning to Seattle, she served in the Marine Corps Public Affairs Reserve Officers Detachment at Headquarters Marine Corps at the Pentagon.  Before putting the uniform back on, Whitney served as an executive director for two not-for-profit animal shelters in Charlottesville, VA., and Golden, CO. during the 2000-2003 timeframe.

Whitney graduated from Northwestern University with a bachelor’s and master’s in journalism, and is a graduate of Seattle’s Queen Anne High School.  She studied abroad in France and Belgium during college.  She was the editor for Magnolia Milestones & Memories in 2000, and a peer editor for the second in the series, Magnolia:  Making More Memories in 2006, both coffee table books produced by a local historical society in Seattle.  In addition, she has completed the University of Washington’s Fundraising Management and The House as Architecture certificate courses, the Marine Corps’ Command and Staff course, and has completed local chamber of commerce leadership programs in Charlottesville, VA., and Seattle.  From 1988 – 1999, she served on active duty in the fields of logistics and public affairs in Quantico, VA., Okinawa, Japan, Beaufort, S.C., and Washington DC.

Whitney is a licensed real estate agent and currently works in partnership with her mother at Coldwell Banker Bain Associates.

She is active in her local community, volunteering with Girl Scouts Western Washington, Puget Sound Marine Corps Support Group, and Friends of VA Puget Sound Fisher House.  She is a member of Seattle Rotary and Women In Communications Seattle Chapter, and serves as the newsletter editor for her high school alumni association.

Whitney has several dogs & cats (all rescues from various shelters and ditches along the way), enjoys travel, art & antiquing, home & garden design, nature, theater, jogging with her dog Sophie, yoga, a good book, great conversation with friends and strangers, and warm chocolate chip cookies right out of the oven.

Wendy Morlan, Secretary

Interested in art from an early age, Wendy Morlan has woven her talents into a communications career, community involvement and personal expression.  Morlan earned a BFA in commercial illustration and advertising design from Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida.  Previously in corporate communications with a large utility corporation, she now serves as library director of a small library In Pleasanton, Kansas.  She keeps her communications skills viable as a freelance graphic designer and writer.  In addition, she has a jewelry business called Kiki & Punkin ... baubles, bangles & beads, and sells at shops, shows and online at www.kikiandpunkin.com.

An AWC member since 1990, Morlan served her chapter as president and VP of both programs and membership.  She received her chapter's Member of the Year award twice and worked to build Drury College's student chapter during her board tenure.

Linda Strelluf

Linda Strelluf has been engaged in the study and practice of oral and written communication for more than twenty-five years.  Following this passion, she received a BA in Speech from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and earned a Master's degree in both Film and Literature from Baker University.

Currently, she is an assistant professor in the communication department at Avila University in Kansas City.  She teaches a variety of classes including communication fundamentals, public relations, corporate communication, film studies, American pop culture, mass media and society and promotional writing.  She works with "real world" clients to give students the opportunity to practice the high standard that professionals expect in the workplace.  Her students have worked with the WWI national museum, the Kansas City Toy and Miniature Museum, and a variety of retail and health related organizations, winning numerous awards for their work.

Before coming to Avila, Strelluf was employed as a company agent for Starlight Theatre, worked on promotions for a national theatre chain, lectured on how to overcome the audience anxiety and conducted seminars on how to access creativity.  In 1986, she founded a small company and in 1998, affiliated with Country Sampler Group.

Strelluf serves on the advisory board for St Joseph Institute for the Deaf - Kansas City.  She is also a member of the Public Relation's Society of America (PRSA) and the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC).  In all aspects of her life she continues to explore her fascination with communication.

Linda writes The Myopic Maven at www.lindastrelluf.com.

Melanie Trunkey Camp

Melanie has been a community volunteer for nearly three decades. She promoted the Broward Center of the Performing Arts as the leader of Pacers Speakers Bureau and has held several leadership positions and chaired numerous fundraising projects since moving to South Florida in 1976.

In 2003 Melanie became a certified Yoga Instructor and completed Level II and Level III teacher training.  She is an associate trainer for Yoga Kids International completing Phase I in Italy in August 2004.  Melanie is currently writing a book of yoga tips featuring her original oil paintings.  She has taught yoga while traveling to SE Asia as part of the CARE International delegation following the Tsunami of 2004.  She participated in the 2005 Caribbean 1500 sailboat rally and taught yoga while on board and at beaches in the British Virgin Islands.  She has assisted her teacher at his yoga retreats in Costa Rica, Brazil, Santorini and North Carolina.

Melanie Trunkey Camp is a consultant to authors and President of her publishing company, Trunkey Publishing, Inc. Current book projects include The Barkan Yoga Method, Yoga for Jocks, Amsterdam Journals, Boating 101, and Oh!To Joy.