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Sara Sanderson - Hoover, Alabama

Major/Minor: Public Relations/Communication Studies

Academic Achievements: National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Alumni Heritage Scholarship Award, Paul W. Bear Bryant Scholarship Award, Dean’s List (2006-2009)

Jobs, Internships & Other Achievements: Tuscaloosa County Board of Education Public Relations Assistant (July 2009-present), Public Relations Intern at o2ideas (May 2009- August 2009), Youth Minister’s Associate at Calvary Baptist Church (January 2008- present), Student Life Inc. Home Office Coordinator (May 2007- August 2007)

Community Service: Turning Point and Women’s Resource Center Volunteer, Participant in hosting of Domestic Violence Candlelight Vigil at Denny Chimes, Beat Auburn Beat Hunger Canned Food Drive, 9th and 10th Grade Sunday School Teacher at Calvary Baptist Church, XALT Youth Choir Choreographer and Instructor

Organization Membership: Alpha Chi Omega Sorority (Alumni Chair—2007, Chaplain- 2008, Junior Panhellenic Delegate—2008, Public Relations Chair—2009), PRSSA (Fundraising Committee), Capstone Agency (Good Shepherd’s Project and Midtown Village accounts), Student Government Association (Public Relations Committee), Student Alumni Association (Public Relations Committee), Freshman Forum Ethics and Social Responsibility Team (Programs Committee), Future Alumni for Traditions of Excellence, Calvary Baptist Church College Leadership Team, Omicron Delta Kappa Honor Society, Mortar Board Honor Society, Cardinal Key Honor Society, Lambda Sigma Honor Society, Phi Eta Sigma National Freshman Honor Society, Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society

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The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. - Max DePree The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all. - Mark Twain Whatever you do, do it with all your might. - P.T. Barnum Publicity is a one-way street...public relations, a two-way street. - Edward L. Bernays With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. - Abraham Lincoln Be not simply good, be good for something. - Henry David Thoreau The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. - Henry Kissinger Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together. - Jesse Jackson Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. - Winston Churchill Always do right—this will gratify some and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. - Dwight D. Eisenhower Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. - George S. Patton Prove it with action. - Arthur Page PR counsel: interpreting the public to his client and in helping to interpret his client to the public. - Edward L. Bernays No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. - Andrew Carnegie The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. - Ray Kroc The public relations counsel must be alive to the events of the day. - Edward L. Bernays When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally. - Lao Tse I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. - Ralph Nader The formulation of a public relations strategy properly begins with listening, not talking. - Leonard Saffir