Speech-Language Pathology Alumni Newsletter
Speech-Language Pathology Alumni Newsletter Mattew Cummings, a senior speech communications major at Edinboro
University of Pennsylvania, has been selected as a participant in the Summer Fellowship
Program of the New York City-based International Radio and Television Society (IRTS)
Foundaton. His expenses-paid, nine-week fellowship will be at Westwood One Radio Network
in New York City, and will begin on June 5.
Fellows from the program have worked at all
four major networks, at local New York radio and television stations, at advertising
agencies, cable operations, and other national firms.
Cummings will also be honored with this year's
Dick Clark Award, the most prestigious fellowship awarded through the IRTS, named after
broadcasting legend Dick Clark. It will be presented on June 10 at the Tenth Annual
Mercury Awards Dinner at the Supper Club in New York City. the Mercury Awards are radio's
version of the film industry's Oscars or television's Emmys.
Last year, Cummings was the recipient of a
radio scholarship award from the prestigious John Bayliss Broadcast Foundation of Carmel,
Calif. The $5,000 scholarship was presented in October at the annual Bayliss Media Roast
at the Hotel Pierre in New York City.
At Edinobro, Cummings has been General Manager
and program director for the campus radio station, WFSE-FM; an anchor, reporter and
producer for E-TV, the student-operated campus television station; and webmaster of The
Spectator campus newspaper.
The 1996 graduate of Erie's McDowell High
School can also be heard on weekends on Erie's WXKC-FM (Classy 100) and WXTA-FM (Country
98).
This fall, while continuing his studies and
consulting with campus broadcast and print media, Cummings will serve a public relations
internship with the Erie Area Chamber of Commerce.