Torchia Scholarship

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Torchia Scholarship in Public Relations

The Scholarship is awarded annually to the student who best exemplifies the spirit and practice of bilingualism in the Canadian communications and public relations profession. Inspired by the career of Armand Torchia, who co-founded The Houston Group with Stan Houston, and Torchia Communications with his son Jean-Claude, the Scholarship adheres to the values espoused by Torchia Communications in providing quality services in both of Canada's official languages.

Applications for the awarding of the first scholarship are now available in university or community college PR/communication studies departments. The deadline for application submission is April 30, and a panel comprising a jury chair and three public relations and/or education professionals will review the submissions and determine the successful candidate. The scholarship recipient will be notified by September 15.

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Denissa-Jalal St-Laurent is the winner of the fourth Torchia Scholarship in Public Relations/Communications

A student at Royal Roads University, Victoria, St-Laurent is studying communication in the Bachelor of Arts in Professional Communication program. She holds a World Citizenship Award in leadership and is fluent in English and French. St-Laurent will be starting an internship for her program of study with the Baha’i International Community Office at the United Nations in New York in September 2010. To learn more about Denissa-Jalal, visit the Torchia Communications Official Page on Facebook.

Seungmin (Jemma) Lee is the winner of the 2009 Torchia Scholarship in Public Relations/Communications

Seungmin (Jemma) Lee, Binbrook, Ontario, is the winner of the third Torchia Scholarship in Public Relations/Communications. Lee is studying public relations in the honours Bachelor of Applied Arts in Media Studies at the University of Guelph-Humber. She holds a Humber Leadership Institute Certificate and is fluent in English, French and Korean, and has also studied Spanish.

Toronto's Diala Homaidan - winner of the 2008 Torchia Scholarship in Public Relations/Communications

A student at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Homaidan is studying in the public relations certificate program through the Division of Continuing Studies. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hon.) Psychology and Linguistics from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario and is fluent in English, French and Arabic.

Dorval's Heather Bisset Awarded the 2007 Torchia Scholarship

Heather Bisset, a Dorval, Quebec resident who is completing a graduate diploma in Marketing Communications at École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal (HEC), is the first-ever winner of the Torchia Scholarship in Public Relations/Communications. The fluently bilingual Bisset, who also holds a Bachelor's degree in Journalism from Concordia University, can usually be found at Robin Palin Public Relations Inc. (RPPR), where she currently works as an account manager.