Candace Dobbs Watson

Communications Director
Lake Highland Preparatory School, Orlando, Fla.

A member of Zeta Tau Alpha, journalism major Watson graduated from the Women’s College in 1990. Her duties at the 26-acre central Florida prep school, the largest in the state, include writing for and editing the Tartan, a magazine published three times a year for parents, alumni and friends of LHPS.

McKemie Dozier West

Marketing Consultant
Gainesville, Ga.

West, a 1984 journalism major and member of Alpha Delta Pi currently edits Business Link newsletter and handles marketing and communications services for the Greater Hall Chamber of Commerce. She writes, designs and develops brochures, direct mailings, media advisories and press releases.

Whitney Teal

Producer, Salem Communications (3 radio stations) 
Atlanta

Anne Haarsløv Sodemann

Communications Coordinator, AAK
Aarhaus, Denmark

The Denmark native spent her freshman year at Brenau (1990-91) as an English and business administration major before returning home to study English and international studies at Aalborg University. She works as communications coordinator for Malmö, Sweden-based AAK (AarhusKarlshamn AB), the world’s leading manufacturer of high value-added specialty vegetable fats – products butterfat and cocoa butter substitutes, among other things. Her duties include updating the Intranet and the company’s Website, conducting surveys, writing press releases and acting as a liaison with the local community – and in the chocolate industry. “If you eat a Kit Kat, think of me,” she says.

Susan Smiley-Height

Assistant City Editor, Ocala Star-Banner
Ocala, Fla.

The 1991 Women’s College graduate who majored in journalism and public relations works as an assistant city editor at the Ocala Star-Banner in central Florida, part of the Halifax Media Group. Smiley-Height had previously edited the paper’s magazine, Life in the Heart of Florida. She also was editor of four weekly and eight bi-weekly newspapers owned by Florida Today, a Gannett publication on Florida’s east coast, as well as the Space Coast Press.