The St. Mary’s College of Maryland Office of Public and Media Relations, the St. Mary’s County Human Relations Commission, and the county’s Board of Education have won a Public Relations Society of America’s Thoth Award for developing and producing an outstanding, strategic public relations program on race relations in the Greater Washington, D.C. area.
Thoth awards are bestowed annually by the PRSA National Capital Chapter in a number of public relations categories. The college and the county won in the Multicultural Public Relations Program category for the annual SMCM Martin Luther King Jr. Prayer Breakfast enhanced by a countywide Race Relations Study Circles Program.
More than 135 entries in 27 categories were considered. Twenty-three Thoth Awards were presented at an evening awards gala in Washington, which was attended by more than 200 communications professionals.
