SCHOOL OF MEDIA ARTS AND DESIGN students joined JMU alumni and faculty members in the field to record 40 hours of footage of the university, Harrisonburg and Rockingham County community. Harrisonburg PBS station WVPT aired the resulting student-produced documentary, One Day, One Community, a half-hour show that chronicles a 24-hour period in the local community. Seventeen video crews from JMU spread throughout Harrisonburg and Rockingham County to interview people in various walks of life. About 100 JMU students, alumni and local volunteers took part in the taping, which produced more than 40 hours of videotape and interviews with a local school teacher, principal, policeman, television personalities, a dairy farmer, a fireman, an emergency medical technician and JMU President Linwood H. Rose. Interviewees also included three JMU students: Jared Shenk, a junior business major; Jenny Brockwell, a junior political science major; and Betty Gravett, an 83-year-old student in JMU's adult degree program.

John Woody, professor of media arts and design, produced the documentary, which was created to support JMU's One Day/One University Scholarship. All donations and proceeds from purchase of the video will benefit the scholarship fund. In 1999, Woody and his students produced a similar documentary, One Day, One University, a 24-hour look at JMU, that won several national awards.

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