Awards
The PRAM Mississippi Beach chapter honors the achievements of its members with the Rex Kelly Professional Achievement Award.
The recipient of the annual award becomes a candidate for the state-level Professional Achievement Award given by the Public Relations Association of Mississippi at its annual conference.
The award is named in honor of the chapter’s first president Rex Kelly, director of corporate communications for Mississippi Power, who received the first award in 2001.
Latest Recipient
Kurt Brautigam, APR, is the distinguished lecturer in public relations and associate director of the University of Southern Mississippi School of Mass Communication and Journalism, Brautigam, who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in communications at Southern Miss, also is principal of KRB Communications, a public relations consulting business. He previously served as manager of external communication for Mississippi Power and has overseen public, media and community relations activities for several other companies and civic organizations in south Mississippi.
Past Recipients
| Kurt Brautigam, APR | 2007 |
| Paul Maxwell | 2006 |
| Shelia White | 2004 |
| Terry Hines-Smith | 2003 |
| Myron Webb | 2002 |
| Rex Kelly | 2001 |