May 8, 2008 - The Executive Committee for the 2008/2009 NAIA National Football Championship Games announced today that Dawn Tolbert will chair its Public Relations and Marketing Subcommittee and serve as a member of the Executive Committee. Mrs. Tolbert is director of institutional relations at Shorter College.

At Shorter, Mrs. Tolbert manages the college’s public relations and marketing efforts, oversees Web communications and serves as a member of the President’s Cabinet. She has 13 years’ experience in higher education public relations. A former newspaper journalist, she served as lifestyles editor at the Rome News-Tribune and as city editor of the Cedartown Standard.

Mrs. Tolbert earned a bachelor’s degree with majors in communication studies and English from Gardner-Webb College and a Master of Arts degree in professional writing from Kennesaw State University.