Friday, September 17, 2004 8:24 PM
BY DIANA LJUNGAEUS
Melissa Morrissette has known that she wanted to be a journalist since she was six years old. By the time she reached the sixth grade, she wrote her idol, Los Angeles TV anchor Pat Harvey, asking her for advice.
Harvey’s answer: “She told me to stay in school, to major in journalism, take political science and above all, love what I do in order to be good at it.”
Melissa followed Harvey’s advice and is now in her third year at Cal State L.A., majoring in journalism – and volunteering to help out at the Press Club.
“I love working for this prestigious organization and meeting with established journalists and writers,” she says.
At the Southern California Journalism Awards Dinner last June, she finally got to meet her idol and tell Pat that she is staying on course, following her valuable advice.
