Spring 2005

KU First fund-raising campaign exceeds expectations By Charles Higginson, program associate

t started ambitiously, proceeded confidently and ended more successfully than anyone could have anticipated. I KU First: Invest in Excellence – the largest fund-raising campaign in the history of the University of Kansas – concluded at the end of December. Having hit the original $500 million goal more than a year early, organizers at the KU Endowment Association set a new goal of $600 million in December of 2003, and reached it with room to spare. The final total raised was $653 million. In similar fashion, the School of Journalism reached its original goal of $5 million, then set and met a new mark of $6 million. Gifts and pledges contributed on the School’s behalf will provide support for scholarships, equipment, internships, professorships, graduate fellowships and more for years to come. Between July 1, 1998, and Dec. 31, 2004, more than 100 corporate donors joined more than 2,800 individual contributors in support of the School. Many made more than one contribution during the campaign. All donors are listed in the KU First Roll of Honor distributed with this issue of J-Links. The success of KU First is impressive, especially considering the size of its goals and its somewhat inauspicious start. Although the campaign’s “quiet phase” began in July 1998, the active phase was launched publicly just a few days before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. (KU First – continued on page 2) Letter from the Dean

ne of my favorite roles as dean is thanking people on behalf of the J-School. This issue of J-Links is a tribute to the many friends, alumni, faculty mem- O bers and others who have helped us with their gifts. We have an impressive list of donors who contributed to the School’s KU First Campaign. We could not have done this without the leadership of the Campaign committee appointed by What’s Inside... former dean Jimmy Gentry. This group of dedicated volunteers was led by Mal Applegate + A Jayhawk Journalist goes to (1959 journalism grad). Mal has had many Washington successes in his journalism career and he brought + William Allen White Day, honoring that same sense of hard work, creativity and Earl Richardson Gerald F. Seib dedication to this campaign. Thanks, Mal! + KUJH-TV Station Update Just as impressive are the stories of why + Scholastic Press Association: Serving people contribute to the School. You’ll read some Kansas High Schools of those stories in the supplement to this issue. + J-School Jayhawks peck at Big Apple As I’ve come to know many of our alumni and + New faces in the classroom donors, I am inspired by their high regard and + Alumni News & Notes memories of the J-School. They look back on their - Julie Jacobson, The Associated Press time here with gratitude for the skills, knowledge - Steve Frazier, Amazon.com – and yes, occasional fear – that faculty members - Jim Cobb, The New York Times instilled in them. - Alison Gwinn, InStyle magazine (Dean’s Letter – continued on page 2) Ann M. Brill, Dean (Dean’s Letter – continued from page 1) (KU First – continued from page 1)

It was very special to hear Jerry Seib, this Much of the eventual success on the School’s behalf is due to the efforts year’s William Allen White citation award of the Journalism Campaign Committee for KU First. These eight individuals recipient, recall his J-School days with so much gave financial gifts as well as their commitment to raise money for the School. admiration and gratitude for his teachers and They worked closely with KU Endowment and with deans Jimmy Gentry mentors. You will read more memories from and Ann Brill. alumni throughout this issue. Campaign Committee members were: Malcolm W. Applegate, Another one of my favorite roles as dean committee chair (Journalism ’59, former president and general manager, The is talking with the many recruiters who visit Indianapolis Star); Danforth W. Austin (Journalism ’68, chairman and CEO, the J-School. Many of them are alumni, but all Ottaway Newspapers, Inc.); Richard C. Clarkson (Journalism ’55, owner, of them have some connection with KU and Rich Clarkson and Associates, Denver); Ralph D. Gage Jr. (Journalism ’64, the J-School. Recruiters tell me how our chief operating officer, The World Company); Larry Kanter (Communications students are doing – both the ones they are ’74, MBA ’83, news anchor, 1010 WINS Radio, New York); Dana A. interviewing here and the ones now working Leibengood (Journalism ’55, MS Journalism ’69, retired Journalism School for their companies. I ask questions about the administrator); Shelly J. London (Journalism ’74, MBA ’81, vice president- various industries they represent – not just communications, American Standard Companies); and Terry K. Shockley about hiring plans, but about the future of their (MS Journalism ’66, president, Shockley Group). companies and what they think we should be The campaign may be over, but you still can put “KU Journalism First.” doing to prepare students for careers. Our For information about ways you can support the J-School, please contact Career Fair in early March drew more than 175 Patrick Mikesic, development director at the KU Endowment Association, at students who talked with recruiters from an (785) 832-7461 or [email protected]. impressive list of 23 companies. KU Endowment is an independent non-profit organization serving as We have had an impressive list of visitors the official fund-raising and fund-management organization for the University this year. Last fall, 300 people joined us on of Kansas. Founded in 1891, KU Endowment is the first foundation of its Kansas Editor’s Day to hear former AP political kind at a U.S. public university and one of the largest. ‰ reporter Walter Mears. Also in fall, Deric Gilliard, author, activist and public affairs director at the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Stauffer-Flint Hall gets a mini facelift Services, Office of Secretary-Region IV, spent three days here talking with students. We had a great turn-out for the William Allen White dinner, meetings and presentation. And, we’re making sure our visitors spend a lot of time in classes and meeting with students and faculty. One of those visitors, 2004 Pulitzer Prize win- ner Kevin Helliker, even got introduced at half time during a basketball game! Our goal is as much visibility as possible for all our guests. Also among recent visitors were representatives of ACEJMC, the journalism accreditation council. We very much ap- preciated their time and comments when they spent three days here evaluating the strengths Before After and weaknesses of the School. The team will recommend full reaccreditation when the he wood floors on the first and second floors of Stauffer-Flint were council meets next month in Chicago. You’ll Trefinished over the holiday break. They had dulled over the years and read more about their review and recom- were badly in need of repair. The ceiling tiles on the first and second floors mendations in the next issue of J-Links. also were replaced. To further beautify the J-School, a distinguished alumni So, THANK YOU! display case and photography display on the second floor were added. Julie Jacobson’s photos are currently on display. She is a 1992 graduate and an Associated Press photographer (see page 9 for her profile). ‰

Ann M. Brill, 2 Spring 2005 J-Links www.journalism.ku.edu Dean A Jayhawk Journalist goes to Washington By Jennifer Byrd, graduate student

’ve become a C-SPAN addict. I used to watch the public affairs I network sporadically, but after spending last fall interning at the National Journal’s CongressDaily in Washington, D.C., the programming means more now. I see reporters I met asking questions during the televised briefings. I see rooms in the Capitol and nearby office buildings where I’ve been. I laugh when I see a briefing in the House electronic media gallery because I know the title of one of the fake books behind the podium has something to do with treating gastrointestinal View of the U.S. Capitol from the Supreme Court steps, by Jennifer Byrd diseases. And, most important, I know that what is shown on the formerly of The Associated Press; Jonathan Rauch of the network is both real and important. Before, the issues the National Journal; former Rep. Bill Frenzel, R-Minn.; Jim federal government dealt with seemed distant. Now, I feel Pinkerton, Newsday columnist and Fox News commentator; obligated to pay much closer attention. Robert Samuelson, a columnist for the Washington Post and I was selected, along with 13 other students from various Newsweek; and Tom Rosentiel, director of the Project for Excel- universities, to spend a semester interning at a news bureau lence in Journalism and former Los Angeles Times media critic. and attending seminars to learn about politics. Brock Meeks, the chief Washington correspondent for The program is sponsored by the Washington Center for MSNBC, took us on a tour of the NBC studios in suburban Politics and Journalism, an organization run by Terry Michael, Washington. This is the home of the storied “Studio A,” where a former press secretary for Sen. Paul Simon and the Nixon debated Kennedy, where “The Muppets” was first Democratic National Committee. Michael, also a former filmed and where “Meet the Press” is taped. journalist, established the program in 1988 to improve young We went to the offices of the Federal Election Commission, reporters’ knowledge of politics by having them learn from the National Republican Congressional Committee, the actual political insiders, not books. A dozen students from KU Democratic National Committee and the CATO Institute. have participated in the program through the years. Graduate For my internship at CongressDaily, I went to the Capitol student Deron Lee is there this semester. once or twice a week to cover an event or to deliver papers to We met twice a week for an hour and a half for the reporters. On my first day in the Capitol, I passed by Sen. Joe seminars. Some of our speakers included Walter Mears, Lieberman, D-Conn., and Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, and rode the trolley from the Capitol to the Senate Hart Office Building with Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C. I went to the National Press Club and listened to Jim Lehrer of PBS speak about the controversy surrounding the CBS story about President Bush’s National Guard service. I stayed up all night on Election Night, watching returns come in. I went to the White House and met legendary Hearst columnist Helen Thomas and President Bush’s press secretary Scott McClellan. Because of the program, I had the opportunity to have lunch with the incoming president of the National Press Club, Rick Dunham of Business Week. With the help of Lawrence Journal-World senior editor Bill Snead, formerly the photography editor at The Washington Post, I had lunch with Karlyn Barker, a reporter for the newspaper, and went on a tour of the newsroom. For a political and journalism junkie like me, the semester was a dream experience. ‰ The Supreme Court at sunset, by Jennifer Byrd J-Links Spring 2005 3 A conversation with Gerald F. Seib, 2005 William Allen White citation recipient Kansan By Jay Senter, graduate student

o call Gerald Seib’s career full would be gross Rachel Seymour, Rachel Seymour, understatement. The winner of the 2005 William Allen T White Foundation’s national citation, Seib, has, at various points, covered Mexico City, Dallas, Washington and the Middle East for The Wall Street Journal, the paper for which he is currently Washington bureau chief. The experiences have brought Seib his share of praise (he received the Gerald R. Ford Foundation prize in 1990 for his reporting on the presidency) and predicament (he was accused of spying and held by the Iranian government while covering the Iran-Iraq war in 1987). During his visit to Lawrence to accept the William Allen White award in February, Seib, a Hays native, spoke with J-Links about the most challenging moments of his career, the state of Seib’s citation acceptance speech, titled “Journalism: In Transition, or In Peril?,” the media, and his time at KU. is available online at www.journalism.ku.edu.

J-Links: You were held by the government in Iran in 1987 for Our philosophy, I think, was that you have to take some risks several days before being released on your 31st birthday. When to do the job, but don’t take any unreasonable risks. Going to you got back, you said you had discovered that “Iran remains Lebanon seemed like an unreasonable risk. Going to Iran did a risky place to do business.” You knew it was risky when you not seem like an unreasonable risk. The dangerous part of that went there to cover the Iran-Iraq war, but did you have any trip seemed to be that we went to visit the Iran-Iraq warfront. notion that as a journalist you were in any danger of being Turns out that was wrong. taken? JL: As an editor now, as someone who sends correspondents Gerald Seib: No, not at all. The dangerous place – the place into war, what goes through your mind when you hear about we never went – at that time was Lebanon. There was a civil a journalist being kidnapped? And unfortunately a lot of times war under way and journalists were clearly being targeted. they aren’t just being interrogated.

GS: It’s frightening. When the war started, I sent five reporters from my bureau there to be embedded with the U.S. military. We at the Journal have done a lot of thinking, planning, re- thinking and soul-searching about how you can safely send correspondents into Iraq. I encountered some danger [in Iran] in a sort of strange and quirky way. It’s dangerous in Iraq every minute you are there right now as a journalist. And so what we have tried to do is restrict the number of people we send

Doug Koch, University Relations in, and put fairly clear limits on where they can go and what they can do, and we rethink the situation. We bought an armored car, for example. You can’t send your people driving around the streets of Iraq, and do it in good conscience, unless they are in an armored car these days. It sounds absurd, but it is true.

JL: I want to talk a little bit about the current media environ- ment. When you were here at KU in the late ‘70s, you focused on newspapers. Did you have any inkling that the industry Seib and his wife, Barbara Rosewicz, address a journalism class. Rosewicz is managing editor of Stateline.org, an online news site in Washington, D.C., that would change so much, that you would be appearing on CNBC covers state policy and political trends. every day, or that your wife would be running a Web site?

4 Spring 2005 J-Links (Seib – continued on page 5) (Seib – continued from page 4) KUJH-TV Station Update By Staci Wolfe, multimedia coordinator GS: No, I had no idea. The big division in those days was between print and t the heart of the KUJH-TV news- broadcast journalism. There was no new room is the news desk, dubbed media. There was only old media. the amoeba table because of its Nobody had any inkling what was A uniquely flowing shape. The large table going to happen. When you think back provides a central place for TV, radio on my career, there was a lot of concern and online producers to work together. in the print world that newspapers and For students who have never exper- print journalism would be overtaken by ienced the noise and chaos of a real broadcast, which never really happened newsroom, it can be a bit overwhelming. actually. The Internet is what has really After their first shift, however, most changed the way the industry looks, students walk away knowing they will because it has created a whole different learn a lot in the KUJH-TV newsroom. price structure. The problem is that no The Stan and Madeline Stauffer one has figured out the appropriate Multimedia Newsroom in Dole is a new business model for making money on state-of-the-art facility that is also the it. That’s the real struggle right now. But Online Producer Meagan Kelleher updates the new home of the KUJH-TV newsroom. I think you can’t be afraid of change. KUJH-TV News online bios for TV Producer Laci The space provides KUJH-TV News Wright and TV News Reporter Jaime Pedigo. You have to just deal with it. The way with a “live from the newsroom” CNN- you deal with it, in my mind, is you tell like studio, as well as a new computer- This guide provides online producers yourself, “I’m not in the newspaper training lab. with writing and HTML coding styles for business. I’m not in the cable TV bus- Prof. Rick Musser’s fall 2004 Online the new Web site. iness. I’m in the news business.” Writing, Editing and Production class “Adapting and adopting a style JL: Is there anything from your time spent much of the semester planning the guide is necessary because it gives us here at KU that you look back on and new KUJH-TV News Web site. The more credibility when other professionals think, “That was extremely helpful”? online students researched and wrote a visit our site,” Stairrett said. project plan, which included a map for In addition to the new Web site, GS: There were two sort of legendary the Web site’s content and information KUJH-TV has recently added the professors then, and they gave me the on how and who would manage the site. Research Channel to its programming. two things I think were most important. Over winter break, students and staff The Research Channel is a consortium of One was John Bremner, who taught members developed the new site, at research universities and corporations editing. Basically, he taught love of, and http://tv.ku.edu, which was unveiled in that broadcasts research presentations via intelligent use of, language. Nominally January. cable, satellite and the Internet all over he taught editing, but he really taught The Web site serves as an educa- the world. For more information about use of the language. He gave you a set tional tool and a reflection of the J- programming, visit the Research Channel of skills that were the most important School’s convergence efforts. Online online at www.researchchannel.org. building block for journalism in what- producers work closely with the TV KUJH-TV also is adding other pro- ever form. The other professor was news staff to explore new ways to pre- gramming, such as the speech by Gerald Calder Pickett, who taught journalism sent television news online. F. Seib, 2005 William Allen White citation history. But he really taught journalism “It’s a big step in advancing our recipient and The Wall Street Journal history in a way that wasn’t journalism multimedia curriculum. It actually gives Washington bureau chief. The station is history. It was more American history – us a product that students can work on, working with the Dole Institute of Politics world history, to a certain extent – as it as opposed to merely class exercises,” to broadcast its upcoming events. should be seen by someone who wants said Dick Nelson, newsroom coord- This spring, Dick Nelson was ap- to practice journalism. Calder Pickett inator. pointed as the new general manager for taught you how to understand where Amanda Kim Stairrett, Jetmore, KUJH-TV. He will continue working with everything fit. Those two guys really Kan., junior, is The University Daily TV reporting students and directing the personified everything I learned at the Kansan managing editor of news, sports news, in addition to managing the University of Kansas. ‰ and photography. As a part of the fall television station’s programming. Gary online class, Stairrett assembled an Hawke, former general manager, is J-Links Spring 2005 5 online style guide for KUJH-TV News. retiring after 11 years of service to the J- School. ‰ Scholastic Press Association: Serving Kansas High Schools

any of the world’s great jour- fees. KSPA has 205 nalists started their careers toil- member schools. M ing away late nights on their To better aid high school newspapers and yearbooks. its members, KSPA The Kansas Scholastic Press has five districts, Association (KSPA) is dedicated to with teachers elect- helping those students and their ed as district rep- teachers achieve excellence in jour- resentatives. nalism education. “The area rep- Housed in the School of Journalism, resentatives are KSPA is a non-profit organization run liaisons,” Hudnall by John Hudnall, KSPA executive said. “Some of the director and lecturer in the J-School. schools west of Topeka are far from the KSPA headquarters. The representatives are there to make sure Prof. Tim Bengtson, lecturer Lisa Loewen and Kansan Sales and Marketing those districts have Advisor Jenny Weaver judged advertising at KU’s regional contest Feb. 18. access to KSPA resources.” For more information about KSPA As the executive director, Hudnall services and membership fees, contact is in charge of publishing the Courier 785-864-0605 or visit KSPA online at newsletter five times a year. The news- www.ku.edu/~kspa. Photos in the top letter recognizes journalism students banner are from the contest Feb. 18. ‰ and educators for accomplishments through-out the year. It contains articles on student press law and other issues of interest to students and teachers, tips to improve publications, lists of contest winners and entries, news from member schools and conference and contest announcements. KSPA sponsors conferences at Fort Hays State University, Kansas State Two high school students competed in a writing University and the University of Kansas contest at KU’s regional contest Feb. 18. every fall. During these events, members hear from top high school “Scholastic journalism has been the journalism teachers, college professors start for most professionals,” Hudnall and area journalists. said. “It becomes a proving ground of The regional contests are held in sorts.” Hays, Pittsburg, Manhattan, Wichita, The association’s members, high Emporia and Lawrence. The regional school students and teachers, receive contests at KU on Feb. 18 brought 578 leadership and direction from KSPA students from 31 northeast Kansas high through conferences, contests, critique schools. State contests will be held at KU services and newsletters. It is financed this May. J-School students Amanda Kim Stairrett and Mark by conference, contest and membership Ballesteros judged the photography division at KU’s regional contest Feb. 18.

6 Spring 2005 J-Links www.journalism.ku.edu J-School Jayhawks peck at Big Apple New faces in the classroom By Chris Crawford, senior By Lindsey Scott, senior

he School of Journalism sent a he J-School welcomed two new healthy contingent of magazine T journalism lecturers, Eric Adler T students to intern in and around and Marilyn Rausch, to Stauffer- New York City in January. Nine students Flint Hall this spring. They both completed two-week internships in the bring many interesting professional New York area as part of lecturer Kara experiences to share with students. Lynch’s fall 2004 Fieldwork in Magazine Adler is teaching research and Media course. I was one of them. writing. He has While in New York, and by Professionals Dick Stolley and Megan Hickerson been a reporter invitation, students met with J-School joined magazine interns Mandy Hendrix, Lynn Hamil- at The Kansas alumnus John Suhler, managing partner ton, Anja Winikka and Peter Granitz for dinner. City Star for 20 of Veronis Suhler Stevenson; Dick Stolley, years. He first founding editor of People magazine; and country – seemed revolutionary. Vice reported science Megan Hickerson, alumna and assistant isn’t for everyone; it contains racy stories and now to the publisher of Teen Vogue. All three pictures and editorial. But I think that he writes offered perspectives on the publishing might also be the reason for its success. feature and business, ranging from a recent grad Vice has expanded its distribution from human-interest paying her dues at the bottom, to New York, Los Angeles and Canada to stories. He said Adler successful veterans who can draw from England, Australia, Scandinavia and he was happy to decades of experience. Japan. Vice Records continues to expand be at the J-School teaching future We interned at very different its roster of popular underground bands. journalists. magazines. Some found themselves at And Vice has projects in the works for “I like everything about work- well-known staples like Martha Stewart television and film as well. ing with them,” he said. “They’re Living, Sports Illustrated, Shape magazine, As for my experience at Vice, all I can eager. They’re interested. They’re and Good Housekeeping. Others gave their say is, it was cool. Every day at Vice was kind. They all have amazing raw effort and energy to RES Magazine, The casual Friday. Everyone played loud talent. My job is to help give it Knot, College Music Journal and “E” music. Everyone yelled across the open form, allow them to turn it loose in Environmental Magazine. I picked a warehouse space in Brooklyn. All of the right direction.” slightly more obscure destination in Vice Vice’s articles are freelanced by Rausch teaches the print and magazine. established writers, artists, musicians online design class. She is a former Vice is a self-described “free month- and comedians, so there was no chance I card designer for Hallmark and ly urban culture magazine.” I chose Vice was going to write. But I did get the now owns a freelance design because I had never seen anything like it. opportunity to edit text and design business. She The business model – a free glossy promotional material for the record also has a magazine with no subscriptions and department. I designed a couple of pieces background in distribution only to hip venues across the that went out to retailers across the sales and country with bands’ CDs. marketing as a I realize that this type of environ- former account ment is unusual in the publishing or executive for business world and that I probably won’t Adobe Systems. ever get a chance to experience it again. She said she was excited to But I savored it during my two chilly Rausch weeks in the Big Apple. Some day I’ll be at the J- quietly sit down in my cubicle, in my School helping students learn to put freshly pressed shirt and tie, and visual content with their words. reminisce about my internship in New “I am helping students combine York. Then I’ll begin typing a ground- their words with design to create Magazine interns Joshua Kendall, Mandy Hendrix, breaking story about the overseas the visual voice. It helps engage the Misty Huber, and Anja Winikka posed with their concrete market. ‰ readers and keep them engaged in waiter at dinner. the piece,” she said. ‰ J-Links Spring 2005 7 ALUMNI NEWS & NOTES Amanda Denning is public Kursten Phelps is the new Where are they now? relations specialist with the education reporter for The University of Missouri-Kansas Garden City Telegram. She is City Schools of Medicine, completing a master’s degree in Meka White is working for the Dentistry, Pharmacy, and Latin American Studies at the 2004 Cleveland Cavaliers of the NBA. Nursing. She traveled to Univ. of California, San Diego. Brian Douglas is assistant After a year there, she will move Cameroon with Dr. Carole media strategist on the to a higher position with a McArthur of UMKC, who is Kyle Ramsey has been a page McDonald’s campaign for different NBA team, and the doing HIV/AIDS research in designer at The Wichita Eagle Ogilvy Mather in Chicago. following year, she hopes to the African nation. Amanda since November. He designs the begin doing international tutored a native woman and Metro and Sports sections daily Anna Gregg works at Platform marketing for the league. edited the woman’s thesis on and Page One several times a Advertising in Kansas City. the stigmatization of HIV/AIDS month. Jenni Wilson sells advertising during three weeks there. Christina A. Hass works at for The East Bay Express in San Kerry Tubbs is a marketing Platform Advertising in Kansas Francisco. The Express is a Katie Glatz co-hosts a morning coordinator at Ferrellgas in City. weekly owned by the company show on 102.3 BXR in Overland Park. that also publishes Pitch Weekly Columbia, Mo. Dorothy Sarah “Sally” Kay is in Kansas City and The Brett Wiese works in marketing working in Bratislava, Slovakia, Riverfront Times in St. Louis. Samantha (Mangino) Hardy is and advertising for the for Delta E.S., an IT company. research/marketing assistant at Lawrence Paper Company. She is researching the IT market Abby (Tillery) Young is a Grubb & Ellis/The Winbury in the United Kingdom to help photographer for The Daily Group in Kansas City, Mo. her company expand there. Union in Junction City. 2001 Patrick Norman does graphic Matt Daughterty is managing Eric Kelting is vendor/member design and marketing for K- editor for the five Dispatch relations coordinator for the 2003 Bob’s Steakhouse. He also is a Tribune newspapers in Kansas Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Mike Alzamora is a sports swimming coach for Duke City City, North. The newspapers Association. reporter and assignment editor Aquatics. are owned by NPG, the St. for the Univision affiliate in Joseph News Press Group. Vonna Keomanyvong is on a Amarillo. He is responsible for John Nowak has joined The one-year online internship at the station’s Web site at Ottawa Herald as a photog- Sarah Hansen is a production the Lawrence Journal-World. She www.univision-amarillo.com. rapher. He recently completed coordinator at PageCaptain helps update LJWorld.com, an eight-month internship at Pagination, Universal Press 6NewsLawrence.com and Ashley Anstaett has been The Topeka Capital-Journal. Syndicate/Andrews McMeel KUSports.com nightly. promoted by Kansas Senate Universal. Minority Leader Anthony Elizabeth Schnieders will Barbara Kullbom is conference/ Hensley to be communications complete an MBA degree at the Derek Helms has joined Kansas seminar coordinator for the director for his office and University of Denver in June. Wildscape as the OKKids/event National Arbor Day Foundation Democratic senators. She had She is a graduate teaching coordinator/public relations in Lincoln, Neb. She plans 16 been policy director for the assistant for the marketing manager. The non-profit regional seminars each year. minority leader’s office. course there. She plans to work organization is in Lawrence. in the Kansas City area. Johanna Maska has joined the Tawnya Bach is the weekend Chris Hopkins is an online staff of Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, and night assignment editor at reporter at The Olympian in working in the press depart- KCTV Channel 5 in Kansas City. 2002 Olympia, Wash. He had been a ment and with constituent In her free time, she has taken Christina (Neff) Daughterty is copy editor at the Corpus Christi services. up the sport of boxing. a photographer at the Liberty Caller-Times. Tribune, one of the five Dispatch- Ehren Meditz is a copy editor at Erin Beatty has joined Priority Tribune papers. She and Matt Addie Schroeder is training as the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Advantage, a business consult- Daughterty, 2001, were married a Foreign Services Officer. She ing firm in Kansas City, in its in 2003. will work at the U.S. Embassy Nathan Miles is in sales for communications department. in Athens this year. KTPK 106.9 in Topeka. Mark Hansen is project Barbara Berry-Rodriguez works coordinator at Thomas Nieman, Sarah Robinson is employed as at DRAFT in Chicago as a Inc. in Wilmette, Ill. He 2000 a receptionist/public relations corporate communications researches, edits and develops Valerie Bauman is director of professional at Craghead & associate, assisting with PR new books for the company. programming at KTWU-TV, the Harold, Inc., an advertising efforts for its global network. PBS affiliate in Topeka. agency in downtown Wichita. (News & Notes – cont. on page 10) 8 Spring 2005 J-Links ALUMNI NEWS & NOTES

War and the World Series: J-School alumna serves as versatile Associated Press photographer By Lisa Schmitz, graduate student

tanding five-foot-two, Julie ”But when they lifted the rope to let the Jacobson is anything but diminu- cheerleaders through, I snuck in with S tive when it comes to competing them and made it onto the field.” for a photo. Jacobson’s pom-pom euphoria was Jacobson, a 1992 J-School graduate, short-lived, however: A large security works as an Associated Press photogra- guard quickly caught up with her and pher based in New York City, where she escorted her off the field. rarely minces words and doesn’t lack in ”So close,” she said, laughing. creative stealth capabilities. Jacobson’s scrappy nature also “This is such a physical job, and I’m served her well in 2003 and 2004 when surrounded by big guys and heavy she worked as an embedded journalist equipment,” Jacobson said. “I’m not during two tours of Iraq. The first tour afraid to say, ‘If you mess with me one began in Kuwait, where she prepped to more time, I’ll knock your teeth out.’” embed with the Marines for the Self-portrait at the Gateway Arch in St. Louis Jacobson, 35, is primarily a sports invasion. She then spent nine weeks in photographer. She recently returned Iraq with the military. On her second remained her most valuable work from covering Super Bowl XXXIX in tour, she entered through Jordan – an experience because it taught her Jacksonville, Fla. In the past, she has overnight stop – before going with hired everything about the paper and how it captured images at the Olympic Games drivers for a seven-week stay in Iraq. all related. in Athens, the U.S. Open golf and tennis Jacobson was asked to cover the Jacobson was born in Chicago and tournaments and the World Series. war after she expressed an interest in lived in Los Angeles and the Philippines ”At the Super Bowl this year, the doing so months earlier. She completed before her family moved to Kansas City sidelines were roped off to keep the a U.S. Department of Defense training after her fifth-grade year. After photographers from rushing the field at program with other embedded graduating from high school and the end of the game,” Jacobson said. journalists in November 2002. enrolling at the University of Kansas, “They took us up in helicopters and she considered becoming a doctor like tossed us around pretty good, and I got her dad and also toyed with a career in seasick on a ship in front of all these anthropology. sailors,” she said. “We were the first “Late in the spring of my journalists to go through the training, sophomore year, I had enrolled in field and I heard they made it easier after us.” work, and I was looking at National Jacobson’s photographs from the Geographic and photos of a site in war ran in both national and Egypt,” Jacobson said. “I had a (camera) international publications, including I liked, and I thought, ‘Hey, wait a The New York Times. minute – someone had to be there to “The thing that struck me most take those pictures.’” during my time in Iraq was the people Soon after, Jacobson declared a – they’re just in a really bad fix,” said major in journalism and never looked Jacobson, who would like to return to back. She went on to serve as photo the embattled country at some point. editor at The University Daily Kansan for Before joining the AP in New York two years. in August 2003 – the city’s infamous “Everything I learned at the J- blackout happened during her first School in my classes, I use every day,” week on the job – Jacobson worked for she said. the AP in San Francisco and for The A collection of Jacobson’s photos is Kansas City Star. She said her first job currently on display in Stauffer-Flint. ‰ One of Jacobson’s photos from the 2004 Olympics working on the Star’s community pages J-Links Spring 2005 9 ALUMNI NEWS & NOTES Commission on Disability Concerns. It provides technical 1996 assistance and referrals to T.J. Clark has joined Baum, (News & Notes – cont. from page 8) Birmingham, Ala., to WKYC-TV services, and training about Arensmeier & Talent, Inc. in Cleveland, Ohio. legislative advocacy, disability advertising agency in Denver as Hilary (Evans) Berg is the head awareness, civil rights laws and senior media planner for high graphic designer for a small Lindsay (Willis) Cosimano was accessibility. She works for In- tech industry accounts. production company in promoted to vice president of dependence, Inc. in Lawrence. Portland, producing coffee table marketing for Cassling Jennifer Lynn Stevens, director magazines for home building Diagnostic Imaging, a full-line of public relations for Madison associations across the United sales and service dealer for 1997 Square Garden Networks and States. She also designs wine Siemens Medical Solutions, Brock Bowling has joined ISP Sports Properties, a unit of based in Omaha, Neb. She was labels for the Oregon market. Sports in Winston-Salem, N.C. Cablevision, was married in the previously the director of as studio host and play-by-play Bahamas to George Volanakis, Danner Evans has moved from marketing. announcer. chief operating officer of Zingy reporter at KPLC-TV, Lake Inc., a media company that Charles, La., to reporter/ Brian Flink is production Konan Hauser, who took creates, licenses and distributes manager/production designer weekend anchor at WSET, classes in the J-School, is the ring tones for cell users. She is for four magazines of the Lynchburg-Roanoke, Va. advertising director of the print the daughter of Associated Parenting Group of Time, Inc. and Web versions of the Visalia Press vice president Paul and Lindsay (Shipman) Holliday is The magazines include Times-Delta and the Tulare Linda Stevens of Kansas City. the managing editor of five Parenting and Child magazines. Advance-Register in California. He had been with the Conde scientific journals at Allen He had been retail advertising David Wilson is an attorney for Nast Bridal Group, working on Press, Inc., in Lawrence. manager at the Statesman- the City of New York. He has Brides and Modern Bride Journal in Salem, Ore. been writing for Vdare.com and Stephanie (Tweito) Jacob is a magazines. the Occidental Quarterly. beauty assistant at O, The Oprah Jennifer Hong is an editorial Christie Humphries is an Magazine. assistant on the veterinary account executive for KVUE-TV medicine team at Elsevier, a 1995 Emilie Chapin-Patch is (ABC) in Austin, Texas. She was science textbook publisher. Angela (Letts) Kiani was working in sales at Network named one of AWRT Top 20 promoted to director of sales Appliance in Schaumburg, Ill. sales and marketing women in Keri Russell recently joined the marketing by Professional radio, television, and cable. She University of Nevada Las Vegas Business Products, after eight will be recognized in the fourth Dana (Hazels) Seith is a prod- as Employer & Outreach years as an account rep. The ucer for CNN’s “NewsNight quarter issue of Making Waves Coordinator in the Career Lincoln, Neb., company with Aaron Brown.” She joined magazine. Services Center after provides printing solutions and the network after graduation. completing her Master’s degree promotional products, as well Corrie Moore has joined the KU in Higher Education from the as services including “just in Endowment Association as Sarah K. Starr is the vice University of Missouri. She is time” delivery. president of public affairs for development director for the responsible for developing and the Washington Legal Foun- School of Business. Previously, strengthening long-term Manny Lopez, the J-School’s dation, in Washington, D.C. she worked in the editorial relationships with employers first coordinator of recruitment department of a small Internet and assessing the effectiveness and retention, is an editorial company and in the develop- 1999 of university-wide career writer specializing in business ment department of Continuum experience initiatives. news for The Detroit News. He Tiffany Lynn Akers is an Health Partners in New York. was previously with The account coordinator at John David L. Teska, MSJ, works for Business Journal of Kansas City. Erin Veazey is the director of Lambert Associates in Virginia. the U.S. Department of firm and corporate relations for Homeland Security/Federal Daniel Boresow is a marketing the Northwestern University Emergency Management 1994 School of Law in Chicago. consultant for Entercom Radio. Agency (FEMA) as a disaster Cory Flahaven is PPM product operations specialist. He is manager at Arbitron, where she Ann Weishaar, producer of 12 Anne (Ferraro) Bowling is an deployed to disaster sites after News Upfront at KPNX in oversees development of client account supervisor at Cramer- they are declared by the software that involves Portable Phoenix, helped create and Krasselt, Chicago. President. He and his wife People Meter technology. She launch a show in Sept. 2004 that Kristy have two children. also recently received her won an Emmy Award for Best M.B.A. from Loyola University 1998 Newscast. Matt Wendt, KPNX-TV, Chicago. Joy Benedict has moved from Phoenix, won a Rocky Mountain reporter at WBMA-TV, Ranita Wilks has been Region Emmy Award for (News & Notes – cont. on page 13) appointed to the Kansas newscast producing.

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A Jayhawk among the Amazons By Lindsey Scott, senior

teve Frazier, 1977 grad and vice next career. He graduated with president of Amazon.com, has a master’s degree in manage- never been one to shy away from ment from Northwestern S Doug Koch, University Relations new technology. University and joined a During his time on The University consulting firm. As a consul- Daily Kansan, he used the first tant, he worked with a few computers in the newsroom. At The Wall retail clients. This sparked an Street Journal, he participated in the interest in the retail industry. high-tech distribution system of a In 1994, he returned to Kansas worldwide newspaper. He helped to work for Payless ShoeSource launch Payless ShoeSource Inc.’s first Inc. The experience of launch- retail Web site, and now he develops ing the company’s Web site new categories for one of the largest and his interest in online online retailers. retailing directed him toward ”I was always an early adopter of Amazon.com. new technology, and at all my jobs I’ve ”It’s a company really been in the position of trying to figure driven around innovation and out how technology could help me work using technology to create an better and accomplish more,” Frazier experience for the customer said. that’s never been created After reporting for The Wall Street before. The way we use Journal in the Dallas bureau, and technology to do things is spending three years as a foreign really an exciting environ- correspondent in Mexico and Central ment,” Frazier said. and he has fond memories of his time at America, he decided it was time to Frazier has been with Amazon.com the J-School. He said that his back- prepare for another career. for five and a half years. He spent his ground as a writer helped him on a daily ”I covered the oil industry in the first two years working outside London basis and that lessons he learned in the mid-1980s when it went through a giant as the managing director of classroom and newsroom were still with downturn and got the idea that one Amazon.co.uk. While there, he served him at the Amazon.com office in Seattle. needed to be prepared for several as a media contact for interviews about ”To this day, I quote John Bremner careers,” Frazier said. the e-commerce boom in the United to people I work with all the time. It’s He decided a business degree Kingdom. His background in jour- not debatable. Bremner said it’s true, so would be the best preparation for his nalism helped him. we’re going to do it the way Bremner ”In the year 2000, I said,” Frazier said. did 170 interviews. Frazier credits both Susanne Shaw Certainly having the and Dana Leibengood for their help and “To this day, I quote John Bremner journalism experience guidance in his education and career. He helped me through. I had said that they made the Journalism to people I work with all the time. to do a lot of training to School feel like a second home. He also learn how to avoid worked closely with Rick Musser, who It’s not debatable. Bremner said it’s Americanisms when I was the Kansan general manager at the spoke to the British aud- time, and former professor Paul Jess. true, so we’re going to do it the way ience,” Frazier said. ”Steve was a wonderful student and His journalism back- did very well at The Wall Street Journal. Bremner said.” — Steve Frazier ground has helped in It was just a pleasure to have helped other ways in his career him,” Leibengood said. ‰

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Successful alumna draws from her KU roots by Marissa Stephenson, senior

t times, Alison Gwinn asks herself, Prof. Bremner’s grammar “How did I end up in New York?” lessons and finds herself A Gwinn is a deputy editor there correcting her daughter Caitlin’s for InStyle magazine. She helps decide teachers when it comes to which writer fits with which star, she matters like when to use “who” top-edits the magazine for errors and or “whom.” She says the lessons style, and she makes sure InStyle has were invaluable and a clarity, consistency and continuity. tremendous leg-up in the work- Gwinn, a 1977 J-School grad, world; what she learned, she answers her question by remembering never had to relearn. where she started – the late nights Recalling her college days, working on The University Daily Kansan, Gwinn described herself as “timid, worked on the metro and features desks. the inspirational professors whose style meek, and shy.” She readily admits that But when she got a call from Jeff Jarvis, and grammar guidance she still uses those were hard traits for a reporter. a friend of her husband’s at The today, and the experience and know- Susanne Shaw, however, remembers a Examiner, asking her to take a gamble how from the J-School that led her to different Alison Gwinn. on a start-up magazine, Entertainment four major newspapers and two top “I don’t remember her being shy,” Weekly, Gwinn took the chance, and magazines. Shaw says. “I remember a bright, threw herself into the new job. She says Gwinn started out as a reporter at passionate student who took courses to the staff practically killed themselves, the Kansan, covering the administration learn, not just to get an ‘A.’” working almost every night until after beat and running back and forth midnight to produce issues during the between Stauffer-Flint and Strong Hall first year. The start-up wasn’t “main- to interview the vice chancellor. She stream” enough (one early cover fea- worked her way up to Kansan enter- tured a book on Vietnam) and wasn’t tainment editor, copy chief and campus received well. With a re-focus on editor, closing the paper at 2 a.m. and Hollywood stars, movies, TV and music, joining her colleagues – “my best EW eventually found its niche, as did friends” – for breakfast at Denny’s to Gwinn, who climbed her way up the wind the night down. With a job at the masthead to a top position. KU information center and a full class After 10 years at Entertainment load, Gwinn’s schedule then was more Weekly, Gwinn was ready for a change. hectic than her daily routine today. When an EW colleague moved to “Working at the Kansan consumed InStyle, Gwinn followed, attracted to the your life. It was tough and intense and I new material, the steadier work pace the basically never slept, but I loved that magazine offered and the opportunity job,” Gwinn says. “It was sink or swim, to spend more time with her daughter. and the people who were swimming Gwinn has worked at InStyle for were loving it.” five years, and says that while she’s not Gwinn vividly remembers pro- After her graduation, Gwinn took a fashionista, she loves the job and the fessors John Bremner, Susanne Shaw a job as a copy editor at The Kansas City people. She may not be closing papers and Lee Young as the gems of her time Times. She stayed in Kansas City for at 2 a.m. these days, but she does wake at the University, providing her with the three years, and went on to work for the up at 5:20 each morning to go jogging journalism savvy that would later Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco with her husband and their dog, and she prompt her husband (who worked on Examiner, and the New York Times. While uses her free time for hiking, skiing, the Stanford paper and became a working at The Examiner, Gwinn met her kayaking and travel. journalist himself) to say, “Man, you got future husband, Glenn Kramon, who is Gwinn says hard work and a little a great education.” Gwinn still uses now an associate managing editor at The luck got her to where she is today. And, New York Times. At The Times, Gwinn she says, “I never forgot where I came ‰ 12 Spring 2005 J-Links from.” ALUMNI NEWS & NOTES writer and legislative editor. He first worked at the Journal- 1986 World as city hall reporter. Rob Karwath is the executive (News & Notes – cont. from page 10) Bob Wiltfong, formerly of editor of The Duluth News News 12 Long Island, now is a Michael Fuhlhage is an assis- Tribune in Minnesota. He went Cameron Meier is editor of correspondent for Comedy tant professor and news editor to Duluth after a 19-year career Sunshine Artist, the nation’s Central’s “The Daily Show” on the Columbia Missourian at at the Chicago Tribune, where he leading arts & crafts show mag- hosted by Jon Stewart. the Univ. of Missouri. He is res- was associate managing editor azine, based in Orlando, Fla. earching Mexican immigration for business coverage, for a master’s degree thesis. overseeing the work of 63 1991 reporters and editors. 1993 Margaret (Townsend) Graff is Laura (Woodward) Garrison is a Chicago-based category vice president of strategic bus- Gina B. Kellogg is director of Leona P. Dalavai, journalism iness analysis and mergers and communications for the World 1994, political science 1993, has manager for Good Housekeeping acquisitions for Blockbuster. been named editor of AUTOINC magazine. Waterpark Association in Magazine, the official publica- Overland Park. She previously tion of the Automotive Service Terence Hall is a captain and Col. Gary Patton, MSJ, now is was editor of Super Floral assistant division commander serving in Iraq. Retailing magazine in Overland Association. It contains man- Park. agement, technical and legisla- in the Kansas City, Kan., Police Derek Schmidt is Senate tive articles. Previously, she Department. was marketing communications Majority Leader in the Kansas Jennifer (Gardner) Love is the director and editor for a nat- Shelley (Hansel) LeGrand is Senate. He earned a master’s senior director leading Sprint’s executive director of the Well- degree in 1992 from the transformation efforts. ional construction association in University of Leicester in Fort Worth, Texas. ington Chamber of Commerce. Her career in television news England, and a law degree at Sean M. Wheeler has been a Amy Dick is vice president of began with an internship at Georgetown University in 1996. landscape architect/land use GolinHarris public relations in WIBW in Topeka. After gradua- planner for local government in tion, she started at KWCH in Lara Weber is the news editor Larimer County, Northern Chicago. Wichita, then moved to KAKE- for the Chicago Tribune’s RedEye, Colorado for seven years. He TV for six years. She was with a tabloid publication for young- has written a book on landscape 1992 KPNX, the NBC affiliate in er readers. She spoke to classes design in the arid West, and Phoenix, for four years, and in the J-School in early March. wrote two books for the Navy. Julie Denesha is a photo editor then returned to KAKE. She has He was a broadcast major. for The Washington Times. She been reporter, anchor and wea- worked for several years from ther reporter for the stations. 1989 Prague, Czech Republic, as a 1985 photographer. She received a Robyn (Richardson) Caulfield Tai Takahashi is news director celebrated the 10-year anniver- Diane Luber, MSJ, is city editor BA degree in Slavic and Soviet of WTVQ in Lexington, Ky. sary of her firm, Robin Caulfield of the Tucson Citizen. She moved area languages and literature Public Relations, in 2004. from KU in 1993. from the Arizona Daily Star 1990 where she was interactive editor Deborah Ann Mesloh is the Jerry Howard, MSJ, is the news and before that, in charge of the Elaina (Khoury) Boudreau was director for KRTV, the Evening weekly Northwest section and director of public relations and Post-owned CBS affiliate in Neighbors pages. She first was spokesperson for the San Fran- honored by Ingram’s magazine Great Falls, Mont. He had been cisco District Attorney’s Office. as one of Kansas City’s “40 at the Star from 1992 to 1996 as She previously was Direct TV’s under 40” top professionals. a news director and professor at a copy editor and assistant city director of communications. She is director of public rela- four Oklahoma universities and editor, and then was a copy tions and marketing for General was news operations director for editor at The Des Moines Register, Albritton’s KATV, Little Rock. before returning to the Star. Ron W. Roecker is vice pres- Electric Insurance Solutions. ident for communications for the National Academy of Richard Brack, who took 1988 Devin Scillian and his wife Recording Arts and Sciences, classes in the J-School and was Corey had a book signing Oct. 8 the spring 1990 Kansan editor, at the Oread Bookstore for “S is responsible for marketing, pub- George Norton, MSJ, and for Sunflower-a Kansas lic relations and advertising, in- was named assistant chief of retired Army lieutenant colonel, cluding the Grammy Awards, the Associated Press Chicago is director of corporate develop- Alphabet,” a children’s book in MusiCares Foundation and the bureau on Jan. 26. He had been ment for Kansas Public Radio. the Discover America State by Latin Recording Academy. He managing editor of the Lawrence He was manager of corporate State series. Devin is lead Journal-World since 1999, after anchor for WDIV-TV in Detroit, was with an entertainment communications for Westar the NBC affiliate. marketing firm and taught pub- being promoted from business after retiring from the Army. He lic relations writing and media editor. He had returned to the has participated in the School’s communications at the Univ. of Journal-World in 1997 from The annual First Amendment, the (News & Notes – cont. on page 15) Southern California before Des Moines Register where he Media and Democracy was an editor on the national joining the Academy in 2001. conferences for international and foreign desks, a business officers at Fort Leavenworth. J-Links Spring 2005 13 ALUMNI NEWS & NOTES

Driven: Grad cruises in dream job at New York Times By Jennifer Byrd, graduate student

or Jim Cobb, Kansas is never far “We had a really special from his heart. group of people at that time,” F“We have a Kansas Day barbeque Cobb said. “There was just Doug Koch, University Relations every year on the news desk of The New amazing energy in the J-School.” York Times,” said Cobb, a 1978 After graduating from KU, Journalism School graduate and the Cobb took a job as a copy editor automobile editor at the Times. on the news desk at the Detroit Cobb said the prerequisites for Free Press. He worked in a variety attending the celebration, which of positions at the paper, evolved over the years from an including copy chief for the exchange of e-mail greetings each Jan. business and feature sections. He 29 among Kansans on the Times staff, ran the sports copy desk for three were pretty simple: “If you’re from years and ended up as associate Kansas, married someone from Kansas, editor of the Free Press’s Sunday dated someone from Kansas, if you ever Magazine before moving to the drove across Kansas or flew over Times in 1986. Kansas, you’re invited.” “He was an excellent copy Cobb, who is from Jackson County editor, one of the best we’ve ever near Holton, traveled back to his home had,” said Susanne Shaw, state in February to watch friend and Cobb’s adviser at KU. “He’s a classmate Gerald Seib, the Washington very bright guy.” bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, While working on the Business Day Cobb said the Times always pays receive the William Allen White citation. copy desk at the Times, Cobb was tapped manufacturers a rental fee for cars that Cobb was managing editor of The in 1994 to start a freestanding auto- it tests, something that was not being University Daily Kansan when Seib was mobile section. done at that time and is still not editor. “My secret ambition since I was a mainstream. Cobb now oversees the When he heard Seib would receive kid was to work for a car magazine,” Sunday auto section and the Monday the award, Cobb said he knew he Cobb said. auto page. He also provides content to “absolutely” had to come back to One of the challenges in starting the the newspaper’s Web site. Lawrence for the festivities. section was to make sure editorial “The Web, I’m finding, is an content would not be insatiable beast: It wants to be fed influenced by adver- constantly,” Cobb said. tisers and would be Most of his writers are freelancers done in the “Times with whom he has worked for years. Way” with the news- One of those former freelancers, Dan paper’s ethical stan- Neil of the Los Angeles Times, won the dards in place. Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 2004. “All too often there Cobb’s main piece of advice to

Doug Koch, University Relations are very cozy relation- future journalists is to be flexible. ships between people “You never know quite where life who are covered and will lead you,” he said, adding that people who are cover- when he left KU he never thought he ing,” Cobb said. “We would eventually work for The New York wanted to avoid the Times or fulfill his childhood dream of pitfalls.” testing cars and directing coverage of the auto industry. ‰

14 Spring 2005 J-Links www.journalism.ku.edu ALUMNI NEWS & NOTES Kansas Chapter of The Nature Voice in Our Wilderness,” has Conservancy in Topeka. been published by Triumph Books. A 1959 journalism (News & Notes – cont. from page 13) Barbara Kinney has taken a Margie Cook is a school graduate, Husar first covered new position as features picture psychologist. sports and then outdoors stories editor at The Seattle Times. for the Tribune for more than 30 1984 1973 years. He died July 20, 2000. Jon Howard is the new station Deb Riechmann is a White Royalties will support outdoor manager of 88.1 WVPE. The House reporter for The Vicki (Ferrell) Buening is opportunities for urban station is an affiliate of Public Associated Press. director of constituent services children. Radio International, a member- for Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. supported service of the Elkhart 1955 Area Career Center and com- 1978 munity schools. Howard has Theresa Larson is the director 1972 Stan Hamilton retired in more than 18 years experience of development for the School David R. Bliss is a partner with October 2004 after four years as in education-based public radio, of Computing & Engineering at Olson Cichy Bliss Attorneys, copy editor for Transport Topics, 14 of those in management. He the University of Missouri, P.C. in Bismark, N.D. He is the the national weekly newspaper has been an engineer, announ- Kansas City, having previously president-elect of the North Da- covering the trucking and cer, fund-raiser and adminis- worked in various marketing kota Trial Lawyers Association. related industries. He was trator, has taught broadcasting and communications positions previously the principal public and worked with students. at Sprint Corporation and Am- Bruce Efron is an independent affairs spokesman for the erican Century in Kansas City. representative with ACN, an Federal Motor Carrier Safety Susan (Ahern) Marusco international telecom-utilities Administration and predecessor published a non-fiction book in Linda (Marquis) Maness is a company and an independent agencies in the U.S. Department 1996. She is currently finishing media director at Integer QSR associate with Pre-Paid Legal of Transportation in her second book, “Breathing satellite office in Wichita. Her Services, Inc. Washington, D.C., for 14 years. Under Water.” clients are Mid-Kansas He resides in Lawrence. McDonald’s Co-Op and Ne-Kon McDonald’s Co-Op. 1971 1983 Jeffrey Ann Goudie was named 1953 Chris Courtwright is a Eric Morgenstern founded the 2004 “Communicator of Dana (Hudkins) Crawford was principal economist with the Morningstar Communications Achievement” by the Kansas honored in October for her 50 Kansas Legislature. He also Company in 1997. It is one of Professional Communicators. years of historic preservation writes a weekly column for the the fastest growing IMC and PR Goudie’s freelance work has efforts in downtown Denver. A State Tax Notes magazine. firms. Morgenstern is the only appeared in the Kansas City Star, principal of Urban Neighbor- practicing PRSA Fellow in the the Topeka Capital-Journal, the hoods, she is credited with Kansas City Area. Topeka Metro News, the Women’s saving Larimer Square from 1982 Review of Books, and the New being razed in the mid-1960s, Regina M. Beard is a 1977 York Times Book Review. starting the loft redevelopment humanities librarian at Kansas in 1989 in lower downtown and State University. Jerri (Reyner) Corgiat has renovating or developing more published her second novel, 1959 than a million square feet of A book by Steve Koppes, MSJ, “Follow Me Home,” the second A book of John Husar’s Chicago space, including the Oxford “Killer Rocks from Outer Space: in a series set in the Missouri Tribune columns on the Hotel that opened in 1891. Asteroids, Comets and Meteor- Ozarks. The first, “Sing Me outdoors and preservation, “A ites” (2004), was named to the Home,” was published last year. 2004 Nonfiction Honor List of the Voice of Youth Advocates magazine. The book also was 1976 named a 2003 Outstanding Tim Watson owns and operates Andy Marso Fund-raising Effort Science Trade Book jointly by Virginia Textbook Exchange, fund-raising effort is currently underway to benefit Andy the National Science Teachers buying and selling used texts, Association and the Children’s and Watson Associates, A Marso, 2004 KU graduate and former University Daily Book Council. representing multiple education Kansan staff member, who contracted and literacy product lines. bacterial meningitis his last semester at the J-School. For more information 1980 about Andy Marso and his battle with 1974 bacterial meningitis, please visit Kathleen Conkey is vice Richard Bailey is the associate www.caringbridge.org/mn/marso. president and senior counsel of director of philanthropy for the business and law affairs at MTV Donations can be sent to: Networks. The Marso Fund J-Links Spring 2005 15 P.O. Box 44-2111 Lawrence, KS 66044-8932 Send us YYourour Newsews

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