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This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Alumni at Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago. It has been accepted for inclusion in Alumni Newsletters by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago. ~I( Ed Morris, chair "Many scholarship unds don't ed and marsha morris f begin until the donor is no longer endow scholarship for tv students on the scene," said Morris, chair of the depa~tment since 1984. ''I'm lo king forwa rd to seeing stu students complete their education. dents I know and respect benefit from the scholarsh ip beginning The Edward L. and Marsha Morri next semester." Scholarship Fund will provide one Marla Blanton, who produces $2,000 scholarship annually for a "Glass Roots," the television junior or senior in the television depa rtment's episodic drama department. According to studies series, was chosen by faculty mem of financial aid needs at private bers as the first scholarship recipi institutions, grants of this amount ent. "She was selected because she is make a crucial difference in helping an outstanding student, is very students with financial need meet active in Columbia College life, and meets the financial need ed morris, marla blanton and marsha morris their obligations for a year's tuition. requirements," Morris said. re: columbia no. 13/summer 1995 tri-annual publica tion sent free of charge to alumni and friends J of columbia college chicago THE ENVELOPE. PLEASE II
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Ruth Thome-Thomsen '73 Isabella Hofmann '81 Eric C. May '75 Michael E. Jackson '83 Ruth Thome-Thomsen's pho Isabella Hofmann is an accom Eric May is one of those people Michael Jackson wears many hats tographs have been described as plished and versatile actress. who just can't seem to get around the Columbia College having a captivating dreamlike Currently, she stars as Lt. Megan Columbia College out of his sys campus: trustee, Alumni Board quality. Ruth began her formal Russert, the first female shift tem . A native Chicagoan, he president and part-time fac ulty studies in photography at commander in the Baltimore graduated from South Shore member. He enrolled in 1976 as a Columbia in 1971 after complet Homicide Unit on NBC's Emmy High School and received his non-degree student, but later ing a B.F.A. in painting at winning series "Homicide: Life degree from Columbia in 1975, decided to pursue a degree. So uthern Illinois University. on the Streets." Born on Chicago's majoring in writing and English. At the age of 40, he received his Following the receipt of her sec South Side, Isabella showed an After graduation, Eric taught bachelor's degree and was soon ond bachelor's degree and while interest in acting and theater at part-time at his alma mater. In invited to join the Alumni pursuing an M.F.A. in photogra an early age, dancing with the 1985, he left Columbia to study Association Board. In 1989, he phy at The Art Institute of Chicago Park district and per creative writing at Ameri can was elected president of the Chicago, she returned to forming in church plays and tal University, and in 1987, became a Alumni Board and four years Columbia as a part-time faculty ent shows. After earning her reporter for The Washington Post. later selected to join the Board member. The recipient of two degree from Columbia in Over the nex t four years he of Trustees. In 1994, Michael Na tional Endowment for the Arts theater/music, she became worked on the obituary desk, began teaching in Columbia's Visual Artist Fellowships, she involved with Second City, District Weekly section, and the management department. was also accorded a residency at performing on the ma in stage in city desk. While he was happy at Formerly a vice president at the France's La Napoule Art Chicago and New York. Her tele The Post, Eric missed teaching. Ho ngkong and Sha nghai Foundation. Ruth's photographs vision roles include four seasons He returned home to Columbia Banking Corporation, he recently have been exhibited all over the on NBC's "Dear John" with Judd as a fac ulty member in the fiction accepted an early retirement world, and are included in fhe Hirsch and recurring roles on writing department in 199 . In option. ichael is now comptef permanent collections of The "Sisters" and "Sirens." Her film addition to teaching, e is cur ing a gradua te degree at the ... Museum of Contemporary credits include "Renaissance rently working or a_novel. University of Chicago, and is Photograpqy of Columbia College; The Metropolitan RECENT EVENTS AROUND CAMPUS 1.1n January, the English department's Interpreter Training Program sponsored a public presentation by Heather Whitestone, the first Miss America who is deaf. Ms. Whitestone (left) and Columbia College president Dr. John B. Duff were joined by Chicago Hearing Society' board president William Neumann and his wife C::harlotte at a luncheon following the event.
ti•••Artm... nt faculty member Tony Del Valle and Latino Helen Ladron de Guevara at the opening annual "Latinos in the Arts" celebration.
'"n•u•mu"'" rt.. ~,.,tm .Pnt producing director, and John Mahoney, ble·IIMifllb•e" l)f Steppenwolf Theatre and TV's "Frasier," at scholarship fundraising event in April.
from left), fashion director of Saks Fifth Avenue bia's Fashion Advisory Board, and guest of desig:,ft{ Mark Heister pose with models wearing student
J. & Glenna B. Collins Lecture Hall. Pfeffer and
Stone-Belie, theater/ music department artist-in· Film Festival (AFF) Board member Catherine
cerl,t~1'¢•eptipn in his honor, Academy Award-winning Columbia alumnus Janusz Kaminski '87 and (~enter) chatted with director of public affairs
HILLARY R. lZALISH SCHOLARSHIP FUND In February, a new scholarship fund was established to perpet uate the inspiration of an extraordinary young woman. Hillary R. Kalish, a student at Columbia since 1988, has exhibit ed strength and courage to achieve academic excellence in the face of seemingly insur mountable medical obstacles. Faculty member Pattie Mackenzie first met Hillary as a student in her interpersonal communication pattie mackenzie, hillary kalish and idgy class. Pattie found herself increas ingly impressed with her perseverance and thought some lieu of gifts, partygoers donate student's attitude and enthusi thing needed to be done about to the Hillary R. Kalish asm. This year she was inspired this now." Scholarship Fund. enough to begin work on building the scholarship in Hillary's honor. Beca use of all her medical The scholarship will be awarded difficulties, it has taken Hillary academic computing faculty member scott segielskl demonstrates "Her passion for education and to sh1dents who are medically and seven years to finish college, but morphlng techniques which are available on wavefront technologies for Columbia is strong and heart financially challenged, and who new software products. wavefront technologies recently donated ening," says Pattie. "Hillary is on June 2 she will graduate with will be selected on the basis of over $550,000 in new software to columbia. inspirational to the many of us, honors. Her family is throwing motivation and determination students and faculty, who have her a graduation party on June 3 to complete an undergraduate met her. I looked at her desire and at Bub City. She asked that in degree at Columbia College. DANCE/MOVEMENT THERAPY PROGRAM
school, finishing her B.A. in psy who were withdrawn, phobic, chology from Northeastern Illinois autistic or shy. They clearly bene University and earning an M.S. in fitted. You could see it in the pro hum an development from gression of their participation in Governors State University. the movement." In the early 1970s, when Through incidents like this, the when people are able to reveal to dance/movement therapy was effectiveness of dance/ movement themselves the origins of their virtually unknown in Chicago, therapy became known in the emotional responses. Once they Ganet-Sigel encountered a lot of mental health community. In understand their responses, they closed doors and skepticism. After 1974, Ganet-Sigel was asked to will be able to reconstruct them in pounding the pavement for quite teach a course on the subject at a way that makes them healthier. some time, she landed her first Columbia College. Eight years The program's facu lty and gradu staff position at the Early later, she founded the graduate ates work with an array of clientele Childhood Center at Chicago Read program: a two-year intensive pro including co uples, emotionally Mental Health Center, an inter gram integrating theoretical, clini disturbed children and their fami discipl inary nu rsery school for cal and experiential models of lies, sexual abuse survivors, and ch ildren with delayed emotional dance/ movement therapy. the elderly, as well as people seek development. Like many psy In just 12 years, Columbia's pro ing creative personal and business chotherapists at that time, Dr. gram has become one of the lead development. They work in pri Glorye Wool, who also worked at ing dance / movement therapy vate practice and facilities such as the Center, had no idea what programs in the nation, and community centers, school sys dance/ movement therapy was. dance/ movement therapy has tems, hospitals, and orphanages. She says of Ganet-Sigel: "It was found its place in the field of men Th e graduate program in amazing to me the kind of work tal health. "There's an increasing n the united states, the heal she could do. Dance therapy was dance/ movement therapy owes its awareness of the expressive arts ing effects of psychotherapy existence to Ganet-Sigel, who particularly effective with children in clinical settings," notes psy are accepted as fact, almost -$ingle-handedly established chotherapist and Columbia trustee the profession in Chicago. Back in Ellen Stone-Belie, who teaches in yet the connection between mind and body the early 1960s, she was raising her the program. "Hospitals and insti is something medical and psycho based on the premise that emotion fo ur children and teaching dance tutions are asking for expressive logical establishments have only affects motion, and motion affects and drama at various community arts therapists." recently begun to explore. For over emotion," Ganet-Sigel says. "If a centers around Chicago. She began That reputation has spanned 20 years, Jane Ganet-Sigel, founder person is depressed, his or her to notice that children's attitudes oceans as well: In 1993, Ganet and director of Columbia's gradu body and behavior will reflect and self-esteem improved as the Sigel taught dance/ movement ate program in dance/movement those feelings with a caved-in dance class progressed. therapy to professors and students therapy, and her colleagues have chest, shoulders pulled forward, '1 knew there was something more at Bejing Normal University. been at the forefront of this investi or slowed movements. If they feel than movement that I was gation. They know firs thand how joyful , the chest is lifted high; After one lecture/demonstration experien ing with these children," movement becomes a catalyst fo r there's a li ghter air about their to her Chinese pupils, Ganet-Sigel she says. positive changes in adults and chil mov ement. ln either case, was bombarded with questions for dren. ln their work as private psy dance/ movement therapy allows In 1964, she read about the work of over three hours -- until the pro chothcrap i .~ts and professors, they an appropriate release of these Marian Chace, fo under of fessors had to litera ll y stop the stu have seen both subtle and remark feelings and then verbally facili dance/ movement therapy. She dent questions and usher her out. able improvements in the lives of tates people making the connec applied to study with Chace at Of this relatively newfound their clients and students. And it is tions between mind and body." Turtle Bay Music School in New awareness of the field Ganet-Sigel all brought about through a careful York and became one of 15 stu As Ganet-Sigel instructs her stu says: ''Twelve years ago I had to go combination of expressive move dents accepted. In 1965, she dents, the therapy allows people out and beg people to let my stu ment and traditional psychothera became a charter member of the dents do internships. Now I have to "release, reveal and reconstruct." dance/ movement therapy peutic techniques. Am erica n Dan ce Th erapy people calling every day looking Releasing emoti ons is good , she alumna vera thalrose '87 "Dance/movement therapy is Associa tion. She also went back to for interns." says, but the real growth begins (top) and jane ganet sigel.
hot fun in the city! Freestyle Mania The Saint Louis Art Museum columbia Gaylord Donnelley Trust Seventh Street Garage Corp. Columbia College is opening its doors director Bonnie Lennon is working with college Gramophone Records Sewing Machine EXchange Inc. again this summer to high school students local Chambers of Commerce and youth Grand Stage Lighting Co., Inc. Shadow's ightclub chicago Vicki & Thomas Horwich Smiler Coogan's and children aged 9-14 with two popular organizations on the "Be a Hero'' dri ve to Foundation Smith Barney, Inc. programs that transform summer break increase the number of available scholar corporate and IBM Corporation South Loop Parking, Inc. Illinois Board of Higher into a time of structured discovery and ships, "H doesn't ta ke a lot to fund a stu Student Organization Committee foundation Education ThermFlo, Inc. exploration. dent's introduction to college ," Bonnie Independent Label Festival UBM Inc. says. "This is a great opportunity for any donors jam Prod uctions Utrecht Art & Drafting Supply Participants in the high school summer The john D. & Catherine T. one, especially Columbia alumni, to 'be a This list honors corporations The Zurich-American Foundation Institute, Ju ly 10 through August 11, may and foundations who have MacArthur Foundation johnson Publishing Company choose among 37 course offerings in the hero' for just a $200 sponsorship." contributed a minimum of $100 to columbia college Knight Architects Engineers arts, communication and media majors The summer arts day camp gives younger during the period of january Lady Roll Production, Inc. 1 , 1995 to april 30, 1995. offered by the college. students, 9-14, a chance to sample the per Lilly Endowment, Inc. Aiko's Art Materials Import, Inc. Loftus & O'Meara Courses are taught by working profession forming, visual and media arts, using the Amoco Corporation Marquette National Bank als on the college's faculty. Classes meet at college's theaters, TV studios and art facili Aperture Merchandise Mart Properties ties. The young artists are led by a select Arts Midwest Mesirow Financial Corporation the downtown campus and are augmented Avid Corporation Metro Cabaret by field trips. Tuition is $100 per credit staff of Columbia students and alumni. Bank of America Metro Goldwyn Mayer National Endowment for hour; students earn two credit hours for Three Arts Camp sessions run full days Brennan Steel, Inc. Channel SO - WPWR-TV the Arts most courses. June 12 through June 30; July 3 through Chicago Book Clinic Na tionwide Insurance Foundation Jul y 21; and July 24 through August 11. The Chicago Community Trust Summer In stitute offers "Radio The Northern Trust Company Chicago Title and Trust Co. Fees are $390 per session, including the Pittway Corporation Broadcasting," "American Sign Language," Club 112 Playboy Enterprises, Inc. "Animation Workshop," and "Improv cost of all supplies. Community Media Workshop Poplar Creek Custom Bike Show Techniques" among its many courses. For more information about High School Printer's Row Market, Inc. Dance Music Works Quality Croutons, Inc. Summer Institute or to contribute to the Dance Theater Workshop, Inc. Some scholarships are available for Radio Computing Services, Inc. Defense Supply Service scholarship fund, call Bonnie Lennon, Ralph & Lois Silver Foundation Summer Institute, but every year many Emma and Oscar Getz Foundation 312/663-1600, ext. 129; for the Summer Arts Riviera ight Club scholarship applicants are turned away for Forsythe McArthur Assoc. RR Donnelley & Sons Company lack of funding. Currently, Institute Day Camp, Laura Spargo, ext. 574. Fox-TV Ethnic Coalition. dan howell's senter at the National Association Press); and "Wrecks" in "Girlfriend book "Lost Country" was one of for Developmental Education's Number One" (Cieis). marilyn five nominees for the Los Angeles am1Ual conference. She was also a sward's work, "Dressing the Times Book Prize in Poetry 1994. workshop group leader at Text," was exhibited at the Art ivor irwin moderated a sympo the Conference on Co liege Museum of Santa Cruz. She also sium on "The Blue Coll ar Writer Composition and Communication led a tour on hand papermaking and Academia" and presented a in Washington, D.C. david rush's in Japan and was a panel member paper entitled "Hegemony and new comedy "Your Web-Footed for an international paper confer the Sandbox" at the Associated Friends" had a world premiere in ence in Kyoto, Japan. science institute head dr. zafra Writing Programs Conference in Chicago in January produced by liberal education department Ierman receives mayor daley's Pittsburgh. karen lee osborne's the Organic Theater. betty croft's faculty member dominic pacyga proclamation from adrian d. short story "Sunshine Skyway" short story "Beautiful Belle" from keynoted the 22nd annual Illinois beverly, chicago public school appears in the Winter 1995 Illinois her collection "Primary Colors and assistant superintendent for Teachers of English to Speakers instructional support. Review. Karen also spoke on Other Stories" (New Rivers Press, of Other Languages-Bilingual "The Woman Writer and Her 1991) was one of fo ur stories Education conference in Chicago honor of the science institute's Communities" at Heartland selected by Stories on Stage for this spring. More faculty news: second annual celebration of its Comm unity College in March. inclusion in its program, "More louis sllverstein presented papers ongoing community workshop deborah stern recently published Local Connections: An Evening of on "Teaching and the Human project "It Takes a Village to Raise "Teaching English So It Ma tters: Stories by Illinois Authors." Possibility" at the Midwest film/ video department faculty Philosophy of Education Society's members michael rabiger and annual meeting and on "Classroom chap freeman journeyed to Practices: How Minorities Learn NOTEWORTHY Prague in January to oversee the and Succeed" at the national second stage of production on 22 conference of the Coalition to documentaries by European stu Increase Minority Degrees at The black music repertory a Child." Add itional Science Creating Curriculum for and dents in cooperation with GEECT, Arizona State University. ensemble, one of the performing Institute news: Director dr. zafra with High School Students" the European association of film radio/ sound department facul arms of the center for black Ierman and her faculty and staff (Cowin Press). schools. Other facul ty news: ty member lyman flook arranged music research, (CBMR) was together contributed $2,500 to help fiction writing department fac mehrnaz saeed-vafa was invited with the Chicago Symphony featw-ed in "The African-American fund the Institute's programs. ulty and alumni took their annual to be an official guest of the 13th Orchestra for their artist Evelyn Music Tree," a series of fo ur julie simpson, executive director "Career Night" on the road to the Fair International Film Festival in Glennie, the increasingly famous concerts performed this past of the dance center, has been Associated Writing Programs' Tehran in February. She founded deaf Scottish percussionist, to visit September in South Carolina and invited to Cuba to view perfor (AWP) March convention in and continues to coordinate the with hearing and deaf children at broadcast on National Public mances by local music and dance Pittsburgh. Among the featured Iranian Film Festival at the SAIC's the Kinzie School prior to her local Radio in February, loca lly artists as a member of a U.S. dele presenters were fiction writing Film Center. alice stephens was recital debut in Orchestra Hall. on WBEZ. a guest at the 14th Annual gation. Faculty member jan erk graduates kassie rose '87, editor television department fac ulty PanAfrican Film and ert has received a Crea tive Artists of CompuServe Magazine, and member barbara sykes-dletze Televis i on Festiva l of Residency grant from the National eric may '75 (see lead story), has won m1merous awards recent Ouagadougou in Africa in Program of the NEA and Fondo along with department chair john ly for "Shiva Darsan," her video February. Alice directed the first Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, schultz and faculty members shot in Kathmandu, Nepal, African Film Festival sponsored to travel to Mexico this summer. betty shiflett, gary johnson and including a CINE Golden Eagle by Columbia College in Apri l. english department chair philip randy albers. Betty's classroom Award from the Council on workshop video "Stor· crvm P'rst klukoff chaired a poetry ro und nterdfotoiplinaty at i-£.t,~i+v----r;i"fnl'i"l'l':!rfllll-"""....wl~-f1H?&11il&f table discussion, "Rhythms of Impulse to Fina l Draft" was shown member olivia gude recently Events; first place from the Association," at the Conference on at the conference. More depart completed a three-year mosaic Broadcast Education Association; mental news: john schultz was mural project. She worked with wbez-fm music director chris College Composi ti on and and third place from BACA's 29th heim and cbmr director dr. Communication in Washington, interviewed on local radio shows 160 students to plan and construct Annual Film & Video Festival. samuel floyd jr. D.C. this spring. Faculty news: about his book "The Chicago the 250-square-foot Venetian glass CINE is distributing the tape to Conspiracy Trial" as background The fiction writing depart writing center director garnett mosaic at Steinmetz High School's competitions and festivals abroad. on the twenty-fifth anniversary of entranceway. More faculty news: ment's student magazine Hair kilberg cohen recently completed theater/ music department fac the trial. zoe keithley was a pre- achy obejas's collection of short Trigger 16 has been awarded a a residency as a fiction writing fel ulty member paul carter harri stories, "We Came All the Silver Crown Award by the low at Virginia Center for the son's book "Black Light" Way from Cuba So You Columbia University Scholastic Creative Arts. connie deanovich (Thunder's Mouth Press) has been Could Dress Like This?" Press Association (CSPA) in New had a selection of poems included selected by the New York Public (Cleis Press, 1994) has York City. Hair Trigger swept the in the anthology "Walk on the Library to be included in its annu received favorable reviews fiction category with first, second Wild Side: Urban American Poets al publication "1995 Books for the from publications across the and third place awards to writers since 1975" (Collier Books, 1994). Teen Age." contemporary ameri country. Her stories have alexis pride, patty lewis and paul hoover was named one of can music program director been published in several cris burks lewis. three leading "language poets" in a william russo's "Image of Man," a New York Times Sunday Magazine anthologies: "Polaroids" in Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley piece he composed for string article. fred gardaphe was elect "Latina" (Simon & proclaimed March 11, 1995 to be quartet, guitar and flute or alto fiction writing department's eric may Schuster); "The Best Butch ed to the National Book Critics saxophone, was published by "Columbia College Community '75 and kassie rose '87 at the awp Circle and the Board of the Illinois Contest" in "Dagger" (Cleis Science Fair and Fiesta Day" in convention in pittsburgh. Margun Music.
By the time you receive this edition, most successful and the feedback we to ven ues in the City's neighborhoods and the Alumni Scholarship Fund. I'm certain we will be reveling in how received made it abundantly clear that and suburbs. Don't be shy about For the record, you should not feel marvelously our major annual event, similar events are needed for all alum telling us your thoughts on these that modest contributions to the the Alumni Reunion, turned out. I am ni, regardless of their majors. For issues. Wefeel that there is a need for Alumni Scholarship Fund are not also encouraged to report that there example, attendees at the initial work informal, cross-major discussion helpful or appreciated. The average are other important events and com shop ranged from dance major Jeanne groups. What do you think? contribution to the Alumni munication forums on the horizon. Uzda winis '79, owner of Cafe Scholarship Fund is about $50, which Kudos to Frank Kush, the class of Selmarie on Chicago's North Side, to means that there are plenty of dona We have talked in the past about '95 Valedictorian and soon-to-be dis sound engineering major Raymond tions below that amount! And as a improving networking opportunities tinguished member of the Alumni Pondell '93, who is wrrently helping member of the part-time faculty, I can and keeping in touch once you have Association. Frank is heading up a to install a sound systern at the Adler assure you that the students are very michael e. jackson, '83 grad uated and moved on to the "real" committee to raise mo11ey fro m cur alumni board president and Planetarium. One-half of the fee interested in anything and everything world. With these goals in mind, the rent students for a Senior Gift, which columbia college trustee charged for the workshop went direct that is being done by the college to Alum.ni Association and Management would purchase one or two computers ly to the Alumni Schola rship Fund. develop scholarship funds. My letter in the last edition of re: department faculty are currently for the college. We congratulate Frank Thank you! columbia had the desired affect; I exploring the idea of enlisting regular Growing out of this, we are currently on this splendid initiative which also Michael E. Jackson received lots of good, positive feedback focus groups. planning more focus groups for the cultivates the principal of involve on my remarks . The purpose of this next academic year. We are interested ment and contributing while students In March, we hosted our first newsletter is to encourage a two-way in your ideas, so please let us know are still on campus. En trepreneurship Workshop for communication and we seem. to be on what subjects you would like to dis alumni and friends. The event was Finally, a reminder about donations the right track. cuss. We are also trying to branch out Council, a group of about 30 eth alumni profile nic and community-based organi za tion leaders from Chicago and the suburbs. The seed for the Council's creation came from a JERYL D. LEVIN '85 1992 cultural exchange project led by DanceAfrica artisti c director Chuck Davis for Korean and African-Ameri can children. "The kids talked about them selves and their families," Jeryl says. "They discovered that one of the most important things their cultures had in common was respect for elders. Out of that dis covery came 'The Dance That Honors the Elders' which was ideal city for perfo rmed by all the kids at DanceAfrica that year. And they stayed together performing that Jeryl is the Jeryl received her B.A. from dance for several years." Columbia in writing/English the Illinois Ethnic Coalition (IEC), Solidified in a formal way by an organization working to pro and views her education as well a grant from Th e Jo yce mote intergroup understanding row1ded. Among her courses, she Fo undation, the Council is and cooperation. And in a studied Story Workshop fiction designed to engage Chicago's metropolis of such racial and eth writing tec hniques, poe try, diverse commlmities in the resi nic diversity as our Windy City, photography, acting, science , dencies of Dance Center artists. she has no lack of work. Shakespea re and history. It may "Though Chicago can be mean, well have been that class in This February, the Counci l spon jCi i see the iec as a catalyst and so red workshops by th e raw, unrefined," Jeryl says, "it's Women in Immigrant History that columbia as the ideal tool, in many also a city with enormous poten steered her on the road to political Washington-based Liz Lerman tial for people to come together. and societal etlmic issues. Dance Exchange, a cross-genera different ways, for important growth tional and racially diverse dance Home to over 100 different ethnic After graduation she worked as co mpan y. Th e workshops in the community. it's time to return groups, each with their own sto an editor and then as project brought together local people of ries, the city really is an amalgam. director fo r the 12th National to educational institutions being various races, physical abilities, Yet even when there is conflict, it Workshop on Christian-Jewish ages and neighborhoods. They meaningful to communities by preparing doesn't reach the same height ,Relat(ons. That conference was came from the Bridge for kids to be participants in life. ened tension as in other areas of host to over 1,000 participants ~ Humanity-Bosnia Assis ta nee the country." from around the world, including Program, th e Little City A former member of the Dance religious and lay leaders active in Foundation of Palatine, Westside created for the African Ameri can together from the inner city, the Center's Advisory ouncil, Jeryl interreligious affairs. It was also HE>il lth Authority in th P Austin history curriculum at Austin Hit;h suburbs and everything in recently joined Columbia's Alumni the project which brought her neighborhood , Copernicus Polish School," she says. "Liz was able to between," she says. Board. She is also a board mem around to the IEC. Language School in Niles, give them a new way to tell their ber of the Korean American "1 see the IEC as a catalyst and Whereas Chicago is the right city Northwestern Settlement House, story through movement." Citizens Coalition and the United Columbia as the ideal tool, in for Jeryl's ethnic bridge building Greek American Community Merchants Assistance Corporation. )eryl beli eves that other Columbia many different ways, for impor mission, her alma mater seems Services, and Association House In 1994, Jeryl was one of ten men departments and enti ties have tant growth in the community," to be the right insti tution to in Wicker Park. a great deal to offer in projects like and women nationwide invited to work closely with IEC on she adds. "It's time to return to When Jeryl, Liz Lerman and this. "Columbia is an urban insti educa tional institutions being participate in the American Jewish celebrating diversity and deepen Dance Center staff visited the tution serving a cross section of meaningful to communities by Committee's People to People ing the und erstanding of Westside Health Authority for one the population. Promoting inter Mission to Israel. She is a Chicago cultural connections. preparing kids to be participants native living in Rogers Park with of the workshops, amazing things group understanding and posi in life." In April 1994, IEC and her husband, Matthew, and two happened. "The timing was per tive race rela tions starts in places Columbia's Dance Center estab children, Sara and Charlie. fect. We fed right into an ongoing like this, where students come lished the Community Culture oral history project that was being
Gordon F. Bieberle Sy Frolichstein Dale K. Light Richard). Raskin columbia Thomas Blackman Eric Futran jean H. Lightfoot Robert B. Remer Majorie Bloom Barbara Gaines Daniel G. Liss J. Dennis Rich college Virginia Bobins Albert C. Gall Marion M. Lloyd Norma B. Rubov its james B. Boyer Katheryne Gilbert & Richa rd Locher Robert B. Rudolph chicago Andrew M. Bramanti Gerry D. Gall Wendell M. Logan Osva ldo Rodriguez Donald C. Brokaw Andy Gibbons Enid H. Long Dr. & Mrs. Steve Rosen Ja mes R. Bronner Scott E. Glaser Margaret Lyman Irw in Ross individual Baird Brown Rose ). Gordon Michelle Ly man David R. Rubin Donald E. Brown Sydney S. Gordon Philip). Lyons David C. Ruttenberg donors Carol Bryant Gale Graubart-Roman Michael ). Maggio Georgia A. Ryder Paul M. Carnic jan Grekoff Richard Mandel Lowell E. Sachnoff when senator carol moseley- This list honors Individuals Charles E. Can non Carl W. Groppe Richard Marcus john F. Sawyer who have contributed braun, a supporter of federal Lorenzo Chambers Sandy M. Guettler Paul G. Ma rks Roger Schinness a minimum of $100 to financial student aid, visited columbia college during Sidney Cheresh MeyerS. Gunther Robert E. McCaman t Roche Schulfer & the period of january 31, Abour H. Cherif joan W. Harris Debra McGrath Linda Kimbrough columbia in april, students 1995 to april 30, 1995. Robert C. Christen Todd M. Hensley Harold & Ruby Merritt john & jane Shapira michael wojcik (left), cazz Dean 0. Christensen john Butler Hirsch Kenneth C. Metz james & Linnea Sherman Paul Berger & Sara Bode smith and frank kush ( '95 Suzanne Cohan- Lange Myron F. Hokin Rob M. Milburn Robert & Leslie Shook Hope A. Abelson valedictorian) showered her Karen Lee Copeland Pa tricia & Wil liam Hunckler Denise Miller-Clark DavidS. Solomon Dick Adair with nearly 2,500 letters and Richard Crawford Richard W. Hu rckes Shi rley Mordine Carole F. Stephenson Randa ll K. Albers Sylvia Hope Daniels Charles ). Izui Edward Morris Ellen Stone-Belie petition signatures they're Norman Robert Alexandroff Milton Davis Michael E. jackson john ). Murbach Marilyn Sward sending to congressional bud- William Dunca n Allen R. Michael DeSalle Pau l) . johnson Mike Nussbaum David Tennenbaum Frank & Marjorie Alschuler get committees who are con- Keith Patrick DeWeese Geoffrey & Michele Kalish Scot T. O'Hara Dempsey). Travis Steven Donald Ar azmus templating cutbacks in aid. john B. Duff & Estelle Shanley Robert Kamerschen Patricia L. O'Neal Gloria A. Turoff Thomas Aronson Beth Irene Dun lap Sandra Kamin Stuart & Ca rol Oken jeanne Marie Uzdawinis the three are co-chairs of julie Bade! joseph T. Dye joel A. Kaplan Sid Ordower Kathrene Wa les the columbia chapter of the Ka ren Helene McMa nus Baca Fred Fine Morton H. Kaplan AI & jeanne Parker Norman Wallis Mary M. Badger alliance to save student aid, a john E. Fish Mark E. Kelly Norman Patinki n Eli zabeth Warren Cindy Bandle national coalition. Sa muel A. Floyd, Jr. Philip). Klukoff Sheldon Pa tinkin Sa muel Weinstein Bonnie Miller Barnes Henry Fogel Ronald A. Landsman Michael Perlow jeanne M. Weislow Harold S. Barron Anne E. Foley Caroline D. Latta Samuel E. Pfeffer Tony G. Weisman Sheldon L. Baskin Nancy G. Foster Marcia Lazar Marilyn W. Phibbs Louis Werner Gary Ba ugh & Marga ret Herbert B. Fried Nat Lehrman Susan Philpot Woodie T. White Thai ken Beatrice Friedman Za fra Lerman Kay L. Pick Robert A. Wislow Iris K. Baum Daniel Frohman & Mark & Louella Levey Patrick Piorkowski Pi lar Bautista Carole Shifman Averill Leviton joseph B. Powers Kay Berkson Carl F. Levy Madeline Murphy Rabb encountered poisonous plants, recently screened his feature doc February in Minneapolis. During new appointment...calvln p. snakes, roaring rapids and leech umentary "A Ring in My Thing," the past twenty-five years, while townsell recently portrayed Jerry infested streams while their guide at Columbia's neighbor The pursuing personal artistic projects, in the Little Village Players /Oak was lost. However, the landscape Spertus Institute of Jewish Marylene has dedicated equal Park Theater's production of "The of exotic fl owers, wild waterfalls, Studies ... time to mentoring and teaching Ransom of Red Chief' ... and miles of white sand coastlines community youth. Some of her more than made up for any incon endeavors include the St. Sabinas veniences. Both say they would School performance of her award go back in a minute... winning play, "The Forbidden ' Place," recently produced in Austra lia, and the New Tuners matt bisbee has been promoted jeanne e. martinelli teaches Theater reading of "This Far By to the newly crea ted position of interdisciplinary arts English at Faith," a musical by Marylene and director of programming and pro Prologue, a private alternative musician / composer Rufus Hill... duction at WLUP-FM (97.9) in high school for students who've jamie graham is the owner of the Chicago, where he has been more had trouble succeeding in public Graham Crackers comic book than 16 years in various roles ... schools. She began a class in stores. The company's five west pamela wade was named sa les "Photo Worlds/ Autobiographies" ern suburban locations have manager at WMAQ-TV last when she was searchil1g for a ranked it as one of the largest vehicle to motiva te her students. sharon elizabeth (greenwood) In it she takes her students to the berggren is the art director for streets with cameras to document AD-X in Milmeapolis .. .The Mid the realities of their daily lives ... America Chapter of the American ALUMNI NOTES Red Cross has appointed deborah d. russell as a communications retailers in the nation. Jamie December. She joined WMAQ-TV representative. In her new posi recently sold a 55-year-old first as an acco w1t executive in 1989, tion, Deborah will be responsible issue "Batman" for $135,000. The and quickly mastered her entry for developing internal communi bob butts has left Chicago and sale of this comic book is believed level account list, proving in a cation, media relations and orga moved back to Cleveland , Ohio, to be the highest cash price paid short period of time that she was nizing and promoting special oscar brown, jr. has had a long in history. Jamie's goal is to open after completing six years of ser ca pable of handling added respon even ts .. .joan Wojciechowski career as composer, actor, singer vice with Moody Broadcasting as another five stores in the sibilities. Recently, she sold the a.k.a. joan paxton, has been and playwright that continues to an operations assistant manager. Chicagoland area ... jeff jur and station's first 1996 Olympic pack elected to the Board of Governors this day. He founded the W.E.B. In Cleveland he'll be producing a nancy stone '79 collaborated on age, which has become part of one of the National Academy of DuBois Theater Guild with fellow daily radio program called "Truth the film noir hit, "The Last of the biggest orders ever received Recording Arts and Sciences and cast members and was an anchor For Life" (TFL). TFL is produced Seduction." Nancy produced and atWMAQ-TV... attended the Grammys. Today, at "Negro Newsfront," a popular completely on a digital aud io Jeff was director of photography ... she is developing a program weekly radio show. Most recently work station and is currently called Grammy in the Schools during Black History Month, airing in 15 markets, including which she will bring to her alma Oscar was a speaker at the New York, Los Angeles and mater, Warren Township High "Richard Durham: His Friends Houston ... anita padilla was School. The program will intro Remember" presenta tio n at recently hired by WNYW (Fox), ~-~--_....j~"" a wide range of musicians, the M u s e u m of B r o a d c a s t New York, as an investigative recording engineers, and televi Communications ... anchor and reporter in New York sion and radio production person City... nel to the students and offer behind-the-scenes insights into the recording and fil m arts. Her newest band, Park Avenue, is Jamie graham '76 a collection of seven musicians joe peyronnin of New York has who play in nightclubs and been named president of Fox at weddings .. . donna m. jagielski is cultural News. He began his broadcast arts coordinator and dance direc career as a production assistant at ' tor at Arlington Heights Park WBBM-Channel 2, and eventually mark biello has returned to the District. She will be completing worked his way up to vice presi '77 U.S. after spending the last six her M.A.T. degree from Columbia richard w. munchkin of dent for CBS News. Joe will be years based in Germany working this summer. Lately she has been Hollywood recently celebrated responsible for developing and with CNN. Mark will be working producing her own performance the first anniversary of his com overseeing all news programming in the features department at CNN art work at N.A.M .E. Gallery, pany, Century Film Partners, Inc. and news gathering operations for Atlanta as a photographer... james Synergy Gallery and Cafe Voltaire Four films were made during the Fox Television ... veltman maintai11s a music studio as well as at the Performance Art company's fi rst year. Richard's in both Chicago and New Jersey. Festival in Cleveland, Ohio. She company is also a distributor, Over the years, he has earned his has also been traveling to which allowed him to attend living composing and producing Michigan and Washington, D.C. AFM, Cannes and MIFED to sell commercial music mainly for edu joan paxton '86 to speak at dance conferences on films interna ti onally. Most recent cational films. Last year he scored the implementa tion of dance '74 ly he directed "Evil Obsession" more than 10 ed uca tional within the elementary education todd evans is a happy and proud which starred Corey Feldman fa ther. His daughter Carolyn was film/videos and interactive CD curriculum ... alexandria levin is and Brion James. The director of born this past February... ROM discs for some of the nation's advertising agency / project coor photography was Columbia top educa ti onal publishers, d1nator at the Ad Shop in Atlanta. alu mnus and fo rmer teacher including Modern Curriculum She is currently working on creat louis diamond has started a new michael goi '80; dave tolsky Press/Sim on & Schuster, ing a low budget magazine that job with Community Counseling '83 was camera assistant. .. Coronet/MTI, and Silver Burdett will cover city even ts, issues, Centers of Chicago as case manag Ginn ... music, art and other cultural er in the community aftercare ac tivities ... Cinematographer Blast Video Productions' hector program... margaret frlsble was th~rese sherman, along with perez and Winter Productions' appointed director of publications Bill Kurtis, David Crouse and CEO don winter '83 teamed up at North Park College. She will and headed to Costa Rica for a Brian Boyer, filmed new Speaker Photographer bob kusel recently manage all publications and adver recent assignment. The shoot was of the House Newt Gingrich for a had a two page spread on tisements while providing creative for a Costa Rican developer creat Chicago-based educator and play "First 100 Days" documentary... Michael Jordan's return in direction, writing and design on ing an i.Jmovative new resort. The wright marylene whitehead was Newsweek. In addition, he shot a selected projects. Margaret has two described their eight-day jour the featured guest speaker and textbook cover for McGraw Hill been a member of the staff since ney as a combination of "The artist for the Ramsey International and supplied photos for US News 1990, serving as production coordi African Queen" and "River Wild." Fine Arts Center's oratorical con and Time magazines ... aran na tor in the office of publications Armed with machetes, they test kick-off, which took place last patlnkln, an Israeli filmmaker, and public relations prior to her Modern Art as part of its affiliate stations. He is now work "Clueless," will be released this 'What's Happening" series ... rachel ing on other syndication possibili summer... ties with the show ...laura viana wright of Plano, Texas is Husband-and-wife team d an and steve sexton, along with emplo yed by the JC Penney curran and jennifer howe have television department chair ed Corporation and the Head Start finalized a feature deal with Tom george tillman, jr. and bob teit charles a. bonilla was recently morris, were awa rded the 1995 Greater Dallas Policy Council. Rosenburg, a Chicago-based real el '90 have signed a hefty con hir e d by Mc Donald 's Illinois Governor's Conference on Rachel is looking forward to start· estate broker-turned-producer tract with McHenry & Jackson Communication Network as a Tourism Award fo r their video ing a home based business which ("The Road to Wellville," "The Entertainment for "Scenes for the will organize office parties and production assistant after work promoting Oak Park tourism .. . Commitments," "A Midnight Soul," a Chicago feature they business meetings ... ing at FOX News Chicago train Clear," "Sugar Hill"). The couple financed independently for ing new interns and filling in as alums landed the deal for "Knocked Up" $150,000. The film revolves an operations manager. Charles in only three months. Dan will around three families -- two says networking through a friend at large ... direct and Jennifer will co-pro African-American and one Puerto paid off when McDonald's gave Fullerton Metals Company, duce the film which they co Rican ·· showing how everyday him the call. He says he's very happy now to be working in Northbrook, has named patrick wrote. Cinematographer janusz people can work through every thomas kurtzer and tim reiland d. dati its marketing manager. In kaminski '87, 1994 Academy day situations with the support of the corporate area - and with so '92 are guitarists for the band his new position, Patrick will Award winner for "Schindler's their families. The $1 million deal 111nny other Columbia graduates ... Blanket Party. Their song "Corner create and direct a marketing com includes a late summer/fall eitan kushner is the execu tive List," is scheduled to shoot .. of My Mind" was used in the film munications program for the cor release by Savoy Entertainment, a director at Evanston Comm unity mark pavia is scheduled to begin so un dtrack fro m "Higher poration, develop new business, percentage of future earnings, Learning ," fil mmaker John Television Corporation ...gregory directing his adaptation of and manage all of Fullerton's pro and backing for another film. Singleton's ("Boyz 'n the Hood") paul pekny was hired as a week Stephen King's "The Night Flyer" end on-air talent last year at US99 motional activities ... George and Bob have worked latest release. The movie opened this spring... together on a number of fi lms, after interning with Big John barry berg recently co-produced nationwide last January. Thomas Animation alumna susan Iantz including "Paula," a 30-minute Howell, the afternoon on-air per "The Brady Bunch Movie." Barry was also a member of Columbia has been promoted from assistant film which captured six national sonality. Prior to that,. he worked also produced "Legacy of Lies" College's AEMMP Records animator ("The Lion King," awards in 1992. Writer/ director as on-air talent for both dance and with Martin Landau, as well as the '92 ... robert b. rice has just start "Aladdin" and "Beauty and the George is now in the process of adult/ contemporary formats. late Brandon Lee's fi rst starring ed in the real estate profession at Beast") to storyboard artist at writing the second film, titled Sudler /Nagy, Inc. located in Gregory says that versatility is a feature in 1992. His latest comedy, key to success in radio .. .mael her Disney... "Soul Food" ... Chicago's John Hancock Center ... nandez and his partner recently barbara gonzalez is teaching started their own business, laura viana, Kinderdance classes, emphasiz ed morris and ing fitness movements and gym Perfectly Round Productions, in Wichita, Kansas. The company steve sexton nastics for two- to five-year-olds at Mayfair United Methodist produces TV , radio and print Master's program film major Church in Chicago. Barbara has commercials, along with sales training, marketing and busi hakim belabbes was invited to been a dancer since she was three. screen his thesis documentary, ness-to-business videos. Mae! 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