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Joshua Bell Violinist

Bloomington native Joshua Bell is a world-renowned violinist who debuted at Carnegie Hall at age 17. A Bloomington High School North graduate, Bell got his start training under violinists at the IU School of Music, where he received an artist diploma in violin performance in 1989. Bell, 53, has served in multiple professorships, including as a visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and was artistic partner of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra from 2004–2007. He received the Governor’s Award and was named an Indiana Living Legend. Bell plays the Gibson ex Huberman Stradivarius violin, which was crafted in 1713 and purchased by Bell for nearly $4 million. The violin, which has twice been stolen from previous owners, is the subject of a documentary film calledThe Return of the Violin (2013). —S.B. Photo by Chris Lee Photo courtesy of IU Archives

Walt Bellamy Angela Brown Hall of Fame Basketball Star Star North Carolina native Walt Bellamy says he chose to play basketball at IU Angela Brown journeyed through because “it was the closest school to teenage soul bands, musical theater the South that would accept African performances, and a brief stint as Americans.” A 1961 graduate, he a singing waitress before the fates is considered one of the greatest turned her talents toward opera. basketball players in school history. She studied with voice teacher In 70 games for the Hoosiers, in graduate school Bellamy tallied 1,087 rebounds (a school at the IU School of Music and won record), averaged 20.6 points per game, the National and shot 51.7% from the floor. His 33 Council Auditions in 1997, launching rebounds in one contest—his final her career. college game against Michigan—still Her turn as the lead in Verdi’s stands as both a school and Big Ten at the Metropolitan Opera record. He became the first Hoosier ever in 2005 brought her international taken No. 1 in the NBA draft, and was acclaim, and soon she was the first Hoosier named NBA Rookie of performing on historic opera stages the Year in 1962. around the world. She founded A four-time NBA All-Star, Bellamy Morning Brown Inc., a nonprofit played for six teams in his 14-year designed to “introduce and expose professional career, averaging 21.7 economically and ethnically diverse points and 13.7 rebounds per game, and multigenerational audiences and was inducted into the Naismith to opera and classical music”—a Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He mission that Brown regularly brings died November 2, 2013, at the age of 74. to life with her own iconoclastic —R.M. stage show, titled Opera from a Sistah’s Point of View. —T.Z.T. Courtesy photo

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Joe Buck Meg Cabot TV Sportscaster Author

Joe Buck’s life as a student at Meg Cabot has written more IU was preempted by his career than 50 teen, young adult, and in sportscasting. He began adult novels, primarily in the broadcasting on local St. Louis fiction and fantasy genres. television and radio stations as a Cabot’s most well-known caller for minor and major league series is The Princess Diaries, baseball games around the time he which was adapted into the 2001 turned 20, sometimes filling in for film of the same name starring his veteran sportscaster father, Jack. Anne Hathaway and Julie At age 25, Buck was hired by Fox Andrews. The Princess Diaries Sports, where he was the youngest was published in more than 40 announcer ever to call NFL games countries and spent 38 total and the World Series on a national weeks on The New York Times network. He is now Fox’s lead Children’s Best-Seller List. play-by-play announcer for NFL A Bloomington native, and MLB games, and has won seven Cabot graduated from Indiana Sports Emmy Awards. University in 1991 with a degree Buck was chosen as one of in studio arts. She married the final guest hosts of Season 37 writer and poet Benjamin Egnaz of Jeopardy! as the game show on April Fool’s Day in 1993. continues to seek a successor to Cabot and Egnaz split their long-time host Alex Trebek. time between Bloomington; Key —T.Z.T. West, Florida; and New York. —S.B.

Photo courtesy of Fox Sports Photo by Steve Raymer

Paul Caine Hoagy Media Honcho Carmichael Paul Caine, who graduated from Songwriter IU in 1986 with a degree in Anyone who has tapped out the telecommunications, has served in piano duet “Heart and Soul” is leadership positions at USA Today, familiar with Hoagy Carmichael, Time Inc. and WestwoodOne. who composed the music in 1938. Caine served as the youngest His song “Stardust,” which was salesperson at USA Today before written in Bloomington, is one being recruited by Time Inc. of the most-recorded songs in to join the sales team of People the world and is part of the Great magazine. At Time, Caine helped American Songbook. launch Teen People magazine, From the 1920s to the 1950s, and served as publisher of Carmichael wrote more than Entertainment Weekly and People 50 hit songs and appeared in a before being named executive vice number of movies, often as a president, chief revenue officer, piano-playing character. and group president of Time Inc. Born in Bloomington in 1899, After a stint as CEO of radio Carmichael earned a bachelor’s syndication company Dial degree (1925) and a law degree Global—which Caine renamed (1926) from IU. WestwoodOne—Caine joined In 1971, Carmichael was one Bloomberg Media as chief revenue of the first 10 inductees into the officer before leaving to serve as Songwriters Hall of Fame. He chairman of the board of both died in 1981 and is buried in Rose Telaria Inc., a video advertising Hill Cemetery on Bloomington’s firm, and global marketing agency west side. —C.S. Engine Group. —S.B. Photo by Dave Cross Photography Photo courtesy of IU Archives

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