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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. and the beat The pulsating rhythm of drums and pounding feet kept audiences goes on ... enthralled at three October perfor­ danceafrica/ mances of DanceAfrica /Chicago '94. Presented at Medinah Temple chicago '94 for the fourth year by Columbia's Dance Center, the theme of this year's showcase of African dance and music was "Rites of Passage: In Ce leb ration of African Women. " Highlights of the pro­ duction included the Najwa Dance Corps of Chicago and The Women's Percussion Ensemble.

najwa dance corps dancer deborah moses allen, north african dance teacher djalaal, david k. smith of columbia's dance center, and morris "ife" butler and nsilo ward of najwa dance corps at a reception celebrating the success of danceafrica/ chicago 1994, sponsored by the dance center. re: columbia no. 12/spring 1995 tri-annual publication sent free of charge to alumni and friends of columbia college chicago

number of free activities both on another well-known Chicago arts campus and nea~by: excerpts of college)." This year we're aiming some of the best in alumni films to top anything in Hollywood. and videos will be continuously looped in the Collins Lecture Hall alumni Then get a good night's sleep and on campus; the Gospel Festival is get in gear on Saturday morning second annual rocking at Grant Park; and the for non-stop activities: reunion "colum- 46th Old Town Art Fair is just a campus tours wi ll be scheduled hop, skip and a jump away. In the college: past, present at various times in the morning. next few months the planning future '95" on friday Several departments are housed committee will be researching m new facilities around campus other afternoon options nearb y. and there are many new acquisi­ Watch your mail for updates. 995. Events have been tions in the way of equipment designed for alums looking to and space which arc just begging A special reception recognizing enrich their lives, advance their to be shown off. Alumni Scholarship Fund donors ca reers and further their ed uca­ will take place in the late after­ As a result of your suggestions, tions. All this with a lot of fun noon /ea rly everting in the Museum the alumni college, which will thrown in for good measure. of Broadcast Communications in also be held on Saturday morn­ the Chicago Cultural Center. Start the weekend off right on ing, has evolved from last year's The alumni achievement Friday night at the alumni exhib­ co ntinuing education classes. awards dinner will once again it and opening reception in the Specific courses have yet to be Hokin Annex, 623 South Wabash. firmed up, but they will be built top off Reunion activities. Last Paintings, photography, sculpture around departmental workshops year's presentation was a moving and more will be on display and led by well-known artists. testament to the strength, dedica­ purchase prizes will be awarded. tion and professiona lism of the The chicago blues luncheon (See "Call for Entries" on back page Columbia community. The dinner will offer a sumptuous banquet for details.) Last year's elega nt wi ll be held at the Chicago featuring the best of Windy City and lively affair, hosted by the Cultural Center's Preston Bradley eats and music. Alumni Boa rd Alumni Association Board, was Hall. Tickets sold out quickly last president Michael E. J a c k son judged by one who knows as "better year, so be sure to make reserva­ wi ll s peak on the issues tions early. f ac ing th e For reunion '95 information, A lumni ~(').c.\ phone Eric Mixon, assistant direc­ Association and ~ college president tor of Alumni Relations, at John B. Duff will 312/663-1600, ext. 420. give a state-of­ the-college address.

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alumni exhibition and opening reception '94 Lights ... Camera ... Columbia College student art Action! exhibit will be on display in the Library April 6 through May 13. It's almost curtain time once Topping off the evening will be again! Celebrate Columbia '951 is dinner and dancing under the close at hand and the Columbia stars in the Winter Garden. College communHy is preparing Proceeds of $40,000 from last to strut its stuff. The second year's gala went to support the annual public celebration of newly-created Columbia College Columbia student talent will be Trustee Scholarship Fund. Helena presented on Satu rday, May 6 at Chapellin Wilson '76, Gordon just a taste of the Harold Washington Library McClendon and Averill Leviton, last year's Center, 400 South State Street. trustees and co-chairs of the gala, "celebrate This year's gala plans are already say that this year they hope to columbia!" indicating an even more enchant­ double the amount raised. student talent ing evening than the last. showcase. .. Corne celebrate columbia! and The curated event will include bring a friend to show off your stellar dance, theater and music alma mater. For ticket informa­ performances; literary, film, tion, call 312/663-1600, ext. 287. radio, video and television p re­ Celebrate sentations; and a run way fas hion Columbia '95 show of student designs. A

fashion FUNDRAISING LUNCHEONS The 13th annual fischetti The benefit, chaired by Columbia of journalism; a debt that I and T h e Chicago Joan Lufrano and Howard trustee Judith Riskind, included other Fischetti scholars before me Mendelsohn. All proceeds bene­ editorial cartoon com~ Communications/20 a presentation by WLS -TV strive to repay daily." annual benefit lun­ fi tted the Albert P. Weisman tion awards llllCheon to ben­ anchorma n Joel Daly. Natalie Scholarship Fund, which helps Heartwarming note: cheon in November efit joumalism student sciD­ White '93, assistant editor at the support Columbia student pro­ Competition winner John was another example New York Ti111es Chicago bureau jects in communica tions fields. In arships was held at the Deering was so impressed with and former Fischetti scholar, of strong outside sup­ the 1994 academic year, 32 stu­ the support given to journalism pump room in october. The spoke to supporters about her port for Columbia pro­ dents received awards to partially students in the name of late car­ $3,000 first place award went to ed uca tion at Columbia: "The grams. More than 800 attend­ fund projects in film, video, toonist John Fischetti that he and John Deering of the Arkansas most significant thing about the ed the luncheon held at the advertising, creative writing, fine his wife contribu ted $500 of his Democrat-Gazette and a $1,500 sec­ Fischetti Scholarship is that it Chicago Marriott Downtown arts, photography and other award to the scholarship fund. ond place award went to Bill Daly of does more than pay a bill .. .Jt Hotel. The event was keynoted by fields. More than $400,000 has Now who's impressed? Kudos to the Detroit Free Press. Both winning demands excellence, commit­ ABC News anchor Sam been awarded since the scholar- Mr. and Mrs. Deering for their cartoons d~12icted__!hg_ South ment and dedicCltion to the. field.. Donaldson and co-chaired by _smp b_eganJJD9..74. ~-- African election. dedication to education.

"The Fischetti Scholarship ... demands excellence, commitment and dedication to the field of journalism ... " Natalie White '93

fischetti awards: (1-r) second place winner bill day, karen fischetti, chicago communications/ 20: (1-r) newton minnow, former fcc chair­ widow of john fischetti, and first place winner john deering. man and current counsel with sidley & austin; tony weisman, the leo burnett company and son of albert p. weisman; and sam donaldson, abc news anchor.

NATIONAL BLAClZ PROGRAMMERS COALITION SCHOLARSHIP Alumni t Board Grethia Hightower '82, Columbia career advisor and member of the Expanding Na tional Black Programmers The Columbia College Coalition (NBPC), recently pre­ Alumni Association is sented a $3,000 scholarship award happy to welcome seven from the NBPC to Columbia new members. Joining College journalism major April Knox. Pictured from left to right th e Board are Mari a are Rodney D. Wellington, NBPC Ba lderas '88, Stephen national board member; April Corpora '86, Michael Gold '91, Paul Gray '83, Knox; Grethia Hightower; and D. lltt.•· lhm••mltl1111ll1/lf!IM!

Chris Gardenhi re, NBPC ~ ~I ~~ 1\ I ,~:;(/ "'tfvtv Mary A. Johnson '91, lkti1DDOOU JHj(Jt'~~16lM6 11'199 ((' Midwest Chapter treasurer. Gloria Lehr, and Marty Lennartz '82. COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO CENTER FOR BOOlZ & PAPER AR1:S years ago. With the help of through mid-January. an adv isory committee, The cu,rrent exhibit, "Dimensional Interdisciplinary Arts chair Paper," is a collection of works by Suzanne Cohan-Lange, Artists installation artist Anne Vilsboll Book Works founder Barbara from Denmark, Sophie Dawson, Lazarus Metz, and Sward devel­ author of "The Art & Craft or oped a proposal based on two Papermaking from England," years of research in existing pro­ sculpture artists Sherry Giryotas grams. In it they recommended a and Terese Zemlin, and large for­ center fo r the study and creation mat paper artist Amanda Degner of handmade paper and book arts from Minneapolis. It runs that would offer both college and through March 17. Visitors are non-credit communi ty classes invited to drop by and peruse the and workshops, affordable studio exhibits as well as tour the faci li­ space, a resource center, and an ties, Monday through Frida y, 10 art ga llery. Metz now serves a.m. to 5 p.m. he paint had scarcely dried and the as the Center's director of Sumn1er Programs. Spring semester includes another carpet laid only the night before when the new columbia college center for impressive roster of credit and Encouraged by community mem­ book & paper arts opened its doors to the community on april 15 of last year. com munity classes and work­ bers as well as Columbia faculty shops. Among the notable credit At the grand opening reception, its kind in a five sta te region offer­ to crea te an endowment of and students, the team took their courses this semester are The Art more tha n 500 guests from ing this combination of services. $100,000 to foster the study of proposal to Dr. Duff for consider­ of Paper Studio; Sculptural Paper; Columbia's community united with book and paper arts. The Center "We chose Columbia for its strong ation. As part of the deal, Sward, and Book as Image. Also offered hand papermal

Aperture Dnys Ino Ncnr North The joyce Foundntion OmniTech Consulting Vicki & Thomas columbia Horwich Foundation Argonne National Laboratory DDB Nccdhnm Nationwide The Kaden Company Group 'nc. Lila Wa llace/Readers Digest Artists Book Works, Inc. Deluxe Craft Ma nu factu ring Co. Kemper Insurance Co. Pace/ MacCill Gallery college Foundation Arts Midwest Lisa Dershin Creative Dance Kinctronics Corporntion Paper Press, Inc. Wavefront Technologies. Inc. AT&T Edelman Public Relations Lawry's Foods, Inc. Pittway Corporation chicago WBBM-TV CBS Inc. BBDO Chicago, Inc. Falk Associntes Leo Burnett Company Playboy Enterprises, Inc. WBEZ 91.5 FM Alliance, Inc. Bob's Paint & Decorating Service Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers Levinson Associates Polk Brothers Foundation We Cnre Hnir corporate and Porter Novelli Brennan Steel, Inc. Foote, Cone, & Belding, Inc. Lilly Endowment, Inc. Development, Inc. Premier 2 foundation Brite Site/Cleaning Specialists Colin/ Harris Communications Los Angeles Times Weigel Broadcasting Co. Brown+ Associntes, Inc. Printers Row Restaurant, Inc. Deborah Gordon Public Relations Loyola University WLS-TV Channel 7 Recycled Paper Greeti ngs, Inc. donors Burrell Advertising Gourmet Cup of America, Inc. M2C WGCI Robert R. McCormick Burson-Marsteller Harlken Foundation Marquette National Bank WGN-Chnnnel9 This list honors corpora- Tribune Foundntion The Chase Manhattnn Bnnk Hnrris Trust &Snvings Bnnk The Mayer & Morris Control Brondcnst tions and foundations who Sara Lee Foundation have contributed a mini- Chicago Community Trust 1-J Q Management of Il linois Inc. Knplan Foundation WMAQ-TV NBC Inc. Scnrs, Roebuck nnd Company mum of $100 to columbia Chicago Sun-Ti mes Illinois Department of McDonnlds Corporntion Women in Communica tions, Inc. Sherman Wolf Advertising college during the period Charitnble Trust Rehabilitat ion Services Meineke Discount Muffler, Inc. WSNS-TV Video 44 of september 1, 1994 to Chicngo Trades Council Illinois Arts Council Morton International, Inc. Ruth and Frederick december 31, 1994. Spiegel Foundation City News Bureau Illinois State Board of Education National Black Programmers Stagebill Aikos Art Materials Imp., Inc. City of Chicago Cultural Affairs Independent Writers of Chicago Coalition The Norman Stone Family Allsta te Insurance Company Community Media Workshop jay B. Ross & Associates National Endowment for the Arts Foundation American Building Maintenance Composi tes International john D. & Catherine T. Navistar International Summit Plus, Inc. American College of Surgeons COR EGIS MacArthur Foundation Transportation Corporation Therm Flo, Inc. American Express Foundation Cousins Subs, Inc. john G. Shedd Aquarium New Ci ty Thrifty Car Renta l Ameritech Crain Communications, Inc. johnson Floor Company Northwest Community U.S. Department of Education Amoco Corporation Dance Theater Workshop, Inc. johnson Publishing Company Hospital USC Corporation collaboration with the Chicago an interview with Howard and his Park District and the Auditorium compositions spanning 20 years. Theatre Council, and gave a pre­ television department faculty sentation to the annual Dance USA member barbara sykes-dietze Roundtable on Mission Driven \ won a certificate of merit award Dance Education. The Dance from the' l n tern at ion a I Center has commissioned faculty sented "Folk Tale as Personal "The Clearing" won first p ize at Communication Film & Video member jan erkert to create a new Metaphor: A Journaling Exercise" the 33rd World Festival of Short Festival '94 for her documentary work for her company, jan erkert to the Internatio nal Films in Huy, Belgium. documen­ tary film center michael "Shiva Darsan." Other faculty & dancers, which will be present­ Experiential Learning Conference director news: laura Iitten was appointed ed March 23-25. in Washington, D.C. in November, rabiger's book "Directing: Film and her story "An Elation of Light" Techniques and Aesthetics" has as a Fellow in the anthropology english department writing cen- appeared in Emergence I/. Science been translated in Spanish and department of Chicago's Field his documentary "Tolstoy Museum. She was invited to Remembered by His Daughter" speak at the 93rd annual meeting was sc reened at London's of the American Anthropological National Film Theatre. In Association. ron boyd and November, Michael gave work­ michael niederman won a shops to the Independent "Voice" award from the Center for Producers Guild Conference in New Television for their docu­ The management department's mentary "Shades of Gray." Financi:1l Record Keeping Tips Auckland, New Zea land. for a Small lluslne..~ entrepreneurship/small busi­ mehranz saeed-vafa's short film, theater/ music department fac­ ness program and the Harris "Ruins Within," was included in ulty members stephanie shaw Chicago Community Bank, among the Women in the Directors Chair and albert williams teamed up others, are collaborating on the national tour and screened at sev­ with alumni to participate in "No columbia college's management department/harris chicago Capital Reso urce Assistance eral festivals. She also received Time Ago or Else a Life," an community bank collaboration: In attendance at a recent seminar (C.R.A.) Program for fledgling grants for her documentary, "A October festival honoring the were (1-r) eva I. brooks; compton mcdonald; preston thomas, harris community businesses. C.R.A. 100th birthday of poet e.e. cum­ bank; c. eric fader, cpa with coleman, epstein, berlin & company; includes a four-part seminar series mings. The festival was highlight­ betty boston; paul berger, columbia management department; and and follow-up individual consul­ ed by "A Cabaret Opera," com­ darren carpenter. tations with Columbia's manage­ posed by contemporary ameri­ ment faculty. Faculty member can music program director bill ter director garnett kilberg fiction writing instructor phyllis paul berger is leading the russo and directed by alumna cohen's short story, "Wrongs," has eisenstein's short story "Lost & workshops. anna shapiro. Bill was selected as been accepted for publication by Found" was the basis for an academic computing depart­ one of 15 leaders in the Chicago Descant, a national literary maga­ episode in the new "Tw ilight ment faculty member barbara arts community by the Chicago zine published in Texas. Faculty Zone" TV series. She also has two iverson worked with students and Tribune. More departmental news: news: poet-in-resid ence paul stories scheduled to appear in the African American Chronicle to Artist-in-Residence chuck smith hoover's fir st sc reenplay, 1995 anthologies: "New Eves" create an interactive CD-ROM disk co-direct d "The Other Cinderella" "Viridian," directed by joseph (Longmeadow Press) and "Sisters michael rabiger on the Tuskegee Airmen, America's at the Black Ensemble Theater in Ramirez, a former Columbia stu­ in Fantasy" (New American first African American airmen. The Tajik Woman ," from the dent, is making the festival rounds. Library). productionincludes narrative, text, on:ununity rtists_ .ssistance video interviews, maps and a fiction writing department chair film & video department acting Program, the Illinois Humanaties demonstration of how aircraft fly. john schultz was chosen to serve co-chair judd chesler produced Counsil, the Regional Artists crimmins performed as Diana in as fiction judge for the 1994 Carl the fi lm component of dance Project Program, and the Center the critically-acclaimed produc­ dance center director shirley Sandburg Literary Awa rds compe­ department faculty member jan for New Television, and was tion of "Lend Me A Tenor" at the mordine received the 1994 Ruth tition sponsored by the Friends of erkert's dance production, "Turn screened at The Bop Shop and Forum Theater. Page Award for Artistic the Chicago Public Library. john Her White with Stones," which Chicago Filmmakers. Achievement in recognition of her also presented a paper on Disney was presented at the Harold choreography and artistic vision in radio/sound department artist­ and violence at the International Wa shington Center and the new work "Edge Mod e." In in-residence howard sandroff's Conference on Violence in the Columbia's Dance Center. Other September, she was the first Sage co mp osition "C hora le for Media at St. John's University in faculty news: barry young co­ Cowles Guest Artist in residence at Saxophones," commissioned by New York. Faculty news: "Carousel," directed an animation workshop the University of Minnesota. mor­ the Chicago Saxophone Quartet, an excerpt of betty shiflett's full ­ at Cabrini Connections with two dine & company will be perform­ received its world premiere and length musical, "Phantom Rider," Swedish animators in cooperation ing and teaching at the Sonora hi s "Tepillah for Computer was published in Private Arts 8 & with the Children's International Festival in northern Mexico in Controlled Aud io Processors and 9, and her fiction "Lullaby--A Film Festival for which he served Apri l. More Dance Center news: Clarinet" was performed at con­ Bloody Story" appeared in Emergence as animation jury chair. alice Executive director julie simpson temporary music festivals in II. polly mills and zoe keithley stephens also served as a juror at took a trip to Mexico to help estab­ Norway, Germany and France. howard sandroff published "Tandem Teaching II," a the festival, helping to select the lish a U.S./Mexico presenters' net­ Chicago's WNIB Radio broadcast­ manual of writing for elementary film most deserving of the "Rights work. She also designed the ed a 90-minute program featuring teachers, Northeastern Illinois of the Child" Award. Alice's film Dancin' in the Parks program in University, Fall1993. Zoe also pre-

Michael E. Jackson, '83 The Columbia College Board of Alumni Scholarship Fund. Your College. But each of you have n Alumni Board President and Tmstees and President john B. Duff gift can make n BIG difference--the rich vein of irifol'llwtion to tap as have mandated that nil contributions difference between dropping out well in your former classmates and Columbia College Trustee from individuals will go directly or graduating. teachers, most of whom are working to scholarships where they will direct­ professionals. Our new Alumni Scholarship Fund mark your calendars: The second has been set up with a goal of ly benefit the student body. At the annual All-Alumni Reunion takes Your involvement with the college $100,000. With well over 10,000 in same time, all corporate and govern ­ place on June 9 and 10 this year. does not end when you graduate. On our alumni community, simple arith­ ment income will be used for special Social, networking and educational the contrary, it is just the beginning. metic tells us that if we can rely on progra ms and operating expenses. opportunities abound nt this thor­ Our reunion is one of the bes t occa­ the majority of Columbia graduates Tllis will ensure that your contribu­ oughly enjoyable event. The story on sions for all alumni to strengthen to support this cause, we will very tions will be used to support student page one has nil the pertinent details. and/or re-establish those important quickly realize our goal. I am enco ur­ to students used to cover 100 percent scholarships. Being in the midst of n career change social and professional connections. aged by the steady stream of contri­ of tuition, but government funding The names of Columbia donors of$100 myself, l have recently been reminded I'm looking forward to seeing you butions coming in, but the fund still now only tou ches the surface of or more are published in each issue of just how vnlunble my nehvorking expenses for higher edu ca tion . in June! needs a strong boost. this newsletter. What a coup it would links and resources within Colwnbia Certainly you remember how diffi­ The Alumni Scholarship Fund will be to find we had to increase the size of College are to me. Certainly I nm for­ cult it was getting through college in provide a valuable resource to assist the newsletter to accommodate tunate in my ready access to fellow your day. Unfortunately, it has only capable students in obtaining degrees Al11111ni Scholarship donors' names. trustees, alumni board members and become more so. Federa l scholarships and reaching their goals. Please join me in support of our part-time teaching colleagues nt the HELENA CHAPELLIN WILS

tered for school part-time, I was to assist the museum in building 971 presented Columbia usually spending 14 hours a day one of the finest young collections elena Chapellin Wilson '76, at Columbia while he was in the of photography, while at the same law library," she says. "l was in time devoting equal energies to one of her most treasured gifts. classes with very talented people, her business as an interior design­ AAI'P.-t"!l'llt' 1er a Nikon ca mera and registered her for photography That was the year her husband, Clare such as Ruth Thome-Thomsen, er and her passion, most impor­ classes at Columbia. and attending lectures by and tantly, for her art." "He knew that l wanted to study the Venezuelan Pres iden tia I languages, she met her husband, drinking coffee with famous peo­ In less than two yea rs as a college photography," she recalls, "and l palace, su mm er home and who was a U.S. diplomat in ple such as Aaron Siskind and trustee Helena has brought her was just transfixed with happi­ yacht. In Chicago, she received Venezuela, at a party held in her Minor White. My education was a boundless energy to the Board. She ness to be coming to Columbia." cr itical accla im for the vast honor upon her return from Italy. dialogue ... my time as a student at has chai red major fundraising interior redesign of over one hun­ Columbia was my passport to the In many ways since that When they came to Chicago in events, brought new members to dred public schools and adminis­ American culture." Christmas, Helena has never left 1971, the Wilsons were to spend trative offices. the Board, and heralded her alma mater. She helped to three years here while Clarence, Her instructors quickly recognized Columbia's vision to other impor­ found the Alumni Board in 1979; She grew up in Caracas, now an intellectual property rights her creative talent and vision. As a tant people in the arts community. she is a member of the Venezuela where she completed attorney, completed his law stud­ student, Helena's work was exhib­ This year will be her second as co­ Acquisitions Committee for the her architectural studies before ies. It worked out well for Helena's ited alongside faculty pieces. chair of Celebrate Columbia! and co ll ege's Muse1.1m of going on to the w1iversities of immersion into photography. Today her photographs are includ­ because of the success of last year's Con tern porary Photography, Florence and Perugia in Italy to "Even though I was only regis- ed in important private coll ections first-ever, college-wide showcase, where her photographs are study art history. Fluent in four and the collections of The Art she is even more enthusiastic included in the permanent collec­ Institute of Chicago, where she is about the task ahead. tion; she has been a college on the Committee on "After last year's gala, people were trustee since 1993; and last year Photography; the International just gushing to me about she co-chaired the "Celebrate Center of Photography in New Columbia," she says. "One Chicago Columbia!" benefit gala. York; th e Mu se um of businesswoman asked me how she Contemporary Photography; the "I didn't want my time as a student could get interns and now employs National Gallery of Art in Ca racas; at Columbia to end," she says. two Colum bia interns." "And J have always rema ined con­ and beyond. Helena cherishes her memories and nected to the college." "Helena is an extraordinary indi­ current attachments to the college. vidua l. She is a businesswoman, Helena was already an accom­ As all-encompassing as she consid­ philanthropist, artist, collector, plished architectural, interior ers her education here, she says that and genuinely sincere woman," and graphic designer when she today Columbia offers even more says Denise Miller-Clark, director came to Columbia. Among her options than when she attended. many important credits, she had of the Museum of Contemporary helena (second from left) joined fellow columbia trustee madeline free reign as chief interior design­ Photography. "What is amazing is As a matter of fact, she says, "I plan murphy rabb, tap dancer mark medonca, and husband clarence er for the massive renovation of her ability to combine aesthetic to return to classes to bring me up wilson at a "chicago on tap" benefit reception for the dance center. sensibility and business acumen to speed with new technology."

Carol Bryant Sy Frolichstein Burton joseph Leo Newcombe john & jane Shapira columbia Sydney B. Burke Alice j. Fryzlewicz Robert Kamerschen Sa rah A. ORoller Naomi Rachel Sheridan college joseph Cappo Albert C. Gall Stuart & Myrna Kaplan Sid Ordower Salman Peter Carey & Lois Lipton Malcom Gaynor Bill Keller Hap Pancoe Nicholas R. Shuman ( chicago Karen Cnota Cavaliere Chuck Gierhart Ira & Ani ta Kipn is Pangratios Papacosta joe Silverman lloward & Dorothy Conant William H. Gofen Philip Klukoff Barry Parish Louis Silverstein alumni profile Thomas Conley Syd ney S. Gordon Herbert Kraus Sheldon Patinkin Robert Sirott individual Suzanne H. Cono lly Dye Richard Gray Robert F. Kusel Michael & Sandra Perlow David S. Solomon Karen Copeland jan Grekoff Caroline D. Latta Sa muel Pfeffer Pamela Solon donors Scott Craig jack & Sandra Guthman Gloria Lehr joseph B. Powers Susa n S. Stevens Chris Cross Celia Hammerman Nat Lehrman Madeline Murphy Rabb Ellen Stone-Belie This list honors Individuals Barry Crown joan W. Harris Arnold Leib Michael Rabiger Marilyn & Stephen Sward who have contributed a minimum of $100 to Milton Davis Miriam P. Harwood Averill Leviton Kim Reene Helen Tanner columbia college during john Deeri ng Cami lle C. Hatzenbuehler Toni Lieteau Robert B. Remer Louis & Ida Terkel the period of september 1, 1994 to december 31, R. Michael DeSa lle Lois & Martin Hause!man Beatrice Lites j. Dennis Rich Lois Therrien 1994. Keith Patrick DeWeese Frank Heffron Dr. john & Enid Long judith Riskind Stephen Ware Hope Abelson Iris C. & Robert L. Dishon Herbert Heyman joan Lufrano Dale Roadcap julie B. Watson Marj Abrams john B. Duff & Estelle Shanley Dr. Aaron A. Hilkev itch & Michael r. Mach Sam ira Robinson Fred Weintraub Mirron & jane Alexandroff Harriet Ellis joyce Turner Kenneth G. Mages Osvaldo Rodriguez jeanne M. Weislow Norman R. Alexa ndroff Fred & Doris Fi ne Ronald Hillman Richard & joan Mandel Charles I. Rosenberg Tony G. Weisman john T. Allen Karen Fischetti Myron F. Hokin David & Stacey Marienthal Lya Dym Rosenblum Anne T. White Nathan Allen Anne F. Fisher Marilyn Hollander Robert E. McCamant Barbara Rosin Woodie T. White Laurence & Dorothy Ashkin Anne E. Foley William L. Hood jay D. McClellan Robert Roth Tamara Wi lkow-Bezark judy & Sheldon Baskin BradS. Fox Sir Simon Hornby Dr. Thomas Patrick Melady Charles Russ Helena Wilson Margaret S. Bengtson Rhoda Frank Ruth Horwich David E. Miller William Russo David B. Woolley Fanny & Samuel Borushek AI Franks Michael E. jackson Steven & Cynthia Mitchell David C. Ruttenberg Carol Yamamoto Andrew M. Bramanti Chap Freeman Shirley Spiegler jacobs Edward Morris August Sa llas james Yao Baird Brown Lee Freeman Alan jacobson Paul Mpistolarides Sand ra L. Scheidt Gayle Zim merman Les Brownlee & Herbert Fried Bi ll johnson Stuart j. Murphy jeffrey M. Schrader Constance Zipprodt-Zonka Priscilla MacDougall june Fried lob Brett johnson Asha Nathan Henry Seidenberg published by Warner Books ...brant c. curtiss from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania is a new production ALUMNI NOTES director at WTPA-FM 93.5 (#74 in the radio market) ... bob musial & Plas tics, In c. in Worth , carol brown-musial '90 were Illinois .. .cheryl marriner is a free­ married last November. Bob con­ lance producer I director for on­ structs speaker cabinets for R&R air promotions for ABC in San Cases in Des Plaines and is a Francisco. She is also creating singer/guitarist for the local band '74 The Scapegoats. Carol is the com­ eric futran has won his third mark a. biello, who has been both interactive multimedia pro­ Spectra Award for Photographic working with CNN since his ductions and corporate image munity research coordinator for Excellence from International graduation from Columbia, is one and marketing productions ... Bord ers Books and Music in Associa ti on o f Bu s in ess of six shooters who have jointly Naperville... Communicators for "Pathways to received an Emmy nomination Success," a recruiting brochure he for their first-rate Bosnia cover­ shot for Abbott Labs. Two other age. He has covered international brochures Eric shot also won events including the South Awards of Excellence. His in­ African election, and has under­ dawn ebert received an Emmy house project, the Chicago Chefs gone numerous rotations to award from the St. Louis Chapter 1995 Calendar, is on sale now Sarajevo, Bosnia and Russia. He of the National Academy of at Marshall Fields, Treasure has also received several ACE Television Arts and Sciences in Island, and Barbara's Bookstore. awards, among other citations the children's long form category He is cu rrently shooting th e and awards ... paul nelson is an for a program ca lled "Doin' 1996 ca lendar on location award-winning journalist and the Great." It aired on KTVI-TV (ABC shecky greene performed his stand­ throughout Chicago. Eric is also founder of It Plays in Peoria affiliate) in St. Louis, Missouri. bob musial & carol brown­ up routine as part of the New Year's working on a cookbook for Great Productions (IPIPP), a Dawn is currently employed as a musial '90 Eve celebration at the Princess Casino Chefs Productions, "Great Chefs; Wash ington-based non-profit cor­ producer I director with Neff in Freeport, Bahamas.. . Great Cities." poration committed to bringing Productions, Inc., which will soon relevant and thoughtful public change its name to the Salt River affairs programming to commer­ Production Group. She was mar­ cia l rad io in the Paci fic ried in November in St. Lo uis, Northwest. Paul hosts and pro­ and wi ll reside just across the duces all IPIPP programming margi cole is teaching ballet and river, in Illinois... which includes public affairs pro­ modern dance to non-majors at jeffrey starr mararian went back christopher pittman is an elec­ gramming for seven radio sta­ the University of Illinois in to his second grade class at the tronic technician at the Naval tions in the Pacific Northwest... Champaign Urbana while work­ Aitken Elementary School. He Aviation Engineering Service Unit ing on her MFA in dance, which was one of several celebrity alums (NAESU) in Lemoore, California ... she expects to complete in May chosen to encourage students to 1995 ... mitchell w. hurst has been read during "A Salute to Reading cynthia bergquist krainc was appointed director of communi ca­ is Fundamental Week" ... appointed the executive director tions at the Donors Forum of of the Fox Valley Symphony in Chicago, a membership associa­ September 1994. As the executive tion of grantmaki11g institutions in isabella hofmann plays the new director, she' ll be doing a little the Chicago area that collectively character Lt. Mega n Russert on of everything due to the small made grants of more than $470 NBC's "Homicide: Life on the staff. paul m. martinez is a million in 1993. ... debbie minghi, larry Iauer, on-air personality for Street."Playing Ru ssert is a media coordinator at La Grange a theater major, was wed last Anchorage station KYMG-FM, once- in -a-lifetim e shot says mark a. biello Memori al Hospital currently September. Opting for something recently won a "Goldie" award lsabella ...nancy torres-butler is working on a documentary for less traditional, she chose the Getz from the Alaska Broadcasters the affiliate manager for the Road the La Grange Memorial Hospice Thea ter for the ceremony. The Association for Best Promotional Rad io Ne twork fo r Tribune program. He has been with the stage ceremony featured a grand Announcement Series. Larry can Entertainment. The Road is h ospita l for nearly si x piano playing show tunes ... tracy be heard afternoons in Portland Tribune's newes t mu lti­ years ...michael stoyanov, who nicholas is the theater manager of via taped shows on WCTE Lite 91 media / multi-face ted venture played Tony on the NBC sitcom the newly opened Skyline Stage at mike baker is back on WLTL-FM and KDB. He also has hi s own involving TV, radio, home video, "Blossom ," will join the writing Navy Pier ...jerry a. vasilatos sold production company called merchandising and clubs. Nancy 88, the radio station at his alma staff of Conan O'Brien's "Late his holiday drama "Solstice" to mater, Lyons Township High Master Productions. Larry sends a recently married James Butler of Night" ... theresa woznicki, a Lifetime Television for the nation­ hello to hi s fell ow classmate Shadow Traffi c Network ... School, in La Grange, Illinois. member of the Na tional Academy al Christm as '94 broadcast. Chet Coppock ... Mike was also a contributor for of Television Arts and Sciences, "Solstice," which Va silatos wrote, the radio publica tion Chicago was selected to serve as a panel produced and directed, is set in Airwaves. He currently spends his judge to screen programs from Chicago on Christmas Eve. It is days as a market reporter for the around the country submitted as the story of a man who manages Chicago Mercantile Exchange, entries fo r Emmys .. . to rediscover the true spirit of ' but his love is radio ... the holidays. The broadcast pre­ jim nge now works in ed ucational '71 miere aired on December 9. Jerry john mcnaughton, who directed video production after working for feels confident it will find an audi­ "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" WCIU-TV and DDB Needham ence and hopes it will become a and "Mad Dog and Glory," is cur­ advertising. In his spare time, Jim perennial Christmas favorite for rentl y tossing around a movie pro­ enjoys photography and motorcy­ viewing audiences everyw here. ject based on the autobiography of cling ... doris ressl manary is an jay bonansinga's 15-minute sci­ "So lstice" was also screened late White Sox owner Bill Veeck. If assistant professor of dance at the ence fiction film, "City of Men," "December 22 at the Gateway things go as planned, actor Bill University of Minnesota, Duluth. won the prestigious Silver Plaque Theater in Chicago along with "It's Murray will play the role of Veeck ... Next spring in Minneapolis, she at the Chicago International Film a Wonderful Life" ... will present a body of her work Festival, and the film version of his with computers and dance ... novel "The Black Mariah" is slated mike baker for release in late 1994. He will be making the trip out to Hollywood later this year to direct his first fea­ ture length motion picture, sheldon baker is the marketing communica tions director at "Manslayer," which is based on his lnterHealth. He will be introduc­ original martial arts/ac tion screen­ play. Ja y, who Ji ves in Evanston ing and directing a new product jeffrey t. fields has been named with his wife, film editor Jeanne ca mpaign for CitriMax, which corporate manager for five loca­ Bonansinga, is currently polishing will feature Kim Alexis, super­ tions of electronic pre-press his second novel, a psychological model and actress, as spokesper­ departments of the multi-million thriller called "Sick," which is to be jerry a. vasilatos son in ads, point-of-sale and jim nge dollar corporation Landis national media tours.. . her master's degree in journa l­ Second Fleet, home ported in reading at Columbia and ran ism ... jeff szymusiak is working Norfolk, Virginia... jennifer sweas through December at the E.T.A towards a master's degree in ed u­ is assistant to the president of the Theater... cecille o'reilly is an cation at St. Xavier University. Jeff lnterna Collection, which deals Artist-in-Residence in Columbia's was hired by Proviso West High ' with the interior design industry theater department where she kalyna hrushetsky recentl y School as an art teacher for 1994- judy butcher presented her pho­ with residential, nationa l and has been a teacher since 1984. joined Inform Marketing 95 school year. In June, he mar­ tographs last October at the international clients. Jennifer is She teaches acting and Irish the­ Research as a research associate. ried a long-time friend, Rachel Historical Society in Oak Park. The also a contributing writer for a ater, but her primary responsibili­ Previously, she served in account Durkovic ... amy turilli, an inde­ title of the exhibit was "Gathering magazine on interi or design ... ty has been to teach the voice management at the Chicago pendent movie writer and direc­ Spaces- a Public View of Oak Park classes for actors ... advertising agencies Hamilton tor for a business-communica­ at the Turn of the Century." It was Carver & Lee and Jordan Tamraz tions firm, plans on bringing her a photographic retrospective of Caruso ... stephanie stone-lid­ screenplay "Daphnebird " to the the places of public gathering, past skin "came on down," kissed Bob silver screen within a couple of and present, that help shape Barker, and spun the wheel on years. Having already completed and define a sense of communi­ arnie bernstein has recently "The Price Is Right" on CBS-TV most of the creative work for the ty... eduardo cruz eusebio was a published his first novel, last September. .. 90-minute film -a fictional thriller full-time education coordinator at "Wonderl and," an unusual story about a fledgling short-story Columbia Coll ege until last fall. writer named Daphne - Amy is of a post-WWII Jewish teenager Now he teaches one class at concentrating on fund-raising. who attempts to find personal Columbia and works full-time out She might shoot neighborhood salvation amidst a Times Square of his home in Somonauk, Illinois cecilie o' reilly scenes in Elmwood Park and freakshow. "Wonderland," which as a freelance writer, editor and 2 hopes that at least fi ve area art received a 1993 Puffin Foundation rachel bitner is now an publisher. He and his wife, houses will pick up the film after grant for literary distinction, is anchor/reporter at WTDY-AM in Kimberly Bagwill, recently found­ it is completed to give it enough an outgrowth of Arnie's master's Madison, Wisconsin. She moved ed a weekly community newspa­ exposure to attract a major movie thesis. The novel is being released ~memoria~ fro m WIZM-AM in La per, the andrea j. zimmer­ Solllollnuk DECEASED Crosse ... charles christian hill distributor ... through Spectrum Publishers of Reporter ... patrick reilly recently man is a programming/traffic Chicago ... nathalie gribinski won '77 studies Aikido in Sendai, Japan, joined the Register-Mail in under John Stevens. Formerly he coordinator at the American the "Corporate Vision Ill ustration" bruce ogden Galesburg, Illinois as its city gov­ was an English teacher at AEON Medical Television in Chicago ... ' contest held by the Paris-based '80 ernment reporter. Patrick will Corporation in Numazu, Japan. hotel chain Sofitel Internationa l. joyce exum cover all aspects of local govern­ His article entitled "An Aiki Nathalie's illustration will be dis­ '83 ment, including Galesburg City Pilgrimage" was published in the played at eleven hotels in the U.S. jon simmons Council meetings and meetings of October issue of Aikido Today and France. The image was also '87 city boards and commissions... rox­ Magnzine... jennifer keiper-russo, u sed on t h e an n u a I cor­ robert t. ford anne t smith, Navy Petty Officer L J morning news producer and on­ porate Christmas card ... alfreda ~ohn katzbeck ~ 1st Class, joined the Navy in air news fill-in for WBBM-FM lewis is a sa les executive fo r August, 1982. 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mille guldbeck '91 was awarded the first place purchase prize at the alumni exhibit opening and reception '94. president john b. duff presented her with a $1,000 check for her painting "animal and earth," which is now part of the columbia college permanent collection of alumni art.

Alumni Exhibition Call for Entries The Call for Entries is on for two­ Annual Alumni Reunion '95 on and three-dimensional pieces to be June 9. Slides of work must be included in the Alumni Exhibition, submitted by Aprill. For details June 9 through July 7, in the Hokin on submission requirements, call Gallery. Purchase prizes totaling Carol A:Iu1 Brown at 312/663-1600, $2,000 will be awarded at the ext. 696. opening reception of the Second

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