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Lang honored as ‘Distinguished Professor’ responses. Dis- covering which Having triggered a paradigm shift in the more than 50 years. She assumes that com- aspects of which understanding of how human beings process munication is a fundamental human behavior media drive mediated messages with her model of infor- which evolved to allow embodied “brains” to which automat- mation processing, Professor Annie Lang has communicate with other embodied “brains.” ic responses and received ’s most prestigious Lang conceptualizes all communication as understanding academic rank of Distinguished Professor. mediated - the original media were air and how conscious The rank of distinguished professor honors light (affording hearing and vision). As hu- intentions and outstanding scholarship, artistic or literary mans developed symbol systems and electronic learning inhibit distinction, or other achievements that have media, the reach of brain to brain interaction and facilitate won significant international recognition by extended across space and time. Lang argues these automat- the recipient’s peers. Only 42 current faculty that humans evolved in a world that obeyed ic responses on the Bloomington campus hold this rank. Of constant physical laws. For example, objects during media use is the primary goal of her those, only six are women. did not simply appear and disappear and they research. Lang was nominated by her fellow faculty did not walk and talk. Instead they sat still and Professor Lang has been extremely produc- members in the department who built a case let humans act upon them. Things which did tive since joining the Department in 1995. She for the stringent selection process. Over two walk and talk, that is, things which were able has published more than 75 refereed publica- dozen letters were received from preeminent to display animate behavior, were animals and tions, 14 book chapters, and nearly 150 refereed national and international scholars attesting therefore represented potential threats and convention papers. She is a highly sought-after to the impact of her body of work. One writer opportunities and afforded social behavior. speaker, having given more than 40 invited described Lang as a “ferocious intellect.” Because many media appear to display animate talks, many outside the United States. In 2009, Department chair Walter Gantz said this was a behavior we tend to respond to them as if she received one of the highest honors in her “great individual honor, acknowledging Annie’s they were animals rather than objects. For this field, the International Communication Asso- extraordinary accomplishments as a scholar reason, people respond to media automatically ciation’s prestigious Steven H. Chaffee Career and mentor.” and unconsciously as social actors. As a result, Productivity Award. recognized 20 years of Lang’s goal is to build a general theory of media form, structure, content, and context work on the understanding of media effects communication, one that challenges views have the ability to drive automatic motiva- and its implications for the design of media about media research broadly supported for tional, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral messages. Coaches’ Shows produced for BTN There is no substitute for learning by doing, particularly in the field of media production. This past year, students gained on-the-job experience by producing the Kevin Wilson and Tom Crean coaches’ shows for broadcast on the Big Ten Network. The shows featured IU’s football and basketball head coaches in a review of the past week’s performance, hosted by Jeremy Gray, IU Assistant Athletic Director for Broadcast Services. IU Athletics enlisted the Department of Telecommunications to update and improve production of the programs. Jo Throckmor- ton, a veteran freelance writer and producer, came aboard as the instructor of a class which he organized to mimic the actual newscast production done at television stations across see Coaches’ Shows (continued on page 5) Each year the MultiVisions Communications in media industries. Conference provides a meeting place that results in The Media Showcase & Awards night—a internships, jobs, and mentoring relationships that celebration of creative and scholarly excellence—was last well beyond the conference. held two weeks , on April 13. Thirteen students The MultiVisions tradition continued, bringing were honored with scholarships and awards for 26 successful and engaging industry professionals academic distinction, creative merit, or to support to campus on March 30. During panel expenses associated with an internship or conference. discussions, one-on-one informational interviews, Ten students were recognized as new initiates into and informal conversations over lunch, over 300 Phi Beta Kappa, the academic honor society. The students were given glimpses of professional Showcase was the culmination of the annual media opportunities and challenges in media. Based on competition for students’ creative projects in video, evaluations, the conference motivated undergrads audio, graphics and animation, and scriptwriting. to more closely define their skill set and provided Entries were judged by professionals across the roadmaps toward their career goals. Conversely, country who provided constructive critiques along the visiting professionals were inspired and with their scores. Clips of the top entries were encouraged by the students’ passion, initiative, screened and trophies were presented and overall level of preparation to launch careers to 35 winners. MUMULLTIVISIONSTIVISIONS

FUTUREFUTURE VISIONSVISIONS Above: During his Right: Adam keynote talk at the Schweigert, left, Media Showcase and Director of Strategy Awards celebration, for Mindset Digital Jo Throckmorton, in Columbus, Ohio, producer and and Patrick Connors, Telecom instructor, Associate Publisher showed the audience for Glamour magazine the reels of one of his in NYC, react to a first films. comment from the audience. Below: John Blizek ’75, Film Editor/ Director in Pasadena, passes on his best career tips.

Left: Stephen Lucas ’80, Director Nightly News, NBC in NYC, com- mented: “[Conducting] information interviews gave me a chance to meet the students and find out their career interests and pass along some individualized advice that might help them in reaching their goals.”

2 Media@IU is a cross-campus collaborative Above: Venetia Pristavec ’06, Host/Producer for effort of faculty, staff and students interested Airbnb out of San Francisco, listens intently to and engaged in research, teaching, and a comment by Brian O’Neill ’04, Senior Sales creative activity in the broad field of media, Manager of Pandora in NYC. communications and the creative industries. Creative industries is broadly defined to include advertising, public relations, marketing communications, film, computer and video games, software programming and design, web development, music and recording, performing arts, publishing, TV and radio, and journalism. The list is nearly endless. Media@IU originated in 2009 as an initiative of professors Mark Deuze (Telecommunications), Mary Gray Along with a successful free- (Communication and Culture), and Mike lance production career, Tom Conway (Journalism) as members of key units Barker ’72, has collected on campus that provide research and education vintage equipment, some in the field of media arts and sciences. The of which he displayed at Media@IU team and volunteer graduate MultiVisions. students gathered information and built a listserv, database and website of all things media. The website, www.mediaiu.indiana.edu, includes: • over 700 undergraduate and graduate courses related to media and creative industries offered regularly at IUB, searchable by unit and discipline; • over 70 active student organizations related to the creative industries; • overview and contacts of media resources at IUB; • list of companies and professionals engaged in media production and management who might offer internships and employment to IU students and grads.

You’re Invited to... Plan now to attend The first annual Media@IU symposium on Saturday, November MultiVisions 2013 on 3, IU-Bloomington. Alumni and friends are invited to attend and Friday, April 5. to join this effort to foster innovation and collaboration. To get Everyone’s welcome! involved or for more information, email the team at mediaiu@ indiana.edu.

3 Ron Osgood and Herb Terry retire after a combined 63 years at IU Ron Osgood has won many teaching petitive grants for research, including two New Drawing on his own experience serving in awards, written an acclaimed field production Frontiers grants from the Lilly Foundation. the Navy as a crewman on an aircraft carrier textbook, and received many competitive Somehow, Osgood also found time for his off the coast of Vietnam, Osgood embarked on research grants during his 25 years as a clinical own creative pursuits—long-form documenta- producing a documentary about the thoughts professor and manager of the department’s pro- ries. Shirts and Skins: The Sociology of Basket- and emotions of Vietnam veterans with chil- duction facilities. He retired in January but his ball was his first major project, broadcast in dren who had served in Iraq. My Vietnam Your legacy is a top-notch facility for future students 2002 and now distributed internationally. He Iraq has won numerous awards at film festivals and countless graduates of the department then convinced John Mellencamp to give him around the country, was broadcast on PBS in skilled in video production. and his students access to Mellencamp’s studio 2011 & 2012 and is distributed through PBS Professor Osgood’s first task when he joined during rehearsals and recording sessions. The Home Video. the Telecom faculty in 1987 was improving resulting 2004 documentary, Trouble No More: This led to his next project and in the past neglected production labs and equipment. That The Making of a John Mellencamp Album, won 2 years, Osgood has visited Vietnam 4 times required inventorying equipment, re- a regional Emmy in the entertainment category. to record interviews with more than 40 North organizing the facilities and developing a plan In 2002 Ron, his wife Lilly and son Matt, Vietnamese veterans. He’s also recorded more to upgrade everything to state-of-the-art tech- expanded their world view as teachers and than 45 interviews with American veterans. The nology. He ultimately supervised the upgrade students aboard Semester at Sea. This proved to result will be an interactive website that will of production facilities when the Radio/TV be life-altering, giving Osgood greater curiosity allow users to learn about events Center was renovated in the and later a and confidence in exploring international sub- and issues from the point of view of former multi-million dollar conversion of television jects. He subsequently led groups of students enemies. studios from analog to digital. on trips abroad to Japan and Vietnam while There’s no doubt that Ron will continue to Throughout the process of improving teaching them documentary production skills. pursue his many interests including pickup bas- facilities Osgood was also ketball, cycling, visual storytelling, and a rather teaching both basic pro- new role of grandparent. He will continue to duction techniques and teach his signature documentary class but freed upper-level documentary of his many other responsibilities he’ll make classes. His students many fewer runs up and down the northwest produced award-winning staircase of the RTV building between his office documentaries that have and the lab. As always, Ron would love to hear been broadcast on WTIU from former students. Email your career and each year. He won awards personal news to [email protected]. for his teaching and com- Ron Osgood (left) and Herb Terry at their retirement party After serving IU for 38 years, Associate Professor Throughout his career at IU Terry was fully Herb Terry retired in engaged in faculty governance, serving on the June. While many Tele- Bloomington and University Faculty Councils communications majors and almost every faculty committee in the will remember Professor department and across campus. Although he Terry from the days has retired from his teaching and departmental when he taught the demanding nisced about being a student in the media law responsibilities, he will continue his active in- required course on media law, he will also be class: “We were thrilled that the syllabus listed volvement in faculty governance as a professor remembered as a teacher who truly cared about only a few hundred pages of textbook reading emeritus. his students and took the time to be a men- until we were given a packet of ‘supplemental’ Terry has many personal interests that will tor and advocate. Annually at Thanksgiving readings of about a thousand pages! While we get more attention in retirement. First and he hosted a feast for international students, weren’t happy about being worked so hard, foremost is his beloved wife, Diane Wille. Since preparing the turkey himself. A former student deep down we could tell that Professor Terry she’s a professor of psychology at IU Southeast, recalled, “You taught me that we are human had a genuine concern for his students and did they’ve had a commuter marriage, logging beings first, and that scholarship without hu- everything possible to keep us on the cutting many miles between Bloomington and New Al- manity is a hollow exercise.” edge of media law and policy.” bany. Luckily, Terry has a veritable fleet of cars, First focusing on media law and policy, Terry’s interest later turned to the develop- many old models that he has disassembled and Terry co-authored The Politics of Broadcast ment of communications policies and institu- restored. Just this spring he added one more, a Regulation that sought to explain how decisions tions in countries emerging from communist 1991 Cadillac Allante convertible that he and about regulating broadcasting were made, systems. He taught and conducted research in Diane took on a cross-country road trip to particularly when it came to defining what it Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Latvia, Indone- celebrate his retirement. With more spare time, meant for broadcasters to serve the “public sia and China, including time as a Fulbright Terry plans to complete some long-delayed car interest” as mandated by the Communications lecturer. When asked to develop what would restorations, contribute to the redevelopment Act of 1934. He kept up-to-date with the rapid become IU’s Global Village Living-Learning and historic preservation of the city of New deregulation of the and 90s, challenging Center, Terry was eager to an opportu- Albany, and enjoy being an all-around terrific students to consider how those changes might nity for students to understand and engage the househusband and chief cook. His colleagues in affect their future careers in the media. During wider world. He built a solid foundation for the the department and across all of IU’s campuses Terry’s retirement dinner, Matt Pierce, BA’84, Center—it’s still going strong—and served as wish him well along with many more hours for JD’87, now a lecturer in the department, remi- its first director. automotive tinkering. 4 Coaches’ Shows (continued from page 1) the country. Faculty Flash! TheKevin Wilson Show was produced as close to live-to-tape as possible, leaving only the insertion of in-the-field segments A study led by Nicole were instrumental in the productions including and graphics before delivery to the Big Ten Martins with Kristen several other alumni. “Harp Dreams” chronicles Network. It was was taped on Sunday nights, Harrison, professor of the 2007 USA International Harp Competition edited on Mondays and then uploaded to the communication studies with footage from Moscow, Paris, Zurich, and network for Friday morning airing. Students at the University of the United States. “Wilderness Plots: In Concert” covered all studio production roles, including Michigan, found that, features five Indiana songwriters performing directing, audio, graphics, video playback, unless they are white songs inspired by the book Wilderness Plots by technical directing, camera, and floor direct- males, children’s long- Scott Russell Sanders, IU Distinguished Professor ing. Students also shot field segments such as term exposure to elec- of English. The prestigious international CINE interviews with coaches and quirky behind- tronic media tends to Golden Eagle is awarded for excellence in the the-scenes peeks at various parts of the athletic lower their self-esteem. film and television industry. program. Nicole Martins The reason appears to Susan Kelly received an IU New Frontiers With the end of football season, produc- be that white male characters are portrayed in Exploratory Travel Fellowship to develop a script- tion shifted to the Tom Crean Show. Fourteen positions of power and success while females and writing class to be taught in London. During students formed teams for in-studio crew minorities are presented in narrow or negative three weeks abroad, Kelly and her students and in-the-field producers. Students who ways. The study was published in the journal explored the role of scripts in the collaborative had demonstrated exceptional skill during Communication Research. process that defines film and television produc- production of the Wilson Show were elevated According to a study by Paul Wright, the tion. They studied three films in depth: “Harry to positions of leadership. The final edit of each impact of MTV’s programs “16 and Pregnant” Potter (Book One),” “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” and show, previously completed by IU Athletics, and “Teen Mom” on female students may depend “Atonement.” In addition to reading the novels was entrusted to the student crew—a sure sign on the extent to which the students’ fathers talked and film scripts, students visited film locations of increased confidence in their ability. All re- to them about sex when they were growing up. and studios around London. This year Kelly also sponsibilities for production of the show were The study found that heavy viewers of these earned a Trustees Teaching Award for excellence now in the hands of the students. programs were the least likely to be at risk for as a lecturer. After the regular basketball season ended, pregnancy, but only when their fathers commu- Ted Castronova was named the department’s the class turned its attention to producing This nicated about sex with them while they were tenure-line recipient of a Trustees Teaching Is Indiana, a news show focusing on the weekly growing up. Fathers are likely to highlight the Award. He is a game theorist, game designer, results and activities of IU sports, and broad- negative consequences of precocious sex when and economist of virtual worlds. Among the cast on Comcast. On the final day of class, talking with their daughters. This may cause their classes he teaches are Theory and Practice/Game the student team proved it had learned many daughters to focus on the negatives of being a Design and Advanced Video Game Design and essential skills by successfully completing two young mother. The study was published in the Production. live to tape programs in less than two hours. journal Sexuality & Culture. Andrew Weaver They delivered a show in exactly the same Mark Deuze’s most recent book, Managing received the Top Faculty manner as with David Letterman, Media Work, received the Robert Picard book Paper Award from the award from the Media Management and Eco- International Commu- nomics Division of The Association for Educa- nication Association’s “This class gave me such incredible tion in Journalism and Mass Communication Mass Communication (AEJMC). The award recognizes an outstanding Division. His paper opportunities including filming publication in the area of media management compared violence on interviews with and and economics. The book addresses issues facing YouTube with existing Sage Steele. Through this experience managers in the rapidly-changing media and research on television I zeroed in on my career goal and creative industries. violence. The results Rob Potter’s book, Andrew Weaver showed far less violence feel better prepared. Working on the Psychophysiological Mea- as a percentage of programming on YouTube coaches’ shows was one of my best surement and Meaning: than on television, Moreover, the violence academic decisions.” Cognitive and Emotional presented on YouTube showed more realistic Processing of Media, consequences and a more negative context than Mike Flasterstein, BA’12 written with Paul television violence. The paper, coauthored with Segment Producer of the Tom Crean Show Bolls, PhD’99, has been graduate students Asta Zelenkauskaite and Lelia selected for translation Samson, will be published in a forthcoming issue by publishers in Japan of the Journal of Communication. , and countless other shows seen on and China. The text is a TheInstitute for Communication Research major networks. By putting what they learned comprehensive resource Rob Potter under the direction of Rob Potter, launched a into practice and succeeding in a demanding for psychophysiological research on media new website to highlight its facilities and the so- environment, these students set the ground- responses, covering the theories, methods and cial scientific research being conducted by faculty work for successful careers. recent research in the field. and students. Visit the site, designed by PhD Steve Krahnke, senior lecturer in the depart- student Nic Matthews, at www.indiana.edu/~icr. At press time, the Big Ten Network had ment, received Cine Golden Eagle awards as Located in Eigenmann Hall, the Institute includes discontinued all coaches’ shows from all executive producer for two programs. The awards 3 psychophysiology experimental research labs, conference schools. However, This Is Indiana were shared by two Telecom alumni: Susanne digital video and audio editing suites, a content will continue in conjunction with IU Athletics Schwibs, MS’84 and MA’83, producer for WTIU, analysis lab, and computers equipped with soft- and IU Communications and will be broadcast as producer/director and editor and Jay Kincaid, ware designed for questionnaire design, survey on ’ WTTV. BA’82, senior production/director for WTIU, research, and data analysis. as director. Many other WTIU staff members 5 presentations of the inductees join a permanent first executive news producer in 1976. From Telecom alumni display housed at the Indiana State Museum. 1977-1983, he served as IUPUI’s first director inducted into broadcast Joe Angotti, BS’61, MA’65, was the first of university relations. During an 18-year student news director of WFIU and earned career with H.H. Gregg, he served as executive Hall of Fame the first graduate degree ever awarded at IU in vice president and was the public face and voice radio and television (now telecommunications). on all the firm’s broadcast commercials. From After stints at WHAS-Louisville and WMAQ- 2002-2007, he was president/CEO of the IU Chicago, he was promoted to New York Alumni Association. In retirement, Ken and where he was eventually named senior his wife, Audrey, BS’64, continue to represent vice-president of the NBC News division and and support IU in many ways. This spring, executive producer of NBC Nightly News. Ken added “author” to his many titles with the Throughout his career he won numerous publication of his fictional novel,Knuckleball- national . From 1993-1998, he The Uncertainties of (a) Life. taught broadcast journalism at the University of Miami School of Communication. In 1999, he was named professor and chair of the broadcast program at the Medill School of Journalism at . He is now the Visiting Distinguished Professor in Communication at Monmouth University. Joe and his wife, Karen, founded and sustain Ken Beckley a therapeutic horseback riding nonprofit. Two graduates of Telecom were among eight Ken Beckley, BS’62, was people inducted into the Richard M. Fairbanks a broadcast journalist for 14 Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame on years with stints at Terre Haute’s October 6, 2011. The Hall of Fame honors WTHI-TV, Asheville, North Hoosiers who, through their radio/TV careers, Carolina’s WLOS-TV and have had significant and historic impact on Indianapolis’ WRTV-TV where Joe Angotti their communities, state and world. The video he became news anchor and then the station’s

Alumna’s Games finds a hungry audience by Bill Elliott Despite writing a best-selling fictional trilogy and co-authoring one of the year’s highest-grossing movies,Suzanne Collins, BA’85, remains unfazed by her newfound fame. A double major in theater and telecommunications at IU, Collins started out as a writer of children’s television shows. With The Underland Chronicles, her five-part series of novels published between 2003 and 2007, Collins carved out a comfortable corner of a niche market — young adult fiction. By late 2010, after Collins had completed the final book Theof Hunger Games trilogy, sales of her work had gone viral. The first two books in the series becameNew York Times bestsellers, while the third immediately topped all U.S. bestseller lists on its release. As if Collins’ popularity had not already reached stratospheric levels, the release of the film version ofThe Hunger Games has turned her into a worldwide phenomenon. Released in late March, The Hunger Games movie had the biggest-ever U.S. opening weekend for both a non-sequel and a non-summer release. Global box office earnings have already passed the $500 million mark. “I’m not a very fancy person,” Collins told in 2010. “I’ve been a writer a long time, and right now The Hunger Games is getting a lot of focus. It’ll pass. The focus will be on something else. It’ll shift. It always does. And that seems fine.” The idea forThe Hunger Games came to Collins one evening when she was channel-surfing between reality-TV shows and footage of the war in Iraq. While her books are aimed at young adults, the themes she addresses are very much drawn from the real world. “I don’t write about adolescence,” she told The New York Times interview. “I write about war. For adolescents.” As a child Collins was fascinated by Greek mythology. “A significant influence [onThe Hunger Games was] the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur,” she toldThe Indianapolis Star. “The myth tells how in punishment for past deeds, Athens periodically had to send seven youths and seven maidens to Crete, where they were thrown in the Labyrinth and devoured by the monstrous Minotaur.” Ironically, Collins’s work is now being devoured by ravenous fans across the globe. Suzanne Collins, author of the Hunger Games trilogy — and a screen- Bill Elliott, MA’84, PhD’99, is class-notes editor of the Indiana Alumni writer and executive producer of the movie version — walks the red carpet Magazine. at the premiere of the Hunger Games movie in March. photo credit: AP/Wide World Photos

6 Paul Wright feels equally at home in the surf, interested in persuasion, attitude change and as a shooting coach. He developed a shooting on the basketball court—and in the classroom. intellectual discovery. There is great interest technique he labeled the “laser method.” “Believe Growing up in Huntington Beach, CA, he didn’t in sex-related research as it relates to media, it or not, I studied the shooting style of Jimmy stray far from the ocean for his BA and MA de- psychology, censorship, and public health.” His Chitwood in the movie, Hoosiers.” grees from California State University, Fullerton. PhD advisor was Dale Kunkel who taught for Professor Wright is off to a great start in the There he studied communications—earning IU Telecom in the early 1990’s so Wright was department, teaching sections of Telecommuni- numerous academic honors and awards—and familiar with IU and eagerly applied for a faculty cations Processes and Effects and Sex in the Me- thought it might lead to a career in journalism. position in the department. “Telecom was dia. His surfing skills are getting a bit rusty but, “I always liked school and learning, especially already teaching a class—Sex in the Media—in like most, he’s fallen in love with Bloomington. English, history, and media studies. As I became my area of research and several faculty conduct “Campus is beautiful and the performing arts interested in the social impact of media, the related research. It was a good fit.” are amazing. IU has an air of sophistication; it’s prospect of working as a college professor looked Wright’s move to the Midwest—replacing both classy and humble. I tell my friends that it’s more appealing.” ocean and dessert with Southern Indiana hu- like ascot and whiskey without the arrogance.” He moved farther inland to the University of midity—has rekindled his passion for basketball. Telecom hopes he remains content to save his Arizona for his PhD in Communication/Family “It’s my favorite sport and I was lucky to move surfing for summer and spring breaks. Studies and Human Development. There he de- to IU during an especially exciting time for veloped his research interest in sex in the media, men’s basketball. I follow the team religiously.” particularly male sexuality. “Like many media As a youth, he spent many hours dribbling the researchers, I share a curiosity to understand ball and played high school basketball as well as why people are the way they are. I’m particularly coaching middle and high school, particularly

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New Telecom Faculty

John Walsh

Pictures Studios and Sony Entertainment. what brought him to IU where he’s pursuing a His next move took him back to Atlanta to doctorate in Learning Sciences in the School of work as director of photography for Turner/ Education. “Learning sciences is a new branch Time Warner where he worked as a cameraman of cognitive science that studies the process of for creative services, shooting program pro- learning using media and technology. I’ve been For John Walsh, the department’s new pro- duction and commercials for all of the Turner’s fascinated to observe how students learn about duction faculty member and facilities manager, cable channels. Eventually advancing to the themselves by making their first films.” the road to IU all started with the French horn. position of director of photography, John twice It’s serendipitous that Walsh came to IU just Growing up near Atlanta, he was a committed earned Emmy recognition. He was involved with as the department was searching for a produc- musician, playing horn in superb groups such establishing the look of tion instructor and facilities manager. (Ron Os- as the Atlanta Youth Symphony. Nonetheless, he and associated with Turner’s implementation of a good retired from this position in January 2012.) attended Georgia State University and thanks to motion control studio involving an MRMC Milo Walsh brings teaching experience, an impressive a compelling film appreciation course narrowly motion control rig. professional portfolio across genres, extensive escaped graduating as a chemistry major. There While working in the industry and on inde- training in technological tools, and a vision for he began to dabble in broadcasting and produc- pendent projects, Walsh also taught courses in training students of media arts and sciences. tion and worked as broadcast studio manager. production techniques and decided to obtain All this combines to make him a valuable new These experiences opened new avenues of teaching certification at Simon Fraser University colleague as the department continues to teach creative expression. According to Walsh, “The in Vancouver, British Columbia. “My move to for the future—wherever media is headed. life experiences of music made me comfortable Vancouver offered tremendous opportunity and Amongst his PhD studies, keeping the in the production world.” growth in the TV business plus I appreciated the production facilities top-notch, and teaching, His eclectic skill set resulted in admission lifestyle—mountains, water, and a sustainable Walsh is left with little spare time to pursue his to University of Southern California’s film outlook for living.” During his ten years in the personal creative outlet—jazz piano. As quoted school where he earned an MFA in cinema and northwest, Walsh discovered a new passion for from his E-portfolio: “My favorite interactive art television production. “The environment at USC the outdoors, particularly sea kayaking. is playing jazz piano. Jazz music provides an end- was formative and fundamental as I learned A visit to Walsh’s E-portfolio at www. less source for life-learning that melds discipline to tell visual stories and to think of myself as a lightgyre.net illustrates his talent as a cinema- with creativity, structure with improvisation. Jazz cinematographer.” Walsh spent eight years in tographer along with intellectual curiosity and metaphors infuse my thinking and influence my L.A. working on camera and as editor for inde- a scholarly approach to pedagogy. In fact, that’s w or k .” pendent films and commercials and for Pacific 7 information specialist/community relations Student News and Alumni Notes director at Madison (Ind.) State Hospital. Mar- tin does play-by-play radio broadcasts for high Awards school basketball on WMPI in Scottsburg, Ind. Joseph Toth ’11 was one of six undergradu- and is an IHSAA volleyball referee and softball Submit your career and personal news for umpire. He took up the guitar several years ago; ate students at IU-Bloomington to receive the a class note and you’ll see it here! Send several songs are on YouTube under username 2011-12 Provost’s Award for Undergraduate updates, including complete work and home ‘aseventh.’ He and his wife, Ellen, celebrated Research and Creative Activity. The award mailing addresses to Legene White, Director their 34th wedding anniversary in May. recognizes excellence and celebrates the im- of Alumni Affairs at [email protected]. Dennis “Rocky” Spalazzi, BA’70, is chair of portance of supporting undergraduates who the board of directors of the Greater Cincinnati engage in research and creative activity. Toth Before 1960 Northern Kentucky Film Commission. He and was the production sound engineer, dialogue Robert Shanks, BS’54, published his novel his wife, Linda Ingram Spalazzi, BA’69, are editor, Foley artist, sound designer, composer In the Middle of the Journey in 2011. Shanks owners of Bright Light Visual Communications and music editor for “Nathan and the Luthi- is CEO of TV production company Comco in Cincinnati. The family business also includes er,” a student-produced feature film that was Productions. His past credits include The son Ryan Spalazzi, BA’99, and daughter Gina screened at the IU Cinema. Tonight Show and Telethon. He lives Good, BA’02, MPA’04. Lelia Samson won the Best Student Manu- in Sheffield, Mass. with his wife Ann. Stephen A. Smith, BS’73, is a lecturer in broadcast and digital journalism at the Uni- script Award from the International Academy Harold “Hal” Wolford, BS’58, spent his versity of Georgia. His wife, Becky (Gunden), of Sex Research (IASR) for her paper entitled career at TV station WEHT-Evansville. For BS’70, teaches special education. The couple “Sexual and affective responses to same- and another 12 years after retiring in 1998, Wolford hosted a daily show at WEHT, Backroads. lives in Doraville, Ga. opposite-sex stimuli in heterosexual and ho- Wolford lives in Evansville. Kathryn Mehling Hetzner, BA’74, MS’79, is mosexual men: The impact of visual attention.” facilities manager specialist at Richmond Field It was written with Kinsey Institute Senior 1960s Station, an academic teaching and research Research Scientist Erick Janssen. Lelia present- A graduate of the Yale University Institute of facility used primarily for large-scale engineer- ed her research at the IASR annual meeting in Far Eastern Languages, John K. Potter, BS’60, ing research, located near the UC–Berkeley Lisbon, Portugal. is the author of Honorbound, a suspense thriller campus. She lives in Oakland, Calif. “I am semi-retired after a 31-year career PhD candidate Mark Bell was selected as set in China and based on his experiences as a in education in the Indianapolis area,” writes IU’s nominee for the Midwestern Association Chinese linguist for the U.S. Air Force. Potter football I-Man Thomas Rather, BA’74, MS’86. of Graduate Schools Excellence in Teaching was also a television producer, director, and writer for 44 years and is the author of five “I volunteer for various groups and substitute Award by the University Graduate School. novels. He lives in Sun City West, Ariz. teach three days a week. For fun, I work as an The award recognizes graduate students who In retirement, Kenneth Beckley, BS’62, has usher at games!” Rather lives exemplify excellence in teaching. Bell was the realized a lifelong ambition with the publica- in Indianapolis. instructor for T205 Introduction to Media and tion of Knuckleball. The novel is an inspiration- William Dearing, BA’77, MS’82, retired in Society. al story of life’s uncertainties and dreams that 2011 after working for the federal government Younei Soe was awarded the Herbert S. opens in rural Indiana in 1955. for more than 29 years as a producer and di- rector, making training videos, documentaries, Dordick Dissertation Award by the Commu- Steve Smith, BS’62, has a small role in PSAs, and commercials for the Department of nication and Technology Division of the Inter- Moonrise Kingdom, the latest movie from pro- Defense, the US Treasury, Army, and Air Force. national Communication Association for her ducer-director Wes Anderson. Smith is heard as a radio newsman warning of an approaching He has returned to Southern Indiana, where he dissertation entitled “New Media, Youth, and storm. Appropriate, since he anchored TV plans to pursue his hobbies of fishing, traveling, Political Socialization.” The award recognizes news in hurricane-prone Houston, Texas for and black-and-white photography. Dearing the most outstanding dissertation on commu- over thirty years, retiring in 1999. Growing up looks forward to hearing from classmates and nication and technology produced each year. in Houston, Anderson watched Smith on TV can be reached at [email protected]. Sung Wook Ji won the Best Student Paper and included him in his two most recent film Ann Willman Craig, BA’78, is a travel Award in the Law and Policy Division of the projects. expert and speaker, writer, communications and media professional, and voice over artist. International Communication Association for Darryl Sink, BS’67 MS’70, EdD’73, has She has more than 30 years experience in radio his paper “Diffusion of the new video delivery almost 30 years’ experience in developing and TV broadcasting in the areas of news and technology: Is there redlining in the IPTV teaching material and runs his own instruc- tional design firm in Monterey, Calif. He is entertainment. Craig owns CruiseOne, a travel service market?”. a contributing author to two editions of the franchise based in Greenwood, Ind., where she The department congratulates majors who Handbook of Human Performance Technology, lives. were elected into Phi Beta Kappa in the 2011-12 and is the recipient of the International Society academic year: Margo Andrews, Senia Bor- for Performance Improvement’s Professional 1980s den, Brittany Bradley, Joseph Denney, Jacob Service Award. In May 2011, Chicago Mayor Rahm Eman- Fisk, Andrew Funkhouser, Lisa Kaufman, uel appointed Michelle Boone, BA’83, MPA’98, as commissioner of Chicago’s Department of James Reed, Michelle Sweeney, Lindsey Wild- 1970s Cultural Affairs and Special Events. Most re- er. PBK is the oldest academic honor society James (Jim) Alexander, BS’70, recently pub- cently, Boone was the senior program officer for in the United States and the highest award that lished Forks in the Road. This is the second vol- ume of memories of a wonderful life, including culture at the Joyce Foundation, responsible for an undergrad student in the liberal arts can his days at IU, and can be reviewed at www. distributing funding to arts and cultural institu- achieve. halfwayhomefromkinderlou.com. Jim and his tions. She serves on the board of numerous arts wife, Toian, live in Bluffton, SC. organizations and has been a reviewer for the Richard Martin, BS’70, retired in 2009 as National Endowment for the Arts, the 8 Arts Council, and the Cuyahoga (Ohio) Arts development and planned gifts. Previously, he communications consultant and full-time and Culture program, among others. Earlier, was associate vice president for college relations mother of two young daughters. Her husband, she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Chad, at Stetson University College of Law in Florida. John, BS’95, JD’01, is an attorney in the law Africa. Boone lives in Chicago. He lives in Fort Myers, Fla. firm Frost Brown Todd in Indianapolis, where Charles Aust, MA’85, is professor and media Jarrod Reid, BA’93, MLS’07, is a librarian they live. studies concentration coordinator in the De- and adjunct instructor at Harrison College in Olaf Hoerschelmann, PhD’97, is a full partment of Communication at Kennesaw State Indianapolis. He lives in Indianapolis and per- professor and director of the School of Mass University. He lives in Marietta, Ga. forms with Comedysportz, an improvisational Communication at the University of Arkansas Kelly Gream, AS’85, BA’90, is sales and comedy group. in Little Rock. He was formerly a professor at marketing director of the Belle of Louisville, the Brian Carroll, BA’95, is vice president for Eastern Illinois University oldest operating Mississippi-style steamboat in television and emerging media with the Ladies Courtney Emerick Veit, BA’97, is vice presi- the world. He lives in Louisville. Professional Golf Association after working 10 dent of operations and sales at Sunshine Logis- John N. Howard, BA’85, of San Francisco, years with the PGA tour. Carroll, who started tics, a logistics and supply chain company in the is director of client services for Alere Health, a his career with ESPN, manages and enhances greater Chicago area. She lives in Chicago. health-management company. the LPGA’s relationship with the Golf Channel Dominique Harmon Ware, BA’98, is senior Andra Lee, BA’86, is associate director of de- and international television business partners staff clinical social worker at the Emory Uni- velopment at the Whiting School of Engineer- and broadcasters. He also serves as senior versity Student Counseling Center. She married ing at Johns Hopkins University and lives in adjunct professor in the sport management Anthony Ware in May 2011 and they live in Baltimore. She was previously associate director department at the University of North Florida College Park, Ga. of development at the University of Illinois at in Jacksonville, where he lives. Amber Obremskey Cooley, BA’99, is mar- Urbana-Champaign. Three IU alumni recalled their Blooming- keting director of Coldwell Banker’s new homes Margaret “Molly” Kuehn Watson, BA’86, ton roots when they formed a new advertising division in Atlanta. She and her husband, Rob- is chief operating officer of Tierney Communi- agency based in Indianapolis. They named their ert, live in Atlanta and welcomed their second cations, an advertising agency headquartered company Third Street, after a pivotal campus son in September 2010. in Philadelphia. She previously served as chief thoroughfare. Company president is Sean In November, Andrew Lennie, BA’99, won marketing officer for Tierney and as vice pres- Smith, BA’95, who was formerly Chicago radio a Chicago/Midwest Emmy Award for a series ident at Young & Rubicam in . station WXRT’s director of marketing and led of Chicago Cubs promotional spots. Lennie, She lives in Wayne, Pa. the station’s non-traditional revenue depart- senior producer for television station WGN in Gregory L. Andrews, BA’87, lives in - ment. Chief creative officer is David T. Jones, Chicago, and his wife, Nicole (Parham), BS’99, napolis and is managing editor of the Indianap- BA’91, who most recently led the emerging child-life specialist at Hope Children’s Hospital olis Business Journal. platforms division at DraftFCB/Chicago and is in Oak Lawn, live in Forest Park, Ill. with their In August 2011, IU’s Department of Theatre the creator of trade publication Adweek’s adver- two sons. and Drama presented workshop performances tising-centric cartoon, Ad Land. Third Street’s 2000s of the new musical, Happily Ever Chloe, by chief operating officer is Andrew Thompson, David Reinwald, BS’01, has released his first Michael R. Heitzman, BA’87 and Ilene Frankel BS’90, formerly corporate controller at BP CD, Here I Stand, available from cdbaby.com Reid, BS’86. The pair returned to the IU Theatre Capital Management. When business demand- and as a digital download. Reinwald has been in summer 2012 with their completed produc- ed more staff, Third Street proudly hired two cantor of Temple Beth Shalom in Santa Ana, tion, now retitled Solana. Heitzman and Reid graduates of Telecommunications, Phillip Calif., since July 2010. Prior, he was cantor of are the Grammy-nominated songwriters of Robinson, BA’09, and Brittany Mason, BA’11. congregations in Illinois, Texas, and New Jersey. “Throw That Girl Around” from the Broadway Leslie Smith Babione, BA’96, is a part-time He lives in Irvine, Calif. musical Swing! Their musical,Bingo , was hon- ored with the 2007 Bay Area Critics Association Award for Best Musical and had a successful WIUX On-Air Reunion meeting the station’s budding crop of Off-Broadway run. Heitzman lives in New York Each year since 2004, alumni of student DJs, “It’s great to see our passion for cam- City and Reid lives in Cornwall, N.Y. radio station WIUX (formerly WIUS) pus radio reflected in the students who have gathered in August on the Bloom- run WIUX now. They are just as involved 1990s ington campus for the station’s annual as we were back in the day!” In addition Elizabeth Whiteside Blevins, BA’91, is on-air reunion. The current staff turns to Barman, other attendees have included director of annual giving for the Indiana Uni- Telecommunications alumni Pam Nieq- versity Foundation. She previously served as the station over to alumni who recreate vice president for account services at Finelight, WIUS playlists of the past 45 years. One uist Wehbi, BA’75; Kathy Karwasinski one of Indiana’s premier marketing firms. At of the yearly attendees, Greg Barman, Ross, BA’72, PhD’97; Neil E. Bolding, the IU Foundation, Blevins coordinates all as- BA’75, says “The reunion takes me back BS’70; Thomas Jamrose, BA’70, MS’72; pects of the university’s annual giving program to my IU days. It is so easy to see a Jim S. Hansen, BS’68; Stephen F. Miller, and works with the IU Alumni Association on younger version of [myself] on the radio, BA’75; Cheryl Judkins Andrews, BA’75, alumni membership programs. in that same studio 35-plus years ago, MS’97; Roy Cohen, BA’70; James (Jed) Lara Funaro-Cook, BA’92, lives in Clearwa- eager to begin a career in broadcasting. Duvall, BA’73; Philip E. Murphy, BS’67; ter, Fla., with her husband and two boys, ages 6 at IU provided [an] experi- Terri Silverstone, BS’71; Bruce Herrick, and 3. She works in management as director of BS’69, MS’74; William Horn, BA’72; and television presentation/content for the Home ence that helped me in my early profes- Shopping Network in St. Petersburg where sional life, and I’ve always been grateful.” Craig Shank, BA’09. If you missed this they enjoy the sunshine and the Tampa alumni Beginning as WQAD in 1964 — and year’s reunion, held on August 3-5, stay chapter. broadcasting only to dorm rooms — the tuned for 2013. WIUX can be heard in The Southwest Florida Community station went campus-wide as WIUS in Bloomington on 99.1 FM or online at Foundation in Fort Myers has named Edward 1967. It changed its call letters to WIUX www.wiux.org. Kominowski, BA’93, MS’95, as director of in January 2006. Barman enthuses about 9 Alumni Notes (continued) Katie Krentz, BA’02, called Defender Direct, run my own photog- Obituaries of is the comedy animation devel- raphy business, and completed my MBA in opment executive at the Cartoon Network. November. Chapman lives in Indianapolis. “You Have the Right to an Attorney” is Stephanie Zuroff, BA’07, works for a web a short documentary by director/cinema- design company, Blackstone Media, which de- tographer Matthew Bockelman, BA’03, and velops websites and web applications. Last year produced by Lisa Levey, BA’02, under the a video she created won a gold in the Internet umbrella of Matt’s company, Fly’s Eye Films. It Commercial category of the Louies (the local has screened at film festivals across the country ADDY awards). She lives in Louisville, Ky. with an international premiere at the Raindance Hallie Jaeger, BA’08, is senior sales executive Film Festival in London. Both Matt and Lisa with Marcus Evans, a leading provider and live and work in New York City. promoter of global summits, strategic confer- Charles “Chuck” Chamness, BA’03, has ences, professional training, sports hospitality dedicated much of the past decade to rais- and on-line information. The company owns ing money for St. Baldrick’s Foundation, a an English soccer club, represents Hollywood volunteer-driven charity committed to funding stars, and produces films and entertainment. William H. Kroll, 1925-2012 research to find cures for childhood cancers Jaeger lives and works in Chicago. Professor Emeritus Bill Kroll, MS’53, died and to help survivors. Chamness, whose son Sara Askotzky, BA’09, is a post-production April 27, 2012 in Bloomington. Kroll taught Joey was diagnosed with cancer at age eight, is coordinator with Jarrett Creative Group, an in- undergraduate and graduate courses in film president/CEO of the National Association of dependent entertainment production company production, instructional systems design and Mutual Insurance Companies in Indianapolis. based in New York City, where she lives. in the structure, organization, and funding of Meredith Fitzpatrick, BA’04, is press Sean Snow, BA’09, is working as a pro- US systems. He was em- manager for NBC Entertainment Publicity, a duction assistant on the 20th Century Fox ployed with IU for thirty-six years beginning in division of NBC Universal. She lives in Studio Television show Futurama. He lives in North 1955 until his retirement in 1991. He began as City, Calif. Hollywood, Calif. a lecturer and film supervisor then a technical Jason Sutton, BA’05, is senior account ex- Stephen Hebel, BA’10, has started Windy supervisor of the broadcasting services, leading ecutive with Mlicki, a marketing and branding City Source, a basketball recruiting website to operations supervisor, a full professor in Tele- agency based in Columbus, Ohio. His wife, focused on the Chicago area and the Big Ten. communications, and finally to the Executive Maggie (Ridenour), BS’06, is an attorney work- Hebel also works as a social media specialist Director position of the IU Radio and Televi- ing in the field of elder law. The couple lives in and freelance videographer, living in Buffalo sion Services and General Manager of WFIU Columbus. Grove, Ill. and WTIU. His career spanned the period “I am recording a country CD in Nashville, Allyson Mann, BA’10, is a client executive at from kinescope recording to satellites and fiber Tenn.,” writes swimming and diving I-Woman Proof Integrated Communications, a digital- optics. He started with IU Radio-TV Services Heather Chapman, BA’07. “I work in the mar- ly-focused subsidiary of Burson–Marsteller in in its postwar Quonset hut on the south side of keting department of a Fortune 500 company Washington, D.C., where she lives. the Jordan River when the FM radio station was in its infancy and television productions were aired by WTTV Channel 4. In the early 1960’s, Where you can make a Bill coordinated the construction of a state-of- difference for Telecom: the-art facility, the Radio-TV Center on IU’s Bloomington campus, which housed one of the WHEN IU • Technology. By its very nature, the largest television studios between the East and Telecom curriculum is heavily depen- West coasts. dent on technology. It’s imperative to Kroll contributed to over 20 television series CALLS, THINK continuously update computers, cameras, and individual programs which aired statewide software, etc. and nationally on public television. Among those was “The Oldest Man in the Sea,” a doc- ‘TELECOM.’ • Student support. We face competition umentary about IU swim coach Doc Counsil- When you receive mail with the IU for the best students, especially on the man’s record breaking English Channel swim. graduate level. With more funding for Foundation return address or an eve- In retirement, Kroll continued to serve on assistantships and fellowships, we can many campus and local committees and was a ning phone call from the IU Telefund, attract the best and the brightest. regular volunteer for WTIU/WFIU. He was of- just respond, “I want my donation to go ten seen at theatre and athletic events with his directly to the Department of Telecom- • Start-up funds. Faculty and students wife of nearly 65 years, Kate. The IU and Bloom- munications.” WHY WAIT? Contribute need funding for start-up projects—re- ington communities will miss his and wry to Telecom today by clicking the “Make a search or creative—such as pilot studies, humor. Gift” button at the Department web site, segments of games or documentaries, etc. James D. Perry, 1936-2012 http://www.indiana.edu/~telecom, or by sending a check made payable to “IU • Thinking bigger. Larger gifts can -es Jim Perry, retired professor of Telecommuni- tablish endowments resulting in funding Foundation/Telecom” to Legene White, cations, died June 16, 2012 in Bloomington. His for perpetuity. Named scholarships will degrees were from IU--a BS in radio-TV in 1959 Director of Alumni Affairs, 1229 East 7th reward our finest students. Named pro- and a Masters in education in 1961. He taught St., Bloomington, Indiana 47405. fessorships can bring preeminent scholars courses in television production and direction and teachers to our faculty. The prestige for the department through the early 90’s and associated with such funds raises the also became Director of Instructional Television stature of your degree in Telecommu- for Radio-TV Services. nications. 10 2011-2012 DEPARTMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS DONORS We are deeply grateful to the following individuals and companies who contributed to the Department of Telecommunications from January 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012. 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