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Tenth Anniversary Issue Summer 1996 Newsletter for Alumni & Friends of Columbia Colle 10th Class Matriculates The tenth class of graduate students began the public affairs reporting course of study in the fall of 1995. In addition to seven continuing students. the class included nine new students: Colette Borda is originally from Guadeloupe in the French West Indies and completed her undergraduate degree in political science and applied foreign language at the Universite de Paris before coming to Chicago. She hopes to become a European corre· spondent specializing in analysis of American politics and society and would eventually like to establish a political magazine on her home island. Colette interned in both the Chicago and Washington. D.C. offices of U.S. Senator Carol Moseley Braun. Room with many views-Students in Todd Sloane's 1996 State and National Susan Doyle is an English and French Government Seminar gather in the light and airy graduate newsroom of the 624 S. graduate of Northern Illinois University Michigan Ave. building. The first classroom dedicated to graduate journalism study was in the Wabash building and the Field Foundation funded the first generation of Continued on back page computers for the graduate program in the 1980s Thesis Triumphs: Awards and Publications Validate Work Jennifer Keiper-Russo has set a new Silver Dome Award and become 1996 standard for graduate thesis project Radio Station of the Year. assessment by winning not one. but two In her final semester this spring. awards including an "Outstanding Jennifer interned at MediaTracks Achievement in Broadcasting· certificate Communications. a broadcast producer from the Illinois Broadcasters and syndicator of public affairs pro· Association and the Cardinal's grams, while working part-time as after­ Communications Award from the noon drive time traffic reporter on Archdiocese of Chicago and His WBBM-AM Newsradio 78 and as Eminence Joseph Cardinal Bernardin for Chicago Automobile Club traffic reporter her radio series representing •excellence on weekends at the same station. in the promotion of positive human values." Other recent graduates who have had Her radio project about the Chicago their thesis projects published include Abused Women Coalition aired as a two· Shehnaz Sait whose research on Asian part 30-minute series on WBBM-FM Indian genetic predisposition to heart radio during Domestic Violence disease was excerpted in the AAPI Awareness Month in October 1995. In Journal of the American Association of addition to garnering a third place cer­ Physicians from India; Maria Kanzvelos tificate for her thesis project in the highly who managed to convince her boss to competitive category of "best radio pub· give her release time to research com­ lie affairs program or series· in the state, munity policing in eastern DuPage Jennifer won first place for the communi­ County and then publish it in a two part ty service campaign, "City Year" that she series in Press Publications; Laura produced while Community Affairs Teubert's research on the Illinois Child Jennifer's Doubly Blessed with Director at WBBM-FM. Her two awards Support Enforcement Division was serial­ awards from Cardinal Bernadin (top)and helped the station, known as B-96. win a ized in the Leader-Post newspapers. the Illinois Broadcasters Association. BROADCASTERS FOCUS ON INTERNATIONAL Going into ~s third year of operation as the two-semester sequence of broadcast journalism courses, the elective has offered graduate students the opportunity to prOduce a cable tv program in cooper­ ation with the International Visitors Center each spring. This year, five graduate students researched, prOduced, reported, wrote and edited a 46-minute program on the consulate corps of Chicago. The program, hosted by Chicago Tribune's Foreign Editor Mike McGuire, featured stories on France. India. Mexico and Argentina. Last year, four graduate students completed a 30 minute show on Chicago as an inter­ Previewing the Production-Members of the graeluate crass who pur together •chicaqo: Where the Worlel Meets· took at an uneelited version of their program national attraction for tourism and busi­ which, tn polished form, aired on Chicago cable channel 23. ness. BRAVO TO OUR BENEFACTORS Over the last eight years of the graduate Museum anel Arts magazine, States established a portable newsroom in a program, 84 students have benefitted News Service, Washington Flyer maga­ conference room of the Mansion View from the generosity of the Channel 50 zine, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Fox Motel in Springfield where they wrote Foundation, and the Reader's Digest TV's Washington affiliate, Washington under daily deadlines and faxed stories Travel Research Grants which have Radio and Press Service. Washington to Chicago area clients aher Kathy"s provided the means for them to cover Times, (international desk), National careful editing .During the final weeks of capital news in Springfield, Illinois and Public Radio's" Talk of the Nation": the Illinois legislative session, seven stu­ Washington, D.C. Pritzker Foundation National Coalition for the Homeless, The dents managed to get 36 of their stories lunded the first two years. Center for Public Integrity, the Voice of published. In many cases. their bylined Since Columbia's Washington Program America and in Capitol Hill offices of var­ articles comprised the bulk of a newspa­ began, master's students have interned ious U.S. senators and representatives. per's state news coverage, including at bureaus of the Chicago Tribune, Last year, under the guidance of Kathy front page play for three! For the past two Boston Hera/Cl, Copley Newspapers, and Catrambone, the graduate students years, the broadcast journalism students NBC-TV's "TOday Show; Montgomery also have benefited from a day trip down (County) Community Television, to Springfield to shoot Capitol activities Government Executive magazine, on a tight deadline. Washington '95 Kathleen (Kathy) Gurchiek joined the bureau reporter, Lifestyle sections editor Savannah (Georgia) News and Press and assistant sports editor. She is winner morning and evening newspapers with a of several national feature and sports writing awards. She marreid Ted combined circulation of 72,0900, as Devendor1 on July 9, 1995. 1985-86 associale metropolitan editor in 1993. Catherine (Katie) Hanley Cromer Charlotte Holland, who has been Mary Nolan works for BOCA News. the reports:" After graduating from worlling for various California newspa· magazine of the Building Officials and Columbia, I decided to enroll in a Master pers since 1987 including, most recently, Code Administrators International. She of Arts in teaching program at National Los Angeles County and Pomona compiled and edited a 150-page history Louis University. I finished my course municipal court reporter for the 84,0000 of Cook County's Oak Forest Hospital )vork in the fall of 1991, just as my hus­ circulation Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, that was published in 1994. band • Fred, and I were moving to recently moved to Florida. Minneapolis. I student taught in the third Rachel Pepper reports from San grade class up there and graduated from Marybeth Johnson is director of media Francisco: "Since I graduated from NLU in Spring 1992. I had to take extra relations for Ameritech ; working to Columbia, my life has remained focused classes to meet Minnesota state require­ open competition in the communications on the printed word and those who read ments for certification.During that time industry, including long distance and them. While I'm doing some writing and we had Lauren Elizabeth (August 1993). local service, wireless, cable and securi· editing these days-mostly in my capac­ I decided to stay at home with her for a ty monitoring." She is a member of the ity as book editor and music columnist while-then Caroline was born (May Board of Regents, Mercy Home for Boys for CURVE magazine, I've changed 1995). We have since moved to the and Gi~s. directions slightly from my Columbia Houston area (Fred is vice president at days. In May 1995, I opened a book­ Continental Airlines) and I'm planning to llyce Reisman is a public relations store in the Bernal Heights district of San be a full time parent here also, for a while writer in the corporate communications Francisco, an up and coming neighbor­ at least! The most writing I'm doing department of Trustmark Insurance hood in the city. Bernal Books is where these days seems to be grocery lists." Company in Lake Forest. you'll find me most days, ordering, shelv­ ing and tending the books, or dashing off Paul Tarini is on the a quick article on the computer. Pop by communications staff of when you're in San Francisico and say the Robert Wood hello.' Johnson Foundation in Princeton, N.J. 1987-88 Shelley Acoca is deputy metro editor Nicholas Thompson has been teach· of Gannett's Florida Today newspaper in ing and doing public relations for Melbourne, Florida where she "oversees Chicago State University. education, cops, courts coverage plus daily operational planning.• She partici­ Mary Jo Wenckus recently marked her pates in stategic planning as part of the lirth anniversary at Ameritech where she management team and reports •1 can M.A.M.A.