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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. Katie's Lauren and Caroline works as a writer and edilor of proposals. see alligators out the window of my She wrote "Even though I am not helping office-we're located on a wildlife Karen Klemens reports •My husband, change the world through the power of refuge•. She previously was city editor of Matt Krasnowski and I are enjoying life in the pen (as I was so sure I would do as the Lafayette (Indiana) Journal & Courier Los Angeles now that part one of the a pioneer of the Journalism M.A. and before that was managing editor of O.J. Simpson trial is over. We are in the endeavor at Columbia), I would do it three suburban Chicago Pioneer Press throes of redecorating our newly pur­ again, in a heartbeat.I am 1O years older newspapers. where she won awards for chased home while Matt continues cov­ since I graduated and I haven't written general excellence and editorial writing. ering the legal beat for Copley News that book I keep telling myself I will write. Service, and I try to keep my sanity com­ I think by the time I am 50 the need-to­ Jerry Bowman is public relations man- muting to Newport Beach (100 miles write momentum will exceed the current ager of the American Academy of rouncftrip) . I successfully secured anoth· torpor," Pediatrics in Elk Grove Village, Ill .. er director position (after Tennessee Valley Power Assn.), this time with the Mary Fran Gleason is National Nutrititional Foods Association, 1986-87 in her eighth year with the Syracuse (New a 4,000 member trade association for York) Herald-Journal, the natural products industry. I'm happy Maryanne Giustino Cherrier is an she recently was named to report the job is great and I even trav­ account supervisor with Weiser Minkus a bureau chief, after el a b~. We welcome visitors anytime Walke Communications , Chicago. serving successively as anyone is in the L.A. area!' Elizabeth (Beth) Owens Schiele was founder and assistant director of a non­ ital and her district office after taking a promoted to assistant feature editor of profit wild bird rehabilitation group. We buyout from the Baltimore Sun where the Chicago Sun-Times in April 1996 care tor injured or orphaned birds (from she had worked as a reporter on the where she is responsible for the food chickadees and owls to pelicans and metropolitan staff for six years. She is and travel sections. initiating new fea­ cranes), as well as conduct education also •selling books part-time at one of tures, editing and coordination of other programs all over the state. Even those trendy stores with a coffee bar and features as needed. syndicate liaison, though my hands are often soiled with comfortable chairs where people hang comic edtior and director of special pro­ just a little more than ink. I do use my out for hours" and says she isn't sure jects including books. In her 1 and 1/2 writing skills to compose newsletters. what she'll do next. "All I know is that I years at the Chicago Sun-Times as syn­ various publications, grant proposals don't miss reporting, but f miss writing. I dicate manager she reports: and press releases. The salary·s not like the Baltimore area and bought a •1 single handedly quadrupled the rev­ great, but every day I wake up with so townhouse in late '94, so I'm looking for enue, increased the subscribing news­ many expectations and plans for my jobs here and in the 0/C area: Kerry paper client base from 13 to 650 news­ day-I'm actually happy to be getting to created a Women in Journalism group papers, edited and designed an editorial work! My career didn't turn out as I had that meets for lunch every other month to and travel section insert weekly which is envisioned seven years ago, but I've got listen to guest speakers and network. syndicated overseas to the Jerusalem no complaints!: "We've heard two Pulitzer Prize winners Post, while editing and electronically and have had some great discussions transmitting Sun-Times features to Molly Miller has been promoted to about newsroom culture, job sharing and newspapers across the country.· Beth senior editor from associate editor of other issues women face in this field." was previously an editor at Pioneer Mother earth News in New York City • She also has been a mentor for a young Press. published by Sussex Publishers which is girl for three years and is on the organiz­ also home to Spy and Psychology ing committee for an American Cancer Today. Prior to that. Molly spent 1993·94 Society fund raiser called · Relay tor 1988-89 teaching English at the Faculty of Lite: "I play lots of tennis. but unfortu­ Sciences of Chartes University in Prague nately am not good enough to make that Joyce Kelly's current whereabouts are in the Czech Republic and before that my next career•• unknown. When last heard from , she spent three years as a writer and editor­ was freelancing , after interning with the ial assistant at New City weekly newspa­ Eric Peterson is a rePorter and editor Indianapolis Star. Before that, she was per in Chicago while teaching English for the Des Plaines Journal and Elk reporter for the Daily Herald. part-time for Columbia's English Grove Topics, where he writes a political Department. In summing up her post­ column •Just Wondering." Danielle Michard reports: "After living graduate career, Molly writes, · 1 am 30 in Arizona, California and Utah, I have years old and I still sleep on a futon on April Rivera Hattori is communica· finally found the perfect place to live here the floor and keep my clothes in milk tions coordinator for Standard & Poor in in Montana. I've abandoned city living for crates. Clearly, I haven't adopted the New York City. She previously was mid­ clear air. little crime and whole lot of suburban lifestyle yet. But I guess I could west correspondent for the Bond Buyer nature. In addition to big cities, I've also probably pass for a yuppie: in Chicago and before that was a given up the title and huge salary I would reporter for the Waukesha Journal edi­ be making as a journalist (ha!), opting Kerry O'Rourke is working part-time tion of the Milwaukee Journal. instead for a more '!lightly' career as a for a Maryland legislator in the state cap·

Robin Or:vino-Proufx R!l9gio Calabria, Italy. (1987·19B8)worked as Whi/e volunteering .as publicist and member of the board of '(ice president of public directors of Judd Goldman Adaptive Salling Program in relations .. • for JOI Chicagp that teaches persons wit!\ disabilities how to sail on lnternat i on,il . s~ially designed boats at Burnham Harbor , she met Don Commun·ieations Inc., * Ploolx whom she married April 28, 1995. He had been an a consulting, and engi· advertjsing artist and production managtlr (n Chicago prior nearing telec.ommurii­ to becoming a charter boat captain in the Florida Keys. Now cations firm creating , he is a consultant managing health care industry facililies in = ---..:..i..;;;;.i developing and Southern Illinois. "That's wl)y f live where God IOst his installing a modern shoes, "explains Robin who lives at the edge of the telecommunications infrastructure for the populations in_t tie Shawnee National Forest on Lake of Egypt where she oper­ Far ~ast Reg',ons of Russ'ia after graduation. ates tl\e only sailboat in Creal Springs, 11 ••When she isn't Lat.ershe jQi"'3(1 Altheimer &,G r8y, Chicago-based interna· saj)ing, Ro.bin is. freelancin9, and.,mi ,s j9ined th' Se>ulhem Ji.onal lav,:Jirm where ~he was marketing coordinator. Robin Illinois Writers Guild. In 1995, she worked as correspondent was awarded a Sllholarsl'ijj) by.tne•Jtalian Cultural Center in and later reporter for lhe ManoniDal/y RepuJ>/ipaQ newspa­ Chicago, opofr f&ilsni.ng her,.wor1< witl) the USIA, to study rr1EiOtpe[ eoyeri[lg .··, ,. cou,:i.ty.,,_ __ - goyeminent., ,,.. \<- -"'''-- schoQ!';'/· "·-' board _,-_, "·and - "-·.,., lhe environ- Italian at the Uni\lersi~ of Foreigners, Dante Alghieri in "·'·· ·: /,~. \i /'·' '···~· ,,·· .'...... golf scholarship) as she worked as a 1989-90 1990-91 newspaper and magazine editor. She won several local, regional and interna­ DeShanna Byrdlong Paul Caine has been free-lancing in tional tilles as well as qualifying for nine was married Dec. 3, Spain since leaving the Chicago pro tournaments, including three LPGA events. 1994 to Clifford 'Bullet" Reporter in 1994, where he began as an Brisseus, a football intern before being promoted to a hous­ Debra Williams is associate editor at coach at South Shore ing reporter and winning a Peter Lisagor Catalyst magazine, She reports : "A High School in Chicago. Award in 1994. funny thing happened on the way to fin­ A certified phlebotomist. ishing my masters.Eric Lund urged me to DeShanna has been associated with her Elizabeth Gleason is attending try an internship at Catalyst, which mother in First Phlebotomy Registry, National Louis Universily 10 get her certi­ reports on school reform and the goings Inc .• Chicago. ficalion 10 teach elemenlary education. on in Chicago's public schools. "You have kids. You've served on a local Cary Eldridge's current whereabouts Trent Hanneman is producer of !he Six school council 'You'd be perfect, ' he are unknown . He previously worked as O'Clock News for Channel 6, WPSD· said. So I did. Turns out edilor Linda sports and news director of radio station TV , an NBC affilliale in Paducah, Ky. Lenz (one of our seminar guest speak­ KNFT, Silver City, NM. ers) thought so too. When my internship was over, she offered me a job. So I've Sharl Mannery's current whereabouts been an associate editor at Catalyst for 3 are unknown. She previously was a staff years." writer at the Peoria Journal Star for 6 years. 1991-92 Eileen McMahon's current where­ abouts are unknown. She previously Kevin Belgrade's current where­ worked for the Chicago Tribune Co .. abouts are unknown. He previously worked as a staff writer at W.W. Grainger Ann-Christe Young reports: "It took Inc. and taught writing at Oakton me four years. but I finally found my Community College. dream job at a magazine. Thanks to Keith Lusson in Career Services and the Edward " Ed" Collins Jr. is editing and Cclumbia College Job Fair, I was hired at publishing two trade publications: Illinois U.S. Catholic magazine three years ago. Richard (Rick) Michal is an associate Development News and the Mid­ I enjoy being an assistanl edilor. and I editor for Nuclear News magazine, a America Economic Development can say confidently that the master's monthly publication for members of the Council News which serve approximate­ program prepared me well for this posi­ American Nuclear Society - profession­ ly 3,000 readers in Illinois and through­ tion. I can remember shedding quite a als dedicated to the peaceful use of the out the Midwest and provide trade news few tears while in the program because I atom; power generation, nuclear medi· and legislative happenings affecting the didn't think I could make a 2 p.m. dead­ cine and food irradiation .He joined the field. Ed reports he recently set up an line during the City Hall semester This magazine in 1994 and also produces a online edition of the Mid-America EDC was roughest semester for me because I newsletter. ANS News, which won the News that can be seen on the Wortd had just graduated from undergraduate 1995 Silver Award at the lnternalional Wide Web at: school, and I was used to writing fiction Newsletter Conference. http-/N-MW.errllalk~.hrrV and essays. I had litlle experience with wriling news stories, and lhe fast pace Karen Palacios (1990-1991) is the ~· · Alexia Hall continued was driving me crazy! This was really second woman golf instructor in the his­ as an adjunct inslructor good for me. though, because this kind tory of the David Leadbetter Golf of English at Columbia of pressure reinforced my desire to slay Academy at Lake Nona Golf Club in f .. after graduation. She Orlando, Fl. ( Leadbetter is the world away from all newspaper offices.My also worked at Sen. famous golf instructor who teaches pros . . advice to studenls is to stick with the pro­ ,! - • Carol Moseley Braun's such as Nick Faldo, Nick Price and Brad ~ gram and write. write. write! (Oh yeah, ' I office with her then Faxon). Karen reports: "I have been depuly press secretary. and rewrite, rewrite, rewrite too.) And writing inslruclional articles for several don't underestimate the power of Career Hope Daniels (now on the faculty of magazines . I can be seen giving golf Columbia's Radio/Sound Dept.) Alexia, Services-bolh posilions I landed at tips weekly on the new cable channel­ who responded while in transit, said.: 'As magazines were due to this office. Good The Golf Channel...due on all basic I am writing this, I'm on a plane to Paris, luck and be patient!" cable packages by end of year. I love my France. From there, I'm going to job!' While working on her master's at Portugal, Spain. llaly and Switzerland. I Columbia. Karen played amateur golf am engaged to wonderful man who I met (she completed undergraduate work at while doing a homework assignment in Stetson University in Deland, Fl. on a the M.A. program. Although I've yet to Bill Wyman and Robert Feder-the obtain my dream position, Columbia's 1992-93 phone would probably not be ringing. program allowed me to solidify my Cara Jepsen is a busy After finally tlnishing that thesis a couple career goals. I went from not knowing free-lance writer. She of years ago, I'm almost ready to dump how I wanted to use my degree to learn­ puts together the Days my second career as a waitress. ing about the opportunities for joumalism of the Week/Calendar majors in public relations: every week and also Fred Krol who joined Maria Kantzavelos is the city edttor of does rock reviews and Chicago '96, the host the Villa Park Argus edition of Press i.;;.;;:.....,;1 features for The committee for the 1996 flublications. Reader. She was a staff writer at New Democratic National City for a while and still writes for it regu­ Convention, in June Kimberly (Kim) McCullough is start­ larly. Her recent New City cover stories 1995. said he has no ing a new position in government and were about dog sled racing, birth control :..z.....1firm plans after Chicago public affairs at Mount Sinai Hospital and daytime sex. She also covers radio '96. ·Heck, why not journalism?. I did get Medical Center. She previously worked a lot for Billboard Magazine. with two sto­ an M.A. in it aher all! Seriously. I never as a staff reporter for the Daily Journal in ries •on hold" at the Rolling Slone. Her would have developed an interest in pol­ Franklin, Ind. where she won a Hoosier other writing gigs include The itics had I not gone through the State Press Association award for her Neighborhood Works, Grain's Small Journalism Program." Fred, who visited series on political patronage. Business and Tribune on-line. She also then Comptroller Dawn Clark Nelsch She also freelanced for Lerner Times did a cover story on talk radio for Illinois while in graduate school, ended up vol­ newspapers, The Catalyst, Springfield Issues. She reports: "I spend most of my unteering for her gubernatorial campaign Journal-Courier, The Villa Park Argus day next to the phone, waiting for and later Fred successfully managed the and the Daily Southtown. sources to return my calls. If it hadn't re-election campaign of 43th Ward Aid. been for the help of my two mentors- Chuck Bernardini. Ayesha Mustafaa is Suzy has interviewed celebrities and edilor of lhe Muslim entertainers including former New York Journal, an international Mayor Ed Koch, Miss America Heather weekly newspaper and Whitestone . astronaut James Lovell and recently appeared on and the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra. the John Calloway Her travel writing assignments have taken her to the Bahamas, Mexico.and "Chicago Tonight" tele­ the Netherlands as well as Florida and v,s,on program as a representalive of Mackinac Island. She reports: "I'm look· Islam and of the Muslim Journal. She ing forward to a long career in both trav­ reports: "I'm certain that my training at el and entertainment writing.• Columbia contributed to my 'poise· and abilily to handle a diHicult scenario in Sherilyn (Sheri) Ritter is working for front of television cameras. In November Hilton International in management at 1995, I made my third trip to Saudi The Drake Hotel and lreelancing as a Arabia as part of a delegation with program coordinator for the University of Muslim leader w. Deem Mohammed. Illinois at Chicago where she arranges We were in Saudi Arabia for two weeks meetings and contacts Jor delegrations touring their schools ,social and govern­ coming to Chicago. Sheri reports. "I menial offices. I was able to sit on a con­ recently coordinated a trip for so ference hosted by Saudi women on lhe Chinese media executives and am Fourth World Conference of Women happy to say I received quite a Jew job held in Beijing, Chiina. Saudi women offers with one stipulation-I would have are no1 as passive as !hey look!" to be fluent in Chinese (which I'm not)!Oh well. maybe next year. ..

1993-94 Cristina Romo who held quite possibly the world's longest internship at Fox Laura Callo, who interned at Loyola Televison in Chicago for three years. Medical Center while in graduate school , graduated to working for City News went to full-time work as an editorial Bureau after receiving her M.A. and Alonda Mccree {1993•1994) became assistant in acquisitions/continuity at early on scooped the other reponers News Editor of lhe Wednesday Journal. Mosby YearBook, Inc .. a medical pub· during a suburban hostage situation an O~I< P,ark, Ill. weekly newspaper lisher. She later moved within the com­ when she was the only one able to before the ink was dry on the final draft pany to direct markeling specialist understand the Spanish speaking sus­ of tier thesis, which was about banking before she was recently downsized out pect and Jaw enforcement olficials. discrimination on the near West Side. of her job. On lhe good news side. Laura Atonda reports, ' I still find ii f1.1nny how reports she found romance while riding Mike Sebastian, who when I cover meetings or activities, the rails, specilically with a man she interned at a Decauter. people sometimes mistake me for a struck up a conversation with on the IL tv station while in high schOol student. Once while at Oak Orange Line. "I knew that interviewing school, went to the Par!(- River Forest Higti Schoo). I stuff I learned at Cotumbia would come ABC-TV affiliate in almost got into trouble because a in handy! ... Now we are completely and Sioux City as a reporter teacher wanted to know where my ele· utterly two sappy people in love • she and later returned to valor pass was-I didn't have my reports. She also put her investigalive Illinois and covers Springfield as a Visitor Slicker on my jacket. And there reporting skills to use in finding her birth reporter/photographer for the only capi­ have been times.wh en people thOught I mother in Arizona and an older brother tal-based station WJCS-TV. was a student wriling · for the high she never knew she had. school newspaper. Needless to say, I Laura Teubert has returned to school Jove this because,ru be 29 years old in Suzanne (Suzy) Carmel was recently to receive her secondary education cer­ November." I've learned so (ar .thal some people named managing editor of Travel Today. tificate in speech. English and Political find my reporting lo be very objective, a Northfield, Ill. magazine inserted Science. She had been free-lance writ­ monthly in the 65,000 circualion New wh!ch tells me that I'm doing my job the ing and substitute teaching and is cur­ right way. I'm still learning about the vil· York Times Midwesl edilion . Prior to that rently editor in chief of her parish's 8· she freelanced for two years as a feature Jage and about •ihat a news editor writer for Restaurants and Institutions. page quarterly newspaper. On her own, means. But I'd say that one of th;e most Key Magazine/This Week in Chicago. Laura launched a newsletter aimed at important things that I've learned so far Lake Shore Drive. Lerner Newspapers. single mothers called U.W.M News Mag. is that if you show people that you write Camp Management Magazine and She had to take time off from graduate about that you're interested in them and Synergy Solutions Inc. • a marketing studies. when her daughter Judy in their work, and if you keep your newsletter. She also freelanced as the became an unintentional newsmaker as reporting lair and objective, people will entertainment editor for Today's Traveler the first child in Illinois diagnosed with respect you more and be. more willing to talk to you.• magazine. a Chicago based publication. the ''flesh-eating disease" in 1994. Fortunately, Judy is now fully recovered and attending full-time kindergarten. 1995-96 "Thanks to all the faculty and all our friends at Columbia for all their support Karen Craven who and well wishes for Judy. She is strong was a correspondent and energetic and full of life." ' for the Daily South/own ..· . . . . . and became editor of the Darien (Illinois) 1994-95 . ,' ': . ••. • Progress newspaper, w ~::....L.:.:...:' w while in graduate Peter von Buol has been wor1

Hilaria Pitman was recently named market­ ing assistant for the Interactive Coupon Network, an startup online enterprise begun by the former owner of Chicago magazine that is designed to tie into the new Microsoft Network launch. Before moving to cyberspace endeav­ ors, Hilaria wor1

Karen Wagenhofer was recently named assistant editor for three trade magazines for lawyers published by Capitol Idea- The 1996 Washington Program students and their instructor. Linda Steps Media Corp.-11/inois Legal Times, Fibich (far right) pose on the Hill in the District of Columbia. Norma Green, Ph.D., Director of the River separating Canada and Graduate Journalism Pr09ram, is con­ Minnesota, for the third time since we tributing author of the just-released The were married in 1990. Shorter trips have £ye of the Reporter: Literature's Legacy taken us to Door County and Kentucky , in The Press from Western Illinois Press. which has great state parks." He enjoys She will be sharing her other research hearing from former students, so check about the history of street newspapers at out his e-mail and residential address in Former Springfield and seminar instruc­ the first ever gathering of joumali.sts from directory. tor Peggy Boyer Long is marking her North American newspapers by, for and second anniversary as editor of Illinois about homelessness scheduled for mid· Former instructors Diane Monk and Issues, a monthly magazine published August in Chicago. She is on the host Kathy Mclelland continue their writing by University of Illinois-Springfield (the committee with Chicago's award-winning and editing partnership, Leone & Co. former Sangamon State). Streetwise. Ellen Shubart. former seminar instruc­ Kathy Catrambone was promoted to Eric Lund, who retired as Graduate tor, is editor and syndicated columnist at managing editor from international editor Journalism Program Director in 1994, is Franchise Buyer, a Crain of Advertising Age magazine. She's a keeping busy with his many research Communications monthly. Previously, former Springfield Pr09ram instructor, interests ·rm working on two books, a she was managing editor of City & State. who pioneered a 'portable news service· political biography and a SO-year history Both she and Kathy Catrambone are for the journalism students reporting on of the Swedish-American Historical active on the Chicago Headline Club state government to client newspapers board .Ellen was coordinator to the 1996 in Chicago suburbs. Program Founders journalism awards judging exchange with other Society of Professional Thom Clark and Hank DeZutter ,who Journalists chapters in Connecticut and team teach the Local Politics and San Diego. Government Seminar ,are president and vice president respectively of Nicholas (Nick) Shuman, who retired Community Media Workshop headquar­ as associate director of the program in tered at Columbia. The workshop trains 1991, remains involved with Columbia non-profits groups in how to use the as head of the annual judgi~Q Jor the media to get their message across. They John Fischetti National Editorial,C:::artoon are gearing up for the Democratic Competition. ' I remain in wayn 'contact National Convention with their with Eric Lund, which whom"·l, helped Community News Project. II will provide organize the graduate program under background material for journalists on 21 the late Daryle Feldmeir and with Mike topic areas including everything from the Alexandroff, former Columbia president economic role of immigrants in Chicago Nick Shuman and Eric Lund and great baseball fan, who took me to a to local political convention history dating Cubs ballgame last year." back to 19th century.The material will be Society, of which I'm past president and Nick is proud of his son, Mark, a $t. carried on the AP convention wire. The current chairman (until October)." he Olaf College and City News Bureau Project is co-sponsoring urban issues reports. The society, founded in 1948, graduate, who is following in Nick's jour­ conferences in San Diego and Chicago has a 1,100 members in some 40 states nalistic footsteps as a part-tlmer for the with the U.S. Conference of Mayors and and Sweden, publishes bookS and a Chicago Tribune and tree-lancer tor the Local Initiatives Support Corp.Their quarterly and sponsors conference, Time and People magazines, the Denver web site http://www.mcs.neVcomm­ including one coming up this fall in Post and New York Times. news/dnchome.htm is garnering praise Minneapolis-St. Paul. Nick says •retirement leaves plenty of "I'm also a director of the Swedish time for travel with my wife, Marilyn." "In Steve Corman, who teaches the Council of America and led a panel on recent years we have taken one .tour of broadcast sequence of graduate cours­ the press at its Conference of Swedish the Soviet Union, Poland and Finland, es, has reviewed a proposed new jour· American this spring in Davenport-Rock and another to Taiwan, China, Japan nalism text, "Reporting in the 21st Island." Also in April he was banquet and South Korea. Last winter we cruised Century: From Interviewing to the speaker at the 75th anniversary celebra­ the Caribbean to the Bahamas, Mexico, Internet." for Pine Forge Press due out in tion of Norwood Park Lutheran Church, the Panama Canal, and Colombia. And Spring 1997. He found the book "innova­ which has Scandinavian (as well as next fall we're going to do Egypt and the tive anxd all encompassing:" German) roots." Nile. Maybe Israel too, which I often did On the travel itinerary, Eric reports: ' it's journalistically, having interviewerd every Bill Crawford, former Courts and the been four years since Grace and I were prime minister since Golda Meir, includ­ Law instructor and Pulitzer Prize winning last in Sweden and we hope to get back ing the recently assasinated Yitzhak Chicago Tribune reporter, has become next year if not later this year. Last sum­ Rabin and Shimon Peres: vp-communications at the Chicago mmer we visited her family in northwest Mercantile Exchange. Ontario on the other side of the Rainy Frompage 1 B.A. and M.A. in history from Delhi Minn. He worked as a law clerk, apart­ ment leasing agent and manager of who also studied at L'Universite d'Aix-en University and was a trainee news-editor Provence. She is a part-time student, at All India Radio as well as trainee sub­ Spirtt of Chicago cruises before coming interested in science writing, who works editor at two newspapers, Jansarta and to graduate school. Don. who freelanced full time as an environmental claims rep­ Free Press Journal. One of her last as a writer and editor for the 1996 Living resentative for Kemper National assignments before coming to the States in Greater Chi,ca.ao annual, interned with Insurance. was to handle the media arrangements the Washington Radio and Press for the U.S. Secretary of Treasury's visit. Seivice covering Capitol news events for April Knox went straight lrom client stations in California, Arizona, Columbia's undergraduate journalism Jim Perez.a Columbia communications Minnesota, Florida and Illinois. program with a summer internship at undergrad .joined the program in Essence magazine in New York into the February and commuted from Fort Maria Yannetos, a University of Illinois graduate program. She discovered polit­ Wayne, Ind where he worked as a copy at Chicago grad in French and Commerical Studies, has been working ical consulting through media relations editor lor the Journal Gazette.Before internships with First Trace that • he worked as a copy editor for the as Chicago correspondent lor a nation­ Communications where she worked on Rockford, tu. Register Star and the Mesa al Greek language magazine and /pro­ Cook County Supe,visor Danny Davis' (Ariz.) Tribune and was general assign­ ducer/announcer and talk show host for successlul primary campaign lor the 7th ment editor at the Southwest News a Greek language radio station. In Congressional District and worked lor Herald in Chicago and editorial assistant Washington, D.C., she interned with the U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. in at the Chicago Tribune. He also reported Greek Seivice ol the Voice ol America Washington. lor the Joliet Herald, Southwest Courier, and covered the U.S. visit of Cypriot Daily Southtown and Chicago Heights President Glafkos Clerides. Bob Musker . an English graduate ol Star. Jim is a 1991 Fellow of the Editing the University ol Illinois at Urbana and Program lor Minority Journalists ol the lilm student at large at the School ol the Maynard Institute at the University ol Art Institute ol Chicago , interned in Arizona, Tucson. In graduate school, he Washington .D.C. for the National plans to enhance his reporting skills and Coalition lor the Homeless and would combine that with his desk experience eventually like to produce his own public to work as a reporter on a major market affairs show and documentaries. Before daily. eventually as either an assistant graduate school, he worked as a pro­ metro editor or an assistant business duction assistant on "Hoop Dreams·. an editor with the intention of moving into a Extra Newspaper reporter, producer tor special sections position. Jim is interning cable access shows on community with the Center for Public Integrity in activism and Peace & Justice Radio Washington. D.C. lor the entire summer. Projects. Bob has volunteered lor Chicago Walk lor the Homeless and the Don Woolf is a Human Services gradu­ Cabrini Green Youth Program and Legal ate ol St. Mary's College in Winona, Assistance Foundation.

Steve Ordower, a University of Wisconsin at Madison graduate in inter­ national relations. also wants to be a documentary filmmaker. Before coming to Columbia, he taught English in Costa Rica, worked as a Chicago real estate appraiser and cable documentary pro­ ducer. He interned wtth the NBC-TV "Today Show· in Washington. D.C. Back in Chicago he assisted a BBC lilm crew shooting a documentary on ... prohibi­ tion. In August. he's participating in Volunteers lor Israel.

Sheyphali Sharan took a leave from her government post in the press inlor­ mation bureau ol the minister of linance in New Delhi, India to study for her sec­ ond master's while her husband com­ pleted his doctoral studies at the University of Chicago. She has both a Post-Deadline Still Life in Graduate Newsroom