VISITING soul of the life-changing program. HOWARD STERN The alums, faculty, and former faculty exchanged WTBU trip inspires student-run radio greetings and hugs and station as it prepares to rebuild posed for photos. Ann Howard Jones, 24-year BUTI choral instructor and a WTBU was the first station to give CFA professor emerita and radio host Howard Stern a job, and in director of choral activities, July, Stern (CGS’74, COM’76) returned a woman who launched a the favor by welcoming the station’s thousand careers, allemand- current e-board to his New York City ed her way from embrace studios for a visit. The group met to embrace along the green the host of the Howard Stern Show and under the party tent. A and toured his studios and the entire panel of alumni, moderated SiriusXM complex, looking for ideas by Hoff man, was not only a that would help them rebuild their paean of gratitude, but also station, which was destroyed in a fire an illustration of the creative last March. lives outside performance Howard The fire, believed to have been started by an equipment mal- Stern and teaching that the young (CGS’74, function, caused major water and smoke damage and rendered BUTI musicians have made. COM’76) uninhabitable the studios on the third floor of the College of Com- BUTI alum and vocalist Amy with Emma munication. Broadcasting has resumed in a temporary studio; the new Seslowsky Matthews, for (COM’18) space is being designed and could be completed by January. kONLINE: example, is now and Zach In the weeks following the fire, alums and supporters of the station Read the host of a string of Schiff man from across the country donated more than $40,000 to support the (COM’18). full story home renovation rebuild. Many listeners tweeted at Stern, hoping that the shock jock at bu.edu shows on HGTV. would see the pleas and help the station. When word did finally get /bostonia. But the high through to him, he invited the students to his studios at satellite radio point of the day, broadcaster SiriusXM. of course, was the music. Station faculty advisor Anne Donohue (COM’89), a COM associate Seiji Ozawa Hall’s Florence professor of journalism, accompanied the group, which included seven Gould Auditorium was nearly students and Jake Kassen (CGS’01, COM’03), technical operations fi lled to its 1,200-seat capac- manager at COM. “He could not have been more gracious,” says ity as BUTI alum Ken-David Donohue. “He said he felt terrible about the fire, asked what he could Masur, assistant conductor do to help, and then spent time talking one-on-one with each of the of the BSO, led a program kids. He spent an hour meeting with us, when I thought we’d have of upbeat, soulful works 15 minutes.” AL by Wagner, Brahms, BUTI alum Lawrence Wolfe, and former Tanglewood general advisor Leonard Bernstein Number (Hon.’83), with a rendition The Class of Number of Average of “Make Our Garden Grow” 2020 is “an students of students SAT Candide impressive who score from his musical . TRUE applied enrolled bunch,” says The performance featured GRID six BUTI alumni soloists Kelly Walter, associate vice and a chorus augmented by president 57,433 6,952 1976 alumni. The result, a thun- and executive derous choral fi nale, sent a director of rush of goose bumps through admissions. audience members who had This year’s Number Number Average been fanning themselves freshmen come of of ACT states countries with their programs in the from the top 10 score represented represented humid August heat. Ambrose percent of their gave a closing nod to all those high school “who have had their artistry class and had an A- average. and their hearts opened” by 30 49 74

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