A publication of the Indiana University School of Journalism

Vol. 34, Issue 1 Spring 2008

Alumni Working Abroad Enjoy Challenges | New Courses Include Travel Dean’s Message Journalism Experiences Program Aims Beyond Classroom

and the liberation of Paris — all covered • Special course-based journalism travel by Pyle from 1940 to 1944. (Dozens of programs in Spring 2008 to Europe and alumni already have expressed interest in Asia and additional programs for next year; participating in a similar course, perhaps • An increased commitment to internship in a summer session. We’ll work on that opportunities and support; version for the future.) • Projects within courses at all levels that Students might not remember the can include onsite reporting or partici- details about D-Day from a textbook, but I pation at top workshops and conferences know they will never forget walking along in our field, such as SPJ, IRE, NAB or PRSA. the coast of Normandy to understand The basics of journalism require that Dean Brad Hamm what happened in June 1944. “I took a we go to the site of the story, if possible, walk along the historic coast of Normandy and that we interview people directly and ometimes when people measure uni- in the country of France,” Pyle began his observe what is there. Journalists need to Sversities, they analyze such things as famous June 16, 1944, column that then get out from behind their desks to see the the number of books in the library, the told of the “awful waste and destruction” larger world. At a university, classroom number of faculty with advanced degrees he saw that day. work is important. Yet time spent outside and the SAT scores of the entering class — Retracing Pyle’s travels is just one of of the classroom is essential to the com- or, essentially, the measures of what exists the Journalism Experiences available plete development of our students. onsite prior to the arrival of a student. to students. Those in other courses and Already, with our new programs, we’ve Forgotten in all of this is what happens programs may participate in an array of seen a 40 percent increase in enrollment to the student — you, your child, a friend events, from chatting over dinner with the in the journalism school. Increasing our — during the four years of college. best journalists, talking to Beijing report- size is not the main goal; attracting the How do we change the lives of our ers by video conference, working late into best students and offering the best train- students during their days at Indiana the night on student media and spending ing and opportunities is. University? How do we in the School of a semester abroad. Pyle spoke of a time when he would see Journalism train the best journalists and We are adding significantly to all Journalism London after the war, though he never did. citizens? Experiences programs this year and have “Someday when peace has returned to Our Journalism Experiences program hired Jessica Gall, an IU graduate, to make this odd world I want to come to London is designed to take the goals and dreams sure we include all of our students. again and stand on a certain balcony on of each student and work during the next The main Journalism Experiences pro- a moonlit night and look down upon four years to help make these goals and grams include: the peaceful silver curve of the Thames dreams possible. We are investing in an • A national lecture series with monthly with its dark bridges,” Pyle wrote Dec. aggressive learning model where students speakers, who often attend luncheons 30, 1940. “And standing there, I want to study ideas and skills through specific and dinners with students, and nearly tell somebody who has never seen it how — and often unique — experiences. 150 professionals, including many London looked on a certain night in the In the spring, for example, 30 students alumni, each year on campus working holiday season of the year 1940.” will enroll in a new Ernie Pyle course. with our students; We want the students to see for them- They will take classes during the weeks • Student media that rank among the selves. And if you have ideas or can help throughout the semester. Early in the nation’s best; in any way as we build these Journalism semester, they will visit Dana, Ind., Pyle’s • New study abroad programs and fund- Experiences, please let us know. All of us home and museum. At spring break, stu- ing to match our foreign language can make these dreams come true and cre- dents will travel to London, Normandy requirements; ate an IU School of Journalism education and Paris. Using Pyle’s letters and col- • A new journalism honors program that that is truly a life-changing experience. umns, the students will learn about the has attracted top students from across bombing of London, the D-Day landings the nation; Tyra Robertson Tyra On the Cover CONTENTS

2 Calendar of Events

3 The Scoop Ask the Pro

10 Alumni Working Around the Globe by Sara Brazeal

14 The Ultimate Field Trip

Chris Bistline, BAJ’97, worked in Egypt before relocating to South Africa. Courtesy photo by Elizabeth Beltramini

17 On the Record Page 3 Page 14 Alumnus’ Film Wins Prize Borman Leads Travel Writers’ Group Gordon L. Smith

21 Reminisce with Marge Ernie Pyle Society ‘Always Ready To Talk’

22 The Big Picture Will Counts’ iconic photo of desegregation Winners of the Roy W. Howard National in Little Rock, Ark., was in demand during Collegiate Reporting Competition traveled the 50th anniversary commemorations. to Japan and South Korea. Courtesy photo Big Picture

Andrew Prinsen, BAJ’07, contributed this issue’s ‘Big Picture.’ He traveled in India last fall as his Hazeltine Travel Scholarship experience. Calendar of Events

FEB. 11 to write a Sunday column focusing Newswire is published by the Indiana on grammar, usage and etymology. In Andrea Koppel University School of Journalism with sup- 2006, he won the Presidential Medal port from the Journalism Alumni Board. It is Andrea Koppel, of Freedom. mailed twice each year to alumni, faculty, most recently a Before joining The New York Times, staff and friends of the school. congressional Safire was a senior White House correspondent speechwriter for President Nixon. He Please send questions, for CNN, starts has worked as a radio and television comments and story ideas to: the School producer, U.S. Army correspondent, Beth Moellers, Director of Communications, of Journalism reporter for The New York Herald IU School of Journalism, 940 E. Seventh Spring Speaker Tribune and as president of his own St., Bloomington, IN 47405 or e-mail her Series at 7 p.m., public relations firm. at [email protected]. Feb. 11, at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater in Bloomington. APRIL 4-5 Dean Koppel joined CNN in 1993 and The School of Journalism plans to host Brad Hamm reported from around the world as the Society of Professional Journalists’ State Department correspondent, fol- Editor Region 5 conference April 4-5, bring- lowing three U.S. secretaries of state Beth (Spangle) Moellers, BAJ’99, MA’05 ing professionals and student journal- in their travels. Previously, Koppel Gena Asher, BA’79, MLS/MIS’03, Spring ists to campus. served as the network’s Beijing bureau 2008 editor The conference, for SPJ members chief and correspondent, reporting on in Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky, will more than half of China’s 30 provinces. Consulting Editors feature development workshops and She is the daughter of former ABC Marjorie (Smith) Blewett, BA’48 the SPJ Mark of Excellence awards “Nightline” anchor Ted Koppel, who Bonnie J. Brownlee, BA’72, MA’75 luncheon April 5 to honor the best in also reported on State Department Tim Street, BAJ’03 college student work. matters, including covering Secretary Copy Editors of State Henry Kissinger in the 1970s. APRIL 14 Elizabeth Wallis Winkler, BA’52 Ted Koppel now reports for the Discovery Doris Brineman, BA’48 Channel and National Public Radio. Michael Beschloss Historian Michael Staff Writers FEB. 28 Beschloss is the Jonathan Hiskes, ‘08 Alumni Reception, Chicago last guest of the Rosemary Pennington, ‘08 Spring Speaker Details to be announced. Contact Series. He talks Design [email protected] for updates. at 7 p.m., April Mediaworks MARCH 24 14, at the IU Auditorium. William Safire Author of The second of the eight books, including the recent best- Speaker Series’ seller “The Conquerers: Roosevelt, guests, Pulitzer Truman and the Destruction of Hitler’s Prize-winning Germany,” Beschloss addresses cur- commentator rent election issues through the lens of William Safire vis- his own work as an author-historian its 7 p.m., March examining presidents’ actions and 24, in Alumni Hall reactions during pivotal points in their in the Indiana tenures. Memorial Union. In addition to his writing, Beschloss From 1972-2005, Safire wrote a is the presidential historian for NBC political column for the Op-Ed pages News and is a regular commentator on of The New York Times and continues PBS’s “News Hour With Jim Lehrer.” Cover photo by Tim Street (top and bottom left) Courtesy photos. (right) Simon & Schuster

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Little Rock Anniversary Renews Interest in Counts’ Photo

no idea how big it was,” she said gave the collection to IU. She retains rights shortly after returning home to to publication fees, but for the last three Bloomington from a 50th anniver- years, Cook has been fielding requests to sary commemoration in Little Rock use the photos. in September. “A day doesn’t go by when I don’t have A 26-year-old photographer for some kind of request for something from the Arkansas Democrat, Counts was the Will Counts collection,” Cook said. “As working on his home turf that day. the 50th anniversary approached, the inter- Already a familiar face to locals, est increased, of course, but people also he was able to blend in and out of want to use his images from other areas of the scene, capturing candid photos. his work. It’s a wonderful collection.” One, of African American reporter Alex Wilson being kicked in the The late professor Will Counts’ 1957 photo of de- chest, led to Counts’ nomination Family Revives segregation at Central High School in Little Rock, for a Pulitzer Prize. Ark., was in demand during 50th anniversary Fleming Scholarship commemorations. After a career shooting for AP, Counts (MS’54, PhD’67 education) The children of John L. Fleming, BA’41, oung Will Counts’ iconic photo of came to the School of Journalism where have resurrected a scholarship set up nine Arkansas black students walk- Y he taught for 32 years, retiring in 1995, by the alumnus’ employer more than ing amid protesting white high schoolers six years before his death. IU Archives 30 years ago. toward Little Rock’s Central High School photo curator Brad Cook said Counts was Fleming, who served as an IDS one hot day in 1957 may be the single shot a frequent visitor to the IU Archives when sportswriter during his collegiate that captured a nation’s struggle toward researching and collecting for his book, years, began working for Aluminum desegregation. Some reported later that, as “Bloomington Past and Present.” Company of America’s communica- Associated Press sent it around the coun- “Since Counts had been nominated for tions department in 1942, leaving try, the photo helped convince President a Pulitzer Prize, that makes the collection to serve in the Army. He returned to Dwight D. Eisenhower to send federal important right there,” Cook said of the ALCOA, rising to the post of executive troops to the area. thousands of images Vivian Counts depos- vice president. As the 50th anniversary of desegregation ited with IU Archives in 2004 for care and Upon his death in 1975, the company at Central High School in Little Rock safekeeping. “The vast majority of photos honored his life’s work with a scholarship approached, TV documentarians, publishers he shot are so interesting, including a lot to support journalism students at IU. and organizations requested use of the photo of Arkansas images no one has ever seen When his widow died two years for various projects and retrospectives. before. For example, there is one of Elvis ago, his children found records of the Counts’ widow, Vivian Counts, wasn’t Presley, on his way to boot camp after scholarship but also learned it was no surprised at the demand or of the photo’s being drafted, sitting in a diner somewhere longer in effect. They made a gift to importance. in Arkansas.” (That image and others hang the school to ensure that the scholar- “Will knew when he snapped that pic- on the walls of Ernie Pyle Hall.) ship would be revived and help a new

Will Counts (courtesy of IU Archives) ture that he had something, but he had In August, Vivian Counts officially generation of students.

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Speakers Share Insight, Advice Each semester, School of Journalism Lisa Ling students hear about the challenges Host of National Geographic’s flagship TV show, “Explorer,” and successes of the professional world and correspondent for Oprah from working journalists who visit the Winfrey’s show, Lisa Ling began working as a broadcaster school. In addition to scores of guest at age 16. For various organi- speakers in individual classrooms, the zations, she’s covered war in school invites three topflight profes- Afghanistan, rape in the Congo and life in a maximum-security sionals each semester as part of the prison, immersing herself in Speaker Series. stories. During her talk, the second of the school’s Speaker Bob Woodward Series, she lamented the lack of venues for in-depth storytelling. Bob Woodward, the Washington “Our news just doesn’t cover these Post assistant managing editor best known for unearthing the stories. It’s pretty tragic when you Watergate scandal with fellow think about it.” reporter Carl Bernstein, kicked —Lisa Ling, Oct. 3, Buskirk-Chumley Theater in off the IU School of Journalism Bloomington Speaker Series Sept. 17, sharing stories of Watergate and the brand of investigative reporting that has led to his career as a Ken Paulson book author covering current A co-founder and now editor politics. at USA Today, Ken Paulson is He urged students to be sure to get all the details, to ask active in raising awareness of the right questions. the importance of the First “The job of journalism is not stenography. It is getting the Amendment. He reminded his full story and the meaning of that story,” said Woodward, the audience that states refused to author of 11 best-selling books, including “All the President’s ratify the Constitution in 1791 Men” (with Bernstein), and, most recently, “State of Denial: without the freedoms guaran- Bush at War Part III.” teed in the First Amendment. “Democracies die in darkness. Nixon tried it and it didn’t work. The more secret “We do the First Amendment a great government gets, the worse it gets.” disservice when we think of it as a —Pulitzer Prize-winner Bob Woodward, Sept. 17, dusty historical document we can forget IU Auditorium about after the fourth grade. The First Amendment goes to the core of who we are as a people.” —Ken Paulson, Nov. 7, Alumni Hall in the Indiana Memorial Union Courtesy photos

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Practicum Sets up Ad Agency new advertising class this fall has semester creating a brand identity and plans for the agency, then presented A laid the groundwork for what will a marketing plan for the agency. In the their plans to a committee of deans, who become the School of Journalism’s spring, a number of the students will take selected one team’s plan. student-run advertising and public rela- the course again and begin seeking clients The agency will target for-profit tions agency. for whom they will create advertising companies, Wood said, but it also may Visiting Professor Craig Wood’s J460 campaigns and public relations plans. work for nonprofits such as the IU Art Agency Practicum students spent the Four class teams created competing Museum and the geography department. It will offer both advertising and public relations services.

21 Scholars Join Honors Program Members of the second class of the School of Journalism Honors Program students have a lot in common. All worked in some kind of journalism in high school, many are theater perform- ers and all have stellar grade point averages. Three are IU Wells Scholars. But they also hail from as far away as Ukraine and Hawaii, and as nearby Students in the ad agency practicum visited Leo Burnett in Chicago in October to get a as Bloomington. Among them are an feel for how agencies operate, including examining the agency’s clients’ products. Eagle Scout, athletes in a variety of sports, bilingual speakers and two who are proficient in Latin. They are volun- teers, racking up hours at shelters and Student Work Earns Awards as mentors in their hometowns. U School of Journalism students con- Washington, D.C., in a contest sponsored This year, the Honors Program has Itinue to win awards in national and by the Associated Collegiate Press. 21 scholars, chosen from a pool of 57 regional competitions. The Arbutus won a first place award applicants from around the nation. In September, Indiana Daily Student and first place best of show in the year- The Honors Program committee and INside magazine staffers earned book category. In individual prizes, selected 22, and 21 opted to attend the honors from the Society of Professional Ashley Wilkerson, MA’07, won first place School of Journalism. Journalists’ National Mark of Excellence for photography and Andrew Shaffer, The School of Journalism Honors competition in Washington, D.C. BAJ’07, won first place for story of the year. Program, initiated last year, is designed Senior Nina Mehta and Keith Senior Mark Koenig won second place to guide the scholars as a cohesive McDonald, MA’06, won for best photo and Nina Mehta won honorable mention group through their degree programs. illustration. The IDS staff won for best in design of the year. The IDS staff won Known as the Ernie Pyle Scholars, online news reporting, and the newspa- second place in advertising and honor- these students are admitted directly per was one of three national finalists for able mention in best of show. to the journalism program as soon as best student newspaper. INside magazine In November, School of Journalism they enroll as freshmen and are eligi- was one of three national finalists for junior Michael Sanserino won first ble to take up to seven special honors best student magazine. place and junior Chip Cutter won third courses. They also have access to top In October, the Arbutus and place in the Indianapolis Press Club speakers and are invited to take study IDS staffers won top awards at the Foundation’s Thomas R. Keating Feature trips in the United States and abroad.

Anthony LaPenna National College Media convention in Writing Contest.

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School Welcomes New Faculty, Staff Campaign he School of Journalism welcomed “Things have changed a little since Tnew faces last fall and more will be 2003,” she said. “But I love being back in Halfway joining the faculty and staff this year. the newsroom. I love the electricity, work- Associate professor Jim Kelly, MA’88, ing with students.” to Goal PhD’90, and assistant professor Joann Wong The school has begun posting faculty The School of Journalism is more joined in August (see Fall 2007 Newswire). and some staff openings on its Web site, than halfway to achieving its $5 One of the new staff positions will www.journalism.indiana.edu. million goal toward IU Bloomington’s provide support for school programs Matching the Promise campaign. and goals. Jessica Gall, MA’07, is the new “Alumni and friends of the director of experiential education and New Web Site School of Journalism have created recruitment, facilitating programs that Offers Multimedia eight new matched endowments,” send students abroad and connecting with said Dean Brad Hamm. “These prospective students. The School of Journalism launched its gifts allow our students to do more, Gall said travel is important because new Web site in September as a strategy learn more and achieve more.” it gives students the context for what they to accommodate more multimedia and The campaign is called Matching learn in class. to continue to serve its diverse audience. the Promise because it gives donors “To get the most out of it, students Changes include more multimedia a chance to double the effective need to go out into the real world, espe- features, such as a virtual tour of the value of their cially now with globalization,” Gall said. school, video and audio clips, slide gifts. For “This won’t help only in class, it will help shows and blogs. example, a them get jobs. They’ll be able to apply their The site allows prospective stu- $50,000 gift classroom work to real-world experience.” dents can get a feel for the School of generates New Visual Communications Lab Journalism experience, current students 5 percent Director Scott Myrick is applying his skills can stay informed about activities at the a year, or as a TV anchor and reporter to guiding school and friends and area residents $2,500, to student work. He has a bachelor’s degree can log on to find out about speakers be applied to in communications from Elon University, and events open to the public. scholarships. where, as a student, he was involved with Alumni may use a special tab, The Bloomington campus matches many aspects of visual technology and Alumni & Friends, to learn about special that with another $2,500, so the presentation. events or to get involved with their alma gift effectively produces a $5,000 Other professionals have stepped in to mater. Alumni may submit information scholarship every year in perpetuity. share years of real-world experience. and updates, nominate people to the IU and the Indiana University Riley Visiting Professor Dennis Elliott, journalism alumni board or download Foundation launched the seven- BA’69, is teaching students in public the latest Newswire. Also, many stories in Newswire are available in expanded year campaign in 2003 to enable relations classes. Riley Lecturer Lee more low- and moderate-income versions on the Web site. The direct URL Giles, retired broadcast producer from families to send their children to is www.journalism.indiana.edu/alumni/. Indianapolis’ CBS affiliate, came on board IU. As of October, the overall effort to teach broadcast news. had raised $625 million toward the Interim Director of Student Media goal of $1 billion. Nancy Comiskey, BA’74, is not a new face More than 2,000 students to the school. For five years, she’s been a already are attending IU through visiting professor, adjunct lecturer and, a the four-year scholarship program, few years ago, served as interim director which may reduce cost of tuition, while then-director David Adams was on room and board to as little as $341 leave in 2003. per year, depending on family income. With Adams’ death in June, Comiskey For more information about the again serves this position while the school campaign, visit the IU Foundation conducts a search for a new director. Web site at IUFoundation.iu.edu/mtp.

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Ask the Pro is a recurring feature in which Newswire asks a professional journalist and a professor from our faculty a provocative question. This issue, we ask: QHow: should journalists prepare to work in different cultures?

Jim Bright Mary Milliken Ralph Winslow Visiting Professor Jim Mary Milliken, BA’85, is the West Coast Bright, BA’74, joined the faculty in Bureau Chief for Reuters. Now based in 2006 after retiring as public relations Los Angeles, she has worked as a cor- executive at Ford Motor Co., where respondent in Argentina, Brazil, Portugal he was responsible for the company’s and Spain. global PR activities.

Here’s what I advise young journalists preparing to work in a different I once heard that only 30 percent of communication is verbal, the culture:: other: 70 percent coming from body language and sparkling eyes. But if you want to work abroad as a journalist, do not use this Get to know international students. One of the great things about being statistic as a crutch for your linguistic shortcomings. Mastering a Aan IU student is the opportunity to get to know students from South A foreign language may be your best ticket to a job abroad — and Korea, China, India and other countries. Too often, we seek out people the key to keeping it. “just like me” when we can learn so much from people from other cultures. Covering a news conference in native English is arduous enough; Travel and study abroad. Overseas countries and their people are just imagine what it is like in a language that doesn’t fl ow freely never the way you imagined. Travel changes the way you look at the through your brain. Expect your editors to be unforgiving when world — and at your own country. you and your story get “lost in translation.” Do your homework. “Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands” is a wonderful Gone are the days of foreign correspondents with local translators. guide to 60 countries. It answers a lot of questions: Is it customary to Here are the days of journalists from multicultural families and tip? To exchange gifts? international study programs. At IU, you are fortunate to have a Learn at least a few basic phrases. If you are not fl uent in the language, virtual United Nations on your doorstep, not only in hundreds of you’ll need to rely on an interpreter and get a good dictionary. You’ll language courses offered but also in the diverse student body. I re- fi nd knowing how to say “good morning,” “good evening,” “thank member picking up a little Catalan in Bloomington that no doubt you” and “I am pleased to meet you” opens a lot of doors. It shows came in handy when I worked in Spain. respect for people and their culture. I recommend pursuing those diffi cult languages in high demand Create bilingual business cards. Print your contact information in and would put Arabic at the top of my list. These days, good Span- English on one side and in the native language on the fl ip side. Seek ish speakers are a dime a dozen. And while Spanish served me out someone who can make bilingual “fl ash cards” with the name of well in the early part of my career, it was Portuguese later on that your hotel and other information to give to taxi drivers and others. propelled me into the most interesting jobs. I once got a big job Keep an open mind. Most Americans come from a Judeo-Christian because the employer assumed I spoke Portuguese well. I didn’t. background, and some tend to dismiss people from other cultures as I spoke the Spanish-Portuguese hybrid Portunhol, and poorly “strange.” You’ll fi nd that people share so much in common wherever at that. But there was no one around to test me. Fortunately, I you go and the cultural differences are what make the world so fascinating. became fairly fl uent before anyone noticed. Practice speaking slowly and clearly. Good relationships are often In almost every country, speaking the language with ease opens more important in overseas countries. Slow down. doors to certain conversations that will pay off handsomely for journalists. In Brazil, it helped greatly if I could talk about soccer Avoid idioms. “It’s raining cats and dogs” and “you hit that one out or “futebol” with the country’s big wigs, especially during World of the park” may make perfect sense to us, but they confuse others Cup season. That sent the message of “I understand your country” who often take what you say quite literally. to my potential sources. And isn’t a source always more likely to Enjoy the experience. When opportunity knocks for an overseas as- talk to a reporter who “gets it”?

(left) Ann Schertz, (right) Courtesy photo signment, go!

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Alumni Celebrate 140 Years of IDS he School of Journalism Alumni Weekend showed their daughter, Caroline, the IDS William Randolph Hearst Foundation Tbrought more than 100 former students newsroom where her father first asked her National Photojournalism Contest. He to Bloomington Oct. 5-7 to celebrate the mother out on a date. covered the 1981 men’s basketball cham- 140th anniversary of the Indiana Daily Upstairs in Ernie Pyle Hall, Anita Feiwell pionship game from Nick’s English Hut, Boorda, BA’43, spoke capturing on camera a pitcher full of beer of working as the flying midair as the game’s final seconds IDS telegraph editor ticked away. and watching “There are so many memories in this her boyfriend’s building for me,” Sears said outside the draft number come IDS and Arbutus offices. “So many.” over the line. She The socializing continued at a tailgate recalled the shock party Saturday before IU’s game against of learning about it Minnesota and at a brunch Sunday morn- before he did and ing at the Tudor Room in the Indiana the phone call some Memorial Union. months later when School of Journalism Dean Brad Hamm he proposed to her said it never seems difficult to convince from training camp. alumni to visit Bloomington. Amid the technology of the present-day IDS, Marge Blewett, She was in a phone “I travel a lot, and people have an amazing BA‘48, and John Wilson, BA‘48, looked at old IDS issues during booth in the stu- fondness for Bloomington and Ernie Pyle the October alumni weekend. dent union. Hall,” he said. “People want to talk about Student and catch up with one another “I tried to buy that booth when they the campus and school and city. They want and faculty and staff members. renovated the union,” she said. to talk about their professors too, but At the Friday open house reception, Phil Sears, BA’83, found the display there’s this romantic image about this Eric White, BAJ’97, and Sara Brazeal, BAJ’97, case with his first place award from a place they loved when they were students.” Alumni, Friends Remember Dave Adams uring the October School of Journalism spoke of Adams’ passion and the DAlumni Weekend, dozens of faculty, personal attention he gave to so staff, alumni and student media staffers many young journalists. from the last three decades offered affec- Ryan Gunterman, BS’02, recalled tionate stories about David L. Adams, the talking with Adams about the First student media director who died in June. Amendment controversy that arose With the backdrop of a slide show of last winter when a northern Indiana Adams working with dozens of students principal censored a high school over the years, many of the same students newspaper after it ran a column dis- spoke of his impact on them. cussing homosexuality and tolerance. Matthew Zimmerman, BAJ’00, “As he talked, his voice would described his former adviser’s glowing, get more and more high pitched, “missing-tooth grin.” until no one could hear him but Dean Brad Hamm was just one of the speakers for “I don’t know what I wouldn’t give to his two dogs,” joked Gunterman, a Dave Adams’ memorial service. The image on the screen is of Adams delivering newspapers. have one more conversation with Dave journalism adviser at Bloomington Adams,” Zimmerman said. “To have one High School North. carrying on Adams’ work: the Indiana more lunch with him and have him say, “As sad as I am about his death, don’t Student Free Press Act, which several ‘God, you’re too young to be that cynical.’” ever think he’s done teaching these kids, students are promoting with help from School Communications Director because his work is still going on,” he said. the campus chapter of the Society of Beth Moellers, BAJ’99, MA’05, Dean Brad Current IDS editor-in-chief Trevor Professional Journalists. They have named Hamm and Brandon Morley, BAJ’06, Brown spoke of one example of students it “The Dave Adams Law.” Jeremy Hogan Jeremy

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hat does it take to satisfy 100 hungry alumni Hall, chowed down at a Saturday tailgate before the IU- W and their families? The School of Journalism Minnesota game (which IU won, 40-20) and dined in found out during the Alumni Weekend Oct. 5-7, when the more refined atmosphere of the Indiana Memorial alumni schmoozed at a Friday reception at Ernie Pyle Union’s Tudor Room at Sunday brunch.

By the Numbers: Tailgate Tally

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25 pounds of mac and cheese

25 pounds of fruit salad

25 pounds of cornbread salad

5 gallons of iced tea

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Wherever they land on the globe, though, they say they are journalists first, travelers second. “No matter what you cover, you need to have basic skills and good insight to do your job well,” said Shinsuke Kobayashi, MA’00, in an e-mail interview. Kobayashi works in London as a sports correspondent for Kyodo News, Japan’s largest news agency. “Working overseas might sound glam- orous, but you can’t jump onto it from the beginning,” he advised. “You have to have a strong background as a journalist first and then expand yourself on a global stage.” Working as a journalist in a global environment requires learning about other people and their environments. “It is a good major for people who want to go into cultures and cover all dif- Monte Hayes, BA’66, relaxed at a jungle tourist camp last July with a “capybara,” a giant ferent kinds of stories and communities rodent native to the rainforest. that they may know little about,” said need to speak the language well and Hayes agreed, addingingnggthatth thatt thehee pressureprpreessuureur School of Journalism Dean Brad Hamm. understand cultural nuances, said to use technology to deliverliver newsewewswss quicklyqquuickcklycklyy Now Associated Press bureau chief in Milliken, currently Reuters’ U.S. West leads to mistakes and hurtstssjo journalists’jourou iststs’ts Lima, Peru, Monte Hayes, BA’66, has spent Coast bureau chief. credibility. Even scrupulous reporters,porteorteersrs,rss,, most of his career working overseas, first Technological advances have made though, face hurdles. Reporters workingorrk in as a Peace Corps volunteer and later as a huge difference in the way journalists less technologically-advanced areas often a reporter and editor. He said journalists working in a global environment share the lack access to the resources U.S. journalists working on the global stage must be inter- news they gather. take for granted, such as official records ested in everything going on around them. “Today, a visual journalist can travel and information. “For it to be fun, you have to feel the to a far away place with a laptop, a video Even as their jobs take them to the next excitement of that,” he said. “Instead of camera and a satellite phone to write country, or back to their home turfs, some covering a beat in the U.S., you’re cover- and produce stories from anywhere in journalists never forget the romance of the last stop, the lure of the new challenge. ‘Working overseas might sound glamorous, but you can’t Mary Milliken is one of those. She jump onto it from the beginning. You have to have a strong said she’s happy to be back in the United background as a journalist first and then expand yourself on a States, but she misses the chance to “report on places where there are not global stage.’— Shinsuke Kobayashi, MA’00 many journalists and that don’t get a lot of attention.” ing a country, covering a culture. You have the world,” said Michel duCille, BA’85, everything there to choose from.” in an e-mail interview. DuCille is the Bistline Learns to Mary Milliken, BA’85, served as South Washington Post assistant managing editor ‘Go With the Flow’ Latin America bureau chief for Reuters, for photography and has traveled exten- When serving as managing editor of the responsible for 45 journalists covering sively as a photojournalist. “The journal- Indiana Daily Student in fall 1996, Chris Argentina, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay ist of the future still will have to be able Bistline knew he had to watch the clock or and Uruguay. Milliken began her career to do multiple duties: Be a visual journal- risk missing deadline. in Spain, working as a business reporter ist, be a good writer, be able to edit well But there are corners of the world when the European Union was forming. on deadline.” where “deadline” doesn’t have the same The best way of gaining access when As technology leaps forward, journal- meaning it does in the United States, she began her reporting career 20 years ists must continue to conduct solid “shoe- Bistline has learned. He is the art director ago still is applicable today. Reporters leather” reporting, said Milliken. for Tide Media, a publisher of trade maga- Courtesy photo

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zines in Johannesburg, South Africa. This He probably would follows four years of serving as an art direc- have continued on tor for IBA Media, a magazine publisher in the newspaper path, Cairo, Egypt. sidestepping maga- “In the news business, deadlines are zines and “never king. In the Arab world, and in Africa, too, would have been punctuality is considered a deadly sin,” presented with the said Bistline, BAJ’97, in an e-mail inter- opportunities I’ve view. “People over here have a much more had working over- relaxed view of time. When I was the art seas” had his wife director for Business Today Egypt, I would not accepted a job work feverishly to get everything laid out in Egypt. on time to send off to the printer. But “The thing I seemingly every month, something would really enjoy most happen that would throw the schedule off about being overseas by a week or more.” is getting a fresh At first, he’d lose his temper, shout at perspective on how people, demand explanations and results. the world works,” “I quickly learned there was little point. he said. “I think in All I could do was go with the flow, drink the U.S., we get very some tea and sit back and wait.” isolated and tend to Working in a place so far away from think of the rest of Chris Bistline, BAJ’97. home has presented challenges, he said. the world as some- While South Africa is like the United thing that happens on CNN. gain an appreciation for other cultures. States in many ways, Egypt, where Bistline “It’s also just great to travel around and “In high school in Gainesville, Ga., I and his wife moved in the summer of see places most people have only heard fell in love with journalism and photography,” said duCille. “In those early years, I was ‘When we lived in Egypt, every morning when I’d get up and influenced by the National Geographic pho- tographers, who gave me the idea to travel go to work, I saw the Pyramids of Giza out the window. How to foreign lands and tell stories. cool is that?’— Chris Bistline, BAJ’97 “As a photojournalist over the last sev- eral years, I have traveled to many coun- 2001, was a different environment in every about or seen on TV. When we lived in tries, mostly in Africa. It is a vast continent respect: religion, language, customs. Egypt, every morning when I’d get up and with diverse cultures and people. I am “It was like living on another planet,” go to work, I saw the Pyramids of Giza out drawn to it as a person of African descent he said. It took six months before he felt the window. How cool is that?” and by my interest as a storyteller and settled. photojournalist.” “The biggest challenge I’ve had to face DuCille’s Travels Lead DuCille worked as a photographer and is overcoming people’s preconceived ideas to Great Storytelling of Americans,” Bistline said. “We’re pretty Many journalists struggle to adapt when much seen as fat, stupid, lazy, greedy they are on assignment in a different part warmongers. And I suppose there’s a bit of the world. But photojournalist Michel of truth to that stereotype. It can be very duCille, BA’85, has practiced fitting into frustrating, though, when people refuse to new cultures. see past that to see who you are and what The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, who you’re capable of.” recently was named assistant managing The challenges of a different environ- editor for photography at The Washington ment have pushed Bistline to expand his Post, became interested in journalism journalistic skills. Before moving abroad, after immigrating to the United States he worked as a designer for Bucks County from Jamaica when he was 14 years old. Washington Post assistant managing editor Courier Times and South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Making that transition helped duCille for photography Michel duCille, BA’85. (top) Courtesy photo, (bottom) Photo courtesy of the Washington Post (top) Courtesy photo, (bottom) Photo courtesy of the Washington

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editor for The Miami Herald before serving sion of images or other materials. the University of Bologna. She spent her as deputy assistant managing editor for “Digital is a fantastic tool,” said junior year abroad to help perfect her lan- photography at The Washington Post. In duCille. “But as a journalist, one must guage skills. 2005, he returned to full-time photojour- keep the focus on the tenets of journalism. For journalists considering a career in nalism and recently has worked on large It doesn’t matter what the tool is, we must a non-native country, being able to speak projects for the Post, including a series on be great journalists who allow the tools, the language is a must, she said. being a black man and another series on whether the Web, digital photography or “I can’t stress enough the importance the treatment of wounded American mili- multimedia, to make us fantastic storytellers.” of languages,” she said. “If you learn tary personnel at Walter Reed Hospital. He them, they will open all kinds of doors said he enjoyed the assignments because Kaiser Advises for you professionally. You will also learn they allowed him to be on the streets with Mastering Language about and understand a culture more “real people.” Much of the fashion world centers on deeply. Plus, the people you interview will “I am so excited when I travel,” he Italy, the home of designers such as respect an attempt to communicate with said. “I love to observe people, but mostly Armani, Gucci, Valentino and Ferragamo. them in their native language. And they’ll I love to tell their stories.” And for Amanda Kaiser, BAJ’97, Milan has be more likely to open up to you, too.” been the center of her journalism career. Even though she could speak well, she Serving as the fashion news editor said it did take a while to build a network for Women’s Wear Daily, Kaiser covers the of sources and contacts in Italy. business side of fashion, interviewing As a reporter, Kaiser also is challenged executives and tracking industry trends for by the nature of the fashion industry, espe- the publication considered the industry’s cially the many privately held companies biblbible. She also writes feature stories, that make it difficult to find information inincincludingnclclud travel pieces and profiles for and break news. WWDWWW ’s quarterly publication, WWDScoop. “But then, when you do succeed, it’s Beforeeforeforefoore joiningj the powerhouse maga- that much more rewarding,” she said. zinezzine,ne,, KKaiserer wwas a correspondent for Dow After navigating the runways of Milan, JonJJonesonesones NewswireNeewswwirwireire in Milan, a news assistant Kaiser is in the process of moving to at TheT WallWal Streetree Journal and a reporter Tokyo where she will freelance for WWD forffo ItalyItaly l Daily Da y, a nown defunct insert in The and other publications. She is learning InternationalInternatiI rnationationationa Heraldera Tribune. She worked Japanese and, while she knows it may take Amanda Kaiser, BAJ’97. for a year at IndianaIndididia Business Magazine in years before she’s able to conduct an inter- This affection for tellingtel ing storiesstorieiesies helpsh ps IndianapolisInIndiaInddiandiananapooliss after afafter graduation, grgr but she had view in the language, learning it will be a duCille to make the bestest of circumstancesircrcucumumumstmsttanncess knownknoownwnn fofor a longlo time she wanted to live sign of respect. that aren’t always ideal. DuriDurinDuringngn hisis AfricanAfricAf Africicann overseas.oover s. ShSheh moved to Italy in the spring “My boyfriend and I went to Tokyo for travels, his cameras were confiscatednfiscatefiscateedd butbbu of 191998.998 the first time in May and really loved it,” ultimately returned. “You have to planplaplan for “I have always been fascinated with she said. “I’m excited to cover Japan in the worst,” he said. different cultures and languages,” Kaiser terms of luxury goods and fashion. Despite He also has faced cultural challenges, said in an e-mail interview. “I was always the Japanese economy’s stagnation of such as interacting with women in Muslim friends with the exchange students in high recent years, the country will continue to lands where he was documenting daily school and had international interests. I be a critical market for the industry.” ✒ life. To some Muslims, men should not knew that I would live abroad at some Sara Brazeal, BAJ ‘97, worked at the even shake women’s hands, let alone talk point in my life.” Indiana Daily Student and Arbutus. She to them or photograph them. Kaiser started studying Italian in col- is a senior account supervisor at Public “The women usually are the ones doing lege and signed up immediately when she Communications Inc., a public relations firm most of the activities like taking care of the learned of IU’s exchange program with in Chicago. family and working very hard,” said duCille. “But as a male photojournalist, I have to ‘I can’t stress enough the importance of languages. If you learn be careful to keep a certain distance.” For those working overseas now, tech- them, they will open all kinds of doors for you professionally.’ nological advances mean instant transmis- — Amanda Kaiser, BAJ’97 Courtesy photo

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The Ultimate Field Trip New Programs Focus on Global Education

By Elizabeth Beltramini

chool of Journalism asso- The 2007 National Survey of Student Sciate professor Owen V. Engagement found that students who trav- Johnson uses the term “itiner- el or study abroad benefited more than ant journalist” when referring peers who did not have such experiences. to Ernie Pyle, the World War II The term of the travel or study appeared correspondent who told the story to make no difference; short trips with of the war through the eyes of intense activities were as beneficial as soldiers all over the Pacific and semester-long periods of study. European battlefields. Pyle never At IU, new President Michael stopped traveling, telling his read- McRobbie described in his inaugural ers about the struggles and small address his “international imperative” for rewards the soldiers shared. increasing the numbers of IU students par- While they won’t be covering ticipating in study abroad programs and war, journalism students will make expanding IU’s partnerships with universi- international venues their classrooms ties in other countries. At the same time, this year as the school begins focus- IU schools and departments participated ing more on travel and global educa- in self-study accreditation processes this tion, including three courses that will fall that examined how their programs take students overseas. respond to globalization issues. “We know all of our students will For several years, the School of not become international correspon- Journalism has offered some one-time dents,” Dean Brad Hamm said. “But types of programs or school-sponsored many of them will be surprised by trips, including summer courses in how much their jobs in the future will London and Paris. IU students have trav- include an international component.” eled to Asia as winners of the Roy W. Currently, about 20 percent of IU Howard National Collegiate Reporting journalism students study abroad, often Competition. Two attended a conference through language programs as well as in England last fall and many have trav- through journalism internships. School eled within the United States to work- administrators want to see that number shops or events. The Ross Hazeltine Travel increase to 50 percent. Scholarship has funded post-graduate Traveling abroad isn’t a new idea travel since 1978. for journalism or other disciplines, But the focus now is on offering this but it has risen in importance opportunity to more students as part from a luxury item to near neces- of a course experience, not solely as an sity for students who want to award or by special invitation. This spring, compete in the job market. Johnson will lead a group of 30 students

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through Europe in a new course, From many of today’s IU students are unaware International Public Relations London to Paris: In the Footsteps of of Pyle’s legacy and storytelling ability. Ralph Winslow Visiting Professor Jim Ernie Pyle. An international public rela- Johnson hopes the course will not only Bright thinks the School of Journalism is tions course this spring includes a spring demonstrate Pyle’s journalistic talents, but unrivaled in offering an international pub- break trip to Japan. This summer, honors also will give students a historical context. lic relations class not focused on Europe. students will participate in an internship He plans to focus several lectures on what He said that in looking for potential inter- program in London. IU was like when Pyle attended. national public relations textbooks, he was In part to facilitate such travel, the school “We’ll learn about his time here at unable to find any that focused on Asia; created a new staff position last spring and Indiana University,” Johnson said, “not nearly all were about European PR. hired Jessica Gall, MA’07, as the first direc- just what he was doing but what was According to the Institute of tor of experiential education and recruit- International Education, only 7 percent ment. In the fall, she went to London to of U.S. students studying abroad in any work out logistics for Johnson’s course. field go to Asia. Bright said that with an For Gall and other planners, there are increasing number of journalism students challenges in executing these programs, choosing to specialize in public relations, such as keeping costs low for students, it made sense to give this kind of class an preparing them for overseas travel and international flavor. He already is familiar ensuring an enriching experience on the with that part of the world. He joined the U.S. mainland and while abroad. faculty in 2006 after retiring as executive “Students often say ‘I can’t afford to director of public affairs for Ford Motor go overseas because of the cost and all Company, where he was responsible for the requirements,’” said Bonnie Brownlee, the company’s global PR activities, includ- associate dean for undergraduate studies. ing those in Asia. “We want to be able to make it possible The highlight of the course will be a for them to go overseas and graduate in week in Japan, where Bright said public four years.” relations is a relatively new discipline. Apparently, the plan is working. Both “For me, public relations is about the Ernie Pyle and international public Winners of the Roy W. Howard National building strong relationships with peo- relations courses were full the same week Collegiate Reporting Competition traveled ple,” Bright said. “And that is what the to Japan and South Korea. registration became available. Japanese do so well.” Students selected for the courses will going on at the university at that time.” Students will stay in a downtown hotel pay $1,000 toward airline and lodging costs. Students also will hear about what report- near Tokyo Station, and visit newspapers The School of Journalism is using private ing was like a half century ago. and corporate and agency PR offices. donations to subsidize the remainder. “Pyle had time to collect information, They’ll meet journalists who cover Japan “Many journalism schools are doing to mull it over in his mind, to write, to and East Asia for Tokyo-based news this,” Hamm said. “Two things that we’re edit, sometimes taking a week to 10 days,” bureaus and will network with members doing that are a little bit different are that Johnson said. “In days of live television, of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan. we’re committing heavily to supporting that’s no longer possible. Pyle was telling Bright said participation in this unique it financially and we’re going to recruit us stories, the kind of stories you’d like to educational experience will give students a study abroad scholarships as much as pos- sit and listen to, and people don’t have competitive advantage. sible, too. In casual terms, there are many time to do that today.” “You want prospective employers to schools that have a class, and we want to From the London hotel where he watched look especially favorably at you,” he said. be able to say we have a class and we’re the Germans bomb the British, to the D-Day “Even if you’re interviewing for a company going to help pay for it.” memorials on the beaches of Normandy, that doesn’t do business in East Asia or In the Footsteps of Ernie Pyle to Paris, where Pyle covered the liberation Japan, you’ll have a competitive advantage Johnson said he is not aware of anyone of the city, students will learn what times as you’re looking for a job because so ever teaching a class devoted to one jour- were like for this war correspondent. many students have gone to Europe and nalist. During the semester, students will Johnson hopes this course will become so few have gone to Asia.” get to know Pyle as a student, a friend, a an annual occurrence. The school also is Bright hopes to connect with IU alum- writer and a reporter, learning about his considering ways to offer the experience to ni and allow students to visit cultural sites power of observation and skill with words. alumni and to other journalists who have such as a fish market, karaoke club and Courtesy photo Even while studying in Ernie Pyle Hall, no ties to IU. Buddhist temples.

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“I think after spending even a week shorter travel opportunities to overseas over there, people are going to be changed conferences, such as the one for travel forever,” Bright said. journalists that two IU students attended Ernie Pyle Scholars go to London in England in October. A few weeks after students from the Pyle During her trip, senior Erica Ballard course return from Europe, a group of reported for the school Web site. “This School of Journalism students in the hon- conference really opened my eyes to the ors program, the Ernie Pyle Scholars, will possibilities of travel writing and, frankly, head to London for eight weeks. Students journalism,” she wrote. “Everyone was will take a course on British media as well so welcoming and full of great advice. I as work as interns at newspapers, public Senior Erica Ballard traveled to a travel would never trade this experience.” writers’ conference in Manchester, England. relations firms or other media. Hamm said experiential education not “The internship will be an opportunity posals currently under review is a health only is memorable, it is effective education. to interact with British people and work journalism experience in Kenya and other “When you’ve been abroad with stu- with them to really learn something about programs in India and Santiago, Chile. dents, you see the impact it has on them,” the media by participating in the media,” “We would like to have programs said Hamm, who twice has accompanied said Brownlee. “The course will also running fall, spring and summer, but dif- student winners of the Howard competi- allow them to talk among themselves in ferent kinds of programs, and we’ll see tion to South Korea and Japan. “It ener- an organized fashion about what they’re what appeals most to the IU student,” gizes the faculty as they try to imagine learning and what they’re experiencing.” Hamm said. “We also plan to tailor this what’s possible. This comes down to basic to individuals. For example, very few have education: You can talk to people forever, What’s next? ever thought about doing an international but letting people see it and experience it In the future, faculty members hope to internship, and we want to help match is different.” ✒ add more courses that include an interna- them with an internship in Beijing, Taipei, Elizabeth Beltramini, BAJ’02, is director of tional travel experience. Among the pro- Taiwan or somewhere else.” communications for the Association of College Less formal programs might include Unions International.

Hazeltine Experience Changed Scholars’ Outlook Aspects of the Ross Hazeltine Travel Scholarship may serve as a Nanci Hellmich, BA’80, spent her summer studying women’s model as the School of Journalism develops overseas programs. magazines in Great Britain, learning how they struggled to create quality publications with limited resources. A USA Since 1978, the scholarship has awarded new graduates the Today Life section reporter for nearly 25 years, she remembers chance to improve their skills and cover different cultures how editors worked to improve their magazines. as their beats. Recipients have traveled to the Soviet Union, China, India, Haiti, Spain and Latvia, among others. Dennis Chamberlin, BA’83, calls his experience in Poland “the most important event that determined my path in life in the Ross Hazeltine, BS’38 (business), set up the scholarship as part years that followed.” A photojournalism instructor at Iowa of his estate. As a student, he worked for the Arbutus and IDS, State University, Chamberlin is preparing a study abroad pro- and, after collecting his business degree, wrote for United Press gram to Poland this summer. in Chicago and worked for the Washington Bureau of the “I’d like to think that perhaps one of my students will find the Indianapolis News. few weeks traveling the back roads of that country as eye- Andrew Prinsen, BAJ’07, said he has benefited from the kind opening as I did in 1983,” he said. of experience Ross Hazeltine may have had in mind. Sally Baker McCarty, BA’85, traveled to the Soviet Union “My subject matter has taught me a lot about writing for and today is a consumer advocate standing up for “the and about ‘the common man,’” said the writer and photo- little guy,” she said. journalist, who spent last fall documenting life in India. “While the language study was important and valuable, I Laura Zaczek, BAJ’05, said she discovered her Hazeltine ex- learned more from the hours spent talking and visiting the perience in China in 2005 is one reason her current employer, Russian people than one could ever learn in a classroom,” she said. Christian Booksellers Association, considered her a strong candidate for the job. Read more about the Hazeltine Travel Scholarship recipients at the Web site, www.journalism.indiana.edu/hazeltine. Photo by Joice Biazoto

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1940s of SourceMedia, formerly ThomsonMedia. Prior ing company in Clarksville, Tenn. This summer, to that, he was technology editor for the sister we moved the business to a new facility with Anita (Feiwell) Boorda, BA’43, is retired newspaper, Accounting Today, and has covered upgraded equipment. In 1996, I retired from the after working for 38 years as theater administra- the public accounting market since 1991. He U.S. Army Reserve, after 23 years in the National tor of the Broadway Theatre League of South has worked in technology trade journalism since Guard and Army Reserve including a tour as a Bend. Boorda reports she used many of her 1984. He also writes a weekly column on the journalism skills booking New York theater acts accounting group’s Web site, WebCPA.com. A to play in South Bend and doing advertising resident of Jefferson County, Ind., until he com- and public relations for their visits. Boorda was pleted his college career, Bob is an avid gene- named a Sagamore of the Wabash in 2001 and alogist and family historian. He and his wife, Alumnus’ Film was inducted into the South Bend Hall of Fame Irene, have lived in the Lake Hiawatha section in 2002. of Parsippany, N.J., for 19 years. They have a Wins Prize Alexander “Sandy” Muir, BA’49, and his 17-year-old daughter, Elisa, with whom they’ve wife, Dorothea (Neuhauser Flaningam), BS’41, traveled extensively during school breaks. “Running With Arnold,” a docu- are in their late 80s and moved to a retirement mentary by School of Journalism In October, Rolf E. Rehe, MA’72, received home in Bluffton, Ind. the Lifetime Achievement Award from the alumnus Dan Cox, BA’84, won the Golden Eye Best Documentary 1960s Society for News Design for his contributions to typographic quality in newspaper. He has prize at the Zurich International Charles Gati, MA’61, was awarded the redesigned more than 100 newspapers in 35 Film Festival in October. The film Marshall Shulman Book Prize by the American countries and has written books on typography chronicles Arnold Schwarzeneg- Association for the Advancement of Slavic and design. He lives in Austria, where he has his ger’s rise from body builder Studies for his book, “Failed Illusions: Moscow, own studio, Design Research International. Washington, Budapest, and the 1956 Hungarian to movie star to governor of Revolution,” published last year by the William H. Plummer III, BS’73, is the California. Woodrow Wilson Center Press. It is the second author and researcher of the 2005 edition of time that Gati has won the Shulman prize. In “Softball’s Hall of Famers.” The book won a first Cox visited the school in Sep- 1986, he won the award for “Hungary and place in the Oklahoma Museums Association tember to screen and discuss the the Soviet Bloc.” Gati is senior adjunct profes- Annual Awards program. movie. Already, it had generated sor of Russian and Eurasian Studies and Acting Tracie (Johnson) Sweeney, BA’78, is the controversy, with critics labeling Director of Russian and Eurasian Studies at the director of public relations for Bryant University it one-sided. Paul W. Nitze School of Advanced International in Smithfield, R.I. She joined Bryant after 16 Studies at Johns Hopkins University. years in Brown University’s Office of Media “I was trying to tell the story of John Sherman, BA’66, has written his Relations, most recently as senior associate how this guy could convince vot- ninth book, “New Faces at the Crossroads: The director. Her move to media relations fol- ers to put him in office, the con- World in Central Indiana” (Indiana University lowed 13 years as a newspaper editor at the cept that the ‘Terminator’ could Providence Journal and San Jose Mercury News. Press). The book, written for the International be your governor,” Cox told the Center of Indianapolis, provides details on Sherri (Burrell) Monteith, BA’79, is a IU audience. “I don’t think it was recent immigration patterns in Central Indiana. manager for legislative and regulatory policy at that harsh.” To learn more about Sherman’s books, log onto American Electric Power in Westerville, Ohio. Mesaverdepress.com. She writes that one of the highlights of her life He left Bloomington for the In June 2007, Howard “Bud” Herron III, is “an IDS newsroom romance that resulted Zurich festival, where the film in 28 years of marriage [to Gene Monteith, BS’67, retired as group publisher for Home won the prize. One of the festival News Enterprises, a group of daily newspapers BA’79], three great kids (only one of whom has judges wrote: “Dan Cox delivers based in Columbus, Ind. Herron, of Columbus, gone to IU so far, but we love them all anyway), spent his entire career in journalism. and a very satisfying career.” a humorous and multifaceted Frank William White, MA’79, writes, portrait about one of the most 1970s “After 15 years in editing roles with LifeWay, famous and ambitious men of Bob Scott, BA’71, recently celebrated the publishing agency of the Southern Baptist our time. The film (narrator: Alec his 10th anniversary as editor-in-chief of Convention, I changed directions and in January Baldwin) shows the downside of Accounting Technology, a monthly publication 2000 purchased an existing design and print- Arnold Schwarzenegger’s fame.”

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public affairs officer and media escort during Washington Post, I settled in Chicago at the to gather and distill information and data. His the 1991 Gulf War.” Tribune, where I’m now an editor and writer in wife, Alison (Schmidt), BA’86, a former report- the features department.” er and editor, is the yearbook and newspaper 1980s adviser at East Chicago High School. Chris Carey, BA’83, lives in Ann Arbor, Katherine J. Roberts, Cert/MA’81, is the Mich., where he works on ShareSleuth, a Web Steve E. Sweitzer, MA’87, of Indianapolis, “Week in Review” editor at The New York site owned by Dallas Mavericks’ owner and IU is the news operations manager for television Times, where she has worked since 1982. alumnus Mark Cuban. The site is devoted to station WISH-TV in Indianapolis. investigative reporting on publicly-traded stocks. Janine Davis, BA’82, says, “After moving Kevin M. Corcoran, BA’88, is a com- He recently was profiled in an issue of Wired to Chicago, then East, then West, I’ve settled munications strategist for the Indianapolis- magazine, available at the magazine’s Web site, in the Chicago area (again). I was recently pro- based Lumina Foundation for Education. He Wired.com. moted to chief strategy and marketing officer is pursuing an MBA from the IU Kelley School for the Pampered Chef, a direct seller of kitchen Brett D. Levy, BA’86, of Chicago, writes, of Business. He and his wife, Trisha (Essig), and entertaining products.” “Last year, I finally left the Los Angeles Times BA’87, BS’95, have two children and live in Mark Kruzan, BA’82, JD’85, was re-elected to work in the financial sector. I’m currently Indianapolis. working as information director of broker- mayor of Bloomington, Ind., Nov. 6. Anne C. Zender, BA’88, MA’90, is vice age at FuturePath Trading, and I’m the editor president of communications at the Journal of Since 1994, Jim Shaw, BA’82, has been and partner in a startup online trading school, AHIMA at the American Health Information head coach of the men’s basketball team at TradersQuest. I have also kept a parenting blog Management Association in Chicago. In June, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre since early 2004 at Dadtalk.net, where I [write she started her one-year term as president of Haute. He has led the school to four NCAA about] issues facing modern families. I also keep the Society of National Association Publications. Division III tournament appearances, three regu- family and friends up to date on me, wife Anne Zender lives in Chicago. From 1990 to 1995, lar season conference championships and one and children Seth and Lael.” conference tournament championship. He’s also Zender was assistant editor/advertising manager Rose-Hulman’s men’s golf coach, for which he twice Mark J. Skertic, BA’86, left the Chicago of the Indiana Alumni Magazine. Tribune to use his skills as an investigator and has won league Coach of the Year honors. John Gevers, BA’89, founded a digital arts writer in a different industry. He joined Kroll, a media company based in Fort Wayne in 2002. Nancy Watkins, BA’82, says, “After risk-consulting company, as director of business New Brew Media Inc. fuses traditional media copy-editing jobs at the Miami Herald and intelligence and investigations. He works with a with new media to tell compelling stories for variety of businesses, corporations and attorneys regional and national clients. 1990s Gary Lacy, BA’90, says, “I was hired as Borman Leads Travel Writers’ Group news producer at WTVQ-TV in Lexington, Ky., Laurie Borman, BA’78, editorial “Travel can help break down in January 2007. WTVQ is an ABC affiliate. I work on all of the newscasts from week to director for Chicago-based Rand cultural barriers and help people week, rotating and producing many different McNally, said she has had one of understand each other,” she said. newscasts each month. I am also involved in producing special projects, including a baseball the most challenging years of her Borman also used the presidency as entire career. She just finished serv- special last spring. I previously worked at WLFI- an opportunity to give back to her TV in West Lafayette, Ind. I have been a news ing a year as the president of the alma mater by initiating an intern- producer for 17 years. My wife, Chanda, and I Society of American Travel Writers, ship program with the School of live in Lexington and always keep busy.” the largest travel journalists’ orga- Journalism. In October, two journal- Chris Moeller, BA’90, is director of inter- nization in the world with more ism students attended the SATW national design at Yahoo, where he oversees its design teams and user experience design out- than 1,200 members. convention in Manchester, where side the United States. He lives in San Francisco. As president, Borman was one of they networked with hundreds of Michelle (Medlock) Adams, BA’91, is travel writers and photographers, the main organizers of the society’s celebrating the release of her 39th book this 52nd annual convention in Manches- took tours around the city and re- January, titled “I Will Not Be Afraid” (Concordia ter, England, a two-week workshop gion, and were mentored by experi- Publishing House). Since graduating from IU, she’s worked as a reporter, as a full-time feature for more than 500 members. enced travel editors for an exclusive scoop into the business. writer for The Believer’s Voice of Victory maga- Borman joined SATW in 1991 when zine and now as a full-time freelancer for Web she became editor-in-chief of the Borman said the SATW internship sites and magazines all over the world. Indianapolis-based magazine, End- program is not only beneficial for Lynn Silverstein, BA’91, is an assistant pro- fessor of journalism and mass communications less Vacation. She saw the group as students interested in a career in travel journalism. at the University of Northern Colorado. She lives a way to connect with others in the in Denver with her partner, Tracy Aguirre, and business. She moved up through the “It benefits our group, because we their son, Darrian. ranks and, as president in 2006- get to develop people in our field,” Rachel Turry, BA’91, is the managing direc- 2007, Borman started two new com- Borman said. “(Travel writing) is a tor of the American Conference of Cantors, a mittees: Peace Through Tourism and great, fun job, but it’s also a busi- nonprofit organization dedicated to the pro- fessional growth and development of cantors Geography Education. ness.” — Joice Biazoto in the Reform Movement. Turry, a native of

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Chicago, joined the American Conference of 2002 to 2004. During that time, she covered Marybeth Anderson, BAJ’01, produced a Cantors last August. She brings experience in the Chicago Cubs’ 2003 season, the Stanley Cup project for National Geographic that is told on nonprofit management from her position as the Playoffs, the 2003 NCAA tournament and the several platforms, including Web, magazine, Temple administrator at Temple Kol Ami Emanu- Bears 2003 season in Champaign, Ill. She won a video and photos. She says she “ended up uti- El of Plantation, Fla., a congregation of more local Emmy Award for her work on CBS 2’s 2004 lizing lots of things I learned while in J-school.” than 1,100 family members. broadcast of the LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon. Check out her work at Nationalgeographic. com/lifedreams. Carrie (Stec) Eihl, BA’93, is a regional vice Lisanne (Carothers) Jensen, BAJ’97, of president of Q Interactive, an online marketing Stuyvesant, N.Y., freelances feature stories Shalanna L. Pirtle, BAJ’02, was graduated services provider for publishers and advertisers and graphic design work for the Hudson River from the University of Georgia School of Law in in Chicago. Her husband, Craig, BS’93, is associ- Sampler in Columbia County, N.Y. She also is a May. She became an associate at the law firm ate vice president of Kokopelli Communications copy editor for Alpha Books in Indianapolis. She Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein in Charlotte, Group Inc. in Chicago. The couple has two boys, and her husband, Jeffery, BA’98, MPA’00, had N.C., in the fall of 2007. Bryce, 4, and Vaughn, 2. a daughter, Meredith Elise, Oct. 31, 2006. The Jim Stinson, MA’02, says, “I moved to Maria Heslin, MA’93, is Bloomington’s Jensens can be reached at [email protected]. Nashville, Tenn., in March to begin work as a new deputy mayor, appointed by Mayor Mark Alyssa (Kolsky) Hertzig, BAJ‘98, is the real estate and manufacturing reporter for the Kruzan, BA’82, shortly after his re-election in beauty editor for Good Housekeeping maga- Nashville Business Journal. I had worked at the November. Heslin had served as city communica- zine. She lives in New York City. Post-Tribune of Northwest Indiana from 2003 tions director since 2005 and, before that, oper- to 2007, most recently as business reporter Billie McCorkle, BAJ’99, is the annual ated her own marketing communications firm. and Indiana Statehouse reporter. The latter fund assistant at the John F. Kennedy School of assignment I took as Colts mania struck. I Deanna (Csomo) McCool, BA’93, is a writ- Government. won the Chicago SPJ’s Peter Lisagor Award in er/project assistant for D.J. Case & Associates. School of Journalism Director of 2004 for best deadline story for a paper under The Mishawaka, Ind.-based public relations firm Communications Beth (Spangle) Moellers, specializes in natural resources communications BAJ’99, MA’05, and her husband, Brian, BS’99, for clients nationwide. In her spare time, she welcomed their first child, Vivian Ruth, Oct. 12. operates a Web site where she sells handmade The Moellers live in Bloomington. hair accessories for girls, Birdsongbows.com. She and her husband, Brad, live in Mishawaka with Daniel F. Ponce, BS’99, is a reporter Obituary their two daughters, ages 6 and 18 months. She with television station WLS in Chicago. Three can be reached at [email protected]. members of his family work for television sta- Gordon L. Smith, BA’48, died Nov. tions in Chicago. Ponce’s father, Phil, BA’71, 10 at his home in Crofton, Md. Kimberly Ann (Klepfer) Schenck, BA’93, anchors “Chicago Tonight” on WTTW, while says, “I was married to Charles (Chip) Schenck his brother, Anthony, BA/AC’00, is a general- A native of Auburn, he covered Sept. 16, 2007, in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. assignment reporter for WMAQ. Ponce’s sister, Washington, D.C., for more than We had a beautiful day and were blessed to Maria, BA’02, is a publisher at Modern Luxury 50 years and traveled the world have lots of IU friends make the trip. To learn more about our whirlwind romance, check out Magazine in New York City, and his mother, as a lobbyist and public relations Nytimes.com and type either of our last names Ann (Walls), BA’70, MA’74, is an artist. consultant. He worked for 10 into the search engine. After a honeymoon Sarah (Rupel) Wheatley, BAJ’99, says, years as a U.S. Congress and feder- in South Africa (on safari) and Mauritius (R&R “I’m in my sixth year as journalism adviser for al agency correspondent with the on the beach and golf course), we’re living in The Catalyst at Joseph Wheeler High School [in Bureau of National Affairs, where Stamford, Conn., and commuting into NYC for Marietta, Ga.]. I also teach AP language, which work. I am back at Mediaedge after a short stint caters to my journalism roots since it has an he specialized in international at OMD and continuing with strategic com- entirely nonfiction focus. My husband, Tyson trade and business reporting. munications planning while Chip is in corporate Wheatley, BAJ’01, is the producer/news manager He directed the Washington sales at American Express Publishing. We’d for user participation at CNN.com. We have three operations of Edward Gottlieb love to hear from you so drop us a line at kim- children (Tyson, 15, Kaya, 4, Jacinda, 2) and a baby [email protected].” boy due in October.” & Associates, a public relations and lobbying firm, before mov- Evelyn (Ellison) Twitchell, BAJ’94, and her 2000s husband, Robert, BS’94, had their second child, ing on to the D.C. office of Hill & Grace, on July 28, 2006. They live in Zionsville, Ind. Aaron Krause, MA’00, is a staff writer at a Knowlton, a major international 9,000-circulation newspaper midway between Jennifer (Bell) Williams, BAJ’94, is a senior public affairs/public relations/lob- Cleveland and Toledo. He says, “I do a little bit editor for Healthcare Financial Management bying agency. From 1990 until of everything, from writing feature stories and Association’s magazine in Westchester, Ill. She his retirement, he ran his own theater news to copy editing and updating our is also a freelance writer for Sweet 16 maga- Web site, Norwallreflector.com.” firm, The Gordon L. Smith Co., in zine. Her husband, Greg, is a middle school Washington. math and social studies teacher. They married Nicole Roales, BAJ’00, was promoted in Glenwood, Ill., May 20, 2006. They live in to managing editor of the Indiana University His son, Kris Smith, writes that his Munster, Ind., and can be reached at bell.jeni@ Office of University Communications. She over- father returned to IU often and gmail.com. sees the university’s electronic newsletters and was a contributor in many ways. a staff of writers. Megan Mawicke, BAJ’95, serves as week- “He was proud to be a Hoosier.” end sports anchor for CBS 2 Chicago. She is a Sue Steininger, BA’00, acquired her PhD sports reporter for the station during the week. in Greco-Roman history and now works in She joined CBS 2 from WMAQ-TV, where she Oklahoma City as a financial aid adviser/ was a freelance sports anchor and reporter from Veterans Affairs counselor.

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300,000-circulation, and in 2006, got beat by Emily R. Ferraro, BAJ’05, works in down- Jacqueline L. Walker, BAJ’06, writes, the Chicago Tribune for best regional business town Indianapolis for Chase Commercial “After several interviews at various magazines story. In September 2006, I attended the Knight Banking in marketing and sales support. She and newspapers, I decided to accept a posi- Center for Specialized Journalism’s Maryland lives on the northside of Indianapolis. tion at a book publisher in Champaign, Ill. As forum on energy reporting. It has been a fun of October, I am now working as an assistant Lyndsay K. Gilman, BAJ’05, is the execu- career so far, made possible by the pros at IU. editor at Human Kinetics, editing books about tive assistant to the vice president of circula- Drop me a line at [email protected].” health and physical education. E-mail me at tion at the Indianapolis Star. “I purchased my [email protected].” Catherine “Kit” Werbe, BAJ’02, says, “After first home in fall 2006 on the southside of five years in the television news business, I Indianapolis,” she writes. Jon Clemente, BAJ’07, has joined decided to make a change. In the spring of Manning, Selvage and Lee Public Relations In October, Christy Mehrlich, BAJ’05, fin- 2007, I moved home to Indianapolis and took (MS&L) in Chicago and will be working as an a job with the American Red Cross of Greater ished a five-month trip around the country in assistant account executive in its consumer Indianapolis as the communication manager. I her Piper Arrow, reporting on people she has marketing practice. serve as the spokesperson for the organization, met and places she’s seen in the (Bloomington) Rachel Priest, BAJ’07, continues to enjoy conduct media relations and oversee the after- Herald-Times and other publications. Her reports life in New Hampshire, where she works for hours public affairs team.” are archived at Skyfemme.com. Special Olympics. She recently handled publicity Alaina Byers, BAJ’03, JD’06, is working as Scott A. Weybright, MA’05, is a reporter for an athlete who won a gold medal in China the community outreach coordinator and local for the Catonsville Times and the Arbutus at the World Games. bar liaison for the Indiana State Bar Association Times in Catonsville, Md. He married Elizabeth Dana Robinson, BAJ’07, has joined in Indianapolis. (Hall), BS’03, MS’05, May 19. She is the pro- gram manager for the Charlestown Retirement Fleishman-Hillard in Chicago. She had been an Ashima Thomas, MA’03, works for Al Community in Catonsville. She is also an intern at Weber Shandwick in the Windy City. Jazeera in Singapore and sent along a link to adjunct faculty member in the recreation, parks coverage the network produced of the upris- and tourism department at the Community ing in Myanmar. “We secretly sent in a reporter College of Baltimore County. The Weybrights who stayed for two weeks. He managed to live in Halethorpe. get all his footage out and we put a special together,” she wrote to former adjunct lecturer Jamie D. Wynn, BAJ’05, works for the Chuck Carney in an e-mail. See the footage at Indiana Family and Social Services Administration Youtube.com/watch?v=1UqQaizM15Q. as part of the Division of Family Resources. She Wanted: can be reached at [email protected]. Joseph M. Grace, BAJ’03, is the assistant managing editor at Weekly Journals, geared Jenn Billinson, BAJ’06, is pursuing a master’s Your Updates toward the Chicago suburbs. He lives in Huntley, Ill. degree in media studies from the Newhouse School of Communication at Syracuse University. Michael Benner, BAJ’04, says, “I’m cur- We want your news: rently working as a general assignment reporter Julie McKowen Pociask, BAJ’06, is an Please send employment updates at WGBA-TV in Green Bay, Wis. Previously, I account coordinator for Asher Agency in Fort worked as an anchor/reporter at WJFW-TV in Wayne, Ind. She does advertising and marketing or personal news along with Rhinelander, Wis.” for Subway Restaurants in four markets. She address corrections to: married in October. She and her husband, a Erin Bergmann, BAJ’04, says, “I am an Beth Moellers family case manager, live in Fort Wayne and interactive sales planner at Prevention.com, the Director of Communications Web site for Prevention Magazine, with the have two dogs. 940 E. Seventh St. 11th highest circulation in the U.S.” She works Hannah C. Schroder, BAJ’06, of Chicago, in New York City. received the second annual Reed Business Bloomington, IN 47405 Ryan Heath, BAJ’04, says, “After three Information Outstanding Intern Award from Or you can fill out our online American Business Media at the Jesse H. Neal years in the newspaper business, I have accept- class note form at Journalism. National Business Journalism Awards luncheon. ed a position as a public relations specialist indiana.edu/alumni. with Hetrick Communications in Indianapolis. She interned at Building Design + Construction, Before that, I held reporting positions with the where she produced features, news stories, and Noblesville Ledger, Topics Newspapers and the departmental materials for print and electronic Indianapolis Star. Also, I was married April 21, products. Schroder now works for JSH&A Public We want your photos: Relations in Oakbrook Terrace, Ill. 2007, to fellow IU grad Cami Palmer (BS’05). Send us a 300 dpi photo of your- We reside in Indianapolis.” Rebecca Solomon, BAJ’06 moved to self in front of the sign at your Sarah Rittman, BAJ’04, is the new commu- Wisconsin to work as a news reporter for WJFW, workplace. We’ll hang these the NBC affiliate, in Rhinelander, Wis.. Rebecca nications director for the town of Fishers, Ind., photos on our “Wall of Alumni” a suburb of Indianapolis. She will handle the also produces, anchors and has her own seg- town’s media and public relations. Previously, ment, “Reservations with Rebecca,” where she to inspire current and prospec- she served as deputy press secretary for the reviews restaurants in her viewing area. tive students. E-mail photos to Indiana attorney general’s office. Stephanie Susman, BA’06, is an assis- [email protected]. Lauren Borromeo, BAJ’05, says, “In August, tant account executive at Fleishman-Hillard in I moved to Palm Beach, Fla., where I work at Chicago. She works in the innovation practice Newslink.tv as the business development man- group, which is the strategic, creative thinking ager. I can be reached at [email protected].” department at the firm.

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ost of my Bloomington friends are Lucas Tufford, BA’50; Elizabeth Wallis Mjournalists. Some even go back to our Winkler, BA’51; and I. We enjoyed it, so IU “hot type” days of the 1940s and 1950s. we decided to ask other journalists to meet. Many of those friends are members of A letter went out to a list from the IU the Ernie Pyle Society, older journalists alumni office for area journalism gradu- who gather for lunch the second Tuesday ates. More than 20 alumni and retired fac- of each month. There are 15 to 20 of us ulty responded. The society was born. around a restaurant table. We eat and talk about everything. Journalists are like that The society was established — always ready to talk. There are no offi- in 1990. Four of us were cel- Marjorie (Smith) cers, no dues, no speaker, no one has to Blewett, BA’48 take notes for a story. We do have “Ernie’s ebrating the birthday of Pat Siddons, BA’50. Besides Pat call girl,” who is Virginia Mead Savage, Later we invited “journalists of inter- BA’40, MS’60. She lines up the restaurant were Carolyn Lucas Tufford, est” to join us. When Ed Perkins moved (separate orders, separate checks) and calls BA’50; Elizabeth Wallis Winkler, to Bloomington, we asked him. He was members about meeting plans. BA’51; and I. We enjoyed it, retired managing editor of the South Bend The society was established in 1990. Four so we decided to ask other Tribune and he went to Notre Dame. Then of us were celebrating the birthday of Pat we added Mary Campbell, an Illinois jour- Siddons, BA’50. Besides Pat were Carolyn journalists to meet. nalism graduate who put in 30 years as music writer for Associated Press in New York City. Tom Tuley is another journalist in our area. He retired as editor and president of the Evansville Courier, lives in Brown County and follows his dream of becoming an artist. All interesting members. We always like to add new mem- bers or entertain visitors. Most of us are from Bloomington, but we have had regulars from Nashville, Indianapolis and Whitestown. We always meet on the sec- ond Tuesday, though we did miss twice because of bad weather. If you are going to be in town and want to join us, call Virginia Savage at (812)336-5786 or me at (812)332-7414. Ernie Pyle Society members at a recent luncheon included (back row, from left) Ed Perkins, We can tell you the Where and When. As Elizabeth Winkler (BA’51), Susie Voelkel (BA’55), Marge Blewett (BA’48), Virginia Savage (BA’40, MS’60 education), Doris Brineman (BA’48) and Stewart Huffman (BA’56). Front row, for the Why: It’s just good fellowship with from left, are Martie Dietz (BA’52), Barbara Lawyer (BA’52), Rose McIlveen (BA’51), Helen other journalists. D’Amico (BA’42 sociology, MS’69 education) and Mary Campbell. Marge Blewett was in charge of placement and alumni affairs for the School of Journalism for 25 years. She was editor of the IDS when she was a student. Gena Asher

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Andrew Prinsen, BAJ’07, documented life in India last fall as his Ross Hazeltine Travel Scholarship experience. He shot photos, video, wrote entries for a school Web site blog and interviewed locals as well as medical professionals and officials during his four-month journey through the country. In this photo, a boy gives his brother a piggy-back ride through a small market on the outskirts of Calcutta (Kolkata). Read his blog at Journalism.indiana.edu/blogs/prinsen.

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