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FRIENDS OF WILL MEMBERSHIP MAGAZINE patterns june 2018 WILL-TV TM patterns Membership Hotline: 800-898-1065 june 2018 Volume XLV, Number 12 WILL AM-FM-TV: 217-333-7300 Campbell Hall 300 N. Goodwin Ave., Urbana, IL 61801-2316 Mailing List Exchange Donor records are proprietary and confidential. WILL does not sell, rent or trade its donor lists. Patterns Friends of WILL Membership Magazine Editor/Art Designer: Sarah Whittington Printed by Premier Print Group. Printed with SOY INK on RECYCLED, TM Trademark American Soybean Assoc. RECYCLABLE paper. Radio 90.9 FM: A mix of classical music and NPR information programs, including local news. (Also heard at 106.5 in Danville and with live streaming on will.illinois.edu.) See pages 4-5. Recently Sinclair Broadcasting Group, the na- 101.1 FM and 90.9 FM HD2: Locally produced tion’s largest owner of television stations, had music programs and classical music from C24. 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Help us com- plete our fiscal year budget so we can continue our award-winning reporting as we share the facebook.com/WILLradiotvonline stories that matter to central Illinois. @willpublicmedia @willpublicmedia Get WILL eNews Video previews, behind-the-scenes information, program schedule updates and more, delivered every Wednesday to your Moss Bresnahan, email inbox. President and CEO go.illinois.edu/WILLsubscribe Twitter: @MossILMedia PATTERNS • JUNE 2018 Filmmaker Volume XLV, Number 12 june 2018 returns home to Beckett, Billy Beckett, and Nancy Beckett’s explore past niece, Joanna Wulfsberg. At the time, Hali’s brother Paul Sheriff. the director of My What do you do when burying the past isn’t Sister Hali, was just ten years old. easy anymore? Juxtaposed with this story is a secondary After 44 years of virtual silence, film direc- theme that addresses how the director tor Paul Sheriff returns to the heartland of perceived his past over the last 45 years. America and confronts his childhood in Through video diary, archival footage, and this compelling and inspirational docu- location interviews, the film explores the mentary. effects and influences of this traumatic event in Sheriff’s life and the lives of the My Sister Hali, airing at 7 pm Tuesday, immediate surviving members of his fam- June 5, is a historical chronicle of the ily, teammates, and friends. Within this Blue Mound Gymnastics Club formed in framework, the film critically examines loss the early 1960s in Blue Mound, Illinois. and the changing roles and relationships The backbone of the film is the excep- within the family unit. My Sister Hali also tional gymnastic career of a physical genius addresses athletic competition as a philoso- named Hali, and the dynamic driving force phy of life, with its effects on the individual of her mother and gymnastics coach, Ginny athlete. Sheriff. At the age of 14, before Hali could be recognized as one of the best female Interviews are juxtaposed with vintage im- gymnasts in the world, her life was cut ages, gathered historical text, and meta- short. While returning from a gymnastics phorical images that conjure past emotions exhibition in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1966, and allow the viewer to become a part of Hali and Ginny were killed in a tragic plane Paul’s journey. The intent of the film is to crash. Also killed was Hali’s father, the find some commonality shared by us all Reverend Harold Sheriff, who was piloting when addressing the past and honoring its the plane, as well as family friends, Nancy inescapable presence in our daily lives. s Hali Sheriff training on the uneven parallel bars at I am truly grateful for the Nissen headquarters; 1966. Photos courtesy of Bob Bankson. Dianne Noland who was instrumental in contacting WILL to air my documentary, My Sister Hali. Hali began her amazing journey at the Palaestrum in Champaign-Urbana, under the supervision of legendary gymnastics coach Charlie Pond in the late 1950s. Now, 60 years later, she again will capture our hearts as we share her incredible story. –Paul Sheriff IPM staff win multiple awards The Illinois Associated Press honored Illinois Public Media with 3 awards. The ceremony was held in East Peoria on Saturday, April 21, as part of the Illinois News Broadcasters As- sociation convention. Scott Cameron, executive editor of Illinois Newsroom, said, “IPM’s journalists continue to raise the bar on community-focused journalism that offers depth, context and meaningful resources to the audiences we serve. These awards honor the cre- ativity, commitment and passion of our news team.” Christine Herman won second place in the Hard News Feature category for her story “Medicaid Bill Backlog Pushing Il- linois Doctors to The Brink of Closure.” Herman, a reporter for Illinois Public Media, investigated the story after learn- ing that the 2-year budget impasse made it difficult for children on Medicaid to get access to medical care. “I reached out to pediatricians who were saddled with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, including one who decided to leave the state. It’s easy to get bogged down in all the numbers—736 days without a budget, $3 billion medical bill backlog—and I wanted to shine a light on the human impact of Illinois lawmak- ers’ inability to pass a budget.” Brian Moline won second place in the Best Series or Documentary category for his piece “St. Joseph Woman Shares Story of Opioid Addiction.” Moline, the managing editor of IPM’s news and public affairs deparment, as well as the host of Morning Edition on WILL-AM 580 and FM-90.9, said, “I would like to thank Jaime Smith for allowing me to tell her story of addiction and recovery. It’s a powerful reminder that the opioid epidemic has touched people in our community from all walks of life. I’d also like to extend a special thank you to everyone at the Prairie Center (now Rosecrance) for getting me in touch with Jaime, and for allowing me to talk to them about their treatment process and the increasing need for additional beds.” 2 PATTERNS • JUNE 2018 Kimberlie Kranich won first place in the Best Series or Documentary category for her radio documentary “Still Here: Viet- nam War Stories from Illinois,” created with Chicago-based co-producer John Fecile. “It’s incredibly satisfying to be able to work at Illinois Public Media and create stories that are inspired by com- munity needs. I am a public servant and am always thinking about how my work can be of use to the different communi- ties WILL serves,” said Kranich, director of community content and engagement at Illinois Public Media. “I’m proud that this documentary could bring very dif- ferent personal accounts of the war to the table. For this documentary to have won this award is just icing on the cake.” Documentary wins esteemed journalism award For the first time in several years, IPM was those oral histories into media-rich lesson honored with a Regional Murrow Award. plans for high school teachers and distrib- Kimberlie Kranich and John Fecile’s ute them for free on PBSLearningMedia. Vietnam War documentary, “Still Here: org. Part three was to hire my co-producer, Vietnam War Stories from Illinois” won in John Fecile, to take a small subset of these the documentary category. oral histories and turn them into a com- prehensive and compelling story about the The Murrows, facilitated by the Radio Tele- harsh realities of war as well as journeys of vision Digital News Association, are among survival and recovery. And part four was to the most prestigious and celebrated awards host screenings at the Abraham Lincoln for broadcast and online journalism. This Presidential Library and Museum of these first-place prize automatically nominates local stories with the public at interactive the documentary for a national Murrow sessions. Each part contributes to a much award, held in June.