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GIFT re: columbia ~NG AND JOAN HARRIS no. 16/summer 1996 consultation, after gradua­ tri-annual publication sent free Irving and Joan Harris have of charge to alumni and friends tion ," she said. "That's what this been friends and donors to of columbia college chicago new program offers. It will help Columbia College for over teachers develop the strengths twenty years, contributing in they need to teach yo ung support of its Dance Center and children what th ey must a variety of scholarship fu nds know--rega rdless of the chal­ including the Trustees lenges each child brings to Scholarship Fund, the Career oted Chicago the classroom." Beginnings program for low­ income high school students philanthropists Students will earn approximate­ and the Edward L. and Marsha ly two-thirds of their credits at have made a $1 Morris Scholarship Fund for Columbia College and one-third gifted, financially pressed tele­ mbiall~olllee:~e. the largest gift at Erikson Institute. vision students. from a private donor in the institution's history. The new program will mark the Irving Harris is nationally The grant will fund an innova­ The Columbia-Erikson joint first venture for both Columbia renowned for his concern for tive undergraduate early child­ undergraduate program will and Erikson into educational child welfare and his funding hood teacher education program prepare students for teaching studies at the undergraduate of organizations dedicated to which will be conducted jointly kindergarten through third level. Columbia has a graduate this mission. He founded the by Co lumbia and Erikson grade and in Head Start and program in educational studies Erikson Institute in 1966, Institute for Advanced Study in day care in urban settings. A which offers master's degrees in ~l.:!rv!.:!d "~ i ts c h <~irrn<~n until Child Development, a leader in focus on the arts in education, several concentrations including 1983, and is presently its chair­ educating child development an innovative two years of prac­ elementary education, interdis­ man emeritus. He was a co­ specialists and early childhood tice teaching, and a fifth year of ciplinary arts, urban teaching founder of The Ounce of educators at the graduate level. professional consultation and and multicultural education. Prevention Fund and has been The program wi ll begin in mentoring will establish the Erikson Institute, in affiliation chairman since 1982. He is also fall1996. program as a model for under­ with Loyola University Chicago, chairman emeritus of Family graduate teacher education, offers master's and doctoral Focus, In c. , having served "Irving and Joan Harris have said Rosenblum. Columbia degrees in child development as chairman of its board from been among Columbia College's College expects 20 to 25 stu­ and a post-baccalaureate train­ 1979 to 1985. major benefactors for over dents to enroll per year. ing program in infant studies. twenty years," said president Joan Harris, a member of Dr. John B. Duff. "This extraordi­ Because of rising expectations "Columbia College's expertise in Columbia College's board of narily generous and important in America's urban schools, it is educating urban students in the trustees, is former Commissioner grant will enable Columbia important that highly quali­ visual and performing arts, for Cultural Affairs for the City College and Erikson Institute fied candidates enter the teach­ together with Erikson Institute's of Chicago. A leading advocate together to do what neither ing profession, said Barbara T. strong working ties with the for the arts, she is president of could achieve alone." Bowman, president of Erikson Chicago public schools, will the Chicago Music and Dance Institute. provide an ideal climate fo r Theater board, immediate past The new Joan and Irving Harris mentoring the next generation chairperson of the Illinois Arts Center for Early Childhood "Teacher education must pro­ of public school teachers needed Alliance and a director of the Education at Columbia College vide broad-based knowledge in Chicago and other large American Council for the Arts, will fund student scholarships and real life practice, combined urban areas," said Bowman. the National Cultural Alliance, and stipends and faculty with continual mentoring and and National Public Radio. salaries for the program, said Dr. Lya Dym Rosenblum, the college's vice president and grad­ uate school dean. Columbia, which has one of the highest percentages of minority stu­ dents of any private institution in Illinois, will make a concerted effort to recruit students for the program in minority communi­ ties, she said.

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My Fellow Alums: In March, the complete tuition. Cutbacks over the Margi Cole is currently working first mailing went out inviting you last decade now mean that a student with Keith Lusson in the Career for the corporate to obtain a Columbia Co llege is fortunate to have less than fifty Planning and Placement Office to community Alumni Association (CCAA) credit percent of tuitiou paid with the bal­ create a so1trce book of alumni busi- columbia2 card. I should underline the fact that ance to be made up from private 17esses, free/a ncers and services. It The Division of Continuing for every purchase made using these sources. The CCAA credit card is should prove to be another great net­ Education at Columbia College cards, the college receives a small a pa inless way for many of us to working opportunity. Offers Courses in: percentage which we will apply to keep on contributing to a most wor­ Call Keith at (312) 663-1600, ext. • Business and Professional the Alumni Scholarship Fund. So thy cause. 5283 with inquiries. Communication confident is MBNA, the issuing Please consider the credit card as a • Graphic Design company, in the success of this means to give others the chance to • Multi111 edia CCAA card, that in anticipation of fu lfill their educational goals. Your • Public Relations the initial usage of the card, they Michael E. Jackson,'83 contributious are goiug to a very • MarketingAdvertis ing have already contributed $10,000 President worthy ca use; namely the opportu­ • Language Skills for into the scholarship fund. Corporations Doing Business Abroad Columbia College nity of a lifetime for students of lim­ Alumni Association It is d!ffiwlt to emphasize enough ited resources. On Site or on Campus! the need for the rapid growth of this For more information and to receive On another note ...watch 111 your and other scholarship funds at the a Fall catalog Call 312/ 663-1600, mail for a submission form to the college. Not so long ago, government ext. 5259 upcoming Alumni Creative funding for needy students covered Directory. Alumni board member lZIDS ON CAMPUS

Since its inception in 1982, when In 1995 Lennon stepped up her there were 11 classes offered and an unending search for scholarship enrollment of 50 students, the sponsors by starting the Be A Institute has grown phenomenally. Hero fund drive. As a result, a new Last year the program registered scholarship was named in honor of 488 students in 40 classes; the 1996 the first "hero," Beatrice M. Lites. program will offer 47 classes and is Heroes can sponsor individual stu­ looking forward to another year of dents or contribute to the general enrollment growth. Students earn scholarship fund . "In many cases two college credits for most courses; $200 can turn a life around," says Student Brooke cost is $200 per two-credit course. Lennon. "It can at the very least Wilson develops Hernandez (left) and Jonah Kadish use laser give a student some support and her own photog­ But while the number of students in beams to create holograms. encouragement to continue his or the Summer Institute has grown, raphy. her education." scholarship funding has not kept high schools, offering stud ents pace. Each year Columbia awards Summer Institute includes courses new opportunities for exploration." approximately 30 Summer Institute in art, academic computing, dance, scholarships, or two per depart­ English, fiction writing, film / In the program, students are able ment. In recent years, and as is the video, journalism, management, to experience a slice of college life case with the college's traditional marketing communication, music, and accnte college credits. They student body, Summer Institute photography, radio/sound, sci­ receive hands-on experience and students are experiencing a greater ence/math, television, and theater. individual encouragement from need for financial assistance. "Our For the third year, the Institute is college level instructors which fos­ requests for assistance used to featuring a special free non-credit ters more self-confidence to pur­ number around fifty," says Lennon. workshop, "Introduction to sue and succeed in college. "Last year we received more than College Life for Deaf and Hard of Columbia's urban campus makes 150 applications for scholarships. Hearing Students." it easy for students to take advan­ "As the government reduces finan­ No summer is complete without creativity and tage of the city's vast resources. cial aid opportunities and college the Institute's Showcase and Pizza They can experience the "extended tuition increases each year, stu­ Party. Students and faculty from enthusiasm are always evident on Columbia's campus" comprised of Chicago's dents are faced with filling gaping all Institute classes reassemble as campus, there's an especially energetic feel in the finest cultural offerings: the holes in their college budgets," adds one group to share their finished air when High School Summer juniors and seniors who have Harold Washington Public Lennon, who is also an admissions works. Fi lm , dance, comedy Library, the Art Institute of Institute classes roll around. a serious interest in the performing, counselor for Columbia's tradition­ improv, poetry and fiction read­ media, communication, or fine arts. Chicago, Orchestra Hall, theaters, al students. "More and more, schol­ ing, plus art and photography Fourteen years ago Columbia museums and galleries. arships are becoming a necessity to exhibits make for an entertaining The Institute encourages high began offering co ll ege-credit attend college. In High School way to highlight the summer's school students to explore career On the other end of the spectrum, courses to high school students. Institute, for many of the very stu­ experience. Families are invited to options not available at the sec­ the prog ram has become an The High School Summer Institute dents we need to reach $200 might altend the party on August 9. has since flourished into a multi­ ondary school level. "Many times, u ne q ua !led opportunity for just as well be $2,000, and high purpose program with myriad as budgets are cut in the high Columbia to introduce itself to High School Summer Institute school students aren't eligible for benefits to both its participants and schools, courses in the arts are the potential students. In 1995, 150 runs from July 8 through August 9. government funds for this pro­ the college. first to go," says Bonnie Lennon, students who attended the For more information or to con­ gram." director of the Summer Institute. Summer Institute registered as tribute to the Be A Hero fund call Summer Institute offers a unique "We try to be an extension of the freshmen in the Fall semester. 312/663-1600, ext. 5134. college experience to sophomores,

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Erdman Alton B. llarris Mildred I. Lavizzo james B. Modelski Gordon Lee Pollock Roche Schul fer Vernon $100 to columbia cot- Lorenzo Chambers Paula Epstein joan & Irving Harris Marcia Lazar & Alan Amos Ann Moorehouse Madeline Murphy Rabb john Schultz Richard Vic tor lege during the period Diane Denise Chandler Sonia ). Erf Camille C. Donald Peter Leddick Edward & Marsha Morris Rosario Ramirez Margaret Shanahan Kathrene Wales of January 1, 1996 to M/ MSidney Cheresh Don Ferris Hatzenbuehler Annie Lee Bertie Morse MI M Robert B. Remer Elizabeth A. Shineflug Cheryl Wall April 30, 1996. james T. Chiampas M/M Fred M. Fine Terri Hemmert Nat Lehrman Cheryl Lynn Morton- ). Dennis Rich Charlotte C. Shure Arlene C. Wanetick Ira Abrams Robert C. Christen Gerald Fine Kevin Henry Martin E. Lennartz l..1ngston Kevin Rigdon jane Ganet Sigel Richard A. Wang Randall K. Albers Thom Clark John E. 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dance/ movement therapy direc­ won a $5,000 award for excellence arts center director marilyn barbara yanowski was a fea tured tor jane ganet sigel presented in prose from the Illinois Arts sward was elected chair of the speaker on ''Your Message is Your two lecture/ demonstrations to Council. It is Andy's fifth Artist board of Ha nd Papermaking Metaphor" at the National Imaging the Argentina Association of Fellowshi p Award since 1986. Magazine. She was also elected Conference in Orlando, Florida. Psychology in Buenos Aires. mark davidov is currently editor­ vice president of International theater / music department in-chief of the Russian section of Association of Hand Papermakers. educational studies director ava chairperson sheldon patlnkin the American/Russian magazine, belisiEH:hatterjee is serving as a liberal education faculty member directed "Of Mice and Men" a! the Ulitsa. zoe keithley recently pub­ steering committee member for the dominic pacyga participated on BOG Theater in DesPlaines. more lished her short story "Hide and Professional Development Project panels at both the Organization of faculty news: joe cerqua com­ Seek" in the North American Review. Team, which has been charged by American Historians and the posed the music for "American An excerpt of her novel "What the the Illinois State Board of Education Midwest Sociological Society Plan" at the National Jewish Daughter Owed" appeared in to study and make recommenda- annual meetings and spoke on the Theater, "Tom and Jerry" at American Blues and "The Playboy Projects" for City Lit. henry godlnez played Orsino in Shakespeare Repertory's "Twelfth NOTEWORTHY Night" and directed Teatro Vista's production of "Santos and Santos" at the Mexican Fine Arts Museum. tions for the establishment of pro­ Emergence III. lynda rutledge history of Chicago's immigrant tom mula's book "Jacob Marley's departmental fessional development in Illinois. stephenson won a month-long communities to the meeting of the Christmas Carol" made the Ch icago Faculty news: susan salidor residency as an associate at the Migration Dialogue in Chicago. Trib11ne's Bestseller List last Columbia is introducing new received an Oppenheimer Award Atlantic Center for the Arts, an He also collaborated on the script Christmas. susan philpot coached graduate programs in architec­ for Excellence for her new CD interdisciplinary program in New for a Daley Center exhibit on the BOG Theater's "Of Mice and Men," tural studies and Interior design album. It has also been selected as Smyrna Beach, Florida. patricia architecture of Polish churches in Candlelight Theater's "Brigadoon," beginning this fall. Concentrations one of the best children's albums of mcnair's novel excerpt "Into the Chicago. More faculty news: louis and "Dancing at Lughnasa," direct­ of study include space planning, the year by Sesame Street. marilyn Jump" was published in the silverstein presented a paper on ed by david cromer. brian posen computer-assisted rendering, turkovich worked with the Olin Emergence III. "Peace Studies: Self, Family & directed "Cupid Loses His Eros," a lighting design, architectural and Aerospace Company in Redmond, Society" at the Peace Foundation sketch comedy at Griffin Theater interior photography, furniture Washington to develop a thinking Center in Miami, Florida. Louis and is involved with the sketch and decorative arts design, and and learning program for its scien­ also led a workshop on "Death and comedy troupe The B-Side. bar­ institutional facilities design and tists and engineers. She also States of Meta-Consciousness" for bara robertson performed in management. worked with Quality Media to the Life Arts Society in New Center Theater's Jeff nominated the dance center broke all design activity books for their new Mexico in May. show "Detachments." contempo­ records with its highly successful seven-part series "Leadership in rary american music program television department faculty Cruzando Fronteras: Artes de las the Next Millennium," released director william russo and the member ron boyd videotaped Americas festival of contemporary this year. Chicago Jazz Ensemble continue every street in Chi cago for Latin American dance. Nearly to wow their followers. greg sar­ english department acting chair­ research documentation for the every event sold out, drawing chet received a grant from the person garnett kllberg cohen Harvard School of Medicine crowds of over 10,000 people to Chicago Artists International won the coveted writing fellow­ Project for Human Development festival events over the five week Program (CAIP) to travel to the ship at Virginia Center for the ira abrams in Chicago neighborhoods. Ron period. The festival was highly Czech Republic w t with Creative Arts and a writing resi­ recently judged Oakton successful in integrating both film and video department renowned bassist Miloslav Gajdos. dency at Ragdale, both for sum­ Community College's National Latino and non-Latino audiences. chairperson Ira abrams directed bobbi wilsyn performed at the mer '96. This is Garnett's second Community College Video the CINE Golden Eagle award­ Harold Washington Library in "Jazz The fiction writing department's residency at Virginia and third at Awards and the NAACP "ACTFO" winning documentary "Dolores Sisters" and in "Female Express" annual anthology of student writ­ Ragdale. Other faculty news: Awards. More faculty news: sara Dukes," which was written by produced by antje gehrken at the ing, Hair Trigger 17, was recently renee hansen served as an artistic livingston is the video designer Co lumbia 2 faculty member American Blues Theater. awarded the Columbia (University) and technical consultant for the for Live Bait Theater's comedy pamela pierce. The film was Scholastic Press Association's documentary "Ecofeminism Now." production of "Zap!". Sara is also screened at the Mi Chiste Triste (CSPA) Gold Crown award in the paul hoover's sixth collection of collaborating with Jan Erkert & Mini Film Festival, CentroCultural college magazine category. Three poetry won the prestigious Company on a bilingual solo piece corrections: de Ia Raza and Chula Vista Library fiction writing students also Georgia Prize in Poetry. The book, between poet, dancer & video in San Diego. Also on the program In our last issue film/video received individual literary "Viridian," will be published in the arti st. michael niederman was "Pochonovela (A Chicano department faculty member awards from the Association. Contemporary Poetry Series of the returned to his alma mater, Soap Opera)," which was edited dan dinello was misidentified University of Georgia Press. sarah Grinnell College in Iowa, to pre­ Chicago Arts & Communication , the by faculty member raul ferrara­ as don in an item announcing a. odishoo recently published her sent a series of lectures on "Culture annual magazine produced by stu­ balanquet. More faculty news: his certificate of merit from the short stories "Notes from the Flat as Garbage: Film, TV & Critical dents in the journalism depart­ haklm belabbes's film "Nest in Chicago International Film Earth Society" in Berkeley Fiction Thinking." luke palermo and ment, was also awarded a 1996 the Heat" won a Silver Hugo Festival for his film "Beyond Review, "Scherazade at Home" in nadine sterk collaborated with Gold Crown award by the CSPA. Award at the 1995 Chicago the Door." Lynx Eye Los Angeles and "Return the Chicagoland Educator's Media The magazine was also named International Fi lm Festival, to Sender: Address Unknown" in Network on the 3rd Annual The accomplishments of televi­ 1996 Best Annual Collegiate a Special Jury Award at the Fugue: Idaho University Literary Chicagoland High School Video sion department faculty mem­ Magazine in the Midwest by the New York Short Film and Video Digest. Director of composition bers joan beaudoln, ron boyd Society of Professional Journalists. Expo, and a Jury Award at Festival. brian k. read spent a mark withrow recently co­ michael niederman and bar­ the IDA Midwest Documentary great deal of his sabbatical video­ In honor of the science authored the book "Readings Are bara sykes-dietze were listed Association Festival. The film has taping blues bands in Europe last Institute's third annual communi­ Writings: A Guide to Reading and under the film /video depart­ been showcased in New York at year for the documentary "Luther ty science fair and fiesta, Mayor Writing Well" publ ished by ment heading. the French Museum and twice at Allison & the Blues in Europe." Daley proclaimed March 2, 1996 to Prentice Hall. The project was the Museum of Modern Art. be columbia college community aided by a faculty development kendall harnett screened his film science fair day in chicago. grant fro m Columbia. "Blueberry Hill" at the Texas Film 14@@1 fiction writing department act­ Festival in February. Artist-in-resi­ ing chairperson randy albers dence judy hoffman narrated the dance center faculty member chaired a panel entitled "That program at the Northwest Coast richard woodbury recently com­ Must Be Fun to Teach: Dilemmas Film and Video Festival held at the pleted sound designs for in Teaching and Evaluating Mitchell Indian Museum in Steppenwolf Theatre's production Creative Writing" at the College Evanston. The festival included of "The Libertine" starring John Conference on Composition and clips from a Kwakiutl native video Malkovich and Goodman Theatre's Communication in Milwaukee. project directed by Jud y. joseph production of "Arcadia." His john schultz, professor emeritus, stelff produced a fea ture-length design for "Night of the Iguana" was a featured interviewee in the narrative, "Rhapsody," which was opened on Broadway in March, as PBS film , "Daley the Last Boss," screened at Columbia. did his original score for the Adler which aired in January. Faculty nadine sterk and luke palermo (bottom row center) with winning Interdisciplinary arts faculty Planetarium's sky show "Comets news: andrew allegrettl recently students and faculty from riverside-brookfield at the chicagoland member and book and paper are Coming." high school video festival alumni profile PATIUCIA BUTCHER '95

basic training. She has a regular fire myself artistically: a very nurturing department pager and is authorized environment but business first-­ to get on the vehicle and respond learn your trade, put the time into with the firefighters. learning the rules and then you can break every single one of them." Butcher's life was moving at a good clip with school, work and family, Butcher's work has already been but things changed quite suddenly recognized in several ways. Along when on a backpacking trip to take with other Columbia College stu­ photographs in Eastern Europe, she dents, she was nominated for the suffe red a stroke. She was hospital­ Kodak scholarship. It became her ized in Finland for fou r days and first photography award. flew back to Chicago, where she "It was the first time I realized that was admitted to Rush Presbyterian other people really see something in St. Luke's Medical Center. my images, that people could con­ Her vision and mobility were affect­ nect with me," she says. ed. It was three months before she She then won a United Way intern­ could photograph again; eight ship, where she did a series of sen­ months before she walked well and sitive photographs of pregnant high could work effectively. school students. Her work was Dr. Jeffrey Curtin, Butcher's physi­ included in United Way's Visions of cian at Rush, says that her prognosis Hope documentary. is "very good" and that she is unlike­ Columbia multimedia instructor ly to have another stroke. He credits ould any sane person other than Bob Lytle describes Butcher as a her age and the aggressive treat­ perfectionist, who is driven toward and rush to thP- ccene of a fire? ment she received with her substan­ excellence. "I think her experience The CD-ROM includes a video intro In 1992, as a recently divorced tial recovery. with the illness gave her a sense of does-- but she's not crazy, she's the by Hal Bruno, director of political mother of two young children, Butcher still has difficulty with fi ne immediacy about what she wants to St. Charles Fire Department' offi­ coverage for ABC News and a Butcher began taking photography motor skills in her right hand. She do with her life; 'I can't wait til next cial photographer. nationally known au thority on fi re and design courses at Elgin uses her left hand to load film and year because maybe none of us will safety, who was keynote speaker at Community College. John Grady, In May 1995, Butcher, 36, w n an write. She is both practical and be here next year."' the November 1995 fundraising lun- an instructor and himself a Albert Weisman Memorial philosophical about her stroke. "I cheon for the Weisman Scholarship Columbia grad, recognized her gift He is quick to add, "She would Scholarship, which awards money had to integrate it into my life. I Fund. Butcher presented an album and suggested she look into his never want to be known as the pho­ to Columbia students to help fund thought I could take control, but of her photos to Bruno at the lun- alma mate r. tographer who had a stroke. Her communications projects, for her then I realized that you never take cheon. Thanks to the friendship they work stands on its own." CD-ROM project plan ba~ed n her "When I first got to Columbia," she control of anything in life, you just struck up, he offered to tape the work with the St. Clwles Fire says, "I was intimidated by all the work around it." intro, and did so in February at talented people there. Then I started Department. She used the scholar­ Through her association with O'Hare as he changed planes en to find my own niche, my own ship money to purchase virtual real­ Rush's Neuroscience Institute, she route from Washington to cover the style, and I decided this was what I ity computer software; the CD-ROM began photographing young stroke Iowa caucuses. was meant to be doing." will show an actual fire burning. victims. "I want to do a body of Her interactive CD-ROM about fire­ "The fact that the funds ene there In a class she met a St. Charles fire­ work to share with others who have fighting and fire safety -- which for the Weisman project was criti­ man who told her that his depart­ gone through this, a book of inspi­ incorporates her own photos, video, cal," she says. "But not only for the ment was seeking someone to work rational photos with minimal text, and virtual reality sequences was funding; the experience of working on a photo book fo r its 150th just quotes from the people." part of Columbia's annual exhibit of anniversary. She was hired for the with the Weisman committee has About her recent education, Butcher Weisman Scholarship winners in project and assigned to work with a opened up so many doors for me, says: "Columbia College was the March. certified fire service instructor for and the exposure has swung those perfect place for me to develop doors wide open." about 100 hours of abbreviated

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MacArthur Foundation Saks Fifth Avenue WGCI zation donors who have con- Boca Raton Museum of Art Forsythe McArthur Assoc. Mansfield, Callihan, Melville Schuler & Shook, Inc. WGN-TV Channel9 tributed a minimum of $100 Bridgewater Custom Sound Gap, Inc. Fine Framing Shinners-The Printing Company Wight Consulting to columbia college during Calumet Photographic, Inc. Richard Gray Gallery Marshall Field's Sinnott & Associates, Inc. Engineering, Inc. the period of January 1, 1996 Charlie Trotter's Halo Lighting MBNA America Bank Smith Barney, Inc. WLS-TV to April 30, 1996. Elizabeth F. Cheney Helene Curtis Industries Midland Paper Company Sony Electronics, Inc. WMAQ-TV ChannelS Foundation Helix, Ltd Museum of Contemporary Art Spectroscopy Society of WPWR-TV Active Graphics Chicago Board of Education Henry Hampton Florists National Endowment for Pittsburgh AFTRA/SAG The Chicago Commu nity Tmst Vicki & Thomas Horwich the Arts Stagebill Magazine Foundation ' kathryn kozan recently had her jesse dearing is a sales agent for penelope cagney, a faculty mem­ frank glab can be found at the St. loft apartment and studio featured Ticketmaster in Minneapolis, ber in Columbia's arts manage­ in Home Design, a special maga­ Minnesota .. . Athanasius Roman Catholic ment program, has been appointed zine edition of the Chicago Tribune. Church in Evanston where he mary tallman-markantonatos is as a visiting lecturer in the gradu­ The story highlighted furniture, serves as the director of music working as a Chicago location ate arts administration program at wa ll paintings and decorator items ministries. Frank is also a pro­ script supervisor for "ER" and the School of the Art Institu te, designed by Kathy and her staff fess ional magician ... "Chicago Hope." When not on the where she teaches courses in con­ at Kozan Studios. The stu dio peter hulne, a member of the set she plays bagpipes with the sulting and communications... produces artwork for commercial Second City Touring Company, University of Chicago Alumni projects for clients such as played the roles of a bartender and Association Pipe Band. The band Niketown, McDonalds, Hyatt basketball fan in the film "Celtic will represent the U.S. this sum­ Hotels and Disney... Pride." Peter's identical twin broth­ mer at the World Pipe Band er Patrick also played in the same Championships in Glasgow, roles ... Scotland ... curt chiarelli is self-employed as shawn moran is the regional mar­ a production designer I special keting manager for Discovery effects tech for Williams Electronics Zone. She was formerly promo­ where he has provided stop­ tion director fo r Kelly, Scott & motion animation models for the Madison Ad Agency. Shawn says ALUMNI NOTES "Mortal Kombat" and "Judge she would love to hear from her Dredd" video games. His most former classmates ... recent work was as a stop-motion fabricator for the feature length toval rolston is the executive animated film "James and the director and producer of MET­ Giant Peach." Curt is currently ROSOUND, a jazz entertainment sculpting maquettes for Universal variety show emphasizing the jeffrey starr mararian is busy hank grover is in his third season Studios and is the lead designer music trends of urban American hosting the weekly "Jeffrey Starr as second assistant director for and scul ptor for Metropolis adults. At the recent debut for the Show" on the Rhod e Island cable Fox-TV's #1 rated children's series, Digital... pilot, the 60-minute program fea­ TV Interconnect Channel. The "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers." tured live jazz performances by brant curtiss, production director show covers love relationships Hank has served as first assistant artists such as Gerald and Eddie for 93.5 WTPA/ WNCE, Harrisburg, and sexual advice... director on feature films fo r Levet, Tina Moore and Jerald Pennsylvania, received the first Concorde-New Horizons and Daemyon. Performances were place award fo r the 1995 Bicoastal Films in Los Angeles ... shot on location in Chicago, New Pennsylvani a Association of York, Los Angeles and Atlanta ... Broadcasters Bes t Rad io Self Promotion Announcement. Guest '75 speaker avid Brinkley presented jeff justman, one of the founders his award. Brant received a second of Columbia's student newspaper, ' place awa rd for his "Why Use was recently promoted to vice edye deloch-hughes was recently Radio" entry in a competition president of LaSalle Na ti onal promoted to associate creative sponsored by the Central batya goldman, founder of Mary Bank where he is manager of retail director for the advertising and Pennsylvania Radio Broadcasters Kuntz Press and the Underground credit support and retail risk public relations firm R.J. Dale & Association ... Press Conference (UPC), has management.. .. Company. She is also the author of joined fo rces with the Independent alana smith recently premiered catherine dastice has been run­ the children's book "I Like Gym Comic Exposition to organize the as the first wheelchair dancer to ning her own production compa­ Shoe Soup"... Third International UPC. The perform with the Bryant Ballet. ny fo r the past three years. mini-conference, aimed at lovers She also to ured in the role of Catherine Prod uctions is open to of independent press, will take Lorraine Hansberry in Cantilever non-equity professiona ls in the place at the Chicago Cultural Network's production of "To Be arts. Currently she is producing barbara nunn Ianier was selected Center in October... as the associate producer for the You ng, Gifted and Black." In addi­ plays in the dinner theater format 1995 Chicago Tribune Charities tion to acting and dancing, Alana at the Sabre Room in Hickory ronald lawless is currently a laura d'argo recently displayed also sings. She performed in April Hills, Illinois... senior consultant for the Illinois presentation of "The Nutcracker." her art work at the Ninth Annual She succeeds the show's current for the Women with Disabilities Board of Education and the Women's Works Art Ex hibit. Laura sherelle harris is a freelance 25-year veteran producer and Healthcare Conference ... Chicago Housing Authority ... is a freelance illustrator who spe­ writer in New York City. Her work wi ll assume full responsibility cializes in watercolor for corporate has been published in Black tracy Iebrun, a former photogra­ for next year's 30th anniversary businesses and children's toy Elegance and BELL magazines, as pher and computer graphic artist production ... companies ... well as in the children's magazine, for the City of Chicago, is now the Highlights. She recently received manager for Moto Photo & johnny von worked for WLS-FM her M.L.S. from the Pratt Institute Portrait Studio in Glencoe, for a year before he moved to his steven arazmus recently celebrat­ in Brooklyn, New York ... Illinois ... current late-night spot on WLUP­ ed the 10th anniversary of his FM in Chicago ... michele rubino hotzel is current­ agency PhotoChicago. Steven '77 ly a library associate with ed curran hosts a program on the started this publicity agency dur­ latest in "technogadgets" on Morningstar in Chicago. She was ing his junior year at Columbia ... America n Airlines flights and recently named as the 1995 Temp America On Line ... ' of the Year for C. Berger & pat gullett of Howling Moon Company. The company provides richard w. munchkin recently terry barr is the senior stage man­ Studio in LaGrange, Illinois, temporary staff in library and completed a film he produced and ager for the Silverseas Cruise Line. recen tly exhibited her mixed­ information services ... directed entitled "A Passion For Currently on the Silver Cloud in media art works at the Kokopelli Murder." The fi lm crew also mary stockfisch is a camera Gallery and the American West included fellow Columbia gradu­ Monte Carlo, he is in charge of all operator/ production manager for lighting and sound ... Gallery. Her pieces reflect her ates michael goi '80, director of Available Light Ltd. in Burbank, belief in the connection between photography, and michelle cren­ California .. . earth, man and animals shaw '83, first assistant camera. Richard is the president of Century Film Partners, Inc., a production and distribution com­ pany in Los Angeles ... steven arazmus '87 of the Geneseo (Illinois) Chamber Council for his accomplishments of Commerce and Geneseo in the field of photography. Doug Development Group ... has received nine awards from the Northern Illinois Newspaper ~memoriam, david stepen is the director of Association and has had his work graphics for Equis, a commercial DECEASED published throughout Chicagoland real estate firm in Chicago. David grisel acosta, reporter for as well as in Billboard, Screen and ray fowler '94 became engaged this year to Nikki EXTRA Bilingual Publications in French Vogue magazine. He is cur­ Goldberg ... Chicago, won second place fo r julia chavez may '72 Outstanding Reporti ng on th e rently a videographer for KNOP­ tim summers and todd rutkowski TV in North Platte, Nebraska ... Hispanic Com munity at the ~ h brian wei! ~ ~ are hard at work starting a maga­ 8th Annual National Association jackie simmons has been named zelda robinson '93 zine destined to premiere in L roywood ~ of Hispanic Publications Print the new office manager of the December. The magazine, Velocity, Awards ceremony... Chicago-based Intelli.com. Her will be aimed at 18-34 year olds. various duties include accounting Among its many topics will be a and job tracking for clients ... section on alternative career pro­ alums files, which will provide how-to geoffrey vanderpal was recently tips on breaking into unusual at large ... promoted to Citigold executive at christopher emperado currently careers. The magazine will be dis­ andy dick plays the nerdy charac­ the Citibank branch in Crystal produces and edits corporate tele­ tributed free, with money from its ter Matthew on NBC-TV's Lake, Illinois. Geoffrey is also the vision image spots for Time ads going toward a scholarship "NewsRadio" ... president of Appointa Time Corp., Warner Cable. He also produces fund for the Chicago area's 75 col­ a product development and mar­ aaron iverson, an ex-lawyer "4U," a live phone-interactive talk leges and universities ... keting firm, and serves as a village attention former turned playwright, drew on his show. Christopher started with the trustee for the Cary Chamber of weisman scholars! experiences for his play company as an intern in 1992 .. . Commerce ... "U njustifiable Acts," which ran at The Weisman Committee wants to know what you're up to these zelda robinson, of Zelda Robinson the Goodman Thea tre's main days. We know you're motivat­ Communications, recently returned stage. 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Altman Pilar Bautista Ruth Page Award for Lifetime had a supporting role in Chris years, Al has been known as the voice james J. Brennan Service to the Field from the Chicago Elliott's movie "Cabin Boy." Robert L. Chapman for Nelson Brothers Furniture, Danley Madeleine K.B. Condit Dance Coalition. Builders and Tower Oldsmobile, Karen Lee Copeland Presenter: Charma Halpern, co­ Barry S. Crown among others. Milton Davis Presenter: Suzanne Cohan-Lange, director, Improv-Olympic Or. George H. Ellison. Sr., CI.U Mara D. Fizdale director, Interdisciplinary Arts Presenter: Marty Lennartz '82, WXRT joan W. Harris Ronne Hartfield Deejay, Alumni Association Board Frank j. Heffron Helena Chapellin Wilson '76 Myron F. Hokin member George L. johnson Vandell Cobb '75 Outstanding Contribution to William Slewart Johnson Tom Kallen Outstanding Contribution Columbia College Dr. Katherine E. Keough Karen F. Kizer to a Field Helena is an accomplished designer Fred Fine William Ku rtis Men:edes A. Laing Yandell has been a full-time staff pho­ and fine art photographer. Her works Honorary Alumnus Averill Leviton tographer with Johnson Publishing are included in important private Enid H. Long Fred has served Columbia and the larg­ Paul G. Marks Co., Inc., publisher of Ebony, Jet and collections and in the public collec­ er Chicago arts community with con­ Gordon J. McClendon Amb.1SsadorThomas P. Melady Ebony Man, since 1977. Most recently, tions of The Art Institute of Chicago, summate dedication. As the founder Howard Mendelsohn Cynlhia E. Mitchell he shot the cover for the premiere International Center of Photography, and chairperson of Columbia's arts, Samuel Pfeffer Kay L. Pick issue of Ebony South Africa. His shot The National Gallery of Art and entertainment and media management Madeline Murphy Rabb judith H. Riskind list includes an impressive array of the Museum of Fine Arts in Caracas, graduate program, Fred shared his sea­ Osvaldo Rodriguez subjects including Bill Clinton, Venezuela, and Columbia's Museum soned experience with hundreds of stu­ David R. Rubin Jane L. Shapira ALUMNI Nelson Mandela, Michael Jordan, of Contemporary Photography. dents until1983, when he was appoint­ David S. Solomon. M.D. Ellen Stone-llclic Michael Ja ckson, Whitney Houston, Helena was invited to join ed by Mayor Harold Washington as the Represent nti ve Pat rick A. Sweeney Richard H. Wehman 1RIBUTES Aretha Franklin and Spike Lee. Columbia's Board of Trustees in City's first Commissioner of Cultural Tony G. Weisman 1983. For the last three years, she has Affairs. In 1987 he returned to Helena Chapell in Wilson Presenter: Lerone Bennett Jr., execu­ Robert A. Wislow The 1996 Alumni Awardees were hon­ served as co-chair of "Celebrate Columbia as director of public affairs. Timothy W. Wright Ill tive editor, EBONY Magazine and officers ored at the Third Annual Alumni Columbia," the annual gala benefit­ Fred has received awards from the John B. Duff, President Columbia trustee Albert C. Ga ll, Provost/Execu tive Vice Reunion dinner aboard th e Lake ting the Trustees Student Scholarship Illinois Arts Alliance, Urban Gateways Pn ..>s ident R. Michael OeSalle, Vice President, Finance Michigan cruise ship Odyssey. And the fund. and the Joseph Jefferson Awards Lya Oym Rosenblum, Vice President/ Dean of the Gradu.1te School winners are: Andy Richter '88 Committee. Woodie T. White, Vice President, Presenter: Michael E. Jackson '83, College Relations and Development Outstanding Contribution president, Alumni Association alumni association board Presenter: J. Dennis Rich , chair, Michael E. jackson, President to a Field Management Department Bill Cellini Nana Shineflug '86 Vandcll Cobb Andy has the best seat in the house Margi Cole Lifetime Achievement Award on NBC's "Late Night with Conan AI Parker Joy Darrow Nana is the founder and artistic Pa ul Gray O'Brien." The versa tile actor I Honorary Alumnus Mary A. Mitchell director of the Chicago Moving "re" Bob Kaden writer/comedian has been O'Brien's AI came to Columbia 50 years ago as editor: Marijo Millette, '93 Dave Kohl Company (CMC), one of Chicago's Gloria Lehr sidekick since the show premiered. a part-time instructor and has been contributing editors: Carol Bryant, Mid1ael E. Marty Lennartz oldest modern dance companies, and jackson '83, Mary Claire Mathews, Eric Mixon '91, jeryl 0. Levin Before his television debut, Andy dedicated to teaching his students Sandra Parlin , and KaUuene Wales Michael P. Mach a faculty member in Columbia's the­ Amy Mendelson contributing photographers: worked locally with ImprovOlympic, the fine points of broadcasting ever Batura Otara ater /music and interdisciplinary arts Comedy Underground and played since. Currently the chair of the Steven Arazmus '87, Russ Berkman, lim Pfeiffer Patty Butcher '95, Marty Friel, Bob Kusel '78 S.1 mir.1 E. Robinson departments. Nana has received four Don Schuhle graphic design: Mary johnson Ni'omi Shcl-iU"1' layout: Donna Ciesla Marla Shone coo book art: jeff Stevenson M,m-Sung Son Jerry Wilkerson

Columbia College: Fast Forward! Columbia College entertained some 350 guests with student-designed fashions, pretend presidential polaroids, roving reporters, a fast-paced video, dinner and dancing at its third annual "Celebrate Columbia" gala at the Fairmont Hotel on May 4. The festive dress event, co-chaired by trustees Averill Leviton and Helena Helena Chapellin Wilson and Averill Leviton Chapellin Wilson, raised $80,000 for the with cutout of president John B. Duff Trustees' Student Scholarship Fund.

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