Columbia College Chicago Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago Alumni Newsletters Alumni Spring 2000 re: Columbia Columbia College Chicago Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.colum.edu/alumnae_news This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. Recommended Citation re: Columbia College Chicago (Spring-Summer 2000), Alumni Magazine, College Archives & Special Collections, Columbia College Chicago. http://digitalcommons.colum.edu/alumnae_news/63 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Alumni at Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago. It has been accepted for inclusion in Alumni Newsletters by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago. Duff's Legacy: Columbia poised for... When Columbia presidentJohn Duff retires this September after eight years, he will have left an enviable legacy. Under his leadership Columbia College Chicago has emerged as the largest and most comprehensive arts, media and communications college in the country. Today, Columbia boasts a campus serving 9,000 students and a physical presence of 650,000 square feet. A residence hall, new film stage facilities, new homes for the Music, English and Radio Departments and the Dance Center are milestones that mark Duff's tenure. In addition, Chicago's historic Ludington Building on South Wabash was Re: Columbia acquired and now houses a gallery, No. 26/Spring-Summer 2000 the Center for Book and Paper Biannual publication sent free of charge to alumni and friends Arts and in short time will house of Columbia College Chicago the Film/Video Department. The College continues to support critically acclaimed activities: DanceA.frica, the Chicago A COL~ Jazz Ensemble, the Center for The Future Columbia's visibility on the national and world stage. We have a great product and we need to celebrate that. T he second is increasing Columbia's endowment so that we have the funds to do the things we want to do. Third, we want to enhance communications across a!! departments, so that we're all working toward the same goal and the right hand knows what the left Warrick L. Carter is doing. Finally, we have to On September 1, 2000, Warrick L. aggressively reach out to the arts Carter will become president of and communications industries to Columbia College Chicago. Carter continue to broadcast our successes and develop partnerships that serve was the former director of the needs of our students, faculty entertainment arts for Walt Disney and alumni. Entertainment, where he headed a Everything you mentioned department that recruits and tTains goes hand in hand. role a corps of 20,000 performers and do alumni play in vision? technicians. Carter was Alumni are critical factors in our unanimously elected president by success. One of my primary goals Columbia College's board of will be to develop ways in which trustees and will serve a four- alumni are always reconnecting year term. with Columbia. This means Carter has a rich history in increasing our communication with academia, serving fo r 12 years as them using all available tools, be it through event Dean of Faculty and later as Provost/Vice President of Academic Affairs at Berklee College of Music, the world's largest independent school of music. At Berklee, Carter administered the largest portion of the college's $70 million annual budget and served as a member of the President's Cabinet and Council. Carter is also a composer, jazz percussionist and director of two Internet startup companies. Carter talks withJeryl Levin, Director of Alumni Relations, about his vision for the college and the integral role alumni play in moving forward the premier arts, media and communication college in the United States. What do you hope to accomplish at Columbia? As I see it, there are four challenges. T he first is to increase COL ~ A Re: Columbia No. 26/ Spring-Summer 2000 M anaging Editor Jeryl Levin, director, Alumni Relations Cont ributing Editors Carol Bryant Will iam (Bi ll ) Cellini, Jr. Mary Claire Mathews Kathy Millard Gillian Moore Kathrene Wales Contributi ng Writ ers Norman Alexandroff Patty Mackenzie Shin Yu Pai Aaron Vanek Michael Wojcik Contributing Ph otographers Thurston Coleman William Frederking Bob Kusel Trust ees Alton B. Harris, Chair Fay Hartog Levin, Vice Chair William L. Hood , Treasurer Lerone Bennett Jr., Secretary Dr. John B. Duff, President El len Stone Be lie William (Bi ll) Cellini, Jr. Madeleine K.B. Condit Karen Lee Copeland All an R. Drebin J.S. Fuerst Ru ss Gibb Tiffani Kim Griffith Mary Louise Haddad Pame la J. Hami lton Joan W. Harris Ron na Colum Alums Tom Schnecke Manager, Technical Operations and Production Services, NBC 5 Chicago Whether it's making sure he's got that extra spotlight operator for Jenny Jones or cleaning up the cameras from a Jeny Spnnger Show food fight, it's all in a day's work for Author The of Your Times 52 Millimeter, a design studio that through his own Nitestar Home '00 creates Web sites and paint and Video (www. Nitestar.com). The Josh Rubinstein was profiled motion graphics for clients cast also includes Colum Alums on 's Artbeat Chicago. He including the National Hockey Kevin Leadingham, Lisa earned a $3,000 Albert Weisman League and MTV Online. Nowicki and Sam Schorr. Scholarship from Columbia, which he parlayed to create the '95 '93 '94 photo magazine, Gaia. Dan Strickland was panelist Kenny Young' ('93) and Carl for "Thinking of Making the Seaton, Jr. ('94) shot their first more... Switch? Negotiating the New feature film, which took the top Joseph Drosset is vice Media Employment Market," two awards at the Acapulco Film president of Business held at NBC's Rockefeller Plaza. festival. One week, chronicles the Development at SEI New week prior to the marriage of a Ventures Group in Oak Brook. '96 man who discovers he might have Tom Popps short story, contracted HIV. Produced by their Devin McKenna is account "Terracotta," was published in the company, Griot Filmworks, One executive at Middleberg & Assoc., March 2000 issue of Velocity week won Best U.S. Film and the a NYC-based pr firm. She works "New Media" guru Dan Strickland at Columbia's East Coast alumni dinner, held in Magazine. Joe Meno's story Lincoln Filmmakers Trophy. exclusively with dot.com clients NYC at the Williams College Club, in December 1999. "Bustle in the Window" was Young and Seton plan to premier including Delias.com and accepted by Tn"-O!,wrterly and his their film at the Chicago sesamestreet.com. online serial fiction, "The Secret International Film Festival Hand," is currently running on in October. Playboy.com. Deborah Grant, '98 Chris McCauley, Timothy Nicole Emmons is assistant '96 Ripley and John Lustig animator at Nickelodeon Kevin Leadingham treated exhibited their fine works at the Animation Studios New York. She Columbia to the Chicago premier First Annual Alumni Invitational, works on the children's show of his doc A Refugee and Me. June 12, at the Ludington "Little Hill," a digital cartoon. Building' s Glass Refugee recounts the experience of Curtain Gallery. Elaine Equi Kathleen Saalfeld is a Burmese-Karen refugee Tway was awarded the Poetry Center graduate student at the New York Thongdee's futile quest for an Book Award of San Francisco School of Visual Arts, majoring in identity card to allow him to work State University for her seventh sculpture. fm· a living wage in Thailand. poetry collection VOICE-0 VER, Leadingham's film is a published by Coffee House Hooks Diana Sanchez lives in provocative exploration of of Minneapolis. Brooklyn, NY, where she identity, nationalism and the promotes Spanish rock and wm·ks friendship that develops between as a graphic designer. the filmmaker - a native of the East Coast North Shore - and the '58 West Coast rootless 1bongdee. Fraser Head is president of '78 more... Arena Television Management Charlie Carner wrote and Andy Hill was music supervisor on Disney's Annie, which aired on Services Inc., a Connecticut-based directed Who Killed Atlanta\ company that designs and installs Children?, a Showtime feature ABC. He also supervised and video and-broadcast facilities ~tarring]amcs Bclu;hi and • producl.'d the origirtal songs for Sony's The Advmtun'.\ Elmo in Gumbo-Irons) in arenas and Gregory Hines. Fellow alums r!f stadiums across the U.S. Michael Goi (director of Grouchland. which was among the Grammy nominees tor nest photography), Mark Leif Musical Album for Children. '83 (editor) and Al Magliochetti Husband and wife team of Jeff JoAnn Della-Giustina, who (main titles and visual effects) also Roberts and Katherine helped to coordinate Columbia's worked on the project. Mueller headed to LA after NYC alumni event in December, wrapping lnterlight Pictures' '99, is pursuing a Ph.D. in '80 Chicago production of Drivm. criminal justice. In .July she will Michael Goi traveled eight starring Keanu Reeves and James Kevin Leadingham (left) with friend Tway Thongdee. Kevin's film, A Refugee and Me, present a paper entitled countries on four continents in two Spader. Jeff was camet"a operator documents the Burmese-Karen monk 's elusive searc h for a Thai identity card. "Domestic Violence; Comparisons months to complete a four-minute and Katherine camera assistant. of Russia and Nicorogwa," in promotional film tor Nortel Steve Pink and D.V. Bologna, Italy. Communications, which was DeVincentis co-wrote the shown at the Telecom '99 screenplay for High Resolution, '84 convention in Geneva, starringJohn Cusak. Uoth Tia Tibbitts-Levinson is Switzerland. marked their feature film writing currently managing director of debut with Grosse Pointe Blank Susan Marshal & Company, a '87 which they co-wrote with Cusak NYC-based dance company.