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1970-79Updated: 09 May 2008. Nsikan Inokon, BJ '73, is a special investigator for the City of New York. He is also the author of the book World Peace, the Cry and Crier. Added: May 9, 2008Dale Woolery, BJ '77, is associate director of the Governor's Office of Drug Control Policy in Des Moines, Iowa. Added: May 8, 2008 Sharon Bateman, BJ '71, is currently operating vice president of corporate communications and corporate giving for Macy's, Inc., based at the company's corporate office in Cincinnati. She has held this position since February 2006, following the Macy's, Inc. acquisition of The May Department Stores Company. Bateman had been vice president of corporate communications for May Company since June 2000. Added: May 8, 2008 Jody (Simon) Feldman's, BJ '78, first children's novel, The Gollywhopper Games (HarperCollins/Greenwillow) was released on March 4, 2008, and went into a second printing within a month. Targeted at kids from ages 10 to 14, it's an interactive story that's been referred to as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory meets The Amazing Race and Encyclopedia Brown. Added: May 8, 2008
Lisa Kalson, MA '79, is working as a defense attorney for indigent juveniles. Her previous careers involved working as a reporter for a daily newspaper, as a writer for a nonprofit organization and as a public school teacher. She said, "My master's in journalism, nearly 30 years ago, still helps me think critically today." Kalson is married with a 10-year-old son. Added: May 5, 2008 Robert Casey, BJ '74, is the assistant managing editor/presentation at The Sacramento (Calif.) Bee. Added: May 5, 2008 Harold Geiger, BJ '77, is marking his 20th anniversary as a news producer at FOX2 KTVI-TV in St. Louis. Added: April 4, 2008 Manny Paraschos, BJ '67, MA '70, PhD '75, is a professor and director of the graduate journalism program at Emerson College in Boston. Added: March 31, 2008 Phil Lewis, BJ '74, is the editor and vice president of Naples Daily News in Southwest Florida. Added: March 31, 2008 Jeffrey M. Christian, BJ '77, is managing director of CPM Group, a New York-based commodities research and consulting company. He formed CPM Group in 1986 through the management buy-out of the commodities research department at Goldman, Sachs/J. Aron. Christian published the book Commodities Rising in 2006, and he published a book on electric cars in 1980. He worked as a journalist until 1980, with his last journalism job writing about metals markets. Added: March 31, 2008
Bradley Carr, BJ '71, has spent more than 35 years in public relations work for the legal profession. He said, "I have had the good fortune to come in contact with a number of J-School grads as I worked in Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Chicago, Albany, N.Y., and now in Montgomery, Ala." Added: March 19, 2008 David Firestone, BJ '77, is deputy national editor of The New York Times. Added: March 19, 2008
Bob Johnson, BJ '77, has been named general sales manager for News Talk 660 KSKY-AM and The Word 100.7 KWRD-FM in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. He joined Salem Communications in 2004 to be sales manager for KSKY-AM's transition to News Talk, after working seven years with ABC/Disney in Dallas/Fort Worth. Added: March 17, 2008 Steven R. Hurst, MA '73, has been assigned by the Associated Press to cover U.S. politics in Washington, D.C., with an international perspective and oversee AP's election news delivered outside the United States. He has served as AP bureau chief in Baghdad for the past 18 months. Prior to that, Hurst rotated in and out of Baghdad as a chief editor for three years and also wrote from Cairo, Egypt, where he was briefly based. Hurst joined the AP in 1976 as a correspondent in Columbus, Ohio, from the Decatur (Ill.) Herald and Review. He served as a correspondent and bureau chief in Moscow for the news cooperative from 1979 to 1984, with a brief stint in Ankara, Turkey. Hurst left the AP in 1988 to work in broadcast journalism, covering Moscow for NBC and then CNN. He won awards for his coverage of the Tiananmen Square uprising in 1989, the Soviet coup in 1991 and the Russian parliament uprising in 1993. Hurst became the State Department correspondent for CNN in 1994. In 2000, he returned to the AP and was appointed assistant international editor in 2004. Added: March 11, 2008 Stephen Mulligan, BJ '71, is the president of Mullicom, a strategic messaging consulting firm. Added: Feb. 15, 2008 Diane Weddington, MA '77, is teaching the Reporting Public Policy course at Duke University this semester. She also is leading a series of lectures for Duke's Kenan Institute of Ethics. Weddington continues to teach online feature writing for Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, Calif., and she contributes to the Oakland (Calif.) Tribune arts section. Updated: Feb. 14, 2008 Tom Layton, BJ '78, travels worldwide as a writer for the international Christian relief organization Samaritan's Purse. He joined Samaritan's Purse in 1999 after 19 years as a sportswriter at The Greenville (S.C.) News. Tom and his wife, Mary, live in Boone, N.C. Added: Feb. 14, 2008 Rich Buckley, BJ '75, is the state director of communications and marketing for the Missouri March of Dimes. He previously was development director for a St. Louis-area Catholic high school, following more than a decade of public relations at Fleishman-Hillard. While there, Buckley helped win a PRSA Silver Anvil for a crisis communications program. He wrote for radio, TV, and print in New York City and Washington, D.C. Buckley is married to Cathy Lyon, BJ '76, who is a lead instructional designer for Enterprise Rent-A-Car. Added: Feb. 14, 2008 Karen (Shoemaker) Goodell, BJ '75, is a reading specialist at Hillcrest Elementary School in Lawrence, Kan. Added: Feb. 14, 2008
Doug Wilson, BJ '77, is the senior writer at The Quincy Herald-Whig in Quincy, Ill. Added: Feb. 13, 2008 Russell G. Smith II, BJ '67, MA '71, is currently the managing partner of Myrush Futures, a commercial property management, consulting and communications business. He began his public relations and science writing career in 1969 with Burson-Marsteller in Chicago. Smith entered the chain drug store industry with May's Drug in Joplin, Mo., in 1972. After opening RSM Communications in 1978, he helped grow May's Drug and Drug Warehouse from four to 39 stores in Missouri and Oklahoma. Smith served as executive vice president and president until the sale of the business in 2004. He spends partial retirement in Naples, Fla., and Telluride, Colo., with his wife, Gail, BS Ed '69. Their daughters, Shana and Myca, live in Chicago with two grandchildren, Blake and Ian. Their son, Rusty, is deceased. Added: Feb. 13, 2008
Paul Courter, BJ '72, is vice president of the Golf Digest Tournament Planner, an online tool for nonprofits and organizations to set up and execute golf events. Updated: March 2, 2008 Brad Whitworth, BJ '75, is the senior communication manager for strategic alliances at Cisco in San Jose, Calif. Updated: Jan. 18, 2008 Toni Messina, BJ '71, MPA '91, has served as the public communications director for the City of Columbia (Mo.) since May 2006. She retired from Missouri state government after almost 30 years in all three branches. Prior to state government service, Messina worked for a non-profit council of governments and an insurance company. She lives in Columbia. Updated: Jan. 17, 2008 Greg Clock, BJ '71, is a substitute teacher in Katy, Texas. His recent research, writing and editing efforts include "A New Friend at the Rice Hotel," a vignette about a young girl who meets President Kennedy on Nov. 21, 1963, and "On the Road in the 1930s, Postcards and Letters to Tulsa," a story based on material found in a box last summer while clearing out the family home of 54 years in Grand Prairie, Texas. Added: Jan. 16, 2008
David Reich, BJ '76, has served as the public affairs officer for the College of Engineering at Wayne State University in Detroit for the past 13 years. He resides with his wife, Judy Kotzen, and son, Ari, in nearby Huntington Woods, Mich. Reich is working on his first book, a memoir of his actress mother, Sylvia Forrester, and her life in New York City in the 1930s. Added: Jan. 16, 2008 Margaret (Peggy) Engel, BJ '73, has joined the board of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards. She is a longtime board member of the Fund for Investigative Journalism and a former Nieman fellow at Harvard. Engel is a director of the Alicia Patterson Journalism Foundation and the Newseum, which is opening its $450 million facility on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., in 2008. She and her twin sister's three editions of "Food Finds" were made into a long-running show on The Food Network. Engel also co-authored three Fodor's guides to America's major and minor league baseball parks. Added: Jan. 16, 2008 Martin Nicholson, BJ '73, is the executive vice president of Edith Garrett & Associates, Inc. (EGA), an international consulting firm based in Asheville, N.C., that specializes in the produce industry. Additionally, he is the editor of the Wayne E. Bailey Produce Co. Sweet Potato News newsletter and creator of the company's Web site. Nicholson also edits a monthly newsletter for EGA, specializing in food safety and security issues. Added: Jan. 16, 2008 Michael Hollander, BJ '79, is the bureau manager for CNBC in Los Angeles. He has been with the network since its inception in 1989. Hollander said his old-fashioned values allow him to stay with the same company all these years without the pressure to move on. He added, "I still consider my education at Missouri very valuable and draw on it every day at work. Go Mizzou!" Added: Jan. 16, 2008 Katherine (Kitty) Bean Yancey, MA '74, has been with USA TODAY since 1982, first as a cover story editor, then a deputy managing editor for celebrities and entertainment in the Life section. She is now a travel writer and author of the Hotel Hotsheet blog at usatoday.com. Added: Jan. 16, 2008
Thomas Morgan III, BJ '73, a former reporter and editor at The New York Times, died Dec. 24 in Southampton, Mass. He was a former president of the National Association of Black Journalists, serving from 1989 to 1991. After graduation from the Missouri School of Journalism, Morgan worked as an information officer in the U.S. Air Force. He also was a social aide for presidents Nixon and Ford. Prior to his tenure at The New York Times, Morgan worked for The Miami Herald and The Washington Post. He joined The Times in 1983 and retired in 1994, later devoting much of his time to AIDS advocacy. His awards include the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism in 1995; a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University; a lifetime achievement award from the National Association of Black Journalists; and induction into the hall of fame of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. Added: Dec. 31, 2007 Barbara Mueth, BJ '74, is the vice president of community relations for Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics in Kansas City, Mo. Added: Dec. 14, 2007 Bruce Shank, AgJ '73, teaches learning disabled, disadvantaged kids in a middle school north of Los Angeles. Previously, he spent two years in New York City as an executive editor for Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (HBJ), 12 years in management for an HBJ subsidiary in Cleveland and 10 years in Los Angeles and Palm Springs as a vice president for trade magazine publishers. He also spent five years with his own contract publishing company in California. Shank said, "I owe it all largely to my father-in-law, George Zeis, an agriculture journalist for the Farm Credit Bank in St. Louis, who introduced me to Delmar Hatesohl, assistant editor for the College of Agriculture in 1969. Thank you Mizzou!" Added: Dec. 13, 2007
Mary Ann (Bennett) Horne, BJ '77, is the consumer editor at the Orlando Sentinel, overseeing coverage for Web and print on such topics as insurance, retail, restaurants, autos, consumer complaints, personal finance and personal technology. Added: Dec. 13, 2007 Wes Wathey, BJ '75, recently completed 30 years as an account executive for Jostens Inc. on Long Island in New York. He is a freelance sports writer for The Long Islander. Added: Dec. 13, 2007 Dorothy J. Gaiter, BJ '73, is the co-author (with husband John Brecher) of Tastings, The Wall Street Journal's weekly wine column. Before becoming a full-time wine writer in 2000, Gaiter wrote award-winning articles about race and urban affairs for 25 years for The Miami Herald, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, which she joined in 1990. Gaiter and Brecher are the authors of four books, including their memoir, Love by the Glass, Tasting Notes from a Marriage. They have appeared on the Today show, CBS Sunday Morning, Martha Stewart Living, CNN and NPR. They live in Manhattan with their teenage daughters. Added: Dec. 13, 2007 Alan Hermesch, MA '70, is president of Alan Hermesch Public Relations in Bethesda, Md. He founded the firm in 2000. He previously served as director of university communications for Howard University and vice president for institutional advancement at Meharry Medical College. Added: Dec. 13, 2007 Mike Feazel, BJ '72, was recently promoted to executive editor of Warren Communications News, a Washington, D.C.-based publisher of three award-winning dailies covering the business of TV, telecommunications, consumer electronics and the Internet. Added: Dec. 13, 2007 Wynn (Wheels) Wiegand, BJ '77, retired from the U.S. Air Force as a major in 1995. He is currently a senior tax adviser for H&R. Added: Dec. 13, 2007
Ken Paulson, BJ '75, editor of USA TODAY, was honored with one of two Lifetime Service Awards from the American Press Institute in October. The award is given in recognition of individuals who have significantly supported and promoted the professional advancement and leadership training of newspaper professionals. Paulson joined 2006 Missouri Honor Medal recipient John Seigenthaler, chairman and founder of the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center, in receiving the award. Added: Nov. 14, 2007
Bob Radziewicz, MA '77, has joined the faculty at the University of Miami in Florida. He was an editor at the Miami Herald for 30 years. Added: Oct. 8, 2007
Lee Strobel, BJ '74, Christian author and journalist, will speak about his bestselling book, The Case For Christ, at 7 p.m. Sept. 27 in the Hearnes Center Field House on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus. A former atheist, Strobel has authored nearly twenty books and shared the prestigious Charles "Kip" Jordon Christian Book of the Year award in 2005 for a curriculum he co-authored about the movie The Passion of the Christ. He also has won awards for his best-selling books The Case for Christ, The Case for Faith, The Case for a Creator, and Inside the Mind of Unchurched Harry and Mary. Strobel was a professional newspaper journalist for 14 years, including a stint as the award-winning legal editor of The Chicago Tribune. He led a team that won Illinois' top honors for investigative reporting and public service journalism from United Press International. Added: Sept. 11, 2007
J.R. Wilson, BJ '71, is a freelance writer, editor and author in Las Vegas, Nev. Added: Aug. 30, 2007
Glenn Harrison, BJ '79, is an attorney with the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division in Dallas, Texas. He has served two details as a Special Assistant United States Attorney (SAUSA) to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas. Prior to joining the Department of Justice, Harrison worked for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and in private practice. He graduated from the Tulsa School of Law in 1985, where he was a member of the University of Tulsa Law Journal. Harrison has served on the board of editors of the Oklahoma Bar Journal and is the author of a recent article in the Houston Business and Tax Law Journal. He said one of his favorite Missouri Journalism memories is carrying the class banner as steward for the graduation ceremonies in May 1979. Added: Aug. 17, 2007 Linda S. Wallace, BJ '76, owns Linda S. Wallace Communications, a firm that provides a range of business services including cultural competency and team-building workshops; reporting and speech writing services; crisis management; and news relations. Added: Aug. 3, 2007 Renee Klish, BJ '70, is the Army art curator for the U.S. Army Center of Military History in Washington, D.C. Added: Aug. 1, 2007
Debbie Drimmel Musser, BJ '79, is president of Musser Business Communications, a writing and public relations firm she founded in 1992 in Woodbury, Minn., a suburb of St. Paul. Added: July 24, 2007 Sandy (Etz) Wysocki, BJ '79, is the director of circulation and marketing for The Business Journal: Serving Greater Milwaukee (Wis.). Added: July 24, 2007 Ellen Jaffe Jones, BJ '76, is media consultant and healthy cooking instructor based in Anna Maria Island, Fla. Added: July 24, 2007
Aida M. Aldea, BJ '70, is a state-qualified court interpreter with the State of New York Unified Court System. She provides court interpreting services in Spanish to judicial districts throughout New York. Aldea is the proprietor and interpreter/translator/editor of AMA Translation Services based in Syracuse, New York. Added: July 23, 2007
Toby Gerber, BJ '72, BA '72, is a partner in the international law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. He received his law degree from Georgetown University in 1975 and concentrates his practice in bankruptcy, reorganization and creditor rights, commercial litigation, and the transportation industry. Gerber represents financial institutions and a variety of other clients on bankruptcy and commercial litigation matters, as well as transportation issues. He has acted as lead bankruptcy counsel for numerous bank groups and lenders in major cases throughout the United States and on behalf of the International Air Transport Association of Geneva, Switzerland. Gerber also has acted as lead in virtually all U.S. air carrier bankruptcies and in several foreign jurisdictions. He was named one of the "Best Lawyers in America" in 2007 by Chambers USA, recognized as a "Texas Super Lawyer" in 2007 by Texas Monthly magazine and is a former recipient of the "Lawyer of the Year Award" presented by the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers. Added: July 23, 2007
Edward Farber, BJ '54, MA '70, shared the following memory from his days at the Missouri School of Journalism: "I returned to MU in 1956 to work on my master's degree after a two-year stint in the Air Force. That year, 1956-57, I worked at KBIA* as a disc jockey. The station then was a privately-owned sundowner. I had a request show called 'Anything Goes,' which aired during Stephens College's siesta time, 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. My fellow disc jockeys dubbed me "Blacky" Farber because I had been blacklisted at Stephens College (I was innocent, honest). I sometimes listen to KBIA now on the Internet and marvel at what it is today compared to what it was then back then." Added: June 21, 2007
*The original KBIA was eventually sold and assigned different call letters. KBIA as it exists today began broadcasting in 1972 as a training lab for Missouri Journalism students.
Jim Low, BJ '79, is president of the Outdoor Writers Association of America and serves as the news services coordinator at the Missouri Department of Conservation. Low found his job through connections at the School of Journalism and MU School of Forestry, and he believes that "newspapering is the best place to start a career in any field of journalism." Added: June 8, 2007
Welle's family, friends and colleagues have established the Noreen Schuepbach Welle Fund at the Missouri School of Journalism in her honor. Contributions will be used to help train future generations of journalists by supporting a variety of journalism-related activities. Inquiries or donations can be made by mail at 103 Neff Hall, Columbia, MO 65211, or by phone at 573-882-0334.
Lisa Myers, BJ '73, senior investigative correspondent for NBC, won a 2006 Polk Award along with producer Adam Ciralsky of NBC's "Nightly News" for network television reporting. The pair exposed a secret effort by the Army to drop new technology aimed at protecting soldiers from rocket-propelled grenades. The annual awards honor CBS reporter George W. Polk, who was killed on assignment in 1949, and are considered among the top prizes in U.S. journalism. In 2005, Myers won a Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism. Added: Feb. 23, 2007
Kent Martin, BJ '76, is the director of public relations for KolbeCo Marketing Resources in St. Louis, Mo. Added: Feb. 20, 2007 W. Kelly Dude, BJ '74, is a partner at the law firm Anderson Dude & Lebel in Colorado Springs, Colo. Added: Feb. 16, 2007 Geoffrey Cross, MA '78, is a professor of English at the University of Louisville (Ky.), where he conducts ethnographic research on group composing. Cross' first book, Collaboration and Conflict, examines the small-group composing process of an executive letter of an annual report. Forming the Collective Mind, his second book, examines the large-group composing process of an IT service level agreement at a major corporation. Cross' research has won two national and two international awards from the National Council of Teachers of English and the Association for Business Communication. His current work examines verbal-visual composing processes. Cross credits his time at the Missouri School of Journalism for part of his success: "I am grateful for the reporting training from MU and the example of outstanding professors, including John Merrill, Daryl Moen and William H. Taft." Added: Feb. 14, 2007
Steve Ginsberg, BJ '70, is a reporter at the New Mexico Business Weekly in Albuquerque. Ginsberg is also coaching high school tennis after moving to New Mexico from the Bay Area in Sept 2006. Added: Feb. 13, 2007 Sallie Gaines, BJ '73, has been elected to the board of trustees of the Chicago History Museum. Added: Feb. 13, 2007 Jim Stone, BJ '74, is the sports anchor for KNSD, an NBC television affiliate in San Diego, Calif. Added: Feb. 13, 2007
Lewis Diuguid, BJ '77, was the keynote speaker for the MU Martin Luther King day celebration. The vice president for community resources at The Kansas City (Mo.) Star, Diuguid received the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism in 2000 and is a member of the Missourian Publishing Association Board of Directors. His second book, Discovering the Real America: Toward a More Perfect Union, will be published in 2007. Added: Jan. 26, 2007
Tom Heapes, BJ '76, is vice president of Trozzolo Communications Group in Kansas City, Mo. Added: Jan. 19, 2007 Ed Presberg, BJ '74, died Dec. 20, 2006. He was a senior vice president and senior partner at Fleishman-Hillard in St. Louis, Mo. Presberg co-founded the firm's internal communications practice, managed the agency's creative design group and helped lead its corporate reputation practice. Added: Jan. 19, 2007
Dan Greenhouse, BJ '72, is the vice president of Village Profile, the largest publisher of Chamber of Commerce publications in the United States. Added: Dec. 29, 2006 Sonja Hillgren, BJ '70, MA '72, died Dec. 19 of brain cancer. Hillgren was senior vice president/editorial for Farm Journal Media, the parent company of Farm Journal, the magazine she edited from 1995 to 2004. Prior to that, she was the magazine's Washington editor for five years. She began writing about agriculture in 1978, first for United Press International and then for Knight-Ridder Newspapers, both from their Washington bureaus. In 1996, Hillgren served as president of the National Press Club. A native of Sioux Falls, S.D., Hillgren won numerous journalism awards and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. In addition, she was a member of MU's For All We Call Mizzou campaign. Added: Dec. 21, 2006 Kenneth T. Berents, MA '73, has been named to the board of directors of China 3C Group, a major retailer and distributor of consumer and business products. He will serve as chairman of the audit committee. Berents is a former managing director and senior portfolio manager for Goldman Sachs Asset Management in Tampa, Fla., which manages $30 billion in growth stocks. Before joining the Wall Street community, he was a reporter for the Bergen Record in New Jersey then the Baltimore Evening Sun. Berents also was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow in economics at Princeton University. He has appeared on ABC's Nightline, CNN, CNBC and is widely quoted in national and trade publications. Added: Dec. 11, 2006
Tim Jones, BJ '78, has been named director of environmental services at West Florida Healthcare in Pensacola, where he will be responsible for planning and directing the environmental services operations for the facility. Added: Nov. 16, 2006 Jim O'Shea, MA '71, has been named the new editor of the Los Angeles Times. He has served as managing editor of the Chicago Tribune since 2001. Added: Nov. 13, 2006
George McElroy, MA '70, died Oct. 7, 2006. Called a "pioneer in every sense of the word," he was one of the first African-Americans to earn a master's degree in journalism from Missouri. He was the first black to write for the former Houston (Texas) Post, to serve on the communication faculty at the University of Houston and to teach in the Houston Independent School District. Fred Streicher, BJ '70, is the director of marketing and communications for the University of Iowa College of Engineering. Steve Engle, BJ '73, is one of three recipients of the National Agri-Marketing Association's 2006 Professional Development Awards of Excellence. These awards honor NAMA members based on outstanding achievement in the professional development areas of marketing communications, public relations, product/species management and sales. Engle, an executive vice president with Woodruff Sweitzer in Columbia, Mo., will receive the marketing communications honor. He has led the development of the highly successful "Ready to Rumble" launch campaign for AGCO brand tractors as well as the highly successful re-positioning of EVEREST Herbicide from Arysta LifeScience North America. Engle also teaches strategic writing as an adjunct professor at the Missouri School of Journalism. Edward W. "Ed" Gurney, BJ '73, communications coordinator for St. Anthony's Medical Center and a former newspaper city editor for the DeSoto Press, died July 27 in St. Louis. Martyn Howgill, MA '73, received the Alumni Achievement Award from Fort Hayes State University in Kansas, where he earned his bachelor's degree. He is the executive director of the Institute for Health Technology Studies in Washington, D.C. The nonprofit organization is devoted to research and education about the value and impact of innovation in medical technology. Jay Black, PhD '74, has completed his third year in phased retirement from the University of South Florida-St. Petersburg, where he held the Poynter-Jamison Chair in Media Ethics and Press Policy. He continues to edit the Journal of Mass Media Ethics, which he co-founded with fellow J-alum Ralph Barney, PhD '71, in 1984. Lee Wilkins of the School's faculty is the journal's associate editor. Black and his wife live in Utah for eight months of the year, and in Florida during the winter semester. Charles Marler, PhD '74, was inducted into the Sports Hall of Fame at Abilene Christian University. He was the university's first sports information director. Later he returned to the ACU classroom as a faculty member of journalism and mass communication.
Herbert (Skip) Colcord, MA '75, is director, Global Media Relations, with American Standard Companies in Piscataway, N.J. William D. Downs, Jr., MA '66, PhD '75, has been chosen to serve as chairman of the Arkansas Educational Television Network Commission for the third consecutive term. He is a professor and chair of mass communications at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Ark. Emmanuel Paraschos, BJ '67, MA '70, PhD '75, is professor and graduate program director at Emerson College in Boston. Paraschos has been published numerous times, with articles appearing in Journalism Quarterly, the Journal of Communication and the College Press Review. His most recent book is Media Law and Regulation in the European Union. He is editor of Media Ethics magazine and was the recipient of Emerson's 1995 Irma Mann Stearns Distinguished Faculty Award. He was dean of Emerson College's European journalism school for several years in the early 90s in Maastricht, Netherlands. Barbara Paynter, BJ '75, has joined Hennes Communications in Cleveland, Ohio, in an "of counsel" role. The agency specializes in crisis communications, media training and litigation communications. Gary Metzker, BJ '76, is deputy editor with the Los Angeles Times. Jesse Reif, BJ '77, is senior vice president with Euro RSCG in Chicago. Pam Maples, BJ '79, is the managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 
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