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I t’s been another wonderful year for the school. I havemuch good news to share with you in this Dean’s Mes-sage. I’ve also enjoyed another year of meeting more

alums and learning of your successes.Speaking of this, the School is making a concentrated

effort to collect up-to-date career information on as manyof our 11,000 alumni as possible. I hope you will take afew minutes to visit our new “Alumni Update” web pageand tell us what you’re doing and where you’re working.The form is available at www.temple.edu/scat/alums.htm.

If web access is inconvenient, you can mail in the infor-mation using the form included in this issue. In the next issueof InterCom, I’d like to be able to report that we heardfrom at least 500 alumni – please help us meet that goal!

We’ve had a record-setting year. We received thetwo largest gifts in the history of the School. The first giftof $1.5 million came from Gerry and Marguerite Lenfestand the second, of $1 million, came from Walter andLenore Annenberg through the Annenberg Foundation. Thesetwo gifts make possible the construction of a state-of-the-art media center and cafe in the school’s atrium space.More details about this extraordinary project are includedin this issue.

I would like to emphasize here the significance of thegifts and the project to the quality of life for the School, aswell as to its image as a high-tech institution. The project isnow in the design phase; our faculty, alums and friends willbe helping in this effort. News of its progress will also beposted on the School’s web site.

We also received this year the largest grant everawarded to the School. The Commonwealth of Pennsylva-nia’s Link-to-Learn program awarded SCAT more than$370,000 in funds for new high-tech equipment, as well asfunding for graduate student, faculty and staff support forthis new technology.

The grant was primarily written by Dr. Sandy Kyrish,Assistant Dean for Technology and Planning, but many thanksalso go to the faculty, staff and Board members who collab-orated with her in this effort. All SCAT programs will bene-fit from the new equipment for shared facilities such asaudio studios, a faculty instructional support center, a digitalpost-production center, multimedia labs, a theater digitalaudio studio and the New Media Concentration. Much of

the equipment was installed bythe time students returned forthe Fall semester 2001. It wasa busy summer!

Last month, Temple Presi-dent David Adamany set highexpectations for achievementwhen he unveiled a sweepingplan for the University, one which ties Temple’s researchand teaching to the region’s economic needs. He has putforth a vision of the University as “an engine of change” inNorth Philadelphia and as a high quality educational institu-tion for the region.

He wishes enrollment to grow from the current 30,000students to as much as 35,000 students over the next fiveyears, and he plans for Temple to provide more services fora growing residential student population. He stresses theneed to overhaul aging laboratory space and says a prioritywill be to restore Temple’s reputation as a leading researchinstitution. The President’s plan calls for $100 million in newprojects over the next few years; he envisions the extrarevenue coming from increases in enrollment, research andfoundation grants and alumni giving.

SCAT is poised to play a major role in realizing theseobjectives as we see our School’s enrollments continue toexpand, faculty research and creative productivity trend-ing upward and prospects for development funding look-ing very positive. The text of the President’s plan isavailable at: www.temple.edu/president/self_study/ onthe Temple website.

The School continues broad-ranging initiatives on all levels to integrate curriculum, technology and staffing sothat we are in the best position to prepare our students forthe future in fields that are changing rapidly and growing inimportance. Planning is also underway for School-wide in-terdisciplinary concentrations in new media, internationaland intercultural studies and media literacy. Faculty, staffand students have contributed to these planning efforts, andwe continue to see exciting innovations in teaching and re-search, as well as in the life of the school.

Fall semester has started and we are looking forward toanother year of achievement and success. Please let us hearfrom you—and don’t forget to come visit!

A Message from Dean Stewartby Jen Mintzer

On Tuesday, May 9, 2001, PresidentDavid Adamany, Dean Concetta Stew-art, the Board of Trustees, as well as fac-ulty, staff and students of the School ofCommunications and Theater, gatheredin Shusterman Hall for the dedicationceremony of the Joe First Media Center.

The Joe First Media Center will linkAnnenberg and Tomlinson Halls with aspacious atrium that will be a communi-cations and media hub for the School. Itwill include a digital library, an elec-tronic/digital wall with current newsplaying and several kiosks for referenceand research purposes. Also planned area cyber-cafe, a multimedia informationcenter with access to Temple and SCATwebsites and a venue for displaying stu-dent work and film screenings.

The Center was made possible by a$1.5 million gift from H.F. “Gerry”Lenfest, President and CEO of TheLenfest Group, and by a $1 million giftfrom the Annenberg Foundation. It honorsthe memory of Joe First, a former TempleUniversity trustee and a key member ofthe management team of Triangle Publi-cations, which was owned by the Annen-berg family.

“This is an important moment for ourSchool. It is the first big constructionproject in 30 years,” Dean ConcettaStewart said.

Lew Klein, an adjunct professor inthe School of Communications and The-ater and the President of the NationalAssociation of Television Program Exec-utives Educational Foundation, intro-duced his longtime friend, Gerry Lenfest.He spoke about how Gerry and his wifeMarguerite began Lenfest Communica-tions in 1974, with the corporate head-quarters in their own home. “Thecorporate filing cabinets were in the base-ment, and Marguerite was the book-keeper and handled all thecorrespondence,” Klein said. “In theshort years since 1974, Lenfest Commu-nications built this region’s largest cable

system and became a nationalleader in the booming cable indus-try—a field that many doubtedwould ever succeed.”

Klein recounted the discussionhe had with Lenfest when he ini-tially decided to make his generousgift to the School of Communica-tions and Theater. “Gerry kept ask-ing, ‘Will this gift makea difference?’ ” Klein said.Addressing his friend inthe audience, Klein an-swered this question:“Yes, Gerry, this gift willmake a difference—a differ-ence in the lives of count-less individuals who willbenefit from your generouscontribution. From all ofus, from all of them, I say thank you.”

Lenfest was presented with an hon-orary plaque and took the podium tospeak of his friend and mentor, Joe First.“Joe was a man of great integrity...Idon’t think I would have gone off on myown in the cable industry without havingthe heritage of knowing Joe First,”Lenfest said. “He is a man I deeply love.It is really an honor for me to be here to-day...to recognize my feeling and obliga-tion to that wonderful man. I thank youall for this opportunity,” Lenfest said.First’s widow, Helen, looked on asLenfest lauded her late husband.

Joseph First, Esq., built a distin-guished career as a prominent communi-cations executive, attorney and civicleader. First was a Temple Universitytrustee, a member of the Board’s Execu-tive Committee and Chairman of its Ed-ucational Policies Committee. He wasawarded an honorary Doctor of Laws atTemple in 1980.

First worked closely with Walter An-nenberg to make Triangle Publicationsthe leading privately owned communica-tions company of its time in the UnitedStates. He was revered both profession-ally and personally as a man of thehighest ethics and standards.

Helen First addressed the audience onbehalf of her late husband. She reflectedon the literal and symbolic ways in whichthe Joe First Media Center will play aconnective role in SCAT. “These joinedbuildings will forever be the symbolicbody of Temple...proclaiming the maxim‘communication is more powerful thanpower itself when it achievesconnection,’ ” First said with fervor.

“Sixty five years ago, I was drivingmy two-year old daughter past a build-ing that caught her attention—a two-story apartment house built in the shapeof a recumbent letter U...‘Lookmommy, mommy look,’ she shouted,‘houses holding hands!’ ” First re-counted. “Houses holding hands – thatis the ultimate meaning of this symbolof Temple University.”

Looking toward the heavens, Firstcontinued, “Look, Joe dear—housesholding hands,” First said. “Let yourspirit hover over this symbolic struc-ture...by whatever wireless vibration youcan employ, bless this symbol of TempleUniversity and all who enter the portal ofthese houses holding hands.”

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The School of Communications andTheater was recently awarded a majorgrant from the Commonwealth of Penn-sylvania’s Link-to-Learn program. Thefunds will be used primarily to upgradehardware and software in the School. Thegrant includes $370,410 from the Com-monwealth of Pennsylvania and$109,018 in matching funds from theUniversity, for a total value of $479,428.

The grant program was highly compet-itive; Temple was one of only 21 Penn-sylvania public and private colleges anduniversities to receive funds. Approxi-mately $5 million was allotted to thefunding program by the Commonwealthin an effort to expand and strengthen tech-nology-influenced programs for studentsacross the state.

The grant was designed aroundSCAT’s recently introduced New Mediainterdisciplinary concentration, headedby Dr. Jan Fernback and Professor

Heather Raikes. Dr. Priscilla Murphy,Associate Dean for Research and Gradu-ate Studies, served as the grant’s princi-pal investigator.

The grant proposal represented a trulycollaborative effort among four SCAT de-partments. As Dr. Sandy Kyrish, assis-tant dean for technology and planning,explained, “This grant represented many,many hours of collaboration among ourfaculty, staff, and board members acrossthe School’s disciplines. A grant of thissize cannot be won without a substantialinvestment of time and effort, and oursuccess demonstrated that such an invest-ment can pay off magnificently.

“This grant strengthens our emergingNew Media interdisciplinary concentrationand also benefits students taking our tradi-tional curriculum in four of our five depart-ments. It’s wonderful to see the scope ofwhat the grant funds enable us to do,”Kyrish continued.

The improvements will include newcomputers, microphones, monitors, mix-ers, audio mixing software and acoustictreatment for audio Studios A, B, C, D,E and F. One studio will also beequipped with specialized hardware andsoftware to accommodate visually dis-abled students.

Another improvement is a faculty in-structional support center that will pro-vide faculty with a shared work area.This center will include Macintosh andWindows computers with digital editingand image design software, an AvidXpress, a networked printer, Betacamand DVcam equipment, mixing equip-ment, a scanner and other peripherals.

The digital post-production centerwill receive upgrades to two AvidMCXpresses, and the addition of multi-ple Avid 72GB striped disk arrays,DVD-R drives, Betacam equipment,mixing equipment and additional pe-ripherals.

For the Tomlinson and Randall the-aters, new amplifiers, mixers, micro-phones and speakers will be installed.In the theater’s digital audio studio, a

new computer, minidisk player and CDplayer will be installed, and in the theaterdesign lab, new computers and a newplotter will be installed.

Computers in the graphics lab will bereplaced with new Macintosh computersthat have DVD-R/CD-RW capabilities,and additional networked printers andscanners will be installed.

The Link-to-Learn grant program is partof Governor Tom Ridge’s nationally recog-nized Link-to-Learn education technologyinitiative and was designed to ensure thatcollege students in all areas of study re-ceive technology training and to make surethat Pennsylvania businesses have enough‘tech-savvy’ workers.

by Jen Mintzer

Though Ohio resident Dr. JohannaDeStefano never earned any of her de-grees from Temple, the professor emeri-tus of Ohio State University is leaving$1.5 million to the School of Commu-nications and Theater for the creationof an Endowed Chair for First Amend-ment Rights.

The decision to leave the financial giftfor an endowed chair was a discussionJohanna had with her husband, RalphDeStefano, before he died suddenly in1996 at the age of 60.

It was Ralph who was the Templegraduate and native Philadelphian. Bornand bred in South Philadelphia, Ralphearned his bachelor’s degree in 1965 inEnglish and put himself through schoolwhile working as a police officer inPhiladelphia. “He was charmed...everyonewho met him said he was larger than life,” Johanna said of her late husband.

Prior to his eight years of service inthe Philadelphia Police Force, Ralphserved in the U.S. Army where he was anelectronics advisor for the NationalistChinese in Taiwan as a member of theMilitary Assistance Advisory Group(MAAG). “He built radio stations downthe spine of Taiwan,” Johanna said.

After his discharge, he returned to hisbeloved Philadelphia and began taking

classes at Temple toward his degree. Jo-hanna met Ralph at Temple during thistime. She had already earned her bache-lor’s and master’s degrees at StanfordUniversity and came east to Philadelphiato pursue a second master’s at Temple.

“After [Ralph] graduated, we weretalking about getting married, and he encouraged me to go for my Ph.D.,” Johanna said, explaining why she decided to return to Stanford for her doc-torate in applied linguistics. A teachingjob offered to Johanna by Ohio StateUniversity in 1970 led the DeStefanos tomove to Upper Arlington, just outside ofColumbus, Ohio.

In Ohio, Ralph took up his interest inelectronics again, and his entrepreneurialskills in broadcast and electronic mediasoon led to much success. The DeSte-fanos worked to build a radio stationfrom the ground up in Athens County,Ohio. “Even though the station’s call let-ters were WYNO, we never said [theword] ‘wino’ on the air!” Johanna saidwith a laugh.

Despite the success that the DeSte-fanos had in Ohio, Ralph’s fondness forhis native Philadelphia and Temple Uni-versity never ceased. For this reason, theDeStefanos brought up Temple in a dis-cussion of their wills. With no children,the DeStefanos decided that an invest-

ment in education would be a wonderfulway to pass on their good fortune and tohelp others. Education was alwayshighly valued by both Ralph and Jo-hanna, and the choice to leave a finan-cial gift to a university came easily.

“We wanted to give to a universitywhere we thought it would make thebiggest impact,” Johanna said, explain-ing why they chose Temple instead of heralma mater. “At a place like Stanford, itwouldn’t make as big an impact as itwould at Temple,” she said.

Setting up an Endowed Chair for FirstAmendment Rights seemed the logicalchoice for the DeStefanos. “[Ralph] wasvery passionate about human rights,” Jo-hanna said.

In addition to setting up the EndowedChair for First Amendment Rights in herwill, Johanna is also considering the fi-nancial possibilities of setting up fundingfor Ph.D. students as well.

In leaving these financial gifts, Jo-hanna hopes to afford a greater amountof intellectual freedom for students and topass on the values that she and her hus-band felt so strongly about.

“It’s been a wonderful life, a trulywonderful life,” Johanna DeStefano saidof her good fortune and happiness withher husband.

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The Blitman Resource Center, serving the School of Communications and Theater, is now a part ofTemple University Libraries. The Center, locatedon the third floor of Annenberg Hall, was origi-nally founded through a gift from the family offormer Philadelphia Daily News City EditorWilliam J. Blitman.

Lisa Panzer, formerly part-time librarian of theCenter, is now a full-time librarian. SCAT stu-dents will see an immediate benefit as the li-brary will have increased and consistent hours.Additional benefits include occasional rotationof librarian staffing between Blitman and Paley,

among subject specialists in Mass Media and Commu-nications (Lisa Panzer); Film and Media Arts (SamStormont); and Music and Performing Arts (Anne Har-low). Each will spend some work hours in both theBlitman Resource Center and in Paley Library to be-come familiar with and collaborate on the developmentof resources, services and faculty liaison. The BlitmanResource Center bibliographic records are also being

added to the Diamond database, the Libraries’ inte-grated library management system. Blitman will alsobenefit from closer ties to the Temple University Li-braries Systems and Technology Department.

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Lew Klein Named Chairman ofSCAT’s Board of Visitors

MJ Grad WinsPoynter Fellowshipby Jen Mintzer

Amy Junod, a 2001 graduate of theMasters of Journalism program with anemphasis on visual communication, wasawarded one of the 15 Visual JournalismFellowships from the Poynter Institute.The Poynter Institute is a journalism re-search and training organization based inSt. Petersburg, Florida.

The fellowship that Junod won isopen to students around the world, mak-ing the competition extremely fierce. Thevisual journalism fellowship is espe-cially competitive because it is open tostudents with formal training in areasother than journalism. Several of thepeople who were awarded fellowshipsthis year come from fine arts back-grounds. Others are photographers andgraphic designers.

Successful applicants were required toprove their proficiency in four areas: publi-cation design, photography, web designand information design. Each applicantsubmitted a portfolio of work; examples ofpublications produced; a resume; references;academic transcripts; and a statementabout the future of visual journalism.

The 15 fellows spent six weeks at theInstitute this summer where they receivedintense, seven-day-a-week training fromprofessionals in the industry. Followingthe program, they received portfolio cri-tiques, recommendations, contacts andhelp with job placement.

In addition to the recently completedMJ degree, Junod earned her BA in Jour-nalism from Temple, with a minor inArt. She has worked professionally as apage designer, web designer, reporter andeditor.

Lew Klein, President of the NationalAssociation of Television Program Exec-utives Education Foundation and long-time adjunct professor in the Broad-casting, Telecommunications and MassMedia Department, has been namedChair of the recently established SCATBoard of Visitors.

The Board, which includes prominentprofessionals in the communications in-dustry, exists to provide the Dean anddepartment chairs with “cutting edge ad-vice regarding the future of the industriescovered by the School of Communica-tions and Theater and how the Schoolcan best respond and lead those indus-tries into the future.”

Lew Klein has been a leader in thecommunications field since 1950, whenhe started with WFIL-TV (Channel 6).He served in a variety of roles during the22 years he was with the station, includ-ing the direction and production of alltypes of programming efforts by the sta-tion. He was executive producer of theaward-winning Frontiers of Knowledgeseries, as well as American Bandstand,hosted by Dick Clark. He was also res-ponsible for the development and produc-tion of many live television programs for

national distribution.For five years, Klein was director of

television programming for the TriangleGroup, supervising the program activitiesof Triangle’s six television stations. Hethen became president of Gateway Com-munications, Inc., the broadcast groupthat owns and operates television sta-tions WBNG-TV, Binghamton, NY;WTAJ-TV, Altoona, PA; WLHY-TV,Lancaster, PA; and WOWK-TV, Hunt-ington, WV—all CBS affiliates.

Klein has served as president of theTelevision and Radio Advertising Club ofPhiladelphia, (TRAC), the National As-sociation of Television Program Execu-tives (NATPE), and the PhiladelphiaChapter of the Broadcast Pioneers, and ison the boards of several industry andcommunity-related organizations.

His numerous awards include NAPTE’s“President’s Award,” the Broadcast Pio-neers “Broadcaster of the Year” award, thePolice Athletic League’s “CommunityService Award” The Pennsylvania Associa-tion of Broadcasters, “Gold Medal Award,”and the Broadcast Education Association’s“Distinguished Education Service Award.”

Lew Klein’s affiliation with Templeand with SCAT goes back to his early

days as a director of WFIL (nowWPVI) TV, when Temple made anarrangement with the station to usesome of the facilities and equip-ment. He has been teaching in theBTMM (formerly RTF) Departmentever since and was profiled in theSummer 2000 issue of InterCom.

As SCAT Board Chairman,Klein will oversee three vice-chairs,each representing one of the threecities with local boards—NewYork, Los Angeles, and Philadel-phia. Board committees includeAwards; Infrastructure and Technol-ogy; Conferences and Centers;Community Voices; EndowedChairs and Scholarships; Gala;and Nominations.

(left to right), Dick Clark, Lew Klein, Vince Manze, RTF alum and President of NBC Agency

by Fred Maher

What’s a nice girl from New Jerseydoing as CEO of a Luxembourg mediacompany? The way Janet Greco, SCAT’s2001 Certificate of Honor winner, tells it,it was simply fate. Initially a music ma-jor, Ms. Greco transferred to Temple Uni-versity to study sound engineering. Whileat Temple, she realized that she couldmajor in television, and the pieces of hercareer puzzle began to fall into place.Following graduation in 1981, Ms.Greco started her career as administrativeassistant for the overseas media educa-tion division of SCAT at Temple Univer-sity London. While in London, she camein contact with media executives from allover the continent.

“What I always liked about Europe isthat it is definitely much easier to get tothe people at the top than it is in a placelike Philadelphia or New York,” saidMs. Greco. “To ‘rise up the ladder,’ you

have to network. But beingable to network with the rightpeople certainly helps.”

The next year, she becameassistant editor ofInterMedia, a publication ofthe London-based Interna-tional Institute of Communi-cations. In 1987, Ms. Grecowas named head of press forSuper Channel (later NBCEurope) and edited SatellitesInternational. Two yearslater, she established SurefireCommunications, a public re-lations company in London.

Finally, in 1991, Ms.Greco ventured to Luxembourg andfounded Infomedia S.A., Europe’s lead-ing TV listings supplier to on-screen, on-line and printed television guides. Thecompany operates a comprehensive tele-vision database that centralizes program-

ming information using a proprietaryclassification system. Infomedia currentlydistributes listings for 350+ channels,prepared in more than a dozen languages,and has clients in more than 20 coun-tries.

(left to right) Dean Concetta Stewart, JanetGreco, Alumni President Sherri Hope Culver

SCAT Recognizes Janet Greco with ‘Certificate of Honor’

Jane Slotterback has dedicated half ofher life to helping students in the Schoolof Communications and Theater.

Literally. The SCAT academic advisor cele-

brated two milestones this spring: her50th birthday and her 25th anniversary asan employee of Temple and the School ofCommunications and Theater.

Jane, who holds a BBA in Marketingand a Master of Education, both fromTemple, started her Temple career manag-ing the photo lab for the Journalism De-partment. In 1984, the decision was madeto expand the Department to Ambler, andJane was transferred there to teach pho-tography, oversee the lab and advise stu-dents. In 1986, Jane came back to MainCampus as a full-time academic advisor.Currently, she divides her time betweenMain Campus and Ambler, where she iscoordinator of SCAT advising for

SCAT’s growing Ambler population.Twenty-five years of working with

SCAT students has provided a wealth ofmemories for Jane.

“Some of the most memorable thingswere the funny things that happened inthe photo lab,” she said. “One Olympicyear, we held ‘Darkroom Olympics,’which included sponge hockey. We alsohad great theme parties at the end of thesemester. Everyone in SCAT, from theDean down, would attend.”

Asked about the challenges of the job,Jane noted that “every day is different. Inever know what will be waiting for mewhen I walk into the office.”

Advising has also provided rewards,such as “helping a student through somerough times, when he was really strug-gling, and then seeing his beaming faceas he received his diploma.” Jane also en-joyed “watching as the light went on

when a studentsuddenly got howthe parts of thephotography puz-zle fit together.”

In addition toadvising, Jane isresponsible forthe SCAT Advis-ing Center’s web page. “I like that I canuse my photographic/computer skills,which keeps me looking for new ways tobe creative.”

What does the future hold for Jane?“I’d like to expand my understanding

of digital media,” said Jane. “And alsoget Harleys and go touring with my hus-band and dog (he’d be in a sidecar!).”

For now, though the Harleys are onhold while the Temple tradition continues— Jane’s daughter, Becky, started as aTemple freshman this fall.

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Within hours of the September 11 ter-rorist strike on New York and Washing-ton, the Temple Issues Forum (TIF),under the direction of Speech Communi-cation Professor Herb Simons, mobilizedto develop and present a day-long forumon the attack, “The Terrorist Bombingand Beyond,” which was held in KivaAuditorium on September 13.

The Temple Issues Forum is a facultyinitiative dedicated to airing public de-bate and discussion at Temple on issuesof widespread concern to the Universitycommunity.

Initially conceived by Professor Si-mons as an opportunity to bring the Uni-versity together as a community, theprogram grew from a planned 2 1/2 hoursession to an all-day event lasting from8:30 am - 4:00 pm. Simons enlisted thehelp of Vice Provost for UndergraduateStudies Steve Zelnick to gain supportfrom University administration andarrange for facilities and technical assis-tance. He also called on concerned fac-ulty members, including Film and MediaArts Chair Paul Swann, to help organizethe panels.

The forum was coordinated to followthe Thursday class-time schedule andclass participation was encouraged. Thepurpose was “not to out-do the news me-dia with displays of our expertise, rather...to reflect on this as a campus community,drawing from our expertise, but providingstudents with lots of time to air their

views,” said Professor Si-mons.

Speakers and panelistsincluded departmentchairs, faculty, counselingcenter staff and students.The topics and panelistswere:

The Roots of U.S.-Mid-dle East Conflict: RuthOst, University Honors,Moderator; ArthurSchmidt, History, JuliaErickson, Sociology.

The Changing Natureof National Security:Terry Halbert, BusinessLaw, Moderator; RichardImmerman, History, Geoffry Herrera, Po-litical Science; Janice Mattern, PoliticalScience.

How Have the Bombings ChangedAmerica’s View of Itself?: Didi Anyaed-bunam, Captain, Temple Debate Team,Moderator; Khalid Blankenship,Religion;Joseph Schwartz, Political Science.

Media’s Responsibility: Paul Swann,Film and Media Arts, Moderator; AndrewMendelson, Journalism, Public Relationsand Advertising, Zizi Papacharizzi,Broadcasting, Telecommunications andMass Media.

Coping with Stress: John DiMino,University Counseling Center, Nada Al-Timimi, University Counseling Center.

The panelists first discussed the vari-ous issues, and then tookquestions and commentsfrom the students, facultyand staff present in KivaAuditorium. Participationin the forum was high.“We nearly packed thehouse at 8:30 and 1:00,”said Professor Simons.“We were over the limit at10:00 and 11:30 and had toturn people away.” Hecredited Harriet Goodheart,director of the News andMedia Relations Office,

TIF secretary Angie Woods and SteveZelnick with an outstanding job of publi-cizing the event on short notice. “TheNews Bureau and TIF secretary workedlate to get out the publicity. Zelnick camein at 6:45 am to personally tape fliers toelevator doors.”

Simons also commended the facultywho helped organize the event, citingPaul Swann, Ruth Ost and Morris Vo-gel, acting dean of Liberal Arts, amongothers. “They came through beautifully,”he said. “The quality of faculty presen-tations and student questions and com-mentary were excellent. With help fromPresident Adamany, Provost IraSchwartz, Steve Zelnick, and many oth-ers, Temple truly came together as acommunity on September 13.”

Professor Simons was especiallyproud of an e-mail he received from “agrateful parent”:

“My daughter, a freshman at Temple,e-mailed me about the planned events fortoday. I’m truly gratified to see membersof Temple’s faculty providing such a fo-rum for the Temple community to receivesolace and be able to share thoughts andfeelings about the horrific occurrences ofthis week. This reaffirms for me the factthat choosing Temple was the right deci-sion. Thanks to all who helped makesuch a forum possible.”

Terrie M. Williams, founder and Pres-ident of the Terrie Williams Agency, wasthe Dorothy Italie Kirsch lecturer at theannual Journalism, Public Relations andAdvertising department’s Awards Cere-mony, held on April 19, 2001.

The Dorothy Italie Kirsch lecture serieswas established by 1936 journalism grad-uate Dorothy Italie Kirsch and her hus-band to foster a “can do” attitude amongJournalism, Public Relations and Adver-tising students. She believes that “hear-ing the insights and perspectives ofleading communications specialists offersa unique chance for students to see thebreadth of opportunity that awaits them.”

The Terrie Williams Agency is one ofthe country’s premiere public relationsand communications firms, with clientsthat include Time Warner, Inc.; HBO;AT&T; Essence Communications andMiramax Films. Prior to starting herown firm in 1988, Terrie Williams devel-oped the public relations department atEssence Communications, the firm thatpublishes Essence, the country’s preemi-nent life-style magazine for African-

American women. She was the youngestvice president in the company’s history.

Williams’ message to the JPRA stu-dents gathered in Tuttleman Hall focusedon perseverance, compassion and theobligation to “give something back.”

“Success and achievement mean noth-ing unless you bring someone along withyou,” said Williams. “Sometimes wethink that by helping someone ‘lighttheir candle’ we will diminish our ownlight. But there’s enough light for every-one…what matters is using our bright-ness to light other people’s lives.”

Williams gave the audience three rulesto live by:• each one must teach one;• when much is given, much is expected;• if I get there before you, I am obligated

to bore a hole and bring you through.“Do your job the best you can with

compassion and humanity, and leavethis world a better place,” Williamstold the students.

Following the lecture, the 2001 JPRAAwards were distributed. Awards total-ing more than $29,000 were given to 78

students in 35 categories. The awardsrecognized academic achievement, profes-sional promise, leadership, service andinvolvement in co-curricular activities,both on- and off-campus.

This year’s awards program was coor-dinated by JPRA Professor Ed Alwood,with assistance from Professor JamesMarra’s Creative Services Workshop.

Sherri Hope CulverA few months ago, I had the honor of representing SCAT

at Temple’s annual Founders Dinner. During the evening,awards were given to distinguished alumni/ae. Holding thebaton high for the School of Communications and Theater wasawardee Janet Greco. Janet is currently the CEO of InfoMe-dia, an industry leader providing TV program and content in-formation for publishers…internationally! In fact, the companyitself is located in Luxembourg. For Janet, that little experi-ence of a semester abroad turned into a career path that findsher now running this global company.

It seems fitting to highlight Temple’s international alums onthe heels of my last InterCom article that spoke of the stronglocal SCAT community. During my years at Temple, I remem-ber hearing about the programs abroad from other studentsand wondering if I was ready for that kind of challenge. Ofcourse, that was before my post-graduate solo traipsingacross Europe. Who knew? It was also before the Internet had

taken over our lives and made in-ternational communication aseasy as sending an e-mail.

Once again, Temple’s reachextends far and wide. And, onceagain, I’m reminded of the valueof taking leaps. Big ones. Trans-continental ones. Leaps that puta flutter in your stomach and ablemish on your face. That ner-vous feeling that only comesfrom tackling a new challenge.A leap to do a semesterabroad when we were in col-lege is now a leap to a new job or a volunteer opportunity, ajourney back to school or an embarking into parenthood.

Congratulations to Janet and all the other awardees. Mayyour career leaps inspire us to take leaps of our own.

Students attending the Temple Issues Forum

Herb Simons, (rear) Khalid Blankenship

A note from Sherri Hope Culver

Annual Kirsch Lecture & JPRA Awards Ceremony Held

www.temple.edu/scat

Temple Issues Forum Responds to Tragedy

Sherri Hope Culver,SCAT Alumni AssociationPresident & WYBE-TV General Manager

Terrie M. Williams

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become responsible for what they are mak-ing and communicating,” Friesel said.

Friesel’s philosophy actually comesfrom her own school days. “Because ofmy undergraduate and graduate educa-tion, I have a profound respect for theartistic and creative process, along withthe technical and theoretical.”

Friesel graduated from George Wash-ington University in 1983 with her bache-lor’s degree in photography. Four yearslater, she began the MFA program in Ra-dio-Television-Film at Temple and offi-cially graduated in 1996, after finishingher delayed thesis.

What attracted Friesel to the MFAprogram was its approach to filmmaking.“At that time, Ben Levin was the directorof the MFA program. I was very inter-ested in documentary filmmaking with anindependent approach. I took several gradclasses before I was accepted into the pro-gram. These classes were taught by BenLevin, Jim Ambandos and Paul Swann. Ifound them all to be fascinating profes-sors. I loved the style of their teaching:open, creative and exciting,” Friesel saidof her teaching inspirations.

Friesel shares her passion for photogra-phy with her husband, Walter Plotnick,who went to the Tyler School of Art andworks as a photographer as well. “Wehave very different styles. He does mostlyall studio photography, shooting thingsfrom food to pharmaceuticals—really coolstill-lifes. I’ve assisted him or done somestyling for him on the side,” Friesel said.

In addition to spending time with herhusband, Friesel also enjoys the com-pany of her eight-year-old daughter,Ariel. “She’s a sparkle!” Friesel said ofher only child. She also enjoys cookingwith Ariel, watching films, attendingthe Lambertville Flea Market on Sun-day mornings and, when in New York,taking walks through Central Park.“You can really see and experienceFrederick Law Olmstead’s landscape ar-chitectural genius.”

Friesel enjoys her time teaching and

thanks BTMM Chair Betsy Leebron forher “support, professional expertise andadvice.” Friesel added, “Betsy runs thebest and the tightest ship...she has cre-ated a stellar department that graduatessuccessful students who actually get jobsin their field!”

Howard ShapiroJournalism, Public Relations,

and Advertising

Howard Shapiro has just returnedfrom swimming with dolphins.

He wasn’t on vaca-tion – he was on as-signment.

As the travel editorfor The Philadelphia In-quirer, Shapiro has ac-tually traveled all overthe world on the job.“I’ve gone to Australiabefore the Olympics, Israel for the 50thanniversary, France, Sweden, most ofCanada ...Las Vegas and Orlando manytimes,” Shapiro said, citing only a few ofthe places he could recollect off-hand. Inaddition to all of this travel, Shapiro stillfinds time to teach a class for the Journal-ism, Public Relations and AdvertisingDepartment called “Editing the News”each semester, as well as a summer grad-uate course in non-fiction writing.

Originally from the central Pennsylva-nia town of Altoona, Shapiro’s connec-tion to Temple goes back to his ownstudent days. Trying to decide betweengoing to the Newhouse School of PublicCommunication at Syracuse Universityor Temple University for his undergradu-ate degree in journalism, Shapiro eventu-ally decided to study at Temple.

Primarily, Shapiro chose to come toPhiladelphia because, at the time, hethought the city atmosphere would bebetter suited to his career goals. “If Iwas going to be at a paper, I wanted itto be a big metropolitan paper,”Shapiro said.

In 1970, Shapiro graduated fromTemple with his B.S. in Journalismand started at the Inquirer “the day af-

ter [his] last final.”During his 30 years at the Inquirer,

Shapiro has served in a number of roles,including working the transportation, ed-ucation and demographics beats, andserving as the assistant city editor andthe deputy New Jersey editor. He alsospent seven years as the cultural arts edi-tor. “The arts staff is incredibly tal-ented...but it’s a real challenge to workwith critics all day long,” Shapiro saidwith a chuckle.

Shapiro enjoys his current position astravel editor best of all. “It was the onlyjob at the paper that combined everythingI wanted to do,” he said, citing that hegets to write, edit and even take his ownphotographs.

He parlayed his love of writing andediting into an adjunct professorship atSCAT almost by accident. “I got a callone day in 1974 from a former professor I had, asking if I wanted to teach a classcalled ‘Exploring the Media,’ ” Shapirosaid. Shapiro was initially hesitant be-cause of the minimal age difference be-tween him and the students he would beteaching, but he agreed to take on theclass despite his reservation.

He was glad he did. Shapiro found heenjoyed the personal interaction with thestudents. “When you write a story,you’re never there [when it is read], butwhen you teach, the feedback is immedi-ate,” Shapiro said. When not traveling,writing or teaching, Shapiro enjoys read-ing mystery novels, short wave radio andwhat he says is his “guilty pleasure”—the crossword puzzle. He also enjoysspending his free time with his wife andtwo daughters at their Mount Airy home.On occasion, they even get to accompanyhim on his travels, most recently on hisassignment at Discovery Cove at SeaWorld in Orlando. “It’s a great job...Iget to go home now and write aboutswimming with dolphins,” Shapiro saidwith a smile.

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Diane BonesJournalism, Public Relations,

and AdvertisingDiane Bones deals with the FBI on a

regular basis.No, not the Federal

Bureau of Investiga-tion… the “Funny Ba-sic Idea.”

This is the basis forthe two-credit HumorWriting class thatBones has been teaching for the Journal-ism, Public Relations and AdvertisingDepartment every fall for the last 16years. In this class, students learn thefundamentals of cartoon gag writing,short humor writing and monologues.

It’s the Funny Basic Idea that Bones’students need to focus on to be successfulin her class. “Before they write anything,I tell them they need to at least have anF.B.I.,” Bones said.

Bones encourages her students to doc-ument these ideas as they go throughtheir lives in a small spiral notebook thatshe supplies her students at the beginningof each semester. Students keep newspa-per clippings and note odd sayings theyhear or anything else that strikes them asbeing humorous. These ideas later be-come the basis for the essays and cartoongags that they develop in class. “Bylearning the fundamentals of humor writ-ing, it helps them become better writersin general,” Bones explained.

Bones, a La Salle graduate with abachelor’s degree in English, actually gother introduction to teaching humor in arather serendipitous way. Many yearsago, while volunteering at the Radio In-formation Center for the Blind in

Philadelphia, Bones used to read theEvening Bulletin one night a week overthe radio so that blind people could bekept abreast of the latest news in print.Another volunteer, a man who worked asa cartoon gag writer and who taught theHumor Writing class at Temple, madeBones’ acquaintance. Always an avidhumor lover, Bones would teach the classfor him when he went on vacation. Asthe man got to retirement age, he sug-gested that Bones take over teaching theclass. She jumped at the chance.

In addition to teaching, Bones worksas a full-time freelance writer, though notalways writing humor. “I don’t do a lotof humor writing because I have to paythe bills,” explained Bones. “You knowthose health-related newsletters you throwaway and never read? I write those,”Bones said with a laugh.

Not all of Bones’ writing goes unno-ticed. She was asked by a noted Phila-delphia fitness guru to ghostwrite hiscolumn for The Philadelphia Inquirer,which she did for several years. “My linewas always, ‘I write for him, he exercisesfor me,’” Bones said. Though she nevergot a byline, she says it was fun andgood exposure.

In addition to enjoying teaching andwriting, Bones also is very active in termsof volunteering. As well as offering hertime to the Radio Information Center forthe Blind in the past, Bones has spenttime volunteering for organizations suchas ActionAIDS and Calcutta House, ahospice for AIDS patients. As Bones’brother died of AIDS in 1987, the causeis close to her heart.

Bones lives in Roxborough with DaveKehl, her husband of one year. She sayshe is an all-around good guy with a solid

sense of humor. “For example, if I everbecome annoyed with him, he’ll shootback, ‘Hey, Ms. Humor Writing Teacher,lighten up!’”

Bella FrieselBroadcasting, Telecommunications,

and Mass Media

Over the course of her life, BellaFriesel has lived in Washington, DC,Nantucket and South Philadelphia. Yet itis the suburban town of Elkins Park, PA,where she has resided for the past eightyears—the very same town she grew upin. “It is a very interesting experience tohave grown up and now live in the sametown as an adult,” Friesel said.

The Elkins Park location is a conve-nient one for Friesel. Since 1989, Frieselhas served as an adjunct professor forTemple’s Broadcasting, Telecommunica-tions and Mass Media department. Shehas also taught classes at MontgomeryCounty Community College for the pastsix years.

Currently teaching an introductorycourse in video production and editing atTemple’s Ambler campus, Friesel seemstruly to enjoy her job. “My favorite as-pect of teaching, especially in productionclasses, is watching students who, at thebeginning of the semester, don’t knowhow to hold a camera and by the end ofthe semester are shooting really goodvideo images technically and aestheti-cally, telling stories with pictures andediting. It is truly amazing!” Friesel said.

“To create something accidentally maywork temporarily; however, to make con-scious choices about overall camera styleand structure in relation to content andideas is the mark of a thoughtful imagemaker. I’m interested in having students

Spotlight on SCAT’s Adjunct Instructors by Jen Mintzer

InterCom continues its series on our adjunct professors. These individuals—all professionals in their fields—bringunique talents to SCAT ’s classrooms and provide our students with real world experiences and perspectives.

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The first week of the fall semesterwas quite busy for Heather Raikes andSarah Drury.

Raikes, the New Media Producer-in-Residence in the School of Communica-tions and Theater, showed her multi-media performance piece Cosine on August 30th, August 31st, and Septem-ber 1st in TV Studio 1 in AnnenbergHall. FMA Professor Drury exhibited herinteractive performance/installationcalled Voicebox: The Karaoke of Com-mon Song on August 29th, 30th, 31st,and September 1st in TV Studio 2.

Cosine is an immersive multimedia performance that depicts and facilitates ajourney of transformation. “Toward thediscovery of a fluid, interactive perfor-mance form, the audience is guided throughthe piece, which unfolds in a digitally facil-itated multi-sensory labyrinth on the wingsof a butterfly,” Raikes wrote. “In essence,the performance is a cross between a danceperformance, a rave, a media immersionand an education experience.”

Audience members were guided througha media projection environment config-ured in the form of a labyrinth. The spacewas inhabited by dancers clothed invividly-colored costumes and body paintand filled with multiple sources of pro-jected video imagery. A multi-layered col-lage of sound and music permeated theenvironment and literally spiraled aroundthe audience via three-dimensional sounddesign.

“The journey ultimately represents andseeks to facilitate the movement of Ein-stein’s discovery that reality can be un-derstood in terms of both matter andenergy, both the particle and the wave,”Raikes said.

Likewise, Drury’s exhibit was a newexperience for the viewer. Voicebox is analternative karaoke machine – a speciallywired microphone that streams the per-former’s voice with the voices of others:divas, chanters, poets and everydaysingers. In this paradoxical media space,the performer’s voice leads him/her to in-habit both the voice and image of others,

played out in a complex audio/video en-vironment. “Voicebox uses the karaokeframework to comment on contemporarymediated experience and to mourn the de-cline of communal singing,” Drury said.

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On Friday, April 6th, 2001, the 57thAnnual Temple Press Tournament gotunderway with high school journalistsfrom 19 area schools bustling inside Rit-ter Hall’s Walk Auditorium to begin aday of workshops, contests and seminarsrun by some of the region’s top mediaprofessionals, as well as Journalism,Public Relations and Advertising fac-ulty. Competitions included categoriessuch as News Writing, Speech Reportingand Editorial Cartooning, and workshoptopics covered areas ranging from MediaEthics to Web Publishing to Photojour-nalism. The event also included the pre-sentation of the JPRA Department’s“Free Speech Award,” which honors areajournalists whose work exemplifies adedication to the First Amendment and acommitment to community well-being.

The day began with brief welcomespeeches by SCAT Dean Concetta Stew-art and JPRA Chair Karen Turner. Stew-art and Turner then presented the FreeSpeech Award to reporters Mark Bowdenof The Philadelphia Inquirer and LinnWashington of The PhiladelphiaTribune. Washington is also a memberof the JPRA faculty, teaching NewsWriting and News Reporting.

Washington and Bowden were hon-ored because they refused to turn overtheir notebooks to the court as evidenceagainst Brian Tyson, a man accused offirst-degree murder. Both reporters hadinterviewed Tyson and had publishednews stories concerning his case. Theycited the Shield Law, which upholds areporter’s right to protect confidentialsources, in their defense.

The State case against Washingtonand Bowden worked through the appealsystem while the case against Tyson con-tinued. The reporters’ case reached a headon the day Tyson was to take the stand.A judge ordered both reporters in con-tempt of court and imposed a mandatory$100 per minute fine until the end of thetrial. The total fine reached $40,000 andTyson was found guilty of third degreemurder. Both cases are now on appeal.

Mark Bowden, a writer for ThePhiladelphia Inquirer for the past 18years, has reported widely in the UnitedStates and abroad. In accepting the FreeSpeech Award, he addressed the packedauditorium with enthusiasm. “In a freesociety, the free flow of information isas important as any law enforcementobjective,” Bowden said. Though hesaid there was “nothing heroic” in whathe did, he expressed the good fortune hefelt in living in the United States. “I livein a country where the worst that couldhappen to journalists is to get fined incourt or spend a night or two in jail. Ob-viously in a lot of countries throughoutthe world, journalists could be shot,”Bowden emphasized.

“It’s important to understand that, as ajournalist, you need to be free to go to thejailhouse or to the White House to gatherinformation. As soon as law enforcementagencies use you as a tool to do their in-vestigation, it begins to close down youraccess to information,” Bowden said.

In his speech, Linn Washington echoedBowden’s remarks and got a few laughsfrom the early-morning crowd as well.

“Journalism is a great life...I love thisjob,” Washington said. “It’s given methe opportunity to travel all over theworld, all around the country, and occa-sionally you get a chance to perhaps goto jail and meet people like burglars androbbers and murderers and crack heads,”he said with a laugh.

On a more serious note, Washingtonstressed the importance of the laws thatallow him to practice journalism. “Thefounders of this nation wanted to stressthe independence [of journalists] to be amonitor of what happens in the govern-ment and in our society,” Washingtonsaid. He stated that journalists are meantto play a “special role” in independentlyexamining the activities of the govern-ment without fear of reprisal. “I couldn’tdo half of what I did if I lived anywhereother than America,” Washington said.

Washington commended the highschool journalists in the audience for at-tending the Temple Press Tournament

and for their commitment to “this thingwe call journalism.” He left the stu-dents with these words of encourage-ment: “If you learn only one thingtoday, I hope it is this — what you dohelps people. It can help change soci-ety, it can help illuminate things...or itcan help one individual.”

JPRA ScholarshipAnnounced

Joseph Richter, head of OttawayNewspapers, Inc., the communityjournalism division of Dow Jones,announced in May that the Depart-ment of Journalism, Public Relationsand Advertising would be the recipi-ent of $25,000 to endow the DaveBrace Scholarship in CommunityJournalism. The news was conveyedby JPRA Professor Ed Trayes, long-time friend of Brace and coordinatorof the Dow Jones Newspaper FundEditing Internship Program held eachsummer at SCAT.

Dave Brace was Vice President forNews at Ottaway and for many yearsspent considerable time with the DowJones interns during the summers. Hegave the Dorothy Italie Kirsch Lec-ture at the JPRA Awards Ceremonyin the spring of 1997, during whichhe reminded the students of the im-portance of community journalism.

Dave Brace passed away thisspring following heart surgery. Hewas 55 years old.

Mark Bowden, (l) Linn Washington (r)

JPRA Hosts 57th Annual Temple Press Tournament “Lew Klein Alumni in Media Awards” Scheduled

Multimedia Performance Opens Fall Semester

The School of Communications andTheater will hold the annual Alumni inMedia Awards ceremony on Friday, December 7 at a luncheon at noon in theGreat Court of Mitten Hall. As in thepast, the Alumni in Media awards willhonor SCAT alumni who have excelledin the media, but this year’s event willadd a new dimension. Thanks to a verygenerous gift from H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest,President and CEO of the Lenfest Group,the awards ceremony will be endowedand named for Lew Klein, President ofthe National Association of TelevisionProgram Executives Education Boardand an adjunct professor at Temple for50 years. Lew will also be the first recipi-ent of the “Lew Klein Excellence in Me-dia Award,” a new award which will begiven each year to a “non-Temple alum

who has shown a sustained level of ex-cellence in the media.”

This year’s group of SCAT alumnihonorees has also achieved an outstandinglevel of excellence in the media. They are:

Claire Coleman Schweiker, JPRA ’53,the original Miss Romper Room and wifeof former US Senator Richard Schweiker;

Norm Fein, JPRA ’60, Executive Vice President for Rainbow Media withCableVision;

Merrill Reese, JPRA ’64, the “Voiceof the Philadelphia Eagles”;

Myles Martel, Speech MA ’67,Ph.D.’75, President of Martel Associates;

Lauren Lipton, JPRA ’72, editor andreporter for KYW Radio;

Vince Manze, RTF ’73, President ofthe NBC Agency;

Marc Solomon, Theater ’75, Execu-tive Vice President for Post Productionand Visual Effects, Warner Brothers;

Bob Saget, RTF ’78, comedian, actor,director, producer, currently appearing inthe new show, “Raising Dad” on WB.

Please help us honor this year’sawardees and Lew Klein by attending theluncheon ceremony on December 7. Indi-vidual tickets are $100 and tables are$1,000. Ads and congratulatory notes forthe program book are also being ac-cepted; a full page is $1,000, half- pageis $500. Proceeds from the event will goto the “Lew Klein Fund for Excellence,”which will support all five departmentsin the School of Communications andTheater. To make reservations, pleasecall 215-204-7523. We look forward toseeing you on December 7.

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Brian Tierney, President and CEO ofTierney Communications, cited byPhiladelphia Magazine in its February2001 “Best Places to Work” issue as #1in its category, gave the 4th AnnualMaxine Edelson Elkin Lecture on April 9in Annenberg Hall.

The lecture series, hosted by the De-partment of Journalism, Public Relationsand Advertising, was founded byMichael Elkin to honor his wife, MaxineEdelson Elkin, a 1968 JPRA graduatewho died in 1995. Mrs. Elkin was na-tional public relations manager of RobertMorris Associates, a national trade groupof commercial bank loan and credit of-fices headquartered in Philadelphia. Shewas highly committed to community ser-vices and worked closely with the GreaterPhiladelphia Food Bank and thePhiladelphia Chapter of the AmericanCancer Society.

Tierney, who was profiled in a sepa-rate article in the same issue of Philadel-phia Magazine (and credited with helpingGeorge W. Bush win the presidency byrallying the undecided Catholic vote toBush’s side) gave an entertaining and in-formative lecture on “Lessons of a PublicRelations Expert: Politics, Entrepre-neurism and the Corporate World” to anenthusiastic audience of students and fac-ulty from the JPRA department.

A 1979 graduate of the University ofPennsylvania who also holds a J.D. de-gree from the Delaware Law School ofWidener University, Tierney began hiscareer with the Republican NationalCommittee as a field person for state leg-islative campaigns.

“I did research to come up with a cam-paign strategy to get 50% of the vote plusone—then you win the election,” he said.

He worked in public service until1984, when he left the federal governmentto found Tierney & Company Public Re-lations, a successful start-up companywhich was sold to Foote, Cone & Beld-ing in 1986. He stayed with the companyuntil 1989, when he again struck out onhis own to found The Tierney Group, an

integrated communicationscompany offering advertising,public relations and corporatecommunications with offices inPhiladelphia and Harrisburg.In 1994, Foote, Cone & Beld-ing named Tierney Presidentand CEO of its Philadelphiaoffice, which was re-namedTierney & Partners. In July,2000, The Tierney Group andTierney & Partners came to-gether as Tierney Communica-tions, part of True NorthCommunications, the seventhlargest worldwide marketingorganization.

“Everything you do in publicrelations comes back to strat-egy,” Tierney told the attentiveJPRA students. “What is themessage, who are you trying toreach, what do you want themto think, feel, hope, dream… then youcome up with the tactics.”

Tierney recounted how he started onout his own with only three people, com-peting against much larger agencies. “Isurveyed rates, and charged $10 more. Iwanted to be Tiffany’s, not Zale’s. I hadoriental rugs, beautiful chairs, fresh flow-ers. We were the faster, tougher, smarteragency, going up against lumbering,older companies.”

Tierney, whose clients in-clude IBM, Deloitte Consult-ing, Dun & Bradstreet, ThePhiladelphia Orchestra andVerizon, among others, out-lined for the students fivethings that mark leaders: cre-ativity, hard work, confidence,passion, and values.

“Look at things in differentways—don’t stay within com-fortable bounds,” he said.“Don’t accept defeat. Be confi-dent enough to hire good peo-ple. If you’re a 9, hire a 10. Bepassionate about your workand trust your values. Trust the

things that endure…when you give trustyou get trust back.”

He reminded the students that opportu-nities come from different directions.“You need to be in the game and alwaysbe open to listening,” he said. “Be in-volved, be visible, and get your ‘brandawareness’ up there…and treat people theway you want to be treated.”

Brian Tierney, JPRA Professor Jean Brodey

Brian Tierney Gives Maxine Edelson Elkin Lectureby Jen Mintzer

Solomon Jones is a lucky man.Recently married in July of 2000 and

expecting a baby in October, the 33- year-old Jones has a lot to look forward to.The success of having his book, PipeDream, published makes his life all thesweeter.

Jones, a 1998 Temple graduate withhis bachelor’s degree in journalism, iscurrently a staff writer for the Philadel-phia Weekly, where he writes news fea-tures, in-depth stories and investigativestories on a variety of subjects. He hastraveled as far away as Ghana to re-search the history of the Atlantic slavetrade, and as near as Philadelphia’s MillCreek neighborhood to be reminded of thegrim realities of the drug trade. “In eachstory, I believe I discover another piece ofmyself,” Jones said.

Pipe Dream is another piece of thepuzzle. It is the fictional story of fourdrug addicts in North Philadelphia whoare pursued by the police for a murderthey did not commit. “The book takes anhonest look at the complicated issues sur-rounding the drug culture, including po-lice corruption. Along the way, it plumbsthe depths of the addicts’ physical andemotional poverty. And then, just ashonestly, it turns society’s mirror on it-self,” Jones said.

Jones came up with the idea for PipeDream partially from his own experience.“I think it grew out of my past experiencewith drug use,” he said. “This book,which I initially thought would be ashort story, took on a life of its own onceI began to write. I believe it was acatharsis for me —a chance to take anhonest look inside myself and write downwhat I saw.”

This self-examination began back in1995, when Jones wrote the first draft ofPipe Dream while working as a deskclerk/concierge at a downtown condo-

minium. “I used to bring a computer towork every night to do my homework be-cause I was a full-time Temple student.During the summer break, I didn’t haveany classes, so I started writing. I fin-ished the first draft of Pipe Dream in ninemonths.”

By 1996, Jones sent his book to apublisher and received his first re-jection letter. He picked up writingagain in 1997 and took another yearto polish the book. In total, he re-ceived 50 rejection letters, most ofwhich were form letters from literaryagents who never read the book andbased their rejection on a query letter.Regardless, Jones saved them all andpersisted onward.

“At times, it was very discouraging,but through it all, I learned about the pub-lishing industry, about marketing and pro-motion, and most importantly, aboutmyself,” Jones said. “I learned that a nov-elist’s tenacity is as important as his orher writing ability...because if you are nottenacious, your writing, no matter howgood, will never see the light of day.”

This tenacity will serve Jones wellwhen it comes to getting his next bookpublished. Though it is still a work inprogress, Jones is hopeful about his cur-rent novel. Tentatively titled TheBridge, it is about a detective’s re-lentless search for the murderer of alittle girl in a North Philadelphiahousing project.

In setting both Pipe Dream andThe Bridge in North Philadelphia,Jones ultimately hopes to reach outto the community from which hecame. “I hope to use Pipe Dream tohelp others change their lives. I havealready spoken with the Philadel-phia Committee to End Homeless-ness—which works mostly withhomeless, drug-addicted men—about donating a portion of my

book proceeds to that organization,”Jones said.

Jones also hopes to set up a scholar-ship fund for young men from NorthPhiladelphia to attend Temple Univer-sity. “Were it not for my experience atTemple University, I’m sure my lifewould be quite different,” said Jones.“People I met, classes I took, skills Ilearned, were instrumental in allowingme to successfully pursue my goal of be-coming a writer.”

Solomon Jones

Dream Becomes Reality for JPRA Grad

The URLfor Journalist’s Compass wasincorrectly printed in the Winter Issue of

(Apologies to Angy Peterson and Ed Trayes.)

The current URL for Journalist’s Compass is:

http://jcompass.temple.edu

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Remember the glory days withCoach Dr. Ralph Towne?After a long hiatus, DEBATE AT TEMPLE isback! The Temple Issues Forum Debate andDiscussion Club, housed in Speech Commu-nication, is attracting students from aroundcampus. The club needs your help, our ideas,your counsel.

Please tell us who you are and how wemay contact you. Contact Dr. Aram Aghazarianat arama@vm.temple.edu or go to the SCAT website, www.temple.edu/scat and click onthe “Debate is Back” scroll under “What’s News.”

ATTENTION FORMER TEMPLE DEBATERS

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Edward Alwood (JPRA) received theNafziger-White Dissertation award at theAEJMC convention in Washington,D.C., in August. In addition, his disser-tation, “The Hunt for Red Writers: TheSenate Internal Security SubcommitteeInvestigation of Communists in thePress, 1955-56,” has been selected as awinner of an Honorable Mention Awardin the 2001 American Journalism Histori-ans Association Doctoral DissertationPrize competition. The presentation willbe made this fall at the AJHA annualmeeting in San Diego.

LeAnn Erickson, Michelle Parkerson,and Sarah Drury (FMA) participated inscreenings of their works in programshonoring women filmmakers in March.

“Behind the Lens: An Evening withWomen Filmmakers” was a benefit forWomen in Transition, an organizationthat provides services to women endan-gered by domestic violence and substanceabuse. The evening was hosted bySharon Pinkenson, Executive Director ofthe Greater Philadelphia Film Office.LeAnn Erickson screened Hello fromGrandma, in which an imagined gardenis created around the experimental film’ssoundtrack, an audiotape “letter” fromthe artist’s maternal grandmother sent tothe artist’s mother in the early 1970’s.

Beyond the Obvious: Feminist MediaArtists and Their Work was a film seriesheld in conjunction with Women’s His-tory Month.

On March 12, LeAnn Ericksonscreened From One Place to Another:Emma Goldman Clinic Stories, an experimental short and animationwork-in-progress.

On March 19, Michelle Parkersonscreened A Litany for Survival: The Lifeand Work of Audre Lourde and Odds and Ends: A New-Age Amazon Fable.

On March 26, Sarah Drury screenedColumbus Discovers America, The Mov-ing Story of Johnny Appleseed, VirginiaDare’s Vision, Clementine, Helen Knows

She’s There, Fifteen Difficult Love Songs:Selections.

The series ended on April 2 with a dis-cussion with the artists moderated byFMA’s professor Jeanne Allen.

Herb Simons (Speech Com) has pub-lished Persuasion in Society, (Sage, Inc.,with J. Morreale and B. Gronbeck). Thebook was released in May.

David Ingram (Theater) had a leadrole in the U.S. premiere of It’s All True,presented this spring by the InterAct The-atre Company at The Adrienne. The play,written by Jason Sherman and directed bySeth Rozin, chronicled the controversialproduction of Mark Blitzstein’s musicalThe Cradle Will Rock, staged by OrsonWelles and John Houseman.

Lisa Panzer, (Blitman Librarian) wasa participant in Thieves Theater’s Fly byNight marathon production in which sixdirectors, six writers and 18 actors have24 hours to come up with a play for an 8p.m. curtain the following day. The sce-nario: at 10 p.m. on a Friday, each actorbrings in one prop for the prop pool, andeach writer is given one noun and oneverb, a cast makeup (e.g., 1 man, 2women) and 12 hours to complete a 10-minute script. At 10 a.m. the followingmorning, each director picks a script andcast—chosen blindly from the pool of ac-tors—and gets 45 minutes rehearsal timeon stage. At 5 p.m. the individual pro-ductions get 20 minutes tech rehearsaland at 8 p.m. the shows go on! This wasa challenge even for Lisa, who has exten-sive theatrical experience.

Joe Leonardo (Theater) directed twocritically acclaimed musicals during thesummer. The first, At Wit’s End, pre-sented at the Florida Stage, was anoriginal musical described as a “semi-sweet, half screwball parody....whichcenters on the arrogant drama criticAlexander Woollcott and his jealousmachinations behind the founding ofThe New Yorker magazine.”

The production has received 11 Car-bonell nominations (Florida’s version ofthe Tony) including a nomination for Joeas “Best Director.”

The second musical was a challeng-ing, in-the-round staging of Miss Saigonat the Marriott Theater in Lincolnshire,Illinois, outside of Chicago. One reviewcalled the production “Stupendous!” andwent on to say: “It is a lesson on how tobe creative without relying on heavy setpieces. Every directing student in theworld should see it.”

John Lent (BTMM) was the Chair offour panels which discussed Asian Popu-lar Culture. Topics included: Comics,Cartoons and Animation in Asia;Shouja, Redi Komi, Hello Kitty: Genderand Asian Comic Art; Asian PopularCulture: Filmic Dimensions; and AsianPopular Culture: Other Dimensions.

Lee Carl, (Professor Emeritus, JPRA),has published his first novel, The WhiteSquirrel, (Northern Liberties Press), “astory of mystery, love, mental illness,human frailty and the bonds between aparent and child.” The book waslaunched at a reception in September,hosted by Old City Publishing at theSadler Gallery in Philadelphia’s NorthernLiberties section. Professor Carl dis-cussed his novel and gave a short read-ing. His second novel, Under theBurdock Weed, is scheduled to be pub-lished in December. Lee Carl is a formerchairman of the Journalism, Public Rela-tions and Advertising department, andformer director of the public relations se-quence in the department. He taught atTemple for 25 years.

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Howard Myrick (BTMM) was re-cently reappointed by Governor ThomasJ. Ridge to the Pennsylvania Public Tele-vision Network Commission (PPTNC),an independent agency of the state gov-ernment that oversees the interconnectionof the eight public televisions stationsand the network hub station in Hershey,comprising the statewide network.PPTNC appropriates funds for operationsand programming for the stations, whichare WHYY and WYBE (Philadelphia),WITF (Harrisburg), WQED (Pittsburgh),WPSX (Penn State), WLTV (Allen-town/Lehigh Valley), WQLN (Erie),WVIA (Scranton) and PPTN (Hershey).

“As an educator, I find it most excitingto work with people who understand thattoday’s public TV stations are no longer‘plain old broadcasting stations’; ratherthey are telecommunications centers con-verging with new digital interactive tech-nologies offering capabilities far exceedingthe old ‘audiovisual aids’ applicationsthat too many educators still remember.Pennsylvanians are fortunate, indeed, tohave a Public Television Commission andstate legislators willing to support suchinitiatives as the Link-to-Learn; project, atechnology based program launched byGovernor Ridge,” said Dr. Myrick.

Dr. Myrick also had an article pub-lished in the Spring issue of TelevisionQuarterly, the Journal of the NationalAcademy of Television Arts and Sciences,entitled “Television’s Role in Election2000,” which describes “a debacle of his-tory-making proportions,” and offers rec-ommendations on how to avoid futurebroadcasting disasters.

James Marra (JPRA) recently servedas Executive Editor for the book, Advertis-ing and the Business of Brands publishedby The Copy Workshop of Chicago. Dr.Marra also authored the book’s finalchapter, “You and Your Career,” whichfeatures job-finding tips from formerJPRA students.

This past year, Dr. Marra also co-editedthe books, The Writing Tutor and A Stu-

dent’s Introduction to Charles Darwinpublished by Kendall/Hunt PublishingCompany.

During the spring term, Dr. Marra’sCreative Services Workshop class com-pleted advertising and public relationswork for the JPRA Department’s studentawards ceremony, PNC Wiring, TheW.I.S.E. Center (a women’s cancer sup-port group) and Dynamic Resources.com.

Students in his advertising copywrit-ing class participated in a competitionwhere the class’ student teams proposedcampaign concepts to the GreaterPhiladelphia Tourism and MarketingCorporation and its advertising agency.The concepts were for advertising andpromoting the X Games hosted inPhiladelphia this summer.

Peter d’Agostino (FMA) receivedNew Media project grants from the Penn-sylvania Council on the Arts, and Tem-ple’s Collaborative Research Fund (withProfessor Maurice Wright, Esther BoyerCollege of Music).

He had an exhibition mounted fromJanuary – March in New York at theNew Museum of Contemporary’s MediaZLounge which showed digital mediaworks from the Harvestworks Artist-in-Residence Program. The works includedN-S (North-Sul) which was conceived byProfessor D’Agostino as a website projectto explore collaborative aesthetic, socialand technological interactions betweenartists in the U.S. and Brazil, Philadel-phia and Brasilia. The work was pro-duced with support from a Fulbrightgrant at the University of Brasilia. Pro-fessor d’Agostino presented this and othernew media projects, including studentwork, at the Drexel University Sympo-sium, “Dialectics of Interactivity: Artand the Public” in February.

In March, Professor d’Agostino hadpresentations of a joint project, “East-West: time/space and the World WideWeb” with Professor Takahiko Iimura(Tokyo Polytechnic University), who isone of Japan’s leading media artists

working in film, video, CD-ROM andthe web. Iimura’s visit to Temple waspart of the NewTechLab Forum’s Interna-tional Media Arts Series. Professord’Agostino and Iimura held lecture/screenings at Mulhenberg College, Allen-town, and Berks Filmmakers, AlbrightCollege, Reading.

In April and May, Professor d’Agostinowas a part of “Automedia” a group exhibi-tion at Berry Center for the Arts, RamapoCollege, NJ. Automedia is a term coinedto describe video art shot in or from a car.

Nancy Morris (BTMM) published abook, Media and Globalization: Why theState Matters (Rowman & Littlefield, co-edited with Silvio Waisbord). Media andGlobalization shows why the state mattersto media and telecommunications indus-tries in a globalizing world: governmentscontrol and regulate these industries inimportant ways and states remain centralarenas for policymaking and interna-tional agreements. Using case studiesfrom around the world, the book shedslight on the extent of state power in theface of transnational pressures and ex-plores policy, economics and culture asthey factor into media globalization. Re-views called the work “of singular impor-tance to the analysis of media andglobalization as we feel our way into thetwenty-first century.”

Jack Klotz (BTMM) was invited toparticipate in the Philadelphia Chapter ofthe National Academy of Recording Artsand Sciences (NARAS) “Grammy in theSchools” program in March. Klotz pre-sented a workshop on Digital Audio.

Heather Raikes (Producer-in-Resi-dence) won a $2,000 support grant fromthe University Research Office for herproposal, Cosine + Juke Box.

Andrew Mendelson (JPRA) won theAEJMC Baskett Mosse Award for FacultyDevelopment for his summer photo camp.The award was presented at the annualconvention in Washington, DC in August.

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Robert M. Greenberg, Acting Dean ofthe School of Communications and Theaterfrom 1995-1999, and an integral part of theSchool’s administration since 1981, diedon Thursday August 2, 2001, after a longbattle with cancer. He was 58.

A native of New York, Dr. Greenberggrew up in Brooklyn and Queens. He re-ceived his B.A. in English and AmericanLiterature in 1964 from Columbia Uni-versity, his master’s in English Literaturein 1972 from the City College of NewYork, and his Ph.D. in English andAmerican Literature from the GraduateCenter of the City University of New York.

He joined the faculty of Temple Uni-versity in 1979. Two years later, he wasnamed assistant dean of the School ofCommunications and Theater. In 1988,he became the School’s associate dean,and was appointed acting dean in 1995,a position he held until 1999.

Despite the demands of serving as anacademic administrator, his passion forliterature remained steadfast. He con-tinued to teach and publish during hisadministrative tenure at SCAT, andmoved to Temple’s American StudiesProgram as an associate professor inJanuary, 2000.

Dr. Greenberg is the author of Splin-tered Worlds: Fragmentation and the

Ideal of Diversity in the Work of Emer-son, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson(Northeastern, 1993), a study of frag-mentation and the enabling ideal of di-versity in four major mid-nineteenthcentury American writers. He authored acritical-biographical monograph on thepoet Robert Hayden that appeared inboth the Scribner’s American Writers se-ries (1981, rev. 1990) and in Scribner’sAfrican American Writers (1991).

More recently, Dr. Greenberg pub-lished an essay on the theme of transgres-sion in the fiction of Philip Roth(Twentieth Century Criticism, Winter1997) and two critical essays on V.S.Naipaul, the Trinidad-born, East Indiannovelist. Anger and the Alchemy of Lit-erary Method in V.S. Naipaul’s PoliticalFiction was published in the Summer2000 issue of Twentieth Century Litera-ture. An essay on Naipaul’s nonfictionabout the Caribbean will appear in the2001 issue of Prospects.

At funeral services held on August 6,moving tributes to Dr. Greenberg in-cluded those made by Miles Orvell, Tem-ple English and American Studiesprofessor and longtime colleague; andDr. Greenberg’s daughters, Jenny and Su-sanna. He was remembered for his intel-ligence, compassion, wit and courage.

In addition to his daughters, Dr.Greenberg is survived by his wife, Nancy.A memorial for Dr. Greenberg will beheld on Tuesday, October 30, at 3:00 pmon the Main Campus in ShustermanHall. The family requests that anyonewishing to make a contribution send it tothe Temple University Robert M. Green-berg Memorial Fund, c/o The Develop-ment Office, 606 University ServicesBuilding, 1601 N. Broad Street,Philadelphia, PA 19122.

James Ambandos, who was one of the first faculty mem-bers in SCAT’s film program, died in New York on July 11,2001. He was 79. He was remembered as a “truly outstandingprofessor...one of those rare individuals who was innatelygifted as a communicator.”

Professor Ambandos joined the Temple faculty as a visitinglecturer in 1971. He was named an associate professor in 1973and remained at Temple until his retirement in 1994. He taughteverything from introductory freshman core courses to graduatefilm production courses and completely redesigned the ScreenWriting sequence.

Prior to coming to Temple, Professor Ambandos, had com-pleted a two-year assignment in Tehran, Iran working under aState Department contract with Syracuse University. He alsotaught Film Script Writing at the School for Visual Arts andserved as the Distinguished Playwright in Residence (replacing

Paddy Cheyefsky) at the City Universityof New York.

His career as a filmmaker dated from1949, when he worked as a writer-direc-tor of documentary and educational filmsat Penn State. He entered television pro-duction in New York in 1956, first as anactor, and subsequently worked for all ofthe networks as a writer/director/pro-ducer. Two shows written by Ambandosfor The Robert Herridge Theater, (CBS,1958-59) won Emmy Awards.

Professor Ambandos was a WorldWar II veteran who was awarded theBronze Star while fighting in Belgium, Germany and Italy. Heis survived by his wife, Francine, and his daughter, Andrea.

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Timothy J. Lyons, who was chair ofthe Department of Radio-Television-Filmin the 1970’s, died on April 20, 2001.Professor Lyons was the former Presidentof the University Film and Video Associa-tion and former President of the Societyfor Cinema Studies. He was the long-timeeditor of the Journal of Film and Videoand, over the past decade, editor of theJournal of the International DocumentaryAssociation. He was described as a “dean,chairperson, scholar, faculty member, fa-ther and friend by his many friends in theassociations who will greatly miss him.”

Eugene Shaw, Professor in the De-partment of Journalism from 1981 untilhis retirement in 1996, died on December

31, 2000, at the age of 76. ProfessorShaw was a Jesuit priest who was or-dained in 1960. He received his Ph.D. atStanford University in 1967. Prior tocoming to Temple, Professor Shaw taughtat the University of Tennessee, the Uni-versity of North Carolina, Fordham Uni-versity and Marquette University. Whenhe retired from Temple, he returned toMilwaukee to serve in pastoral ministry.He was remembered for encouraging jour-nalists to understand the important rolereligion plays in public life.

Bruce Underwood, Chair of theJournalism Department in the late 1960’sand early 1970’s, died on February 1,2001, in Texas. He was 86. A native of

Brownsville, Texas, Professor Under-wood earned his B.S. in Journalism fromSouthern Methodist University in 1934, amaster’s in Education Administrationfrom Stanford University in 1954 and aPh.D. in Journalism from the Universityof Missouri in 1965. He was a LyndonB. Johnson Research Fellow in Mexicofrom 1962–64 and was awarded one ofthe first Fulbright-Hays Lectureships, tothe Universidad de Navarra, Spain. Inaddition to teaching at Temple, ProfessorUnderwood held appointments at the Uni-versity of Houston, Cornell, Pan Ameri-can, Pace and Iona. He had also served inthe United States Air Force, receiving hiscommission in 1944 and retiring from thereserve as a Lieutenant Colonel.

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Paul S. Swensson, a Professorof Journalism at Temple, from l968until l971, died from congestive heartfailure at Abbott Northwestern Hospi-tal in Minneapolis on April 12, 2001.He was 93.

Prior to joining the Temple journal-ism faculty, Professor Swensson hadbeen Executive Director of The News-paper Fund, Inc., later to become TheDow Jones Newspaper Fund, Inc., ofPrinceton, New Jersey. He had been di-rector of The Fund from l961 until l968.

Professor Swensson left Temple tobecome Associate Director of TheAmerican Press Institute, which movedfrom Columbia University in NewYork City to Reston, Virginia, duringhis four years with API. In l975 he re-tired from API and returned to Min-neapolis.

Paul Swensson was nationallyknown as a proponent of journalismeducation and upgrading the talentpool of reporters and editors nation-wide. His work with API focused onthe training and development of moreexperienced journalists.

With The Fund he established anumber of program initiatives thatwere aimed at improving the diversity

of America’s newsrooms.After retirement, Professor Swens-

son continued to serve on the board ofThe Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, Inc.,and remained active with a variety ofjournalism associations and publica-tions. One of these was his long-termrelationship with the Pottsville Repub-lican, Pottsville, Pennsylvania. He critiqued the paper and for decades advised members of the staff until the time of his death.

Professor Swensson was born onNovember 11, l907, in Woburn, Mass-achusetts. He grew up in Aurora, Illi-nois, Detroit, Michigan, and Mound,Minnesota, where he finished highschool. In l928, he graduated fromGustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter,Minnesota. His alma mater in l960presented him with an honorary doctorof humane letters degree.

Mildred Johnson Swensson, hiswife, died in l996. The couple hadbeen married 63 years.

Professor Swensson is survived bytwo children, Kay Cerkvenik of Min-netonka, Minnesota, and KennethSwensson of Anaheim, California.

There are five grandchildren andthree great-grandchildren.

Jonathan Mednick, producer/director of several in-ternationally knowndocumentaries, in-cluding the featurefilm, The PerfectCandidate and thecurrently runningPBS series AmericanHigh, suffered a sud-den brain aneurysm and died in NewYork in June. He was 43 years old.

Mednick received an MFA inRadio-Television-Film in 1988 andwas a Conwell Fellow in the filmprogram. He was the co-founder of aproduction company in New Yorkcalled Other Pictures, Inc., and hadtaught film at NYU, the Universityof Iowa, Wesleyan, and the Univer-sity of Central Florida.

American High, a 13-episodeseries that documents the lives of14 high school students duringtheir senior year at Highland ParkHigh School in suburban Chicago,is scheduled for three completeshowings on PBS during the nexttwo years. Mednick was profiled inthe Spring 2001 issue of the Tem-ple Review.

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SCAT Reunion, Los Angeles StyleThe annual Los Angeles reunion of California-

based SCAT graduates was held on May11, withmore than 150 alums in attendance. The eventwas held at Warner Brothers Studios and co-hosted by Warner Brothers executives MarcSolomon (Theater ’75), Vice President of PostProduction and Visual Effects and Bill Daly(RTF ’77), Director, Feature Post Production.

A special bonus on the trip west was a visit tothe Tonight Show with Jay Leno, arranged byJoe Medeiros (RTF ’75) who happens to be JayLeno’s head writer.

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1960’sPeter Bushyeager (RTF ’69) is Vice President ofCorporate Responsibility for the New York Life In-surance Company in New York City, where hemanages the company’s philanthropic and volun-teer activities. He was formerly Vice President ofthe Prudential Foundation of the Prudential Insur-ance Company.Lyn Kessler (Theater ’68) is avocal artist who owns EclecticEnterprises in Boston.Daniel Lynch (JPRA ’69), a for-mer newspaper editor andcolumnist for the Albany TimesUnion and radio talk show hoston Albany, NY’s WROW, ran as an independentcandidate for the 107th Assembly District of theNew York State Legislature but lost to the incum-bent. He is the author of six books.Richard Singer (Comm ’68) was named regionalmanager of the Sinclair Broadcast Group, whichoperates 58 television and 52 radio stations nation-wide. He is based in Pittsburgh.

1970’sCharles Antalosky (MFA, Theater ’73) appearedas Burgess in Candida at the Arden Theater.Susan Baltake (JPRA ’73) recently relocated backto the East Coast and has formed Grove Street So-lutions, a marketing communications company.She was in California for 13 years, running politi-cal campaigns on behalf of progressive candidatesand causes and was most recently Assistant Cali-fornia State Treasurer.Helen M. Cauley (JPRA ’77) recently authoredRelocating to Atlanta and Surrounding Areas, a de-finitive guidebook for getting settled into the cityand environs. She also coauthored the latest editionof the Insider’s Guide to Atlanta. In addition, shecontinues to freelance three weekly columns for theAtlanta Journal-Constitution.Robert Colella (JPRA ’76) recently started hisown company, Robert Colella Business WritingServices. His writing services include advertising,direct mail, sales promotion literature, public rela-tions and corporate communications. He alsowrites screenplays. Prior to starting his own com-pany, Colella worked for several major publishingcompanies and corporations.Diego Cruz (JPRA ’78) was re-elected for a sec-ond term of the Channel 6 ABC WPVI-TV Minor-ity Advisory Board. He is an active writer forSpanish Philadelphia’s press and contributes spe-cial feature articles for La Actualidad, CommunityFocus, and El Hispano, all of which are weeklySpanish language newspapers reaching over

250,000 readers in the Delaware Valley. In Janu-ary, he covered President George W. Bush’s His-panic Inauguration Gala, held at the Omni Hotel inWashington, D.C. His latest project involved thecoordination of the 30th Anniversary of the PuertoRican Panorama, which recognized the nations old-est bilingual public affairs program. Panorama ap-pears in the Guinness Book of World Records.Robert Houck (RTF ’73) is the multimedia editorat Bloomberg, the global information services,news, and media company in Princeton, NJ. Hewas formally an announcer, writer and editor forDow Jones, and a newscaster for the ABC Radionetwork in New York.Naomi Jacobson (Theater BA ’79, MFA ’82) ap-peared in the American premiere of Heaven at theWoolly Mammoth Theater in Washington, DC. John Kircher (RTF ’70) has joined The MusicParadigm, an interactive executive business pro-gram based in New York that uses a symphony or-chestra to draw parallels with business challenges.He was formerly managing director of nationalprogram marketing for the PBS Sponsorship Groupin Washington, DC.Gary Kunkelman (MA, JPRA ’76) was namedmanaging editor of Berks County Living, where hedirects editorial operations. A resident ofWyomissing, PA, Kunkelman’s new position capsoff a 30-year career in communications.Richard Leiby (JPRA ’78), a staff writer at TheWashington Post, was named one of 13 MichiganJournalism Fellows at the University of Michigan,Ann Arbor. Fellows pursue sabbatical studies, sup-ported by a $40,000 stipend. He will focus on hownarrative and literary techniques can be applied toinvestigative journalism. He also has won the MikeWallace Fellowship in Investigative Journalism. Joseph McKendrick (JPRA’79) is a regular columnist totwo leading new economy jour-nals, Electronic CommerceWorld and Enterprise Systemsmagazines. His monthly columnsexplore management and techni-cal issues shaping the growth oforganizations in the new econ-omy. He also is a research consultant and authorspecializing in information technology and orga-nizational development.H. Brian O’Neill (RTF ’71) is President and Cre-ative Director of O’Neill Associates, a marketingand creative services resource for broadcast, cable,and new media industries.Mark Pollock (RTF ’73) managing director ofPottstown, PA Cable TV for the past 17 years, wasnominated for the Pottsdown Area Chapter of thePennsylvania Hall of Fame. He has produced and

directed more than 275 football games, 440 basket-ball games and 70 wrestling matches, as well as100 other sporting events for public television.Barbara Potts (Theater ’72, JD ’79) has joined thePhiladelphia law firm of Blank Rome Comisky &McCauley as a partner. She was formerly the man-aging partner of Singley Potts & Booth, and hadearlier served as the first deputy city solicitor forthe City of Philadelphia.Gary D. Scalise (RTF ’76) is the owner/principalof Professional Qaulity Systems, a managementconsulting firm.Matthew Segal (RTF ’71) was promoted to NorthCarolina franchising manager for McDonald’s. Heis based in Raleigh. After completing 28 years inthe U.S. Army Reserve, he was awarded the Le-gion of Merit by the Department of the Army.Frances Grandy Taylor (JPRA ’79) is a featureswriter in the “Life” section of The HartfordCourant. She is also a board member of and men-tor for Metro Bridge, a newspaper for Hartford stu-dents sponsored by the Courant.Gary Tocci (JPRA ’79, JD ’87) is a partner in thePhiladelphia law firm of Schnader Harrison Segal& Lewis and a member of their labor and employ-ment practice group. He recently spoke at thePennsylvania Payroll Basics seminar.Louis Vilardo (RTF ’75) was named regional VicePresident of Private Asset Management for the in-vestment management firm of Neuberger Bermanin their newly opened Philadelphia office. Marc A. Werlinsky, Esq. (JPRA ’72) is assistantcounsel at the Pennsylvania Department of Trans-portation. He is co-author of Pennsylvania: DrivingUnder the Influence, published by West Group.Elena Yearly (’79) is a consultant specializing instrategic planning, marketing and finance for seniorliving and healthcare organizations. She recentlyjoind the Washington, DC, office of ZA Consult-ing. She has also served as an adjunct professor atGeorge Washington University.

1980’sRichard Ambrosino, Jr. (JPRA ’87) was namedmanaging partner of c3strategies, a Trenton, NJ-based communications firm specializing in publicrelations, marketing and business development.Formerly, he served as senior Deputy Director ofcommunications for Governor Christy Whitmanand as Director of Business Affairs for the NewJersey Department of Environmental Protection.Ambrosino also served as deputy campaign man-ager for Whitman’s reelection campaign in 1997.Jeffrey Buchman (RTF ’84) is Western RegionalDirector, Sales, for Moore North America. Hemanages all sales and customer support functionsfor the Western Region, including digital print so-

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Colorado, and recently relocated to Minneapolisas a free-lance director.Floyd Ruhmor (Theater, MFA ’88) was co-teacher for a class at Temple titled “TeachingShakespeare through Performance.” He continuesto serve as director of the Chekhov Theatre En-semble in NYC. Lauren Pound Somers (JPRA ’88, MJ ’01) wasrecently named top scholar in the Master of Jour-nalism program and inducted into Kappa Tau Al-pha, the prestigious national journalism honorsociety. For the past five years, Somers has oper-ated Communications Support, a home-based free-lance writing and editing business servingnumerous organizations throughout the region.Prior to launching Communications Support, sheserved as assistant press secretary for the Speakerof the Pennsylvania House and as media relationscoordinator for the Pennsylvania Institute of Certi-fied Public Accountants. 1998 recipient of theMaxine Edelson Elkin award from the JPRA de-partment at Temple, where she has taught under-graduate journalism and public relations courses.Somers lives in Lafayette Hill, MontgomeryCounty, with her husband, Craig, and their twochildren, Corey, 5, and Nicole, 2.Mark Tarasiewicz (JPRA ’89)is senior public relations associ-ate for the Philadelphia Bar As-sociation. He recently receivedthe 2000 Luminary Award fromthe National Association for ex-cellence in web design.Sherri Tucker (JPRA ’89) hasjoined WMGK/102.9 Classic Hits radio as an ac-count manager. Prior to that, she was an accountexecutive at KYW-3 in Philadelphia. She is themother of two, a daughter, 9, and a son, 6.Tim Wenzell (RTF ’87) is an English instructor atTergen Community College. He recently pub-lished a novel, Absent Children, through WritersShowcase Press.Les Winograd (RTF ’82) was named PR coordi-nator for Doctor’s Associates, the franchisor ofSUBWAY Restaurants, based in Milford, CT. Heworks with SUBWAY staff internationally: thereare currently 14,000 restaurants worldwide. Healso writes “Video Viewpoint,” a weekly film crit-icism column featured on the SUBWAY website.Kelly Woodland (JPRA ’86) was appointed Pro-gram Analyst at the William Penn Foundation inPhiladelphia.Scott Yazujian (RTF ’86) is a financial represen-tative at the Center City office of the Philadelphia-based Fidelity Investments.

1990’sDonna K. Allen (BTMM ’98), the former com-munications assistant at Girard College, was pro-moted to Media and Publications Specialist.

Scott Armstrong (MJ ’95) is Creative Director atDevon Direct Euro RSCG. He plays a lead cre-ative role on several national accounts, including Net-work Solutions (Verisigin) and Sun Microsystems.Lisa Honig Beckman (JPRA ’94) earned anMBA from Rice University in Houston, Texas,and has accepted a position in brand managementat the Campbell Soup Company in Camden, NJ.Jennifer Baldino Bonett (JPRA ’91) welcomed ason, Joseph Louis Bonett, in January. She nowworks as a freelance writer and editor, specializingin higher education and health care.L. Patty Bennett-Fox (Theater MFA ’91) isProps Master at the People’s Light and TheaterCompany and recently attended the national con-ference for the Society of Property Artisan Man-agers (SPAM) at the Milwaukee RepertoryTheater.Ramona Broomer (Theater MFA ’96) is teachingcostume design at Alabama State University inMontgomery, Alabama.Danielle Cohn (JPRA ’95) is Director of PublicRelations for the Philadelphia Convention & Visi-tors Bureau. She was recently appointed to thePhiladelphia Public Relations Associations’ 2000Board of Governors as VP for programs.Jaclyn D’Auria (RTF ’92) is the Comcast News-makers Anchor for Comcast Cable.Madi DiStefano (Theater ’96) appeared in the in-dependent film Bottom Feeders and directed theTemple production of Cloud 9 in November.Ilena DiToro (JPRA ’93) is a tax clerk at the IRSPhiladelphia Service Center and a free-lance writerwho published an article in an Australian lifestyleweb magazine, Tempo. She has also launched herown web-based business, JustMoviePosters.com,selling film-related posters on the Internet.Christopher Ellis (RTF ’92) is CommunicationsManager for Comcast Cable Communications. Heis responsible for maintaining the home page of anemployee Intranet site for Comcast Cable, thethird largest cable company in the United States.This includes gathering and writing news aboutthe company, new products and services.George Flynn (BTMM ’98) lives in Los Angeles,where he is an assistant at Zucker/Netter Produc-tions, working with the Feature Film Writer, Di-rector, and Producer.Victoria Gallen (Theater ’99) received her Mas-ter’s degree in English Education from FairfieldUniversity.Craig R. Hamilton (JPRA ’90) was named execu-tive director of development for WHYY in Phila-delphia, which includes WHYY-TV 12, whyy.org,and other communication services. He was most re-cently director of marketing and communicationsfor the Opera Company of Philadelphia.Paul Harrill (MFA ’99) an instructor in the artsdepartment of the University of Tennessee atKnoxville, received the 2000 Aperture Short FilmGrant, including a $10,000 prize, for his screen-play Gina, An Actress, Age 29. The film also won

the “Best Short” juried prize at the prestigiousSundance Film Festival, held in Utah in January. John Stephen Hoey (Theater MFA ’92) designedthe lighting for Spin at the Wilma Theater and TheJungle Book at the Arden Theater.Kevin Hogan (JPRA ’91) was named FeaturesEditor of Business 2.0, a consumer business magazine based in New York City.Kathleen Lambert (Theater ’91) is House Ac-count Coordinator for FMC Corporation, an agri-cultural chemical global business managementsupport firm.Judi Walsh Loughlin (MJ ’92) was promoted toAssistant Managing Editor, International at DowJones & Co., Inc. She supervises the city desk ofThe Asian Wall Street Journal and The Wall StreetJournal Europe.Kala Lynn Moses (Theater ’96) is a Philadelphia-based actress who performed a one-woman showand conducted a series of workshops in Tucson,Arizona, in celebration of Black History Month.Tasha Juanna Renee Miller Muhammad (JPRA’93) is self-employed as a writer/teacher/home child-care provider. She teaches and cares for children inher home, while continuing to write and do research.Michael Mulcahy (MFA ’97) is an assistant pro-fessor at the University of Arizona in the MediaArts department of the College of Fine Arts.Jamie K. Mulholland (JPRA ’91)was named Director of Marketingfor the Atlantic City law firm ofCooper Perskie April NiedelmanWagenheim & Levenson.Carrie Nork (BTMM ’99) as anaccount executive/ publicist atCataldi Public Relations in NewYork. She plans and manages publicity forMetrochannels (New York tri-state cable network),American Movie Classics, WE: Women’s Enter-tainment, Alize Beverages, Manic Panic, Soapc-ity.com (part of Sony Pictures) and many differentcelebrities. She generates publicity for clients in re-gional, national, and trade press in print, broadcastand online media. She continues to dance, per-forming in New York, Atlantic City and Philadel-phia, and also models for televised Alize nationalpromotions.Jason Nuzzo (Theater MFA ’98) appeared in hisone-man show Asleep at the Wheel for the NewYork Fringe Festival. He is a member of the pro-ducing company, The Filling Station.Jennifer Rauch (MJ ’98) began her Ph.D. studiesthis year as Chancellor’s Fellow at Indiana Uni-versity-Bloomington’s School of Journalism. Herwriting and photography have recently appeared inthe Philadelphia City Paper, Inside AP, TempleTimes and other publications.Scott Rego (RTF ’94) is equipment manager forthe Philadelphia 76ers and was recently the sub-ject of a front-page article in The Philadelphia In-quirer about his responsibilities with the team“from socks to superstitions.”

ALUMNINEWS updatelutions, e-commerce, logistics, print & mail, and e-print technologies. He relocated to Northern Cali-fornia in 1999 with his wife and three children,Jake, Skyler and Jamie.Payson Burt (Theater ’82) just finished as fight di-rector on August Wilson’s King Headly II at theMark Taper Forum. For the Los Angeles premiere,Payson worked with the playwright and DirectorMarion McClinton.

Michael Callahan (JPRA ’85)was named deputy editor of Redbook, which has a 2.2 millioncirculation. He was previously asenior editor at Mademoiselleand the managing editor for themen’s magazine P.O.V. He is afive-time winner of the Society

of Professional Journalists’ Outstanding MagazineWriting Award. As a Temple student, he served asmanaging editor of the Temple News. He is based inNew York.Joseph Capperella (JPRA ’86),franchise marketing director forRE/MAX, a real-estate companybased in New Jersey, ranked no.1 in franchise marketing salesamong RE/MAX’s franchisesales representatives nationwide.Steve Capus (JPRA ’86) hasbeen named executive producer of the NBC NightlyNews, anchored by Tom Brokaw. Capus started asa part-time news writer at WCAU in 1986, andthen moved to KYW from 1987-92. He joined ca-ble’s NBC News Channel in 1992, and moved toNBC in 1994, where he was supervising producerfor Today. He joined MSNBC in 1996 and was ex-ecutive producer for The News With BrianWilliams. Paul A. Czech (RTF ’84, JD ’92) a Philadelphia-based attorney in private practice, manages BettyWhitetrash, a heavy metal quartet which released itsdebut CD Five Finger Discount (Re Up) in late 1999.Theresa M. Diamond (RTF ’89) is Director of Pub-lic Relations at Shriners Hospital for Children, locatedat the Temple University Health Sciences Campus.She was recently appointed to the Philadelphia PublicRelations Association’s 2000 Board of Governors assecretary and VP for communication.Tina Dorfman (JPRA ’81) is assistant director ofmedia relations at Westchester Medical Center, a1,000-bed advanced care academic medical centerin Valhalla, N.Y. She was recently involved in theproduction of Doctor’s Diaries, a 13-part reality-based TV series taped at the hospital that is airingnationally on The Health Network.

Scott Downs (RTF ’88) is theRetail Advertising Manager forthe York Newspaper Co. Basedin York, PA, it publishes TheYork Daily Record, The YorkDispatch, The York SundayTimes, and The Weekly Record.Downs serves as president of theYork Hospital Auxiliary and sponsorship chair forthe hospital fete.Mark Eyerly (JPRA ’81) was appointed Director ofCommunications and Public Affairs at the WilliamPenn Foundation, working in three major areas: chil-dren, youth, and families; natural and physical envi-ronment; and arts and culture. He recently becamepresident of the board of governors of the Philadel-phia Public Relations Association.Anthony R. Farina (RTF ’83) was named ExternalAffairs Manager of DuPont Chemical Solutions,headquartered in Wilmington, DE. He is responsiblefor overseeing pubic affairs issues, including mediarelation, for the Chemical Solutions Enterprisestrategic business unit and its 13 sites.Stacy L. Gordon (RTF ’87, MBA ’99) joined De-von Direct Marketing & Advertising as account di-rector on the Nextel Communications account. Thefirm is based in Berwyn, PA. Formerly, she was aMarketing Director at The Franklin Mint.Matthew R. Gomez (JPRA ’89) is manager ofmarketing and business development at Digi-talOwl.com, an Orlando, FL-area Internet softwarecompany. He was previously a newspaper, maga-zine, and wire-service reporter and a radio host,and is currently pursuing a master’s in corporatecommunication and technology.Jeff Hillegass (RTF ’88) is a producer for NFL

Films.Joseph P. Jennings (JPRA ’83)is Vice President of Sales at Mar-keting Systems Group in FortWashington, PA. He directs busi-ness development activity for thecompany’s research products andservices in the commercial, acad-emic and governmental markets.

Eugene Kane (JPRA ’80) is a three times a weekmetro columnist for The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.He was recently awarded “Best Local Column” fromthe Society of Professional Journalists.Marilyn Kleinberg (RTF ’82) is President ofCareers-n-Communications, Inc., in Cherry Hill,NJ. The company is a specialized search firm formarketing and PR professionals. She is a pastpresident of the Philadelphia Chapter of Womenin Communications.Kevin J. McNamara (JPRA ’89, MA/CAS ’95) wasrecently promoted to associate VP for campaign andoperations in Drexel University’s Office of Institu-tion Advancement. He was formerly assistant VicePresident for corporate and foundation relations atDrexel. He is also an adjunct scholar at the ForeignPolicy Research Institute, has authored a book forchildren titled The Presidency, one of a series on

Your Government from Chelsea House Publishers.Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Arthur M.Schlesinger, Jr., was consulting editor for the series.Janice Miller (’84, JD ’88) was appointed VP, legaland business affairs of Universal Studios Hollywoodand Universal City Walk Hollywood. She previ-ously served as VP, business and legal affairs forSega Gameworks and has worked in contract admin-istration for Walt Disney Imagineering.Julie Morgenstern (Theater ’81), the principal ofTask Masters, a NY-based enterprise that organizesoffices and homes, has a new book, Time Manage-ment from the Inside Out: The Foolproof Systemfor Taking Control of Your Schedule and Your Life(Henry Holt), which took the No. 1 sales spot inAmazon.com’s sales rankings in September 2000.Peter Paul (Theater/RTF ’89) is an actor in LosAngeles who recently appearedthe the Black Box Theatre pro-duction, Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl.Molly Peckman ( JPRA ’86, JD’92) a trial attorney at thePhiladelphia law firm of Mont-gomery, McCracken, Walker &Rhoads, was named chair of thePhiladelphia Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Di-vision.David Pecoraro (MFA, Theater ’80) is serving asProduction Manager, lecturer and Head of StageManagement at University of California-Irvine.

Marc Rayfield (JPRA ’85) wasnamed Station Manager at KYW1060, the all-news radio stationthat is the top revenue grosser inPhiladelphia radio. He joinedKYW in 1992 as general salesmanager and over an eight-yearperiod, he has been responsible

for generating more than $250 million in revenueat KYW.James Riordan (Theater, MFA ’87) is appearingin the role of “John Ruskin” in the critically ac-claimed off-Broadway hit, The Countess, at TheLambs Theater.Patricia Romeu, (RTF’82, MFA’88,) was Super-vising Producer for School - The Story of AmericanPublic Education, a PBS series which explored“America’s noble experiment -universal educationfor all citizens.” The four-part series, narrated byMeryl Streep, premiered in September and chroni-cled the development of our nation’s public educa-tion system from the late 1770’s to the 21st century.Steve Romanowski (RTF ’86) is the video coordi-nator for the Philadelphia Flyers. He records andedits all Flyers games as well as opponent’s gamesfor review analysis by the coaching staff.Craig Rosen (Theater, ’89) earned his MA atEmerson College and recently completed his Ph.D.in theater from the University of Colorado, Boul-der. He has taught at various universities, includingthe University of Colorado and the University ofWisconsin/La Crosse. He served as a free-lance di-rector and managed a theater tour and residency in

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Corporations and Foundations

$10,000 and aboveThe Annenberg FoundationDerek Freese Film Foundation National Mail MarketEstate Of Sarah NewmarkOttaway Newspapers, Inc.Peninsula Community Foundation

$5,000 – 9,999Bessemer Trust CompanyCharitable Gift FundDMK Productions Inc.Harold E. Hirsch FoundationThe Lighting Practice, Inc.Philadelphia Daily NewsPhiladelphia Inquirer

$4999 and underAd Age GroupADF Engineering CompanyAdventure MagazineAmerican Business American InternationalAnnenberg CenterAon FoundationAP3C ArchitectsAssociated Engineering

Consultants, Inc.Bennett Bigelow and LeedomBiography MagazineBusiness 2.0CBS Foundation, Inc.CIGNA Corporation Combined Jewish

PhilanthropiesCosmo GirlDig MagazineBlank Rome Comisky

& McCauleyBLM GroupBranzberg and EllersBristol-Myers SquibbCarter-Wallace, Inc.Delaware Community FoundationDLC ManagementCantol Inc.Catapult CommunicationsCope Linder AssociatesDemocratic Committee of

Ridley ParkTony DePaul and SonsDow Jones & Company, Inc.Fox, Rothschild, O'Brien

& Frankel, LLP

Gannett FoundationH2L2 Architects Henderson CorporationIndustrial Health ServicesIndustry StandardIsdaner & Company, LLCJacobs Music-Steinway PianosJanise Enterprises IncPhillip Jordan ArchitectsKlehr Harrison Harvey Knight-Ridder, Inc.Lex Electric Company Lucent TechnologiesMGA Partners Magazine Publishers

of AmericaMerash Inc.Merck Company FoundationMode Magazine

Financial ServicesMontgomery, McCracken,

Walker & Rhoads, LLPMontgomery SignsMore MagazineNew York Times

Company FoundationNovartis Finance Corp.Palmer WaterproofingPasquale Portolese, Inc.Paulus Sokolowski &

Sartor, Inc.Pendleton Woolen MillsPepper Hamilton, LLPPNC Bank CorporationRelocation Project ManagersRevlon Foundation, Inc.Rhoads Metal Works Inc.Ridley Park, Borough of Ridley High SchoolRidley High School,

Mathematics Deptartment Rittenhouse FoundationMilton and Shirley Rock

FoundationSalomon Smith BarneySmithKline Beecham

FoundationSpectra EngineeringSRK ArchitectsStanley Consultants, Inc.Superior Beginnings, Inc.Teen People MagazineTimes Mirror FoundationTime Warner, IncorporatedVanguard Group, Inc.UGI CorporationWilson QuarterlyYahoo Internet LifeYM MagazineGeorge Yu Architects

Individual Donors

$10,000 and aboveWalter H. and Lenore AnnenbergRichard and Susan GrickisBeatrice D. LederH.F. (Gerry) & Marguerite LenfestMyles MartelRobert Shackleton

$1,000 – 9,999Edith J. AdamLeRoy M. CarlRichard C. EllisMichael L. FrezelMr. and Mrs. William J. HuttonDorothy I. KirschJonathan D. LazarusPeter J. LiacourasEran Preis Paul R. SpindlerJacqueline SteckConcetta M. Stewart Ph.D.Jane Creamer Sullivan

$500 – 999Marjorie B. BroderickLinda and Jonathan ChorneyMichael DeLucaF. Eugene Dixon Jr.Nelson F. DunhamOri Even-Tov Norman B. FeinDoris S. FreedmanSandra M. GoldsmithTimothy HaahsJohn C. HaasJerome Kaplan Esq.Loring S. Grove Edward J. MannixClaire Coleman Schweiker Jennifer L. SimonDiane F. SweeneyZelma H. Weisfeld

$250 – 499Kathleen Murray-AllainPaul E. BiavaCarol Ann Toll BressConstance CarneyKenneth R. Cundy Ph.D.Paulette Joy Douglas Jane R. EisnerDieter Forster Ph.D. Ronna F. HallRichard S. KrugmanKaren White KurodaArlene Notoro MorganDavid O’ConnellJudith R. RosenfeldDolly Beechman SchnallMarc Alan SolomonJames H. Shacklett IIIRobert TuliniDavid Wolman

$100 – 249Martin L. AbramsonMarty and Holper AbramsonJ. Nicole AgranJohn J. AglialoroRobert P. AmesDebra E. AndrewCora A. AssenheimerDiane AyresRandolph Bak M.D.Chris and Leif BeckMichael J. BirnbaumElsa Goss Black Esq.Gary BradfordAmy BranchRobert BraslerLynn Marie V. BrazCharles David BreckerJudith Montgomery BretzgerSteven BrownSamuel S. BrylawskiMichael G. CallahanLeo A. CampanellaAva ChatterjeePhyllis Kaltman CobinJoseph CognettiBrenda CuthbertsonRobert H. DeVoeAnthony Di BenedettoRobert Gregory DonzeCharles E. EcclesGermaine L. EdwardsMary J. FallonSandra R. FaustLamont F. FerrellHoward M. FischerEllen Slott FisherMark C. FogelmanLorraine M. FontanesKathleen Horning ForteHenry FrankEileen E. GhennTheresa A. GlabPaul A. GluckTom S. GottshalkLewis F. Gould Jr. Esq.Irwin GrossJay M. GrossmanAlan S. GruberRosanne GungJoyce A. HadleyChris T. HayesConstance A. HofmannMelanie HopkinsJames J. HuthYvette D. HyterStephen C. HirschmanEdward HurdElizabeth Moore IngrahamPaul JeskoWanda H. JonesEdward Kassab Esq.Warren W. KlenkAlan Ross KosherJan L. KrawitzMarc S. Lapayowker M.D.

Judi Walsh LoughlinJohn Henry MacDonaldAdam E. MacksMichael D. MartinJodine MayberryJames McBainJoan McCord Ph.D.Rosemary C. McFallElizabeth A. McFallDeana Jill McLelland Helen Mary McMeen LeRoy J. MessingerJohn B. MinickJeffrey D. MirkinBarbara J. MissimerHarold B. Morley Ph.D.Alvin M. Moss USA (Ret)Milagros NadalAnne M. O’BrienJames P. O’BrienSharron O’ConnellRobert H. OrensteinLambert T. OrkisDeborah J. OrrHelen OsorioWilliam J. Paolantonio Jr.Canio M. PascaleDaniel H. PolettPatricia A. PonticelloShirley M. PowellLatanya PrattRudolph R. PuglieseToni A. RitzenbergSusan D. RoachSheryl K. RothbergJames Bernard RussoAllan RustenStephen Jay SansweetWilliam H. SeesselbergNancy Settle-MurphyLori L. SchipperJohn J. SchlesingerNathan Schnall M.D.David A. ScottRobert Montgomery Scott Fred A. ShabelJames SheehanTerry Jay Siman Esq.Carol Rosenheim SimonAlbert L. Smith Jr.Peggy SmithDeborah R. SmithDavid W. SpauldingRuth M. StantonMartin E. SteinAlice M. SteltzerWalter SullivanChristina Koziel ThistleMarlee A. TobieCharles W. Tomlinson Jr.Edward J. TrayesAaron B. WaitzJanice WeathersKathryn A. WebbSusan Deeley WellsJames S. White

The School of Communications and Theater Honor Roll of DonorsThis Honor Rol l l i s ts a l l donors who gave $25 or more to SCAT during the 2000-2001 campaign (July 1 to June 30). To see yourname in a future Honor Roll, please send your gift to Temple ’s School of Communications and Theater Annual Fund.

J. Cooper Robb (Theater ’99) is working on an MAin Theater at Villanova University and continues toserve as theater critic for the Philadelphia Weekly.Patrick Rodio (FMA ’97) is an independent film-maker who writes and directs. He is currently inproduction on a feature film, Better Days.Mary Beth Scallen (Theater MFA ’90) is enteringher 10th year as a resident actor with the People’sLight and Theater Company. She also writes public-ity for the Theater, serves as artistic associate andteaches acting. Ed Shockley (Theater MFA ’95) is the artistic di-rector of one of the largest professional guilds ofplaywrights and screenwritersin the country, the PhiladelphiaDramatist Center. He has writ-ten 50 works for the stage, sev-eral of which have beencommissioned by children’stheater groups. Shockley is thefounder and artistic director ofthe American Concert Theater,a regional performance group based in WestPhiladelphia. He is also an associate professor atthe University of the Arts, where he teachesscript-writing classes and is developing a play-writing program.

Julie Anna Smith (RTF ’92) is a Business Devel-opment Consultant for the Bergen Brunswig DrugCompany, where she serves as the liaison betweenthe drug company and pharmacy buying groups.Michael J. Smith (JPRA ’93)was named Public RelationsManager of the northern divisionof ACTS Retirement-Life Com-munities, which includes eightfacilities in Pennsylvania. He isbased in West Point, PA.Barbara Van Dyke (JPRA ’92)is Public Relations Manager of BrainBuzz.com,an online resource of IT professionals and jobseekers. She is based in Clearwater, FL.Christopher Wanjek (JPRA ’90) has been the senior science writer at NASA since 1998, and is based at NASA’s Goodard Space Flight Centerin Greenbelt, MD. Wanjek is also a freelancehealth writer. Alexandra Weinberg (MJ ’99) is Marketing/ Me-dia Manager for the Academy of Natural Sciencesin Philadelphia. She was previously PR Coordina-tor at GPTMC.Derrick Williams (FMA ’98) is Assistant MediaPlanner at BBDO. He coordinates TV, print andInternet advertising for Pizza Hut.

Diana Zoto (Theater ’95) is currently in graduateschool at New York University studying Theaterand English education.

2000’sThomas Chaump (JPRA ’00) is an Account Ex-ecutive at FCF Schmidt Public Relations, Inc.Headquartered in Plymouth Meeting, PA.Shareef Jenkins (Theater ’00) has relocated toNew York City. His play Fall into the Trap ap-peared as part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festivaland The Three Mothers of Zachary was performedoff-off-Broadway by the 4Unity Theater Company.Bryce Lenon (Theater MFA ’00) appeared in theindependent films Seduction of the Will and Bot-tom Feeders.Lisa Mercurio (Theater ’00) is the Assistant StageManager at the Delaware Theater Company.Jamie Reimann (BTMM ’00) is a media plan-ner/buyer for Harmelin Media, the number onemedia buying agency in Pennsylvania and thenumber eight in the nation. Ryan Wolf (JPRA ’00) was one of two final con-testants on Boot Camp, Fox’s reality series inwhich 15 “recruits” participated in grueling exer-cises and competitions at a real Marine trainingcamp over a period of several weeks. His effortsin what he described as a “nightmare” earned himthe $100,000 runner-up prize.

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Neill A. HartleyJennifer John HealdBettina G HeimanMark J. HelsenCarol HendersonCheryl HennesseyBarbara J. HennessyLeigh F. HermanEmile HertzlerLeon HeywardGail Brown HicksMaria HillerJeannette HinesSandra HoefferArnold HoroffKaren Ellen HorowitzDiane HuberKathleen HuckelDedra HumphreysJohn HymanAlexis M. IslingerYolanda C. JaimeEdward J. JohnsonCraig A. JohnsonG.B. JonesJohn D. KahlerWalter B. Kahn Sr.Sharon KallichJeffrey G. S. KargDeborah Fuchs KarmelJackie KasprzakBarbara Watson KaufmanBernadette A. KearneyJames R. Keeler Esq.Patricia Halsey KeitelMartin J. KellyJanet R. KenneyKathleen M. KeohaneDaniel KernGeorge and Frances KerniskyJeff W. KilpatrickPaul J. KirkAdam M. KirkhoffBarry J. KirschNancy Hausele CaKleinKimberly S. KlenkStephen J. KnebelsAnthony KnightWalter KoenigWalter KoenigElizabeth A. KorczykowskiToby KormanHope E. KoseffDebra L. KrassnerBarbara KretchmarSanford A. KrevskyJames KristieMaureen J. KuharAnnette Norwitz KurmanKaren L. KutnerCindy LambergKathleen T. LambertRobert E. LandueAloysius J. LaneWinnie LangeLaurence LangtonGregg R. LawsonLois Magdalene LehmanChristopher M. LehmanJulia LewisBarbara LewisChristopher P. Lewis-ElBrenda E. Lewis-Joyner

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