Lisa is a Loyalty Marketing Manager at eBay.
Mark is living in in Los Angeles, CA and is the West Coast Salesman for Standridge Color Corporation, which produces color concentrates for plastics. His favorite teachers were Lisa Coutu, Leah Ceccarelli and visiting professor Kimo Ah-Yun.
Lie Shia Ong is the AM producer for KIRO-TV in Seattle.
After graduating in June 2004, she attended the UNITY journalism convention in Washington, D.C. It was the largest gathering of journalists from all over the United States in U.S. history. Much to her excitement, she was able to meet and talk to Connie Chung, Lisa Ling and many other gifted journalists. She also attend the International Television and Radio Society Foundation (IRTS) Career Minority workshop in New York City. The annual workshop is held for select minority students from all across the country. Again, this opportunity gave her the chance to talk with many veteran reporters, including Dateline NBC's Hoda Kotb and CNN's Anderson Cooper. A few days after returning home to Seattle, MTV News called and was interested in hiring her for a news assistant position. After three rounds of interviews, she learned that she had not been selected for the job -- the other candidates were all in New York and could begin work sooner than her.
Richard Ossinger is healthy, happy and semi-retired. As of 2005 he has been married 42 years, has 3 children and 10 grandchildren. He runs an Internet business and massage practice on the Southern Coast of Oregon and has a vacation home west of Marysville, WA. He does some public speaking on goals and attitudes.
Business Intern - Ethics & Business Conduct: The Boeing Company
Palmer is a B2B marketing professional with expertise in information and high tech Industries. He is currently the Marketing Communications Program Manager at Impinj, Inc. He is working on very targeted direct marketing/PR campaigns to the world's Top-100 semiconductor companies, and assisting in building awareness/trust in burgeoning industries (RFID) and market categories (within semiconductors). PR/Communications is particularly essential to the RFID side of the business where our strategy is to use Communications as a pull-through mechanism from end users back to our channel partners. He is also consulting to a number of companies for Mktg/Sales/PR, including to a well-known fashion/beauty magazine in NYC.
Past positions include:
Director of Marketing at Infotrieve, Inc.
Director of Sales & Marketing, Co-Founder, Partner at Hydra Worldwide Corporation
Sales & Marketing Manager at Singular Publishing Group, Inc. (now owned by Thomson Delmar)
William Parmenter as been teaching English and English as a second language for the last fifteen years at Fremont High School in the Los Angeles Unified School District. During vacations, he travels abroad to destinations such as Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, and Ethiopia.
Pasatiempo received his bachelor's degree in Communication from the University of Washington and then completed the Executive Management Program at Harvard. After Harvard, Pasatiempo held a series of increasingly demanding jobs that has led him to become partner at The Clarion Group.
Parker is employed as a LIMITED PRACTICE OFFICER for Chicago Title Insurance Company. (1996-present)
Marketing Associate: Judy's Books
Mike Peringer recently won the prestigious Jefferson Award for his outstanding community service. The award honors his work on the Sodo Urban Art Corridor, which he established in 1995. Thanks to him, SoDo buildings once covered with graffiti now showcase art created by local, at-risk or disadvantaged children. ArtWorks, as the program is now known, helps hundreds of children and has branched out to many Seattle neighborhoods. A complete story of Mike's award and Artworks can be found in the March 6, 2003 of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Tim Pilgrim is an associate professor of journalism at Western Washington University. He calls on much of his UW learning from professors such as Bill Ames, Don Pember, Roger Simpson, Gerald Baldasty, Tony Giffard, Richard Carter, and Richard Kielbowicz to teach the department's introduction to mass media course, which is a popular university general education class at Western.
2004 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame
Steve Pool is an award winning weathercaster, with 7 Emmy Awards to his credit. He is on the Executive Committee of the Museum of Flight Foundation trustees and supports KOMO's annual Miracle Makers Broadcast, which raises millions of dollars for Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center. With former NFL player Warren Moon, Steve Pool organizes the Warren Moon and Steve Pool Golf classic - a two day event that raises money for Children's Hospital. In 2004 the event raised more than $700K to benefit the Children's Hospital uncompensated care fund, helping to ensure that all children in the community have access to medical care, regardless of their financial situation.
Since graduation, Mr. Porter has worked as a radio announcer and in retail sales. In his response to the Communication Alumni Newsletter, spring, 2006 edition, he reports that his interests are railroading, writing and art.
Artist and musician.
Pumphrey worked for the news affiliate King TV for 20 years, moving up to the position of assignment editor before retiring in September of 2007. Since retirement Pumphrey fills her time with personal pleasures such as gardening and bird watching. She is also an avid clay sculptor, making abstract forms of art. She is one day hoping to get some of it shown in a gallery.
With a Ph.D. in speech communication and two master's degrees, one in speech communication from the University of Washington and one in theology from Fuller Theological Seminary, Ron Pyle now teaches at Whitworth College in the departments of communication studies and theology.
Quade is a CNN news correspondent. Most recently, she returned from a six-month embedded tour in Iraq and Afghanistan with U.S. Special Operations Forces, typical of the work she does. She travels light with a small camera, boots, helmet and vest, and comes back to put it all together.
Account Executive: Ricoh
Deborah Ranniger is the Foundation Director at Renton Technical College. Deborah is also an elected official for the City of Kent, the current President of the Kent City Council.
Additionally she currently teaches public speaking, introduction to research, interpersonal, intercultural and small group communication at Renton Technical College and University of Phoenix. She was the Public Education Specialist for the Kent Police Department for three years, where she wrote grants, coordinated volunteers and forged community connections for the department. Prior to that Ranniger held the position of Executive Director of the Marketing Commission for Recyclable Materials at King County and Public Involvement Manager for the Surface Water Management Division at King County.
Marketing & Event Director: Beacon Hill Events
2004 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame
2003 Department of Communication Distinguished Alumnus
Public servant, bank president and CEO, community leader. He served 3 terms on the Seattle City Council and was Mayor of Seattle. As the mayor, he enhanced the quality of the city's public schools, revitalized the downtown core and implemented a model welfare-to-work program. We was the President of the U.S. Conference of Mayors and joined the Federal Home Loan Bank as Executive Vice President in 1998, becoming President and CEO in 1999. He sits on or has sat on numerous boards, including SAFECO, Brooking Institution's Advisory Committee for Sustainable Communities, and the Bretton Woods Committee.
After graduation, Kathleen Riley worked as a farmwriter in Walla Walla for three years, then at the Tri-City Herald for 14 years as a business writer, editorial writer and editorial page editor;. She joined The Seattle Times editorial page staff in 2002 as editor, writer and columnist. She follows higher ed., energy and immigration. In the summer of 2006, she was on a three-month leave as the 2005 recipient of the Eugene C. Pulliam Fellowship for Editorial Writing. Her project related to controversies surrounding the study of the earliest Americans. In her response to the Communication Alumni Newsletter, spring, 2006 edition, she reports that she is "Interested in discussions about common ground. How do you get diabolically opposed groups to listen to each other?"
Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize, Feature Writing for The Seattle Times as a result of "Making It Fly," his account of the new Boeing 757 jetliner.
AnnMarie Rochelle is working for the Coast Guard
Media Coordinator: FSA Advertising & Media, Inc.
Dena works as a commercial photograher. She provides photographs and written and design content for businesses, organizations, and individuals' media needs. she is also writing in the creative non-fiction genre. She married James Rosko in November, 2005 and they honyemooned on the Oregon Coast. They are glad to be married! James Rosko also graduated in 2001, with a BS in Physics, and received a certificate in perl programming from UW Extensions in 2005. He works as a Perl developer for an independent and locally owned internet service provider. They reside in Renton, WA and attend a local church.
Rosette-Tavares is the Digital Projects Designer at the University of Washington Libraries. She has worked for the University since 1993. She is married to Joseph Tavares, BS in EE 1996, MS in EE 2003.
Administrative Assistant, Restaurant Division: Nordstrom
Jill Schmid is a litigation (trial) consultant for Tsongas Litigation Consulting Inc. She has been working with Tsongas as a contract consultant since 2002, concentrating on pre-trial jury research and litigation strategy. She started her permanent position in January, 2005.
Prior to joining Tsongas, she was a Speech Communications professor at Willamette University for more than six years and a Communication Arts and Mass Communication professor at Linfield College for a little under three years. She focused her teaching on classes in public speaking, media, persuasion, interpersonal, political, and intercultural communication. Her research focused on areas of message framing, narrative, visual messages and attitudes.
At the University of Washington, she studied communication theories and practices, information processing with special emphasis on the role of gender and race, attitude formation and change, persuasion, media relations, and advertising/marketing.
She is also a certified mediator in general as well as domestic relations mediation. Her interest in mediation stems from a motivation to uncover why and how parties' resolve conflicts.
She works out of Tsongas' Seattle and Portland offices.
Sales Assistant/Administrative Manager: Petry Media Corporation
Justin has recently accepted a position at the Seattle offices of Fitch, a well known global branding and design firm. In his role as Associate Brand Strategist/Copywriter, he will continue his passion for storytelling and creative concepting.
After graduating UW, Travers entered into the PhD program at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication, where he recently completed qualifying examinations and is now a PhD Candidate. He has published two book chapters based on his UW thesis research: "Tempests of the Blogosphere: Presidential Campaign Stories that Failed to Ignite Mainstream Media" in Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times (Megan Boler, Ed., MIT Press, 2008) and "Pundits in Muckrakers' Clothing: Political Blogs and the 2004 Presidential Election" in Blogging, Citizenship, and the Future of Media (Mark Tremayne, Ed., Routledge, 2007). Other writing, presentations, and information are available through his main site: http://www.dtraversscott.com.
National Chill Coordinator: Burton Snowboards
Joseph Slate received his BFA (Painting) in 1960 from Yale and an Honorary DFA (Professor of Art) in 1988 from Kenyon College. He has worked has a reporter for The Seattle Times, an editor for Foreign Broadcast Information Service and a Professor of Art at Kenyon College. He has published stories in The New Yorker and other magazines s and has written over 20 children's books , with more in process. His bio can be found in "Something About the Author," Vols.38 and 122.
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Winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize (Local General or Spot News Reporting) with fellow alumni Dan McDonough (BA, 1948) and Linda Wilson (BA, 1979) for their coverage of the Mt. St. Helens story for the Longview (Washington) Daily News.
Professional Athlete: US Soccer/Lyonnais
Lynn Spohn is co-owner of Oasis, a Seattle-based Event Marketing and Public Relations firm. Clients include Nickelodeon, Disney Channel and NASA.
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Helene Starks is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical History and Ethics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She earned her BA in Communications from the UW Department of Communications, an MPH in Health Policy and Administration from the University of California at Berkeley and a PhD in Health Services Research from the UW.
Dr. Starks' research interests include issues related to the end-of-life for patients, their family members, clinicians, and health systems. Her research also includes qualitative and mixed methods research, surrogate decision-maker and family caregiver issues, utility assessment, medical decision-making, and clinician-patient communication. Special interests include feminist and narrative approaches to bioethics, and research ethics, especially involving vulnerable human subjects in research.
For more information, visit her faculty bio page...
Susannah Stern is an assistant professor at the University of San Diego. She teaches courses such as Roles and Communication, Children and the Media and Research and Writing for the Mass Media.
Stern’s research investigates how youth use media to navigate through adolescence. She is particularly concerned with the Internet as a unique space for cultural production, youth communication, self-publication, sub-culture connection and identity exploration. Currently, her key projects are related to adolescent electronic media use — primarily, but not exclusively, Internet — such as teen blogging, instant messaging and the way in which teens are represented in news media.
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Catherine graduated from the UW with a degree in Journalism/Advertising. She is married to Craig Stevens, also a 1969 UW graduate from the School of Communications. She is a principal at The Marketing Partners, Inc., a Bellevue, WA marketing, advertising and public relations agency specializing in helping regional companies effectively market their products. Catherine is the President-elect of the Seattle Professional Chapter of Association for Women in Communications.
Born in 1931, H. Dolores Dasalla Sibonga became the first Filipina-American lawyer in Washington state. On October 18, 1973, the Washington State Bar admitted her, making her the first Filipina-American woman member as well.
Mr. Stewart retired 31 December 1988 as Senior Foreign Service Officer, United States Information Agency. Except for one four-year tour in Washington, D.C., his career was spent at posts in Arab and/or Muslim countries of the Middle East, North Africa and Southwest Asia. He currently resides in Bothell.
James W. Stewart serves as the Associate Dean in the School of Distributed Learning and as a Professor of Communications at Bethany University in California. He is responsible for all non-traditional educational delivery at the College, including an online program, cohort degree completion and an extension campus in Las Vegas, NV. In addition, James has been involved in the restructuring of the communications department at Bethany in order to offer mass communications, rhetoric and media arts. His anti-HIV/AIDS work continues through his directorship of an international non-profit organization: kaBantu/yaBatho (Zulu/Tswana: for the people), dedicated to serving Africans, in particular AIDS orphans through Foster Care for Africa and AIDS intervention through education designed by and for cultures. The first Nurturing Center now has 50 children and is located in Tlabane, South Africa.
Mitchell Stocks has taken a non-traditional approach to his career. After graduating from the University of Washington, he received his MA from the University of Southern California in 1985, worked in the computer and telecommunications industry for five years and then enrolled at the Northwestern University Law School at the age of thirty. Interestingly, Stocks says, “he suspects that he will eventually do something much different than what he is doing now.
Commercial real estate brokerage and investments, Seattle and Bellevue.
Marketing Director/Professional Relations: First Rehabilitation & Physical Therapy, Inc.
Ayumi Suzuki has served as an account executive of a public relations firm in Tokyo since 2004. She is currently I'm handling the publicity for various clients, such as pharmaceutical companies, manufacturer of health care products, and a watch manufacturer.
Ms. Suzuki is interested in connecting with other alumni from Japan.
Mr. Thompson is a copy editor at The Register-Guard in Eugene, OR.
Stewart worked with a marketing agency and a variety of media and entertainment companies in the U.S. and London until he entered an MBA program at USC's Marshall School of Business. Stewart will graduate in July, 2004.
Following a 25-year career at KOMO-TV in Seattle that included 10 Emmys for producing more than 500 "Town Meeting" programs, numerous documentaries and live event specials such as the Children's Miracle Network Telethon and the "4th of Jul-Ivar's Fireworks Show," and more than 500 news stories and special reports, Doug Tolmie left the station in June, 2004 to form his own consulting company. His new company, Storyteller Communications, which includes 1970 grad Michael S. Eguchi as one of the partners, is a group of broadcast and business professionals who enhance organizational performance and profitability through the art of storytelling.
Craig Tomashoff is currently working as the West Coast Bureau Chief for TV Guide, based in Los Angeles. He has worked there since 2003. Prior to that, he was a television writer/producer for five years, working for shows such as "Behind the Music" and "The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn" and with people such as Jesse Ventura and Martin Short. And going back still further, he was associate bureau chief for People Magazine for 10 years. He also received a master's degree in magazine journalism from Northwestern University in 1985.
A UW alumna with an undergraduate degree in East Asian Studies and a Masters in Communication. her thesis dealt with James Sakamoto and the Japanese American Courier. She credits Communication Professor Roger Simpson, her thesis adviser, for not only helping her find her topic, but for understanding and being supportive of her interest in that topic.
Ted Van Dyk has been active in national policy and politics for more than 30 years. He began active military duty in 1957 as a U.S. Army intelligence analyst. His subsequent jobs have included Soviet specialist and intelligence analyst at the Pentagon; senior assistant to Vice President Hubert Humphrey and coordinator of foreign assistance progsrams in the Carter Administration, to name just a few. He also served as a senior political and policy advisor to seven Democratic presidential candidates. Since early 2001, he has been an editorial-page columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and has continued writing periodically for national publications.
Saadia Van Winkle could serve as a role model for any student hoping to use her UW education to break into broadcast journalism. Although she originally feared that the Journalism Program had prepared her more for a career in print than broadcast, Van Winkle soon found that a solid background in the fundamentals was more than enough preparation.
Tara Wallis is a Producer for NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams and KNBC TV in Los Angeles. Other production credits include Decision 2005: The Voter Forum with Governor Schwarzenegger; 2005 California Governors Summit; 2005 Los Angeles Mayoral Debate; 2005 Hurricane Katrina's Toll: The Southland Responds to Disaster; 2004 Los Angeles Mayoral Debate (Candidates Runoff Debate); 2004 California U.S. Senate Debate; 2004 Summer Olympic Preshow; 2003 Recall Election Debate; 2003 Townhall Meeting with Governor Gray Davis. She was the Field Producer for the 2006 Golden Globe Awards Red Carpet; the 2005/2004 Academy Awards Red Carpet; and the 2005 Primetime Emmys Red Carpet.
Wallis has worked at KIRO TV in Seattle; KSL TV in Salt Lake City; KREM TV in Spokane; and she was the Bureau Coordinator for Northwest Cable News in Seattle and Spokane, after graduating from the UW.
Golden Mike Award; 2003, 2004 and 2005 Newscast Emmy Nomination, NATAS Los Angeles Chapter; 2004 Newscast, Los Angeles Press Club Awards; 2003 Breaking News Event, Producer, Golden Mike Award.
Field Organizer: Washington Conservation Voters
Dr. Hazel Warlaumont recently retired from Cal State, Fullerton where she was a full professor in the Department of Communications since 1993. She is back in Seattle and doing some adjunct teaching and creative writing, in addition to some academic writing projects. In her response to the Communication Alumni Newsletter, spring, 2006 edition, she reports that she is "Remodeling my new (old) house in Seattle, writing short stories, jogging, films, and sampling the food and wine in this great city!"
Alexis M. Watson is a first year graduate student at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She is expected to earn her Master's degree in Public Policy with a concentration in Political Advocacy and Leadership in June 2008.
Prior to enrolling at the Kennedy School, Alexis worked for 2 years as a program coordinator at the University of Washington Alumni Association. In this capacity she had the opportunity to work with campus and community members to contribute to the university's Development and Alumni Relations (DAR) efforts-specifically through academic programming. As an undergraduate at the University of Washington (Seattle), Alexis served for 2 years as a Student Outreach Ambassador for the Office of Minority Affairs where she designed and implemented effective methods of conducting outreach and recruitment to increase educational opportunities for high school and middle school students from historically underrepresented and economically disadvantaged communities.
The eldest of two younger brothers, Alexis is a first generation college student who earned her Bachelor's degree from the University of Washington in 2004. She was born in Dallas, TX.
Account Coordinator: The Matale Line
Cecil Webb retired in 1989 after 37 years in advertising, TV and radio sales, news, and management-ownership. An active reporter for his stations, Cecil won the Associated Press Mark Twain Award for best broadcast news operation in California in 1978.
High School Communications Applications Teacher: Frisco Independent School District
Steve worked for the Associated Press in Washington State and Chicago for about nine years, ending up in Chicago as deputy bureau chief and news editor. He then worked for The Wall Street Journal in Chicago, covering agriculture, the commodities markets and Midwest retailing and consumer products. After working for the Eugene Register-guard as assistant city editor and city editor, The Seattle Times as a temporary assistant city editor, and back to The Wall Street Journal in Chicago as national retail correspondent (including coverage of the consumer economy), Steve spent five years with Forbes as their Chicago bureau chief.
In 1991 he started Readmore Communications, moved over to Alliant Foodservice (formerly known as Kraft Foodservice) as vice president of communications, and is now back running Readmore - splitting his time between K-12 education at the state board of education level, and corporate and non-profit clients.
He has this to say about his education and his experience in the real world: I certainly learned the difference between good writing and weak, formulaic writing. I have a much finer appreciation of how a university can contribute to a better-honed young journalist. I realize that I made a mistake by spending all my time in the Journalism school and The Daily. I should have learned more about the world, taking economics classes to give just one example, and spent less time in the very cloistered world of college communications.
Geoffrey Wells graduated from Pepperdine University School of Law and is a partner at Greene Broillett and Wheeler, LLP. Southern California Super Lawyers Magazine/Los Angeles Magazine named him Super Lawyer 2004, 2005 & 2006.
Married nearly 20 years to Doug Elliott. Proud mother of Sarah Elliott, who is off to pursue a BFA in Musical Theater in 2009. Longtime resident of Kirkland, WA.
Colleen West has been working for KIRO TV in Seattle since graduation. She is a Web Content Editor for the kirotv.com Web site. Her work includes news writing, local events, email newsletters, building out new sections on the site, video, design and daily updates. About her time at the UW, Colleen says "The New Media classes I took at the UW have really helped me succeed in this position."
Promotion Coordinator: 98.9 Smooth Jazz KWJZ
Christine White entered the UW in 1954 and left school to marry in 1955. After having five children she returned to school full time in 1970 with the help of an award from the Paul Ashley Fund and then an award from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The summer between her junior and senior years she was an intern reporter for the Tacoma News Tribune.
Her early jobs after graduation included: public information officer for Seattle Central Community College; information specialist, Health Sciences Information Services, UW; public relations specialist, Pay 'n Save Corp.; and employee benefits communications specialist, Seattle Standard Corp. She did some freelance writing before ending 11 years with The Boeing Co. as a writer/editor.
She is active in advocating for the mentally ill, with memberships on a committee of the King County Mental Health Advisory Board, and the board of National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Greater Seattle.
Dana is a Network Specialist for the Communication Technologies department at the University of Washington.
Mike Wiegand is the Executive Speechwriter and Executive Communications Director for Governor Gary Locke. He is also a freelance executive communications consultant and writer.
Winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize (Local General or Spot News Reporting) with fellow alumni Dan McDonough (BA, 1979) and Laurie Smith (Attended, 1994 and 1995) for their coverage of the Mt. St. Helens story for the Longview (Washington) Daily News.
Margaret is the owner of Communication Resources Northwest. Her primary clients are architects, engineers, and contractors and her main areas of focus are organizational development and research programs in employee satisfaction.
Dr. Betty Winfiel is on the faculty of the University of Missouri, School of Journalism. She has been there since 1990 and is the Curators' Professor for the school. She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Political Science and an affiliated Professor in the Harry S. Truman School of Public Affairs. She has had post-doc fellowships at the Freedom Forum, Columbia University (1988-89) and the Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University (1991). Dr. Winfiel has written three books, three monographs, and over 100 scholarly and reference articles, conference papers, and book chapters. Her interests are in the latest research in communication/s; mass media; and political communication. In 2005, Dr. Winfiel married Barry Hyman, UofWA Professor, Emeritus, Mechanical Engineering and Evans School of Public Affairs.
Beth Witham is a producer for KOMO-TV.
Read about Witham's visit to News Lab autumn quarter, 2006...
Workman graduated in 1972, and in January 1973, he was hired as the editor of a small weekly newspaper, the Snoqualmie Valley Record, where he stayed until November 1979, then was hired by Fishing & Hunting News. During part of that time, he was also a stringer for the Associated Press. For the next 21 years, he worked as the Washington editor of F&H News, rose to senior staff editor and was named managing editor of two other publications, Hunter Education Instructor and Small Craft Advisory, owned by F&H News' parent company, Outdoor Empire Publishing.
In November 2000, he was hired as senior editor of a nationally-circulated firearms newspaper, Gun Week.
Workman is the author of "Washington State Gun Rights and Responsibilities," and — with Alan Gottlieb — "America Fights Back: Armed Self-Defense in a Violent Age."
Over the years, Workman have written opinion pieces that have appeared in such newspapers as the Chicago Sun Times and Chicago Tribune, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Ft. Worth Star Telegram, Hartford Courant, Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Tacoma News Tribune, Washington Times and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
he still writes for F&H News, and his byline regularly appears in other firearms-oriented publications.
During her career as a reporter, Ms. Worthington worked at various newspapers, including the San Jose Mercury News doing mostly features work. She is also an artist.
She had this to say about her 50th college reunion in 2003: "The friendships formed in J School have lasted more than half a century. That's as important as where to put the semicolons. It's a truth of journalism that everyone has a story. I knew my friends' stories, but I'd forgotten many of the twists and turns, so it was touching to hear them. At the {reunion} party, people were talking about what they'd taken with them from school. Some agreed it was the ability to produce under pressure. And we all retain a lively sense of curiosity. I'd add to that the firm belief that I have a right to knowledge. Sometimes the San Jose Mercury persona kicks in when some minor bureaucrat is holding back on me."
Anne Young is a Public Information Services Manager with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Dr. Fred Zandpour holds a Ph.D. in Communication from University of Washington in Seattle and has taught marketing communication courses at Penn State University and Cal State Fullerton where he has been a professor since 1988. He has authored more than 30 convention papers and his work has appeared in top research journals in the United States and the United Kingdom, including Journal of Advertising Research, International Journal of Advertising and Mass Comm Review. His research in international advertising has been widely cited in the United Stares and abroad, and was recognized as Top-Ranked by International Communication Association in 1994 in Sydney Australia.
Robb Zerr began a career in public relations at Associated Grocers in 1985. He moved to Pacific First Bank in 1990 then Egghead Software in 1993, all in Corporate Communications/Employee Communications. He started CommuniCreations, Inc. in 1993 and continues to run the company, which specializes in Web and traditional communications design and consulting as well as writing.
In his response to the Communication Alumni Newsletter, spring, 2006 edition, he reports that he "lives in Altamonte Springs, FL, and plays in a band, performs as a pirate around the country and the world, does a lot of community service and gets to work from home with clients all over the U.S. and abroad. Great commute!!!! And here Desktop Publishing was still theory when I graduated in 1981.
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