Alumni News
100 Notable Alumni Includes 12 from Communication
In celebration of its 100th anniversary, the UW alumni publication Columns Magazine recognized 100 notable alums, including several communication graduates. The selection committee chose famous, fascinating or influential living graduates. The Seattle P-I School Zone blog includes a post about the list. Communication graduates included:
- Laura Chang (excerpted the Unabomber manifesto for the New York Times in 1995 and is now the paper’s science editor)
- Timothy Egan (winner of National Book Award in nonfiction for Dust-Bowl chronicle "The Worst Hard Time")
- Lou Gellerman (Part of the 1958 Husky men’s crew team that won the first American sporting victory in the USSR)
- Christine Gregoire (first woman to be elected attorney general in Washington and second woman to be elected Washington governor)
- Ed Guthman (received Pulitzer Prize in 1950 for a series of articles for the Seattle Times that cleared UW Professor Melvin Rader of spending a summer at a communist training school)
- David Horsey (two-time Pulitzer-Prize-winning editorial cartoonist whose work appears in The Seattle Post-Intelligencer and 450 other newspapers)
- Bryan Monroe (received a Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for his team’s Hurricane Katrina coverage in The Sun Herald in Biloxi, Miss.; vice president and editorial director of Ebony and Jet magazines)
- Eric Nalder (investigative reporter for The Seattle Post-Intelligencer and winner of two Pulitzers)
- Assunta Ng (founder of The Seattle Chinese Post and Northwest Asian Weekly newspapers)
- Norm Rice (Seattle’s first and only African American mayor)
- Dolores Sibonga (the first Filipina American woman admitted to the Washington state bar and the first Filipina American to sit on the Seattle City Council)
- Robb Weller (host of A&E’s Top 10, and formerly co-anchor of Entertainment Tonight; executive producer of Weller/Grossman Productions
Posted 7.1.08
