Bivins Publishes Old Oregon, 1995 ALUMNI MEMORY Handbook for Public Relations Writing Scott Reames, BA ’ When PR professor Tom Bivins, PhD ’82, One of my favorite classes, magazine design, was looked at the eld of public relations taught by Bill Ryan. One assignment I remember textbooks available in 1988, he realized well was creating a template for a ctional something crucial was missing — writing. magazine, including title/cover page, advertising, That was a problem, since industrywide masthead, table of contents, and articles that we studies revealed that writing was the cobbled together from existing publications. number-one skill PR agencies were looking for in employees. To help ll this gap, Bivins I nished my layout a day or two before the wrote his own book for both students and deadline—quite possibly for the only time during industry practitioners focused on the ins my UO career —and decided to go one step and outs of PR writing, including press further by mocking up a couple of those “blow- releases, backgrounders, public service in” cards that o er great rates to encourage new announcements, articles, editorials, and subscribers. Each of the pages in my “magazine” the basics of grammar and style. was pasted into place, but I deliberately left the blow-in cards unattached. Professor Ryan told the Chambers Endows First Named class later that when he picked up my magazine J-School Professorships to grade it, the cards fell out, and he loved that extra attention to detail.Carolyn S. Chambers’ gift of $1 million allowed the School ofJournalism to establish the rst two endowed professorships Even though my subsequent career was in publicin its 74-year history, the KEZI-TV Professorship in Electronic relations (before I became Nike’s corporateJournalism—a particular interest of Chambers—and the historian in 2005), every time I pick up aCarolyn Silva Chambers Professorship in Advertising. magazine and one of those annoying cards falls out, I think about that project. Mark Zusman Named Allied Daily Newspapers ProfessorZusman, MA ’78, editor, publisher, and co-owner of the award-winning alternative daily newspaperWillamette Week, taught interpretive reporting as the J-Schools’ rst Allied Daily Newspapers VisitingProfessor, a position sponsored by Allied Daily Newspapers.
TOBy its 75th anniversary celebration,many of the school’s graduates hadmade big names for themselves in printand broadcast journalism, advertising,public relations, and business. TheJ-School, renamed the School ofJournalism and Communication aftera merger with Telecommunicationand Film, made the leap into thedigital age with an internet-connectednetwork. Never content to rest onits laurels, the SOJC launched aseries of important programs —including the Charles SnowdenProgram for Excellence in Journalism,the Hall of Achievement, and theAncil Payne Award for Ethics inJournalism — that have continued tobene t students and the eld well intothe 21st century.
Ann Curry Becomes NBC News Anchor Old Oregon, 1993Curry, BA ’78, started her career as the rst female reporter for KTVL-TV in Medford, Oregon. But it 2001wasn’t long before she was ready to move on to bigger markets in Portland and Los Angeles. She thenjoined NBC News as its Chicago correspondent. By 1991, the network asked her to anchor NBC Newsat Sunrise, a position she held for ve years. Curry also served as co-anchor of Dateline NBC, was oftenseen anchoring NBC Nightly News, and became co-host on Today.In 1996, when Curry earned the Outstanding Alumna Award, she had already won two Emmys, fourGolden Mike Awards, several Associated Press Certi cates of Excellence, and an NAACP Award ofExcellence in Reporting. The same day she received the award, she gave the UO Commencementspeech. The Marshall Award Is Established The Jonathan Marshall Award for Innovative Teaching in Journalism and Communication, established by Jonathan Marshall, MS ’62, and his wife Maxine, is awarded annually to an SOJC professor who helps students gain new insight and strengthen their professional skills. In 1997, Marshall was inducted into the Arizona Newspapers Hall of Fame in honor of his 25-year tenure as owner and publisher of the Scottsdale Daily Progress. 2001 Tom Bivins Publishes Within These WallsAs part of the School of Journalism’s 75thanniversary, Professor Bivins, PhD ’82,researched, wrote, and published Within TheseWalls: Re ections on 75 Years of JournalismEducation. It was the rst updated history ofthe J-School since George S. Turnbull publishedJournalists in the Making: A History of the Schoolof Journalism at the University of Oregon in 1965.
Charles Royer Becomes Director Photo courtesy Ann Maxwell of the Harvard Institute of PoliticsJournalist-turned-politician Royer’s, BS ’66, three terms as mayorof Seattle were so successful that the city was named most livableand one of the best managed towns in the nation. As a result, Royermade the list of the country’s 20 best mayors. Not content to limit hiscontributions to just one city, however, Royer stepped down to becomedirector of the Harvard Institute of Politics, where he would have achance to train mayors and members of Congress. Alan G. Stavitsky Joins the Faculty Morompi Ole-Ronkei, BA ’88, MA ’90, PhD ’95, and his wife Renoi, 1990Stavitsky, who is known for his humor and engaging teaching style, ALUMNI MEMORYspent 22 years as an educator and administrator at the J-School,including stints as associate dean, senior associate dean, and founding Kate Hamberger Yakis, BA ’director of the George S. Turnbull Portland Center. He also won theUO’s Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1996. My most memorable experience was meeting a fellow student named Morompi Ole-Ronkei. He was a prince—literally and guratively. His father was the leader of the Maasai tribe in School of Journalism O ers Kenya, and Ole-Ronkei was next in line. He had the most beautiful, lilting accent, a wide Courses in Portland smile, a ready laugh, and a mellow manner. He attracted people and had more friends than anyone I knew.In response to calls from Portland-area residents to bring J-Schoolo erings to the city, the School of Journalism opened the University of He also had a way of poking fun at Americans without insult. Once we met for lunch at aOregon Portland Center downtown. Its rst courses included a seven- café near campus. As the drinks came, he smiled and asked me, “Why is it that Americansweek Advertising and Society course taught by Assistant Professor Ann need ice in their water in January?” When the waitress asked if he wanted soup or salad, heKeding (Maxwell) and a two-day “Women and the Media” workshop was emphatic that “salad was for rabbits.” He told me that in Kenya, they eat a lot of beefo ered by Associate Professor Lauren Kessler, MS ’75. and drink a lot of milk. The Maasai are in the cattle business. He de ed American dietary guidelines yet still maintained zero percent body fat. Once, after a long day of studying, he suggested we go for a jog. I grabbed my bike. As he ran and talked, I pedaled in high gear to keep up with him. Then we hit the hills. He would run to the top, then run in place while I caught up. That “jog” was almost a 20-mile loop. I watched him run e ortlessly mile after mile. “Why…” I yelled as I pumped up the hill, “…are you not on the track team?” He laughed heartily. Priorities. The mission was to help his people — the sacri ce of good things to achieve great things. His master’s thesis involved comparing and contrasting the U.S. government’s land grab from Native Americans with the Kenyan government’s treatment of the Maasai. The story of how he came to the University of Oregon from Kenya was also amazing. He was working as a tour guide on a safari when he befriended one of the tourists, a wealthy woman from Eugene who recognized his passion and potential. She made it possible for him to begin attaining the education he would need to ght for his people. Ole-Ronkei would say it was God who directed his friend to that tour in Kenya. The last thing I learned from him was the Swahili words for goodbye, which imply that departure is not forever: “Qwaheri ya kwanana—my friend.”
Charles F. Frazer Joins the FacultyTwo years after co-authoring the popular textbook Advertising: A Decision-Making Approach, Frazerjoined the J-School sta as the rst Carolyn Silva Chambers Distinguished Professor of Advertising. Everette Dennis Delivers Convocation LectureAfter Dennis left the deanship, he went to NewYork to become the executive director of theFreedom Forum Media Studies Center, one of thenation’s leading independent media think tanksat the time. He returned to the J-School during its75th Anniversary to deliver a special convocationlecture titled “War of the Worlds: Freedom ofExpression, the University, and the Media,”after which he participated in a panel on FirstAmendment issues moderated by Dean ArnoldIsmach. 2001 Cole Endowment Doubles Scholarship FundWhen Veda E. Kochendoerfer passed away, she willed the bulk of her estate, worth $460,000to the Arlyn E. Cole Scholarship fund, named in honor of her brother, Arlyn Cole, owner of thePortland ad agency Cole & Weber. A portion of the Coles’ land on the coast also sold that year,adding another $422,000 to the endowment, increasing the school’s total scholarship fund tomore than $1.5 million. The windfall allowed the SOJC to increase the number of scholarshipsgiven to advertising students and raise the minimum for most annual scholarships to $1,000. Karl Nestvold Named KEZI Distinguished ProfessorFor his nal year before retirement, Nestvold, MS ’60, who was known as “Mr. Broadcasting”during his 30 years on the J-School faculty, was named the inaugural KEZI DistinguishedProfessor of Broadcast Journalism. The new position was made possible by an endowmentfrom Carolyn Chambers.
Old Oregon, 1991 Ann Naumann Named Editor of Paci c Northwest Magazine At just 27, Naumann, BA ’86, took the helm of Paci c Northwest, a Seattle-based travel magazine with a circulation of 100,000. She took the job in the middle of a recession — a di cult time to be an editor even for seasoned veterans — and put out nine issues a year plus a special supplement with a sta of only three. She quickly added business acumen to the editorial skills she learned at the J-School and made a success of the venture. Print Shop Moves FACULTY MEMORY Out of Allen Hall Tom Wheeler After 12 years of asking for more space, the J-School’s impending merger with the My second week in Oregon was spent on the Telecommunication and Film Department Rogue River with friends from the SOJC and their families. Bill Ryan insisted I come along, even nally convinced the legislature to approve though we had just met. After a day in a raft, he a new Communications Services building put me in a kayak for the rst time. I saw some to house the university’s printing plant. The big water. I thought, here are a bunch of people move freed up more than 9,000 square feet who work together every day, sometimes in an in Allen Hall for classrooms, o ces, a new intense environment of policy debates and so student lounge, and TV studios. on, and what do they do when they have some time o ? They oat through some serious rapids together, eat great food, camp out, tell stories at night, and have a good time. It was a wonderful welcome to Oregon, to Eugene, and to my colleagues and their families.Slugline, 1992 James R. Upshaw Joins the Faculty When Karl Nestvold retired, the School of Journalism o ered the endowed KEZI Distinguished Professor of Broadcast position to James Upshaw, who is now a professor emeritus.
RG Media Group Deb Merskin Joins the Faculty Merskin worked as a media buyer and director in the advertising industry before getting her PhD in 1993. At the J-School, she has focused on the representation of marginalized groups in media on the basis of race, gender, sexuality, and species. She has also published two books — Media, Minorities, and Meaning and Sexing the Media: How and Why We Do It — and was the Nancy and David Petrone Faculty Fellow in 2015. ALUMNI MEMORY FLUX Magazine Launches Mark Baker, BS ’ The mission of FLUX, the SOJC’s o cial student- I remember Duncan McDonald’s Mass Media & Society produced magazine, is to deliver compelling feature and Information Gathering classes the best. There was stories and stunning visuals that re ect the ever- some back-and-forth between Duncan and a student evolving culture of the Paci c Northwest. FLUX has over whether something was “picayune” or “germane.” won many awards over the span of its publication I think the student was poking some fun, and Duncan history, including the Columbia Scholastic played ping-pong with him like a champ. Press Association’s Gold Crown Award and the Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award. Find ALUMNI MEMORY out more at uxstories.com. Kari Boiler , BA ’ Randy Shilts Receives Outstanding 1998 Slugline, 1989 Eric Allen Award, Young Alumnus Award When I was a rst-year student, I had no idea what to When he was honored as the UO Alumni Association’s Outstanding do with my life or my time at UO. I originally applied to Young Alumnus, , BS ’77, was a reporter at The San Francisco Chronicle the School of Architecture but was denied. I spent half — the rst openly gay reporter in the country — a best-selling of my freshman year taking basic courses and frankly author, and the nation’s leading reporter on the AIDS epidemic. having a great time. Then a fourth-year friend asked Although he found out he was HIV-positive in 1987, on the day he me, “What the heck are you doing, and what do you turned in the manuscript for his best-selling And the Band Played want to do? What are you good at?” Cut to me staring On, he kept his condition a secret until 1993 to avoid in uencing his back with a blank face. Over a great cup of co ee at work. Shilts developed AIDS in August 1992 and had to complete the Café Roma, he talked me into applying to the J-School. nal chapters of his third book, Conduct Unbecoming: Lesbians and When I walked into Allen Hall, the building felt old, Gays in the U.S. Military, Vietnam to the Persian Gulf, from a hospital collegiate, warm, busy, and optimistic. I sat with bed. He died in 1994. someone in admissions, and we just talked. A good talk. A comfortable talk. I’m sure I was a wide-eyed open book who rambled and made little sense. But after that conversation, I found focus. I found a school and a person who understood my strengths. I found my place. A J-School sta member who listened, cared, and pointed me in the right direction was the start of my career.
J-School Becomes the School of Journalism and CommunicationWhen Telecommunication and Film Department faculty members joined the School of Journalismin 1992 due to state budget cuts that forced the university to consolidate departments, theschool responded by expanding its mission. It changed its name to the School of Journalism andCommunication in 1993 and added a Communication and Society doctoral program in 1994. Duncan McDonald Rosanne Olson, 2011 Glenn Cole, BA ’ 94 Becomes Dean FACULTY MEMORYAfter a three-year stint as dean, McDonald, MS’72, served a four-year term as the UO’s vice Ann (Keding) Maxwellpresident for public a airs and development,then returned to the classroom in 2001. After participating in the Wieden Workshop at the endMcDonald, a past winner of the UO’s Ersted of his junior year, Glenn Cole was chosen for a covetedAward for Distinguished Teaching and a national Wieden+Kennedy Summer Internship. Glenn, a trackteaching award from the American Society of athlete, was particularly enthusiastic and hopeful aboutNewspaper Editors, also served as the chief having an opportunity to do even something small for theoperating o cer of the Media Studies Center at Nike brand.Columbia University. A few weeks into his internship, Glenn called me. Instead 2012 of excitement, I heard a dispirited voice. His gloom was hinged to the task he was assigned — writing very short Frog’s Newspaper bios for each of the many W+K employees. At the time, this Box Loophole project assignment looked like anything but genius to him. But as he began the work, he started to see it di erently. After the City of Eugene lost a lawsuit Glenn conducted interviews with every person in the against Frog, 13th Avenue’s notorious agency to learn enough to write something charming and joke book huckster, it tried to banish him clever about each in one or two sentences. By the end of on a technicality: He could only sell his the summer, he and his project were so well received that photocopied books with a permit, and Dan Wieden o ered him a job as a copywriter that would he couldn’t get a permit for the crowded begin the day his internship ended. sidewalks near the UO campus. Frog hired a lawyer who found a loophole on the Of course Glenn accepted the job — he was living every city’s books. Today, joke-book fans can buy advertising student’s dream. But what about his senior his works from a converted and totally year and graduation? legal newspaper box. Frog is just there to alert them to its existence. His Clark Honors College adviser, Francis Cogan, urged him to take time to nish his Honors College thesis, and as his thesis adviser, I also urged him to graduate. Francis brilliantly suggested that Glen choose a topic related to something he was doing. So Glenn Cole completed his work at the University of Oregon while working as a copywriter at Wieden+Kennedy. His thesis, “The Story of a Burned Out CPA, a Relentless Strategist, and a Few Lazy Muses (And How It All Relates to Advertising for the State of Oregon)” was published and now sits on the shelf in the Robert D. Clark Honors College.
Jenny Lesselbaum UO Launches a Homepage Yes, the UO was connected to the internet in the mid-1990s. People used it for e-mail, usenet groups, Gopher searching, and not much else. The rst UO homepage was created in 1994 by David Meyer, former director of the UO Advanced Network Technology Center. The image to the right shows a screenshot of the homepage from July 6, 1997. ALUMNI MEMORY Edwin L. Artzt Predicts the Internet’s Consequences for Mark H. Massé, MS ’ the Ad Industry In 1992, I headed to Oregon from Cleveland to Edwin Artzt, BS ’51, CEO of Procter & Gamble, delivered reinvent myself as a writer and evolved human a speech at the annual 4As conference on the future of being on the cusp of 40. In my early days in this advertising. His legendary and prescient speech, given new, misty green land, I made many discoveries. before the World Wide Web had gained any real notice, Among the rst things I learned was the way warned of a future where consumers would be in control people spoke, pronouncing their words in a and spurn advertising entirely unless the industry gave tongue foreign to a man raised on the East them a reason to pay attention. Coast and in the Midwest. What strange names: Tualatin, Willamette, Yachats. Yachats? What 1998 natural beauty. It’s hard to describe the awesome appeal of the environs without falling into Dan Wieden Launches Touch the crevice of clichés—Douglas r-lined peaks of Class Lecture Series shrouded in veils of rain, pristine wide-banked rivers, and a stunning coastline. Wieden+Kennedy co-founder Dan Wieden, BS ’67, known for coining the Nike tagline “Just Do It,” headlined the popular I soon discovered I wasn’t the only pioneer who UO Alumni Association’s Touch of Class lecture series. had journeyed along an Oregon Trail to a new life. The series featured several successful alumni speaking in My grad school chums included a former ABC-TV Portland venues. Wieden’s talk? “Ducks Just Do It.” Sports producer, veteran newspaper reporters, accomplished communications professionals, and aspiring media moguls fresh from their undergrad days. I was the oldest of our group and perhaps taking the biggest risk. “What the hell are you doing in grad school?” a gru instructor asked me with a wink and a smile after class one day. After serving as an adjunct professor at SOJC from 1994 to 1996, I joined the faculty of the Department of Journalism at Ball State University. Now in my 20th year, I am a tenured full professor and director of the Journalism Writing Center. I have won a distinguished national writing award and published two books of literary journalism and two novels. I recently nished a third novel and am working on a long-term narrative non ction project pro ling Vietnam War veteran-authors. 1999
Photo courtesy Ann Maxwell Dean McDonald Takes Photo courtesy Ann Maxwell One for the (Ad) Team Always willing to do his part for the students, Dean Duncan McDonald gamely became a target for Associate Dean Greg Kerber, MA ’83, who hit his boss in the face with a pie in order to contribute to the SOJC’s National Student Advertising Competition Team. The fundraiser helped send the J-School’s ad team — dubbed the O beats of America — to the District XI conference, where they vied for the district title on the strength of their campaign to sell Dodge Neon autos to their peers. Young Adult Novelist Gayle Forman Graduates Forman, BA ’95, is the New York Times best-selling author of several young-adult novels, including If I Stay. She said she realized she wanted to be a journalist when she took Information Gathering — the mandatory J-School course, fondly remembered as “Info Hell,” that weeded out many less-dedicated students. Forman covered women’s issues and global social justice stories for national magazines, such as Cosmopolitan, The Nation, and Elle, for more than a decade before foraying into ction. 2015 First Doctoral Cohort Graduates There were only four students in the PhD program’s rst graduating cohort (left to right): Macy Guppy, Sally McMillan, Bill Kunz, and Raul Reis. Today, Guppy writes for the state of Oregon and owns her own PR agency; McMillan is a professor of advertising and PR at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Kunz is an associate professor at the University of Washington Tacoma; and Reis is dean of Florida International University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Photograph by Rama, Wikimedia Commons, Cc-by-sa-2.0-fr Tim Gleason Becomes Dean Gleason, who served as the inaugural Edwin L. Artzt Dean from 1997 through 2013, was honored as the Scripps Howard Journalism Administrator of the Year in 2013. After stepping down from the deanship in 2013, he returned to the SOJC faculty and is now teaching communication law, serving as the director of the Ancil Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism, and coordinating the SOJC’s 100th anniversary celebration. He is also the university’s faculty athletics representative. Apple II computer, originally released in 1977 Allen Hall Renovations Begin ALUMNI MEMORY The SOJC launched a major renovation of Allen Zanne Miller, MS ’ , MS ’ Hall in phases so it could keep the building in operation throughout. One of the rst Before I ever came to Oregon and the SOJC, phases created the Marcia Leonard Aaron Lauren Kessler left a voicemail on my answering Student Lounge in 1997, and the nal phase was machine in Philadelphia in 1995. She said, “I have completed in 2003. great news about a graduate teaching fellowship for you.” It was as the editor of Flash. I said yes, Scott Bedbury Receives UO Alumni Association’s having no idea how much a part of my life the Outstanding Young Alumnus Award SOJC would become. Bedbury, BS ’80, had already taken the ad world by storm by the time he accepted the Outstanding For the two years of my GTF, I worked closely Young Alumnus Award. Among his achievements were directing several legendary Nike campaigns, with Jennifer King and Dean Duncan McDonald. including “Just Do It” and “Bo Knows” (starring Bo Jackson), becoming senior vice president of My o ce was in “the Bullpen” (Allen Hall 309) marketing at Starbucks, and entering the American Advertising Federation’s Advertising Hall of Fame. with other graduate students, and on my desk was — no lie — an Apple II. Fortunately, Jennifer was willing to share her o ce and computer, so the Apple II was quickly retired. I spent countless hours in her o ce, in the Ballmer Lab, and at the UO press (which was still in the basement of Allen Hall for my rst year of school) getting each issue together. We still took black and white photos and had them developed at Gerlach’s on 13th. Alumni Notes came to us on paper through the U.S. mail.
Fight Club Published Palahniuk, BA ’85, was working as a diesel mechanic when he submitted his rst book, Invisible Monsters, for publication. When publishers rejected it because it was too disturbing, Palahniuk wrote Fight Club in an attempt to disturb them even more. The book ended up winning the Oregon Book Award and the Paci c Northwest Booksellers Association Award. Three years later, t was also made into a movie starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton that has since inspired a cult following. TV Studio Installed FACULTY MEMORY in Allen Hall John C. Mitchell, BS ’Made possible by a generous donation fromCarolyn Chambers, BA ’53, the studio became It sounded like a good idea at the time. The UOthe center for teaching a wide range of student- chapter of the Public Relations Student Societyproduced television news programs, including of America (PRSSA) would initiate a fundraiserUO News and Duck TV. by selling shot glasses to J-School students with the imprinted message “I Survived Info Hell” Roberta Conner Becomes along with a kicker to “drink responsibly.” Posters Director of Tamastslikt to promote the fundraiser were printed with the Cultural Institute headline “Give It Your Best Shot.” Conner, BS ’77, worked in Indian education and for the Unfortunately, the day before the fundraiser kicked o , a disturbed student opened re at U.S. Small Business Administration for 20 years before Thurston High School in Spring eld, which instantly became one of the biggest news stories returning to Pendleton, Oregon, to become director of ever in Lane County. The shot glasses would never see the light of day, and the fundraiser was the Tamastslikt Cultural Institute. At this interpretive scuttled before it even started. center for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla ALUMNI MEMORY2013 Indian Reservation, Conner focused on preserving the Robert Elder, BA ’ Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla cultures. I covered a talk Oliver Stone gave when he was promoting his book “A Child’s Night Dream.” He was interesting, thoughtful, and di cult. I remember him saying that there were limits to the First Amendment and that you should not be able to call for the destruction of another people, which I admired. Afterward, he didn’t want to answer any questions or pause for a portrait, but he did have time to irt openly with my girlfriend right in front of me, then misspelled her name in the book he was signing. Her name was Emily. Try to misspell Emily, I dare you.
photo courtesy Cassi Clark Charles Snowden Program for Excellence in Journalism Founded In memory of the life and career of Charles Snowden, a longtime editor at the Oregon Journal and The Oregonian, the Snowden family established an endowment for an internship program at the School of Journalism and Communication that has funded more than 200 internships for students over the past 18 years. In paid, 10-week placements, students work side by side with professionals, practicing the essential skills required to provide news and information to their communities. ALUMNI MEMORY Cassi Clark, BS ’ On the rst day of magazine writing with Jessica Maxwell, my energetic hero asked us to write on a piece of paper the things that were holding us back and the person who said we couldn’t. We put them in a large bowl and she lit them on re. That night our homework was to come up with three article ideas, acquire a fruit we’d never tried before and eat it in the shower, and then review the ideas. She helped me learn that I can be myself in my writing and how to shake o the cobwebs. Today, I like to roll down a large hill in Denver’s City Park to get the creativity owing. SOJC Summer Journalism Workshop Centers Around High School Students’ Coverage of the Thurston High School Shooting The high school journalists enrolled in the SOJC’s 1998 Summer Journalism Workshop had much on their minds when the program began in June 1998. Only three weeks earlier, a student had opened re at a local high school, injuring 25 of his classmates and killing 2. Loni Wilson, editor of Thurston High’s student newspaper, was present during the shooting. At the workshop, she explained to her fellow high school journalists why her paper’s sta had voted to focus on the community’s unity in the face of the tragedy rather than on the shooter.
SOJC Hall of Achievement EstablishedThe HOA began when members of the school’s JournalismAdvancement Council, led by longtime JAC memberMitchell “Mick” Scott, class of ’64, wanted to celebrate thehistory of the school and connect students with alumni andformer faculty. That rst year, the HOA inducted 14 diverseand distinguished alumni and faculty of the SOJC. Today,the Hall of Achievement has 73 members. Eric Allen Outstanding Tom Bivins Young Alumna Sheena Brady Graduates ALUMNI MEMORY Brady, BA ’99, launched her superstar trajectory Ann (Simmons) Smith, BA ’ as an Emmy Award-winning copy writer and creative director at Wieden+Kennedy As a journalism student, I was a word person and while working on such big-name accounts as did all I could to avoid numbers throughout my Starbucks, Nike, Careerbuilder.com, and Coca- college career. But I found myself in the throes Cola. Among her biggest successes were two of Econ 202 and was struggling. I was taking the Coke commercials that aired during the Super class pass/no pass but was starting to wonder if Bowl and a third that won a Silver Clio. I would indeed pass, since that requires at least a C grade. Worried and worked up, I went to my Eric Allen Award, 2013 adviser, Professor Bivins, to confess what was going on. I remember he looked right at me and Ancil Payne Award for said, “Take it graded.” A bit shocked, I said, “But Ethics in Journalism what if I get a D?” He responded, “Who cares. You Founded will have passed. The last thing you want is to get a no-pass and have to repeat the class.” I left hisEstablished by Seattle broadcasting legend o ce still feeling nervous but better. After all, aAncil Payne (1921-2004), the Ancil Payne Award professor had just told me it would be OK to get afor Ethics in Journalism celebrates the long D. I ended up nishing Econ 202 with a whoppingtradition of journalists and news organizations C-. It might as well have been an A+. I had neverserving the public interest by honoring them for been so happy. Thanks, Professor Bivins, forexceptionally principled behavior. Recipients are keeping me calm and helping me realize you can’tjournalists of integrity and character who report win all of life’s challenges. Sometimes it’s just aswith insight and clarity in the face of political or important to pass and keep moving forward!economic pressures.
TOWhen the turn of the millenniumbrought an era of disruption to thejournalism and communication elds, the SOJC rose decisivelyto the challenge. The schoolstarted its rst study-abroadprogram, Media in Ghana, to givestudents invaluable internationalexperience. It opened the GeorgeS. Turnbull Portland Center in thestate’s media capital to house thenew Strategic Communicationmaster’s and Portland SeniorExperience internship programs.And it launched the innovativeGateway to Media sequence toprepare students for the digitaljournalism revolution. All the while,students were creating their ownamazing legacies, from acclaimedad campaigns to Duck TV.
PR Professor James Van Leuven Joins the Faculty Van Leuven, BS ’64, MS ’66, returned to his alma mater to hold the school’s rst endowed professorship in public relations. While teaching in the J-School, he helped develop the Strategic Communication master’s program and launched the Portland Experience internship program, both based in the George S. Turnbull Portland Center. Before retiring in 2006, Van Leuven published a PR textbook and earned the Jonathan Marshall Award for Innovative Teaching. Robert K. Elder Graduates The second Eric Allen Outstanding Young Alumnus Award winner, Elder, BA ’00, made the transition from successful print journalist — including writing for the Chicago Tribune and other national publications and authoring several non ction books — to a pioneer in the burgeoning world of digital journalism. Elder founded the Web 2.0 company Odd Hours Media in 2009 and became director of digital product development and strategy for Crain Communications in 2015. Ad Campaign Class Promotes Eugene Celebration Eric Allen Award, 2010“Northwest of Normal,” one of the Eugene Celebration’s most enduring slogans, wasn’t the brainchildof a big-name advertising agency. Instead, it was proposed by a student team from an SOJC AdvertisingCampaigns class. Students Chris McDonald, BA ’00; Michael Bergland, BS ’00; Aaron May, BS ’00; andMarc Muramoto, BS ’00, came up with the tagline, which identi ed Eugene’s geography with a lifestyle. Willis S. Duniway Journalism Resource Room CompletedNamed for award-winning United Presscorrespondent and University of SouthernCalifornia News Bureau Chief Willis Duniway,BA ’32, the Duniway Journalism Resource Roomwas installed on the ground oor of Allen Hall’seast wing to house the school’s collectionof daily newspapers and journalism-relatedperiodicals as well as four student computers.In 2005, the SOJC Career Services o ce movedinto the Duniway Room and later added a careerservices resource area.
Bryce Zabel Becomes Chairman/CEO of the EmmysZabel, BA ’76, started out as a broadcast reporter and quickly moved up the ranks from local Eugenestations to jobs at CNN, PBS, and ABC. By the mid-1980s, a detour into TV scriptwriting launchedseveral successful series, including Dark Skies, Lois & Clark, The Crow, and M.A.N.T.I.S., as well as themovies Atlantis and Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. In 2001, Zabel became the rst writer/producer tolead the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences since his boyhood hero, Rod Serling. Jason George Graduates to the Front Lines The September 11 terrorist attacks didn’t dissuade George, BS ’01, from heading to the Middle East to cover the Iraq War as a freelance journalist. After returning stateside, George wrote for The New York Times and covered the 2008 elections for the Chicago Tribune. He has since become a screenwriter for the hit TV show Nashville. Brent Walth Named UOAA Outstanding Young AlumnusIn addition to his years of work at The Oregonian and his role on the team that won a Pulitzer Prize forthe investigative series on U.S. immigration, Walth, BS ’84, authored a highly acclaimed biography offormer Oregon governor Tom McCall. It was enough to earn Walth, now on the SOJC faculty, the UOAlumni Association’s top award for alumni under the age of 46. Everette Dennis Receives Distinguished Service Award Dennis, BS ’64 — former dean and the primary force behind curriculum reforms that reshaped journalism education across the nation—remains one of the world’s most respected experts on media studies. His far-reaching impact made2014 him a shoo-in for the UO’s Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes alumni who have “made a signi cant contribution to the culture and development of Oregon or society as a whole.” Richard Ward Executive-in-Residence Program Begins 2001Ward, BS ’77, a graduate of the business school and 30-year veteran of the advertising industry,gave a generous gift to bring an all-star advertising professional to the SOJC each year for a weekof student interaction, classes, and a keynote talk.
Lauren and Jon Carras Kyu Ho Youm Named Jonathan Marshall First ALUMNI MEMORY Amendment Chair Peter Jonathan ‘Jon’ Carras, BS ’ When Jonathan Marshall, MS ’62, established Eric Allen Award, the endowed First Amendment Chair position, he hoped the school would nd an outstanding I have the great fortune of working for CBS communicator and teacher was a strong Sunday Morning. Despite being a network news advocate for in democracy and the First program with excellent resources, as a producer, Amendment. Youm, a media law scholar who I still occasionally nd myself in locations where experienced limits to free speech in his native it’s too expensive or di cult to bring in a crew. South Korea, was an ideal candidate. In 2011, I traveled to Venice, Italy — with my wife Lauren by my side — to cover a couple of Reddy Squirrel Gives Smokey stories, but I had to shoot everything myself. For Bear Some Competition nine days, in 100 degree heat, for 14 hours a day, I carried a tripod, camera, backpack, and light When scientists determined that Smokey the Bear’s motto, around a city that, apart from a few water taxis, “Only you can prevent forest res,” was inconsistent requires walking everywhere. The experience with research showing res to be part of a healthy forest constantly reminded me of my time at the SOJC, ecosystem, SOJC Instructor Mark Blaine—then editor of hauling equipment across campus while thinking Forest magazine—came up with an updated message and about the editorial content of the story. The a new mascot. After the Associated Press picked up an lessons I learned as a student have served me editorial cartoon showing Smokey’s indignation at being well in my professional career. And that time in replaced, a debate ensued landing the Smokey campaign Italy made me re ect so fondly on everything the live on CNN, and Reddy went viral. journalism school taught me. Duck TV Launches Instructor Rebecca Force always encouraged her Electronic Media students to start their own shows. Jessica Cohoon, BS ’03, and Emily Booth, BA ’04, were the rst to successfully follow her advice. Originally launched as DUCK U with 13 crew members, Duck TV is now an award-winning, student-run public access television show that produces six 30-minute episodes each term with segments ranging from news and sports to comedy, drama, and other creative content. Ann Curry Receives UO Pioneer Award Curry, BA ’78, had been a news anchor for NBC News’ Today for six years and a contributing correspondent for Dateline NBC when the UO selected her for the Pioneer Award. Established in 1979, the award honors alumni who are agents of progress in business, philanthropy, communication, politics, and the arts.
Marcia Leonard Aaron Named UOAA Outstanding Young AlumnusAaron, BA ’86, was recognized by the UOAA for her work in education, including becoming the founding board chair of KIPP LA (Knowledge Is PowerProgram) and the nonpro t’s current executive director. She has also served on the Journalism Advancement Council, the UO Foundation Board of Trustees,and the UO College of Education Advancement Council.FPO Wieden’s Workshop Leads to Naked Ambition Advertising student Joe Leineweber, BA ’04, put all of himself into his school work when he streaked through a local golf course with “I am in no way a liated with the School of Journalism and Communication” written on his back. He committed the indecent (and illegal) exposure as part of an assignment for an SOJC workshop led by Wieden+Kennedy president Dan Wieden, BS ’67. Wieden said the assignment — and others like it — was intended to inspire students to overcome fears and nd creative alternatives. Leineweber made a documentary about the controversy that followed. Bill Ryan Publishes Fourth Edition of Graphic Communications TodayRyan restructured and revised the 1996 edition of this de nitive introductory graphic designtext, which was originally published in 1985 by Theodore Conover, former chair of the Universityof Nevada’s Journalism Department. Ryan’s updates included recent digital developments, newartwork, and sidebars with a range of new information. First Media in Ghana Cohort Heads to Africa Drawn by Ghana’s relative political stability, widespread use of English, growing media presence, and faculty resources at the University of Ghana, UO students began interning in the country in 2001 through Kansas University’s Summer Media Institute in Ghana. The third year, Professor Leslie Steeves — an expert in communications in sub-Saharan Africa — launched Media in Ghana, the SOJC’s rst study-abroad program for journalism students. In the 12 years since its inception, the program has taken more than 130 students to study and work in the developing nation.
Bob Thompson’s Gift Updates Electronic Media Technology Inspired by the opportunity to have his gift matched by a McCoy Foundation Challenge Grant, Fox Sports News President Bob Thompson, BS ’80, donated $50,000 to create the Robert L. Thompson Digital Conversion Initiative. The gift helped complete the conversion of all broadcasting equipment in the Chambers Electronic Media Center to digital format.FACULTY MEMORY Keith Allen Named Oregon Journalism Teacher of the Year Kim Sheehan Allen, BS ’80, thought he was playing a part in an assemblyMy rst year at the SOJC coincided with the when he walked on stage at Century High School in Hillsboro, rst Hall of Achievement ceremony in 1998, but Oregon, wearing a Michael Moore costume. Then Allen, who had been a journalism teacher at the school for 19 years,I didn’t attend my rst HOA until 2004. I found saw the representative from the Northwest Scholastic Pressout that the HOA ceremony is more than just an Association waiting for him. That day, Allen accepted theevening to honor exceptional communicators. It Mary Hartman Journalism Teacher of the Year Award fromis a time to re ect on the rich legacy of the SOJC the Oregon Journalism Education Association, created by anand to celebrate the accomplishments of our endowment from former SOJC professor Mary Hartman.graduates. The ceremony shines a spotlight onthe highest level of ethical professional practiceand deeply inspires our students. After everyceremony, at least one student is heard promisingthat he or she will return to be inducted somedayin the future. I have to say, though, that my bestHOA memory is when Sheena Brady, BA ’99, washonored as the Eric Allen Outstanding YoungAlumnus. Sheena was a senior during my rstyear at the SOJC, and seeing her receive theaward reminded me why I do what I do every day. AHA Hired for Governor’s Anti-Meth CampaignWhen Governor Ted Kulongoski and the Oregon Partnership needed advertising targeting18- to 22-year-olds, they went straight to the source: SOJC’s student-run ad agency, AllenHall Advertising (AHA). After months of research, including interviews with recovering methaddicts, AHA created a wildly successful campaign with the tagline “Meth Lies: You Decide.”Instead of divvying up their $20,000 payout, the team donated it to the newly created AnnMaxwell AHA Fund to provide scholarships to future AHA students.
Kevin Landers Wins Murrow AwardFor Landers (Landskroner), class of ’88, a general assignment reporter for WBNS-TV in Columbus,Ohio, 2005 was a very good year. In addition to a nomination for a regional Emmy, he won the RadioTelevision Digital News Association’s Edward R. Murrow Award for his story on Amber Alerts.Randy Shilts EntersNLGJA Hall of FameShilts’, BS ’77, groundbreaking work as the Eric Allen Award, 2015nation’s rst openly gay reporter guaranteedhim a posthumous spot in the inaugural classof the National Lesbian & Gay JournalistsAssociation Hall of Fame. Two SOJC students,Jackson Holtz, MS ’05, and Jessica Burns, MS’05, were on hand for the induction becausethey earned a trip to the NLGJA conference inChicago through the organization’s studentproject. Photographer and Activist Robert X. Fogarty Graduates1998 Fogarty, BS ’05, earned the 2015 Eric Allen Outstanding Young Alumnus Award by following his heart. He left an unful lling job to volunteer in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina — an experience that inspired him to found the nonpro t volunteer organization Evacuteer. His photography skills and innovative thinking put his company on the map with the viral Dear New Orleans and Dear World image-driven fundraising campaigns. Lokey Gift Names Portland Center after George S. TurnbullIn honor of his mentor and former Stanford professor, legendaryJ-School dean George S. Turnbull, Lorry I. Lokey donated $4.5million of the fortune he made from the news release serviceBusiness Wire to establish the SOJC’s George S. Turnbull PortlandCenter. Lokey has donated approximately $140 million to the UOover the past 25 years.
George S. Turnbull Portland Center Opens When the UO signed a lease to secure space in the historic White Stag Block in downtown Portland, the third oor became the Turnbull Center, a new home away from Eugene for the SOJC. Now housing the Agora Journalism Center, the Portland Senior Experience, the Strategic Communication and Multimedia Journalism master’s programs, and the Northwest Scholastic Press Association director, the Turnbull Center gives SOJC students a base in the state’s largest media market where they can connect with top professionals, get hands-on exposure to the latest thinking and technology, and learn from world-class faculty members.Al Stavitsky Portland Senior Experience Places ALUMNI MEMORY First Cohort Dan Asenlund, BA ’ One of the rst programs launched at the George S. Turnbull Portland Center was PDXSX, When I sat down in Allen Hall for my rst-ever a competitive internship program that pairs SOJC lecture — after having arrived from Sweden select senior journalism and communication just weeks earlier — I had no idea what to expect. students with partnering Portland businesses On the teacher’s desk was a CD player but no for their nal term. More than 60 percent of sign of a professor. Finally, Professor Al Stavitsky PDXSX interns have their internships extended walked in, greeted the class, and turned the CD or are immediately hired upon graduation. In player on. A rap song by Eminem blared from its 2011, Eric, BS ’80, and Betty Staniak, BS ’80, speakers while Stavitsky swiftly moved his body provided scholarship funding for deserving to the beat. I started wondering what the heck students in the program. I was doing there and how I had squandered a fortune in student loans. Boy, was I wrong. It soon Shannon Nelson, 2016 PDXSX cohort became clear why Al was playing this song for us — to start a discussion about the FCC. It was also Dana Wade Named UOAA 2014 clear that he was absolutely brilliant at relaxing Outstanding Young Alumnus tense bodies the rst day of class and that his unorthodox teaching methods, resembling those Wade, BA ’83 — the sixth SOJC graduate to win the Alumni of Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society, were Association’s prestigious award — began working her way equally brilliant. I soon learned such skills weren’t up the ladder as an advertising account executive in New unique to Stavitsky but were possessed by most York City before graduation. By 2002, she was president of the SOJC’s excellent faculty. Suddenly those of SpikeDDB, which she transformed into a premier urban piling-up student loans felt more like winning the agency within a few short years. lottery.
2016 NYC Creative Week trip Deborah Morrison Joins the Faculty Ad Students Go on First NYC Creative Week Trip Professor Morrison — a national leader in advertising education and creative talent In 2006, 17 students took the inaugural pilgrimage to New York City for Creative Week development — has helped start several with dreams of landing an advertising job or internship in the Big Apple. In 2016, 102 innovative programs in the decade she has students, faculty, and sta made the trek to Creative Week, where they visited 43 held the Carolyn Silva Chambers Distinguished advertising agencies, including alumni-run 72andSunny and Wieden+Kennedy. Professor of Advertising position, including the Epoch Project and Science and Memory. She is also a two-time winner of the SOJC Jonathan Marshall Award for Innovative Teaching.2012 Allen Hall Public Relations NVC Team SOJC and Lundquist College of Business Partner on New Venture Championship As a former J-School student, Tim Boyle, class of ’71, president and CEO of Columbia Sportswear, understood the importance of public relations and advertising to promote events. When Boyle established the New Venture Championship business plan competition for MBA students around the world, it only made sense for the UO Lundquist School of Business to partner with the SOJC’s student-run agency, Allen Hall Advertising to develop a media plan, advertising, and promotional events.
Andy Maser Graduates Maser, BA ’07, combined the storytelling skills he gained in the SOJC with his passion for the outdoors to become an Emmy- and Murrow Award-winning adventure lmmaker and photographer for OPB, National Geographic, the World Wildlife Fund, the Discovery Channel, and many others. Eric Allen Award, 2014 Twange Kasoma Graduates Jim Upshaw Wins Bliss Award Kasoma, PhD ’07, followed her late father Francis Kasoma’s footsteps to the SOJC, whereOne year after Upshaw retired as the SOJC’s she became one of the rst women from Zambia rst KEZI Distinguished Professor of Broadcast to earn a doctorate in communication. Now a journalism professor at Radford University inJournalism, the Association for Education in Virginia, Kasoma regularly returns to her homeJournalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) country for research related to her father’s workrecognized his contributions to the eld with on press freedom.the Edward L. Bliss Award for DistinguishedBroadcast Journalism Education. War Correspondent Cali Bagby GraduatesCali Bagby and Dan Morrison Bagby, BA ’08, was inspired by her photojournalism professor, former war photographer and SOJC Instructor Dan Morrison, to become an embedded journalist with an Oregon National Guard medevac unit based in Iraq. She produced multimedia reports of text, photos, and video for Eugene’s KVAL-TV during the 10 months she was stationed with the unit. When that tour ended, she accompanied Morrison to the Pakistani border to report on a U.S. monitoring team.
What Is? Conference LaunchesDirected by the SOJC’s Knight Chair in CommunicationResearch, Janet Wasko, the annual What Is? conferenceexplores a di erent topic each year. Since the Portland-based event’s inception, it has explored lm, radio,documentary, TV, journalism, and media. Gateway to Media Sequence Launches The SOJC’s innovative Gateway to Media program, a three-course sequence that immerses students in digital media, was one of the rst digital journalism programs in the nation to be mandatory for all students, regardless of area. Stubborn Twig Selected for Oregon Reads Program Eric Allen Award, 2009To celebrate Oregon’s 150th birthday, the Oregon Library Association began choosing one book Glenn Cole Wins Firsteach year for all Oregonians to read. The 2009 selection was Stubborn Twig by SOJC Professor Eric Allen AwardLauren Kessler, MS ’75. This award-winning book is a classic story of immigrants making theirway in a new land. It is a living work of social history that rings with the power of truth and the Cole, BA ’94, co-founder and chief creativedrama of ction, a moving saga about the challenges of becoming an American. o cer of advertising agency 72andSunny, was the rst winner of the Eric Allen Outstanding Young Alumnus Award. Every year since, the award has been presented to an outstanding SOJC alumnus under age 40.
TOEvery decade in the 100-year historyof the SOJC tells a compelling taleof growth, challenge, change, andsuccess. Far from its end, the school’sstory has picked up momentum inrecent years as it welcomes newprograms and record numbers offaculty and students. Allen Hall wastransformed and the Agora JournalismCenter opened. Innovative, award-winning programs like OR Magazineand Science & Memory were startedand our 13th dean, Juan-CarlosMolleda, took the helm. And to honorit all — where it began, how far it hascome, and the next century of ethics,action, and innovation — the SOJCclosed out the century with a yearlongcentennial celebration.
photo courtesy Alan Sylvestre PageTurners Launches James Wallace Chair in Journalism Peter Laufer founded PageTurners, a unique 2-credit spring-term class that engages students in a close reading of an intriguing new book and concludes with a master class taught by the work’s author. Guest authors, whose works are chosen for their use of diverse points of view and cultural experiences, have included Andrew Ervin, Thomas Christensen, Lisa Margonelli, Masha Gessen, Alex Tizon, and Debra Gwartney. Ed Madison OR Magazine Launches ALUMNI MEMORY Adobe acknowledged OR Magazine, an experimental digital publication produced by students in the SOJC, Alan Sylvestre, BA ’11 as the rst student-created digital magazine created for the iPad using the company’s Digital Publishing I guess every student has a professor who made Suite (DPS) software. Since then, OR has been a lasting impact on their life. For me, there were recognized by industry professionals at Adobe, Apple, two. Professors Dan Morrison and Ed Madison Conde Nast, Nike, Time Warner, Wired, Vimeo, and Vox spent countless hours working with me outside Media for its innovations. This award-winning student the classroom to develop my skills as a storyteller publication earned 15 Gold Circle Awards, a Gold and critical thinker. Both taught me that good Crown Award, and an SPJ Mark of Excellence Award storytelling doesn’t come in paragraphs, but in just three years. rather with brevity. In daily situations at work, where I serve as a videographer and video editor Latino Roots Project for wfmz.com, I constantly run into situations Is Established where I think to myself, “What would Dan do?” or, “What would Ed do?” They’re simply the best SOJC Associate Professor Gabriela Martinez and mentors I’ve had in my life, hands down. Professor Lynn Stephen from Anthropology and Ethnic Studies in collaboration with Anthropology ALUMNI MEMORY and the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies, introduced an interdisciplinary course for Bailey Koharchick, BA ’12 creating documentaries about Latinos and their life experiences in Oregon. This learning experience One of the best memories was setting up a brings together students and members of the Quidditch match next to the graveyard so we Latino community to tell signi cant personal could lm it for a Gateway class project. How stories covering topics of immigration, identity, Harry Potter does that sound? citizenship, labor, and more. It is also developing the rst digital repository for the history of Latinos in Oregon open to researchers, students, and the public.
Construction on Allen Hall Begins Again ALUMNI MEMORYThe SOJC moved to Agate Hall in summer 2011 when the latest round of renovations Elliott Kennedy, BA ’in Allen began. The $15 million remodel, intended to update the space to better re ectthe industry and how students learn, included a three-story addition featuring a sky-lit I lost my voice at the University of Oregon. Theatrium, energy and seismic upgrades, media galleries where students can display their overzealous dreamer compelled to guzzle andwork, a lecture hall, a hearth, and digital commons. regurgitate the written word? Gone. The day my father died, I literally became lost for words. Tom Brokaw Visits the SOJC Looking back, I feel foolish for rushing out of class that day. Gathering my things and bolting out the SOJC students and faculty got the chance to door, I had no idea what was coming. Knowing now interview broadcasting legend Tom Brokaw that the phone would ring seven minutes after I when he visited campus to narrate Aaron walked through the door, I wish I had slowed down. I Copland’s A Lincoln Portrait — an orchestral wish that short walk from Allen Hall to Onyx Street work he had been narrating at sites around had lasted forever. the nation — with the Eugene Symphony Orchestra. While he was in town, Brokaw also I lost my voice that day. But the School of Journalism gave a lecture titled “Voice of a Generation” and Communication gave it back to me. On the at the Hult Center. pages of Flux, I found a way to explore my newfound pain and relive the joy that only my dad could bring. I hope it comforted the readers who have felt lost, and encouraged those who have not, to be grateful for every moment. I am grateful to the SOJC. For three wonderful years and the critical dialogues that fostered my love of learning. For one terrible year, the wonderful friends and faculty who helped me stay a oat. For Flux. For the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who emailed me after reading my story. For the life I lead today as a working writer in Portland. My dad didn’t see me graduate or say, “Congratulations!” when I got my rst job. I wish I could share these moments with him. But since I can’t, all I can do is honor him by using my voice.
Mark Lewis TEDxUOregon Comes to Turnbull Portland Center ALUMNI MEMORY Carolyn Silva Chambers Distinguished Professor of Advertising Deborah Morrison organized this independent TED event. In addition to Morrison (center) and SOJC Instructor Mark Blaine Marcellina Giovannoni, BA ’ (far left), speakers included (left to right) Edward Boches, chief innovation o cer of Mullen// Boston; Warren Berger, journalist and author; and Dave Allen, director of digital insights for I worked on Ethos for almost a year and a half, NORTH Portland (and bassist for the band Gang of Four). and the long days and nights we spent together in the computer labs during production were Northwest Scholastic some of my favorite times. I learned so much Press Returns to SOJC about myself and my peers during those nights, and I will cherish the memories forever. Karla Kennedy was hired to lead this important high school outreach program when it returned There were a few professors that truly shaped to the SOJC after 20+ years. The NWSP and my time at the SOJC. To this day, Mark Lewis, SOJC co-host the annual Fall Press Day, where Dan Morrison, Pat Curtin, and Donna Davis middle and high school student journalists remain some of my favorite people. I would attend workshops and get to interact with go to them with anything and everything, and writers, university professors, advisors, and they were always there with encouragement, media professionals on campus. critiques, and advice — not to mention laughter. To them, I’ll be forever grateful. SOJC Launches Honors ProgramThe SOJC Honors Program is designed to give advanced students the opportunity to developanalytic, critical-thinking, and research skills in a small-group, discussion-oriented setting. Inaddition to their required major coursework, honors students take three honors courses and write athesis or create a documentary, magazine, campaign, or other professional-level piece of work. Ledby Professor Kim Sheehan, the program has graduated nearly 50 students in its rst four years.
Allen Hall 3.0 Grand Opening Rob McMichaelsAfter 18 months of construction, SOJC faculty, students, alumni, and friends ALUMNI MEMORYcame together on a sunny spring day in March to celebrate the o cial grandopening of the newly renovated Allen Hall with high praise and confetti. The Katherine Du Pont, BS ’word spectacular was heard more than a few times during the ribbon cutting. During my last term at the University of Oregon, Julianne H. Newton I was fortunate enough to have Rob McMichaels Named Interim for a News and Reporting class. The small, Edwin L. Artzt Dean intimate class o ered the opportunity for some of the best advice, critiques, and feedback that I Newton, who joined the SOJC faculty in fall received during my time at the UO. 2003 after 15 years of teaching at The University of Texas at Austin, is an award-winning Professor McMichaels didn’t believe in grades, scholar who has worked as a reporter, editor, as the work we did in his class and in the real photographer, and designer for newspapers, world would be what would advance us, not a magazines, and electronic media. When Tim GPA. By not having to worry about keeping up a Gleason stepped down after 16 years as dean, certain letter grade, I was able to focus on trying Newton accepted the role of interim dean and new things with video production, interviewing led the school through more than two years of subjects I was passionate about, and getting real, growth, change, and success. honest feedback about these trials. I left that class and the University of Oregon con dent in my ability to think critically, accept and analyze critiques, and enter the professional world with a better understanding of my skills and expertise. Professor McMichael’s course review was the last one I did as a student at the UO, and you can bet I signed my name to that one!
ALUMNI MEMORY UNESCO Institute Established at SOJC Christopher Hernandez, BA ’ SOJC Professor and James Wallace Chair in Anyone who was at the SOJC in 2008–10 Journalism Peter Laufer helped establish — and probably many who weren’t — has the United Nations Educational, Scienti c, heard of the dreaded J-202: Information and Cultural Organization Institute for Gathering class, a.k.a. “Info Hell.” For some Intercultural Dialogue and Con ict-Sensitive reason, I didn’t pass the class in time, so I Reporting, which hosts events, provides had to start over with a clean slate and a grants, publishes a journal, and sends an new SOJC curriculum. The new Gateway annual contingent of SOJC students and sequence’s hands-on approach was easier for faculty to World Press Freedom Day. me to understand compared to Info Hell’s traditional lecture method, but it would Tim Gleason Named delay my graduation by a year. Then again, Administrator if I had graduated as planned, I never would of the Year have been able to see Allen Hall’s renovation completed. In part because of the role he played in managing a 100 percent growth in enrollment I still proved myself worthy — and surprised at the SOJC and a $15 million renovation of a few professors along the way — by Allen Hall, Edwin L. Artzt Dean Gleason was graduating despite hitting a few bumps on recognized by the Scripps Howard Foundation the road, including struggling to use social as Journalism and Mass Communication media and other technologies as reporting Administrator of the Year. tools, trying to nd the perfect story to cover, and failing to get a grade higher than a C. J-School and Psychology I also struggled to get papers in on time to Department Explore ‘Psychic Agate Hall on the corner of campus where Numbing’ to News Stories the SOJC was temporarily housed. I guess I couldn’t know success until I met failure! SOJC Professor Scott Maier and psychology Professor Paul Slovic teamed up to win a $4,000 Savage Endowment ofALUMNI MEMORY International Relations and Peace grant for their study, “Overcoming Psychic Numbing: Creating Better Media Nicholas Smith, BA ’ Coverage of Mass Atrocity.” To determine the e ectiveness of media coverage of major tragedies, the duo analyzed I remember spending countless hours news stories and conducted psychological testing to working on Gateway projects in the Agate assess stories’ emotional e ects on readers. The results? Hall computer labs while Allen Hall was Personal storytelling and stories with photos elicited undergoing its renovation. Our GTFs and the strongest emotional — and therefore charitable — professors would spend their evening hours reactions, whereas “straight” news stories and statistics there to help us out. Dan Morrison would go elicited the weakest emotional responses. from computer station to computer station making sure everyone had their questions answered. With faculty and sta willing to go to such great lengths, it was di cult not to be successful. I credit them for the success I am enjoying today.
Big Little Man Is Published ALUMNI MEMORYSOJC Assistant Professor Alex Tizon ’84, a graduate Michaelle Stellavatoof the UO political science program who has won a BA ’ , MA ’06, PhD ’Pulitzer Prize and the 2000 UOAA Outstanding YoungAlumni award, documented his journey as an Asian- While nishing my MA in folklore, I took a VisualAmerican exploring the male identity in his memoir, Ethnography course with Dr. Julie Newton. In thisBig Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self. The book, class, I recorded the life story of a woman with awhich examines the cultural implications of belonging trauma- lled, but beautiful, life. The support andto a minority in modern America and the universal appreciation I received from Julie guided me tonotion of the search for your place in the world, took the SOJC, where I earned my PhD. Her eye forTizon three years to write and received the 2011 J. the visual and ability to embrace nontraditionalAnthony Lukas Book Prize Work-In-Progress Award. methodologies helped me stay focused on the things that were important and ignore the naysayers. I very much appreciated her support through some dark and challenging times that are the maze known as graduate school. Science & Memory Project Takes First Cohort of SOJC Students to AlaskaTo address the challenges of telling stories about climate change, SOJC students and faculty launched a three-year project on the CopperRiver Delta in Cordova, Alaska. This experiential learning opportunity brings students and scientists together to create credible, accessible,multimedia stories explaining climate-change research and how it a ects local communities.
Agora Journalism Center Opens The Agora Journalism Center, which launched at the George S. Turnbull Portland Center to be the gathering place for innovation in communication and civic engagement, strives to expand the resources, public outreach, and central mission of the UO and the SOJC. Andrew DeVigal, former multimedia editor at The New York Times, the SOJC’s rst Chair in Journalism Innovation and Civic Engagement, is one of the center’s outstanding resident faculty members.ALUMNI MEMORY Andrew DeVigal Carly Schoonhoven, BS ’ Deep Down Dark Is PublishedI will never forget the day I graduated, but notfor the reasons most college students do. What I After a mine near Copiapó, Chile, collapsed inremember most are clouds slowly creeping in and 2010, trapping 33 miners for a record-breakingrealizing that if it started to rain, there was no 69 days, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist andbackup plan. SOJC assistant professor Héctor Tobar received exclusive access to tell their stories. His book,Then it began. The heavens opened up, and it Deep Down Dark, was made into a major motionrained harder than any of us had seen in months. picture starring Antonio Banderas, and wasAmazingly, instead of running away from the rain a nalist for the National Book Critics Circletoward shelter, everyone was so committed to Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize.walking across that stage that we all just allowedour robes to get soaked through. We were all in Inaugural Facultyit together, and when the day was over and my Innovation Fellowsclothes were dry, all I could do was smile andlaugh. The SOJC and Agora Journalism Center seclected Donna Davis, Wes Pope, and Ed Madison, PhD ’12, as its inaugural cohort of Journalism Innovation Wes Pope and Civic Engagement Faculty Fellows. Each year, the fellowship funds faculty research that makes major contributions to the conversation around journalism, communications, democracy, and civic engagement in the digital age.
photo courtesy James Watkins Ad Team Takes Home National Title FACULTY MEMORYThe 2015 SOJC Ad Team’s campaign for Pizza Hut beat out more than 200 other collegiate teams to Ti any Gallicanotake the National Student Advertising Competition title. It was the rst time since 1988 that an SOJCAd Team brought home a national win. One of my big memories was discovering that two of my standout students, James Watkins, BA Regina Lawrence ’12, and Adrienne Webb, BA ’09 — whom I had Joins the SOJC introduced years ago through an information interview referral — had decided to tie the knot! When the SOJC was seeking an executive director who could lead both the George S. James was a student from a class I dubbed my Turnbull Portland Center and the new Agora “Superstar PR class” because every student in it Journalism Center, it found an ideal candidate was a star destined for great things. Adrienne, in Lawrence, a nationally recognized authority like James, aced my writing session program and on political communication, civic engagement, had such a great sense of professionalism in the gender and politics, and the role of media in classroom. She was wise beyond her years and public discourse about politics and policy. Her a joy to work with. I knew when I referred James latest book is Hillary Clinton’s Race for the White to Adrienne, who was an alumna, that she would House: Gender Politics and the Media on the be an incredible contact for him. But I never Campaign Trail. imagined it would lead to them dating and falling in love! I was overcome with happiness when they shared they were dating because they are both so dear to me. Two alumni I know so well as exceptional people had found each other! Adrienne and James both enjoy great success at public relations agencies now, and their classmates have also gone on to do great things.
Janet Wasko Receives Prestigious Media Research Award For her work studying media industries and companies from a political-economic perspective, Wasko was honored by the International Communication Association with the C. Edwin Baker Award for the Advancement of Scholarship on Media, Markets, and Democracy. Donna Davis Earns Ann Curry and SOJC students in 2016 National Science Foundation Grant Ann Curry Named Oregon History MakerAssistant Professor Davis’ $101,140 NSF grant tostudy the role of people with disabilities in the For her professional success in the journalisminnovation of online technology was the largest industry, the Oregon Historical Society awardedever to be awarded to an SOJC faculty member. Curry, BA ’78, with the Oregon History Maker medal. The honor is presented annually to individuals and organizations that positively shape Oregon’s history, culture, and landscape. Deb Morrison and Hector Tobar Win AEJMC Awards The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication honored Morrison with the 2015 AEJMC Advertising Division Distinguished Teaching Award, and Tobar won the AEJMC-Knudson Latin America Prize for his book Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free.Deb Morrison Hector Tobar
Damian Radcli e Named Carolyn S. Chambers Professor in JournalismRadcli e is the rst Carolyn S. Chambers Professorin Journalism (formerly the KEZI EndowedProfessor). He came to the SOJC with more thantwo decades of experience as a digital analyst,consultant, journalist, and researcher in the U.K.,Middle East, and United States. A lifelong digitalintrapaneur, Radcli e is also a regular contributorto a number of major media outlets, including theBBC, ZDNet, The Hu ngton Post, and MediaShift. Seth Lewis Becomes FACULTY MEMORY Shirley Papé Chair in Electronic Media Connie ChandlerIn his role as the inaugural Shirley Papé Chair in About 150 students enroll in my Principles ofElectronic Media, Lewis — a former journalist Public Relations class each term. With that manyturned educator — will teach courses and students, I often wonder: Am I reaching them,continue his award-winning research on digital- or are they thinking about their plans for theera journalism. weekend? Are they listening as I describe PR as relationship building rather than spinning bad Juan-Carlos Molleda news into good? Named Edwin L. Artzt Dean One day during the fall quarter, a student who played defense on the UO football team — and To kick o its second century, the SOJC whom I’d never talked to one-on-one — came welcomed Juan-Carlos Molleda as the new to me after class. In a gracious and genuine way, Edwin L. Artzt Dean. Molleda, who was most he invited me to be a guest coach and spend the recently chair of the Department of Public day with the team at an upcoming football game. Relations at the University of Florida, brings I’m a UO football fan, so I was thrilled! We got a to the SOJC his extensive international photo on the sidelines together when he came connections, experience with strategic planning, running o the eld to greet me as the team was and a commitment to experiential learning. warming up. That same day, Marcus Mariota happened to be on the sidelines, and I got a photo with him too. Even though the Mariota photo set the record for the most likes of any SOJC Instagram photo that fall, the special moment for me that day was not the photo with the Heisman Trophy winner, but the photo with the student athlete from my class, Torrodney Prevot, who demonstrated in a wonderfully memorable way that he understood a thing or two about relationship building as well as the game of football.
SOJC Celebrates Its CentennialDuring a year of special events, the SOJC looks back on a century of ethics, innovation,and action in journalism and communication while preparing for its next 100 years. Torecognize this milestone, the school highlighted its 100-year history with a digital timelineand a special centennial mark designed by alumnus and faculty member Steven Asbury,BS ’97. The yearlong celebration began in January with the SOJC’s Centennial Kickoparty, where students, faculty, alumni, and friends of the school got their rst glimpsesof Allen Hall’s full-story centennial window cling and an interactive gallery wall honoringSOJC students through the years. The celebration continues throughout 2016 with theCentennial Ruhl and lectures, followed by commencement of the SOJC’s 100th graduatingclass, and culminating in the Centennial Hall of Achievement Dinner. Through it all, weremember the remarkable people, historic events, and signi cant advances that haveestablished the UO School of Journalism and Communication as a leader in journalismeducation. And we look forward to the promising future that lies ahead.
CENTENNIAL CLASS OF 2016
APPENDICES A. SOJC Deans B. Hall of Achievement Inductees C. SOJC Pulitzer Prizes D. UO Pioneer Awards E. Journalism Advancement Council Members F. UO Outstanding Young Alumni Awards G. UO Thomas F. Herman Faculty Achievement Award H. UO Ersted Faculty Awards I. Jonathan Marshall Awards J. Outstanding Teaching by an Adjunct Awards K. Janice E. Rianda Outstanding Student Award L. Van Kimmel Bell Leadership Award M. William Gurney Outstanding Student Award N. Ruhl Lecturers O. Richard W. and Laurie Johnston Lecture P. Allen Memorial Lectures Q. Faculty R. Adjunct Faculty S. Staff
Appendix A: University of Oregon School of Journalism & Communication Deans All portraits by Roy Paul Nelson, except Newton and Molleda by Keith Van Norman 1916 Eric W. Allen Professor of Journalism 1944 George S. Turnbull Professor Emeritus of Journalism 1948 Cli ord Francis Weigle Professor of Journalism 1950 Gorden Sabine Professor of Journalism 1956 Charles T. Duncan Professor of Journalism 1962 John L. Hulteng Professor Emeritus of Journalism 1969 R, Max Wales Professor Emeritus of Advertising 1970 John W. Crawford Professor of Journalism 1975 John L. Hulteng Professor Emeritus of Journalism 1977 Galen R. Rarick Professor of Journalism 1981 Everette E. Dennis Professor of Journalism 1984 Karl J. Nestvold Professor Emeritus of Broadcasting 1985 Arnold Ismach Professor Emeritus of Journalism 1994 Duncan L. McDonald Professor Emeritus of Journalism 1997 Timothy W. Gleason Professor of Journalism 2013 Julianne H. Newton Professor of Visual Communication 2016 Juan-Carlos Molleda Professor of Public Relations
Appendix B: Hall of Achievement InducteesA. L. Alford, Jr., BS ’60 E. Palmer Hoyt, BA ’23 Mary Ann Dean Smith, BA ’63Eric Allen (faculty) John Hulteng (faculty) Dana Wade Smith, BA ’83Edwin L. Artzt, BS ’51 Arnold Ismach (faculty) Glenn Starlin (faculty)Rick Attig, BS ’83 Rich Jernstedt, BS ’69 Ann Halverson Sullivan, BA ’42Doug Bates, BS ’68 Richard W. Johnston, class of ’36 Wes Sullivan, BS ’43Scott Bedbury, BS ’80 Grace Edgington Jordan, BA ’16 Fred Taylor, BS ’51Don Belding, class of ’44 Helen Angell Kitchen, BA ’42 W.F.G. Thacher (faculty)Tim Boyle , BS ’92 (class of ’71) Alyce Rogers Long, BS ’40, MS ’63 George S. Turnbull (faculty)Paul Brainerd, BS ’70 Jonathan Marshall, MS ’62 James N. Wallace, BS ’50Buck Buchwach, BS ’42 Tom McCall, BA ’36 Brent Walth, BS ’84Joann Green Byrd, BS ’65 Lucile McDonald, class of ’23 George Weber, BS ’31 (class of ’29)Stephen J. Cannell, BS ’64 Duncan McDonald (faculty) MS ‘72 Dan Wieden. BS ’67Roberta ‘Bobbie’ Conner, BS ’77 Ken Metzler, BS ’56 Jack Williams, BS ’68John Conrad , BS ’67 Steve Neal, BS ’71 Willis L. “Bill” Winter MS ’58Ann Curry, BA ’78 Lyle Nelson, BA ’42 Milly Wohler , BS ’43Madeline DeFrees , MA ’51 Roy Paul Nelson, BS ’47, MS ’55 Laurie Woolley, BA ’36Everette E. Dennis, BS ’64 Richard Neuberger, class of ’35 Mark Zusman, MA ’78Charles Duncan (faculty) Patricia O’Brien, BS ’66Harris Ellsworth, BS ’22 Steve O’Leary, BS ’69 SOJC Eric AllenMichael Fancher, BA ‘68 George Pasero, BS ’40 Outstanding Young AlumnusRoger Fidler, class of ’66 Herbert Butler Powell , BS’27Gayle Forman, BA ’95 Warren Price (faculty) Kari Boiler, BA ’93Eleanor A. Forrester , class of ’37 Dean Rea (faculty) Sheena Brady, BA ’99Robert Frazier, BA ’48 Robert S. Reed, BS ’49 Peter Jonathan ’Jon’ Carras, BS ’02Harry Glickman, BA ’48 Charles Royer, BS ’66 Glenn Cole, BA ’94Alfred T. Goodwin, BA ’47, JD ’51 Phil Semas, class of ’67 Robert K. Elder, BA ’00Ted Hallock, BS ’48 Randy Shilts, BS ’77 Robert X. Fogarty, BS ’05Ernest Haycox, BA ’23 Robert H. Short, BS ’50 Andy Maser, BA ’07Appendix C: SOJC Pulitzer Prizes Appendix D: UO Pioneer AwardsByron Acohido, BS ’77 — 1997 BEAT REPORTINGRick Attig, BS ’83, and Doug Bates, BS ’68 — 2001 PUBLIC SERVICE and 2006 EDITORIAL WRITING 1996 Ed Artzt, BS ’51Nora Simon, BA ’11 — 2014 EDITORIAL WRITING 1999 Dan Wieden, BS ’67Steve Dykes, BS ’82 — 1993 SPOT NEWS REPORTING, 1995 SPOT NEWS REPORTING, 2003 Ann Curry, BA ’78 2011 Pat Kilkenny, class of ’74 and 2000 BREAKING NEWS REPORTING 2016 Harry Glickman, BA ’48Ted Natt, BS ’63 — 1981 LOCAL GENERAL SPOT NEWS REPORTINGMichael Richmond, BS ’62 — 1979 LOCAL GENERAL SPOT NEWS REPORTINGKaren Stallwood, BA ’86 — 1994 INTERNATIONAL REPORTINGAlex Tizon ’84, assistant professor — 1997 INVESTIGATIVE REPORTINGHéctor Tobar, assistant professor — 1993 SPOT NEWS REPORTINGDrex Heikes, BS ’75 — 1993 SPOT NEWS REPORTINGBrent Walth, BS ’84, assistant professor — 2001 PUBLIC SERVICE
Appendix E: Journalism Advancement Council MembersThe Journalism Advancement Council provides advice and support for the SOJC. Members of the council are professionals who o er their perspectives in an e ort to continually improve the school. The council also provides the dean,faculty, and students with a pipeline to the workplace that many students will be entering. The council works closely with the dean and director of development providing counsel regarding mission, goals, and strategic planning, andassists with e orts to obtain nancial support to enrich the student experience. Central to the role of the council members is to advocate for the school and help strengthen the school’s relationships with its various constituencies.Aaron, Marcia, BA ’86 (1998-2009*) Holland, Erin, BS ’89 (2009-2010)Alford, Butch, BS ’60 (1993-2009*) Johnson, Anita, BS ’53 (1989-2001)Allport, Julie, BA ’76 (1995-1996) Lamadrid, Carlos, BS ’86 (2005-2012)Anderson, Jon (2016-present) Levis, Anne Marie, MBA ’96 (2014-present)Anderson, Les, BS ‘46 (1998-2000) Lucas, Bob, BS ’36 (1984-1985)Ballmer, Connie, BS ’84 (1993-1994) Mainwaring, Bill, BS ’57 (1993-2009)Bass, Steve (2013-present) McCoy, Craig (2001-2005)Beck, Alan (2007-2009) McHolick, Joyce, MS ’69 (1993-1995)Bedbury, Scott, BS ’80 (2009-present) Miller, Barbara S., BA ’42 (1993-2003)Bladine, Phil, BA ’40 (1984-1990) Natt, Ted, BS ’63 (1993-1998)Blangiardi, Barbara, BS ’79 (2016-present) Nelson, Esther, BA ’63 (1998-2007)Boiler, Kari, BA ’93 (2016-present) O’Leary, Steve, BS ’69 (1993-present )Bottomly, Therese, BA ’83 (2013-present) Patterson, Pat (1984-1987)Boyle, Tim, BS ‘92 (1995-1999) Payne, Ancil, Class of ‘44 (1993-2004)Buel, Merrie, BS ‘63 (1984-1989) Pensiero, Jim, BA ’75 (2016-present )Caldwell, Robert, BS ’71 (2005-2011*) Peterson, Anna, BS ’84 (1993-1994)Cappelli, Bruce, BS ’76 (1993-2006) Reames, Scott, BA ’89 (2015-present )Capps, Gary, BS ‘58 (1984-1987) Rianda, Dave, BA ’60 (1993-2007)Carlson, Joanne, BA ’50 (1984-1989) Rosen, Neal, BS ’74 (1998-present )Chambers, Carolyn, BA ’53 (1993-2007) Ryder, Steve (1993-2006)Chambers, Scott, BS ‘82 (2013-2016) Scott, Mick, Class of ’64 (1993-2001)Clevenger, Tim, BS ‘93 (2006-present) Smith, Steve, BS ’73 (2002-2010)Costa, John (2009-present) Smullin, Patsy (1993-2009*)Dixon, Julie (2009-present) Sorensen, Diane, BA ’75 (1998-2007)Doctor, Ken, MA ’79 (2013-present) Staniak, Betty, BS ’80 (2013-present)Drachkovitch, Stephanie, BA ’80 (1993-2005) Sterling, Don (1985-1990)duBrowa, Corey, BA ’88 (2013-present) Sullivan, Wes, BS ’43 (1993-2007)Erb, Brian, BS ’85 (2006-present ) Taylor, Fred, BS ’51 (1993-2000)Fancher, Mike, BA ’68 (2003-2009*) Timmerman, Gayle, BA ’69 (2009-present)Fidler, Roger, Class of ’66 (1993-1998) Vogel, Nicole (2011-2014)Forrester, Bud (1993-1998) Wade, Dana, BA ’83 (2005-2012)Gard, Brian (2009-2012) Wallace, Jim, BS ’50 (1997,-2004)Glickman. Harry, BA ’48 (1984-1990) Ward, Richard, BS ‘77 (2001-2009*)Hall, Mary S., BS ’61 (1995-1996) Wilt, Don, BS ’70 (1993-2007)Hamilton, Judy Wren, BA ’75 (1993-1998) Wong, Tracy, BA ’81 (2013-present )Hancock, Shirley, BS ’80 (2014-present) Zusman, Mark, MA ’78 (1993-present)Heikes, Drex, BS ’75 (2009-2010)
Appendix F: Appendix I: Appendix J:UO Outstanding Jonathan Marshall Awards Outstanding Teaching by anYoung Alumni Awards Adjunct Awards The Jonathan Marshall Award for Innovative Teaching in JournalismMarcia Leonard Aaron, BA ’86 This award is chosen by a panel of SOJC emeritus faculty members andAnn Curry, BA ’78 and Communication is given annually to professors who help students recognizes those professionals who not only make a di erence in theirScott Bedbury, BS ’80 professional lives but in our classrooms.Randy Shilts, ’77 gain new insight and strengthen their professional skills. The awardAlex Tizon, BS ’84 (faculty) 2016 Todd MilbournDana Wade, BA ’83 was established by Jonathan Marshall, MS ’62, and his wife Maxine. 2015 Kathryn ThierBrent Walth, BA ’84 2014 Mike Thoele 2016 Lisa Heyamoto 2013 Mark LewisAppendix G: 2015 Scott Maier 2012 Leonard HendersonUO Thomas F. Herman Faculty 2014 Torsten Kjellstrand 2011 John MitchellAchievement Award 2013 Ti any Gallicano 2010 Melissa Hart 2012 Tom Bivins 2009 Michael WernerThe Thomas F. Herman Faculty Achievement Award for Distinguished 2011 Rebecca Force 2008 Rebecca ForceTeaching honors senior faculty members who have achieved 2010 Kim Sheehan 2007 Dan Morrisonoutstanding records as teachers. The Herman Award is presented only 2009 Deb Morrison 2006 Dean Reato faculty members who have held academic rank at the University 2008 Deb Morrison 2005 Kelli Matthewsof Oregon for at least seven years, have demonstrated long-standing 2007 Tom Hagley 2004 Brett Campbellexcellence in teaching, and have contributed signi cantly to student 2006 Jim Van Leuven 2003 Rebecca Forcelearning at the undergraduate or graduate level. 2005 Kathy Campbell 2004 Julianne Newton1987 Willis Winter 2003 Jim Upshaw 2002 Dave KorandaAppendix H: 2001 Kim SheehanUO Ersted Faculty Awards 2000 Kellee Weinhold 1999 John RussialThe late Mr. A.J. Ersted established the Ersted Award for Distinguished 1998 Tom BivinsTeaching so the University of Oregon could annually honor faculty 1997 Debra Merskinmembers who have taught comparatively short periods and have 1996 Carl Bybeedemonstrated early career excellence. The Ersted Award is presented 1995 Roger Laveryonly to faculty who are early in their teaching careers, and who have 1994 Al Stavitskytaught at the University of Oregon for at least two years. This teaching 1993 Tom Wheelermay occur at the undergraduate or graduate level. 1992 Ann Maxwell 1991 Bill Ryan 1990 Tim Gleason1995 Alan G. Stavitsky1992 William Ryan1988 Stephen Ponder1982 Duncan McDonald1961 John L. Hulteng
Appendix K: Janice E. Rianda Outstanding Student Awards (formerly the McKinney Outstanding Student Award)Originally the Hillsboro Argus Award in honor of Emma C. McKinney, this award was established in 1954 and renamed in 2015 in honor of the late Janice Rianda, SOJC class of 1961.This award is given to a graduating senior who exempli es the highest academic achievement and involvement.2016 Molly Patricia Marie Hover 1996 Paige Bills 1976 Anne Colleen Voegtlin2015 Veronika Hanson 1995 Alorie Gilbert 1975 Janet Norlin2014 Rabea Stueckemann 1994 Sarah Clark 1973 Cheryl Ann Beshears2013 Josephine Wollington 1993 Kristen Overall 1973 Roxann Lynn Miller2012 Rebecca Sedlak 1992 Karen T Ailor 1971 Patricia Leighton2011 Lorie Ann Acio 1991 M. Yoko Kuramoto 1970 Sheila Weston2010 Laura Johnson 1990 Kari Rose 1968 Jill L Campbell Mead2009 Amelia Wirts 1989 Shelley A Settles 1967 Susan Biart Avery2008 Deseree A leje 1988 Valerie Jeane Font 1966 Mary Ellen Holly2007 Cassie DeFillipo 1987 Ellen Schlotter 1965 Thora Mae Williams2006 Margaret McGladrey 1986 Carla Huckins 1964 Linda C Brown2005 Laura Bishow 1985 Mary Appel 19632004 Kendall Larson 1984 Julie Melander 1962 Linda R Williams2004 Andrea Bloom 1983 Vickie Nesbitt 1961 Jacqueline La Due2003 Ana Haase-Reed 1983 Therese Bottomly 1960 Patricia Treece2002 Katherine Mayer 1982 Christine Kendrick 1959 Barbara Ann Stepper2001 Reilly M Dunne 1981 Julie Kennedy 1958 Catherine Mundor2000 Laura Lucas 1980 Barbara Ann Metzler 1957 Marcia C Mauney1999 Kaarin Knudson 1979 Leslie Elayne Clevenger 1956 Anne Hill1998 Marcia Veach 1978 Patricia Ann Jeremia 1955 Jacqueline Wardell Rice1997 Pamela Mitchelmore 1977 Helen Kathleen Kraft 1954 Elsie May SchillerAppendix L: Van Kimmel Bell Leadership AwardsPhyllis Van Kimmell Bell attended the UO from 1926-29. In 1929 she starred in Ed’s Coed, which is believed to be the rst feature lm about student life. In 1998, her family established this award in her honor. Ms. Bell died on March2d of this year. The award acknowledges outstanding student achievement and leadership in the School. The award recognizes demonstrated leadership and involvement beyond academic achievement in the School, willingness totake on challenges, concern for others and an ability to work with students, faculty, and the greater University community.2016 Courtney Anne Mains 2010 Whitney Mountain 2004 Joel Fischer2015 Casey Minter 2009 Suzie Giacommelli 2003 Hillary McClintick2014 Alan Sylvestre 2008 Rebecca Purice 2004 Kevin Gri th2013 Ellie Boggs 2008 Andrea Schneider 2005 Oscar Arana2012 Anais Keenon 2007 Claire LaPoma 2006 Je Stephens2011 Lea Artz 2006 Catherine Ryan 1999 Taryn Tarver
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