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1950-59Updated: 05 May 2008. Now a news consultant for the Kansas Press Association, Tom Eblen, BJ '58, retired in 2001 as general manager and news adviser of the daily student newspaper at the University of Kansas. He spent 19 years at the Kansas City Star and served as city editor and managing editor. He speaks on newspapers for the Kansas Humanities Council and serves as president of the William Allen White Community Partnership in Emporia, Kan., which supports the White house as a Kansas Historic Site. Eblen lives in Lawrence, Kan. Added: May 5, 2008Bill Brantley, AgJ '57, MA '58 (CAFNR), is a semi-retired financial services consultant in West Des Moines, Iowa. Added: March 31, 2008 Leo G. (Jerry) Piper, BJ '53, is retired and living in DeKalb, Ill., after a successful newspaper career where he published 10 weekly newspapers, including one in his hometown of Byron, Ill. In 1971, Piper moved to the Chicago suburbs to work for weekly newspapers, first with Paddock Publications and then with Countryside Newspapers in Barrington, Ill. He served as president of the Illinois Press Association in 1986 and retired from the Pioneer Press in Wilmette, Ill., in 1993. Added: March 31, 2008 Mert Proctor, BJ '52, retired from newspapering in 1990 after 32 years with European Stars and Stripes. He is now working part-time with Northrop Grumman BCTP headquartered at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan. Proctor lives in San Antonio. Added: March 31, 2008 Bess (George) Mitchell, BJ '59, spent her career in political communications. She specialized in speechwriting and working with print and broadcast media during legislative sessions, campaigns and fundraisers in Texas. Added: March 20, 2008 Joe Pollack, BJ '52, and his wife, Ann Lemons Pollack, are publishing www.stlouiseats.typepad.com, a blog that expands on their St. Louis restaurant books and includes stories about travel, wine and other things. Pollack, a long-time critic and columnist with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, also is the film and theater critic for NPR Radio affiliate KWMU-FM. He will be inducted into the print division of the St. Louis Media Hall of Fame on June 7. Pollack is a member of the third class to be voted into the Hall of Fame, which was formed in 2006. Updated: March 19, 2008 Bob Markus, BJ '55, retired to Florida in 1996 after 36 years as sports writer and columnist for Chicago Tribune. During that time, he won numerous awards, including the National Headliner best sports writer award in 1973. In 2007, Markus and his wife, Leslie, also a journalist, sailed around the world on the Queen Elizabeth 2 cruise ship. Added: March 19, 2008 Sam Brownstein, BJ '52, MA '55, retired in 1982 after selling his radio sales representation company, which was headquartered in New York City. He then bought radio station WWCO in Waterbury, Conn., in 1984 as a turnaround and sold it successfully in 1988. Since 1994, Brownstein and his wife, Marilyn, have been splitting their time between Connecticut and Albuquerque, N.M. Added: March 19, 2008 David Lipman, BJ '53, has been named the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient by the Missouri Professional Communicators, in affiliation with the National Federation of Press Women. Lipman, a 1989 Missouri Honor Medal recipient, is a former managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He was president of the Missouri Press Association in 1997 and inducted into the Missouri Newspaper Hall of Fame in 2002. Lipman will receive the award April 12 in St. Louis. Added: March 14, 2008 Irene Brown Stapleton, BJ '57, BA '57, is the author of Such is Life in the Ozarks, a book detailing her mother's life and her family's experiences from 1897 to 1990 in the small town of Houston, Mo. Added: March 5, 2008 Karl Yehle, BJ '59, lives in Overland Park, Kan. He was president and creative director of Smith & Yehle Advertising agency for 30 years. Yehle then was in higher education as an adjunct professor and staff member, and he spoke to various advertising and marketing clubs throughout the United States. Today, he provides marketing and advertising consultation to a few companies. Added: Feb. 19, 2008 Omer Dye, Ag-J '52, is the owner of Niche Advertising/Marketing in Omaha, Neb. He began his career as the farm editor of Rural Electric Missourian and then worked for 13 years as product group advertising manager for Ralston Purina in St. Louis and Washington, D.C. Prior to owning Niche Advertising/Marketing, Dye was senior vice president of Bozell & Jacobs advertising agency for 22 years. At Bozell, he was a team leader in creating "The Other White Meat" campaign for the pork industry and served on a five-person task force to develop the name and logo for ConAgra (previously Nebraska Consolidated Mills). He has been married to Thaleta Jane Ralls, BS '51, since 1948. They have three adult children, six grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. Added: Feb. 14, 2008 Tom Schultz, BJ '56, is the former executive director of the MU Alumni Association and development director for Intercollegiate Athletics. He is retired and working part time in external relations for the MU development office. Added: Feb. 14, 2008 Jim Overbay, BJ '59, is retired and living in Leawood, Kan. Previously, he was news manager for Meredith Broadcasting's 12 television stations, news director at KCTV in Kansas City, Mo., and assistant news director/assignment editor/reporter at KMBC-TV in Kansas City. Added: Jan. 24, 2008 Linda (Bradley) Overbay, BJ '59, is retired and living in Leawood, Kan. She had been a publications editor for Johnson County Community College. Added: Jan. 24, 2008 Robert Lewis, BJ '51, is a former retail and banking executive, having retired in 1987. Added: Jan. 17, 2008 Monte Safron, BJ '56, retired in 1994 after many years in the furniture industry. Prior to graduating from the School, he was drafted and served two years in the infantry as a medic. After serving nine months in Korea, Safron returned to finish school, raise three children and complete his journalism and political science degrees. Following graduation, he wrote commercials for various companies, including one that required writing for Steve Allen's Tonight Show. Safron said he has lunch with and stays in touch with high school and college classmates every week. Added: Jan. 16, 2008 Lee C. Bright, MA '55, is twice retired and living in Florida. A large part of his career was as manager of internal communications and public relations for Eastern Air Lines in Miami, Fla. Bright retired in 1987 but then joined Third Generation Communications, Inc. as vice president for production, finally retiring in 1997. He also worked for five newspapers early in his career. Bright's wife of 47 years, Marcia, passed away Aug. 7, 2006. They have two children, and their son, Eric, owns an international kitchen installation company based in Hollywood, Fla. Added: Jan. 16, 2008 Loie (Schmick) Riehl, BJ '58, retired from a long teaching career that included English and journalism. She now volunteers as a docent at the St. Louis Holocaust Museum. Riehl has been married to John W. Riehl for nearly 42 years, and they have three grown children and seven grandchildren. They live in unincorporated St. Louis County. Added: Jan. 16, 2008 William Klink, BJ '57, retired to Camano Island, Wash., in 1991. Prior to that, he spent seven years in public relations with Rockwell and Westinghouse Hanford in Richland, Wash. For 23 years, he was a reporter, city editor and managing editor for the Tri-City Herald in Kennewick, Wash. He also worked three years for the Freeport (Ill.) Journal-Standard daily newspaper and another three years as a publications writer for the Command and General Staff Army College in Ft. Leavenworth, Kan. A native of Sedalia, Mo., Klink attended the University of Missouri from 1947-1951 and 1955-1957, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Education in June 1956 and a Bachelor of Journalism in February 1957. Added: Dec. 14, 2007 Bob Schultheis, BJ '50, is retired and living in Florida with his wife, Janet. Schultheis is a former printing company owner and sales representative for book manufacturers. Added: Oct. 19, 2007 Donald Allendorf, BJ '56, is the author of Long Road to Liberty, The Odyssey of a German Regiment in the Yankee Army: The 15th Missouri Volunteer Infantry. He spent 40 years in communications and journalism and was the director of marketing communications and research at the Gates Corporation in Denver, Colo. He now lives in Colorado and Missouri. Added: Aug. 17, 2007 Edward Farber, BJ '54, MA '70, shared the following memory from his days at the Missouri School of Journalism: "I returned to MU in 1956 to work on my master's degree after a two-year stint in the Air Force. That year, 1956-57, I worked at KBIA* as a disc jockey. The station then was a privately-owned sundowner. I had a request show called 'Anything Goes,' which aired during Stephens College's siesta time, 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. My fellow disc jockeys dubbed me "Blacky" Farber because I had been blacklisted at Stephens College (I was innocent, honest). I sometimes listen to KBIA now on the Internet and marvel at what it is today compared to what it was then back then." Added: June 21, 2007
*The original KBIA was eventually sold and assigned different call letters. KBIA as it exists today began broadcasting in 1972 as a training lab for Missouri Journalism students.
David Alter, BJ '50, has published Intrepidations & Funny Business, a semi-autobiographical account of his life told in 65 short stories as he and his wife of 52 years trek back in time to his childhood home in East Nassau, N.Y. Added: March 2, 2007 Glen Kleine, MA '59, is a 2007 inductee to the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame. Kleine is the founder of Eastern Kentucky University's journalism program. He taught elective journalism courses at EKU's Department of English in the 1960s and developed the curriculum into a journalism major. Kleine eventually founded and chaired the Department of Mass Communications. He later served as dean of EKU's College of Applied Arts & Technology. Added: Feb. 15, 2007 Marjorie (Pollock) Bridges, BJ '54, is now retired in California following a diverse career: nine years as a reporter, eight years as an employment counselor, six years in office administration, five years editing journals and two years teaching. Bridges devotes much of her time to promoting the nonprofit Funeral Consumers Alliance on the local, state and national levels. In her spare time, she researches genealogy, travels internationally and keeps track of her four children and four grandchildren. Her husband, Ed Bridges, BS Ed. '54, is a professor emeritus at Stanford University but continues to write books. Added: Feb. 13, 2007 Kent Leach, BJ '57, died Oct. 27, 2006, in Scottsdale, Ariz. He had worked as an editor and publisher. He was 74. Added: Jan. 19, 2007 James E. Briscoe, BJ '51, is a retired advertising executive and lives is Palmyra, Mo. Added: Jan. 19, 2007 Doris Pierce, BJ '54, died Nov. 27, 2006 after a prolonged illness. She lived in Prospect, Ill. Added: Jan. 19, 2007 Louis E. Ingelhart, PhD '53, known as the "Godfather of College Publications," died Jan. 7 in Muncie, Ind. Ingelhart was a professor emeritus and former director of student publications at Ball State University, where he guided the creation of its journalism department and served as its first chairman from 1968 to 1979. A native of Grand Junction, Colo., Ingelhart also was a well-known authority on the First Amendment. He helped create the Student Press Law Center in Washington, D.C., in 1981 and served on its national executive board. He was inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame in April 1982, and the Ball State Journalism Hall of Fame in 1985. Added: Jan. 8, 2007 Orville I. Richolson, Jr., BJ '50, former publisher of the Newport (Ark.) Daily Independent, died May 1, 2006. Edna Steinman, BJ '53, was honored by the American Association of University Women (AAUW) Educational Foundation as its 2006 Named Gift Honoree. She received the honor at the AAUW state convention in San Jose, Calif., in April. Steinman is a 50-year member of the AAUW. Franklin Kay, BJ '56, is a sales consultant for BRG Appliances in Pensacola, Fla. He founded Kay's Kitchen & Bath Designs in Pensacola in 1975 and served as owner until 2004. During that time, Kay won numerous design awards including the National Kitchen & Bath Association contest's top designer in 1979. 
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