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Tammy Lechner, BJ '80, is the author of Our Team - Our Dream: A Cubs Fan's Journey Into Baseball's Greatest Romance. The book, a first-person narrative, presents a passionate explanation of the Cubs fan's faith through more than 300 striking and unique photographs. Lechner is a former Los Angeles Times staff photographer and photo editor. Added: May 9, 2008 Damon Romine, BJ '88, is the director of entertainment media at the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), the nation's largest advocacy group fighting for the fair, accurate and inclusive representation of gays and lesbians in the media. Added: May 9, 2008 Stephen L. Brundage, BJ '89, is a writer and photographer for Saudi Aramco in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He writes about the energy business and economic development issues for company publications, national newspapers and magazines. Added: May 8, 2008
William Holland, BJ '89, JD '92, is a litigation partner at Fox, Goldblatt & Singer, P.C. in St. Louis. In recent years, he was named a "Super Lawyer" by KC Magazine and an "Up & Coming Lawyer" by the Missouri Lawyer's Weekly. He also is a lifetime member of the Multimillion Dollar Advocates Forum. Holland and his wife, Julie (Hutcheson) Holland, BS Ed '88, live in Webster Groves, Mo., with their three children. Added: May 5, 2008 Beth Wiggins, BJ '88, is director of creative services and product management for STLtoday.com, the online division of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Added: May 5, 2008 Amy Minick Peterson, BJ '80, owns her own marketing consulting business, Minick Peterson LLC, after working for an advertising agency and a hospital system for more than 20 years. She said, "My Missouri J-School education has taken me far, and I proudly talk up Mizzou wherever I go. My husband just completed two terms as mayor of Indianapolis, so I have had some great experiences living in the political world and using my skills in a variety of ways." Added: May 5, 2008 Daniel Rosen, BJ '82, has written his first book, Dope: A History of Performance Enhancement in Sports from the Nineteenth Century to Today. It will be published by Praeger, an imprint of Greenwood Press, in June. Added: April 25, 2008 Steven Fainaru, BJ '84, a Washington Post correspondent, won a 2008 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his heavily reported series on private security contractors in Iraq that operate outside most of the laws governing American forces. His was one of six Pulitzer Prizes won by The Washington Post in 2008. [More] Added: April 8, 2008
Jennifer Borron Furla, BJ '83, BA '83, has been elected to the board of directors of the Giving USA Foundation, a national organization dedicated to advancing the research, education and public understanding of philanthropy throughout the United States. Furla is executive vice president of Kansas City-based Jeffrey Byrne & Associates, Inc., a nationally recognized fundraising firm that specializes in capital and endowment campaigns. As a senior member of the firm, she provides consulting services to nonprofits in Kansas City and across the nation, specializing in capital campaigns, strategic planning and planned giving. Previously, Furla was vice president and business development officer with Commerce Bank in Kansas City. Added: April 1, 2008 Dana (Piper) Saal, BJ '83, is an independent meeting professional who works with small associations to plan and execute their seminars and conventions. Her husband, Rich Saal, is photography editor at the State Journal-Register in Springfield, Ill., where they live with their twin teenage daughters. Added: March 19, 2008 Steve Wasserman, BJ '87, obtained one of Missouri's biggest defense verdicts of 2007, as reported in the Jan. 28, 2008, issue of Missouri Lawyers Weekly. Wasserman, a partner with the trial law firm of Williams Venker & Sanders LLC in St. Louis, defended a trauma surgeon and his surgery group in a medical malpractice/wrongful death lawsuit. The decedent, a 46-year-old husband and father of two teenage children, was injured in a car accident and admitted to a hospital where he came under the care of trauma surgeons employed by a surgery group. The family alleged the decedent's injuries, including a cardiac contusion, were not properly evaluated or treated, leading to his death as a result of arrhythmia. The plaintiff's last demand to settle was $1 million. However, the jury returned a verdict in favor of all defendants. Added: March 19, 2008 Ellie S. Grossman, BJ '86, is the first grand prize winner of a national writing contest for "In The Motherhood," a groundbreaking online comedy series, starring Leah Remini, Chelsea Handler and Jenny McCarthy. Grossman is a freelance writer and author of the weekly parenting humor column, "Mishegas of Motherhood," which is published in the St. Louis Jewish Light. Updated: March 3, 2008 Sonja Steptoe, BJ '82, BA '82, is now a client development manager, based in Los Angeles, for O'Melveny & Myers LLP. She develops and executes strategic communications initiatives for the global, values-driven law firm. Steptoe was formerly deputy news director for TIME Magazine. She also has been appointed to the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. Added: Feb. 26, 2008 Debbie (Urbanckas) Jemison, BJ '85, is vice president of communications and marketing for the Illinois Bankers Association based in Springfield, Ill. She has been with the association since 1999. Added: Feb. 25, 2008 Jill (Branson) Hammergren, BJ '88, is the media services manager for the North Carolina Agency for Public Telecommunications. Added: Feb. 19, 2008 Jay Anthony, MA '85, is a copy editor at the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, where he has worked since August 2003. He came to the Times after retiring from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was on the faculty of UNC's School of Journalism and Mass Communication for 16 years. Anthony started the graphic design program at UNC in 1988, which began with one course and grew to four courses, all of which he developed and taught. Previously, he has been on the faculties at MU, the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and the University of Rhode Island Department of Journalism. He also worked as a photo editor and page designer at the Providence (R.I.) Journal-Bulletin prior to teaching at UNC. Since moving to St. Petersburg, Anthony has been a visiting associate professor at the University of Tampa and an adjunct professor at the University of South Florida-St. Petersburg. His wife, Kate Newton Anthony, MA '91, is art director of the UNC General Alumni Association's magazine, Carolina Alumni Review. She assumed that post in Chapel Hill and now does it from Florida thanks to the wonders of the Internet, FedEx and UPS. Added: Feb. 14, 2008 Annie-Laurie Blair, BJ '82, BA '82, is a journalism instructor at Miami University of Ohio and a contributing editor at Cincy, a monthly business magazine based in Cincinnati. Added: Feb. 14, 2008 Dennis Marshall, BJ '80, has served as sales marketing manager for KPIX-TV (CBS) and KBCW-TV (CW) in San Francisco for the past 12 years. His work history also includes stints at KGBT-TV, Harlingen, Texas; KPLR-TV, St. Louis; WOAI-TV, San Antonio; and KOVR-TV, Sacramento, Calif. Added: Feb. 14, 2008 Kathryn (Schaefer) Morris, BJ '88, is the founder and president of KMorrisPR, a media relations consultancy that has been serving biotechnology, pharmaceutical, high technology and other firms since 1997. Added: Feb. 14, 2008 Linda (Plofsky) Schneider, BJ '83, is quality assurance/editing manager for techniques.org in Denver. Added: Feb. 14, 2008 Denise Mayer-Boyd, BJ '84, graduated in the 2007 class of the American Bankers Association Stonier Graduate School of Banking. She directs professional development at Boone County National Bank in Columbia, Mo. Added: Feb. 14, 2008
Donna (Billingsley) Miller, BJ '81, recently married David Miller. They live in Columbia, Mo., where she works for the Western Historical Manuscript Collection on the Mizzou campus. She also tutors Korean students in English. Added: Feb. 13, 2008 Spencer Crona, MA '81, is in his 19th year of law practice in Denver and is a senior associate with Wade Ash Woods Hill & Farley, practicing elder law and probate litigation. He periodically writes articles on legal issues for professional journals and newspapers, including The Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News, Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune. He lives in Denver with his wife, who is a senior assistant attorney in Adams County, Colo., and two dogs. Added: Feb. 13, 2008 In January 2008, Mark Goodman, BJ '82, became the first Knight Chair in Scholastic Journalism at the Kent State University School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Kent, Ohio. From 1985 to 2007, he was executive director of the Student Press Law Center in Arlington, Va. In 2007, Goodman received a First Amendment Award from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the Gerald M. Sass Award for Distinguished Service to Journalism and Mass Communication from the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Reid H. Montgomery Distinguished Service Award from College Media Advisers. Added: Feb. 13, 2008 Nancy (Melsheimer) Rudolph, BJ '80, is a freelance writer and creative communications manager at Maritz Motivation in St. Louis. Added: Jan. 24, 2008 Jeff Meyer, BJ '85, is a producer, editor and photographer in the commercial production department of WSET-TV, the ABC affiliate in Lynchburg, Va. Added: Jan. 17, 2008
Gary McDonald, MA '86, is the associate vice president for public affairs and communications at the University of San Francisco. He spends four-to-six weeks each year based at the university's Bangkok office. Previously, McDonald produced the 11 p.m. newscast at KPIX/CBS in San Francisco, and newscasts at KSDK and KTVI in St. Louis, and WBIR in Knoxville, Tenn. Added: Jan. 16, 2008 Sara Weaver, BJ '84, is the national sales manager for KPIX-TV, the CBS-owned station in the San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose area. Added: Jan. 16, 2008 John Blanton, BJ '85, is editor of the Personal Journal section of The Wall Street Journal in New York City. Added: Jan. 16, 2008 Clare (Michaels) Blando, BJ '82, is the communications coordinator for Directory Marketing, Inc. in Greenwood, Mo. DMI is a service bureau to the publishers of Yellow Pages that focuses on marketing directories to national advertisers. Updated: Jan. 16, 2008 Lamar Graham, BJ '87, has been named executive editor of Parade, the largest circulation magazine in the United States. Prior to his appointment, Graham was general manager of Parade Publications, a post he held since 2004. Before that, he spent three years as managing editor of Parade. He joined the company in 2000 as a contributing editor of technology. Graham has worked at GQ, Men's Journal and Rolling Stone, where he initiated an online edition of that magazine. Added: Dec. 19, 2007 Stacey Levine, BJ '82, lives in Seattle and is an in-house writer for Milliman, an international consulting and actuarial firm. She has published three books of literary fiction, and her first collection of short stories won a PEN/West fiction award. Her second novel, Frances Johnson, was a finalist for the 2005 Washington State Book Award. Updated: Dec. 18, 2007 Richard Koshner, BJ '84, is the senior director of Directbuy in Cincinnati. He has been with the company for 19 years in sales and marketing after working several years for newspapers in Missouri and Arkansas as a reporter and news photographer. Added: Dec. 14, 2007 Sandi (Orent) Strother, BJ '86, is a conference coordinator for the MU Conference Office. Updated: Dec. 14, 2007 Col. George Riebling, BJ '83, serves as chief of the operations and training division for NATO's Interim Deployable Combined Air Operations Center at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. Added: Dec. 14, 2007 John St. Clair, BJ '84, is the mayor of the City of Fairway, Kan., a suburb of Kansas City, Mo. He has served in that position since 2003. Before that, he served on the city council starting in 1999. Professionally, St. Clair works for Jefferson Wells, an international business consulting firm. He conducts projects related to business operations improvement, strategic planning and financial analysis. Added: Dec. 14, 2007
Randy Anglen, BJ '80, is a sole practitioner attorney in Branson, Mo. He has been elected the municipal judge in Hollister, Mo., for seven consecutive terms since 1993. Added: Dec. 13, 2007 Michael Infante, BJ '80, is the vice president of corporate communication for United Community Banks, Inc. in Blairsville, Ga. Added: Dec. 13, 2007
Katherine Buttler, BJ '88, and her husband, Dana James, welcomed their daughter, Riley Katherine, on March 26, 2007, in Atlanta, Ga. Buttler is a senior account director at Avenue A Razorfish. Added: Dec. 13, 2007 Julie (Mobley) Gustafson, BJ '88, is the president of Words That Work, a St. Louis-based public relations consulting firm. She is also the co-author of the nationally published travel book, Quick Escapes St. Louis - 25 Getaways from the Gateway City. Added: Dec. 13, 2007
Kevin Jones, BJ '88, is the chief operating officer for The St. Louis American. Added: Nov. 14, 2007 Joanie Lum, BJ '84, is a general assignment reporter for CBS 2 Chicago. She joined the station in October 2003 from WGN-TV, where she had worked since 1988. She lives in Chicago with her husband and two children. Added: Oct. 19, 2007
Abdur Rahim, MA '87, is a dissemination manager for the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research based in Bangladesh. Added: Oct. 11, 2007 Bobbie R. Bailey, BJ '81, is a partner at Howard, Rome, Martin & Ridley, LLP, in Redwood City, Calif. He is a trial lawyer practicing in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Seattle and Portland. Added: Sept. 11, 2007 Jill Bauer, BJ '89, is a program host for QVC, the world's largest electronic retailer. Added: Sept. 10, 2007 Scott Diener, BJ '87, was promoted to news director at KTVT-TV and KTXA-TV in Dallas in August. He joined the stations as assistant news director in June 2006 from KTVK-TV in Phoenix, where he was the news director for two years. He also has held news management positions in Louisville, Ky., San Francisco and Cincinnati. Diener has been honored with several industry awards, including an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award and a George Foster Peabody Award. Added: Sept. 7, 2007 Susan M. Mays, BJ '87, marketing and communications director for Denver-based CH2M HILL OMI, received the first-place award in the full-page category of the American Water Works Association Manufacturers/Associates Council's annual best in advertising awards competition. Updated: Aug. 28, 2007 Anne Hastings, BJ '83, is vice president of client relations for the San Francisco (Calif.) Giants. Added: July 24, 2007
Dave Murray, BJ '86, is the education writer at the Grand Rapids (Mich.) Press. Added: July 23, 2007 Mark Walker, BJ '85, is CEO of Spinrock Properties, a diversified commercial real estate investment company in San Antonio, Texas. Added: July 23, 2007
Mike Taylor, BJ '85, took first place in the magazine feature category in the annual Editorial Excellence Awards presented in June by the Alliance of Area Business Publications. Taylor is managing editor of ColoradoBiz magazine in Denver, Colo. His winning story examined mom-and-pop eateries and their efforts to compete with fast-food giants. Added: July 23, 2007 Carol Dampf Anderson, BJ '83, is a founding partner of Anderson Fallon Public Relations in Kansas City, Mo. Prior to founding Anderson Fallon, Carol was a partner and group practice leader at Fleishman-Hillard International Communications. Updated: July 23, 2007
Susan (Miller) Vollmer, BJ '83, is the author of a book published in May 2007 titled Legends, Leaders, Legacies. She also is the manager of contracts administration for UniGroup Worldwide UTS in St. Louis, Mo. Added: July 18, 2007
Marilyn Cummins, AgJ '80, is president of Cummins Consulting, a marketing communications and editorial services firm based in Columbia, Mo. She was on the MU faculty as the agricultural journalism coordinator from 2000-2004. Added: June 25, 2007 Sally (Brewer) Howell, BJ '84, has been named executive director of the Alabama Association of School Boards. In her role, Howell will manage the association's affairs, direct legislative efforts, expand learning opportunities for Alabama's school boards and build public support. She joined the AASB staff in 1986 and has held several positions, including director of public relations, director of communications, director of research and special projects and assistant executive director. Howell earned a law degree from the Birmingham School of Law and was admitted to the state bar in 2003. Added: June 21, 2007
Ellen Boyne, BJ '83, is an account executive for CIT, where she sells money to mortgage brokers. She has two adult children and is a part-time massage therapist, which she said is her fun job. Added: June 8, 2007
John Thiel, BJ '80, has started his own law firm, the John E. Thiel Law Office, in Appleton, Wis. Added: June 7, 2007
David J. Marcou, BJ '84, of La Crosse, Wis., had an article and photo published in the March 2007 Smithsonian issue about British photographer Bert Hardy's incredible photomontage of Queen Elizabeth II's entrance at the Paris Opera in 1957. Marcou's "Readers' Pick" about Ulysses S. Grant's autobiography was published in a February 2007 issue of The Christian Science Monitor. Soon he will publish an article on Frank Lloyd Wright in American History Magazine, and he has submitted an article about La Crosse-born civil rights leader James Cameron, founder of America's Black Holocaust Museum. Marcou's son, Matthew, just completed his first year at the University of Minnesota. Added: May 7, 2007 Bette Phelan, MA '83, is the communications director for Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) in Washington, D.C. Added: May 1, 2007
Dick Aldrich, BJ '83, is the broadcast services director for the Missouri House of Representatives in Jefferson City, Mo., where he has worked since 1998. Prior to working for the House, Aldrich spent 10 years as assistant news director at KRCG-TV in Jefferson City. He also broadcasts sports play-by-play at KWOS Radio and works as a sports producer at Learfield Communications, both in Jefferson City. Added: March 19, 2007
Jean Marie (Kathe) Johnson, BJ '80, has been appointed vice president of advancement for Lutheran Social Services of Illinois (LSSI), a statewide social services agency based in Des Plaines. Johnson joined LSSI from the Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Foundation, where as a vice president she was responsible for creating, executing and leading overall strategic fundraising for the healthcare system. Previously, she was the director of major gifts and planned giving at the Newberry Library in Chicago, Ill., one of the world's leading research libraries for the humanities, and also the manager of major gifts at Advocate Charitable Foundation. Added: March 13, 2007 Thomas Blood, BJ '80, is the creative director at MediaCross, a marketing consulting firm in St. Louis, Mo. Blood joined MediaCross in August after more than 16 years as group creative director at Hughes, a full-service agency in St. Louis. His work has won local and national ADDYs and has placed in the finals of the New York Film Festival and several other award shows. As creative director at MediaCross, Blood and his team create a wide variety of print, broadcast, outdoor, interactive and guerrilla marketing tactics for clients in the areas of recruitment, government communications and business-to-business advertising and marketing. Added: Feb. 20, 2007
H. Alan Wolfgang, BJ '83, is the senior vice president of PARADE Magazine in Chicago, Ill. Added: Feb. 16, 2007 Fred Walters, BJ '81, has been publisher of Acres U.S.A., (a monthly magazine and book publisher covering organic agriculture) and Living Aboard magazine (a bi-monthly for people who live onboard boats) since 1994. Prior to his current position, Walters was director of national marketing for Barq's Root Beer in New Orleans, La., during its national expansion. He lives in Austin, Texas. Added: Feb. 13, 2007 Melissa Clark Kozicki, BJ '84, is manager of internal communications for Williams, a natural gas company in Tulsa, Okla. Updated: Feb. 13, 2007 Bobbi Nodell, MA '88, is the communications specialist for the International Training and Education Center on HIV (I-TECH), a $30 million global AIDS training program based in Seattle, Wash. "Helping an organization I admire tell its story and communicate is my true calling," Nodell said. Added: Feb. 13, 2007
Denise Boyd, BJ '84, received her master's degree in education from the School of Information Science and Learning Technology at the MU College of Education in December 2006. Added: Feb. 13, 2007 Susan Kay Cantele, BJ '85, a Wheaton, Ill., advertising executive who worked to inform Illinois women of the signs of ovarian cancer, died Jan. 25 from complications associated with the same disease. In 1996 she and her husband started their own advertising agency, Cantele, Sedivy and Associates Advertising in Wheaton. In 2005 the firm took on as a client the Illinois chapter of the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition. Cantele worked tirelessly for its cause, organizing awareness campaigns for the chapter's events. Added: Feb. 12, 2007
Dale M. Denny, BJ '82, died May 2, 2006. Denny was an instructor for the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is survived by his parents of O'Fallon, Mo., and one brother of Western Springs, Ill. Added: Jan. 19, 2007 Kim Jay Green, BJ '80, died Dec. 1, 2006, in Jefferson City, Mo. He was a 1976 graduate of Southwest High School in St. Louis, Mo. After receiving his journalism degree in 1980, Green earned a Master of Arts in communications from Central Missouri State University in 1988. Green was the communications director for the Missouri Senate Democratic Caucus. He was active in Missouri Democratic politics, having also served as a former aide to retired Missouri Sen. Harold L. Caskey. An avid St. Louis Cardinal fan, Green was also a member of the MU Alumni Association, Lions International and the Jaycees. Added: Jan. 19, 2007 John Dittmann, BJ '82, is a researcher/producer with ABC News Nightline in Washington, D.C. Dittmann also writes for ABCnews.com. Added: Jan. 19, 2007
Ken Brashier, BJ '87, was recently honored as the U.S. Professor of the Year for baccalaureate colleges. His is one of four national awards sponsored by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and administered by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Brashier is an assistant professor of religion and humanities at Reed College in Portland, Ore. In addition to his journalism degree, Brashier earned a bachelor's degree in German at Missouri and a master's degree at Harvard University. Added: Dec. 14, 2006 Barbara Zoccola, BJ '83, is completing her year as president of the Memphis (Tenn.) Bar Association. She works for the U.S. Department of Justice as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee. Zoccola also received a bachelor of arts in political science and a law degree from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va. Added: Dec. 11, 2006 Russ Mitchell, BJ '82, has been named news anchor of CBS' The Early Show, effective Jan. 2, 2007. He also will file reports for the broadcast and serve as a substitute anchor. Mitchell will retain his current duties as anchor of the CBS Evening News with Russ Mitchell broadcast on Sunday nights, and as one of the rotating anchors of the Saturday edition of the CBS Evening News. He will continue to serve as a correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning. Mitchell has received many professional citations, including a 2005 New York Association of Black Journalists Award for best documentary for a Sunday Morning report on Stax Records, a 2001 Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award for the CBS Evening News with Russ Mitchell's coverage of the Elian Gonzales story, a 1997 Emmy Award for coverage of the crash of TWA's flight 800, a 1995 National Association of Black Journalists Award, two Emmy Awards from the St. Louis chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and a 1989 Best Reporter honor from the Missouri UPI. Added: Dec. 7, 2006 Cathy Landry, BJ '84, began her new duties as news editor of the Gaylord (Mich.) Herald Times on Oct. 23. She served most recently as the systems manager for the newsroom computer system at The Blade of Toledo, Ohio. Added: Oct. 31, 2006 Robert F. "Bob" Fleischhauer, BJ '81, of Philadelphia, Pa., died May 19, 2006. He was 49. Fleischhauer was a 20-year employee of the Philadelphia Business Journal, where he was an award-winning staff photographer and photo editor. He was the only full-time photographer at the paper for 20 years, according to editor Bernard Dagenais. Before joining the Philadelphia Business Journal, Fleischhauer was a staff photographer for the Quakertown Free Press. Greg Toney, MA '81, is an attorney with the State of Louisiana Division of Administration in Baton Rouge. Anne E. Schwartz, BJ '82, is public relations manager for the Milwaukee Police Department in Wisconsin. D'Ann Lawrence White, BJ '82, won four first-place honors -- more than any individual writer in the state -- during this year's Florida Press Association and Florida Society of Newspaper Editors Annual Convention in St. Petersburg, Fla. White is the editor of The Brandon News/The Tampa Tribune, owned by Media General. Among the awards White received was the prestigious Sally Latham Memorial Award for serious column writing and first-place honors for feature writing and in-depth reporting. In addition, White and her staff earned honors for general excellence, overall graphic design, front-page makeup, photography and sports design. Kevin Young, BJ '82, is broadcast synergy director with Walt Disney World & Disneyland Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Jerry Cobb, BJ '83, is a broker with RE/MAX Properties, Inc., in Colorado Springs, Colo. Jia Ching Hsiao, MA '83, is CEO with Henry Mazer Culutural Hall, Taipei Philharmonic Orchestra in Taipei, Taiwan. Janet Kleve, BJ '83, was promoted to creative director at AbelsonTaylor, Inc., in Chicago. In her new role, she will expand her creative leadership responsibilities within the agency and focus greater attention on new business development. Mark Palmer, BJ '83, has been named group president of communications and collaboration at Sysco Corp.in Houston. Thomas Smith, BJ '84, is a public affairs coordinator with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources in Atlanta, Ga. Paul Nowell, MA '85, is media relations manager at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. Previously he was a reporter for The Associated Press. Ken Reid, MA '85, is the editor and publisher of Washington Information Source Co. in Leesburg, Va. Gerri Berendzen, MA '86, was elected in April to a two-year term on the Executive Committee of the American Copy Editors Society. Berendzen is the copy desk chief at the Quincy (Ill.) Herald-Whig. John Kernan, BJ '86, is an anchor with ESPN in Bristol, Conn. Laura Landsbaum, BJ '86, teaches at The Woodlands High School in Texas. "As a journalism teacher, I share with my students my unique perspective as an MU graduate. I tell them how an MU degree makes them unique, and I have three headed to Columbia for fall 2006." Amy Owens, BJ '86, is the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium communications coordinator in Lexington, Ky. She was most recently managing editor of Thoroughbred Times, and under her leadership, the magazine received the 2005 American Horse Publications award as best equine publication. Michael Triplett, BJ '86, is a legal editor/reporter with BNA Inc., in Washington D.C. Triplett says, "I went back into journalism after a career in education and law school. Every step of the way, my experience at Missouri's J-School has made me a better writer, a more focused interviewer and a more curious individual." Tracy Barnett, BJ '84, MA '87, is the travel editor of the San Antonio (Texas) Express-News. Barnett was the founding editor of Adelante, a bilingual news magazine published in the Columbia Missourian that serves the Latino, immigrant and multicultural communities of Central Missouri. Kirk Curnutt, BJ '87, is professor of English at Troy University in Montgomery, Ala. Ann Haugen, BJ '88, is the executive vice president/general manager for EliasArts, an award-winning music, sound and brand identity company in Santa Monica, Calif. Mark J. Lodato, BJ '89, an investigative reporter at KPHO-TV/CBS 5 in Phoenix, Ariz., is news director for Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and its newscast, ASU NewsWatch. Jeff Morris, BJ '88, is CEO/Founder of AKA Communications in St. Louis, Mo. Anita Vanderwert, BS '89 (Ag Journalism), is one of three recipients to receive the National Agri-Marketing Association's 2006 Professional Development Awards of Excellence. These awards honor NAMA members based on outstanding achievement in the professional development areas of marketing communications, public relations, product/species management and sales. Vanderwert, national director of ag sales for Brownfield, will be the recipient of the award of excellence in sales. She has been involved in ag communication and ag sales and marketing for more than 15 years. 
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