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Alumni News: January 2005
1960-1969
1961
Barney Calame, BJ '61
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Barney Calame, BJ '61, retired in December after more than 39 years at the Wall Street Journal. Deputy managing editor since 1992, he joined the Journal in 1965. Calame was honored by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) in 2002 with its Distinguished Achievement Award for his many contributions to business journalism. He served as president of the 3,200 -member national organization during 2000-2001. Calame is a 1996 recipient of the Faculty-Alumni Award from the University of Missouri. He was the Thomas Jefferson Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at Missouri in 1997. The national Beta Theta Pi fraternity honored him last year with its Oxford Cup award for "distinguished service and accomplishments in his chosen professional field." He will continue to advise the Journal on news issues.
1965
Ron Holbrook, BJ '65, worked with two other journalism graduates, Kristen Hickman, BJ '84, and Vicki Stein, BJ '75, in Baghdad, Iraq, as part of the Coalition Provisional Authority which directed the startup of Iraq's new interim government. They worked in the former Presidential Palace of Saddam Hussein in the Green Zone at the CPA headquarters. The CPA was dissolved on June 30, 2004, and the office became part of the State Department as the U.S. Embassy-Baghdad. Holbrook is a retired master sargeant from the Army National Guard. He also was formerly Communications Manager for A.P. Green Industries, Inc. in Mexico, Mo., until he retired there. In Baghdad, he worked in regional media operations and coordinated broadcast stories of military and civilians working to help rebuild Iraq.
Three MU School of Journalism graduates, Vicki Stein, BJ '75 (left), Ron Holbrook, BJ '65, and Kristen Hickman, BJ '84, stand in front of the Coalition Provisional Authority headquarters in Baghdad along with three soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division.
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1968
William Gay, BJ '68, is owner of Reliance Communications in El Centro, Calif.
Michael Seabaugh, BJ '69
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1969
Michael Seabaugh, BJ '69, is a clinical psychologist/columnist in Santa Monica, Calif. A licensed clinical psychologist in private practice for over twenty years, Seabaugh writes a column, HEALTHSPAN, which takes a light-hearted and informative look at the aging "boomer" generation. The column is published in the Santa Barbara News Press and syndicated to other papers.
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