Archives: Class Notes
Edward L. Steele, BJ ’50
Edward L. Steele, BJ ’50, died May 14, 2016, in Corvallis, Oregon. He started his career as a member of the southwestern territorial advertising staff at Sears Roebuck and Company in Dallas and a year later, was named advertising manager for the Sears retail store in San Angelo, Texas. Steele then was employed by Nevada … Continued
Seoyeon Hong, PhD ’14
Seoyeon Hong, PhD ’14, is the recipient of the Wilma and Roswell Messing Jr. Faculty Award at Webster University. Hong is an assistant professor of communications and journalism at the school’s St. Louis campus and will receive $5,000.
Elizabeth Manring, BJ ’08
Liz Manring, BJ ’08, has been promoted to managing editor of the Sierra Vista Herald/Bisbee Daily Review in Arizona. She rejoined the Herald/Review in August 2015 after four years as the public information officer at Cochise College. Manring was previously the news and features editor at the newspaper.
Allan Paro, BJ ’54
Allan Paro, BJ ’54, died July 29, 2015, in Woodbridge, Virginia. From February 1954 to July 1956, Paro served in the United States Army. His primary assignment was as a commercial radio broadcast officer, which led 1st Lt. Paro to serve as the manager of the Armed Forces Radio Station in Berlin, Germany. His experience … Continued
James Bruce Campbell, MA ’67
James Bruce Campbell, MA ’67, president of Campbell Publications, died April 18, 2016. He was a lifelong newspaperman and had built the company from one newspaper to six at the time of his death. A third-generation journalist, Campbell began the expansion of Campbell Publications with the purchase in 1990 of The Weekly Messenger in Pleasant … Continued
David Firestone, BJ ’77
David Firestone, BJ ’77, spent 21 years as a reporter and editor at The New York Times. Firestone is now managing editor of FiveThirtyEight.com, the data-journalism site of ESPN.
Webster Hawkins, BJ ’47
Webster Hawkins, BJ ’47, recently died in Kansas. He began his journalism career as a high school sophomore, working at the St. Francois County Journal where he worked as a printer’s devil. After graduating from Flat River Junior College in 1944, Hawkins accepted a teaching position in De Soto, Missouri, taught seventh and eighth grade … Continued
Elise Hu, BJ ’03
Elise Hu, BJ ’03, is serving as an NPR international correspondent in Asia, responsible for covering both Koreas and Japan. In March 2015, Hu founded NPR’s first ever Seoul, South Korea, bureau.
Eric Engberg, BJ ’63
Former CBS News Correspondent Eric Engberg, BJ ’63, a political and investigative reporter who also covered overseas conflicts for CBS News and won electronic journalism’s top honor for a report identifying a Vietnam veteran buried in the Tomb of the Unknowns, died March 27, at his home in Palmetto, Florida, where he retired after his … Continued
Michael Pointer, BJ ’88
Michael Pointer, BJ ’88, left the newspaper industry “about a year ago, with some sadness,” he reports, and accepted a position in the media department of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in Washington, D.C. Pointer misses being a sports writer, but loves the new challenge, the security it provides and living in Washington.