Archives: Class Notes
Stephen Hudnell, BJ ’73, Beth Pike, BJ ’86, John Robinson, BJ ’74
Stephen Hudnell, BJ ’73; Beth Pike, BJ ’86; John Robinson, BJ ’74; and colleague Peg Craft of Orr Street Productions in Columbia, Missouri, won a Mid-America Emmy award for a video Web series “Finding Wild Missouri.”
Meghan Kloth, BJ ’07
Meghan Kloth, BJ ’07, has begun working as a member of the Financial Services industry team in Husch Blackwell’s St. Louis office. Kloth was previously an associate at the financial services law firm Weiner Brodsky Kider PC in Washington, D.C. In addition to her Missouri journalism degree, Kloth received her J.D. (cum laude) from American … Continued
Christian Bryant, MA ’13
Christian Bryant, MA ’13, will anchor KOMU 8 News at Noon beginning Oct. 1. He is returning to KOMU 8, where he started as a reporter in January 2012 and has since worked as a main fill-in anchor. Bryant also works as an anchor and writer at Newsy.
Jim Spencer, MA ’91
Jim Spencer, MA ’91, president and founder of Newsy, was awarded the Governor’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award at Missouri’s 2014 Governor’s Conference on Economic Development on Sept. 5. Newsy is a national video news network based in Columbia, Missouri. The E.W. Scripps Company (NYSE: SSP) acquired the digital startup in January 2014. Newsy produces … Continued
Amy Keller Laird, BJ ’97
Amy Keller Laird, BJ ’97, has been promoted to editor in chief of Women’s Health magazine. Previously, she served as executive editor.
Shraddha Sankhe, BJ ’14
Shraddha Sankhe, MA ’14, is a communications coordinator for the Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution department at Texas A&M University.
Todd Natenberg, BJ ’91
Todd Natenberg, BJ ’91, is an account manager with School Specialty, which provides school supplies, furniture, and curriculum solutions to K-12 districts in western Missouri. Natenberg also writes a freelance fatherhood column for Lifestyle Publications in Kansas City and freelanced a first-person column to the Jerusalem Post on the shootings at the Jewish Community Center … Continued
Catherine Soete, MA ’72
Catherine Soete, MA ’72, has published her first novel, “Grave Secrets,” with Mill City Press. The mystery is set in a fictional Iowa town, during the summer of 1973, when Senate Watergate hearings riveted the country. Reporter Carol Hagan, newly minted from the Missouri School of Journalism and eager to start her career on a … Continued
Tom Ryther, BJ ’61
Tom Ryther, BJ ’61, has been inducted into the Bayless High School of St. Louis Athletic Hall of Fame. Ryther still holds the Bayless record for most wins by a pitcher set back in 1955. He is among 10 former athletes initially chosen to enter the newly-formed Hall of Fame. Joining Ryther is former Mizzou … Continued
John Planchon, MA ’75
John Planchon, MA ’75, associate professor of commerce and business at Rhodes College, was honored with the 2014 Jameson M. Jones Award for Outstanding Faculty Service at the college’s opening convocation on Aug. 22. The award honors a current faculty member who has rendered exemplary service and provided leadership to the Rhodes community. Planchon joined … Continued