Archives: Class Notes
Wan Xu, MA ’06
Wan Xu, MA ’06, is a news reporter for Reuters in Beijing, China.
Chris L. West, BJ ’64
Chris West, BJ ’64, writes: “I retired in 2004 after 40 years in newspaper editing, government public information and corporate communications. My first paying job right out of Mizzou was as editor of the weekly Tarkio (Mo.) Avalanche. Then came a couple of years on the copy desk at the Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald. From 1967 … Continued
Laura Schneider, BJ ’10
Laura Schneider, BJ ’10, works in mobile-market consulting for OMD, Advertising Age and Adweek’s Media Agency of the year.
Kathleen (Twellman) Haley, BJ ’73
Kathleen (Twellman) Haley, BJ ’73, retired as the news editor of the Rome (N.Y.) Daily Sentinel. She is working as a freelance editor, writer, photographer.
Kristy Siegfried, MA ’04
Kristy Siegfried, MA ’04, has been living in Johannesburg, South Africa since graduating. She works for IRIN, an online humanitarian news service put out by the United Nations. Siegfried covers the southern Africa region with a special focus on migration issues. She is married, with a two-year-old daughter.
Leah (Reiter) Oberjuerge, BJ ’86
Leah (Reiter) Oberjuerge, BJ ’86, is a senior editor at The National, a daily newspaper in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Joy E. Buchanan, BJ ’72
Joy E. Buchanan, BJ ’72, was recently named executive director of Michigan’s Great Lakes Chapter of the American Red Cross.
Chris Best, BJ ’97
Chris Best, BJ ’97, has been named assistant news director at KPRC, the NBC television affiliate in Houston, Texas. Chris was previously executive producer at CBS 11 television in Dallas-Fort Worth and has worked at television stations in Orlando, Kansas City, and Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Marcia Chatelain, BJ ’01
Marcia Chatelain, BJ ’01, is now assistant professor of history at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She is currently working on a book on Chicago’s African-American Great Migration and women and girls.
Michelle (Ferrell) Burke, BJ ’86
Michelle (Ferrell) Burke, BJ ’86, is the communications and public relations strategist at Westminster Christian Academy in St. Louis, Mo. She also is a national spokesperson for the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women Movement. She lives in St. Louis with her husband of 23 years and her three children. Her son Landon has … Continued