Decade: 1960-69
Eric Seidel
What do you do? Media consulting/training. How did you get your job? Entrepreneur What is the best professional lesson you learned at the J-School? Accuracy, objectivity, complete. What advice do you have for current students? Report facts, not opinion. Practice objectivity and fairness. What is your favorite J-School memory? Working at KOMU-TV and KFRU Radio.
Fred Bleakley, MA ’66
After retiring from a career in journalism, I recently wrote about an Auschwitz escapee I had interviewed in 1995 for an article in the Wall Street Journal. The book, “Auschwitz Protocols: Ceslav Mordowicz and the Race to Save Hungary’s Jews,” was published this past April by Post Hill Press and is being distributed by Simon … Continued
James Etling, MA ’69
What do you do? I’m now retired. But before I retired I worked in public relations and newspaper printing. After graduation I worked in public relations for five years for Laclede Gas Co (Spire) in St Louis. I was the staff assistant and editor of the monthly employee magazine, Laclede News. I enjoyed my years … Continued
James Etling, MA ’69
What do you do? I worked in public relations and newspaper printing before I retired. After graduation I worked in public relations for five years at Laclede Gas Co. (now Spire) in St. Louis. I was a staff assistant and the editor of the monthly company magazine, Laclede News. I greatly enjoyed my years at … Continued
Michelle (Micki) Grimm Carter, BJ ’66
The second book by Michelle (Micki) Grimm Carter, BJ ’66, will be released Sept. 1, 2017, by Bedazzled Ink Publishers. Entitled “From Under the Russian Snow,” the book is a memoir that covers the year Carter left her job as managing editor of a San Francisco Bay Area daily to serve as the USIA Journalist-in-Residence … Continued
Charlotte Frances Mills, MA ’62
Charlotte Frances Mills, MA ’62, died April 22, 2017, in Tidewater, Oregon. A champion of the environment and women’s rights, her career highlights included teaching at the University of Oregon and serving as editor of the Valley News as well as owner and publisher of Northwest Matrix-Bookmakers in Eugene. Mills published more than 60 books … Continued
Larry Moore, MA ’68
Larry Moore, MA ’68, will be inducted into the Missouri Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame on June 10, 2017.
Clara T. Nash, BJ ’67
Clara T. Nash, BJ ’67, died Dec. 3, 2016. As a student, Nash served as assistant features editor and a reporter at the Columbia Missourian.
Bill Brown, BJ ’69
Bill Brown, BJ ’69, retired as Astros play-by-play TV broadcaster before the start of an MLB game at Minute Maid Park on Sept. 28 in Houston.
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