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When Games Turn Grim
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Alexia Seminar and Competition
Cover Story: Newhouse 2, Part 2
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Higher education is often criticized for moving too slow.
For those of us who came to the academy from the industry (I myself spent 25 years in newspaper), that slow pace can come as a surprise, and perhaps, for some, as a relief. But professional schools—especially schools of communication, like Newhouse—don’t have the luxury of a slow response. The industry is changing rapidly, and the educational institutions that train future professionals must change with it.
Which brings me to Newhouse 2 and our studio complex, which have been a hub of Newhouse life for nearly 40 years. A great many of you trained there, delving into media production, “getting your hands dirty” for the first time, and developing the skills that launched you into your first job and built the foundation for your career.
Like you were then, the students of today are excited to get started and master the tools of their chosen profession. But, as you know, that profession has changed, and those tools have changed, too—and so
Newhouse 2 and the studios are changing as well.
Just as the opening of Newhouse 3 in 2007 gave the school a huge push into the digital world, so the renovation of Newhouse 2, scheduled to begin next spring
(see cover story, p.10) will allow us to stay on the cutting edge of communications education.
We see this as an investment—not just in the school, but also in the future of public communications.
We teach our students the fundamentals—critical thinking, ethics, scholarship, and, of course, good storytelling. But we must also teach them to be agile, collaborative, and entrepreneurial. We must teach them to inquire and explore and “think outside the box.” As we educate today’s students for tomorrow’s media, we are fostering the men and women who will embrace change; reimagine the way we do things; develop new business, content, and distribution models; and lead the profession into the future. The learning lab of our studios is where many of them first try their hand at these types of endeavors.
We are currently working on industry partnerships that will take us a long way toward meeting our renovation goals, and we are also grateful for the support of the University and the Newhouse Foundation. But we need your help as well; your support is what will ultimately allow us to open the doors to a transformed studio in the fall of 2014.
Lorraine Branham
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The Newhouse School celebrated the sixth annual Mirror Awards honoring excellence in media industry reporting at a special luncheon ceremony on June 13. CNN’s Anderson Cooper emceed the event, which was held at The Plaza
Hotel in New York City.
Awards were presented in seven categories, including the John M. Higgins
Award for Best In-Depth/Enterprise Reporting, which was presented by Leo Hindery Jr., managing partner with InterMedia Partners.
Newhouse established the Higgins Award this year to honor the late Broadcasting &
Cable business editor. One of the most wellrespected journalists of his time, Higgins died in 2006 at the age of 45.
The Higgins Award is supported by a gift from Discovery Communications and Time
Warner Cable Inc. and carries a $5,000 cash prize. Each of the additional juried journalism awards carries a $1,000 cash prize.
The 2012 Mirror Awards winners were:
• Best single article, Traditional/legacy
media: Adam Lashinsky, “How Apple
works: Inside the world’s biggest startup”
(Fortune)
• Best single article, Digital media: Rhonda
Roland Shearer and Malik Ayub Sumbal,
“Mrs. Bhutto’s Murder Anniversary Part 1:
Troubling Double Standard, American
photojournalism’s different treatment of
foreign victims” (iMediaEthics)
• Best Profile, Traditional/legacy media:
Ken auletta, “Changing Times” (The New
Yorker)
• Best Profile, Digital media: Joe Pompeo,
“The road ahead for The Huffington Post:
Nine months and a merger later, ‘Capital-J
Journalism’ is still a work in progress”
(Capital New York)
• Best Commentary, Traditional/legacy
media: Anna Holmes (The New York Times,
The Washington Post)
• Best Commentary, Digital media: Rebecca
Traister (Salon.com, The New York Times)
• John m. Higgins award for Best In-Depth/
enterprise Reporting: Peter Maass, “The
Toppling” (The New Yorker and ProPublica)
Luncheon co-chairs were David Levy, president of sales, distribution and sports for
Turner Broadcasting System; Melinda Witmer, executive vice president and chief video and content officer for Time Warner Cable; and
David Zaslav, president and CEO of Discovery
Communications.
In addition, the John S. and James L.
Knight Foundation received the i-3 award for impact, innovation, and influence, presented by ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. Knight
President and CEO Alberto Ibargüen accepted the award, which is given to individuals or organizations that have made a profound impact on the media landscape or have captured the public’s imagination about the potential or importance of the media in a unique way. The Knight Foundation was chosen as this year’s recipient for redefining the role philanthropy can play in media innovation. The foundation has invested more than $300 million in journalism and media innovation in the last 10 years.
Past recipients of the i-3 award include
Dennis Crowley ’98 and Naveen Selvadurai, cofounders of Foursquare (2011); Twitter (2010);
Obama for America New Media Department/
Blue State Digital (2009); and CNN/YouTube
(2008).
The Mirror Awards are the most important awards of their kind. Established by the
Newhouse School in 2006, the awards honor the reporters, editors, and teams of writers who hold a mirror to their own industry for the public’s benefit.
The competition is open to anyone who conducts reporting, commentary, or criticism of the media industries in a format intended for a mass audience. Eligible work includes print, broadcast, and online editorial content focusing on the development or distribution of news and entertainment content. Entries are evaluated based on excellence of craft, framing of the issue, and appropriateness for the intended audience. Winners are chosen by a group of journalists and journalism educators.
For more information, see mirrorawards.com.

Perhaps the strongest part of the Newhouse brand is its alumni base. More than 25,000 strong, it is the most powerful, successful network of communications professionals in the world. Newhouse alumni can be found in leadership positions across the communications industry.
For years, Newhouse students and alumni alike have benefited from the power of that network through NACAN, the Newhouse Alumni
Career Advisory Network, maintained by the school’s Career Development Center (CDC). A volunteer network, NACAN included alumni who had agreed to serve as contacts for current students and fellow alumni, providing career advice and guidance. Students were required to participate in a job search seminar before using the database.
Access to NACAN was one of the major perks of being part of the Newhouse community, but the system was technologically problematic because it could only be used from campus and had to be manually updated by staff. “NACAN was started in 1993 and has been a Filemaker Pro database since 1995,” says
Kelly Brown ’03, director of the CDC. “The static nature of the system was hindering students and alumni from enjoying the full benefits of the network.”
Earlier this year, Newhouse partnered with alumni management software company
Versation, and a new and improved version of NACAN was born as an online community.
“When I heard about the upgrade, I knew it was the perfect opportunity to give back,” says
Jason Jedlinski ’99, vice president of digital operations for Tribune Broadcasting, who along with his partner Jay Nitz funded development of the new online alumni community. “I remember the thrill of getting career advice from network news producers, and wanted to make sure today’s students and alumni could easily enjoy those same inspiring connections.”
The “new” NACAN was renamed The
Newhouse Network, as a nod to what has been informally referred to as the “Newhouse mafia” for years. “Newhouse alumni are everywhere,” says Ed Wise ’00, vice president of sales and strategy for Funny or Die. “You can’t throw a stone at any of the major media companies in
New York without hitting one.”
Wise is chair of the Newhouse Network
Board of Directors, a group of young, prominent alumni working with the school to further strengthen and mobilize the alumni base, particularly through the use of digital media tools. “Professional schools like Newhouse are capitalizing on the power of their alumni networks,” says Wise. “It has become a real selling point as we often see other communications schools advertising their networks. We know we’re the best—we want the rest of the communications industry to know that too.”
“I expect someone landed a job or business deal just in the first few weeks that the
Newhouse Network was online,” Jedlinski says.
“My classmates were racing to sign up.”
The Newhouse Network (newhouse. syr.edu/network) allows users to access the alumni database online, rather than having to visit the CDC or fill out a contact request form.
The database is searchable by name, major, geographic area, or job field. Alumni can also access and change their personal profiles.
Students must still undergo training before they are allowed to access contacts.
The Newhouse Network (formerly
NACAN) is now an online community.
When you join, you reap the full benefits of being a Newhouse alumnus. You can network with fellow alumni for career guidance and opportunities, and tap into our student population to find your next intern, new hire, or fresh idea. You can reconnect with the school through news and events, and give back by providing students with mentoring and professional advice. Being a part of the
Newhouse Network brings access to an invaluable resource—and bragging rights!
Go to newhouse.syr.edu/ network and follow the quick, secure process for signing up. Your contact information will not be shared outside
Syracuse University.
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This spring, the Newhouse School launched
Student Startup Madness (SSM), an exciting tournament-style competition for college student startups in association with South By
Southwest (SXSW).
Student Startup Madness officially debuted with a launch event/kick-off pitchfest in March during SXSW Interactive in Austin, Texas, where students had the opportunity to pitch their ventures and win prizes.
The kick-off pitchfest was the precursor to the 2012-13 nationwide tournament. The online entry period opens this summer, followed by regional events at host universities across the country in the fall and culminating in the national finals before a celebrity panel of wellknown entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and investors at SXSW Interactive in March 2013.
Each round of the nationwide tournament will build momentum, awareness, and social media buzz, drawing attention to colleges and universities as sources for innovation, entrepreneurship, and talent while showcasing outstanding university entrepreneurship programs and encouraging college students to start businesses.
“We teach our students to embrace the spirit of entrepreneurship,” says Newhouse
Dean Lorraine Branham. “The world is changing quickly and in sometimes unexpected ways, and we know that tomorrow’s leaders will have to be innovative. Student Startup Madness allows us to encourage and support those entrepreneurial students—not just at Newhouse but across the country—whose ideas might just become ‘the next big thing.’”
The Student Startup Madness concept was developed by Sean Branagan, director of the
Newhouse School’s Center for Digital Media
Entrepreneurship. “South by Southwest is the epicenter of the digital media startup world,” says Branagan. “It’s a fitting place to launch
Student Startup Madness and to hold the finals next year and beyond. We’re honored to have been the only college student startup program at SXSW’s Startup Village, which was created to focus all the SXSW activities for digital media entrepreneurship.”
Opportunities are available for sponsorships and for university regional host sites for the 2012-13 tournament. For more information, contact Branagan at startups@syr. edu, and see www.StudentStartupMadness. com.

The Newhouse School presented a daylong symposium in February examining media coverage of sports scandals. “When Games Turn Grim:
Can Media Cover Sports Scandals Responsibly?” included four panel discussions focusing on journalism, victims’ rights and advocacy, public relations, and ethics.
“Allegations of misconduct in college athletic programs spawn a lot of discussion, pain, anger, and confusion,” says event organizer
Steve Davis, chair of newspaper and online journalism. “We held this symposium to reflect on some of the big questions behind these stories, and our roles as communications professionals in their telling.”
The event began with welcoming remarks from Dean Lorraine
Branham, followed by the first panel “The Journalists.” Panelists included
Michael J. Connor, executive editor of The Post-Standard (Syracuse); Jeff
D’Alessio, assistant to the CEO of Sporting News; Mike Feeley, assistant managing editor of The Patriot-News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania); Mike
McAndrew, reporter and editor with The Post-Standard; Pete Thamel ’99, college sports reporter with The New York Times; and Vince Doria, senior vice president and director of news with ESPN. Moderator was Joel Kaplan, associate dean at the Newhouse School.
The second panel, “The Advocates,” featured Robert Hoatson, executive director of Road to Recovery; Katherine Redmond, founder of the National Coalition Against Violent Athletes; Julie Cecile G’91, executive director of McMahon/Ryan Child Advocacy Center; and Allison
Young, director of sexual abuse services with Elmcrest Children’s Center.
Moderator was Aileen Gallagher, assistant professor of magazine journalism at Newhouse.
The third panel, “The PR Professionals,” included panelists Leland
Bassett, chairman and CEO of Bassett and Bassett Incorporated,
Communications Managers and Counselors; Keith Burton, president of Insidedge; Gary Grates G’99, principal of WCG Worldwide; and Kelly
Rossman-McKinney, CEO and principal of Truscott Rossman. Moderator was Brenda Wrigley, chair of public relations at Newhouse.
The event closed with a final panel, “The Ethicists,” featuring
David Rubin, professor and dean emeritus of the Newhouse School;
Tom Rosenstiel, director and founder of the Project for Excellence in
Journalism; and Robert Steele, professor and director of the Janet Prindle
Institute for Ethics at DePauw University. Moderator was Dean Branham.
Videos of each panel and more information are available online at sportsandscandal.syr.edu.

A new, international partnership between the
Newhouse School and HootSuite will help prepare students for the digital and social media jobs of the future. This is the firstever higher education partnership for the
Canadian company, which now boasts some three million users.
Under the direction of William J. Ward, social media professor at the Newhouse School, students will have a free subscription to HootSuite Pro and receive the same training—including video-based lessons, case studies, and testing—as professional subscribers to HootSuite University. Using
HootSuite, students will learn to manage multiple social networks, such as Twitter,
Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn.
“Students use social media to connect with friends and family, but they need hands-on experience with the professional social media skills demanded by the industry today,” says
Ward.
According to a report from Monster.com in late 2010, social media job listings had increased
75 percent from the previous year, with more than 10,000 jobs a month requiring digital and social media skills.
Yet a Manpower Group study shows that more than 52 percent of companies have difficulty filling these positions due to a lack of “hard” technical skills among candidates. At the same time, keeping up with the rapid pace of change and innovation in social media is a continuous challenge; last year, there were more than 30 updates to the major social media platforms
(Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, and
YouTube), according to Ward.
Students, both undergraduate and graduate, will take part in the HootSuite Higher
Education Program as part of Ward’s social media course. Upon successful completion of the course, they will receive HootSuite professional certification, including an online badge, and will be added to HootSuite’s directory of social media consultants.
“These students will be able to demonstrate meaningful social media skills,” says Ward.
“That, combined with the higher-level understanding of social media they gain in
Newhouse courses, will better prepare them for the jobs of the future and make them highly desired by employers.”

Four pioneering women journalists shared their experiences and insights with students and other guests at this year’s Toner Symposium, held at
Newhouse in March.
The journalists—Jane Mayer, staff writer for The
New Yorker; Peggy Simpson, Washington reporter for the Women’s Media Center; Lynette Clemetson, director of NPR’s State Impact; and Kristin Carlson ’99,
Jane Mayer co-anchor of The Thirty—discussed the challenges and opportunities of news reporting in the digital age.
The symposium was part of the Robin Toner
Program in Political Reporting, which celebrates the legacy of alumna Robin Toner ’76, the first woman to be national political correspondent for The New York Times.
“Like Robin Toner, these women journalists are inspiring for their accomplishments,” says Charlotte Grimes, Newhouse’s Knight Chair in
Political Reporting and administrator of the Toner Program.
The event also included the awarding of the $5,000 Toner Prize for
Excellence in Political Reporting to Mayer for her story “State for Sale,” an in-depth look at the effects on North Carolina of Citizens United v.
Federal Elections Commission, the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down limits on campaign spending by corporations.
In praising Mayer’s Toner Prize-winning work, judges cited the detailed reporting and vivid storytelling. Said Geneva Overholser, former editor of The Des Moines Register and now director of the
University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Journalism and
Communication: “A model of how to tell a critically important national story: focus on an illuminating specific, report the hell out of it and turn it into a gripping story.” Lee Thornton, former CBS News correspondent and professor emerita at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism, called it “engrossing, fact-based storytelling that certainly honors traditional journalistic values.”
Mayer became a staff writer for The New Yorker in 1995, based in Washington, D.C. She was the first woman to be White House correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, for which she reported for 12 years. Her career includes writing a best-selling book on the war on terror and covering the fall of the Berlin Wall and the bombing of U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut. Her awards include the John Chancellor Award for
Excellence in Journalism, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and the
Edward Weintal Prize.
The Toner Prize competition drew 128 entries from across the country and from across media platforms. They included the broad range of
American journalism, from such large news organizations as The New
York Times, The Washington Post, and CNN to community newspapers such as the Watertown (N.Y.) Daily Times and the Morris (Ill.) Daily Herald.
Judges were veteran journalists and journalism educators.
Toner, who graduated from Syracuse University in 1976 with a dual degree in newspaper journalism and political science, spent 25 years as a reporter for The New York Times, during which time she covered five presidential campaigns, scores of Congressional and gubernatorial races, and most of the nation’s major public policy issues. She began her journalism career in West Virginia with the Charleston Daily Mail and reported for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
After her death in 2008, Toner’s family, friends, and classmates and
Syracuse University began fundraising for a $1 million campaign to endow the Robin Toner Program in Political Reporting. Donations can be made online at tonerprogram.syr.edu.
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Nationally respected journalists, as well as community leaders and news media executives from Central New York, gathered at the Newhouse
School in April for “The News Re-imagined: The Promise of Foundationfunded Journalism,” a daylong symposium focusing on the future of local news and its impact on the community. Suzanne Lysak, assistant professor of broadcast and digital journalism, organized the event.
Last year, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a report titled “The Information Needs of Communities: The
Changing Media Landscape in a Broadband Age,” which sought to ensure the long-term health of news and information resources as a benefit to communities and their citizens. Among other things, the report recommended a new role in journalism for foundations, philanthropists, and citizens.
Through a series of panel discussions and question-andanswer sessions with the audience,
“The News Re-imagined” focused on the viability of foundation-funded journalism, and looked at how local news coverage can better serve the community and the impact when there is a lack of in-depth reporting on various subjects.
The event opened with welcoming remarks from Newhouse Dean
Lorraine Branham, followed by a keynote address by Steven Waldman, author of the FCC report.
During the first panel, “Foundation-funded Journalism: The Making of Headlines,” participants discussed the current state of foundationfunded journalism at the national level, as well as the issue of maintaining editorial independence. Panelists included Kevin Davis, CEO of Investigative News Network; Stephen Engelberg, managing editor of
ProPublica; Peggy Girshman, executive editor of Kaiser Health News; and
Steve Katz, publisher of Mother Jones. Waldman was moderator.
The second panel, “In-depth Local News: Successes and
Challenges,” focused on news organizations’ successes and challenges in providing consistent and specialized coverage of such issues as health care, education, and local government. Panelists were Jim Aroune, vice president of broadcasting with WCNY-TV (PBS); Lissa Harris, editor of watershedpost.com
; Ashley Kang ’04, G’11, director of The Stand; Ron
Lombard ’81, news director of YNN—Your News Now (Syracuse); and Rex
Smith, vice president and editor of the Times Union (Albany, New York).
Moderator was Al Tompkins, senior broadcast faculty with the Poynter
Institute.
The third panel, “The News Re-imagined: Community Needs and
Foundation Response,” addressed such questions as the following:
What does the community need and want from local reporting? What is the impact on the community when there is a lack of consistent indepth coverage of important issues?
What role can foundations play?
Panelists were Clark Bell, journalism program director with the McCormick
Foundation; John Eberle G’03, vice president for grants and community initiatives with the Central New York Community Foundation; Michael
Henesey, coordinator of communications with the Syracuse City School
District; Helen Hudson, at-large member of Syracuse Common Council; and Fanny Villarreal, founder and executive director of Nosotros Radio.
Moderator was Hub Brown, associate dean with the Newhouse School.
The symposium was funded through a $20,000 grant from The
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of
New York, which asked top communications schools to take action on the FCC report through seminars and research projects. Carnegie and
Knight are dedicating more than $800,000 to help implement the report’s recommendations.
More information is available online at thenewsreimagined.syr.edu.

The 21st annual Alexia Photojournalism Seminar and Competition was held in February at the
Newhouse School. Tom Kennedy, Alexia Tsairis
Endowed Chair in Documentary Photography, hosted the event, which is sponsored by the
Alexia Foundation for World Peace and Cultural
Understanding.
The seminar featured Whitney Johnson, director of photography with The New
Yorker ; Kira Pollack, photo editor with Time magazine; and Maggie Steber, an independent documentary photographer. They also served as competition judges.
Photojournalist Justin Maxon won the
$15,000 Alexia Foundation professional grant for a proposed project that aims to “shed light on the frightening reality of how many murders go unsolved every year in America.” His project also won the Cliff Edom “New America Award” as part of the National Press Photographer
Association’s 2011 Best of Photojournalism competition. Based in San Francisco, Maxon has received numerous awards for his work, and was the second-place student winner in the 2008 Alexia Competition—making him one of only two photographers to have earned
Alexia Foundation grants as a student and a professional.
Katie Orlinsky was the first-place winner in the student category for her project “Innocence
Assassinated: Living in Mexico’s Drug War,” which tells “a less covered story of Mexico’s drug war: the innocent victim.” She is currently a student at the Columbia University Graduate
School of Journalism and a fellow at the Toni
Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism.
She regularly works for The New York Times,
The Wall Street Journal, and various nonprofit organizations around the world.
In addition, photographer Kathryn Cook earned a Judges Special Recognition award and will receive special grant funding from
Aphrodite and Peter Tsairis, co-founders of the Alexia Foundation, to complete her project “Memory of Trees,” which explores
“the aftermath of the ‘denied’ 1915 Armenian
Genocide in Ottoman Turkey, and the reality of living as an Armenian in Turkey today.”
Second-place student winner was
Oxana Onipko for her project, “Russian North
Caucasus, Dagestan: Violence Waits in the
Shadows,” a documentary project about “the complex and violent conflicts inside Russia’s
North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan, the most dangerous place in Europe.”
In addition, Awards of Excellence went to the following:
• Gabriel Romero, a graduate student at
Brooks Institute, for a project on the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict;
• Raymond Thompson, a graduate student at
the University of Texas at Austin, for a project
on the effects of mass incarceration on
African American communities; and
• Ismail Ferdous, a student at Pathshala South
Asian Media Academy, for a project on the
effects of environmental changes on the
people of Shatkhira, Sundarbans.
The Alexia Foundation honors the memory of Alexia Tsairis, a victim of the 1988 terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie,
Scotland. At the time of her death, Tsairis was a junior photojournalism student in the
Newhouse School.
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Forty years is a long time, especially when it comes to media production.
It’s been nearly that long since Newhouse 2 opened in 1974, just a few years after SU’s School of Journalism merged with the television and radio department and officially became the S.I. Newhouse School of
Public Communications.
While Newhouse 1, the original Newhouse building, had been devoted mainly to print journalism, the opening of Newhouse 2 was a sign of the school’s continuing expansion into broadcast and film production— in fact, it was CBS chairman of the board William S. Paley who delivered the Newhouse 2 dedication speech. When it opened, the most striking feature of the new building were its studios, which dominated the ground floor. They were, at that time, considered cutting edge, an outgrowth of the “Golden Age of Television,” used as a training ground for thousands of future communications leaders.
Today, the studios continue to serve as an integral part of the school. But while the communications industry has been transformed by convergence, multimedia, and rapidly changing technology, the studios have remained largely the same for the past four decades. That’s about to change.
“As a top communications school, it is our duty to keep up with the rapid pace of change in the industry,” says Newhouse Dean Lorraine
Branham. “We must provide our students with the opportunity to work with the tools and in the settings that truly prepare them for what they will find when they enter the professional media world. That means we must have cuttingedge facilities and the latest technology.”
Adds Larry Kramer ’72, president and publisher of
USA TODAY, and chair of the
Newhouse Advisory Board:
“There is nothing more important to the Newhouse School today than staying not only relevant, but ahead of the game during a time of massive and continuing change in virtually every industry we train our students to join. Communications schools are as deeply impacted by everything going on as the industries we represent.”
Storytelling, especially video storytelling, is at the center of the dramatic changes taking place, Kramer says. “It’s only natural that we quickly update our technical resources to teach the ability to produce quality and relevant video using the tools of the trade that matter today,” he says. “You wouldn’t teach someone to drive today using a Model T.”
The current studios suffer from outdated analog technology and antiquated lighting, controls. and systems. Production equipment and project workflow hinder, rather than foster, collaboration. Control rooms lack proper teaching configurations. And there’s a lack of multimedia focus.
“These issues compromise Newhouse’s ability to train students for careers in media production and related areas,” says Branham. “And they affect our ability to recruit the best students, who see superior facilities on tours of competitor schools.”
Chris Licht ’93, vice president of news programming with CBS News, says that competitive edge is crucial. “The more you can minimize onthe-job training, the more responsibility you’ll have and the quicker you can advance,” he says. “Students have to come out of Newhouse not just on the same level as the organizations they’re joining but actually a step ahead. The organizations will catch up with their knowledge.”
In the spring of 2009, during her first year as dean, Branham convened a steering committee to create a feasibility study focusing on a complete renovation of the studios. Consulting firm National
TeleConsultants (NTC) and architectural firm Gensler partnered with the committee, which comprised Newhouse faculty and staff as well as SU design and technology experts.
In April 2010, NTC and Gensler delivered a 70-page report that lays the groundwork for the renovation, which will bring the Newhouse studios into the 21st century.
Goals for the estimated $18 million project include:
• Comprehensive upgrade of studio and news production to HD
digital technology—including professional grade, high-definition
production control rooms with special accommodations for full
class instruction, multi-camera production, 5.1 audio control, and
news production automation

• Advanced teaching lab spaces tailored to news and multimedia
production instruction
• News studios, including a dedicated news room with a permanent
news set and a green screen
• Production studios, including a multi-camera production studio
and a virtual set studio
• An expanded collaboration area for all the major
production functions as well as an area for small group
or production meetings
• Smaller flex studios and break-out spaces, including
a large classroom/screening room, a production
conference room, a studio control room, and lab space
• A revamped “Cage,” where students sign out and
learn to operate all types of audio and video
production equipment
• A bureau and office space for Orange Television
Network, the SU student TV station
One of the most visually interesting features of the new studio complex will be the two-story entry lobby, located at the corner of
University and Waverly avenues, which will be marked by a dramatic glass curtain wall allowing for a sweeping view from the outside. Inside the lobby, a proposed double-height wall would display a large visual art installation, which will include, among other things, work produced by
Newhouse students.
The project is designed to LEED sustainability standards, and will feature LED studio lighting, high-energy efficiency, advanced building controls, sustainable materials, and improved indoor air quality.
“Ultimately,” says Branham, “this project will enhance the quality, size, capability, and connectivity of our production facilities, and go a long way toward bolstering our academic mission.”
Michael Schoonmaker, chair of television-radio-film, says the completed facilities will not represent simply an upgrade, but something all new. “The most exciting thing about this project is that we’re putting together something none of us has ever seen before,” he says. “When we consulted leaders in all areas of communication, they challenged us to think beyond what we know as a studio and imagine a space where all SU students could explore, experiment, and invent across media and disciplines.”
Gensler, the architectural firm that worked on the feasibility study, will handle the design. Construction is slated to begin in April 2013 and last a little over a year. The new studios are expected to open in time for the fall 2014 semester.
Additional funding will come from several sources, including the
S.I. Newhouse Foundation and Syracuse University, as well as industry partnerships. Additional fundraising from alumni and friends of the
Newhouse School is also needed to support the project.
“The greatest contribution anyone can give, whether they are an alum, or someone who has hired an alum and benefited from it, is the ability to return the favor by helping us prepare the next batch of students just as well,” says Kramer.
Schoonmaker thinks connection to the industry through alumni and the school’s growing number of partnerships is crucial to the success of the project. “The studio complex must continue to support traditional media activities, but those activities no longer exist in a vacuum. As media practices converge and platforms multiply, our storytelling spaces and resources must respond in similarly inventive ways, preparing students of all media persuasions for the dynamic and uncertain terrain of today’s fascinating media landscape.”

The Newhouse School’s public relations program received an honorable mention in the
PR Education Program of the Year category of the 2012 PRWeek Awards. The awards are among the highest accolades in the public relations industry.
“Employers rate Newhouse public relations graduates as consistently ‘day-one ready,’” says department chair Brenda Wrigley.
“Our award-winning faculty members provide students with knowledge and application through comprehensive learning experiences and strong connections to the profession.”
The award citation listed several strengths of the Newhouse PR program:
• The Public Relations Student Society of
America (PRSSA) chapter, based at
Newhouse, has a record 150 members.
• Hill Communications was designated as one
of 20 student-run PR firms nationally
affiliated with PRSSA, and expanded to a
record 90 members last year with projected
annual revenue of a record $18,000.
• Students earned spots in the highly
competitive internship programs at
Lockheed Martin and PepsiCo, among
others.
• Within six months of graduation, 81 percent
of undergraduate and 89 percent of
graduate alumni are employed full time.
An awards ceremony was held in March in
New York City.
This spring, the Newhouse School and award-winning digital agency 360i announced the establishment of the 360i and Newhouse Digital Advertising Alliance. Made possible by a gift from 360i and the agency’s CEO Bryan Wiener ’92, the initiative will support the creation of a digital advertising program at Newhouse.
“We are so grateful to the many friends of Newhouse, like Bryan, whose generosity allows us to continue to offer a cutting-edge education to our students and be responsive to the rapidly changing communications industry,” says Newhouse Dean Lorraine Branham.
“Because of the 360i partnership, our advertising students will graduate with the digital chops they need to really compete for jobs and be successful in their careers. And we expect 360i to benefit as well, as the agency will have an opportunity to work alongside and collaborate with some of our best students.”
As part of the initiative, 360i will develop projects for selected undergraduate advertising classes, where students will form mock ad agencies and compete with one another to create a winning campaign. At the end of the semester, the students will present to the client, who will choose the winning team.
At the graduate level, students will travel to New York City for a one-day workshop at
360i, and will also work on a three-week project for the agency as part of their capstone course.
In addition, two 360i Fellowships will be available each year to juniors, seniors, and graduate students who demonstrate superior digital skills. Fellowships will include a summer internship at 360i and a mentor assignment. Fellows will also serve as 360i Ambassadors, visiting advertising classes to share what they learn through their internship.
A 360i executive will also come to campus to give a public lecture each fall. Wiener visited
Newhouse in February.
The initiative is part of 360iU, the agency’s educational center, which was created to cross-pollinate the agency’s deep and diverse knowledge base, and is part of an ongoing effort to educate its Fortune 500 clients, employees, and the industry at large on the new world of marketing and communications in which technological innovation is paramount.
“Through our 360iU initiative, we’re committed to investing in education for our employees, our clients, and the future digital leaders of tomorrow,” says Wiener. “The partnership with Newhouse furthers this aim and will help prepare a new generation of marketers to effectively navigate the rapid pace of change in the digital age.”

executive creative director, Grey
Healthy People
National Geographic photographer
vice president of recruiting with
Fleishman-Hillard
community manager, Bizzy
host, Tell Me More (NPR)
chairman emeritus, Interpublic Group
Emmy-winning executive producer,
Intervention (AETN)
filmmaker, Not My Life
president and COO, Universal Studios
CEO, mcgarrybowen
chief talent officer, Edelman
chief revenue officer, Zazoom
Incubator executive advisor, Encandle
senior consultant, Cause
Consulting
senior vice president of digital and home entertainment, Discovery Communications
vice president and chief marketing officer, NBA Development League
marketing executive and author
managing partner, GroupM
chief evangelist, PearlTrees
, director of photography;
executive producer;
actor, Veep (HBO)
free speech pioneer
chief people officer, WCG
social media manager, Ariba Inc.
senior vice president of human resources, APCO Worldwide
vice president of marketing and strategy, Merchant Warehouse Inc.
CEO, 360i
vice president of human resources and operations, 360 Public Relations
consultant, Almost Ubiquitous
actor/writer/director/ producer
Emmy Award-winning writer and co-executive producer, Modern Family (ABC)
Mary Beth Tinker, whose decision to wear an armband to junior high school in 1965 led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling upholding students’ free speech rights, visited Newhouse in March as a guest of the Tully Center for Free Speech.
Ron Meyer, president and COO of Universal
Studios, visited Newhouse in March for a Q&A with students. He discussed his career—from his first job as a messenger at the Paul Kohner agency to his current role as head of Universal—and offered advice to those seeking to make it in the entertainment industry. As you’re building your career, he said, “stoop to conquer.”
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Last year, Greg Bilazarian ’06 decided he had done his last television news stand-up in a snowstorm. He wanted to try something new.
So the former Toledo, Ohio, TV news reporter traveled to southeastern Europe to do volunteer work in Armenia and later landed a paid job as a news producer for a fledgling national news operation.
Bilazarian now lives in Yerevan, Armenia, and works for the Civilitas
Foundation, the parent organization for Civilnet TV.
Bilazarian, a Newhouse broadcast and digital journalism alumnus, co-manages the day-to-day Civilnet TV news operation, which is Internetbased. “I am the producer,” he explained via e-mail, “but keep in mind this started from zero. So I have had my hand in decisions ranging from personnel to chairs.”
Homeland heritage
The Philadelphia native had a good reason for choosing to go to Armenia: his family roots are there. His mother told him about the volunteer experience available through an organization that sponsors young people to serve in Armenia, and he expected to live there for two months. With his new role, he now expects to stay in Armenia for at least a year.

The Civilnet TV newsroom has about 40 employees, including five reporters and five videographers/editors. “I like to believe my biggest role is bringing some level of experience to a mostly green news team,” he wrote. “I also try to be encouraging and push our people to always try something new.”
The online media outlet, which debuted in September 2011, operates in a country where journalists don’t have the same access to public figures that American reporters have. “We recently did a story about parliament members simply not attending session. We called a rather famous member who said not to call him and we can only ask questions at press conferences, which he almost never has,” Bilazarian wrote.
Bilazarian also says that though content on Armenian web sites is fairly free of government intervention, only about 20 percent of Armenians have easy daily access to the Internet.
Giving back
To sum up his experience so far, the former WAER-FM sports director puts it this way: “Some people desire to work for a startup, so they do that.
Some people desire to work internationally. Some people desire to work in a language they don’t know yet. Some people desire to do some form of work to help their ancestral homeland. Some people desire to do some form of work involving a Third World or developing country. I’m doing all these things at once.”

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Professor Richard Barnhill happened to be the first person I ever met at Newhouse when I toured the school back in the fall of 1980. He also happened to be the last person I saw on the way out the Newhouse door four years later.
No one I know would call him, outwardly, the warmest or friendliest or most effervescent person they ever met. In fact, I actually wondered if he even knew my name when I walked into his office after the graduation ceremony.
“So what are your plans?” he tossed my way with artful aversion of eye contact. I was probably the hundredth or so person trying to grab that extra little tidbit of magic life advice on the way out the door.
“Well, I thought I would go back home and take a few months off, maybe travel a little, then who knows? Start a small production company in my hometown? I’m not really a big city person.”
He lifted his coffee to his lips, took a sip, and then shot me the eyes. I wasn’t really ready for them. In fact I was a little scared, like I had just had made him angry or something. But he wasn’t angry. Clear, penetrating, and succinct, but not angry.
“I taught you better than that, Mike. (how did he know my name?) Next week, you’re going to meet with these people (as he jotted some names on a half-sheet of paper) and you are going to finish the job you started here.”
Over the next 30 minutes he proceeded to retell me everything I already knew, but in a way that I would never forget—call it a heart-to-heart. In some ways I thought I had let him down (needing to hear everything in my insecurity and vulnerability)… but he didn’t belittle me. He just laid it all out in blunt simplicity. People don’t make it in this business by sitting back and waiting for fate to hit them in the face. They go out there, and they make it happen. They achieve by doing things!
Flash-forward a few weeks. While meeting with the Newhouse alums he connected me to (all of whom I am still in touch with today),
I found out that there is a term to describe my experience with Professor Barnhill on that fateful day. “That was the Barnhill method!” they all said. “How do you think we got where we are today?”
Flash-forward years later. I joined the
Newhouse School as a faculty member and introduced my advanced TV production students to Professor Emeritus Barnhill, the one who taught me everything I was teaching them.
After a stirring talk to the students, we sat down at Food.com for a cup of coffee. He was clearly awestruck by the new building and the energy of the students he had talked to.
“Some things really do change, Mike. I don’t know how you do it… keep up with it all.”
“Really?” I asked. “Is that a trick question?”
“Maybe,” he said as he watched the students all around us.
I couldn’t resist the reflective pause in our conversation. “As much as things change around here, certain things remain the same,”
I said. “These kids have quite a responsibility, you know. Underneath all the crazy changes in technology and the media they still have to tell a good story. They can’t do that by wishing, or philosophizing or reading a ‘how to’ manual or even by getting a diploma. To truly succeed, they have to roll up their sleeves, take the bull by the horns and do it! I call it The Barnhill
Method.”
He waved his hand at me and turned away for a second, but I’m pretty sure he smiled.
Michael Schoonmaker is chair of the Television-
Radio-Film Department at Newhouse.
Professor Richard B. Barnhill died November
29, 2011, at the age of 86. Born in Forest Hills,
New York, he resided in Cazenovia for more than 40 years. Before joining the faculty of the Newhouse School in 1966 as professor in television-radio-film, he was a WWII aviator in the U.S. Navy, then a production executive with WNBC-TV in New York. He was the 1990
Syracuse University Newhouse School Alumni
Association Distinguished Honoree recipient.
A proponent of “reality education,” he established the school’s Semester in New
York City program in 1986 in association with the National Academy of Television Arts and
Sciences. That program served to inspire the current LA Semester.

Samuel V. Kennedy III spent the first half of his career as a newspaper man, and the second half training a generation of reporters and editors at the Newhouse School. The retired associate professor and former chair of the newspaper department died February 20 at the age of 75.
He taught hundreds of students, including this one, to write obituaries.
Kennedy was born in Auburn, New York, on July 18, 1936. He graduated from Cornell
University and in 1960 joined The Auburn
Citizen-Advertiser where he worked as the managing editor until 1975. He brought his experiences with him to Newhouse in 1976 and shared them for the next 25 years. He taught reporting, editing, and newspaper management classes, all imprinted with Kennedy’s sense of sound journalistic principles and ethics.
Kennedy believed that the fundamentals never changed, even if the technology did. In his editing class in the late 1990s, we used pica rulers and resizing wheels for layouts. “You don’t know where you’ll end up,” he said in response to our loud protests. “You could land at some paper somewhere that’s still not using computers.” We doubted such a place existed until, of course, we began looking for jobs.
He taught us to write good headlines and, once we learned to keep headline counts, to write good headlines to size. We launched into an ethical discussion about whether the headline “Man Wins Lotto, Buys Farm” was appropriate for a story about a lottery winner who died in a subsequent car wreck. He taught us that copy editors check everything, especially whether the name of the bourbon stolen in the liquor story robbery was, in fact,
Old Grandfather. It’s Old Grand-Dad, actually, and some friends chipped in and bought him a bottle in tribute, presenting it to him at graduation.
Kennedy was gruff but kind, an archetypal newspaper editor and professor both. When a prospective student named Roy Gutterman came to visit Newhouse in the late 1980s, he found
Kennedy in his office smoking a cigar. “I thought, this guy seems like one of those old time editors you’d see in the movies,” says Gutterman, now an associate professor at Newhouse. “I was hooked then.” Gutterman took editing and newspaper business with Kennedy, who had a reputation for being a hard grader. “In class, he was difficult to please,” Gutterman recalls.
“There was no sugar-coating anything that happened in the newsroom, which is exactly what budding journalists need to hear.”
Kennedy furthered his own education at
Syracuse and earned a Ph.D. is history from the Maxwell School. His dissertation, “Samuel
Hopkins Adams and the Business of Writing,” was published by Syracuse University Press in 1999. He retired from the Newhouse School in 2001.
During his last semester at Newhouse,
Kennedy allowed Emilie Davis, an adjunct professor, to shadow him in his editing class, which she began teaching the following fall.
She completed the editing exercises and took
Kennedy’s current events quizzes. “Once in awhile, Sam would acknowledge my presence by saying something like, ‘You can tell the professional in the class’ when he would be looking over my shoulder at a headline I had just written,” Davis says. But Kennedy wouldn’t actually comment on the headline, and instead kept her guessing as to what he thought.
Davis’s favorite part of that last semester with Kennedy was walking with him to class.
He always took what he called “the Food.
com tour,” back when the small snack bar was tucked in a narrow passage between Newhouse
1 and 2. “Sam would call out to students in his class by name, give a wave or a nod as he walked by,” Davis remembers. “He told me he liked to connect with students that way before class, and I’m sure he also wanted them to know it was time to get themselves to the classroom.”
Aileen Gallagher is an assistant professor in the magazine department.

She now says the story was unlike anything she’d ever covered. Maggie Gordon ’08, a reporter for the Stamford (Connecticut)
Advocate, was assigned to cover a tragic story— on Christmas Day, no less.
Three young girls died during a Christmas morning 2011 fire in Stamford. The girls’ mother,
Madonna Badger, survived. The fire also took the lives of Badger’s parents, Lomer and Pauline
Johnson.
“It was sort of incomprehensible,” Gordon says. “Stamford’s mayor called Madonna
Badger’s loss ‘unimaginable,’ and I think that’s the only way to describe it.”
For a young reporter covering the education beat at a mid-sized daily newspaper, writing this story and continuing through to cover the funeral was daunting.
“Trying to find the words to convey a level of grief and heartache that I myself couldn’t comprehend was a true challenge,”
Gordon says. “But it wasn’t about me, or how challenging it was for me. It was about a woman who’d lost everything.”
As she prepared to cover the Badger family funeral in Manhattan, Gordon contacted Steve
Davis, chair of Newhouse’s newspaper and online journalism department and one of her former professors. She asked for his advice on how to cover the funeral.
“He told me to focus on putting people in the church and to make the story a description of the setting more than an arrangement of quotes,” Gordon says.
Many other reporters from major news outlets like The New York Times and CNN were at the church as well. Electronic coverage was banned at the service.
Because of Davis’ advice, Gordon says, she went to the church a day before the funeral and spent time taking photos, walking the aisles, counting the pews and reading a pamphlet about the church. She believes that familiarizing herself with the setting in advance made her story stronger than it might have been otherwise.
“I think Professor Davis’ advice is the best
I’ve ever received—no hyperbole,” says Gordon.
“As it was, I was able to focus completely on what was happening.”
“It was incredibly moving,” Gordon says of the service. “At one point, as I dabbed my eyes with a Starbucks napkin I’d found at the bottom of my purse, I looked over and saw that even the more ‘hardened’ reporters were also fighting back tears.”
Gordon credits her Newhouse news writing classes with preparing her to report a story like this. She said classes that required her to juggle multiple stories outside of her assigned beat were a tremendous asset to the work she now does.
And she learned how to tell peoples’ stories with dignity and in fine detail. “I learned that a terrible tragedy isn’t just a fire story.
It’s more than 25 inches written up by a crime reporter.”

Drew Esocoff
Whether they step or Skype into television-radio-film (TRF) classrooms, some of the sports and entertainment media’s top professionals taught classes at Newhouse this spring.
TRF has developed a new kind of course that brings leading industry professionals into classes to teach one-week seminars. “The one-week workshop model fits well with their busy schedules,” says Michael
Schoonmaker, TRF chair. “These instructors bring students fresh insights and challenges from their work environments.”
NBC Super Bowl Director Drew Esocoff taught a one-credit sports directing seminar to juniors and seniors. His visit complemented the
Newhouse School’s new Sports Communication Emphasis, which is offered through the master’s programs in TRF; broadcast and digital journalism; and magazine, newspaper, and online journalism.
Discovery Communications’ Ed Hersh ’75; Mike Krupat ’98 of Ryan
Seacrest Productions; and former Law and Order: SVU executive producer
Jon Greene ’85 also taught courses at Newhouse this spring.
Schoonmaker says that while students benefit greatly from the lessons taught by these experienced media professionals, the teachers themselves also learn some new things.
“The guest instructors often leave with very valuable insights of their own, courtesy of some of the brightest digital natives in the country,”
Schoonmaker says of the students.
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The Complex, a six-episode drama created by television-radio-film (TRF) students, has been honored with an Academy of Television Arts &
Sciences Foundation College Television Award for Outstanding Narrative Series. This is the second time TRF students have received the award.
Students Jasmine Alston and Elliott Regan accepted the award in Hollywood, California, in March.
“This is the ‘national championship’ of college-level television production,” says TRF chair Michael Schoonmaker. “These students not only wrote and produced a thrilling story, they also created an innovative production style employing new DSLR [digital single-lens reflex] technology along with some very gutsy camera moves. I couldn’t be more proud of them!”
The series was produced as part of the
Television Production (TRF 452/652) course at
Newhouse, taught by Schoonmaker. It can be viewed on YouTube.
Students include Alston, executive producer; Nick Brown, director; Milvionne
Chery, producer; Deborah Cohen, editor and set designer; Lindsay Cohen, art director and editor; Brittany Dandy, producer; Sullivan
Fitzgerald, writer; Josh Frackleton, director;
Heather Gately, set designer; Jude Gesek, writer; Shana Lawrence, head writer; Ryan
Little, writer; Andrew Loane, line producer;
Kristina Mazzarelli, line producer; Pat
McGuinness, director; Andrew Potoczak, writer;
Dan Powell, music producer; Elliott Regan, star and music designer; Joshua Rivera, writer;
Jake Rosen, production manager; Charlie Roth, writer; Kelsie Testa, production manager; Erika
Bertu, “Standards and Practices” (Classroom
TA); and Andrea Hall, “Standards and Practices”
(Studio TA).

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Frances cafarell ’74 is clerk of the court,
Appellate Division, Fourth Department, in New York.
John Sykes ’77 was named to the newly created position of president of Clear
Channel Entertainment Enterprises in
January.
80 s nina amir ’82 is the author of How to Blog a Book: Write, Publish and
Promote Your Work One Post at a Time
(Writer’s Digest Books).
Maria t. Welych ’83, g’96 was named to the board of directors of the
Technology Alliance of Central New York.
John opdycke ’89 is vice president of marketing at TOA Technologies.
Jeff glor ’97 is anchor of the Sunday edition of CBS Evening News and a special correspondent for CBS This
Morning. Bob Stohrer ’89 is chief marketing officer of Clear Channel Digital. He was previously vice president of corporate marketing at Sprint Nextel.
tracey Watkowski ’89 is vice president of news at KGO-TV in San Francisco. She was previously news director of KFSN-
TV in Fresno, Calif.
Juan carlos pedreira ’97 is partner and founder of @Social Matrix PR and a social media and political analyst for news station WUNO-AM in San Juan,
Puerto Rico.
cheryl Wills ’89 is the author of Die
Free: A Heroic Family Tale (Bascom Hill).
She is an anchor and reporter for cable news network New York 1 News in New
York City and blogs for The Huffington
Post and Essence.com.
00 s elizabeth gebler griswold ’00 was part of a team awarded a Merit Award as part of HOW magazine’s In-HOWse Design
Competition. She also won an American
Graphic Design Award from GD USA.
Griswold is a graphic design director for
MSA Architects.
Saul Wisinia ’89 is the author of
Fenway Park: The Centennial (St.
Martin’s Press).
Bryan LeFauve g’01 is executive vice president of SKM Group in Depew, N.Y.
Jim Weiss ’87, chairman and CEO of
WCG, founded and is head of the new
W2O Group, now the parent company of
WCG and two new firms, Twist and W2O
Ventures.
deb adair ’88 was part of a team nominated for an Academy Award for
Sound Mixing for her work on the film
Moneyball.
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Stacy Bierlein ’91 is the author of the story collection A Vacation on the Island of Ex-Boyfriends (Elephant Rock Books).
Liz poda ’91 is director of marketing at the Rescue Mission in Syracuse.
Krista Witanowski g’02 is assistant vice president of regulatory affairs at
CTIA, the International Association for the Wireless Telecommunications.
alan cavanna ’03 received the
Motorsports Journalism Award of
Excellence in honor of Russ Catlin, presented by Charlotte Motor
Speedway.
Jerry Leo ’88 is executive vice president for program strategy and production at Bravo Media. He previously served as senior vice president for program strategy and acquisitions.
tracy Smith ’91 is the director of development at Community Rowing Inc. in Brighton, Mass.
dan Menzel ’88 is senior vice president of cable sales at Warner Bros. Domestic
Television Distribution. He previously served as vice president of cable sales.
andrew Kaffes ’94 was named to the
Greek American Foundation’s “Forty
Under 40” list. He is the president of
A.G. Kaffes & Associates.
Brian Kanziger ’03 was named a 2011
Emmy Award winner at the 35th annual
Suncoast Emmy Awards for coverage of the shooting of Congresswoman
Gabrielle Giffords. He is an executive producer at WSVN/Channel 7 in Miami.
Jonathan gruber ’89 is the writer, producer, and director for the films
Jewish Soldiers in Blue & Gray and
Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story.
Kristin Bojanowski g’97 married William Bruton. She is a communications specialist at Praxair
Inc. in Tonawanda, N.Y. rene Marsh g’03 is a national correspondent for CNN Newsource.

ashley (hanry) Kang ’04, g’11 and her husband welcomed a son, Yoon-Mo
Desmond, in January. She is director of The Stand, Syracuse’s South Side
Community Newspaper Project, and serves as the community newspaper coordinator for Syracuse University.
Sinhue Mendoza ’08 is the Latino marketing manager for Sporting
Kansas City Soccer Club.
ali Jackson popp g’08 is marketing project manager for the Syracuse
Convention & Visitors Bureau.
Lauren Williams g’04 is deputy editor of The Root, The Washington Post
Company’s African American news and commentary site, where she previously served as associate editor.
Jeannie Wert ’08 is a cultural tourism manager for the Denver Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Mirel Ketchiff ’09 is an associate editor with First for Women. She was previously an editorial assistant.
cindy Krenek-arco ’05 married George
Arco. She is a public relations account executive at the Dalton Agency in
Jacksonville, Fla. arielle Berlin ’06 is an anchor and reporter at WPBN-WTOM TV 7 & 4 in
Traverse City, Mich.
10 s andrew africk ’10 is the media relations and broadcasting assistant for the Dayton (Ohio) Dragons, a minor league baseball team.
Marion (Bozzone) rechsteiner
’43, g’48 passed away in March.
An award-winning journalist and attorney, she was active in community service, and was one of 75 women nationwide to receive the General Mills 75th anniversary
“Spirit of Betty Crocker” award. harvey Katz ’49 passed away in June 2011. He spent a decade as a reporter for several weekly newspapers, and later served as director of corporate communications for Pan Am and president of the New York City
Convention and Visitor’s Bureau.
david Brewer ’06 is vice president of program strategy and acquisitions for
Bravo. He previously served as director of strategic program planning.
timothy Lehman ’11 is a strategic planning trainee for Publicis Singapore.
araksya Karapetyan ’06 is a general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor at KTTV in Los Angeles.
alex pines ’11 placed third in the
Narrative Multimedia Storytelling
– Features category of the Hearst
Multimedia Competition, part of the
William Randolph Hearst Foundation’s
Journalism Awards Program.
alexandra press ’06 is director of marketing at GraphEffect.
patrick Felton g’07 is an instructor at West Virginia State University, a blogger for Battleship Pretension and has a podcast, “That Conversation.”

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Ardavan A. Shahroodi and Susan M. Shahroodi
John M. Shaker
Lora A. Sharpe
Mark Shields
Howard S. Sholkin
Dr. Elizabeth Ann Skewes
Alan D. Slater and Gerri S. Slater
Albert P. Stauderman Jr. and
Helen M. Stauderman
Kim M. Steele
Fred K. Sternburg
Charles W. Stevens and
Dr. Jennifer Greene Stevens
Lewis H. Strauss
Andrew E. Suser and Randy D. Suser
John L. Sykes
Michael T. Tirico and Deborah G. Tirico
Luis C. Torres-Bohl
Michael J. Trach
Cynthia R. Trifone
Paul J. Trifone
Nicholas D. Trigony
Dr. Peter Tsairis and Aphrodite Tsairis
Robert A. Unger and Lauren S. Unger
Mark J. Verone and Dr. Rachelle D. Hardy
George P. Verschoor
Ira J. Wagner and Marcia L. Wagner
Raymond A. Wedlake and Nancy Joy Wedlake
Neal R. Weiner and Denise F. Weiner
Herbert E. Weisbaum
Bryan J. Wiener and Jessica L. Wiener
John R. Wildhack
Edward Jason Wise
Howard E. Woolley and
Gail A. Campbell Woolley
Ann Woolner
Frances P. Yariv
James D. Yoo
David M. Zaslav and Pam E. Zaslav
William C. Zimmer and Dana Iannielli Zimmer
Anonymous Friends
Edith A. Abedi
Donna R. Aboff
Cynthia R. Abrams
Stephen G. Adamek
Jason Albert Adams
Patrice G. Adcroft
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred G. Adler
Ada L. Agrait
Jennifer Gayle Ahrens
David V.T. Albrecht
Sally A. Alfis
Alyssa R. Allen
Dr. James E. Allison and Margaret G. Lindenstein
Dr. Gerald S. Alperstein
Jordana E. Al-Saigh
Andrea B. Altman
Robert D. Altus
Christopher Joseph Alvarez and
Jaime Winne Alvarez
John P. Amato and Lynn M. Amato
Michael E. Ambrose
Bryan D. Anderson
Theresa P. Andoniades
Lynn S. Angell
James J. Angelo and Mariellen M. Angelo
Kimberley K. Anstee
Lauren B. Antonucci
Joyce S. Appelman
Genaro C. Armas and Jennifer L. Zeigler
Garrett Odhiambo Arwa
Jeffery C. Atkins and Allison M. Atkins
Daniel E. Axelrod
Dr. James A. Azar
Franklin Baharestani and Soraya R. Baharestani
James W. Baird
Peter Baker
Edward E. Balaban
Miriam Jill Balmuth
Douglas W. Bandos
Matt Barbour and Jennifer A. Barbour
Carol A. Barkann
James Barker
Stephanie C. Barlow
Linda Barlow-Salkovitz
Beth E. Barnes
Joshua A. Barnett and Mary C. Barnett
Harvey B. Baron and Carol Sherman Baron
Maggie A. Barr
Marianne Barrett
Max H. Barsuk
Bruce M. Bartholomew and
Diane A. Bartholomew
Frank S. Barton and Jacquelyn S. Barton
Kerem G. Basul and Imer Basul
Anthony C. Battaglia Jr.
Nancie R. Battaglia
Lance P. Bauer and Tina M. Bauer
William Ryan Baum
Tracy A. Baumgardner
Theodore R. Bayer and Ellen S. Bayer
Michael L. Beebe and Lois J. Baker
James H. Beecher
Robert Allen Beeler Jr.
Douglas C. Behre and Lauren A. Behre
Edward B. Belkin and Bonnie R. Belkin
George Bellerose
Robert S. Benchley
Andrea M.S. Benoit
Thomas B. Benton and Lorraine K. Benton
Alan S. Berkowitz and Carolyn S. Berkowitz
Barry Berlin and Linda M. Berlin
Mark R. Berman
Nancy Leffler Berman
Gregg E. Bernard and Jennifer F. Bernard
Anne K. Bernard
Louise R. Beste

Mary Jane BeVard
Alex Bhargava
George D. Bieber
Patricia F. Bierlein
Karyn D. Bilezerian
Danielle Ashley Birenberg
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Alicia M. Blaisdell-Bannon
Bara I. Blender
Julie H. Blissert
Iris R. Blumenthal
Paul B. Boardman
Gregory A. Boc and Christine A. Boc
John T. Boggs
David E. Bohnert
David T. Boreanaz
Ray N. Bourque and Vicki S. Bourque
Cephas Bowles
Karlyn H. Bowman
Nancy J. Boyer-Rechlin
Adam W. Bozzi
Charles H. Bracken and Melinda C. Bracken
Barbara L. Bradley
Brian J. Brady and Anne Vaccaro Brady
Carolyn J. Brafman
Michelle Kanter Bramwit
Barbara A. Breen
Contessa L. Brewer
Alan J. Brignall
Alfred P. Briguglio and Rachel Briguglio
Pamela A. Brink-Mulligan
James R. Brinson Jr.
Wilfred P. Brolin and Kathyrn A. Brolin
Morgan A. Broman
Stanley Bertram Brooks
Brian D. Brooks and Kelly D. Brooks
Charles A. Brooks and Barbara R. Brooks
Hubert W. Brown and Nicole L. Brown
Harriet N. Brown
John D. Browning and Stephanie F. Baas
Pamela J. Bruzan
Eunice E. Bryant
James H. Byrne
Traci Ann Buch
Katelyn E Buress
Donald L. Burgess
John A. Burke
Eileen Burns
Cara A. Burrell
Richard C. Bush
Robert M. Butler
Nicholas A. Butterfield and Rachel B. Osborn
Gabriel L. Buzas and Jill Buzas
Jonathan Roland Cain and Colleen May Locke
Dr. James T. Carlin Jr. and Camille T. Carlin
Dr. Thomas J. Campfield and Deborah G.
Campfield
Joelle Cann
Maria E. Cantor
Jesse T. Caputo
Heather Marie Carman
Heather G. Carmen
Dennis B. Carmichael and
Rosemary Buckley Carmichael
Dudley S. Carpenter
Michael S. Carrington
Catrina Denise Carrington
Dr. Andrew M. Casden and Jeri D. Casden
Terence P. Casey and Karen B. Casey
Joslyn Matthews Cassano
Rosemary C. Catalano-Dillon
Allison L. Chanin
Jennifer A Chaput
Audrey Chen
LaTonya Denise Chenault
Dr. Anita P. Chirco
Stephen Chrepta and Stephanie Chrepta
Patricia R. Christakos
Lisa F. Chrystal
Beth A. Churchill
Karen H. Cialone
Christopher Ciereck and Christina Ann Ciereck
Susan Carole Ciotta
Louise E. Clark
Steven R. Clark
Stephen R. Clark and Susan K. Clark
Victoria Clarke
David E. Clayton
Gordon M. Clements and Dianne B. Clements
Deborah L. Coburn
Frederic M. Cochard
Mark H. Cohen
Dr. Neil M. Cohen and Dr. Debra D. Weissbach
Mark J. Cohen and Jean S. Cohen
Shelly D. Collins
Ada I. Colon
Heather R. Comak
Dr. Katherine E. Compagni
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Condon Jr.
Bruce A. Conger
Ceci Connolly
Michael P. Connors and Lisa E. Connors
John F. Conte
Michael W. Corbett
Jane Costello
Vincent P. Coveleskie
Christopher Michael Covello
David D. Coville and Shelly L. Coville
Edwin T. Cox Jr.
George T. Crandall and Barbara A. Crandall
Michael J. Criscione and Eileen N. Criscione
Joann M. Crupi
Kathleen M. Culleton
Deborah B. Curtis
Ronald J. Czajkowski
Sharon J. Dan
Anthony W. D’Angelo and Deborah A. D’Angelo
Tessa J. Darlington
Sharon R. Darver
Paula R. David
Steve Davis and Emilie D. Davis
Brian K. Davis
Krystle M. Davis
Misty Ann de Lamare
William T. Deane
Margaret H. Deardorff
Mr. and Mrs. John H. DeBonville
John M. Decker and Patricia M. Decker
Bradley S. Defoe
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Robin Seidner D’Elia
Aymon DeMauro
Joan A. Deppa
Sue Ann Devito
Sunny S. Deweez
Russell O. Di Bello
Nannette M. Diacovo
Phyllis L. Dickerson-Johnson
Richard M. DiNinni
James S. Dispenza
David E. Dix
Francis J. Doherty Jr.
Lynn E. Dolan
Beverly B. Dominy
Wendell C. Domon
Jacob Moffie Donnelly
Stephanie K. Donoghue
Gerianne W. Downs
Virginia G. Drew
Jonathan S. Drubner
Kristin Beth Dumont
Lisa Linz Duncan
John R. Duncan II
Diane W. Dunne
Maureen G. Renoff Dykstra
Ian Eagle and Alisa T. Eagle
Jeannette M. Eberhart
Michael L. Echols
Ruth Ann Edgett
Donald L. Edwards and Nancy E.S. Edwards
Amy R. Effron
Marcia A. Eldredge
Michael C. Ellison and Caroline James Ellison
Douglas W. Elmendorf
Robert D. Emer and Mindy R. Emer
George F. Emmons
Kevan R. Emmott
James W. Emr and Marian A. Emr
Thomas M. Engeman
Michael J. Eppinger
Robert J. Erickson and Sally F. Erickson
Desiree Marie Erway
Elizabeth M. Eulberg
Marsha C. Evans
Craig M. Evans and Faye B. Evans
Gladys B. Evans
Barbara S. Ewalt
Laura L. Faer
Seth T. Farmer
Pierre A. Fauconnet
Donna Faw
Michael A. Fayne and Kara A. Fitzsimmons
Karen E. Fedele
Steven R. Fedrizzi and Catherine Barry Fedrizzi
Barry M. Feinberg, Ph.D.
Howard Feld
Jayne J. Feld
Michael C. Felicetti
Jack C. Fensterstock and Dr. Mary J. Normandy
Andrea Nissen Ferguson
Kathleen Orr Feid
Dr. David N. Finegold and Dr. Judith H. Esman
Merry M. Firschein
Chester B. Fish Jr.
Thomas M. Flynn and Amelia E. Flynn
Jeanne Ann Forbis
Ira J. Forman and Audrey L. Forman
David Fossas and Courtney J. Fossas
Robert Arthur Foster
Salvatore C. Foti and Diane J. Foti
Henry C. Fountain
Timothy P. Fox
Dorrian C. Fragola
Giuliano Di Francesco and Edith L. Di Francesco
Scott Frank
Richard J. Frank and Elizabeth A. Warner-Frank
Deborah Anekstein Franklin
David W. Frasco
Pamela Giddon Freedman
Kristina R. Freeman
Richard D. French and Nancy A. French
Jacquelyn M. French
Ellen S. Friedman
Jeffrey L. Friedman
Jackie L. Friedman
Naomi Q. Funkhouser
Diane Roman Fusco
Edward A. Gala
Dennis T. Gallagher
Aileen E. Gallagher
Lauren Alyce Galliford
Dr. Wilfred E. Gallinek
Mary Gardner*
William S. Gaskill and Kathleen B. Burke
Maya L. Gasuk
Angela Lindsay Gaul
Rekha Gavini
William E. Gehrman
William Charles George and Irene Susan George
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond R. Gibaratz
Dr. W. David Gibson and Larissa W. Gibson
Randall J. Ginther
Richard G. Girard and Nina L. Girard
Charles I. Glidden and Lori A. Glidden
Matthew Q. Glynn
Tula Goenka
Jeffrey P. Gold
Abby G. Goldberg
Mark C. Goldberg and Abby J. Goldberg
Robert J. Goldberg and Karen S. Goldberg
Donna L. Goldberg
Dr. Anthony R. Golden and Rita J. Golden
Leslie Goldfarb
Jay P. Goldman and Rebecca S. Salon
Dr. Nancy T. Goldman
Roberto Juan Carlos Gonzalez-Homs
Mr. and Mrs. James S. Goodman
Kimberly Anne Gordon
Edward J. Gorham
Dr. Thomas J. Gould and Leslie R. LaPlace
William R. Gowen
Phyllis Kalman Grant
Gene A. Gravier and Margaret M. Gravier
Ronald S. Green and Kathleen Green
Sharon F. Greenberg
Glenn A. Greenberg
Gary L. Greenblatt and Linda S. Kobrin
Michael S. Greenstein and Heather A. Tully
Bruce T. Gregalis and Diane E. Gregalis

Benjamin C. Griffin
Martin T. Griffin
Alfred S. Groh
David R. Groobert
Steven N. Guarino
Steven C. Guggenheimer and
Julia E. Guggenheimer
Daniel G. Guller
Andrew W. Gumpert
Rob Gursha and Cathy Lehman Gursha
Michael Alan Gursha
Stacey L. Gusar
Michael E. Guterman and Cindy J. Guterman
Roy S. Gutterman
Nicholas Cornelis Haanschoten
Kristina Hahn
Sara C. Hahn
Kathleen M. Haley
Anna E. Hall
William A. Hammer and Nancy J. Hammer
Helen Budd Hanna
Kimberley Jacqueline LaNilla Hannah
Jennifer M. Hansen
Dori Ann Hanswirth
Dr. Kenneth A. Hapke
Edward J. Hardy Jr.
Susan G. Harrison
Stephen M. Hart and Ann M. Hart
Paul Hartley and Kathleen Hartley
Jeanette L. Havens
Jacqueline R. Hayes
Richard R. Haynes
Christopher M. Healey
Dr. Steven M. Heifetz and Andrea Heifetz
Lisa M. Heimann
Marc David Heintzman
Loren J. Henderson and Laura R. Henderson
Catherine Spencer Henn
Douglas P. Henschen
Christian Gail Henson
Vladimire Herard
Frank F. Herron
Beth N. Hershenhart
Roger J. Herz
Donald A. Herzog
Mary E. Heveron-Smith
Patricia A. Higgins
Adam W. Higman and Rebecca I. Higman
Louis Hillelson
Sari Alissa Hitchins
Yen L. Ho
Yi-Mou Ho
Vicki Ho
Philip R. Hochberg
Matthew T. Hoffman
Lisa Hollaender
Dr. Charles J. Holmes and Virginia M. Holmes
Bradley J. Horowitz and Jennifer L. Horowitz
Lisa A. Hoston
Ann Marie Houston
Norma Kemen Howard
Julia A. Howson
Francis Hozdic and Joanne Hozdic
Sean M. Hueber and Ilia Domon Hueber
T. Lee Hughes
Marc F. Hughes
James P. Hyland and Patricia A. Hyland
Joseph C. Ilvento Jr. and Tracy A. Ilvento
Chinemere V. Iregbulem-McGrath
Jeffrey M. Irvine and Heather L. Mayer-Irvine
Mark J. Isik
Lisa Magalnick Jacknow
Keith A. Jackson
Gary C. Jacobs
Vivien A. Jennings
David R. Jensen
Stanley Duncan Johnson
Janet Leah Johnson
Catherine E. Johnson
Marshall M. Johnson
Mark A. Johnson and Mary B. Johnson
Fred D. Johnstone and Leigh K. Johnstone
Patricia R. Jones
Hope A. Jordan
Pablo E. Joshua and Edith C. Joshua
Justin A. Joseph and Gail F. Joseph
Dr. Connie J. Jozwiak-Shields
Suellen Shapiro Kadis
Robert G. Kagan and Marcy Cain
Carol M. Kaganov
Richard J. Kahn and Mary Jo Kahn
Susan B. Kahn
Robert M. Kalik
Audrey Kalman
Beth W. Kanik
Charles N. Kantner III
Brian Clifford Kanziger
Dr. Stanley M. Kaplan and Pamela R. Kaplan
Joel K. Kaplan
Jeremy S. Karlin
Lisa S. Karp
Ralph A. Katz
Janet A. Katz
Glory W. Katz
Harvey L. Katz*
Dianne Levine Katz
Ari A. Katz
Richard S. Kauffman and Patricia L. Kauffman
Dianne M. Kavanagh
Karen Gleeman Kay
Theresa A. Kelly
Martha H. Kelly
Edward F. Kelton
David Kenin
Marion F. Kennelly
Leslie S. Kern
Kathleen E. Kerr
Amy L. Kersting
Mirel B. Ketchiff
Dr. David Ketchiff and Dr. Nancy B. Ketchiff
Aslum Ahmed Khan
Joan Killough-Miller
Michael J. King and Sarah A. Miller
Carmel P. King
Mary P. King
Brian A. King and Susan I. Grant
Elizabeth M. King
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Kinley Jr.
Madelyne F. Kirch
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Paul D. Kirschner and Nancy E. Powell
Jane E. Klaris
Jonas Klein
William E. Kloos
Susan H. Knapp
Kimberly A. Knight
Susan A. Koeppen
James Kollegger
Julie M. Kopfer-Marranca
Sarah Wells Korf-Dill
Mr. and Mrs. Henry P. Koritkoski
Barbara E. Kozel
Robert W. Kramer
Glenn S. Krassen
Randi A. Kravitz
Borys V. Krawczeniuk
Michelle L. Krebs
Jerome E. Krevit
Stephanie M. Krikorian
Barry B. Krinsky
Donald J. Krone
Michael Kuczkowski and Lisa B. Kuczkowski
Krystin M. Kunz
Walter F. Laboon and Corinne G. Laboon
Scott W. Lage
John Arthur Lahtinen
Timothy J. Lammers
Kelly Marie Lamothe
Mark E. Landesman and Jo-Ellen Landesman
L. Thomas Lane and Mary E. Lane
Jared S. Lanphere and Sara Katharine Lanphere
Alan H. Lapides
David R. Laputka
John A. Lasorsa and Suzanne C. Lasorsa
Dr. Robert S. Laubach
Alessandra H. Laufer
Diane LaVigna-Wixted
Mr. and Mrs. Verdell Lawton Jr.
Huu V. Le and Ngoc-Minh T. Le
Janet M. Lecuona
Jack A. LeCuyer and Karen F. LeCuyer
Steven D. Leeds and Wendy S. Leeds
Bruce A. Leichtman
Joseph M. Leogrande and
Dr. Cathy Jo Leogrande
Emily M. Leonardo
Sidney Lerner and Helaine C. Lerner
Alison J Leung
Hilary Kourtney Levin
Joel M. Levy and Marcia E. Levy
Jeffrey Licata
Eric Lichtblau
Mark S. Lieberman
Geoffrey Michael Linehan
James H. Lins and Patricia McKinney-Lins
Gene J. Lipman and Barbara A. Lipman
Adam R. Lippard
Stuart L. Lisson and Colleen M. Lisson
Mimi Yun Liu
Robert E. Lloyd and Dr. Carla Vaccaro Lloyd
Donald W. Lloyd
Mary R. Lloyd
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Loewrigkeit
Dane E. Lopes and Shari Lopes
Errol K. Loving
Elizabeth S. Lubliner
David L. Lucchino
Cynthia A. Ludvigsen
Joshua Lee Lukin and Lauryn B. Lukin
Dean L. Lunt and Michelle A. Lunt
Raymond Allen Lutzky
Brian N. Lynch
Rodney J. Lyndaker and Dawn K. Lyndaker
Timothy W. Lyons
Mark W. Maben
Paul H. MacClennan
Edward G. MacKillop Jr.
Bruce B. MacMillan and Linda L. MacMillan
Craig K. MacVittie and Karen A. MacVittie
Donald E. Magarian
Kevin D. Mahoney and Ellen Voelckers Mahoney
Dr. John P. Malcolm
Ilene Abbey Dorf Manahan
David A. Mandel
Abe N. Manela and Suzanne G. Manela
James C. Maneval
Hans B. Manning
Richard W. Manville
Joel H. Marcus and Helen G. Marcus
Dr. Andrew Markowitz and Carol Markowitz
Michael J. Marks
Dr. Steven D. Marlin and Patricia M. Marlin
Betty J. Marmon
Meredith S. Marmurek
Laurie A. Marr
David V. Marseglia
Pamela A. Marshak
Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Marson
Jason T. Martin
Dr. Margaret R. Martin
Karen R. Martin
Jillian Cohan Martin
Curt Martin and Claire Martin
Daniel G. Martinsen
David Marturana and Joan Marturana
Linda Sue Mason
Michael Joseph Masse and Sheri Appel Masse
Christine A. Mattheis
Theresa C. Mayhew
Adam M. Mazer
Darlene McCarthy
Brian D. McClintock
Stewart E. McClure and Susan H. McClure
Jasmine I. McCormick
Dr. James Fletcher McDonald
Elyse M. McDonough
Scott E. McDowell
Greg McGee and Karen M. McGee
Douglas C. McIlhagga
Heather L. McKernan
William J. McLaughlin
Patrick V.J. McLaughlin and
Margaret V. McLaughlin
Elizabeth M. McMahon
David C. McMenamin
Chris McMurry
Harry J. McNeill
Joseph McNelis
Linda A. McNelis

Adrienne Marie McWhorter
Leonard C. Mead III
Patti J. Meaker
David A. Meeker
Morris J. Mehlsak and Barbara F. Riegelhaupt
Jean Q. Meijer
Carol Melling
Audrey S. Melofchik
Michael Meltser
Charles M. Meltzer and Joyce Rubinson Meltzer
Judith A. Mendel
Robert H. Mendelsohn and Janet K. Mendelsohn
John S. Mengucci and Mary Ellen Mengucci
Marshall Merrifield and Virginia R. Merrifield
Richard K. Merrill
Eric A. Messer and Hillary C. Messer
Andrew D. Meyer
Dr. Mary Ann Meyers
Brianne Sarah Miers
Jeffrey M. Miller and Karen K. Miller
James F. Miller
Richard L. Miller and Anne E. Miller
Lynette C. Miller
Amy J. Miller
Steven M. Minn and Lucy B. Minn
Terence M. Minogue
Patrice Mitchell
Victor Mizrahi and Laurie R. Mizrahi
Cara S. Mocarski
Thomas J. Moore
Brian J. Moran and Margaret Moran
James W. Morris
James B. Morris
David S. Moser and Maureen T. Moser
Mark M. Motsko
Rebecca A. Motte
Jeffrey W. Mucciolo and Helen E. Mucciolo
Brian D. Mueller
Hugh O. Muir and Phyllis O. Muir
Rosa I. Mulryan
Julie K. Murinka
Meade T. Murtland
Linda S. Muschlitz
Andrew J. Musser Jr.*
Linda R. Myers
Rachel W. Nachman
Thierry Nantier
Lisa A. Nardone
Frank L. Natalizio and Susan L. Natalizio
Jeffrey T. Naticchia
Margaret T. Natter
Judy H. Nauseef
Jillian Neiberg
Daniel E. Nelson
David F. Nelson and Kim N. Nelson
Dr. Michael A. Newman
Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Newman
Craig L. Newman and Geraldine A. Onorato
Claire Lyn Newton-Saxon
Nichole Olette Bass Nichols
John G. Nolan, Jr. and Kathleen Nolan
Vincent A Nucatola
Benjamin Nunez and Avelina Nunez
Charles W. Nutt Jr.
Holly O’Brien
Dr. Mark J. O’Gorman and
Catherine E. Dowhos-O’Gorman
Ted N. Okazaki and Linda H. Okazaki
Samuel S. Olens and Lisa Z. Olens
Suzanna E. Ollove
Paula M. Olson
Deirdre A. O’Malley
Sara B. Onderdonk
Don P. O’Neill and Sandra C. O’Neill
Deborah L. Oonk
Dr. James S. O’Rourke IV
Tina R. Osmond
Donald E. Osteen
Robert J. Owen
Mary Catherine Palumbos
Joseph A. Pane and Maura B. Pane
Michael J. Parent
Jeffrey M. Park and Janet F. Park
Stuart I. Parker
Dana L. Parker and Michele M. Parker
Kathy C. Parker
Alison S. Pase
Carol A. Pasmore
Charles H. Passerman
Lois H. Pasternak
Merin Pasternak
Leigh Sclater Paterson
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond N. Patry
James Kipp Patterson
Lori V. Payne
Harry B. Peltz
Marc Penziner
Carolyn F. Per
Benjamin Perelman
Wendy R. Petrillo
David C. Peterson
Dr. Stacey A. Peterson
John P. Philbin, Ph.D.
Jonathan D. Phillips
Bruce C. Pilato
Amy J. Pikalek
Jane Anne Pincus
David A. Pines and Judy D. Pines
Frank Piraneo and Marie A. Piraneo
Justin Charles Pizzi
Stephanie T. Plotino
Alayne D. Podeszek
Dr. Philip J. Podrid and
Vivian A. Rubinstein Podrid
Tara A. Poitras
Keith M. Poliakoff
Irwin M. Pollack
Mark A. Pontius
Judith K. Popky
Patricia E. Poppe
Frank J. Posocco
Bruce R. Posten
Paul A. Powers
Dr. Frank C. Pregler and Jane E. Pregler
Carol E. Preston
Lauren S. Price
Jeffrey L. Price
Robert R. Procopio and Kathryn S. Procopio
Gregory P. Provenzo and Maria B. Provenzo
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Teresa S. Ptachick
Kelli S. Putney
Michael Putrino and Barbara A. Putrino
Philip M. Quartararo
Dr. William F. Quinlivan and Lorraine Quinlivan
Dr. Syedur Rahman and Tannaz K. Rahman
Kathleen T. Raleigh
Rachael L. Raynes
Dr. Michael V. Reagen and Susan C. Reagen
Russell D. Reed and Dr. Kathy M. Hay-Reed
Barbara C. Regnell
William J. Reich and Carol E. Reich
Hillary A. Reitman
Florence Reif Richman
Samuel R. Rimer and Paula F. Rimer
Melody H. Ritt
Gregory T. Rizzi and Cynthia Bolker
Andrew P. Robinson and Kitty W. Robinson
Patricia A. Roesch
Richard A. Rofman
David E. Rogers
John R. Rokicki and Jacqlyn D. Rokicki
Donald F. Romanelli
Mary E. Romano
Martin Thomas Ronan
Margaret MacKenzie Rooney
Martin K. Rorapaugh
Melissa H. Rose
Michael N. Rosen
Michael Rosen
Dr. Neil Rosenberg and Tamar Rosenberg
Glen C. Rosenberg
Gregory S. Rosenblum and Judith A. Rosenblum
Stephen Rosenfeld
Cheryl A. Rosenfield
Jonathan S. Rosenthal
Jonathan Howard Ross and
Kathleen Virginia Poe Ross
Marla W. Rothfarb
Peter N. Ruben and Karen H. Ruben
Ilene Rubin
Cheryl D. Rucker-Morris
Linda I. Rudberg-Thibodeau
Susan W. Rushford
Richard A. Russell and Maria P. Russell
Amanda J. Russell-Brown
Linda E. Russman
Ted P. Rysz Jr. and Mary C. Rysz
Franklin J. Rytkonen and Alaina B. Smith
Walter R. Sabo Jr.
Jason R. Sacks
Dr. Robert P. Sadowski and
Dr. Barbara R. Sadowski
Rana S. Said
Marty A. Salmon and Colleen A. Salmon
Sherwood Allen Salvan
Melissa U. Samuels
Joyce S. Sanders
Daniel S. Sandman
Libby S. Saypol
Lisa M. Scagliotti
Richard J. Scarcella and Sandra A. Scarcella
Nikki Scarpitti
Thomas J. Scheg and Susanne M. Scheg
Gary R. Scheiner
Andrew H. Schenkel and Cara O’Brien Schenkel
Michelle A. Schiavoni
Joseph M. Schlesinger
Herbert S. Schlosser
Melanie L. Schreiner
Kenneth E. Schretzmann
Jean S. Schubert
Steven Harry Schuelein
David Schwartz and Jo-Ann Lung
Dr. Mark R. Schwartz and Joy M. Schwartz
John Paul Scott and Delia Gerace Scott
Michael G. Scotto
Richard L. Searight and Cynthia H. Searight
Valerie A. Seckler
Gina M. Seibold
James L. Sell and Barbara Sell
Ethan D. Selzer
Ronald P. Sepic
Curtis F. Shadle and Lucinda T. Shadle
Sassoon E. Shahmoon and Barbara J. Shahmoon
Marvin L. Shapiro
Nelson S. Shapiro and Dianne S. Shapiro
Allyson M. Shepherd
Leah Smith Sheppard
Daniel J. Sherman
Glenn R. Showalter
Wendy Green Sibley
Ronald I. Silbergeld and Lois T. Silbergeld
Cynthia G. Simison
Michelle J. Simon
Edwin C. Simon
Howard K. Simon
Ellis B. Simon
Hedy G. Siroty
Lauren M. Skowronski
Karen G. Sladden
Darryl P. Slater
Douglas C. Smith
John W. Smith and Jean A. Smith
Jolana Leigh Smith
Ronald D. Smith
Lyndell D. Smith
Michaelene A. Smithgall
Susan Pannier Snowdon
Mark A. Solimanto and Diane D. Solimanto
Justin Michael Sondel
Dr. Stephen A. Spaulding and
Dr. Theresa A. Spaulding
Nancy Spears
Heidi E. Splete
Laurie A. Sprague
Michael J. Sprague and
Courtney M. Taurisano-Sprague
Jason E. Squire
Jennifer M. Sricharoenchaikit
Jean F. St. Denis and Lydia St. Denis
Stewart H. Stabley
Robert K. Stahl and Debra L. Stahl
Renita Carmen Stangel
Dr. Richard L. Stein
Michael A. Steinberg
Dr. Lisa A. Stephens
Amanda Sara Stern
Carol A. Stevens

David G. Stevenson
James R. Stirn and Miriam G. Stirn
Kenneth Stiver and Judith Stiver
Fredric I. Stockfield and Mindy S. Stockfield
John M. Straetker and Diane M. Straetker
Douglas S. Strahan and
Diane G. Schehr-Strahan
James L. Stratford
Jennifer Anne Strathman
Megan Anne Stull
Barry S. Stuppler
Amanda B. Sugalski
Nicole T. Sullivan
Suzan L. Sussmann
Charles A. Sutter and Kathleen S. Sutter
Denise M. Swanteck
Denis P. Sweeney
Douglas E. Sweetbaum and
Karen M. Sweetbaum
Bernardino S. Tabios and Phenenna T. Tabios
William W. Tague
Marilyn Marks Tal
Matthew B. Taylor and Michele E. Taylor
William N. Taylor
Marilyn Seitlin Tendrich
Michael J. Terpin
Janice V. Thomas-Harris
Lisa M. Thompson
Martin N. Timins
Kenneth J. Tokarz
Lawrence M. Tolchin and Susan P. Tolchin
Joseph P. Toscano and Tracey J. Toscano
Cynthia D. Tower-Loewen
Charles A. Trabandt and Joan S. Trabandt
Barbara N. Trach
Dr. Russell P. Tracy and Dr. Paula B. Tracy
Monica E. Trauzzi
Cory R. Treffiletti
Kristin Marie Treier
Theodore Jose Tristan
Craig M. Troskosky
Bruce J. Tufeld and Emily J. Tufeld
Richard E. Tunkel and Kristin Lynn Tunkel
Dr. Rich W. Turner
Karl L. Turner
Susan E. Valerian
Barbara M. Valuckas
Lynn A. Vanderhoek and Michael J. Van Vranken
Kristen Ann Van Etten
Thomas J. Vangeloff
Douglas W. Varney and Deborah S. Varney
Donald J. Ventre
Christopher K. Veronda
Richard J. Vertucci
Edward V. Vienckowski and
Beverley C. Vienckowski
Mark L. Vigliatura
Madeleine Vilmos
Jennifer L. Voss
Cynthia G. Wagner
Jeffrey C. Wakefield and Gail F. Wakefield
Laura R. Walbert
Deborah J. Waldman
Greg M. Walker
Diane Lebo Wallace
Tara K. Walsh
Brett M. Warren and Ellen F. Warren
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Wasif
Donald C. Waters
Daniel R. Watson
Dr. Andrew S. Weber and Laury I. Weber
Brad Wechsler
Debra B. Weinfeld
Mac D. Weinstein and Brooke H. Weinstein
Debra G. Weinstein
Jean M. Weisberg
Thomas P. Welch
Jerry S. Welcher and Nancy J. Welcher
Dawn L. Welch-Rich
Jill K. Wells
Thomas P. Werme
Christine A. Werthman
Robert S. Westwood and Karen I. Westwood
Lara K. Westwood
Thomas E. Weyand
S. McCorvie Wham
Brent D. Wheat and Donna C. Wheat
Bonnie W. Wheeler
Andrew D. White and Deborah Gelfand White
Sandra H. Whitman
John E. Willey
Lisa A. Williams-Fauntroy
Dolores A. Williamson
Eugene R. Wilson
Jennifer R. Wilson
Christopher H. Wilson
Kimberly Burgess Wilson
Nya A. Wilson
Ian C. Wishingrad
Marisa Wohl
Suzanne Wohl
Michael Wolf
Tracey Palmer Wood
Robert P. Woods
Dr. John K. Worden
Robert H. Wotherspoon II
Patricia Wright
Richard L. Wright
Dr. Brenda J. Wrigley and Catherine L. Pontante
Stephen J. Yesner
Jennifer L. Yolasan
Kirsten L. York
Carol J. Young
Kathleen M. Young
Charles Yrigoyen III
Kelvin Ang Jun Yu
Robert B. Yunich
Betsy G. Zaplin
Richard M. Zeldes
Lee M. Zurik
Renee M. Zutter
David J. Zych
*Deceased
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United Technologies Corporation
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Universal Studios Inc.
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