1937-1999
Thousands of undergraduate students have received advertising, journalism,
public relations, radio, video, mass media and
communication-related degrees from the University of Idaho since these courses were first offered (check out the timeline link).
Today, our alumni are leaders in media organizations around the country and
the world.
Below is a sample of our graduates.
Approximately 110 students graduate every year from our department.
Please contact us at
jamm@uidaho.edu and let us know
when you
graduated and what you are doing.
1999
Rebecca Boone (pictured below left) is a reporter for the
Associated Press in Boise, Idaho. She is
also a member of the JAMM Advisory Board.
Michelle Darcy
is the events coordinator at the Boise Art
Museum.
Angela Devlin works in Atlanta, Georgia, as an art director for the ad
agency,
ComGroup.
Gary Engel
is creative director at a Boise ad agency.
Casey Hanrahan is associate publisher at
the Sun Valley Press in Hailey,
Idaho.
ShanRae (Hook)
Hawkins is the marketing director for The Shops and Old Mill District in
Bend, Oregon.
Ian Kramer manages public and analyst relations for a leading software
company,
AppWorx Corporation,
based in Seattle, Wash.
Andrew Longeteig
is a
communications specialist for Vestas - American Wind Technology,
Portland, Oregon.
Todd
Mordhorst is a sports writer at
The Chico Enterprise Record in Chico,
Calif.
Brad Oakland
is the owner/manager of Fringe Benefit Resources, a Boise, Idaho insurance
company.
Jessie (Baranco) Speck (pictured
right) is a Boise realtor at
Keller Williams Realty and co-owns owns
Speck Buildings with her husband Andy.
Jessie and Andy live in Boise with their two
daughters, Sydney and Skylar,
and their two golden retreivers.
Trinity (Henshaw) Spencer
is the assignment
editor at KREM-TV in Spokane, Wash.
Andrew White is
vice president of National Bark Sales, a Boise company that manufactures
wood fiber into decorative bark, mulch and soil conditioner products that
are sold throughout the U.S. and in many foreign countries.
Chris Wong is web, ad and multi-media producer for Shiiki and Sichler in
Portland, Oregon.
1998
Josh Beebe works for
Coldwell Banker.
Evan Clements
is in the film production business in Sherman Oaks, Calif.
Doug
Farr is an instructor at Jack's Diving Locker in Kona, Hawaii.
Andy Favor
is production manager at KNIN-TV in Boise, Idaho.
Eric Foster (pictured left)
is the video production
manager of
Element Media Products in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
Kelli Johnson (pictured
right)
is a sports anchor and reporter in the
Baltimore-Washington DC market.
Along with her duties on the Redskins beat, and as the sideline reporter for
preseason games, she also serves as an anchor for SportsNite and
SportsRise. She
anchors sportscasts on weekend and covers the Orioles.
Joni Kirk
(pictured left)
is
Associate Director of
Media Relations
for the University
of Idaho.
Bryant
J. Kuechle (pictured
right)
is
a public
involvement specialist with The Langdon Group (www.langdongroupinc.com)
in Boise.
Lisa Lannigan
is the web editor and a graphic designer for the Seattle Daily Journal of
Commerce www.djc.com
Mark McEnaney
(pictured left)
1998 Ad
Team's
Purple Cow Creative co-creative director
for the Hallmark campaign.
After two years at the
Portfolio Center in Atlanta, then getting married, then heading to the Peace
Corps in Honduras for 18 months, he moved to Atlanta and started a career as
an account coordinator, then account exec. He is now senior art director for
a sports and entertainment marketing agency. They work heavily in
motor sports (NASCAR) but are branching out into other sports as well.
Clients include UPS, SunTrust Bank, NASCAR, country music festivals, ESPN
and a number of other companies needing project work.
Jon Paris Nicholson
is an event planner for Allen &
Company LLC in Hailey, Idaho.
Shannon (Paterson) Reagan
(pictured right) is a news anchor/reporter at
KTRV-TV in Boise, Idaho.
She is also a member of the JAMM Advisory Board and married to 1997
graduate,
Michael Reagan.
Brian Tario
is the owner of
Aujom Productions
in Las Vegas for over two years. Aujom specializes in creating content for
digital signs in and around casinos, using lots of After Effects for plasma
screens and LED boards.
Joe Taylor is programming
director at The Aspen Channel in Aspen, Colorado.
Paul Terhaar (pictured
left) is an interactive developer for
Wirestone
in Boise, Idaho. He designs, develops and programs CD-ROMs and Flash-based
websites and applications.
Joel
Thomas (pictured right) is a running back coach at
Purdue.
Jadie Zimmerman is the senior editor at Flicker
and Blur, the video
post side of Clatter and Din, an audio production facility in Seattle.
1997
Tara
Bowers is a media planner at
Weiden +
Kennedy in Portland (the agency that handles Nike and ESPN).
Chris Clancy
is production manager at the Pacific Northwest Inlander in Spokane, Wash.
Chad Collins is Director of Ticket Sales for the
Sacramento River
Cats in West Sacramento, Calif.
Brian Davidson
works as a
technical writer at the Idaho National Laboratory, and is also Co-Director
of Creative Content for uncharted.us, a budding travel community based in
the Intermountain West.
Megan Erb is a producer for
The Seattle Channel and a freelance
writer who lives in Seattle.
Melica Johnson
(pictured left) is the
chief political reporter and Salem bureau chief for KATU-TV in Portland,
Oregon.
Mike Kerby is the managing partner at
c308
Marketing, an advertising agency in Boise, Idaho.
Aimee (Schendel) McAuliffe
is the Manager of
Member Programs & Education for the
Oregon Association of
Nurseries
in Wilsonville, Oregon.
Kevin Neuendorf
is manager of media services for the U.S. Olympic Committee in Colorado
Springs.
Amy
Pence-Brown is associate curator of art for the Boise Art Museum.
Michael Reagan is a creative director at
MMG
(Marketing Media Group) Advertising, in Boise, Idaho. He is married to 1998
graduate Shannon Patterson Reagan.
Sean Wilson (pictured right) is a realtor with
Bennett & Associates in Moscow.
1996
Jeff Albertson
is a reporter with
The Seattle Times in Seattle, Wash.
John Drake is an
account supervisor for
Wong Doody in Los Angeles.
Katie Kerby is the corporate event
manager at
c308
Marketing, an advertising agency in Boise, Idaho.
Sean McAteer
has
worked the last seven years at
KPVI-TV, Pocatello, Idaho, as a
videographer. His official title is Chief Photographer.
Jennifer L. Moore
is a coordinator for the Student Activities and Leadership Program at
the University of Idaho.
Travis Quast (pictured right) is advertising director at
The Idaho Statesman
in Boise. Travis
has worked in newspapers for over 14 years, including The Salt Lake
Tribune/Desert News, and The Bellingham Herald.
When he was a student,
he worked as a sales rep for the Argonaut for three years, eventually
becoming the ad manager. During his two years
as the Retail Advertising Manager in Bellingham, WA. Travis was recognized
with the Gannett Retail Advertising Manager of the Year Award in 2003.
Bradley Rake
is a multi-media producer for
LIME Financial, a
non-prime residential mortgage leader.
Gary
Salzman is
special projects photographer at
KTVB-TV
in Boise, Idaho.
Dean Shirley (pictured
top left) works at KATU-TV in Portland,
Oregon, as a creative services producer.
Jill (Gaylord) Thompson is a product press relations manager at
Micron Technology in Boise, Idaho.
Teo (Machacek) Torres (pictured
left)
is
morning anchor at
KRON-TV in
San Francisco.
Tracy Turner (pictured
right)
is a meteorologist at WHSV-TV in Harrisburg, Virginia.
Shane Vaughan is
Vice President of Marketing for
Balihoo (see compnay
logo left), a search engine for the advertising industry in
Boise, Idaho.
1995
Victor Camozzi
is a
creative director for Southwest Airlines and AT&T,
working for
GSD&M in Austin, Texas.
Brett Craig is the creative director of the current national TV ad
campaign for the Nissan Maxima. He works for TBWA\Chiat\Day in Los Angeles,
Calif.
Stillman "Zac" Fink
is the assistant general manager at the Film Technology Company in Los
Angelas, Calif. In 2007, the company completed restoration work on films
shown on Turner Classic Movies.
Tim Helmke is associate director of alumni relations for the
University of Idaho.
Bridget Lux
works as a freelance travel journalist - writer, photographer and editor -
based on the French Riviera.
Amy Troute started her own ad
agency,
Agency86
in Portland, Oregon.
1994
Greg Burton
is the Metro/State editor for the
News Journal in Wilmington, Delaware.
Nancy (Shaffer) Hart lives in Hayden, Idaho, and is the mother of two
adorable children and beautiful yellow Labrador.
Shari L. Ireton
is the public
information and outreach officer and alumni magazine photo editor for the
University of Washington School Law.
Shiloh (Welk) Holmes
is program director at
KTRV-TV
in Boise, Idaho.
1993
Shawn Barigar is president and chief executive officer of the
Twin Falls
Area Chamber of Commerce. He also is a member of the Twin Falls
City Council. He formerly was the chief spokesperson for Magic Valley
Regional Medical Center.
Kendall
Kaiser is video
editor at CAESY Education Systems in Vancouver, Wash.
Marc Skinner is assistant director of the UI School of Journalism and
Mass Media.
Viviane Gilbert
Stein is Sunday
Editor at
The Tri-City Herald in Kennewick, Wash.
1992
Nicole Charlton is the advertising sales manager for
The Idaho Statesman
in Boise, Idaho.
Kelly Culp owns Agency 65 in Bend, Oregon.
Matt Kitterman is a classroom support technician at the
University of Idaho.
Michael Lewis
is a sports columnist with
The Salt Lake Tribune in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Karen Toronjo works in film
production in Los Angeles. Here's a link to her credits:
www.imdb.com/name/nm0868248
Michael Weitz
is production manager at KAPP-TV in Yakima, Wash.
1991
Joe Hughes (pictured
left)
is sports anchor at
KIVI-TV in Boise, Idaho.
Otis Livingston (pictured
right) is a sports anchor/reporter for
WNBC-TV in New York City.
Dan Moyer is owner of After Image Visual Services in Moscow, Idaho.
Dena (Bandazarian)
Nishek is a self-employed
writer/editor in Boulder, Colorado.
1990
Matt Helmick
is multi-media manager at Sirta in Spokane, Wash.
Margaret (Eyrse) Lanphier (pictured left) is part of the New Media Department at
The Seattle Times, Seattle, Wash.
Ed Moore founded and owns an ad agency, MMG Advertising, in Boise,
Idaho.
Jan Oddvar (Olsen)
Sørnes is an
associate professor of organizational communication Bodø Graduate School of Business in Norway.
Tim Spaulding is
Producer/Director for In-Service/Special Projects at
STEP Star Network,
in Spokane, Washington.
Jeff Tucker (pictured right) is the production manager for
Idaho Public Television in Boise, Idaho.
Evan Wirig is an associate professor and department chair of the
Department of Media Communications at Grossmont College, El Cajon, Calif.
1989
John Altenhofen writes and produces local commercials and corporate
videos for KVOS-TV in Bellingham, Wash.
Kari (Harder) DeMarco
teaches
gifted elementary students in Wenatchee.
Neil R. Hahn (pictured
right) is a communications system designer for
URS Corporation in Denver, Colorado.
Ben Long is Montana program
director for
Resource Media, a non-profit organization whose goal is to focus
public attention on the changing environment by improving media coverage. He
managed media relations for the Sportsmen for Initiative 143 campaign, the
only pro-environment ballot initiative to pass in Montana’s 2000 election.
Patrick Pfeifer and Mike Swan ('87) founded Pfeifer/Swan
Creative agency in Walnut Creek, Calif.
Alan Solan is a
copy editor for the
Moscow-Pullman Daily News
in Moscow, Idaho.
Ronald (Jeff) Stoffer
is managing editor of
The American Legion Magazine.
1988
Aaron
Atkinson is
operating manager and program director at
KRLF-FM in Pullman, Wash.
Bob Bain is the university photographer for
San Jose State University.
John Delay
manages the City of Spokane's Video Production and Cable Television facility.
Chandra (Zenner) Ford is senior director of development for the
University of Idaho’s College of Business and Economics, based in Boise.
Megan Guido is
executive director of the Pullman Regional Hospital Foundation
Alison Kartevold (pictured left) is
a television reporter
for NBC News.
Mitch Wasson works for Mitech Design Services in Spokane, and does
audio/video systems design and integration.
1987
Keli Craig is working in the film industry.
Greg Meyer
is news director at
KLEW-TV in Lewiston, Idaho.
Sarah
(Heath) Palin
(pictured right)
is the
new governor of Alaska.
Read more about her on her Web site at
palinforgovernor.com/aboutSarah.html.
Rance Pugmire
(pictured left)
is senior associate
athletic director at Idaho State University.
Christopher Schulte
is sports editor at
The Springfield News-Leader in Springfield, Missouri.
Mike Swan and Patrick Pfeifer ('89) founded Pfeifer/Swan
Creative agency in Walnut Creek, Calif.
1986
Andrea Chavez
is an administrative assistant in the Teaching, Learning &
Leadership Division of the UI College of Education.
Greg Clifford (pictured at righ) is equipment support services
manager of Academic Support Services at the University
of Idaho. He's married to Karin Clifford, administrative assistant at the
School of Journalism and Mass Media.
Byron Diehl is a multimedia supervisor for
Idaho State Police.
Tim Griffis is a news photographer at
KOMO-TV in Seattle, Wash.
Russ Leatherman (pictured left) is the founder of
Mr. Moviefone and reviews movies for
CNN.
Stephen Lyons
is a freelance writer who lives in
Monticello, Illinois. His articles, essays and reviews have been published
in the
Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times,
Chicago Tribune, Salon, Chicago Reader, USA Today and San Francisco
Chronicle.
His latest book,
A View from the Inland Northwest,
a collection of meditative essays, was published by Globe Pequot.
Maria Ranniger (pictured right) is owner/manager of MTR Communications in Spokane,
Wash. She is also a member of the JAMM
Advisory Board.
Dave Tester
is head of a group of Southern Idaho radio
stations under the "Tester Broadcasting" banner.
James Zimmer works at Avid Technology in Massachusetts.
1985
Melinda (Mindy)
Belt is
Director of
Marketing Communications for Third Millenium Healthcare Systems Inc., in
Atlanta,
Georgia.
Jana (Jones) Chalfant
is director of economic development services for the Boise Valley Economic
Partnership, a division of the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce.
Tim Frates
is general manager of
The
Daily Press
in Montrose, Colorado.
Patrick Grimes
is an operations technician at
KXTV-TV in Sacramento, Calif.
Laura Hubbard will join the University of Oregon in mid-October as
associate vice president for budget and finance. In that position, she will
direct the planning and budget, institutional research and business affairs
functions of the university.
Cal Humphries
works at TCI Media Services in Corvallis, Oregon.
Jeff Kimberling (pictured left)
is an equipment support
services tech in Academic Support Services at the University of Idaho.
.
Carol (Woolum)
Roberts
is the author of “Nightmare at Dream Gulch, or... Wake Me When It’s Over,”
presented in July of 2007 by the Sixth Street Melodrama in Wallace, Idaho.
Marsha Kay Schoeffler
(pictured right) is
owner/manager of
Marsha Que
Sera Productions in Moscow, Idaho.
Steve Schwalbe is a sound effects editor in California and has
worked on many movies.
Marvin Wadlow
is a film and television producer with Mighty Media in Woodland Hills, Calif.
1984
Brian Beesley (pictured left) is the design editor of
the
Lewiston Tribune, Lewiston, Idaho.
Ben Endow is the director of engineering for USA Broadcasting.
John Heffner
(pictured right)
is chief executive
officer of
Creative Nail Design.
Nancy (Metcalf) Nelson teaches first- and second-grade students at
Sunnyside Elementary School in Pullman, Wash.
Dena Rosenberry is editor of the Life section at
The Gazette
in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Caroline Nilsson Troy is the director of development for the College
of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences at Washington State
University.
1983
Erik Anderson is
director of educational communications in the College of Agricultural and
Life Sciences at the U of I.
Sherey Gould owns her own
California-based firm,
Busco/Sherey Gould Translations, providing
German to English translations for a variety of business clients.
Margaret Nelson
is a broadcaster at KHITS 107 in Boise, Idaho.
Brian Royster
is special projects director at KNIN-TV in Boise, Idaho.
Marilyn (Dokken)
Tarter is the community liaison officer of the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok,
Thailand
1982
Bill Will is
general manager of the
Washington Newspaper Publishers Association.
1981
Kathy Barnard
(pictured left)
is senior public relations specialist for the College of Agricultural, Human
and Natural Resource Sciences at Washington State University.
Kim Crompton is news editor at The Journal of Business in Spokane, Wash.
Pam (Neil)
Crowson
is an editor for
In-Store Broadcasting Network in Salt Lake City, Utah, which provides an
in-store music service and broadcast-advertising network for delivery within
supermarkets and drugstores.
Melissa
(Larson) Hughes
is national sales assistant at
KTRV-TV
in Boise, Idaho.
Jenie (McDaniel) Johnson is the marketing director for Bogus Basin
Mountain Resort in Boise, Idaho.
Mike
Stafford is the assistant juvenile court administrator and probation
manager for Kittitas County in Ellensburg, Wash.
Linda Weiford is a freelance writer based in Bend, Oregon.
1980
Scott
Albright is the
founder of Winds of Praise Broadcasting in Newport, Oregon.
Brad Beckman
(pictured right)
is a video producer/director for the UI in Boise, Idaho.
Jim Borden is managing
editor of
Kalamazoo Michigan newspaper.
Coralee (Auverson)
Brewer is
prepress coordinator at Cowles Publishing/Spokesman Review in Spokane, Wash.
Chuck Christopher
started and owns an ad agency,
Advantage Advertising, in Lewiston, Idaho. He is also the
governor of Idaho Advertising Federation.
Kelly (Crocker)
D’Alessio is a
writer/producer at KSL-TV in Salt lake City, Utah.
John Hecht
(pictured left)
is a Natural Resources Technical Writer/Editor in Boise, Idaho
at the Pacific Northwest Regional Office
of the U.S. Bureau of
Reclamation. He
is also a member of the JAMM Advisory Board.
John Heffner
is a freelance writer and novelist.
Steve Jackson
is a news anchor/reporter for
KPBX-FM in
Spokane, Wash.
Kristen Moulton-Cilwick
is a reporter at The Salt Lake Tribune in Salt Lake City, Utah.
U.S. Army Col. Daniel
N. Tarter is the U.S. defense attache in Rangoon, Burma.
Bernie Wilson
is a sports writer for the
Associated Press
in San Diego, where his beat includes the Chargers and the Padres.
James Wright
is the international
media management consultant for The Journalism Development Group in Algiers,
Algeria.
1979
Marilyn
Denis is a
broadcaster at CHUM Radio/TV in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Diane Frisch
is
vice president and general manager of the
Journal Broadcast Group’s Tucson operations. She oversees four
radio stations:
KFFN-AM, sports radio; KMXZ-FM, adult
contemporary; KZPT-FM, modern adult contemporary, and KGMG-FM, rhythmic
oldies.
Bill Lewis is the Connecticut Editor at
The Hartford Courant in Hartford, Conn. He teaches journalism
part time at the University of Connecticut.
Becky Paull is
assistant athletic director for media relations at the University of Idaho.
Marty Trillhaase
is opinion editor of The Post-Register in Idaho Falls.
Greg Williamson
(pictured right)
hosts the morning show as G-Dub at KOOL 104.3 FM in
Boise, Idaho.
1978
Sandi (Carlson) Noah
is director of corporate communications for
OMNOVA Solutions Inc., in Akron, Ohio.
Gregory J. Williamson, morning DJ
on "Cool 104.3 FM" Boise, Idaho, top rated "oldies" radio station. Voice
over for TV stations (KTVB-BOISE) and voice for many advertising agencies in
Northwest. Track announcer at auto race track in Meridian, Idaho, for 24
years.
1977
Julia Betz
is the administrator of a
non-profit counseling center in Tucson, Arizona. Formerly she was the
executive director for 18 years of a non-profit history museum in Page,
Arizona. Prior to that, she was editor of the of the Lake Powell Chronicle. She continues her career in journalism as a freelance writer
for Lake Powell Magazine and other publications.
Larry Gilstad (pictured
left) is a visual information specialist at Miami
Veterans Affairs Healthcare System. Last year it was rated the best VA
hospital in the U.S. and Larry recently completed their first HD production.
Steve Hall is the manager for technology and production services at
UI's Engineering Outreach in the College of Engineering.
Bill Harland is
director of marketing at
Electronics Research in Chandler, Indiana. He is responsible for
corporate communications,
new product development planning, and applications engineering for all ERI
tower and RF Products.
Karole (Greenwalt) Honas (pictured right)
is an anchor and senior reporter at KIFI-TV
in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Mark Ibanez (pictured
left) is sports director at
KTVU-TV
in Oakland, Calif.
Steve Rinehart left the Anchorage Daily News after 17 years to
accept a job at BP Alaska's Communication Office.
Mike Tracy (pictured right)
opened a public-relations firm in Boise. Tracy Communications Inc. will
offer a full range of public-relations services including strategic
communications, crisis communications, public-relations consulting, media
training, issue management and media relations. He is also a
member of the JAMM Advisory Board
David
Warnick
is executive pastor of
New Life Community Church in Rathdrum, Idaho.
Janeé Wells (pictured
left) serves
as an ad exec for Mission Maker Magazine, a national trade magazine,, in
addition to her role as Adult Growth Facilitator for Hosanna!, a mega-church
in suburban Minneapolis..
1976
Kenton Bird
(pictured right)
is
director of the
UI School
of Journalism and Mass Media, former editor
of the Moscow/Pullman Daily News, and a former Argonaut editor.
You can read his bio on the
Faculty/Staff link on our Web site.
Byron Defenbach is Market
Products and Services Manager for Intermountain Gas Company in Boise. He is
also a member of Friends of Idaho Public Television, KAID/KIPT, Inc.
Advisory Board.
Marshall
‘Andy’ Hall
(pictured
left) retired from the U.S. Navy as a captain in 2001. He served as a
patrol squadron commander during Desert Storm, along with a tour on the
Joint Staff and as deputy director of Naval History. He is a former
Argonaut editor, and is currently an adjunct professor teaching
communications at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, Fla.
Bill McMillin (pictured
right) is a
self-employed video journalist in Seattle, Wash. He has worked for ABC-TV
shooting pieces for "20/20", "Primetime Live", NBC's "Dateline", and PBS
shows, such as "NOW". Bill has covered news stories in all 50 states and
every major continent.
Don Shelton (pictured
left) is an
assistant sports editor at The Seattle Times, where he has worked 19
years. He also has worked for the Yakima Herald-Republic and was
sports editor for The Journal-American (Bellevue, Wash.) and the
Santa Rosa Press-Democrat
(Calif.). He
recently wrote a feature article in The Seattle Times about his
30-year fraternity pledge-class reunion at Idaho.
Bruce Spotleson (pictured
right) is a group
publisher for Greenspun Media Group in Las Vegas, Nev. His group includes
"In Business
Las Vegas" the leading business publication in the Las Vegas
metropolitan area.
Bruce
Spotleson was named 2007 "Private Sector Person of the Year" by the City of
Henderson (NV) and the Henderson Economic Development Association at an
event held Jan. 24. Greenspun Media
Group has 27 newspaper and magazine titles as well as extensive
online and broadcast media holdings. Henderson is a suburb of Las Vegas that
has been ranked among the top three fastest-growing cities in the nation for
each of the past five years. He is a member of the class of '76.
Maureen Taylor is
assistant athletic director for academic services and financial aid at the
University of Idaho.
1975
Rod Gramer (pictured left)
is news director at
KGW-TV in Portland, Oregon.
George Gust
is an editor at KOIN-TV in Portland, Oregon.
Chuck Malloy
is a freelance media and political
consultant in Boise, Idaho
Matt Shelley is Chief of Party for the International Research and
Exchanges Board (IREX) media development program in Prishtina, Kosovo.
1973
Elaine
Ambrose
(pictured right) became
Idaho's first female television news reporter and talk show hostess and
later was named associate editor of the Boise Magazine and editor of McCall
Magazine. She now owns Mill Park Publishing in Eagle, Idaho. She's the
author of 100 magazine articles and four books. She recently co-authored a
humorous book titled Menopause Sucks, to be released nationally in June
2008.
Dennis
Carlson is
manager of KUPI-FM in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Richard Glaub is the National
Democratic Institute for International Affairs resident director in
Uzbekistan, managing programs with political parties and civil society.
David Johnson (pictured left)
is a
reporter for
The Lewiston
Tribune and the author
of its popular "Everyone Has a Story" column. He has team-taught
Feature Article Writing for the School of JAMM.
Nancy (Smith)
McDaniel
is the managing director
of the University of Idaho Foundation, based in Boise. Before moving to the
Foundation, she was the acting executive director of the UI Alumni
Association.
1972
Tom Bingham lives in
Joseph, Oregon. He worked in every imaginable position for a small broadcast
corporation before ending up as a broadcast engineer and then went to work
for The Associated Press.
Tom Coggins
(pictured right)
is a producer/writer/director for Boeing Productions, part of the Boeing
Company.
Maryann Jorgenson is an an Emmy award
winning audio mixer for CBS, raises Clydesdales and does cartoon art for
various kennel clubs and dog publications, as well as fine art portraits of
animals for their owners.
Erich Korte, owner of
Laughing Dog
Productions in Boise, Idaho.
Freelance video
producer/videographer for The Discovery Channel, The History Channel, The
Travel Channel, National Geographic Explorer, Oprah, The Great Chefs, Modern
Marvels and numerous regional clients. Former graffiti artist in the U of I
heat tunnels and knew Michael Kirk before he was a big shot.
Mike Oakland is editorial-page editor of
The Olympian
in Olympia, Wash.
1971
Mike
Berriochoa (pictured
right)
is an award winning senior editor with the
global engineering firm
CH2M HILL working on the U.S. Department of
Energy's Hanford Site. He also fishes a lot.
Denver
James retired from his position as Director of Conservation Education at the USDA Forest Service
in Washington, DC.
Michael Kirk (pictured left)
is an award-winning documentary film producer and head of the Kirk
Documentary Group.
Duane Meneely (pictured left) is a commercial photographer in Salinas, Calif. He owns
Meneely
Photography.
Mady
Elizabeth Rothchild
worked in the 1970s a media buyer or director in San Francisco; Anchorage,
Alaska; Newport News, Virginia; and Virginia Beach, Virginia. As a military
wife, she was involved with humane societies and animal welfare issues in
the 1980s. From 1987 to present she is a founding member and active
rehabilitator for Animals in Distress Ass'n., a wildlife rehabilitation
organization in Boise, Idaho.
Bob Taber founded
Thomas Taber & Drazen, an advertising
agency in Denver in 2002. He is the past chairman of the American
Advertising Federation's Western Region. He also teaches integrated
marketing communications at Johnson & Wales University.
Tim Woodward is a columnist for
The Idaho
Statesman in Boise, Idaho.
1970
Steve
Ballard is a
reporter with the
Indianapolis Star in Indianapolis,
Ind.
Donald Smith
is business editor at
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer in Seattle, Wash.
Gerald Thaxton is chief engineer
for KZDX-FM in Burley, Idaho.
1968
Marty Peterson (pictured
right)
is the special assistant to the president, UI Boise Center.
He is also a member of the JAMM Advisory Board.
1967
Jeane
(Monroe) Cerar
is retired from her job as corporate copy editor with the Washington State
Dental Association.
Ellen (Ostheller)
Chisholm is a
retired journalist and freelance writer in New Freedom, Penn.
Leo Jeffres
has been named interim dean of Graduate Studies and Vice Provost for
Research at Cleveland State University in Ohio. He will continue to teach a
graduate seminar on urban communication in the School of Communication. He
is a former Argonaut editor.
James Kuehn
is President of the Applied Media Group in Columbus, Ohio.
Tom Walton is director of human
resources at F.M. Howell & Company in Elmira, New York.
1966
William
Jennejohn is a retired radio/TV production manager in Coquitlam, BC,
Canada.
Paul Schneider (pictured right)
has worked in Boise radio and television since 1967 and has been The Voice
of the BSU Broncos since 1973. He joined the staff at KBOI radio and
television in 1967. He has won more than 40 awards for excellence from the
Idaho State Broadcasters Association and Idaho Press Club.
1965
Grayson
Sanford Gibbs works at Projection Systems, Inc., in Hayward, Calif.
Frank Parker (pictured
left)
McCreary‘s
career began in 1958 as editor of the East Side Journal in Kirkland, Wash. He returned to Idaho in 1961 to take over his father's weekly
newspaper in Kendrick. Parker purchased the Latah Country Press in Troy, later sold it to the Daily Idahonian and opened the Pullman
branch office of the Idahonian in 1963. In 1964 he took a position in
the University Publications Office to hold the position Rafe Gibbs held
while he took sabbatical leave. He then served as Assistant to the President
for University Relations and Development during President Ernest Hartung's administration. Parker left in 1975 to become Vice President for
University Affairs at San Diego State University. Three universities and two
regional medical centers later, he retired in 2005 from Central Washington
Hospital in Wenatchee, Washington, and returned home to Kendrick.
1964
Neil Modie has been a
reporter for
The Seattle
Post Intelligencer since
1970. At the
P-I, Modie has covered King
County government, Seattle City Hall, environmental issues, the Washington
Legislature, and state, regional and national politics. He currently covers
politics and public policy issues.
Karen Peterson
Winter
is research coordinator at the Seattle Times (and a former Argonaut editor).
1963
Drew McDaniel (pictured
left)
is professor of Telecommunications and director of the Southeast Asia.
Studies Center at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.
James C. Herndon (pictured
right)
of Blackfoot retired as an Idaho district judge after 20 years on the
bench. He now has senior status, which allows him to hear cases anywhere in
Idaho.
Christian Nyby II
directs television programs and movies in Hollywood, Calif.
1962
Dan
Kirkpatrick works in sales in Ventura, Calif.
Thomas (Curly)
Neal is a
retired journalist and radio station operator in Moscow, Idaho.
Lawrence Roby
is regional editor at
The Statesman-Journal in Salem, Oregon.
1960
Dwight
Chapin is a freelance writer,
following a long career as a sports writer and columnist for The Los Angeles Times
and the The San Francisco Chronicle.
Donald Erickson
is retired from The Los Angeles Times.
James Flanigan
is retired as editor of Flanigan’s Communications in Washington, DC
John Hughes is the
executive trustee and secretary of the Northshore Scholarship Foundation in
Bothell, Wash. He retired after a long career in the newspaper and printing
business.
1959
George
Fowler
worked many
years as an
advertising and public relations executive. After his retirement in 1990, he
taught one graduate and one undergraduate public relations course at
Colorado State University for five years. He also did some writing for IBM
and media relations work for the AT&T Professional Development Center. He
re-retired in 1995.
1958
Bill Vermillion is chief
technology officer at WAN & Logistics in Orlando, Florida.
1957
Jim Duncan received the "Spotlite Award" in March 2005 for his
television program Senior Showcase. It is broadcast on the ComCast network
in the Portland-Metro Area, and can be viewed from Longview, Wash. to Salem,
Oregon on a regular basis. The program is a program for seniors, about
seniors, their hobbies and interests. Duncan started the program in February
1997 and it has been airing regularly since that time. Duncan retired from the Boeing Company as an
Industrial Engineering Manager in 1995.
Scott Peters worked for UPI for many years and
still works part-time for a nuclear industry trade association. He lives in
Austin, Texas.
1956
Steve Emerine is owner of
Steve Emerine Strategic Public Relations in Tucson, Arizona.
John P. Mix retired as a
property manager in Woodinville, Wash., and moved back to Moscow. He was the
director of communications and chapter relations for the Washington Society
of Certified Public Accountants from 1991 to 2000.
1955
Warren
Peterson worked at KCMS radio in Seattle, Wash.
Kenneth Dick is a retired marketing manager and lives in Wilsonville,
Oregon.
Fred Williams received a doctorate
from the University of Southern California and was the founding dean of
USC’s Annenberg
School for Communications. He taught at the University of Wisconsin and the
University of Texas College of Communication.
1953
Graham
McMullin is
retired as news editor at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
1949
Harry
Howard
(pictured left) is retired after a long career in public
relations and broadcasting (KHQ-TV, 1962-1975) in Spokane. At KHQ- TV, he
worked as a news anchor, reporter, assignment editor and producer.
1942
Frances
(Hardin) Craig
is retired after working as a staff writer at The Des Moines Register
in Des Moines, Iowa
1941
Wallace
Christensen is
retired from The Cowles Publishing Company in Spokane, Wash.
1940
Fenton Roskelley
set a record for writing the most stories for
the daily Star-Mirror in downtown Moscow. He went from the university to the
Spokane Daily Chronicle, where he was a general assignment reporter,
assistant city editor and outdoor editor. When the Chronicle was killed, he
moved over to the Spokesman-Review and continued to produce outdoor stories
until his official retirement in 1982. He still writes for the
Spokesman-Review, as well as for magazines, including The Fly Fisherman,
Western Outdoors, the Fly Fisher and several travel magazines.
1937
A. Irene
(Fisher) Wilson is a retired journalist in Sandpoint, Idaho.
