Flash Online Volume 18, no. 1, Fall 2003

Wanderstock directs development
Summer Journalism Institute
Kerber, Wick honored for outstanding service
Creating Beauty in times of Terror

Wanderstock directs development

Jonathan Wanderstock joins us as the new assistant dean of development and external relations. He came to the J-school from the journalism school at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he worked for four and a half years as director of development. Jonathan holds two bachelor’s degrees from Syracuse University: one in broadcast journalism (through the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications) and one in business law. He has ten years of fundraising experience, eight of those in higher education.

Summer Journalism Institute

Photos: Jack Liu

Hunched over film strips on a light table, An Do of Beaverton High School works on selecting photos for the 2002 edition of The Mercury.


In 2003, the workshop photographers went all digital; checking out their photos on a computer screen are Bruce Leomiti of Marshall High School (left), Nick Ngo of Parkrose High School, and Nadia Sheikh of Lake Oswego High School.


Teachers such as Molly Dwyer (right) of Parkrose High School and students such as Cecile Matthews of Arts and Communications High School worked closely together throughout the 2002 workshop.


 

Bottom right: South Albany High School journalism teacher Nancy Hartley helps Lilee Chan of Klamath Union High School work on a story during the 2003 workshop.

 

Kerber, Wick honored for outstanding service

Members of the J-school administration, faculty and staff showed up to help celebrate when the School’s own Greg Kerber, assistant dean for student services, and Elizabeth Wick, student, services coordinator, were honored by the University for their outstanding service.

Shown here at the Officer of Administration/Classified Employee Recognition Awards reception in April are: front row (from left): Professor Emeritus Ken Metzler, Associate Dean Al Stavitsky, Development Assistant Libby Miskimins. Back row (from left): Dean Tim Gleason, Assistant Dean Jonathan Wanderstock, Faculty Assistant Valerie Stilwell, Graduate Affairs Specialist Petra Hagen, Kerber, Wick, Academic Adviser Sally Garner, Executive Assistant to the Dean Shelia Schroder, Undergraduate Affairs Specialist Janet Studer, and Director of Operations Coleen Ebert.

 

 

‘Creating beauty in times of terror’

  Bruce Dworshak
Terry Tempest Williams, author and activist, delivers the 2003 Johnston lecture. Photo: Oscar Palmquist

Johnston lecturer Terry Tempest Williams delivers a message of peace and humanity

Award-winning author Terry Tempest Williams delivered the School of Journalism and Communication’s annual Johnston lecture to a standing-room only crowd in 540-seat Beall Hall on April 10. Her lecture on how writing intersects with the politics of place was particularly timely as the United States had just invaded Iraq.

In welcoming Williams and the attendees, Dean Tim Gleason introduced the Richard W. Johnston Project, which brings professional writers and editors to campus for lectures, workshops and discussions with students, faculty and members of the community. The project was established in 1984 in memory of Dick Johnston, a gifted magazine editor, writer and war correspondent. Johnston, a 1936 graduate of the School, worked at the Eugene Register-Guard and for UPI as a war correspondent in the Pacific. After the war, he was on the staff of Time magazine and then moved to Life before joining the team that created Sports Illustrated in 1953 and becoming its executive editor. The School inducted Johnston into its Hall of Achievement in 2001.

The Johnston Project is also an important part of the legacy of another J-school graduate, Laurie Johnston, ‘36, Dick Johnston’s wife. Laurie, who died in 2001, established the Johnston Project. An accomplished journalist in her own right, Laurie covered World War II in the Pacific for Reuters, reported for Newsweek and was a columnist, reporter and editor for The New York Times.

Professor Lauren Kessler, director of the School’s literary nonfiction program, introduced Williams, as “a beacon” in a time of disconnect, driven by an intense spiritual connection to the earth. Williams is perhaps best known for her book Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place.

Read an interview with Williams.


 
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