E-ALERT - December 6, 2005

Dear Friends of the College of Mass Communications and Information Studies:

‘Tis the holiday season and amid all the bustle of decorating, shopping (online, catalog and even on foot), baking (you still bake cookies, don’t you?), celebrating, contemplating (what it costs, why we do it, the pleasure it brings) and catching our breath, we wanted to let all our J-School, L-School, and College alumni and friends know a few of the reasons why it’s been a great year. (Long sentence; copy editor out shopping.)

For more details, visit our website at www.sc.edu/cmcis.

Things we really liked about 2005:

10—Children’s book illustrator E.B. Lewis’ Library School lecture

9—AMBER Alert training at Newsplex

8—The Taylor-Tomlin Investigative Journalism Award (to be awarded in Spring)

7—CHE approval for a Ph.D. program in the Library School

6—Journalism School reaccredidation

5—J-School alum/columnist Jim Hoagland’s Buchheit Lecture

4—The Augusta Baker Chair in Childhood Literacy (the search starts in 2006)

3—SLIS’ “Children, Libraries and Literacy” Initiative

2—Our new College Alumni Society

1—All of our alumni, friends, donors, faculty, staff and especially students who make this a vibrant environment

Happy Holidays - all of them - and hearty wishes for 2006 from all of us at USC’s College of Mass Communications and Information Studies.

If you have an address, phone, email or job change, send those to Elaine Taylor at etaylor@sc.edu.

Sincerely,