E-ALERT - July 2005

Dear Friends of the J-School:

The summertime has indeed been a busy time at the J-school. We’ve recapped some of our recent and upcoming activities for you and hope you share the same excitement we feel for what is happening at our school.

• Congratulations to Rick Kiernan, 1982, MA, who has been named this year’s recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award and to Bradley D. Walters, 2001, BA, and Martha J. E. Wright, 2002, BA, who have been named as Outstanding Young Alumni. The presentations will take place at the journalism school’s annual alumni awards dinner this fall. We’ll let you know when and where.
• The Carolina Reporter took second place in the AEJMC Professor Newspaper Publishing Award competition. The award-winning issue examined the multiple facets of the Briggs v. Elliott case in South Carolina, its impact on civil rights legislation and its aftermath. Assistant professors Cecile Holmes and Scott Farrand along with instructor Doug Fisher, assisted with editing and advising.
• The summer edition of InterCom—the journalism school’s alumni bulletin—is out in a new magazine format. If you did not get your copy, let us know. We’ll send you one. Or you can read it now in pdf format. Read InterCom>>
• Charles Bierbauer, dean of the College, took a dozen Maymester students to Washington, DC, for a week as part of their “Media & Government” course. Students experienced everything from touring the Washington Post to meeting Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. No, she would not say she was thinking of retiring.
• Don’t forget that we are launching our very own college Alumni Society and our kick-off event will take place just prior to the Homecoming football game on October 22. We’re working on the details now.

We want to keep in touch with all of our grads! If you have an address, phone, email or job change, email those changes to Elaine Taylor at etaylor@sc.edu.

Come visit us this fall. We’d love to see you.