School of Broadcast & Cinematic Arts 59th Edition Fall ... · Another continuing outreach to and for BCA Alums are the Pioneer Awards that we began last year to recog-nize our former

by Jeff Kimble, Chairman, Alumni Advisory Board

This year, BCA is fortunate to benefit from

the services of a total of 17 graduate assis-

tants whose work is vital in teaching audio

and video production labs, helping deliver

large lecture instruction in Survey of the

Mass Media and History & Appreciation of

the Cinema sections, and facilitating our

many cocurricular activities. In addition, our

four-track graduate program continues to

expand with, according to Spring 2015 fig-

ures from Institutional Research, 65 stu-

dents enrolled. This means our graduate

program is approximately the same size as

the other two College of Communication and

Fine Arts graduate programs combined.

Two new courses have been added. BCA

600 (Introduction to Electronic Media Re-

search and Writing) will ensure that stu-

dents are thoroughly grounded in advanced

writing and research techniques at the be-

ginning of their studies while BCA 613

(Media Entrepreneurship) provides insight

into the dynamics of founding and operating

successful enterprises in an increasingly

fragmented media world. BCA law/

management professor Amy Sindik, one of

only 12 faculty from around the world to be

selected as a 2015 Scripps Howard Journal-

ism Entrepreneurship Institute Fellow, devel-

oped and will direct BCA 613.

Undergraduate student enrollment

is also healthy. University Communications

indicated this Spring that BCA is the seventh

most popular signed major on campus. This

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Director’s Doodle By Pete Orlik

Faculty and Staff

Pete Orlik, Director

Sarah Adams

Will Anderson

Kevin Campbell

Ed Christian

Kevin Corbett

Robert Johns

Aaron Jones

Pete June

Ken Jurkiewicz

Eric Limarenko

Cindy Main

Maggie Mayes

Joan McDonald

Larry Patrick

Mark Poindexter

Heather Polinsky

Mark Ranzenberger

Chad Roberts

Amy Sindik

Jeff Smith

Trey Stohlman

Rick Sykes

Tiffani Waite

Patty Williamson

The Moore Holler “A lot can happen in the middle of nowhere” (Positioning slogan for the movie Fargo)

S c h o o l o f B r o a d c a s t & C i n e m a t i c A r t s

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From your BCA Alumni Advisory Board—Tim Roberts, Chairman

Game on! Fall is here and it’s

always a very exciting time of year on

CMU’s Campus with school starting up,

football season kicking in lots of energy

and a ton of work to do for every-

one! The same is true in the media

world, no matter which area you are in-

volved with. The time to focus on the

tasks at hand is now.

I stumbled across an old sci-fi

movie last weekend called “The Fifth

Element” (1997) starring Bruce Wil-

lis. The plot is crazily set in the future

and pretty silly (and yes, Bruce saves the

universe) but the interesting part from a

media sense is that as a side character

in the film, the most popular entertainer

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59th Edition

Fall 2015

Faculty Notes 3

Student Info 4-6

Where are They

Now?

8

Alumni Chapter 8

Alumni Takeover 9

Awards 11

Inside this issue:

We start the school year with a new

Dean. Dr. Janet Hethorn joins us from the

University of Delaware where she was founder

and director of the Delaware Design Institute

and professor of art as well as previously serv-

ing as Art Department chair. Before that, Dean

Hethorn was a faculty member at the Universi-

ty of Minnesota, Colorado State University, the

Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the

University of California/Davis. We are pleased

to have a permanent dean in place and look

forward to working with her to accomplish a

variety of new and long-pending BCA projects.

Internally, there are relatively few

BCA personnel changes as we start the Fall

semester. After several years as a half-time

fixed term faculty member, Kevin Campbell

becomes a full-time Lecturer II. He continues

teaching all sections of BCA 310 Understand-

ing New Communication Technologies) and will

now also handle some of our BCA 265

(Understanding Media Measurement) classes.

Because this course fulfills the campus-wide

Quantitative Reasoning competency require-

ment as well as counting as a social science

University Program class, demand for 265 is

rising substantially.

We also welcome seven new gradu-

ate assistants from Taylor University and

Northern Michigan University, as well as CMU.

The Moore Holler

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summer was the comprehensive upgrad-

ing of the audio recording studio used by

both advanced audio classes and cocur-

ricular Moore Media Records. A new

Avid S6 console is the heart of this new

facility that now brings true state-of-the-

art recording capability to Studio A. As

with our other major upgrades that have

occurred over the last four summers,

this project could not be possible without

the enthusiastic support of our donors

who contact us directly to provide com-

prehensive assistance. Allow us to show

you this reinvigorated facility as well as

our other upgrades on your next visit to

campus.

A great time for that visit would

be October 2 and 3 as we celebrate an-

other CMU Homecoming. The Alumni

Takeover of WMHW will once again rule

the airwaves under the hyper-modulated

direction of iHeart Media’s Tom Moore

and Bill Thompson of the Michigan Radio

Network. Please see details about the

2015 event later in this issue. Our annu-

al Alumni Mentor Fair is also being as-

sembled by Grand Rapids talk radio guru

Phil Tower with morning and afternoon

sessions on Friday, October 2. If you are

interested in sharing your media wisdom

with our students, please reach out to

Phil to participate.

[email protected]

Another continuing outreach to

and for BCA Alums are the Pioneer

Awards that we began last year to recog-

nize our former pupils on the occasion of

the 40th anniversary of their graduation.

At our April 2015 banquet, we were

pleased to welcome back four friends

from the class of 1975: Pete Bowers, Ivy

Glennon, Ken Kolbe, and Gary Lico. (Their

“class picture” appears later in this is-

sue.) Next year, at our 2016 Awards

Banquet on Friday, April 22, the class of

1976 is in the spotlight. If you graduated

that year, or know of another BCAer who

did, please contact us and them to make

arrangements to attend and receive Pio-

neer Award recognition. If you graduated

in an earlier year, and we somehow

missed you, this is also a great time to

correct that oversight as we are happy to

play “catch up.” It does not matter what

career path you followed after leaving

CMU. What does matter is that you let us

take the time to recognize the seminal

role you played in shaping our School and

its vibrant character!

See you at Homecoming or any

time your travels take you to the mid-

Michigan hinterland. As the old Motel Six

radio spots always promised, “We’ll keep

the light on for you.”

does not even count the large number of

students working on their qualifying require-

ments who cannot sign before completing at

least 42 credit hours and meeting other

grade and course competency completion

standards.

With heavy participation by both

these undergraduate and graduate stu-

dents, BCA cocurricular activities continue to

shine. For the 14th consecutive year, MHTV

and News Central combined to win College

Television Station of the Year designation

from the Michigan Association of Broadcast-

ers. On the audio side, WMHW-FM was

named 2015 Signature Radio Station by the

Broadcast Education Association, certifying

its placement as the top student radio outlet

in the country. Congratulations to our stu-

dents on these high-profile wins and to BCA

staff members Aaron Jones, Eric Limarenko,

Chad Roberts, and Rick Sykes for their ex-

pert oversight of these multifaceted units.

The MAB also conferred another award of

BCA note with the August 18 induction of

distinguished adjunct professor Dr. Larry

Patrick into the Michigan Broadcasting Hall

of Fame. Larry has done a great deal for our

program over many years and we are happy

our colleague was rightly recognized for his

wide-ranging service to the profession.

Our major facilities project for the

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Snippets (continued from page 1) in the world is a guy who is kind of a

“Video Jockey”. The VJ’s entire life is

on camera and broadcast throughout

the galaxy. He is on the air 24/7 and

lives is in the middle of the ultimate

reality show which is his entire life ex-

perience.

We’ve come a long way in the

media business and as I spoke to my

air staff a week ago, I was telling them

the age of the 24/7 talent is here, no

matter what facet of the media indus-

try you’re in. Our modern day on-air

talent have to tweet, Instagram, use

Facebook, post to the web, do video

and a host radio show at the same

time. These days, much the same

goes on in the television industry

where reporters write, edit, host and

record the news report and send it

back to the station.

My point here is to encourage

our students and those interested in

media and the ever expanding digital

world to explore all horizons. They

are a myriad of opportunities develop-

ing. I do new things every month in

my job I never imagined even 5 years

ago. It’s a super exciting time. You

mostly read about doom and gloom

about media. But in fact, it is explo-

sively expanding right now. It’s just

not expanding in the traditional way

we thought of as radio, TV and film

20 years ago. Even in my on air me-

dia career I actually have hosted a TV

show, worked on a movie set, been

extensively involved in the concert

industry and have done all kinds of

other interesting things that are too

numerous to mention.

For our students, there is

tremendous opportunity in me-

dia. There are truly hundreds of

jobs waiting for you. Will it be the

traditional sports anchor desk at

ESPN or in a traditional media com-

pany or position? Maybe, but it

may also lead to new ventures and

new companies with extremely in-

teresting and fun career paths- - - if

you just keep your ears and eyes

open for opportunity. Prepare now

to be versatile and adaptive. Game

on!

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Saga Continues at that same con-

vention.

Will Anderson’s Audio Drama Script

“Devil’s Night” was selected as a

winner of Misfits Audio’s 2014 Hal-

loween Scriptwriting contest; was

produced and distributed by Misfits

Audio and was broadcast on WCBE-

fm in Columbus, Ohio and WDOR-FM

in Sturgeon Bay, WI; and was select-

ed as one of two US finalists iln Ra-

dio Romania’s Grand Prix Nova

2015 Audio Drama Festival.

Kevin Corbett moderated a panel on

Across the Divide? Writing Charac-

ters vs. Action and presented What

an Animated Lizard Can Teach Us

About a “Character with a Problem”

at the Broadcast Association Annual

Convention in Las Vegas.

Trey Stohlman presented The Road

to Redemption: Reclaiming the Val-

ue in Assessment Retention Exams

during the Scholar-to-Scholar

presentations at the Broadcast Edu-

cation Association Convention in Las

Vegas.

Pete Orlik presented Burnishing the

Flame for the Next Forty Years: The

Future of our Curriculum at the

2015 Broadcast Education Associa-

tion Convention in Las Vegas.

Will Anderson’s audio drama The

Ending Everyone Wanted was per-

formed and recorded by Lakes Area

Radio Theatre in Alexandria, MN,

before a live audience. That live

performance was broadcast to over

17 radio stations.

Aaron Jones and Heather Polinsky

moderated the Broadcast Education

Association panel Little Black Boxes:

The Importance of Troubleshooting

in Las Vegas.

Kevin Corbett presented Me and

My Po-Mo issues: The Postmodern

First-Person Documentary at the

Popular Culture Association Con-

ference in New Orleans.

Will Anderson presented Beyond

Simple Enjoyment: Audio Drama

for ASD Education and Therapy at

the National Audio Theatre HEAR

Now: Audio Fiction and Arts Festi-

val, in Kansas City, MO.

Routledge has just released Pete

Orlik’s new book, MEDIA CRITI-

CISM IN A DIGITAL AGE: PROFES-

SIONAL AND CONSUMER CONSID-

ERATIONS. There is also a two-

section accompanying website for

adopting instructors and their stu-

dents.

Amy Sindik published Attempting

to Reduce Uncertainty: Lobbying in

a Competitive Communication En-

vironment in the Journal of Media

Business Studies.

Sarah Adams’ radio news feature

Cost of War: Veterans Remember

USS Indianapolis was aired on

National Public Radio’s Weekend

Edition Sunday, on July 26.

Will Anderson’s audio drama script

Bump in the Night was performed

and recorded by Studio 620 Radio

Theatre Project in St. Petersburg,

FL, and was aired on WMNF-FM in

Tampa.

Trey Stohlman presented Trailor-

ing for Technology: Rethinking the

EPortfolio Rubric at the Associa-

tion for Authentic, Experimental

and Evidence-Based Learning in

Boston.

Chad Roberts judged the Best Col-

lege Radio Station category for the

NAB Marconi Awards in June.

Faculty Notes

Jeff Smith presented Maintaining

Professional Social Media Profiles at

the 2015 NBS National Convention.

He was also inducted into the Alpha

Epsilon Rho Broadcast Honors Soci-

ety at this same convention.

Patty Williamson presented Preserv-

ing the Patriarchy: Post-Apocalyptic

Leadership on the Television series

“Walking Dead” at the International

Association for the Fantastic in the

Arts industry conference in Orlando,

Florida.

Ken Jurkiewicz chaired the panel

Reflecting Change: Film, Media and

the Construction of Identity at the

International Graduate Historical

Studies Conference in Mt Pleasant,

Michigan.

Will Anderson presented Dramother-

aphy: Investigating Audio Drama as

a Vehicle for Autism Therapy at the

audio division of Popular Culture

Association Conference in New Orle-

ans, LA.

Mark Poindexter presented Seeking

the Voice of the People in the Public

Sphere: Radio Freedom in the

French Overseas Department of

Reunion at the Popular Culture As-

sociation Conference in New Orle-

ans, LA.

Trey Stohlman presented Identity

Fraud: Changing Your Fake TV Pup-

pet into a Real Boy at the Broadcast

Education Association Convention in

Las Vegas, NV.

Chad Roberts was a panelist for The

Signatures: SMA’s Crème de la

Crème at the Broadcast Education

Association Convention in Las Ve-

gas. He also was a panelist for Your

College Radio Station: Program-

ming, Promoting and Recruiting—the

The Moore Holler

Film Society has successfully

renewed its status as a CMU Registered

Student Organization. Cody Williams

takes over this year as President. Our

new Vice President is Dani Stafford and

our Secretary is Alex Carter. Other new

members to our E-board are Ashley

Carey (SBEC representative), Zach Mey-

ers (fundraising), as well as our promo-

tions team of Luke Stanton, Katie

Loesel, and Rachel Riehl. Dr. Mark

Poindexter returns as the Film Society

Advisor.

We are excited to bring new

members into our organization and

continue to build the annual Film Festi-

val, which gained more attendance per

film since last year. The 2016 Central

Michigan International Film Festival will

take place February 5-7 and 11-14. For

more information on the festival visit

www.cmiff.com. We are also eager to

head to the Chicago International Film

Festival for the 3rd year in a row. During

our regular meetings on campus, we

plan to hold film debates, show more

films than last year, complete a semes-

ter long film project in both Fall and

Spring semesters, and compete in and

co-host the 48 hour Film Competition.

For future information about

our screenings and other activities,

send a request to cmufilmsocie-

[email protected] to be put on our mailing

list.

WMHW was more than excited

to kick off the fall semester with a new

and enthusiastic executive staff board.

The department heads each set strong

goals for their teams that they are work-

ing hard to accomplish. After receiving

the BEA award for Radio Signature Sta-

tion. the students are keeping up the

hard work.

As is tradition, the WMHW

sports department, led by Matt Kearny,

is enjoying another season of broad-

casting Mount Pleasant High School

football.

This semester, a large amount

of interest was shown for on-air deejay

shifts and specialty shows. The WMHW

program directors, Josh Scramlin for

91.5 Moore Rock and Kyle Catalano for

Mountain 101 have been training new

members and put together a solid on-

air staff. We had over 100 students

join us for the fall Co-Curricular meet-

ing, so we are looking forward to having

a great staff for the start of the 2015-

16 school year.

Of course, the station always

has the Alumni Takeover to look for-

ward to on Oct. 2 & 3. We welcome all

alumni back to remember their days of

helping turn the hair of Dr. Jerry Hen-

derson and Dr. Pete Orlik gray with their

antics.

The executive staff was given

a large project at the beginning of the

semester. WMHW decided it was time

for a market targeting format change

for both stations. Starting in early

2016, 91.5 will be playing the AAA for-

mat formerly on 101.1. The staff is still

deciding the direction they want to take

for the new 101.1. This is a huge task

that the students will continue to work

on until the big change. Everyone get

ready for Mountain 91.5, because it will

be coming soon.

WMHW recently introduced a

new Social Media Department for the

2015 Fall Semester. Nicole Allen, the

Social Media Director, is promoting the

stations through the use of Twitter,

Facebook, and Instagram.

Mountain 101 is currently

looking at having its largest staff in the

six years of its existence. Currently 35

students have been trained to work on

the Mountain airwaves. We hope that

retention rates will be good and we can

keep that number going into the

Spring.

WMHW is looking forward to

improving in all areas and continuing

it’s successful and professional image

in mid-Michigan

This upcoming fall semester

holds a lot of promise for Moore

Media Records. Thibault Ruellan

(Label President), Patrick Budesky

(Production Manager) and Ashley

Tisdale (Artist Relations Manager) are

back for another year on the Execu-

tive Staff. They are joined by our new

members - Dan Hobson (Demo Ser-

vices Manager), Nicole Allen

(Promotion/Multimedia Manager) and

Connor Koukios (Business Manager).

MMR will benefit greatly from the in-

stallation of a new AVID S6 console in

the Moore 184/182 Advanced Audio

Lab. We are starting our search for

new artists for this year’s upcoming

Sampler CD, which will be Moore

Media Records sixth annual release.

As we begin working on the

Sampler, we will also be putting on

multiple live shows throughout the

semester. We will be hosting another

Herrig Music Competition sometime in

late September/early October, which

will be open to all students that want

to showcase their musical abilities.

We hope to host another competition

in the spring. Moore Media Records

will also be running live sound at Mid-

West Fest towards the end of October.

This is a great opportunity for any stu-

dents looking to gain experience in

live sound and working with bands.

Finally, we are working hard on bring-

ing together the first Hip-Hop Competi-

tion/Concert, which we have slated

for some time in February. Look for

the Sampler release party sometime

in March, 2016.

Moore Media Records hosts

a Facebook page so you can follow

what we are up to. We also have a

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experience what it takes to put on a

morning show which has very differ-

ent dynamics from our evening news-

casts.

Moore Media Digital Design

is looking forward to some new and

exciting changes this year! Our team

is diving into the semester with crea-

tive, innovative ideas to promote, and

provide experience in, multimedia

activities that mirror industry evolu-

tion. We are eager to begin unique

projects that include podcasting, pho-

tobloging, and creating content to

display on the School’s electronic

bulletin board. In addition to these

projects, we are hoping to host work-

shops for students intertested in

learning about Photoshop, Adobe

Premiere, and HTML.

As always, M2D2 continues

to be responsible for the design, de-

velopment, and updating of the BCA

website. It is our mission to make our

website the number one information

source for BCA's faculty, current and

prospective students, alumni, and the

general public. We are planning to

add brief promotional videos to the

student co-curricular pages. These

videos include interviews that we

filmed last semester with co-curricular

leaders. We are excited about this

addition to the website and hope it

proves helpful to those interested in

learning more about the opportunities

and experiences offered in BCA.

M2D2 is proud to be offering

students options and activities that

reflect the multimedia industry. We

encourage any student interested in

all things Internet- related to join us.

It’s going to be an exciting year! For

more information about M2D2 or the

BCA website, send an email to Laura

Cascio at [email protected].

At the end of every summer

we see the start of a new school year

and a new semester, filled with new

Google Calendar that shows when all

live show dates, demo sessions, and

meetings take place. We regularly

update the calendar and post it to

Facebook frequently so you can join in

our fun. We are very excited to start

off the new 2015-2016 school year

and can’t wait to show everyone what

we will be working on diligently during

this semester.

It has been a great year so

far for the staff of News Central 34. In

the spring of 2015, News Central 34

joined forces with MHTV to capture

the College TV Station of the Year

Award from the Michigan Association

of Broadcasters Foundation for the

14th straight year. News Central 34

also swept the non-professional news-

cast category of the Philo Festival of

Media Arts awards, winning both the

first place and finalist honors. The

Philo Festival of Media Arts competi-

tion is a four state regional public ac-

cess cable event.

A big congratulations to

Kathryn Havrilla and Kevin Calhoun

who were show producers for those

winning entries. Also a well-deserved

congratulations to Clayton Cummins

who was designated one of two na-

tional finalists in the Television Break-

ing News Reporting category for Socie-

ty of Professional Journalists Excel-

lence in Journalism competition.

We have some exciting

changes coming this year. We will be

switching from paper scripts to using

IPads for our on-air talent. Our news-

room software allows the talent to

view their scripts on IPads and in-

cludes a safety feature that will permit

the talent to view the scripts even if

the teleprompter crashes. We have

also changed the color of the back-

drop of our news set. We are going

with a blue background to allow us to

better light our talent.

Finally, we are launching a

morning news show. The 15-minute

segments will run from 10-10:15

Monday-Wednesday-Friday. It will

give our students the opportunity to

(cocurricular continued from page 4) students, staff and bright ideas.

With Moore Hall Television (MHTV),

the new school year couldn’t be any

more exciting. Coming off winning

big again as the College TV Station

of the Year at the Michigan Associa-

tions of Broadcasters (MAB) award

ceremony. We hope to build to-

wards keeping this streak going with

a variety of more award-winning

student made content.

Also coming into this fall

semester MHTV has a renewed

focus on web content and extending

the station’s viewership out onto

the internet. With a newly upgraded

Vimeo page you’ll be seeing more

content from award winning student

made productions than ever before.

So you can stay up to date on what

MHTV is doing anywhere you go.

You’ll also be seeing re-

turning content from our long run-

ning and fan favorite shows such as

the magazine style CentralView, that

features content ranging from seri-

alized miniseries, talk shows and

games shows to a multitude of oth-

er great student produced content.

SportsCentral will also be back with

more coverage of all your favorite

CMU sports updates as well as cov-

ering the surrounding area high

schools. Last but certainly not least,

Central Premiere Productions will

be back with more short films and

shows than ever seen before.

Overall expect a lot of great

things to come out of MHTV this

school year, and make sure to keep

up to date on all the new content

that comes out on our Vimeo page.

Also keep a close eye on the MHTV

Facebook page and the individual

Show pages as well to stay up to

date on new content and infor-

mation of how to get involved. See

what the station and its shows have

up their sleeves next!

ecutive staff remains the

same. Following last

year’s successful fund-

raiser involving a work-

shop with students audi-

tioning for News Central

34, the Chapter is plan-

ning to conduct the fund-

raiser again this year.

The Chapter is also plan-

ning to sell Broadcast

and Cinematic arts zip-up

sweatshirts. If you are

interested in ordering

one, please contact

[email protected]. The

fleeces are $35 each or

two for $65. They can be

ordered in Maroon or

Black. They come in

Women’s Sizes (small to

2XL) and Men’s Sizes (S-

4XL.

Close up of fleece Logo

er of women in all

forms of media.

Whether that is to em-

power career develop-

ment, engage in de-

velopmental leader-

ship, or drive positive

change for our indus-

try, AWM is motivated

to improve the quality

of the media.

The CMU Chap-

ter of Radio Television

Digital News Associa-

tion (RTDNA) finished

the 2014-2015 school

year with a tour of

WXYZ in Detroit. Those

who attended the tour

got a behind-the-

scenes look at the sta-

tion from a producer

at the station – CMU

alumnus, Rodney Har-

ris. The Chapter also

hosted a workshop to

help students put to-

gether resumes for

the School of Broad-

cast & Cinematic Art’s

career fair. Chapter

members received ca-

reer advice via Skype

from a reporter at

WWMT-TV in Kalama-

zoo.

This semester

starts with elections

for a new treasurer,

but the rest of the ex-

careers, this semes-

ter we are planning

media outlet tours,

LinkedIn seminars,

guest speakers, re-

sume workshops, in-

terview preparation,

and networking oppor-

tunities with AWM

alumni across the na-

tion. This is geared to

help our members

grow professionally.

With our AWM

alumni making an im-

pact in media across

the country, our mis-

sion this year is to

connect our current

members to those op-

portunities that await

them after graduation.

By giving our mem-

bers the opportunity

to network with our

alumni and engage in

conversation, we are

confident this year will

be the best ever for

Alliance for Women in

Media.

We’re also ex-

cited about some cre-

ative fundraisers and

social get-togethers in

the works. Make sure

you visit our social me-

dia sites to learn

more!

As we head in-

to our ninth year on

CMU’s campus, AWM

is striving to continue

to promote diversity

and harness the prom-

ise, passion and pow-

The Alliance for

Women in Media is

gearing up for another

great year! Kicking off

the semester, AWM

participated in the

2015 CMU Main

Stage. where over 90

men and women

signed up to learn

more about our organ-

ization. Students also

had the opportunity to

have their photo taken

with school spirit

props for our social

media sites. We also

gave away more than

100 spirit beads with

information about our

group attached.

AWM members

are made up of di-

verse and unique indi-

viduals interested in

Broadcast and Cine-

matic Arts, Communi-

cation, Integrative

Public Relations, Jour-

nalism, Marketing and

Advertising.

This year,

AWM’s Executive

Board consists of a

fresh and enthusiastic

group of women who

are thrilled about our

upcoming events and

the possibilities the

year holds.

Based upon

our organization’s

interest in multimedia

STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

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PIONEER AWARD WINNER NEWS!!!!!

Ken Kolbe 75 graduate and recent BCA Pioneer Award recipient (pictured above), returns to CMU

as the new Director of Public Broadcasting. Since 1995, Ken has served as Assistant General

Manager – Operations & New Evolving Technologies, at WGVU Public Media in Grand Rapids. He

previously held news director positions at WJIM-TV (now WLNS) in Lansing and WZZM in Grand

Rapids. Ken has won three programming Emmys and was inducted into the National Academy of

Television Arts and Sciences Silver Circle in recognition of more than 25 years of outstanding ser-

vice and leadership in the television broadcast community. We are excited to have Ken back on

campus and look forward to working with him in his new role.

ARE YOU A BCA PIONEER? Did you Graduate in 1976? (or before?)

If so, are invited to the April 22, 2016, BCA Awards Banquet as our guest for induction into the

BCA Pioneer Club. Contact Joan McDonald ([email protected]) for more information.

2015 Pioneer Award Winners Pete Bowers, Ken Kolbe, Ivy Glennon and Gary Lico

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Where are They Now?

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Elizabeth Gardiner (87) recently joined Innovative Learning Group in Royal Oak, Michigan,

as a project manager and performance consultant.

Tom Zito (88) is the national sales manager for the Gannett Television KTVB NBC Boise, Idaho

and KTFT NBC Twin Falls, Idaho.

Tricia Hoover (95) recently became Director of Content Production at Organic, Inc. in Troy Michigan.

Lester Booker (05) is working in Detroit as a production manager at Buick. He was recently named to CMU’s

“10 within 10” honorees list.

James Slider (11) is the Senior Field of Play Supervisor at Tough Mudder, Inc. His staff oversees course design,

medical provisions and logistics operations at Tough Mudder events.

Kirk Wilcox(11) is living in Los Angeles, pursuing a stand up comedy career. He also did background work for

the Netflix Wet Hot Summer series to help pay the bills.

Erica Francis (15) is working as a reporter for WXMI, Fox 17 News, in Grand Rapids. Francis was featured in an

article in The Detroit News explaining how her networking efforts landed her “dream job” right after her May

graduation.

Constituent Chapter News Tom Moore President, BCA Constituent Alumni Chapter

Radio Network. Bill may also be

familiar to many of you as the coor-

dinator of the WMHW Alumni Takeo-

ver.

Christine Jones Pellet vol-

unteered in April to fill the final year

of Brianne Frucci-Tucker’s two-year

term as secretary. It’s Christine’s

job to keep track of what we’ve

done over the years, including

minutes of our twice-yearly meet-

ings. Christine graduated in ’85,

and went to work in cable TV and

various radio stations as news direc-

tor and on-air talent. She took time

off to raise three daughters, one of

whom is a senior at CMU. Christine

has also worked in retail manage-

ment, and as a substitute teacher.

But, once a broadcaster, always a

broadcaster. Christine says she is

actively looking to get back into the

industry that she has missed.

Dan Empson was elected

in April to serve two years as treas-

urer. Dan keeps track of the chap-

ter finances, and works with the

alumni office to make sure those

finances are in order. Dan is an ’04

graduate of CMU, then spent two

In April, the Constituent Alum-

ni Chapter held elections for three of

our four officer positions. I was elected

to a second two-year term as president.

During my first two years, I have had

the opportunity to meet many BCA

alumni, to keep alive the tradition of

the WMHW Alumni Takeover, to help

with the advancement of the Al Painter

Scholarship Fund, and to make the

announcement of the winner of that

scholarship at the last two BCA awards

banquets.

But, I am not the only officer

of this organization. I’d like to intro-

duce you to the other three officers

who, frankly, make my job as president

so easy, because without them, there’d

be no Constituent Alumni Chapter.

Bill Thompson was elected in

April to his second term as vice presi-

dent of the constituent alumni chapter.

Bill keeps me in line, and in the event

I’m not around, can speak on the chap-

ter’s behalf. Bill is a ’78 BCA grad. In

his radio career, he has been with radio

stations all across Michigan, but has

spent the bulk of his career in Lansing.

Bill is currently with Learfield Communi-

cations, as a news anchor for the Mich-

igan Radio Network and the Minnesota

I’d like to start by

touching on what the Constitu-

ent Alumni Chapter does, and

one major goal we have accom-

plished. We are a chapter of

the CMU Alumni Association,

with the purpose of joining to-

gether BCA alumni. Our big fundraiser,

for many years now, has been the annual

WMHW Alumni Takeover. Every partici-

pant donates at least $30. That money

funds the Al Painter Memorial Scholar-

ship, which goes to an outstanding first-

year BCA student, as chosen by the facul-

ty.

The goal of the chapter has

been to build up the scholarship fund to

the point where it will be endowed by the

university, giving us the ability to make

annual scholarship awards off the fund’s

interest, rather than the principal. I’m

pleased to say, that thanks to a generous

donation, we should be able to reach that

benchmark. That donation has been

made by none other than School of BCA

Director Pete Orlik, and his wife, Chris.

Thank you, Pete and Chris, for your sup-

port of the scholarship, and helping to

make sure that the Al Painter Memorial

Scholarship will continue for many years

to come. Constituent Chapter continued page 9

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Greetings BCA Alumni!! Fall is upon us again, and we are all gathering on campus soon for another CMU Homecoming and the

16th Annual WMHW-FM Alumni Takeover! We plan to staff the studios with Alumni for 48-hours from 12:01 am Friday, October 2nd

through Midnight Saturday, October 3rd. It will take your help and participation, so please consider joining us. Formats are whatever is

acceptable to the FCC and Dr. Pete Orlik!

At this writing, 7 of 15 available shifts are still vacant, including Friday morning, the overnight shift, and late Saturday afternoon

and evening. While these shifts may be filled by the time this is published, please don't think that it is ever too late to join us. We wel-

come all that wish to participate. If you have never been involved, please consider it. You can contact Tom Moore for schedule availabil-

ity at [email protected]. Keep checking the Broadcast and Cinematic Arts (BCA) Constituent Alumni Chapter Facebook page or our

Alumni website at www.bcaalumni.org for updates.

There are a few "firsts" this year for the Takeover. In June, CCFA welcomed Janet Hethorn as its new dean and of course, we

will make her feel right at home with us. We will introduce our new Head Football coach John Bonamego to the fun and chaos on Friday.

We hope to welcome back to our studios, CMU President George Ross, CMU AD Dave Heeke, CMU Alumni Association Executive Director

Marcie Otteman Grawburg, and many more. We hope to get our Grand Marshall, Michigan State House Speaker Kevin Cotter, in-studio

on Friday. There is a lot of activity in a short period of time.

To those of you who may be concerned about what you may have read on the Athletic website, I have been assured by Marcie

Grawburg that our normal two-hour remote prior to the 3 p.m. Kickoff (12:30—2:30) at Alumni Village on Homecoming Saturday should

go on as usual. The "Fabiano Brothers Tailgate Village" will be featuring a band but it has been moved to a location west of the Alumni

Tents. We should be spaced far enough apart so there is no interference with our broadcast. The Alumni Association supports our Take-

over and particularly the Kazoo Band. Contact Brianne Frucci Tucker [email protected] for more information on how you can

participate.

We are so grateful with your financial help over the past 15 years of the Takeover and now we will are able to fully endow the Al

Painter Newcomer Scholarship next year. Even though we have reached endowment, your support is still needed for BCA Constituent

Alumni Chapter activities and to increase the Painter Scholarship principal. We will continue to ask for a minimum 30-dollar donation

per person/per shift.

Our next BCA Constituent Alumni Chapter meeting is Saturday morning, October 3, at 9:30 am in Moore 216. We will discuss

future Takeovers and projects that everyone needs to help shape.

This will be my 13th year as Takeover coordinator, and while I'm not superstitious, I never dreamed the Takeover would have

the impact it has had. It couldn't have been done without Alumni support. We need the help of our younger Alumni to keep the Takeover

ball rolling. Please let me know if you have questions. Contact me at [email protected]. I hope to see many of you in October!!

Bill Thompson, Takeover Coordinator

years as a graduate assistant in

BCA’s video unit. After leaving

CMU, Dan did marketing and pro-

motions for a restaurant in New

Zealand, then came back home to

work with Mt. Pleasant’s WCFX.

Dan is currently with USA Financial

in Ada, producing a weekly radio

show and making promotional im-

aging videos.

As for me, Tom Moore, I’m

a ’77 graduate. I started my radio

career as an air personality at

WIBM in Jackson, moving on to be

that station’s news director. My

career in radio news took me to

Bay City, then on to stations in Del-

aware and Maryland, and for the

past 27 years, Cleveland, Ohio. I

currently am a multi-market news

anchor for iHeartMedia, doing

newscasts in four markets in Ohio

and Pennsylvania.

If you’re coming to CMU for

Homecoming, you can get to know

us at our next meeting, Saturday,

October 3. We’ll meet that morning

from 9:30 to 10:30 in Moore Hall

216. All BCA alumni are welcome to

attend and participate.

While I’m still on the sub-

ject of the chapter officers, I want to

thank former secretary Brianne

Frucci-Tucker and former treasurer

Tom Worobec. Brianne and Tom

were both very instrumental in keep-

ing this organization going. Brianne

stepped down because of job re-

sponsibilities, while Tom served two

consecutive terms as Treasurer and

under the bylaws, could not run

again.

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