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Volume 39 , No 1, October 2013

By Alex SeidlerAmong the list of accomplishments Nora

Maberry-Daniels has, one is her name scrawled on The Eastern Daily News’ Editors’ Wall, signify-ing her time as editor-in-chief. But this is only one small part of what has led her to deserve the De-partment of Journalism’s Alumna of the Year award.

Maberry-Daniels transferred to Eastern from Parkland after three years and decided to major in journalism. She explained her initial destination was the University of Illinois but because of credit transfer issues, she decided on Eastern where she found her outlet through Pounce, an online mag-azine.

“My freshman year I didn’t get involved with anything until I came here and joined the (online) Pounce,” she said.

It was at Eastern where her abilities began to im-prove through exposure to positions that required different skills. She worked as the summer online editor in 2005 for the DEN and in 2007 became ed-itor-in-chief. “What I got out of Eastern and espe-cially the DEN was that they allowed me to try new things and encouraged me to do more,” she said.

As an EIU journalism major, Maberry-Daniels completed her degree in 2005 and went on to work on a graduate degree in English. She has reflected on her experiences with the school with great ap-preciation. “The journalism department taught me all of the skills I needed to succeed in the profes-sion, gave me great mentors and lifelong friends,” she said.

One of those lifelong friends she made in her college career was her husband, Matt Daniels. They both became active in the program at the same time and married in May of last year. “I was waiting to see if I got the editor position at the time and since Nora already was an editor she knew I was chosen before I did,” Daniels said of their first encounter.

By Katelyn DonovanEIU journalism and student media alumni

are welcome to join the department during 2013 Homecoming festivities, which feature the Alumna of the Year, a department open house, and the an-nual Chili Bash.

The Department of Journalism will host a lun-cheon at noon on Friday, Oct. 18, in honor of this year’s Alumna of the Year, Nora Maberry-Daniels. Maberry-Daniels, EIU class of 2005, is now edi-tor of The St. Joseph Leader, a newspaper in St. Jo-seph, Ill. She was awarded the honor for her loy-al and helpful actions throughout the years for the EIU Department of Journalism. The luncheon will be held in the 7th Street Underground. Cost is $10 and reservations are required. Alumni who would like to attend should contact Beth Kastl at 217-581-

6003 by noon on Oct. 16.Saturday begins with an open house. Alum-

ni are welcome to stop by the newsroom in Buz-zard Hall for a visit before and after the parade. The Homecoming Parade will begin at 9:30 a.m. at Lincoln Avenue and Seventh Street, head north towards Monroe Avenue and then travel south on Sixth Street.

The Homecoming football game against South East Missouri will begin at 1:30 p.m. at O’Brien Field

The department’s yearly Chili Bash will be from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, in the MLK Jr. Union’s University Ballroom. All journalism and student publications alumni, current students, and friends of the department are welcome to attend the event, which features free chili and beverages.

Maberry-Daniels named Alumna of the Year

Homecoming 2013 at Eastern

See ALUMNA, page 8

Nora Maberry-Daniels

2005 graduatevolunteers at Eastern

journalism events

INSIDE:Charles Wheeler III honored, pg. 3

Students write, designiPad magazine, pg. 6

Class Notes, Action, pgs. 4, 7, 8

EARLY WARNINGHomecoming North, Saturday, Feb. 22,

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Charles Wheeler III, the director of the public affairs reporting program at University of Illinois at Springfield and monthly contributor to “Illinois Issues” magazine, said he was humbled to have been chosen as the 2013 Journalist of the Year by Eastern’s journalism department.

“I really appreciate it,” Wheeler said. “I look at it not as a personal honor but for the recognition that the program has achieved over the years.”

Wheeler, who has directed the pro-gram since 1993, said he was honored “to carry on the work of my predeces-sor, Bill Miller, who took a fledgling idea and developed it into a nationally recognized program.”

Wheeler was to be honored Friday, April 26, at the 54th annual Journalism/Student Media Banquet but was unable to attend – because he was preparing to interview prospective PAR candidates the following morning.

And two of those candidates were from Eastern and are in the program now: Chacour Koop and Zach White, both 2013 graduates.

“Charlie is a great journalist and possibly one of the most knowledgeable people in the state on the workings of state government and Illinois politics,” said James Tidwell, department chair-man. “He runs a great program that trains graduate students on how to be public affairs reporters.”

The journalism faculty selected Wheeler for induction into the depart-ment’s Hall of Fame for making an out-standing contribution to the field of journalism in the Eastern’s service re-gion.

“Charlie continues to write an award-winning, monthly column for Il-linois Issues magazine,” said John Ryan, chairman of the department’s Outreach and Service Committee, which makes

the selection. “He continues to practice his craft, provides great insight into is-sues affecting the state through his col-umn and public radio talk shows and he provides great leadership for the stu-dents in his master’s program.”

Before joining the University of Illinois, Wheeler was a reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times for 24 years. Wheeler began covering state govern-ment and politics in 1970 at the Sixth Illinois Constitutional Convention. He holds a master’s degree from North-western University and an undergrad-uate degree from St. Mary’s College in Winona, Minn.

In 2006, the Illinois Associated Press Editors Association inducted him into The Lincoln League of Journalists, which honors men and women who have provided exemplary service to other journalists and to daily newspa-pers published in Illinois.

By James TidwellChairman, Department of Journalism

Planning is at the forefront of the work being conducted by journalism faculty during 2013-14.

The university is in the midst of strategic plan-ning (see http://www.eiu.edu/strategicplanning/). As part of this effort each academic department must write its own strategic plan. Also, our nation-al accrediting agency—the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communica-tion (ACEJMC)—now requires programs to have a strategic plan.

As a result, I have appointed an ad hoc commit-tee to write a plan for submission and approval of the faculty.

The department’s Curriculum Committee, un-der the leadership of Sally Renuad, is looking at our curriculum with an eye to the future knowledge and skills needed by journalists in a fast-changing environment.

Another impetus for looking at the curriculum is the recent changes made in ACEJMC standards. The old standard, which our present curriculum is based, requires journalism majors to complete 80 hours outside of journalism. That meant our majors were limited to 40 hours of journalism in our 120-hour degree program.

The new standard, effective in 2013, requires only 72 hours outside journalism. The change now allows us to require up to 48 hours of journalism.

The Curriculum Committee is now looking at additions and/or deletions in our core require-ments and in our concentrations. Stay tuned for further developments.

By the way, it’s old news now, but in case you missed it, the department was reaccredited by ACEJMC in 2012 for another six years. Following a detailed self-study done by the department and a visit from a four-person accrediting team in fall 2011, the council found the department in compli-ance with all nine of its standards. For additional information on the accrediting process go to http://www2.ku.edu/~acejmc/.

Another planning initiative taking place this academic year is an effort by the College of Arts and Humanities to solve the duplication and confusion related to broadcast and public relations programs in journalism and in the Communication Studies Department. Once again, stay tuned for further de-velopments.

Below this column is a story about the Student Publications fund-raising campaign now underway headed by John Ryan, professor of journalism and director of Student Publications.

I hope all alums will respond positively when asked to give. Student Pub hopes to raise at least $100,000 to establish a permanent endowment that can be used for future financial needs.

Other news of interest: The department has re-cently installed a plaque at the entrance of our office

suite honoring the late Dan Thornburgh, the driv-ing force behind the creation of the journalism ma-jor and creation of the department.

I know many of you owe a great deal to D.T., and we thought the plaque was a good way to per-manently honor his incredible contributions to EIU journalism and Student Publications.

Another plaque has also been installed outside our writing and editing lab officially named in hon-or of the late Diane Peckham, a long-time Illinois high school journalism teacher from Pekin. Her legacy gift to the department allowed us to renovate the space and create a highly functional laboratory/classroom.

If you haven’t seen our new website, please check it out at www.eiu.edu/~journal/. It has a great deal of useful information and allows alums to keep up with happenings in the department and the uni-versity. Elizabeth Viall, instructor in journalism, spearheaded the development of the new site and continues to ably administer it.

On a personal note: As many of you know, I have had serious medical problems the past year. In fact, I was on fulltime medical leave for most of the 2012-13 school year. However, I am now back at work fulltime and doing very well with my on-go-ing medical treatments.

I appreciate all the calls, letters, notes, and Face-book posts giving me encouragement and wishing me well.

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2012: Dave Dawson, managing editor, Decatur Herald & Review2011: Greg Bilbrey, editor, Robinson Daily News, and Bill Lair managing editor, Mattoon Journal Gazette/Charleston Times Courier2010: Kevin McDermott, political reporter, St. Louis Post-Dispatch2009: Ray Long, Springfield bureau chief of the Chicago Tribune, and Dave McKinney, Spring-field bureau chief, Chicago Sun-Times2008: Madeleine Doubek, former executive editor, The Daily Herald, Arlington Heights

2007: Jeff Nelson, retired managing editor, Lincoln (Ill.) Courier2006: Cam Simpson, formerly with the Chica-go Tribune and Wall Street Journal, is now a re-porter with Bloomberg News Service2004: John Foreman, editor and publisher, News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana2003: Les Brownlee, long-time Chicago news-paper and broadcast journalist,2002: David Shaul, former news director, WCIA, Champaign

Past Journalists of the Year

Charles Wheeler III honored

Longtime Ill. government reporter accepts JOY award

Department plans for the future

Former journalism department Chairman Dave Reed congratulates the 2013 Journalist of the Year, Charlie Wheeler, at a recent Illinois Press Foundation meeting in Springfield. Wheeler, director of the public affairs reporting program at University of Illinois at Springfield since 1993, was honored for his commitment to public affairs reporting in Illinois and to journalism education. Photo by Sally Renaud

A fundraising drive to create an endowment fund for The Daily Eastern News will kick off at Home-coming 2013 and conclude at the News’ centennial celebration in No-vember 2015.

The “Publishing the Next 100 Years” campaign has a goal of raising $100,000 for the student newspaper by the newspaper’s 100th birthday on Nov. 5, 2015.

“The endowment fund will con-tinue in perpetuity and alums will be able to donate to it forever,” said John Ryan, director of Student Pub-lications. “The News will receive the interest from the fund each year to help ensure that it continues as a training lab for years to come.”

Madeleine Doubek (’85) and Mark Turk (’78) will serve as co-chairs of the drive, assisting Ryan, John David Reed and James Tidwell, chairman of the Journalism Depart-ment.

Doubek is chief operating officer of Reboot Illinois, past executive ed-itor of the Daily Herald of Arlington Heights and a past editor-in-chief of the News.

Turk is president of Internation-al Label & Printing Co., past pro-duction director of the Chicago Sun-Times and a past News staffer who holds the distinction of being the News’ second pressman.

The pair will be forming a fund-

raising committee to assist in the drive.

“We are very appreciative that Madeleine and Mark have agreed to share their time and talent on this important endeavor to help secure Student Publications’ future,” Ryan said. “We have a very impressive history and have been the starting point for thousands of student ca-reers. We want to continue this im-portant educational experience for another 100 years and beyond.”

Letters will be going out in Oc-tober to all past editors-in-chief and all past staff editors of the newspa-per. All are being asked to make a donation to the Eastern Illinois Uni-versity Foundation and designate the donation to The Daily Eastern News Endowment Fund.

Alumni can spread their dona-tions out each year – 2013, 2014 and 2015 – or make just a one-time do-nation. Giving levels include Pub-lisher, $1,000 or more; Editor, $500; Exec Editor, $250; Staff Editor, $100; and Staffer, up to $100.

The fundraising drive will cul-minate in a 100th birthday party for the News tentatively set for Nov. 7, 2015. All journalism and Student Publications alumni will be invit-ed. Anyone wishing to assist in the planning of the News’ centenni-al celebration should contact Ryan, jmryan@eiu.edu.

Faculty focus on curriculum with an eye on journalism skills

DEN endowment fund drive kicks off at Homecoming

Bryan Murley, associate pro-fessor of journalism at EIU, was elected vice president of the Col-lege Media Association in April.

He takes office during the as-sociation’s national convention in New Orleans, La., Oct. 23-27.

Murley has been a member of CMA since 2001. “CMA has been helpful. I wouldn’t be at Eastern if I hadn’t met my colleagues at CMA,” he said.

Murley, who was asked to run for the position, said he believes he can contribute some new ideas that would help the organization prosper.

He has proposed a census of college media. “It would give us an idea of where the industry is–everything from administrative structure to funding mechanisms,” Murley said. “I’m going to work on getting that accomplished.”

Currently, there is no concrete survey of college media. Murley said.

Murley’s position has a two-year term.

Murley teaches new and emerging media courses at East-ern and advises the online student newspaper, dennews.com. He has been at Eastern since 2006. He also writes and coordinates the Innovation in College Media blog.

Eastern’s journalism depart-ment has a long history with CMA. Former chairman and Student Pub-lications director Dave Reed has held a number of positions in the organization, including fall confer-ence director. John Ryan, Student Pub director, served as both sec-retary and treasurer. Sally Renaud, Warbler adviser, is finishing her time on the board as CMA presi-dent.

In addition, hundreds of New-ers and Warblers have memories of attending past CMA conventions.

Murley serves as CMA VP

Bryan Murley

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By Sally Renaud Professor of Journalism

On any given football Saturday, senior jour-nalism major Kaylia Eskew can be seen waving a 4-foot head of Panther quarterback Jimmy Garra-polo, in the student cheering section called Panther Nation. People call her over to pose with Jimmy’s face, and she obliges.

Quite different from her freshman year, when she was assigned to cover Panther Nation for her first story for The Daily Eastern News.

She has come full circle. But her assignments for The Eastern News cov-

ering adminstration and campus events led her to more than just cheering for the football team.

A senator-in-training class offered to new stu-dent leaders taught Eskew about the possibilities of student government, and she never looked back. (She never left Student Publications, though, con-tinuing to work for the DEN and now for the War-bler yearbook.)

“I only wanted to write when I was growing up,” Eskew said.

After joining student government and working her way up through the ranks, Eskew this spring was elected student body president for the 2013-14 school year.

Eskew oversees the executive branch, attends all meetings and helps each group understand what the other is doing.

School comes firstAlthough she is busy, her academics career is

especially packed. She has three minors: histo-ry, anthropology and pre-law. This semester she is taking two journalism classes, including Broadcast News Writing, and is practicing her news stories on The Odyssey, Eastern’s Internet radio station. And she is scheduled to graduate on time, in May. She is considering studying student affairs after she grad-

uates, and she is also applying to graduate schools to study anthropology.

“I love to study people,” she said. “I love the cul-tural aspect of it. It’s like embedded journalism, be-ing inserted into a culture to understand it inside and out.”

Journalism and EIUShe said she remembers when she first caught

the journalism bug. She saw her father reading the paper and she wanted her father to be reading her work.

“And I was always nosy when I was younger.”At Carlinville High School, Eskew was one of

just a few students on the yearbook staff, under the direction of the adviser, art teacher Holly Bloomer.

Bloomer knew Eskew really wanted to be a jour-nalist, and she arranged for the Macoupin Coun-ty Enquirer-Democrat to print The Cavalier Call, a one-page school newspaper inserted every other week in the paper.

“We learned manual layout with a light table,” she said. Later, the newspaper donated a light table to the high school.

Eskew said the paper was a hit. “People loved it.” And the folks at the newspaper loved Eskew, too. She interned at the paper for two summers, and she is in contact with them, as well as with her high school mentor.

“I still go visit them when I go home.”Once she saw Old Main and attended an open

house, she had her sights set on attending Eastern. “I loved it. It was the only school I applied to.”

Sorority and familyEskew has been a member of Alpha Sigma Tau

sorority since the second semester of her freshman year. She currently is the bylaws chairwoman helps with events such as the group’s Family Weekend.

“It has been a fantatic decision,” she said. “I get

solid support from everyone.”Her family, her parents and her brother, have

been supportive, too.“My mom loves everything I do,” she said.And everything is a lot. In addition to her executive duties, Eskew and

a graduate student coordinated Prowl, which helps students transition to life at EIU. Prowl activities ran from move-in day in August through Family Weekend in October.

When she returned from a trip to Italy, she also started working with New Student Programs and will continue to do so through the end of this se-mester. “I love listening to what students say, listen-ing to ways to improve the school,” she said.

Oh, and she gives campus tours on Saturdays, when she’s not cheering from the stands for the football Panthers.

“I’m incredibly lucky,” she said.

1975Rick Popely has started CarsTrucksAndBucks.com, a website dedicated to

helping consumers “save money and make smarter decisions about buying and owning a vehicle.” The website features a live radio show at 3 p.m. every Thurs-day on TalkZone.com with experts in the automotive business. It also contains automotive news and an archive of his past TalkZone shows.

1981Carolyn Waller Gordon was part of a committee that redesigned Web pag-

es for the Lake County Health Department. The department received a silver award in the website category during the National Public Health Information Coalition’s annual Excellence in Public Health Communications program.

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Peggy McMeen Stankoven is now helping to produce community and charity ads for Edward Jones. She writes, “It’s a fun gig.” Peggy was also recent-ly named to the board of directors for EIU’s Alumni Association.

1984Karen Sisulak Binder has traded property tax for excise tax. All of her busi-

ness reporting led her to open a craft distillery in Carbondale called Grand River Spirits. Production is currently focused on whiskey, bourbon and moon-shine. Learn more at www.grandriverspirits.com. Karen writes, “And don’t for-get a tradition started by Mark Twain — every journalist worth her byline should have a bottle of whiskey in her bottom desk drawer.” Grand River Spir-its are for sale at Gateway Liquors in Charleston.

Denise Skowron Power landed a new job in November 2012 as agenda pro-duction director for IR Events Group, part of White Plains, N.Y.-based GLM, after four years as an independent contractor. Denise develops e-commerce content and recruits speakers for a variety of business conferences and trade shows.

1985Audrey Dumentat is the public affairs counselor at the U.S. embassy in

Managua, Nicaragua. She writes, “Nicaragua was number 3 on the New York Times’ list of places to visit in 2013 and in National Geographic’s best family trips, so any EIU alums planning on coming should give me a call and we will go out for dinner!”

1986Mary Bradley Todoric received an Award of Excellence this summer from

the National School Public Relations Association for her entry in the annual NSPRA publications and electronic media contest. The awards recognize out-standing work in all types and forms of education communication, including print, electronic, video, audio, websites, social media and more. Mary’s entry, D128 Mobile, was in the electronic marketing materials category, and was for the mobile app she helped develop and oversees for her school district. On the state level, she was elected the 2013-14 president of the Illinois Chapter of the National School Public Relations Association. Mary is the director of commu-nications for Community High School District 128 (Libertyville and Vernon Hills High Schools) in Vernon Hills, Ill.  

1987Nancy Yamin Smith has served as the Journalism Education Association’s

National Write-off chair since fall 2012. She oversees a contest at the fall and spring conventions each year that serve more than 3,000 high school students annually in yearbook and newspaper design and writing, graphic design, pho-tography, broadcast and literary magazines.

Di Winson closed out almost 26 years with The Benton Evening News in mid-May. In her time there, she was sports editor for 17 years (1987-2004) and news editor for the past nine years. On May 28, Di started as a career technol-ogy instructor for Lake Land College, working at the Du Quoin Impact Incar-ceration Program. She can be contacted at diwinson@yahoo.com.

1989Amy Carr writes that she has had an eventful year. In April, Time Out

Chicago’s parent company bought the Chicago operation back from its line investor and then closed the two print products (Time Out Chicago and Time Out Chicago kids), went digital and laid off most of the staff. Two months lat-er, though, she joined the Chicago Tribune in a newly created position as de-velopment editor in charge of seeking out innovations and creating products designed to bring in new audience and new revenue. Amy writes that she is “happy to be in a place that’s looking for answers!”

Student body president manages her timeJournalism major, three minors, sorority life, radio work, student government and more

Class Action

1992Chris Boghossian just celebrated his nine-year anniversary at the Chicago

Tribune, where he is the weekend sports editor. Chris lives in Palatine with his wife, Debbie, and three kids (Tess, 11; Emma, 9; and William, 5). He writes, “Hope to see Chicago-area alums at Homecoming North in February!”

1996Heidi Stevens married Michael Phillips Sept. 28 in Chicago. The couple re-

side in the Logan Square neighborhood with their three children, John (12), June (8) and Will (4). In April, Heidi started writing a column, “Balancing Act,” that runs weekly in the Chicago Tribune’s Sunday section. Her new husband is the Tribune’s film critic.

2004Colin McAuliffe will be getting married at the end of October to “a lovely

girl” he met in Mississippi but who is from the St. Louis area. After the wed-ding and a honeymoon to Dominican Republic, Colin will officially move to Quincy, where he will continue to photograph weddings and freelance. Colin can be reached at colin.c.mcauliffe@gmail.com. You can see his work at http://colinmcauliffephotography.com and www.colinmcauliffe.blogspot.com.

2005Carly Mullady left her position as a legal coordinator for NBCUniversal in

New York, where she earned the company’s Ovation Award last year, because of illness. She returned to Illinois, where she continues to receive treatment for Lyme disease. Carly is working as a quality assurance specialist for Pearson Embanet, writing freelance news and features for SunTimes Media Group, and is blogging about her illness at aboutdarnlyme.blogspot.com and about hockey at thepinkpuck.com.

Jessica Youngs Merlet was married April 30, 2013, in Atlanta to Renaud Merlet. Jessica is taking a sabbatical from her law practice to join her husband in Europe while he completes a traveling research master’s program, for which he received a grant from the European Union. At a minimum, the couple will be spending the next two years traveling around western and central Europe so that Renaud can study and complete research at several different universities. They are in Toulouse, France, until the end of January 2014, at which time they will move to Prague for five months.

2006Kate Henderson Pleasant and her husband Tony (2006) bought a house

this summer just outside Charleston. Kate writes, “So I guess you could call us ‘country folk’ now! But we now have 5 acres of space to raise our growing 2-and-a-half year old.” Kate works at WEIU-TV.

Evan Hill started working as a designer at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch this summer.

Larry Smith works on a TRS 80 to produce The Daily Eastern News’ editorial page in the newsroom in the Buzzard Building. Smith was editorial page editor in spring 1987 and was later ed-itor-in-chief in spring 1988. He is a member of the Class of 1988.

Photo Flashback

Eskew balances involvement in school, so-rority, and student government.Photo by Mike Wolbers

Kaylia Eskew works on the Odyssey, Eastern’s Internet radio station, during her journalism broadcasting class.Photo by Mike Wolbers

See CLASS ACTION, page 8

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Journalism students in Feature Writing and Advanced Publica-tion Design courses spring semes-ter 2013 are the authors and design-ers of Generation Overload, an iPad magazine.

The magazine is available for free download from the Apple App Store.

Students in Liz Viall’s advanced publication design course brain-stormed themes for the project and then consulted with Dan Hagan’s feature writing students on the idea. The students agreed that college life in the 21st century would guide the articles for the magazine.

Hagan said the project was a good fit for the two classes. “In fea-ture writing class, we try to move beyond the craft of journalism into the art of writing while retaining ev-ery necessary element of the craft,” he said. “For good feature writing, a wide-ranging curiosity and a nimble mind are necessary, because feature writing is the journalistic discipline that offers the freest rein to the stu-dent’s talents as a creative writer.”

Hagan said the magazine showed

students what was possible in a hy-brid medium. “That’s why I’m glad to see this class working with Prof. Viall’s design class to produce a cutting-edge iPad magazine,” he said. “The format offers the maxi-mum amount of creative freedom to the students in both classes, which means it’s also a considerable chal-lenge to the students and a logistical problem for the instructors. But it’s worth it, because it expands the stu-dents’ concepts of the kinds of jour-nalism that are possible in the un-folding digital age.”

Advanced design students not only designed layouts and interac-tive items for the stories, but also contributed research and the build-ing of infographics for some of the topics. “Overall, the magazine came together well,” Viall said. “Students got the opportunity to see how many magazines are designing con-tent for tablets, where many experts see magazines going in the future.”

Viall said the iPad magazine was produced using Adobe InDesign digital publishing tools. The depart-ment bought a subscription to Ado-be’s cloud and “app making” ser-vices for $249 for one year.

Other expenses included pur-chase of an iPad and an Apple devel-oper license so the app could be of-fered for download through iTunes.

Hagan and Viall are working with their classes this school year to produce the second volume of Gen-eration Overload.

“But this year it will won’t be as rushed,” Viall said. “Last spring the feature writing and design courses were both spring semester. This year the feature writing students will have all semester to write and the magazine will be designed during the spring.”

Journalism students write, design iPad magazine

By Lola BurnhamAssociate Professor of Journalism

Class of 1983Calling all Newsers!The Daily Eastern News will celebrate its 100th

anniversary in fall 2015, and we are beginning to plan ways to mark the occasion.

Photos neededIn preparation for the anniversary, we’re look-

ing for photos of student journalists past and pres-ent at work in the newsroom.

Whether you were a Newser in the pre-Pember-ton days, or when the newsroom was in the base-ment of Pemberton Hall, the first floor of the Stu-dent Services Building, the “big blue barn” in the Buzzard Building, the basement under the bowling alley in the Union, or the current newsroom in the remodeled Buzzard Hall, please look for photos you have of yourself or your friends at work.

We’re also interested in photos of Eastern stu-dent journalists at work elsewhere, such as inter-viewing people on the scene or taking photos on the sidelines of a sporting event.

If you have any, please scan them and email them to Lola Burnham at laburnham@eiu.edu.

Any identifying information you can share would be helpful as well. We’re looking for such things as names, year the picture was taken, what your staff position was when the photo was taken, year of graduation, the story behind the photo, and anecdotes from your year(s) working at the News. If you remember who took the photo, please share

that too so we can give a photo credit. Be sure to in-clude contact information as well in case we need to get in touch with you.

We’re not entirely sure yet just what we’ll end up doing with the photos, but some ideas we’re kick-ing around include making a timeline to display at the anniversary celebration in fall 2015 or printing a booklet with photos and stories of life in the news-room to mark the News’ 100th year.

Ideas neededIn addition to photos, we’re interested in hear-

ing ideas for other ways we can commemorate the 100th anniversary. A few ideas were tossed around at Homecoming 2012 during the Class of 1982’s re-union gathering, but there’s no such thing as having too many ideas.

We’ll be turning our attention to getting ready for the 100th, and it’s time to get started working ahead. Send your ideas to Burnham at the email ad-dress above.

Volunteers neededYes, we’re asking a lot, but if you can volunteer

time or skills to help out with planning and prepa-rations for the big event, please let us know that too. Do you have mad proofreading skills? Design skills? An idea that you want to see us use and time to help implement it? Please consider volunteering, even if you don’t live nearby. Thanks to miracles of modern technology, we can find a way to involve anyone who wants to help. Again, if you can help, please email Burnham.

CareersRobyn Dexter (2013), reporter at Re-public Times, Waterloo, Ill.

Danny Damiani (2013), photogra-pher at Herald & Review, Decatur, Ill.

Elizabeth Edwards (2013), Reporter at News Tribune, LaSalle, Ill.

Doug T. Graham (2012), Staff Writer at Daily Herald

Colleen Harrigan (2012), Graphic Designer at Calamos Investments

Dave Balson (2012), Vice Presi-dent and Principal Editor at Berwick Court Publishing Co., Northfield, Ill.

Krista Henery (2011), Multi-Platform journalist at WLFI News 18, West La-fayette, Ind.

Jordan Boner (2011), United States Air Force

Crystal Alston (2011), Marketing & Communications Specialist, Prairie State College, Chicago Heights, Ill.

Marine Glisovic (2011), General As-signment Reporter for KATV in Little Rock, Ark.

Megan Tkacy (2011), Page Designer at Lee Enterprises, Munster, Ind.

Class Notes

Tom Keefe in the Eastern News’ news-room when it was in the Student Ser-vices Building. Keefe is a 1980 jour-nalism grad and was editor-in-chief of The Daily Eastern News in the 1979-80 school year.

Photo Flashback

The Daily Eastern News’ 100th anniversaryPreparing for the 2015 Celebration

Generation Overload

“The formatoffers the

maximum amount of creative freedom

to the students in both classes ...”

-Dan Haganjournalism instructor The Under 21s: Fake ID production and the man behind it at EIU,

story by Lenny Arquilla, design by Geoff Zuhone

Guns on Campus: Firing up the gun debate, After campus shoot-ings, students debate issue of fire arms on university property, story by Al Warpinski, design by Chacour Koop

Grad School Decisions: With today’s economy piling up student debt, is grad school the right choice? story by Jordan Thiede, de-sign by Amy Menghini

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Samantha Wilmes (2011), Copy Ed-itor/Page Designer at The Dispatch/Rock Island Argus

Bob Bajek (2010), Asst. Sports Editor at the Rantoul Press

Sam (Sottosanto) Ritz (2010), Com-munications Specialist at Joliet Junior College, Joliet, Ill.

Kyle Pruden (2010), paginator at Cen-tralia Morning Sentinel

Kristin Menas (2010), Associate Edi-tor at Technomic, Chicago, Ill.

Kevin Murphy (2010), Copy Desk at Northwest Herald, Crystal Lake, Ill.

Chris Essig (2009), Adjunct Professor at University of Northern Iowa

Jessica Perillo (2008), Assoc. Produc-er, Judge Mathis, Warner Bros, Enter-tainment

Brandon Campbell (2008), News An-chor/Reporter at WGN

Kristy Mellendorf (2008), Communi-cation Coordinator at Health Alliance

Rachel Gasperin (2008), Market-ing Coordinator, MOHA Springfield Clinic, Springfield, Ill.

Ashley (Rueff) Koch (2008), Com-muncation Coordinator at YMCA of the USA, Chicago, Ill.

Amy Carr-Burke (1989), Develop-ment Editor at Chicago Tribune

EngagedMegan Cruz (2010) to John Garcia

Allison Burge (2010) to Zack Doiron

Britti Garcia (2010) to Nicholas Mon-real

Ashley Corbett (2010) to Christopher Ramirez

Robbie Wroblewski (2009) to Aman-da Pants

Matt Kelly (2008) to Christy Berka

Married

Adam Larck (2010) married Amy Day April 20, 2013

Erin Matheny (2009) married Chan-non Kirchner June 9, 2013.

Matt Hopf (2008) married Melissa James June 15, 2012.

Hayley Clark (2008) married Aaron Marks October 13, 2012

Sarah Whitney (2007) married Nick Patsaros, May 28, 2012

Sara Cuadrado (2008) to Tommy Gulo, AprIll. 13, 2013

Samantha Sottosanto (2010) married Justin Ritz, May 3, 2013

Tim Dilsaver (2009) married Netanya Allyson June 15, 2012

Jennifer Brown (2011) married Stan Olson October 6, 2012

BirthsErin (Matheny) Kirchner (2009) and husband Channon welcomed Conner Kirchner in August 2013.

Stacey (Moran) Ledbetter (2009) and husband David welcomed Olivia in July 2013.

Alicia Spates Roberson and Josh Roberson (2004, 2005) welcomed a boy on March 26, 2013.

DeathsDr. Robert Montgomery, father of Rob Montgomery (1990) and the late Bruce Montgomery, namesake of the Bruce Allen White Montgomery Scholarship, died Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013

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2006 Cont.Tim Martin is on the ObamaCare beat this fall for The Wall Street Journal, focusing on health-care re-form and the insurance industry from the paper’s Atlanta bureau. Over the past year, his articles have focused on public health. He was a lead reporter for 2012’s deadly fungal meningitis outbreak and wrote several front-page articles on overdoses from pain-killers—which kill more people than heroin and cocaine combined. One of his articles was included in Columbia Journalism Review’s “The Best Busi-ness Writing 2013,” published by Columbia Univer-sity Press. The article was a lengthy feature he wrote with two colleagues, “Prescription for Addiction,” about a young Florida woman who became addict-ed to prescription painkillers and overdosed. His Twitter handle is: @timothywmartin.

2008Marco Santana launched a weekly technology

news bulletin in early October. Santana, The Des Moines Register’s technology reporter, will focus on technology and startups in the weekly newslet-ter. The news will not necessarily be Iowa-based. To subscribe, email him at msantana@dmreg.com.

Matt Daniels started covering the Illini Football beat in early 2013 for the News-Gazette in Cham-paign.  He appears on WDWS Radio twice weekly as a guest to discuss Illinois Football and recruiting. He also appears on WAND’s “Inside the Illini” to discuss Illinois sports.

2009Eun-yong Park is a reporter for digital news for

Axel Springer, Computer Bild, Germany’s top digi-tal news magazine. Eun-yong writes, “You will hear from me when I get to the New York Times.”

Angela Pham is a senior associate in the U.S. Thought Leadership Institute at PwC in New York. PwC just released a new thought leadership app for which Angela supplied much of the editorial con-

tent and helped form some of the guidelines. The app is viewable on the iTunes store at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pwcs-365/id689591286?mt=8. Angela also ran a series of webcast training sessions to help the company’s markets get ready for the app. She writes that it was a big project for which she ran more than 24 hourlong courses.

2010Bob Bajek is sports editor for the Rantoul Press,

yet he covers other issues for the paper. Recently he has written stories about Agent Orange on the site of the former Chanute Air Force Base and is work-ing on continuing that series.

Sarah Bresnahan is working at Xeros in Boling-brook as the AppleXpress supervisor. The compa-ny does insourced technical support for Apple’s iOS products. Sarah says her jobs consists of assisting advisers with below-average metrics to improve their call quality, which, in turn, improves the com-pany’s quality as a whole.

Kyle Pruden is a paginator at the Centralia Morning Sentinel, where he just celebrated his one-year anniversary.

Sarah Ruholl Sehy married Dan Sehy on Aug. 9, 2013. Two weeks later, she began her pursuing her Juris Doctor at the University of Illinois College of Law.

Cari Wafford switched jobs in June. She now works for the Pritzker Group, headed by Tony and J.B. Pritzker, where she is a receptionist and also works on marketing projects and a few strategic communication type projects. She is also starting a food blog for people who like to eat and like to cook. The working title is “I Learned to Cook for the Internet,” but she writes, “I’m closing in on a fi-nal title any day now.”

2011Abby Allgire is in her last year of law school at

St. Louis University. She writes that journalism has helped her tremendously in her studies and “it al-ways gets mentioned in interviews when people see I was managing editor of (the) DEN.”

Cyndi Francois is an account coordinator at Pinnacle Advertising in Schaumburg. Pinnacle pro-duces print, digital and outdoor advertising. Cyndi says her job, which she has had for a year and a half, entails scheduling media, updating websites, brain-storming “things like great headlines” and writing copy. She also keeps up with her clients’ social me-dia needs, write press releases and does some PR work when needed.

LaMar Holliday is a multimedia journalist for WANE-TV, the CBS affiliate in Fort Wayne, Ind. He has been working at WANE for nearly two years. “It’s been an absolute pleasure to work in the pro-fession I love. I was a transfer student and joined WEIU-TV. I was afforded the opportunity to do the WEIU internship and started working there during my junior year up until my senior year. The hands-on experience and working every position helped me land my first job out of college (which was wait-ing on me before I graduated, by the way) in Beau-mont, Texas,” LaMar writes. “If you’re looking to get into the news biz, whether it’s TV, radio, mul-timedia, or newspaper, EIU is a hidden gem and you’ll have all the skills needed to be the journalist of tomorrow. My one advice: get involved, and do it now! You’ll thank me later.”

Jennifer Brown Olson is working as a weekend cashier at Gordman’s in Champaign, after a long stint of physical therapy to recover from injuries she received in an accident. She writes that she is looking for a full-time job and is also starting a blog where she reviews apps for the iPad and iPhone. She married Stan Olson on Oct. 6, 2012.

before I did,” Daniels said of their first encounter. “She came up to me and said congratulations with much ex-citement. I asked why and she told me I got the job but asked me to not tell anyone or she would get in trouble.” Daniels (‘08) is currently the Illinois football beat reporter at the News-Ga-zette (Champaign, Ill.)

After college Maberry-Daniels went on to work for the Tuscola Re-view and the Moultrie Douglas Region-al, a weekly in Tuscola, Ill. In Decem-ber 2008 she began her job as editor of the St. Joseph Leader located in Saint Joseph, Ill., and writes stories that pertain to more than seven geograph-ic areas. The communities she cov-ers are Allerton, Broadlands, Fithian, Homer, Ogden, St. Joseph and Royal. She said she handles the news stories, the design of the layout and the edit-ing, while she has correspondents for the business and sports sections.

Maberry-Daniels contributes to the journalism program, especial-ly during the summer Illinois Press Foundation/Eastern Illinois Univer-

sity High School Journalism Work-shop. At the summer camp she helps the high school students improve their journalistic abilities in report-ing, editing, photography and design.

She has volunteered at the IPA/EIU workshop every year since 2005, except the summer she had an intern-ship. “I love working with the high school students at the camp,” she said. “It is a wonderful outlet to expose high school students to journalism and show them what EIU has to offer.”

She has also volunteered at the Illinois Journalism Education Asso-ciation Conference and taught high school students about the role of so-cial media in journalism and covering a community. “Eastern taught me so many skills that once I got into the real world it just reaffirmed everything I learned from Eastern,” she said.

Maberry-Daniels’s advice for in-coming freshmen and transfer stu-dents is “get involved and just try ev-erything because you’ll never know where you’ll end up.”

“I never thought I would end up

with weekly papers,” she said. “I thought I would just do online. You just have to do lots of everything until you find what you want to do. What was unique about the DEN is that you just walk in through the door and ask to join.”

According to the department’s Out-reach & Service Committee, which se-lects the Alumnus of the Year award, Maberry-Daniels has been an exempla-ry alumna.

“Nora has given back to her alma mater in so many ways,” said John Ryan, chairman of the committee. “Every year since she graduated she has assisted and taught at the department’s high school journalism summer workshop. She has helped judge the Illinois High School Association’s state championships at Eastern and presented at Illinois Jour-nalism Education Association confer-ences. She also has served as a profes-sional evaluator of students’ work as part of the department’s assessment ef-forts.”

To be eligible for the award, a re-cipient must be a graduate of the Jour-nalism program with significant college

media experience, have attained a pos-itive reputation as a journalist and con-tinued to support the Journalism De-partment after graduation.

Maberry-Daniels said she is proud to have been given the department’s Alumna of the Year Award. She can be reached at nmaberry @news-ga-zette.com and her publication can be viewed at leaderlandnews.com.

Maberry-Daniels joins the follow-ing recipients of the award:

2001 Jim Hanks 2001 Jim Roberts 2002 Carl Green 2002 Chris Soprych 2003 Patrick Coburn 2004 Mike Cowling 2004 Lori Miller 2005 Lisa Green 2006 Jeff Britt 2007 Ted Gregory 2008 Richard Fox 2010 Amy Carr-Burke 2010 Jean Wright Medina 2011 Dann Gire

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