[COLUMBIA JOURNALISM ALUMNI - NEW YORK, CHRISTMAS, 1967]

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New York, CHRISTMAS, 1967
SAIGON -- Barry Kramer '63, assigned to the political beat in Vietnam for
AP, reports his "main competition, friendly of course, is Dan Southerland '63
who covers the same beat for UPI. Bob Pisor '63 is here indefinitely for the
Detroit News, and Maynard Parker, another '63er, recently left to join the
Newsweek bureau in Hong Kong. I cover [the then] Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky
so frequently his aids have begun asking me if I want to join his cabinet.
So far I've declined!"...Beverly Deepe '58, correspondent for the London Daily
Express and NANA, gathered together a group of 15 J School alumni who are
working journalists in Vietnam to say goodbye to Dick Critchfield '57, Asian
correspondent for the Washington Star. . .Our own Professor Fred Yu, who spent
seven weeks there this summer, also ran into a few alumni: "Ron Ross, one of
Luter's boys, is here for the Minneapolis Star & Tribune. Don Kirk, another
Advanced International Reporting Fellow, is here working for McGraw-Hill; his
wife, Susanne Smith '65, is our graduate, too."
Nguyen Cao Ky on the left chatting with Barry
Kramer of AP and Bob Pisor of the Detroit News,
both '63, at Independence Palace in Saigon.
Bob Lipsyte '59 has joined Arthur Daley as "Sports of the Times" columnist
and his work appears on Monday, Thursday and Saturday. We're proud, indeed, of
our alumni association executive committee member!...Lou Boccardi '59 to AP as
executive assistant to the general news manager. He had been assistant managing
editor at the World Journal Tribune...Geor e Merlis '61 writes, "After sinking
of the WJT, where I was day city editor, came ashore at the News (The New York
Daily), along with a pack of other WJT refugees."[ He's now supervisor of the - Oe editorial tra'
e do a s in esen os ... enni ddm oo 00 erican
lt ureau.
travels is now f" e ahingo
 Lettee":fEU" Fie' 3'o.P,ZoiTg vna~z'e-a~la~~=~e uhy unct naiven'a heaitt 4(zLp a
double beat: "So heap me, Tatcott fUitUaft, I d dn't even need that quote
gentle unquote kem.inde4 about the $100 due the Ha24-CentuAy Fund th" yeatc.
you eha t have my checfi...tett the bhen,i4A to calt o44 the doges."
Peter Babcox '62 and David Rorvik '67 have been classified under the new
heading "reporters" on the masthead of Time magazine. Peter will be the reporter
for the Education section and David for Science... David Wolf '66 was highlighted in
Life Magazine for his coverage of the American League pennant race last fall...
Sylvia Auerbach '60 is an associate editor at Publishers' Weekly and teaches a
beginning writer's workshop at the New School.
Robert Shaplen '38, Far Eastern cor- Carl Hartman '42 moved to Brussels
respondent for The New Yorker, was one of for AP as NATO and Common Market corre-
our three Columbia Journalism Alumni Award spondent, a newly created assignment...
recipients this spring. He was in company
with Dean Baker '37 and Elliott V. Bell
'26 recently retired editorial chairman of
Ron Cohen
'66
to UPI in New York; Kim
Willenson
'62
is now UPI's chief corre-
spondent
for
Southeast Asia. . .Kenneth
Business Week...Mike Land '46 former L. Whiting '63 AIRP is bureau chief for
Alumni Association president, is now an AP at Johannesburg, South Africa...
assistant managing editor of Look magazine Howard Simons '52 named assistant man-
...G. Bruce Porter '62 is TV and radio aging editor of The Washington Post...
editor of Newsweek, and Bill Bender '56, Martin Goodman '57 named city editor of
book critic for Time magazine. the Toronto Star.
Left: Dean Baker, who has been
running the School this term
while Dean Barrett is on a well-
deserved sabbatical, introduces
a seasonal friend over some of
our new Broadcast Laboratory
equipment.
The un Mappable Bafzen (A s s o c ate
Dean Richatcd T.) came dapped at the
May 2 ann meetLng as oven. 400
alumni and guets gave him a stand-
ing ovation son his 20 yeatus of
)service to the School. The unpne-
dietable Bahen (The New Yo'tk Times'
Rcu6beft) apanhed the net o6 the
panel (Dick Schaap '56, Jimmy BAezti i
and Wat y . Having a "laugh-.in"
in Low Rotunda, he isaid, was .Ufze
"doing a 6andango in Kemal A-tatwth',s
Tomb." M. Lincoln Schwsten, spoke-
man son the 13 mem ens o e Lamed
Cla.e o6 '17 who came to eelebn.ate
their 50th ann%venuatey reunion the
same night, c.l'_a,imed "the L.i v t 50
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 Bud Karmic p'r? ~hatcedR~eu~SC z u~ tii,z28 h~jno RD~a8is8 O13fi,i.~iROc l~~S~~ ~e Penn o
The Watt kee Jowznat 4o't theOi inve6 i.ga,ti.ve ttepotrting o4 the connection between
Ametu e.an c&ime and garnbting in the Bahama, 5. Bud joined RLahoAd Ha wood '66 Catcneg e
Fellow and Bob Hegan-t '51 in winning Sigma DeWz Chi VLs Un-g-u e Senvtiee Award ...
Jack. Steete 37 .us now managing editotc o~ the Sctri.ppz-Howard Newspapetc Atti.anee...
Joe Layv`e d '60 head The New Yoitk Times' New Delhi buheau, and Bob Winde Let< '63
covetu HoZZywood and West Coat cu w'ta2 activities 4otc the vetcy -same new6papett.
Jean White '53 of The Washington Post's national news staff bit into a fortune
cookie carrying the message "your talents will soon be recognized," and the next
day received word that she had won the annual Catherine L. O'Brien Award for
outstanding achievement in women's interest news reporting... Pat McColl '56 has
her share of great bylines as fashion features editor of Women's Wear Daily.. .Jim
Doyle '61 is Washington bureau chief for the Boston Globe...Bill Montalbano '62
is Latin American correspondent for the Miami Herald and Judith Randal '61 ASWP,
chief medical writer for the Washington Star...Reid Beveridge '65 is now an
editorial writer for the Houston Chronicle.
The Class of '67 had a running assignment
with the Mayor of the City of New York.
Mike Ogden '32 helped us celebrate Journalism Day on June 5 by delivering the
Joseph Pulitzer Memorial Lecture in fine style... The School played host in October
to a two-day conference on Mass Media and Race Relations co-sponsored by the American
Civil Liberties Union and the American Jewish Committee... Alexander C. Herman '19
received a University-wide alumni medal for "conspicuous Columbia alumni service"
last Commencement Day.. .Walter Everett '33 appointed executive director of the
American Press Institute on July 1...John Hohenberg '27 addressed the opening session
of the Asian- veal IWo, IbJ 'S& 4/9 x R?P8 1l14ROOO1OOTAt1O6t-tn Honolulu.
 A quickA P r eca9'&r 4/oJ z&: C11~PR}P t1]Ah 1995 a School this
year involved in its various programs, with 98 in the regular program..-.two alumni
are Advanced International Reporting Fellows -- Emerson Chapin '52 of The New York
Times and Jonathan Kapstein '62 of the Associated Press. One of our Advanced Science
Writing Fellows, Clark Gesner, wrote the book, lyrics and music for the current off-
Broadway musical, "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown." Three alumni are in the-
Russell Sage Behavioral Sciences Program: Marty Berck '53 of NBC News, Luther Jackson
'51 of CROSS-TELL, and Bernard Roshco '51 of the New York State Housing Finance
Agency.
W-inten meeting Am ctht in.i : Cwvc,i.cuuttim '68 -- a took at the new eoofz
at the J School! We'tt Leann mane about the pnopozed two-yeah pno-
gnam... detaitz w tt 4ottow... John ChaAte6 Daey wilt de I ven the
Etmen Davos Memon.ia.t Leetune on Febnuanj 27...Deadt.Ine {ion apptica-
.ti.onz Jon the annual Put tzen Fet owsh.ip in Cnitieat Writing, which
ea&4ie6 a $2,000 stipend, #.o Febn.uacy 20, 1968.
Kinda, sorta recent books by uptown and downtown faculty: "Casey: The Life and
Legend of Charles Dillon Stengel" by Joe Durso '47; "Due to Circumstances Beyond Our
Control" by Fred W. Friendly; "Between Two Worlds: Policy, Press & Public Opinion in
Asian-American Relations" by John Hohenberg '27; "The Medical Offenders" by Howard R.
Lewis '56 (with his wife, Martha); "Libel: &Shttsr. Riskc_ Resnnnsihilit'es" by Bob
Phel s '50 and E. Douglas Hamilton; "RFK and "Turned On" by Dick Schaap '56, and
"Electronic Journalism" by William A. Wood.
Judith Crist '45, our new lady president of the Alumni Association is film critic
for the NBC-TV Today Show, TV Guide, and the New York magazine, scheduled to reappear
in the spring... Dave Miller '58 is national assignment manager for CBS News and Dan
Hackel '59, network news correspondent for ABC in Washington... Walter Jacobson '60
returned to CBS-WBBM-TV News in Chicago after a year at Columbia as CBS News Fellow.
One of his documentaries won first prize in AP competition... Dave Jayne '61 back to
New York from Washington D.C. as producer of "ABC Scope."
Terry Montgomery '63 built his own radio station (WTPM) in St. Cloud, Minnesota...
Dean Barrett is chairman of the 12-member editorial policy board of N.E.T.'s Public
Broadcast Laboratory which premiered in early November to mixed reviews and at this
writing is definitely finding its own niche...Reuven Frank '47 is now executive vice
president of the NBC News Division... Henry Hicks '63 AIRP named news director of WJAR
and WJAR-TV in Providence, Rhode Island... Carl Stern '59 to NBC's Washington bureau
as Supreme Court and Justice Department correspondent after receiving his law degree
magna cum laude... Irving R. Levine '47, NBC News bureau chief in Rome since 1959,
has been named bureau chief in London. . .Mike Silver '57 named director of CBS News
Information Services... Marty Haag '63 is bureau manager for NBC News in Cleveland.
Now that the dust has pant ally 6ettted on the kenovating wonh at 116th StAeet
and Broadway, hehe' 6 the way Brian Bavtett '67 deb c'cibed the scene to his ctazzmate/s:
"The third-floor newsroom will be gone in the very near future (ed. note: big move
accomplished early this month)...our big gray desks are gone, replaced by pastel
green and formica jobs.-Everyone uses whatever desk is free, and keeps his stuff in
footlockers, just like the Army. Soon, the newsrooms will be the fifth floor one, the
TV one, and the one where the advanced international and science people were on the
fourth floor. No more fifth floor offices for staff -- now they all have sumptuous
suites on the seventh floor, wall-to-wall carpeting, intercoms, the whole bit (ed. note:
oh, come now, it's not quite like heaven). Chris is now Dean Trump (ed. note: Chris
Trump '62, our new assistant dean!). The library is being taken out and put into the
third floor newsroom. The library will become a 100-seat auditorium with folding
chairs..." So, ptea6e come up and zee owe new 1968 4ace, and, in the meantime, good
cheer, good heath and good f-1otLdayz 4nom a e o? ub here at the J Schoo.e.
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