July 7, 2010 - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

Columbia Journalism School E-News
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UPCOMING ALUMNI EVENTS
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TORONTO, July 16: AAN Alumni Drinks with Christine Souders, associate dean, Admissions
ST. PAUL, July 22: NAJA Alumni Drinks with Christine Souders
SAN DIEGO, July 31: NABJ Alumni Breakfast with Leon Braswell, director, Admissions &
Financial Aid
DENVER, Aug. 4: AEJMC Alumni Breakfast with Dean Nicholas Lemann
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 5: AAJA Alumni Reception with Ernest Sotomayor, assistant dean for
Career Services; Leon Braswell, director, Admissions & Financial Aid
You do not have to be registered for the above conventions to attend the alumni events so
for more information and to register, go to www.journalism.columbia.edu/alumni
or contact jalumni@columbia.edu
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FEATURED NEWS
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Graduates Selected Kaiser Media Interns in Health Reporting
Four members of the class of 2010 have been named Kaiser Media Interns in Health Reporting, a
competitive 12-week summer program that kicks off with a briefing on health care issues in
Washington, D.C. Interns are then embedded as cross-platform health reporters at media
companies across the country.
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Alumni Among Journalism Innovators and Practitioners to Follow
The Society of Professional Journalists listed 20 industry thinkers, innovators and practitioners
they recommend to get to know and the list includes four alumni: Dean of Students Sree
Sreenivasan ’93, Megan Garber ’07, David Cohn ’08 and Vadim Lavrusik ’10.
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*NEW* Features: JobNews Career Management Center, World Media Directory
If you haven’t already, register today for the JobNews Career Management Center, open just to
Journalism School students and graduates. We’ve added two new features: email alerts when
employers post job openings matching your interests, and an option to have your resume
available to select employers. JobNews allows job hunters to sort listings in multiple ways, create
a list of “favorite” positions that interest you, store resumes and other documents online, set up
the auto-alerts of job postings and more. For alumni employers seeking newsroom candidates,
JobNews is a great way to spread word on a job board that’s updated daily and visited thousands
of times monthly by fellow alumni.
To create an alumni account: go to http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/careers/JobNews and
follow the link to the system. Your account should be approved within one business day. Your
username is your UNI (Columbia student ID number). If you do not have a UNI or have forgotten
it, go to http://alumni.columbia.edu/access/s2_4.html to retrieve it or register for a new one.
To create an employer account: go to https://journalism-columbia-csm.symplicity.com/employers.
You can then begin posting journalism openings immediately.
In another new feature, Career Services has compiled a directory of English language media
outlets worldwide for those interested in approaching the companies about freelancing, jobs,
coverage issues, etc. The link: bit.ly/dD34WQ. MANY, MANY thanks to alumni the world over for
help in compiling the data.

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EVENTS OF INTEREST
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WASHINGTON D.C.: MEDIA YOUNG ALUMNI HAPPY HOUR
Thursday, July 8, 2010, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Local 16, http://localsixteen.com/, at 1602 U Street, N.W.
This is the first of a series of professional young alumni happy hours organized by the Columbia
University Young Alumni Committee, this time focusing on Media in DC. If you work in media or
would like to do so, join us for a happy hour at Local 16 on Thursday, July 8 from 7-9pm.
Columbia alumni who work at Bloomberg, Foreign Policy magazine, Roll Call, and Fortune
magazine, will briefly introduce themselves as well as share their perspectives on the state of
media in DC. After these brief introductions, you will have a chance to mingle and re-connect
with fellow recent alumni working in media outlets such as Roll Call, Slate, The Washington Post,
Associated Press, Foreign Policy magazine, and many others. Please RSVP by sending an email
to columbia.dcyac@gmail.com. No cover, pay for your own drinks, and enjoy complimentary
finger food.
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Fifth Annual CAA Family Picnic
Saturday, July 24
Join the Columbia Alumni Association, fellow alumni, and guests on campus for the Fifth Annual
CAA Picnic. Enjoy barbeque and beverages (beer and wine, too!) at a fun-filled day with activities
for adults and children of all ages. For more information and to register, click here
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ALUMNI NEWS
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Blair Justice ’49 suffered aphasia following a stroke during emergency bypass surgery. He is
now on the board of the National Aphasia Association and, with his wife, helped found the first
aphasia center in Houston, Houston Aphasia Recovery Center (harctx.org). He has also written a
new book “Raising Lazarus: The Science of Healing the Soul” (BookSurge Publishing, November
2009).
Suzanne Loebl ’69 is alive and well and still writing books. Her latest, “America’s Medicis: The
Rockefellers and their Astonishing Cultural Legacy” will be published by Smithsonian
Books/HarperCollins on Nov. 16.
Paul Browne ’74 has firsthand experience being recruited by a Russian agent—a Soviet spy
betting a relationship with a small-town newspaper reporter would one day bear fruit, according to
an article in the Wall Street Journal (7/6/10). In 1973, when Brown was a J-School student, he
took a class taught at the United Nations and met Alex Yakovlev, a 32-year-old who broadcast
U.N. news to Eastern Europe. Yakovlev attempted to recruit Browne, who immediately contacted
the FBI.
Anita Harris ’75 is writing “The Ithaca Diaries,” a coming of age memoir set at Cornell University
in the tumultuous 1960s. She gave a talk about the book-in-progress at Cornell on June 11.
More at: http://ithacadiaries.wordpress.com/
Solange De Santis '76 is a candidate for the M.A. in Educational Theater, Colleges and
Communities, at New York University, class of 2011. Having written about the performing arts for
her entire journalism career, she is seeking to share her commitment to the arts with learners of
all ages in a variety of settings. She is also a theater practitioner with experience as a director,
sound designer and stage manager.

Gordon Bock '77 writes "Kathleen and I are delighted to welcome into the world Samantha Israel
Bock, who arrived on July 1 at Gifford Hospital in Randolph, Vt., weighing 9 pounds, 5.5 ounces
(and thus becoming both the first of our daughters to break the nine-pound mark and the first
Bock girl to be born in the Gifford birthing tub). Both Mom and baby are doing well (as are sisters
Hadarah and Gabrielle)."
Jeffrey S. Klein ’78, former senior executive with the Los Angeles Times and Times Mirror, has
joined the USC Annenberg School’s Center on Communication Leadership and Policy (CCLP) as
the 2010-2011 Executive in Residence. Klein will focus on the New Models for News initiative and
on how legacy media companies are moving into the digital age, contribute regularly to the CCLP
blog, and develop and direct grant funded research projects on the future of news. Klein spent 15
years with the Los Angeles Times and Times Mirror in senior management positions, including
senior vice president and general manager, news, and senior vice president for consumer
marketing.
Richard Jenkins ’81 was named president of MoneyShow.com, spearheading content
development, strategic partnerships, sales and marketing for the Web site. Jenkins, former
editor-in-chief of MSN Money, tripled editorial page impressions from 600 million in 2006 to 1.8
billion in 2009. During that time, the site won two prestigious Gerald R. Loeb Awards for
multimedia and four “Best in Business” awards from the Society of American Business Editors
and Writers. Jenkins’ career spans three decades, with more than 15 years devoted to interactive
media. He joined Microsoft in 1996 as founding editor and product unit manager for the Microsoft
Money Insider Web site, which later became part of MSN Money. Prior to that, Jenkins served as
deputy editor for TimesLink, an online service of the Los Angeles Times, and as an editor in the
paper’s business section.
Robert Camuto ’84 has written “PALMENTO: A Sicilian Wine Odyssey” (At Table, September
2010), now available on Amazon.com. Inspired by a deep passion for wine, an Italian heritage,
and a desire for a land somewhat wilder than his home in southern France, Camuto set out to
explore Sicily’s emerging wine scene. What he discovered during more than a year of traveling
the region, however, was far more than a fascinating wine frontier. His book takes wine as a
powerful metaphor for the independent identity of this mythic land, which has thrown off its
legacies of violence, corruption, and poverty to emerge, finally free, with its great soul intact
(www.robertcamuto.net).
Eric Marcus ’84 has written “Why Suicide? Questions & Answers About Suicide, Suicide
Prevention, and Coping with the Suicide of Someone You Know.” In 1970, Marcus’ father took
his own life at the age of 44. In 2008, his 49-year-old sister-in-law jumped to her death from a
high-rise building. In a completely revised and updated edition of the original “Why Suicide?” first
published in 1996, Marcus offers thoughtful answers to scores of questions about this complex,
painful issue, from how to recognize the signs of someone who is suicidal to strategies for coping
in the aftermath of a loved one’s death. Marcus co-authored the #1 New York Times bestselling
autobiography of Olympic diving champion Greg Louganis.
Anthony Flint '85 was named a fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and launched the
blog "This Land" at The Boston Globe / boston.com, part of the Community Voices initiative,
covering architecture, urban design, the built environment, sustainability, and public and private
space: http://www.boston.com/community/blogs/this_land/
Nancy Solomon ’86 and Alex Blumberg received honorable mention in the 2010 Casey Medals
for Meritorious Journalism for “Mind the Gap: Why are good schools failing black students?” It
carefully investigates a host of potential explanations for racial disparities in student achievement.
Jay Greene ’87 has written “Design is How it Works: How the Smartest Companies Turn
Products into Icons” (Portfolio Penguin, August 2, 2010). Greene shows how important it is to
build a culture in which design is more than an after-the-fact concern – it’s part of your company’s

DNA. Design matters at every stage of the process and, in an increasingly competitive
marketplace, design represents the best chance you have of transcending your competitors.
Greene traveled around the world for exclusive, insightful interviews with top executives of eight
major design-driven companies: Porsche, Nike, LEGO, OXO, REI, Clif Bar, Ace Hotels and
Virgin Atlantic. For more than two decades, Jay Greene has written about some of the most
important companies, business trends and top executives in the world and, from 2000 to 2009,
Greene was BusinessWeek’s Seattle bureau chief.
Jennifer Nelson ’88 is studying for a Masters in Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Vermont College
of Fine Arts with the idea of completing her memoir.
Michele Salcedo ’88, an editor at the Washington bureau of the Associated Press and five-year
board member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, was elected president of NAHJ
at the Denver convention.
Debra Rosenberg ’89 and Claudia Kalb were runners-up for a 2010 Casey Medal for Meritorious
Journalism for “A Vast and Sudden Sadness” (Newsweek), a thoughtful look at the phenomenon
of stillbirth.
Keith Brown ’91 was on the BET News team for “Heart of the City: Detroit’s dropout factories”
that won a 2010 Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism in the video long form category. This
unvarnished account of high school dropouts in Detroit goes beyond damning generalizations to
hold accountable the players at every level – from students and their parents to teachers and
federal officials.
Kevin Kelleher ‘91 lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and is a regular contributor at Slate's
TheBigMoney.com, GigaOm.com and Earth2Tech and has been a contributing writer for Wired,
Popular Science, Portfolio.com, TheStreet.com and RealMoney.com. His work has also appeared
in Salon, Consumer Reports, CNN Money, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The
Washington Post and the Hollywood Reporter. Previously, Kelleher was a senior editor at The
Industry Standard magazine, west coast bureau chief of TheStreet.com, founding executive editor
of Wired News and a reporter at Bloomberg News covering the collapse of the Japanese stock
market.
Amy Silverman ’91 and Rick Barrs received honorable mention in the 2010 Casey Medals for
Meritorious Journalism for “The Lost Kids” (Phoenix New Times), a searing account of the
challenges faced by parents of children with mental illnesses and a juvenile corrections system illequipped
to help them.
Cathryn Prince ’92 is a freelance reporter for Patch.com, Christian Science Monitor and Weston
Magazine. Prince is also an adjunct professor of journalism at Quinnipiac University. Her third
book, "A Professor, a President, and a Meteor: The Birth of American Science," will be released
November 2010 by Prometheus Books.
Stephanie Argy '95 travelled to the Edinburgh International Film Festival for the international
premiere of “The Red Machine,” an award-winning feature film that she co-wrote and co-directed.
The movie is a caper adventure, set in Washington DC in 1935, about a spy and a thief who are
forced to work together to steal a top-secret Japanese code machine. “The Red Machine” played
on June 17 at 6 p.m. and June 19. at 3:15 p.m. Both screenings were at Cineworld in Edinburgh.
Damien Cave ’98 will move to Mexico City in November, where he’ll cover Mexico, Central
America and the Caribbean for The New York Times.
Tom Rachman’s ’98 debut novel, “The Imperfectionists,” climbed to number 8 on The New York
Times bestseller list and actor Brad Pitt has scooped up the production rights.

Michael Rothfeld ’98 is returning to New York to cover courts and law enforcement for the Wall
Street Journal. He and his wife, Tasha Blaine, are parents to Annabel, nearly 6, and Georgia, 3.
Tony Maciulis ’00 is a producer at CBS News and the man responsible for bringing Katie Couric
to the Web-centric masses. It is through Maciulis’ work that Couric’s interviews and behind-thescenes
features are viewed millions of times online. Broadcasting & Cable included Maciulis on
its annual list of rising industry stars who are already remaking the way television is created, built
and delivered. Maciulis joined CBSNews.com in 2007 to host Irregularly Scheduled
Programming, an irreverent Web-only take on some of the more quirky news stories of the day.
Julia Lyon ’01 and Sheila McCann were runners-up for a Casey Medal for Meritorious
Journalism in the single article/under 200,000 circulation category for “A Missing Peace” (The Salt
Lake Tribune). This eloquently written piece brought attention to a story that is rarely covered by
the mainstream media: the treatment of refugees in America. Lyon traveled to Thailand and
Iowa to report and the story. Her reporting was described as “energetic and determined.”
Ryan Teague Beckwith ’02 is the editor of Congress.org, a Web site owned by the CQ-Roll Call
Group in Washington, D.C. He previously served as deputy editor.
Claudio I. Remeseira ’02 is the editor of “Hispanic New York: A Sourcebook,” with a forward by
Andrew Delbanco (Columbia University Press). It is an anthology that takes readers on a lively,
thoughtful tour of a city that many writers, artists and cultural historians have known but found
hard to define. Remeseira has gathered a prime selection of writers and thinkers to present a
kaleidoscopic, complex whole.
Daniel Burke ‘03, a national correspondent for Religion News Service, won first-place in the
2010 American Academy of Religion Awards for Best In-Depth Reporting on Religion. Burke's
entry included articles on religious syncretism in America; President Obama's participation in the
Saguaro Seminar and its impact on his presidency; an Episcopal Church controversy magnified
by information accessible on the Internet; an in-depth look at Katharine Jefferts Schori, the first
woman elected as Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church; and a review of the church-going
habits of U.S. presidents. The 2010 AAR awards will be presented at the AAR's annual
convention in Atlanta on Oct. 31.
Andrew Lee Butters ’03 was married to Nahid Seyed Siamdoust on June 11 at the First
Presbyterian Church in New York. On June 12, the couple had a Persian ceremony at the country
home of the bridegroom’s parents in Greenville, Del. Siamdoust is a candidate for a doctorate in
modern Middle Eastern studies at St. Antony’s College, Oxford. She is a freelance writer for Time
magazine. Butters is a Middle East correspondent for Time and works in Beirut, Lebanon. They
met in Tehran in February 2009 while they both were covering the 30th anniversary of the Iranian
revolution for Time.
Ethan Lindsey '03 was part of the Peabody-award winning Oregon Public Broadcasting
newsroom for the series 'Hard Times.' He's now living in Los Angeles with his wife, Brit, and he's
working as the producer of the Marketplace Morning Report.
Itai Maytal ’03 will be an adjunct at the J-School this fall, working under George Freeman in his
Journalism and the Law course.
Alex Friedman ’04 is living in Philadelphia, starting his second year of fellowship in maternalfetal
medicine at UPenn, and writing about medicine for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Petra Bartosiewicz ’04, MA ‘06 was first runner-up at the 2010 Molly Awards in Austin, TX, for
her story in Harper's Magazine, "The Intelligence Factory: How America Makes its Enemies

Disappear." The Molly is a national journalism prize honoring the spirit, wisdom and writing
brilliance of the late Molly Ivins '67.
Lisa Spinelli ’04 and her husband Gary White welcomed Angelina Noelle, born June 3 in Boston.
Kristina Goetz ’05 and Louis Graham received honorable mention for the 2010 Casey Medals in
Meritorious Journalism for “Cherry’s Choice” (The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn.). Goetz’s
remarkable commitment to tell 16-year-old Cherry’s story enables readers to connect with and
invest in the future of a young woman whose obstacles are unfortunately anything but unique.
The vivid photographs offer a poignant glimpse into the cycle of poverty, crime and hopelessness
that grips so many Memphis residents.
Dakin Campbell ’06 is covering banks for Bloomberg in San Francisco, where his wife Stephanie
Bussman is in graduate school at the University of California.
Carla Zanoni '06 is now a reporter/ producer at DNAinfo.com, an interactive journalism site that
covers local Manhattan news. She writes about Harlem, Washington Heights and Inwood,
continuing the work she did on her personal blog The Streets Where We Live. Previously, Zanoni
was a features editor at Manhattan Media.
Nicholas Hirshon ’08 has authored "Images of America: Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum"
(Arcadia Publishing, September 2010), the first book dedicated to Long Island's foremost venue
for sports and entertainment. The volume covers the arena's conception in 1972, the Stanley Cup
dynasty of the New York Islanders in the early 1980s and the many musicians who have graced
the stage in Uniondale. Hirshon is also a reporter at the New York Daily News and teaches
journalism at LaGuardia Community College and St. John's University. He won the Friend in the
Media Award from the Historic Districts Council in May for his reporting on the historic sites of
Queens. Find more details about the book on Amazon.com.
Amir Bibawy ’09 was an assistant producer on "Frontier Markets,” a Reuters multimedia news
special about the potential in frontier market investing and its risks. With over 100 video packages
and interviews, dozens of text articles, and interactive, live-data features, it provides an
unprecedented look into such frontier markets as Mongolia, Nigeria, and Estonia, as well as the
more traditional growing markets of Vietnam, Gulf countries, and Argentina.
Danielle Friedman ’09 is an assistant editor at The Daily Beast. She has worked as a nonfiction
book editor for Hudson Street Press and Plume, two imprints of Penguin Group. Her writing has
been published in the Miami Herald, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and on CNN.com.
Malia Politzer ’09 is a staff writer with Mint, a Wall Street Journal affiliate company in New Delhi,
where she will be covering the human trafficking and immigration beat. Politzer also won two
awards from the Arizona Press Club for cover stories she wrote as a Village Voice Fellow at the
Phoenix New Times in 2009 (awarded in May, 2010). The cover story, "Lost in Translation:
Autism is Tough to Diagnose and Treat - and for Immigrant Families, it Can Be Impossible," won
first place for social issues reporting, and another cover story, "Paint on a Happy Face: Local
Artist Luis Gutierrez is on the Cusp of Making it in the Art World Despite Struggling with MS" won
third place for profile writing.
Erin Siegal ’09 has been awarded a 2010 IRE Fellowship Award from Investigative Reporters
and Editors. The funding will support continued reporting expenses for Siegal's upcoming book
on corruption in international adoption (Beacon Press, scheduled for fall 2011). For more on
Siegal's work, which stemmed from her Master's project at the Stabile Center, please visit
www.findingfernanda.com.
James Sims ’09 was promoted to Senior New Media Specialist within the Digital Media team at
the American Museum of Natural History. His duties include producing/shooting/editing more in-

depth online video features and managing the ever-growing new media assets associated with
the museum's website, www.amnh.org. He was also hired by Lincoln Center for the Performing
Arts to work as its first Blogger-in-Residence, chronicling the Summer at Lincoln Center 2010
programs through the end of August (www.summeratlincolncenter.org).
Artis Henderson ’10 will be covering West Africa for the Associated Press.
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Chris Welles, an award-winning business reporter and former director of the Knight-Bagehot
fellowship program at Columbia for business reporters, died June 19 at a nursing home in
Salisbury, Conn. He was 72 and lived in Brooklyn. The cause was Alzheimer’s disease, his wife,
Nancy, said. Calling him “probably the premier business writer” from the 1960s to the early
1980s, Steven Shepard, a former editor of BusinessWeek and now dean of the Graduate School
of Journalism at the City University of New York, said Mr. Welles was known for his penetrating
accounts of “shenanigans, abuses and downfalls” in the business community. Welles was the
author of “The Last Days of the Club,” which detailed the demise of the old Wall Street monopoly
and the rise of new institutions that would eventually dominate financial power in America. In
1977, he was named director of the Walter Bagehot Fellowship Program in Business and
Economics Journalism at Columbia (now the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship Program). For 35 years,
it has provided a midcareer opportunity for business journalists to expand their expertise. Welles
also worked for BusinessWeek, The Saturday Evening Post and The Los Angeles Times. Among
his awards for business reporting were a Gerald Loeb Award and a National Magazine Award. He
ran the Bagehot program until 1985. Welles graduated from Princeton in 1959 and served in the
Navy until 1962, when was hired as a researcher at Life. Welles’s first marriage, to the former
Dorothy Brown, ended in divorce. Besides his wife of 32 years, the former Nancy Leiserson, he is
survived by his biological mother, Suzanne Sarr; his half-sister, Linda McCarthy; a half-brother,
Peter Sarr; two brothers, Prentice and James Welles; three children from his first marriage,
Michael and Peter Welles and Alison Holland; and seven grandchildren. A memorial service will
be held on July 10 at 2 p.m. at First Unitarian Church, 50 Monroe Place in Brooklyn.
Bernard F. Judy ’48, editor-in-chief of The Blade during downtown Toledo's revitalization, died
June 29 after having suffered a stroke in April. He was 90, and is survived by a wife and four
children. Judy went to work for the Blade straight out of Columbia University in 1948 when he
and other journalism students ran a half-page ad in Editor & Publisher magazine during the
publishers convention in New York City. Having created the ad, Judy put his name first. Writing
for the Blade, Jack Lessenberry relates that Judy had impressed then-publisher Paul Block Jr.,
who "hired him on the spot." Called "the eyes and ears" of Block, Judy became close enough to
the late publisher that eventually he was named editor-in-chief, a position he held until his 1989
retirement. Judy served in Army counterintelligence during World War II. A pitcher for Grove City
College's baseball team, he was asked to try out with a New York Yankees farm team, but went
on to receive a degree from Washington and Lee University and a master's from the Journalism
School. While working for years as a general assignment reporter, Judy also reviewed movies,
helped on the business desk and contributed freelance reporting, including seven cover stories,
to Business Week. He moved on to success as a knowledgeable and persuasive editorial writer.
Appointed an associate editor in 1959, he was named editorial director in 1971 and editor in
1973. An award-winning writer himself, Judy served on at least four Pulitzer Prize juries, was a
founder and board member of the Toledo Press Club, and was a past president of Sigma Delta
Chi's local chapter. He was a director of The Toledo Blade Co. and later, under Block
Communications, a vice president of the Blade's board of directors.
June Schwartz Court ’49 died on May 21. She was 84. After graduating from Journalism
School, she traveled the U.S. researching and writing for Ladies’ Home Journal. A graduate of
USC, she returned to Southern California and taught school. In her free time, she led bike rides
and hikes for the Sierra Club, where she met her second husband, Bill Court. They married on a
Christmas Day hike and, in 1993, they moved to Oakmont (Santa Rosa, Calif.). Court belonged
to the Greater Los Angeles Dickens Society and enjoyed attending summer Dickens workshops
at U.C.-Santa Cruz. Diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease 22 years ago, she hiked the Kearsarge

Pass in the Sierras (11,800 feet). She leaves her husband and two daughters, Nora Mullen and
Lela Nordquist and their families.
Barbara Belford ’62, emerita professor of Journalism at Columbia University, magazine and
newspaper journalist and biographer died on June 3, 2010 at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer
Center. She was 74 years old. She fell in love with journalism while in high school, working at
the St. Petersburg Times as a reporter. She went on to study at Vanderbilt and Edinburgh
University, continuing her reporting at the Edinburgh Scotsman and the Quincy Patriot Ledger in
Massachusetts. Upon graduation from the Journalism School, one of the happiest times of her
life, Belford was hired as a reporter and editor at The New York Herald Tribune. During the 1966
transit strike, she piled her fellow reporters in her red Volkswagen Beetle and zipped around the
city, collecting stories about New Yorkers’ odysseys without the subway and giving them lifts. As
a young reporter and editor, she could flaunt awards for excellence in reporting for such diverse
subjects as harness racing, being the first woman on the Verrazzano Bridge and her travels to
Ethiopia and dining with Haile Selassie. During this time, she married Frank Guy de Furia, a
hematologist finishing his residency at New York Hospital and had a daughter with him. When
The New York Herald Tribune folded, she worked freelance and traveled extensively. Later on,
she was one of the founding members of the tabloid paper, The Trib, a paper established to
honor The New York Herald Tribune. When her husband died in 1973, Belford started to tailor
her career to accommodate taking care of her daughter Deborah. Her experience as a single
mother in the ‘70s and ‘80s was reflected in her writing and editing and found an audience at
Redbook, The Trib, her work as a freelance travel writer, as well as in her book of biographies of
important American newspaperwomen, “Brilliant Bylines.” At the same time, she started as an
Associate Professor at the Journalism School where she taught reporting and was instrumental in
creating the Magazine Production workshop. She grew there, earning tenure and extending her
maternal instincts to her students. While still teaching at the J-School, Belford started writing
biographies, taking a break from the faster rhythms of print journalism, all the while remembering
the keys to good reporting: “what, where, when why and how.” Her first biography focused on
Violet Hunt, Victorian author, seductress and self-proclaimed wife of Ford Madox Ford. She
received wide praise for her biography of Bram Stoker where she drew comparisons on his
relationship with actor Henry Irving to Renfield’s with Dracula. The book remains a classic
reference for vampire aficionados. Her biography on Oscar Wilde in 2000 drew controversy but
wide praise overseas for immersing the reader in the smells, sights and sounds of the Victorian
era of Oscar’s time. Belford is survived by her daughter Deborah Belford de Furia, her son-in-law
Giuseppe Mancini and her two adored grandsons Giacomo Belford Mancini (9) and Nicholas
Oliver Mancini (6) in Rome, Italy. A memorial ceremony will be held in July on Fire Island.
Elizabeth “Lisa” Waller-Hayes '89 died June 9 at her home in Overveen, the Netherlands, after
a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. Born in New York City, Waller-Hayes was raised in
Hershey, Penn. and New Rochelle, N.Y. After graduating from the Journalism School in 1989,
Waller-Hayes began her career as an editorial assistant at McCall's magazine and later joined
Health magazine as head of the research department. Following her sense of adventure, she
moved to Amsterdam in 1991, to work for the International Organization of Consumers Unions
(IOCU) in The Hague. She also worked for the Women's Health Action Foundation, Health Action
International Organization (HAI) and, in 2003, she joined Medecines Sans Frontieres (Doctors
without Borders) as a publication manager, working in New York City, Amsterdam, and Geneva.
She excelled in Dutch, her second language, also working as a free lance editor, writer and
translator for scientific journals. At the time of her death she was coordinating a global project,
sponsored for HAI, on the rational use of medicines. In 2009, in collaboration with the World
Health Organization, she edited and presented the HAI publication, "Understanding and
responding to pharmaceutical promotion: A practical guide." designed to educate medical and
pharmaceutical students on the unethical promotion of medicines and promoted it all over the
world. Her passion for social justice will live on in her work and love of the English language will
be reflected in the Elizabeth Hayes and Family scholarships established in her name at the
College of the Holy Cross and The Columbia University School of Journalism. The Lisa Waller-
Hayes Foundation, was recently established in The Netherlands to promote research and provide

services to patients and families struggling with pancreatic cancer. (www.lisawallerhayes
foundation.com) In addition to her husband of sixteen years, Arnoud (Nout) Waller, she is
survived by her two children, Bastiaan, 12, and Isabel, 10, of the Netherlands, her mother,
Barbara Hayes of Oxford, Conn., brother and sister-in-law Arthur and Lisa J. Hayes of Westport,
Conn. and sister and brother-in-law, Kathy and Robert Saracino of Oxford, Conn. Her father,
Arthur Hull Hayes, Jr., MD, died in February of this year. A memorial service was held in the
Netherlands on June 16, 2010. A mass is planned at St. Thomas the Apostle church in Oxford,
Conn. on Saturday, July 24, 2010, at 11:00 a.m.
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FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
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NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS FELLOWSHIP
Deadline: July 20
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Journalism Institute in Classical Music and Opera,
October 9-19, 2010 at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism. Join a faculty of critics,
reporters, and experts for an unsurpassed immersion in the world of classical music. Email
nea.institute@gmail.com for an application. For more information:
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EAST-WEST CENTER CHINA-U.S. JOURNALISTS EXCHANGE PROGRAM
Deadline: July 13
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Hawaii. For more information, visit www.eastwestcenter.org/chinausjournalists or call 1-808-944-
7384 or email journalismfellowship@eastwestcenter.org
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