COMMUNICATIONS

New Faculty

The Roy H. Park School of Communications welcomes its new faculty for the 1996-97 academic year. Carolyn Byerly has joined the television-radio department as an assistant professor. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington and previously taught at Radford University. Her area of specialty is teaching journalism from international and multicultural perspectives and research on women, minorities and media, and international media issues.

James Karrh joins the television-radio department after completing graduate studies at the University of Florida at Gainesville. In addition to finishing up his Ph.D. there, he has an M.A. in marketing from the University of Florida and an M.B.A. from Duke University. His area of interest and expertise is the study of brands as part of mass media programming. His background includes teaching in such areas as integrated management and media management, as well as research methods and principles.

News and Notes

Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the graduate program in corporate communication at Ithaca College conducted a conference this summer on "Bridges to the Future: Corporate Communication in the Coming Decade." The conference included collaboration with individuals on the cutting edge of technology, management, and personal development in the fields of education and training, employee communication, development and fund-raising, media production, new technologies, and marketing and promotions.

This fall WDNY-AM in Dansville, New York, carried WICB-FM's coverage of Ithaca College football games. Dansville is the home town of Bomber head coach Mike Welch '73 and starting quarterback Neal Weidman '97.

For the last three summers staff volunteers from the Park School have conducted communications workshops. The 4-H Youth Ambassadors Workshops, which are part of Cornell's annual Cooperative Extension Service Career Exploration Program, aim to give 4-H members some experience with media production and prepara-tion for working with media representatives.

Gordon Rowland, assistant professor of corporate communication, was a guest at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, this May. He was invited to present a set of lectures and presentations on design to the faculty, students, and alumni of the instruc-tional technology department.

This summer Park School students Karin Perrotta '97, Maren Patterson '97, and David Humphreys'96 interned in Los Angeles on Arnold Schwarzenegger's latest film, Jingle All the Way. Peter Burrell '68 (far left) served as production manager for the film.

Murray Close/20^th Century Fox photo

Awards and Honors

Joe Gutierrez '97 was one of 16 students from across the country selected to attend the Seventh Annual Yellow Pages Students Seminar, held in late September.

Three Ithaca College Television student productions are finalists in the National Association of College Broadcasters' annual Student TV Programming Awards: Semesters, volume 4, episode 2, drama/narrative category; The News Tonight, newscast category; Cornell Big Red Basketball, play-by-play category. The winners were to be announced at the national conference in Providence, Rhode Island.

Campus radio station 106-VIC is also a finalist in the NACB competition. VIC entered the community service/marketing campaign category with its "1996 Fifty-Hour Marathon." This year's event took place March 22-24 and raised $2,500 for Hospicare of Tompkins County (ICQ, spring 1996).

Mikko Alanne '97 won second place in the experimental category of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers and the Rochester Audiovisual Association 19th annual student film/video festival. His entry was entitled Sleep, the Monster Whispered.

Associate professor of corporate communication Diane Gayeski '74 has won a "top paper" award from the International Association of Business Communicators for "Integrated Communication: From Theory to Performance." Coauthored with her client Barbara Woodward, who is manager of training at Abbott Diagnostics in Illinois, the paper outlines a new model for integrating internal and external communication, human resources, and training. It also profiles how Abbott Diagnostics used this model to redesign its approaches to sales training.

Peter Finnger photo

Exhibit

Gone But Not Forgotten, part of an exhibit of recent color work by William K. Greiner, was on display at the Roy H. Park School of Communications photography gallery this fall.