Alumni

Alumni J News & Notes

2000

Diane Broderick is a copy editor and page designer with the Standard-Times in New Bedford, Mass. It is a 45,000-circulation community newspaper about an hour south of Boston.

Sheriden DeCastro began work in October with JG Sullivan Interactive Inc. in South Bend, Ind., as an account services specialist. She was an intern in the Nebraska Department of Labor's public information office while she was in school.

Erin Dolan is assistant marketing coordinator for the national marketing services department of HDR Architecture and Engineering in Omaha.

Megan Gering is the telemarketing manager at the Lincoln Journal Star. She says, “It’s a ton of work, but I usually enjoy it.”

Jason Hardy is a graphic artist for Sandhills Publishing in Lincoln. He does layout, design and graphic illustrations for “Smart Computing Magazine” and other computer-related magazines that Sandhills publishes. He has also written stories for The Reader in Omaha.

Sheila Herbek is the desktop publisher and Webmaster for UNL Telecommunications. She creates ads, flyers and forms and helps with manuals. She created and maintains the Telecommunications Internet site and a site for the Missouri Valley Communications Association.

Liza Holtmeier is a publicist for the Washington Performing Arts Society in Washington, D.C.

Eric Rineer is a reporter with the Steamboat Springs Pilot in Steamboat Springs, Colo.

1999

Shane Anthony is an education reporter for the St. Charles bureau of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Krisha Bosselman is working for Tribune Media Services in Denver, doing movie ads for newspapers across the nation. She started the job in June.

Nancy Christensen is in her first year of law school at Columbia University, New York.

Jessica Fargen is a reporter at The Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Mass., just a few minutes south of Boston. She covers city councils and school boards in several communities.

Dana Miller left her position at Light & Associates, Kansas City, in October. She is now a media planning assistant at Bernstein and Rein in Kansas City.

Sally Schutz is a copywriter at Rehak Creative Services in Houston, Texas.

Clover Shelton is a public relations writer for Swanson Russell Associates, Lincoln. She earned her M.A. in journalism, specializing in advertising. Before joining SRA she worked as a public affairs assistant for the USDA National Agroforestry Center in Lincoln.

Kerry Shepherd is media and community relations coordinator for Media Heartland Health System in St. Joseph, Mo. Heartland is the regional medical center/hospital for St. Joseph and northwest Missouri. Shepherd works in the marketing department, handling all media relations and community relations. She earned the M.A. degree at NU.

1998

Angie Bring is working at the international headquarters of Campus Crusade for Christ in Orlando, Fla. She spent six weeks in Chile last summer before starting at the international office in August.

Gina Dvorak is a copy editor at The Desert Sun, an 80,000-circulation Gannett paper in Palm Springs, Calif.

Jason Grotelueschen started work in November with Group III Communications in Independence, Mo. It’s a small media shop, specializing in publications for the construction industry. Grotelueschen is the Web editor and head of the 15-year-old firm’s new interactive division.

Brian Jensen was assistant photography supervisor for the 2000 Olympics in Australia. His job was to assist in the Olympic Village during ceremonies when new teams arrive in Sydney. During the games themselves, he worked primarily in the media department at Olympic Park. He earned the MBA at NU in August.

Tony Moton is a staff writer for Pitch Weekly, a weekly newspaper serving the metro Kansas City area.

Allen Schaben was named Photographer of the Year by Los Angeles Press Club and Orange County Press Club in summer 2000. He is a photojournalist with the Los Angeles Times in Orange County, Calif. Schaben also was a winner in three categories for Pictures of the Year Contest sponsored by the National Press Photographers’ Association in May 2000.

Ted Taylor began work Oct. 30 at the Bend Bulletin, in Bend, Ore., where he is the education reporter. He was previously education reporter at the Daily Sentinel in Grand Junction, Colo.

1997
Tim Curtis married Lori Hack on Sept. 3 in Lincoln. He graduated from the NU College of Law in May 2000.

Jennifer Milke married Christopher Schultz on Sept. 16 in Beatrice. She works in the public relations department of Husker Power in the NU Athletics Department and is pursuing a master’s degree in advertising, marketing and communications.

Robert Novak works for Impiric, an advertising agency formerly known as Wunderman Cato Johnson, in New York City. Impiric is owned by Young and Rubicam. Novak works on Sony’s home entertainment and digital imaging lines. He was formerly with McCann Erickson in New York.

1995

Trevor Meers is senior editor of Remodeling Ideas For Your Home, a quarterly publication produced by the Meredith Corporation in its special interest publications department. He moved to Des Moines and began work there Dec. 4 after several years at Sandhills Publishing in Lincoln.

1993

Kris Stelzer is a public relations account executive with Bailey Lauerman, Lincoln, assisting clients with comprehensive public relations services. She was formerly the national recruitment coordinator for the Office of Admissions at NU. Before that, she spent three years as a marketing specialist at Brazosport College in Lake Jackson, Texas, and also worked in the public relations department of Fogarty Klein and Partners in Houston. She earned a master’s degree in marketing from NU in 1999.

1991

Tim Siedell and Yale Roncka formed a new communications firm, called Fusebox, Inc., in Lincoln last fall. The two had worked together as a senior-level creative team at Bailey Lauerman, Lincoln, prior to forming their own company. At Bailey Lauerman they won 40 Addy awards for creative excellence as well as a variety of industry-specific and AMA marketing effectiveness awards. Fusebox’s charter clients include Runza Restaurants and MindVision Software. Siedell also teaches advertising classes at NU.

1990

Carl Mesecher is the program/instructional design coordinator for the Nebraska Educational Television Council for Higher Education, a consortium of postsecondary institutions in Nebraska. He was previously manager of information technologies at Agri-Growth Inc. of Hollandale, Minn., and, before that, was associate director of educational media and services at the University of Florida. In addition to his B.J., he holds a master’s degree in adult and continuing education from NU.

1988

Elizabeth Chapman is a software test engineer for Microsoft in Redmond, Wash. She joined Microsoft in February 1999 as a programmer writer for the Microsoft Office Developer team. Previously she had worked as a technical writer for Isco in Lincoln and did technical computer training, database consulting and programming.

1986

Todd von Kampen and his wife, Joan (Rezac) von Kampen (’88), are the parents of Benjamin Todd von Kampen, who was born Oct. 8 at Immanuel Medical Center in Omaha. He joined two brothers, Jonathan, 9, and Joshua, 6. Both parents work at the Omaha World-Herald, where Todd is southeast Nebraska reporter and Joan is a news copy editor.

1985

Robert Musgrove works at the human resources office at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston. He was a broadcasting and advertising major who worked part time as an announcer for KECK and KLMS radio in Lincoln during his college years. Upon graduation, he worked for WLSQ radio in Montgomery, Ala., then returned to KLMS in Lincoln. He moved to Bryan/College Station Texas, in 1987 and worked as a news reporter and weekend anchor for KBTX-TV. He earned a master of public administration degree from Texas A&M University in 1990 and joined NASA that same year.

Lisa M. Nutting is a senior associate for public and international affairs for Apache Corporation in Houston. She works on company publications and press releases and updates the Web site.

1976

Joe R. Hudson has been senior copy desk chief at The Denver Post since 1995. He joined the Post in 1990 after working on the editing staffs of The Philadelphia Inquirer (1984-90) and the Omaha World-Herald (1979-1984). He was a reporter at the Lincoln Star from 1977-79. He and his wife, Juliann, have a daughter, Hayley, age 12, and a son, R.J., age 7. In his spare time, Joe enjoys bicycling, hiking, back packing and following Husker football.

1971

Kathy Hall, Fremont, Wash., received an excellence award from the Society for Technical Communication in July 2000. She is a senior editor for “Environmental Health News,” the departmental newsletter of the University of Washington Department of Environmental Health. She earned a master’s degree from the communications program at the University of Washington in 1985.

1968

Ruth Brown is an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. She earned the Ph.D. in educational administration from NU in August. She has taught in the communications department at UNK for seven years. She teaches advertising, public relations, advanced reporting and desktop publishing classes and directs the advertising program, supervises the department’s computer lab, coordinates the department’s newsletter and sponsors the Advertising and Public Relations Club. She and her husband, Eric, have three children: Nathan of Austin, Texas, Andrea of Omaha and Valerie of San Francisco, Calif.

Bruce Giles, executive editor of The Tuscaloosa News, died Aug. 31. As a student intern, he was part of the 1967 Pulitzer Prize-winning team of journalists at the Detroit Free Press. He had worked at The Ledger in Lakeland, Fla., and the Herald-Tribune at Sarasota, Fla., and The Miami Herald before moving to Alabama four years ago.