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ANNUAL REPORT: 2010-2011 CLASS OF 2013 The juniors are an engaged and energetic group that has continued the strong academic performance demonstrated by previous classes. Their class is comprised of an exceptional cohort of committed and skilled students, and with senior year on the horizon, these Park Scholars have honed their leadership and communications abilities, assuming greater responsibilities in student media and completing an extensive array of internships. In the academic realm, the class earned a cumulative grade point average of 3.8 out of 4.0, with two of these Scholars maintaining a cumulative grade point average above a 3.9. Moreover, twelve members of the class have earned places on the Dean’s List for the Roy H. Park School of Communications for the 2010-2011 academic year. Keith Bress is currently engaged in several service organizations at Ithaca College. Last spring he was involved in Megaphone Media Productions and aided in the creation of a series of promotional videos advertising local nonprofit organizations. Over the summer, he worked on several freelance video projects for Windsor Community Television and the Windsor Chamber of Commerce. Keith also worked as an instructor in Windsor Community Television’s “Kid Vid Workshop” program, teaching young children video production skills. This year he has continued his engagement in this area by participating in Media Club’s “Film Club,” a similar program involving local Ithaca students. He is vice president of IC Gamers, a video gaming club on campus, as well as a member of the Ithaca College Game Developers Club. Keith is involved in service and advocacy groups at Ithaca in the form of IC Hope for Haiti and Active Minds. Active Minds is a mental health issues awareness group on campus. Every Friday night he reads to members of the Longview retirement community with the Longview Literary Circle. Stephen Burke is beginning the fall semester following a summer internship with Democracy Now! in New York City. This internship was through the Park Center for Independent Media. This experience came after a spring semester full of both service and media activities. He is involved with Megaphone Media Productions for the fifth straight semester, and this is his third semester as co-chair of that organization. Megaphone continues working with the Community School of Music and Arts and The Discovery Trail, and this semester the organization has added Better Housing for Tompkins County to its list of clients. Stephen is continuing his work with a number of other organizations as well, including IC Hope for Haiti and the Family Reading Partnership. This semester, he has expanded his involvement with ICTV as a producer for Experts Say, a political news show; as technical director for Tuesday night’s Newswatch 16 broadcast; and as a producer for the first two televised debates for the Ithaca mayoral race that aired earlier this fall. Keith Bress Film, Photography & Visual Arts Windsor, CT Stephen Burke Television-Radio Old Lyme, CT Last semester Anne participated in a victorious campaign with the Labor Initiative in Promoting Solidarity (LIPS) to obtain a living wage for all Ithaca College dining services workers, raising the lowest-paid workers’ wages from $8.19 per hour to $11.11 per hour. Anne is excited to continue working with LIPS and build solidarity among students and workers in the fight for workers’ rights. As treasurer for IC Human Rights (ICHR), Anne helped organize events regarding prison systems, LGBTQ issues, and the death penalty. Now as co-president of ICHR, she is eager to focus on economic inequality in the U.S., health care, and human rights in North Korea. As treasurer for IC Bigs, Anne put together a successful benefit concert that raised money for the Ithaca Youth Bureau’s programs. She is thrilled to maintain that position and spend Saturdays with children at the Youth Bureau. This past summer, Anne lived in NYC and interned with Maysles Films and MTV Networks. She also enjoyed volunteering for Maysles Cinema, an independent cinema dedicated to screening documentaries and getting kids in the Harlem community involved in filmmaking. Anne Carlin Film, Photography & Visual Arts Atlanta, GA 21
PARK SCHOLAR PROGRAM Kacey Deamer Journalism Binghamton, NY Kacey Deamer spent her spring semester in Washington, D.C. interning with the Reporter’s Committee for Freedom of the Press. She carried her work on First Amendment rights, specifically freedom of speech, into the summer when she worked as a trainer for a student environmental leadership camp. Her focus was on effective communication and working with the media. This fall, Kacey works for The Ithacan as a staff writer, covering the environment and sustainability beat. Kacey also works for Ithaca’s alternative publication, Buzzsaw magazine, as the news & views editor. She contributes to the magazine as a writer and photographer as well. As a fall writing intern for Ithaca’s Museum of the Earth and Cayuga Nature Center, Kacey helps to develop web content and writes articles about the scientific research done at these institutions. Kacey is also an active member of the Ithaca College Organic Growers, Ithaca College Environmental Society, and the Ithaca College Slow Food chapter. Isaac Derfel Television-Radio Ithaca, NY Isaac Derfel is involved with many organizations at Ithaca College and the Park School of Communications. In addition to being the local music coordinator of WICB-FM, he also provides location and post-production sound services for Park Productions, the professional production unit of the Park School. Isaac has interned for two years at Electric Wilburland Studios with Grammy award-winning audio engineer Will Russell. In his time at Wilburland, located just outside of Ithaca in Newfield, NY, he has recorded and mixed many of the most popular bands in Ithaca, and has participated in numerous film mixes as well. He is currently involved in many student films at IC, acting as location sound mixer and re-recording mixer, and he is the sound supervisor for the ICTV show Freshmen. Isaac teaches Pro Tools classes at the Southside Community Center once a week, and is an engineer for the community recording program at the Center. He has also taught many workshops in the Park School, focusing on location sound recording techniques and post-production mixing techniques. Robert Flaherty Television-Radio Reading, MA Rob has been active with Ithaca College Television, serving as the producer and creator of the public affairs show Experts Say, and serving as the producer of Newswatch 16 Sunday. He is also a President’s Host tour guide of the College, and was the executive producer of Ithaca College’s Lip Dub video. He currently serves as the Student Government Association’s vice president of communications, an organization with which he had previously served as a senator. He chairs the Communications Committee and has previously chaired the Course Registration Advisory Committee, which he created. He has interned for the Pam Mackesey for New York State Senate Campaign and the Democratic National Committee’s Media Center, and served as the communications director for both the Myrick for Ithaca mayoral campaign, and in the office of Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton. He is also a member of the Town of Ithaca Democratic Committee and the Tompkins County Democratic Committee. He serves on the Issues Subcommittee, which is charged with developing the county party’s platform and holding bi-annual issue-based roundtables with the community. Lillie Fleshler Cinema & Photography New York, NY Last spring, Lillie traveled halfway across the world to study abroad in Vietnam. She went with the School for International Training’s World Learning Program, partaking in its Vietnam: Culture, Social Change, and Development Program. While overseas, she helped create a resourceful bio-digester for a local farming community in the Mekong Delta, built the foundation of a school playground for a Hmong community in the Sapa mountains, and produced a documentary on the stigma surrounding HIV/AIDS in Ho Chi Minh City. Now that she is back on campus, Lillie will be acting as co-president of Ithaca College’s Human Rights Club this fall, bringing issues that she is passionate about to her campus and promoting advocacy throughout the student body. She will also be serving on the executive board of Ithaca College’s labor group, Labor Initiative in Promoting Solidarity, specifically as a member of the Outreach Committee, reaching out to Ithaca’s local labor activist community. Lastly, she will continue her involvement with the Longview Literary Circle, reading to members of the Longview retirement community. 22
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