Summer 2001 - Wayne State College

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Spring Commencement Held May 5Above: Jennifer Bice and CheriReinholdt celebrate followingcommencement. Above, right:Patrice Troutman of Roselle,N.J. receives a master’s degreein English. She was hooded byLisa Sandlin. Right: NebraskaCommissioner of EducationDoug Christensen broughtgreetings from the NebraskaState College Board of Trustees.Robert “Robb” Dalton, a 1975 graduate of Wayne StateCollege, was the recipient of the Alumni Achievement Awardpresented at WSC commencement ceremonies on May 5.Dalton, who graduated Summa cum Laude with a bachelor ofscience in communications and history, is president of FireworksTelevision located in Beverly Hills, Calif.After more than two decades in the television industry,Dalton’s experience has included conceptual development,physicalproduction,international coproductions,sales,acquisitions andeven stationmanagement. Aspresident ofFireworksTelevision, hespearheads thecompany’s LosAngeles office inthe development,finance, productionand sales of originalprogramming toU.S. broadcast andRobb Dalton ‘75cable networks.Wayne State College springcommencement ceremonies wereheld on Saturday, May 5. A total of446 undergraduate and graduatestudents received degrees from Dr.Sheila M. Stearns, WSC president.Doris Buffett Bryant, founderand president of the Sunshine LadyFoundation, Inc., Wilmington, N.C.,gave the address. She also receivedthe first “President’s ExemplaryService Award” presented by Dr.Stearns in recognition of her generousand unselfish service to others.Receiving the AlumniAchievement Award was Robert“Robb” Dalton, a 1975 WSCgraduate who is president ofFireworks Television of BeverlyHills, Calif.Nebraska Commissioner ofEducation Doug Christensen alsospoke at the ceremonies. Hisdaughter, Anne, was one of thegraduating seniors.Dalton Receives WSC Alumni Achievement AwardPrior to joining Fireworks Television in the summer of2000, Dalton was senior vice president of CBS, where hesupervised West Coast development and production forEyemark Entertainment, King World and CBS Enterprises.Before joining CBS Enterprises, Dalton was president ofPinnacle Entertainment. He also spent 10 years with theSan Francisco Chronicle Broadcasting Group, where heserved as president of the company’s ABC affiliate TVstations.Dalton has won two Emmy awards, and is the author ofa national best-seller and college-level text book,LifePlanning. He is currently working on a second textbook. He has lectured since 1997 in the Television andFilm Department of the University of Southern California,and is a member of the Academy of Television Arts &Sciences and the National Association of TelevisionProgram Executives. He resides in Malibu, Calif.“Robb’s exceptional accomplishments are aninspiration to our current students,” said Deb Lundahl, WSCdirector of alumni relations. “It is our privilege to extendthis award to such a distinguished and worthy individual.”“Wayne State College’s positive, nurturing, hands-onenvironment gave me more than an education,” said Dalton.“It gave me the confidence to go out into the world and takeon life’s challenges.” Dalton was born in Wayne, lived inLaurel until the age of 16 and moved to Sioux City, Iowa,graduating from Trinity High School.4WSC Magazine Summer 01410/2/01, 2:48 PM
Doris Buffett Bryant Receives President’s Service AwardWhen Doris Buffett Bryant ofWilmington, N.C. gave the commencementaddress at Wayne State College in May, shehad a surprise announcement. Bryant, thepresident of the Sunshine Lady Foundation,Inc., a non-profit, philanthropic organizationshe founded in 1996, announced that shewas beginning a Wayne State CollegeSunbeam Program (see related article), inwhich up to $30,000 will be channeled eachyear to worthy causes through Wayne StateCollege students selected to be “Sunbeams.”Following her address, Bryant waspresented with the first Wayne State CollegePresident’s Exemplary Service Award byDr. Sheila M. Stearns in recognition of herunselfish service and generosity to others.In the five years since it was founded,the Sunshine Lady Foundation has awardedmore than $6.2 million to a variety ofbeneficiaries, including organizations,families and individuals who need a helpinghand. The foundation was started with $10million in “seed money” from a bequest shereceived following her mother’s death.Most grant requests come to theSunshine Lady Foundation through anationwide network of friends andassociates Bryant calls “Sunbeams,” whoforward names of worthy recipients to theFoundation. Several Wayne State Collegestudents have been beneficiaries ofSunshine Lady Foundation grants. JudyJohnson, WSC director of college relations,is one of Bryant’s “Sunbeams.”Bryant has been featured on ABC’s“Good Morning America,” and has been thesubject of national magazine and newspaperDr. Sheila Stearnspresents the firstPresident’sExemplary ServiceAward to DorisBuffett Bryant.articles. She attended Mount VernonCollege, George Washington University,and graduated from the University ofOmaha with a bachelor of science ineducation. Among many other roles, shehas been a first grade teacher, domesticviolence crusader, political activist, motherand grandmother. She is married to AlfredBryant and has lived in North Carolina for10 years.WSC College Sunbeam ProgramSharing the Joy of GivingHer foundation is called the Sunshine Lady Foundationfor good reason. Doris Buffett Bryant, its founder andpresident, has brought more than a ray of sunshine into thelives she touches. Her commencement announcement that sheis starting a College Sunbeam Program at WSC affirms that.Beginning in the fall of 2001, a committee comprised ofWSC faculty and staff will annually select six students to serveas Sunbeams for one academic year. Sunbeams will each beeligible to receive up to $5,000 during the year for a project oran organization with which they are personally and materiallyinvolved which provides a service to the local community andwhich is compatible with the Sunshine Lady Foundationmission and guidelines.“For college students, the experience to serve on behalf ofa philanthropist opens up a whole new world of responsibilityand reward,” said Mitty Beal, Sunbeam projects coordinatorfor the Sunshine Lady Foundation.“We are very grateful to Mrs. Bryant for her generosity,”said Dr. Sheila M. Stearns, WSC president. “The CollegeSunbeam Program goes hand-in-hand with our commitment toenhance character development and regional service. TheCollege Sunbeam Program will make many service-orientedprojects possible. The results will be far-reaching.”The Northeast Nebraska ConnectionDoris Buffett Bryant’s ties to northeast Nebraska go back morethan a century. Her maternal grandfather, J. Ammon Stahl, was alongtime county superintendent of schools in Cuming County. Hergrandmother’s family--the Barbers-- founded the town of Bancroft.The Stahl family lived in West Point, where Bryant’s mother, LeilaStahl Buffett, two sisters and a brother were raised.Bryant’s grandfather purchased the Cuming CountyDemocrat, a weekly newspaper in West Point. Her mother workedthere throughout her high school years, crediting it with being thereason she met her husband, Howard Buffett, who was the editor ofthe University of Nebraska’s Daily Nebraskan where she workedwhen she attended the University.After their marriage, Howard and Leila Buffett moved toOmaha, where they raised their family: Doris, Warren and Roberta.Buffett served a term in the U.S. House of Representatives in the1950s. After her husband’s death, Mrs. Buffett continued to makeher home in Omaha. She died at age 92 in 1996.The Buffett connections to northeast Nebraska remain.Following her mother’s death, Bryant established the Leila StahlBuffett Genealogy Center which is housed in the J.A. Stahl Libraryin West Point. The Sunshine Lady Foundation provides funding forprograms and resources in the Center as well as genealogycompetition and pioneer school day each spring for Cuming Countyfourth graders.Wayne State Magazine 5WSC Magazine Summer 01510/2/01, 2:48 PM
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