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thescoopAnn SchertzCommunications law professor Dilts retiresAfter 28 yearsas a professorand administrator,JonDilts, MA’74,retired at theend of thespring semester,leavinga legacy ofJon Dilts, MA’74legions ofstudents who benefitted from his energeticteaching style.Dilts, an attorney, taught undergraduateand graduate communications law courses,as well as J110 Foundations of Journalismand Mass Communications, an introductorylecture with more than 160 students. He alsowas the associate dean for undergraduatestudies and regional campuses.Colleague and friend Jack Dvorak recalledDilts’ approach to J110. He spent monthspreparing to teach the course, Dvorak said.He developed video and audio clips andplayed music for the students before theclass started. Then, Dvorak said, he wouldmake a grand entrance in tune with themusic.At the end of the semester, the studentsgave Dilts a standing ovation.“That is almost unheard of,” Dvorak said.“That’s the kind of teacher he was. I admirehim and others who are good at teaching alarge group.”In smaller classes, too, Dilts made animpact.Fifth-year senior Meredith Enkoff was inFormer faculty member Altschull diesDilts’ J407 Newsgathering and the Law courselast spring. It was Dilts’ energy, she said, thatbrought the nearly 30-student class together.“Even if the class didn’t seem to want to talkor discuss on a certain day, he was just alwaysreally positive and didn’t hesitate to generateconversation if no one else was talking,” Enkoffsaid.The entire class was devoted to law cases andresearch, with the students divided into groups.They wrote analytical papers accompanied bypresentations.“He showed me how to really look at a lawcase that might seem really boring and see thebigger picture, and be able to apply it to journalismtoday and current affairs,” Enkoff said.Dvorak said Dilts, who also taught J300Communications Law, had inspired a number ofstudents to go to law school.Over the years, Dilts and Dvorak sometimesshared the walk to the IU campus fromBloomington’s southeast side, even trudgingthrough a snowstorm that left waist-high drifts.He estimates Dilts walked 32,000 miles to andfrom campus during his 28 years.Now that he’s retired, Dilts will stay inBloomington, cruising on nearby Lake Lemonwith his wife, Anne. He’ll also stay busy servingon several boards, including those of SaintMeinrad Seminary and School of Theology, andthe Community Justice and Mediation Center inBloomington. He is president-elect of his RotaryClub of Bloomington.“As a friend, I’m not going to lose him, but asa professional colleague I will lose him,” Dvoraksaid. “We’re all going to miss him a lot.”— Shannon McEnerneyFormer School of Journalism professor J. Herbert Altschull, 85, died Dec. 30 in Seattle.Altschull worked for the Associated Press from 1944 to 1961 as a writer and editor,and was bureau chief in Bonn, Germany. He was a writer and editor for The New YorkTimes from 1961-62, and from 1962 until he was hired at IU in 1970, he was a newsanalyst for the King Broadcasting Co. in Seattle. He won three Emmys for documentarieshe helped produce for the company.Altschull also was a writing seminar instructor at Johns Hopkins University and afreelance writer for national publications including Readers Digest, Christian ScienceMonitor and The New York Times. He was the author of two books, Agents of Power andFrom Milton to McLuhan, which are still used as textbooks in journalism classrooms.He left IU in 1984.James BrosherVisitors’ book Fall 2010Richard Lui, news anchor, HLNH.G. “Buzz” Bissinger, Pulitzer Prizewinnerand author of Friday Night Lightsand contributor to Vanity Fair magazineKim Trager Bohley, PhD’08, assistantprofessor of communication at ManhattanCollege in Riverdale, N.Y.Peter Breslow, Peabody Award-winningreporter and longtime NPR producer forWeekend Edition and All Things ConsideredRobert Dillon, U.S. Senate Energy andNatural Resources Committee communicationsdirector for the Republican PartyTerry Hutchens, BA’89, sportswriter atThe Indianapolis StarTom Johnson, professor of journalism,Texas Tech UniversityRichard Lui, news anchor, HLNMaxwell McCombs, Jesse H. Jones Chairin Communications, University of TexasRick Newkirk, BAJ’06, sports copy editor,Louisville Courier-JournalStacy Palmer, editor, The Chronicle ofPhilanthropySusanna Priest, professor, University ofNevada Las Vegas Hank Greenspun Schoolof Journalism and Media StudiesDonald Shaw, Kenan Professor ofJournalism, University of North CarolinaJosh Silver, cofounder of Free Press mediaand technology policy organizationEmily Hendricks Turnier, BAJ’04, associateeditor, All You magazineSpring Fall 2009 2010/ // newswire < 9 >