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16 Columbia Journalism sChool Winter 2010 Book ShelF continued from page 15 writer for Sports Illustrated who writes a weekly column for SI.com and the back-page column for the magazine every third week. Marisa Kakoulas has written “Black Tattoo Art: Modern Expression of the Tribal” (Edition Reuss), a photographic journey across the globe in search of avant-garde tattoo art that pays homage to the ancient roots of tattooing in their contemporary interpretations. The journey begins with a look at the history of tattooing before featuring black tattoo portfolios divided into the following chapters: Neotribal, Dotwork, Art Brut, Traditional Revival and Thai/Buddhist. Kakoulas is a New York lawyer and journalist who contributes to tattoo publications as well as mainstream media. Her daily musings on tattoo culture can be found at NeedlesandSins.com. 2003 Michael Bobelian has written “Children of Armenia: A Forgotten Genocide and the Centurylong Struggle for Justice” (Simon & Schuster, September 2009), which profiles the leading players — Armenian activists and assassins, Turkish diplomats, U.S. officials — each of whom played a major role in furthering or opposing the Armenian cause, and reveals, for the first time, the events that have conspired to eradicate the “hidden holocaust” from the world’s memory, including a profound shift in U.S. foreign policy, beginning in the 1920s, that has helped stymie any attempt to hold Turkey accountable for its crimes against humanity. Bobelian is a lawyer, journalist and grandson of Genocide survivors. His work has appeared in Forbes.com, The American Lawyer and Legal Affairs magazine, and has been featured on NPR’s “The Leonard Lopate Show.” Geeta Dayal has published her first book, “Another Green World,” on the musician Brian Eno (Continuum, 2009). She was recently named a 2009 Fellow for the National Endowment of the Arts’ Arts Journalism Institute in Classical Music and Opera, held at Columbia this past fall. She spent the past year teaching at Berkeley, as a Ford Foundation Fellow at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She currently lives and works in Boston as an arts journalist. 2005 Michael C. Keller has written “Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species: A Graphic Adaptation” (Rodale), a stunning visual interpretation of one of the most famous, contested and important books of all time. Keller and illustrator Nicolle Rager Fuller introduce a new generation of readers to Darwin’s masterwork, which has been heralded for changing the course of science and condemned for its implied challenges to religion. Including sections about the naturalist’s pioneering research, the book’s initial public reception, his correspondence with other leading scientists, as well as the most recent breakthroughs in evolutionary theory, this riveting, beautifully rendered adaptation breathes new life into Darwin’s seminal and still polarizing work. 2006 Alia Malek has written “A Country Called Amreeka: Arab Roots, American Stories” (Free Press, October 2009), which was Publishers Weekly’s “Pick of the Week.” With a remarkable ability to capture her subjects’ voices, Malek, a Syrian-American civil rights lawyer, sketches illuminating responses to her question: “What does American history look and feel like in the eyes and skin of Arab Americans?” There’s the Lebanese- American, too dark for 1960s Birmingham; the Palestinian- American surrounded by anti- Arab violence during the Iranian hostage crisis; the Yemeni- American deployed to Iraq with the Marine Corps. 2007 Lauren Weber has written “In Cheap We Trust: The Story of a Misunderstood American Virtue” (Little, Brown and Co., September 2009), an exploration of cheapness and frugality in America, through the lenses of history, economics, psychology and a bit of autobiography. Kirkus Reviews called it a welcome reading for a newly frugal world, and the September issue of O, The Oprah Magazine described it as entertaining, wide-ranging and very timely. For more information and a schedule of readings: www.laurenweber.com. ClaSS noTeS continued from page 14 that has taken them through India, Pakistan and Nepal. Their print and multimedia work has appeared in GOOD magazine, Foreign Affairs, TIME.com, The Caravan magazine and World Politics Review. 2008 David Cohn, founder of Spot. Us, the community funded journalism project founded less than a year ago in San Francisco, announced it is expanding to Los Angeles through collaboration with USC Annenberg’s School of Journalism. The USC Annenberg partnership, which will integrate Spot. Us’ innovative news delivery method with the journalism academy and strengthen ties to the local media community, is made possible by additional funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, one of the original backers of the project. Lauren Feeney, senior multimedia producer, and Renee Feltz, multimedia producer, worked on Wide Angle’s “Eyes of the Storm,” which premiered on PBS on Aug. 19, 2009. On the heels of Burma’s release of an American prisoner and extension of the house arrest of prodemocracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Wide Angle tells the story of orphans left to fend for themselves in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis. Vinod K. Jose is the deputy editor of The Caravan, a longform narrative magazine recently launched in Delhi, India. Beth Kowitt is a reporter at Fortune, where she covers a wide variety of topics from investing to the beer industry. She was hired in April after interning for six months. Gizem Yarbil is in Turkey. She was the correspondent for a piece that aired on “Worldfocus” in September, the first in a series about women in the Islamic world. Six alumS Win neW york STaTe WriTing ConTeST — Six alumni are among the winners of the 2008-2009 New York State Associated Press Association writing contest. robert a. mcDonald, nicholas Phillips, katie Bachko, ivan Dominguez, alex lang and elana margulies, all from the Class of 2008, were members of The New York Times team that won first place in the category of in-depth reporting for their series about a disability epidemic among Long Island Railroad employees. The story was born out of an investigative seminar course taken by all six students in spring 2008, taught by Adjunct Professor Walt Bogdanovich, a three-time Pulitzer-Prize winning assistant editor for The New York Times investigative desk. 2009 Jackie Bischof has joined Reuters as an editorial research assistant for Dean Wright, global editor for ethics, innovation and news standards. Nikolaj Gammeltoft has been hired as a reporter at Bloomberg News in New York. Miriam Gottfried is a reporter for Barrons.com, writing about insider trading and the stock market. Bilal Haye has launched the Web site “The Pakistan Intelligencer” (www.pakistanintelligencer. com). Abigail Hauslohner had a 6-page story in TIME magazine. Luis Andres Henao is working for Thomson Reuters in Buenos Aires. He was awarded Reuters Americas best story for treasuries after he nabbed an exclusive interview with Economy Minister Amado Boudou. Jennifer Jo Janisch was hired as a reporter and assistant producer at Voice of America’s Latin America division (television) in Washington, D.C. Habiba Nosheen has been selected as a Kroc Fellow at NPR and its member stations. She will participate in a yearlong intensive training and reporting program. Nosheen is currently producing a documentary for “NOW on PBS.” Casey Riddle was selected as a White House intern. Betwa Sharma is the UN/NY correspondent for the Press Trust of India, the largest newswire service in the country. Franz Strasser is a digital producer-reporter for BBC “World News America” in Washington, D.C. With his Pulitzer Travel Fellowship, Strasser is traveling through his native eastern Germany and hosting a live video blog about the developments in economy and society 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The blog was on the BBC News main Web site and was featured on the newscast. Anchor Matt Frei hosted the program live from Berlin on Nov. 9, when Strasser wrapped up his journey.
in memoriam — 1939 DeLancey Jones of Richmond, Va., formerly of Williamstown, Mass., died Aug. 25. He was 93. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Barbara; his second wife, Catherine; and his brother, Griffith Jones. He leaves his one daughter, Deborah Walter and husband Richard of Kamas, Utah; two stepdaughters, Susie Benson and husband Taylor, and Holly Antrim and husband John Mason, both of Richmond; stepson S. Kirk Materne and wife Stuart of Naples, Fla.; sister Valerie Jones Materne of Washington, Conn.; brother Christopher Peter Jones of Wayland, Mass.; 12 grandchildren and 11 greatgrandchildren. DeLancey was a World War II Navy veteran and retired from Ohio Bell in Cleveland. After his retirement, he and Barbara lived in Williamstown, Mass. He moved to Richmond in 1997. 1943 Margaret Polk Yates Berkheimer, writer and journalist, died Aug. 13, 2009, in New York City at age 93. She is the widow of the late Dr. George A. Berkheimer and the sister of the late Eugene A. Yates Jr. and Betty Yates Shepard Ensign. She is survived by the children of her brother and sister and their children and grandchildren. She was born Dec. 9, 1915, in New Jersey, spent her early childhood years in Birmingham, Ala., came out as a debutante in NYC in 1933, and resided in Manhattan her whole adult life. She served in the OSS during WWII and wrote two mysteries published by E.P. Dutton including “The Widows Walk,” published in 1945, one of the first mysteries with Nantucket, Mass., as the setting. Mrs. Berkheimer was a devotee of Nantucket, residing there in the summers for more than 60 years and contributing to numerous Nantucket causes. 1946 Nona Mary (Rohan) Mahoney of Bristol, R.I., died Oct. 15, surrounded by her loving family. She was 86 and was preceded in death by her husband, John P. Mahoney, M.D. Mahoney was born in Boston, Mass., and graduated from Girls’ Latin School and Emmanuel College. After Columbia Journalism School, she began her career at The Boston Post, where she became women’s editor. She left that job to start a family. Having seven children in as many years spurred her interest in early childhood education, and she founded the Blue Hill Montessori School. After her husband’s death in 1969, she studied at the Language Clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital to become certified to teach students with learning disabilities. She taught for many years at the Charles River School in Dover, Mass., and at Milton (Mass.) High School. She also tutored students with learning disabilities. She lived in Milton for 35 years. Mahoney was also a frequent lector at Catholic masses. Her faith played a large part in her ability to accomplish so much despite having lost the use of a leg in 1955, in one of the last polio epidemics in the United States. She was also a breast-cancer survivor. In retirement, Nona performed with Next Move Unlimited, a theater company, and one of the first professional ones, to bring performers with disabilities and their issues to the stage. She also volunteered with the Talking Information Center in Marshfield, Mass., reading newspapers and books to be broadcast on the radio for visually impaired people. She is survived by her children: James and his wife, Nancy, of Mansfield, Mass.; Sheila of Silver Spring, Md.; Stephen of Meriden, Conn.; Elizabeth of Tisbury, Mass., and her partner, Lewis Colby; Ellen Mahoney Sawyer and her husband, Scott Sawyer, of Edina, Minn.; John and his wife, Nancy, of Cranston, R.I.; and Rosemary of Athens, Greece, and her partner, Aias Tchacos. She also leaves seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. 1947 Warren Leary Jr. died Aug. 17 at age 86. He was the former owner and publisher of the Rice Lake (Wis.) Chronotype, and September would have been his 50th year writing the column “Out Amongst ’Em” for that newspaper, which his father, Warren Leary Sr., and August Ender bought in 1923. It also would have been his 70th year writing for the paper. In 2003, Leary was inducted into the Wisconsin Newspaper Association’s Hall of Fame. Leary began his career with the Chronotype in 1938 when, at age 16, he was getting paid 25 cents an hour to help his father with the printing end of the business. He graduated from Notre Dame and served in World War II, then enrolled at Columbia Journalism School. After graduation, he briefly worked at the Milwaukee Journal but soon returned to the Chronotype. The paper’s editor had contracted tuberculosis, so Leary rose to the task of editing the large weekly newspaper. 1953 William Trombley, a veteran journalist and education analyst who wrote for Life magazine and the Los Angeles Times during a five-decade career, died Sept. 6. He was 80. Trombley had respiratory and other problems and died after a heart attack. At the Times, where he was a reporter for nearly 30 years starting in 1964, Trombley was known for reshaping the paper’s coverage of higher education, starting on the beat during a tumultuous period when the Free Speech Movement was roiling college campuses from California to New York. He also covered crucial issues in lower education, from the desegregation lawsuits that brought busing to Los Angeles schools to prickly battles over bilingual education and textbooks. At National CrossTalk, Trombley wrote a series of in-depth articles on Kentucky’s efforts to reform its higher education system. He also wrote memorably about the obstacles facing the UC system’s newest campus at Merced, including its infringement on the habitat of several endangered varieties of fairy shrimp, “microscopic creatures that float on their backs, waving their 11 pairs of delicate legs” at frustrated UC officials. After graduating from J-School, he joined Life in 1953, working in the magazine’s New York and Chicago offices before heading its San Francisco bureau. After brief stints as bureau chief at Hugh Hefner’s short-lived Show magazine and associate editor and contributing writer at the Saturday Evening Post, he joined the Times as an education writer and was immediately swept up in coverage of the student protests of the 1960s. His stories documented the upheaval of the period, including the birth of the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley and the firing of UC President Clark Kerr. He remained on the education beat for 11 years, switching to general assignment in 1975 and urban affairs in 1984. During his last three years at the Times, he reported from the Sacramento bureau. Whatever his official beat, he always returned to education stories and won a number of prizes, including the John Swett Award for Media Excellence from the California Teachers Association in 1983. In addition to his wife of 55 years, Trombley is survived by daughters Patricia Trombley Ball of Montclair, N.J., and Suzanne Rice of Los Angeles, and two grandchildren. 1968 Kenneth Bacon died Aug. 15 at age 64 on Block Island, R.I. He was president of Refugees International, the Washington-based organization that serves as a global advocate for the displaced. Bacon was a familiar figure in Washington, D.C., as chief Pentagon spokesman during the Clinton administration. He had previously worked as a reporter and editor for The Wall Street Journal, where his assignments included covering the Pentagon. At Refugees International, Bacon helped raise the organization’s profile as an advocate for refugees in Darfur. In Iraq and Pakistan, he helped bring attention to as many as five million refugees who had abandoned their homes to escape wars and terrorism. Despite suffering late-stage cancer, he testified as recently as June before a House committee to describe conditions in Pakistan. He was an intern at The Wall Street Journal in 1965 and scored a rare (for an intern) page-one story about an automated car-repair system that one overheated mechanic described as “the greatest thing since girls.” He went on to join The Journal’s Washington bureau and covered defense, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Federal Reserve. He later became an editor in the Washington bureau. In 2001, explaining why he took the Refugees International job, Bacon said his interest was piqued during the Kosovo conflict in 1999, when a flood of Yugoslav refugees were cared for by international aid organizations. On Aug. 10, Refugees International announced that Bacon had endowed a new program to focus on refugees displaced by climate change. He is survived by his wife, Darcy Wheeler Bacon; two daughters, Katharine Bacon of Brookline, Mass., and Sarah Bacon of Brooklyn, N.Y.; his father, Theodore S. Bacon of Peterborough, N.H.; a brother; and two grandchildren. 1972 Sam Brown, longtime broadcast award-winning journalist, died in August in Knoxville, Tenn. He was 59. He was honored with a Columbia Journalism School Alumni Award during Alumni Weekend in 2003. Brown was also a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Kentucky. He was an investigative reporter and anchor at WATE-TV in Knoxville, arriving from WSM-TV in Nashville in 1974. Brown was later an anchor for WKX-TV now WVLT. His three-decade career in broadcast news was studded with honors, both locally and nationally, culminating in four Edward R. Murrow Awards for journalism excellence at radio station WNOX. Most recently, he was an adjunct professor at the University of Tennessee’s College of Communications. 1976 James C. Finkenstaedt Jr., a former Boston Globe editor on the international desk, died in Paris, France, Nov. 28 due to complications after an accidental fall. He was 55. “Jim,” (or “Clem” to his family and friends) of Norwell, Mass., and Paris, was a consummate journalist who dedicated his life to the public’s right to know and the betterment of journalism. His career took him from the Asbury Park Press to the Agence France Press, International Herald Tribune in Paris and finally to the international desk of The Boston Globe, a position from which he recently retired. A brilliant and committed journalist, he was also known for his courteous, hospitable, welcoming and open nature. He was supportive and encouraging to all he met and kept a positive outlook with a sense of humor throughout the most difficult times. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth, and his four children, Catherine, R. Lindsay, James III and Thomas, all of Norwell, Mass.; his parents, James C. and Rose H. Finkenstaedt of Paris, France; his sister, Isabel Schelameur, and her husband, Francois, and their children, Pierre, Luke and Rose. 17
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