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Jonathan Wanderstock

KVCU funnding starts off strong
The School of Journalism and Mass Communication is prepared to capitalize on its strong, well-focused programs of high quality as the University of Colorado's comprehensive Total Learning Environment campaign approaches its public phase.

The vision of CU President John Buechner's TLE is to continue the transformation of CU into a premier public higher education institution while preserving its core strengths as a first-rate teaching and research university.

As the School's new director of development, I am responsible for raising gifts from alumni, corporations, foundations and friends of the School. We have a variety of opportunities worthy of your support.

A good example is KVCU-AM, the new campus radio station, which was a gift-in-kind from Jacor Communications. While KVCU is up and running at 1190 AM, the station is still in need of operating capital and broadcast equipment. The station's external advisory board started meeting in September to discuss ways to raise $300,000 of operating seed money.

I'm pleased to report that one board member, Jim de Castro, ('74 BU), has already contributed $50,000. Chancellor Media Corp., de Castro's company, also has donated tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of broadcast equipment. We thank de Castro and Chancellor Media for jump-starting this effort.

In order to meet and exceed our annual fund goals, we will be asking our most loyal base of supporters — alumni and friends — to continue their financial support, hopefully at an increased level. Once again, the Bittman Challenge Fund (see sidebar) will be the focus of our young alumni development campaign.

We also will be targeting a select group of corporations and foundations with the potential to make a major difference for the School.

Alumni can and will need to play a vital role if we are to succeed. In addition to providing financial support, alumni can assist the School through networking and volunteer activities. Due to the outreach efforts of several alumni and Advisory Board members, the School now is in a much stronger position to pursue endowed chairs and professorships and grant money for media laboratories and equipment.

If you have friends or contacts at corporations and foundations that are likely to support journalism and communication programs, please share their names with me.

I can be reached via:
Telephone: (303) 492-1097
Fax: (303) 492-3468
E-mail: wanderstock@cufund.colorado.edu
Mail: 2501 Colorado Ave., Boulder, CO 80309.

I look forward to the exciting challenges ahead, and I am eager to meet the School's loyal alumni and friends over the course of 1999. Thank you for investing in our School.

Jonathan Wanderstock,
Director of Development