The Career Network
More than 270 graduates of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication have joined the Career Network to help recent graduates looking for work in a specific field or area of the country.

Pre ‘50s

Ann Freeman Emrich ('47) of Denver spent 28 years as a magazine editor and writer. Her three sons are CU graduates. She enjoys genealogy research.

Nonie Lann ('48) recently attended her 50-year reunion at CU, after which she traveled to Russia with the Roaming Buffaloes. When not traveling, she plays golf and follows the stock market from her home in Tarzana, Calif.

Charles Rogers ('49) of Oceanside, Calif., is "now retired nine years. After newspapering for 21 years and chasing TV news deadlines for 19 years, am just beginning to relax."

The ‘60s

N. Kathryn Pitner ('68) is self-employed with Pitner Conflict Management Services. She lives in Denver.

Paul Harris ('69 MA) of Boulder did construction and maintenance work at Glencree Centre for Reconciliation, a peace organization in the Wicklow Mountains, as part of Global Volunteers' first service team to the Republic of Ireland.

The ‘70s

Janet Jacobs ('70) of Boulder is a full professor in the CU-Boulder Women Studies program. She researches religion, gender and personality development and is the author of “Victimized Daughters: Incest and the Development of the Female Self.”

John Leach ('74, '79 MA) is a senior editor at The Arizona Republic and teaches journalism part time at Arizona State University in Tempe. He serves as president of the Best of the West journalism contest and grant program.

Jeannine Malmsbury ('75) and her husband, Todd, adopted a daughter, Kate Elizabeth, from Ma'anshan, Anhui Province, China. Jeannine is assistant director at the CU-Boulder public relations office.

Gloria Bucco ('78), a communications consultant and independent journalist, is a contributing editor to the Journal of the American Nutraceutical Association. She has also completed work on her first book, “The Natural Pharmacist's Guide to Arthritis,”due out in 1999. She lives in Longmont.

The ‘80s

Thea (Grimes-Tenney) Glas ('80) is director at-large of the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists. She lives in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Michelle Martin Streeby (‘80) was recently named marketing director at the Record Searchlight in Redding, Calif.

Patricia O'Connor Adam ('80) is president of O'Connor Communications, an Englewood newsletter-publishing company. A daughter, Naomi, was born in August 1997.

Laurie Parsons ('80) became program director for KTAR Radio in Phoenix in 1997. She recently published her first book, “Right-Brained Children in a Left-Brained World” (Simon & Schuster), which was due out in paperback late this year. It made top 10 best-seller lists in several U.S. cities.

Rick Reilly ('81) of Denver, a senior writer for Sports Illustrated, last year received his fifth Sports Writer of the Year award from the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.

Catherine Holtz ('83) recently opened Blonde Ambition, specializing in print collateral and multipage and magazine design. Her niche is working in tandem with larger firms and supplementing large marketing and advertising initiatives. Previously, she was a graphic designer for three years at the Denver Museum of Natural History. She lives in Denver.

Judy DeVine ('84) recently had two children's books published — her 13th and 14th. She continues to run her own advertising copywriting business. DeVine adopted a son two years ago. She lives in Santa Ana Heights, Calif.

Elizabeth Harman ('85) is director of listener services for WBEZ public radio in Chicago.

Inge Gill ('86), news videotape editor for KCNC-TV in Denver, was named 1997 National Press Photographers Association Editor of the Year at the group's awards banquet held in Vermont last June. She was the first non-network editor and the first Colorado station editor to win this award.

Timothy Tomasik ('86) joined Clifford Law Offices in Chicago in July. Previously he was in the Gang Crimes Division of the Special Prosecutions Unit of the Cook County, Ill., State's Attorney Office. He has been a faculty member of the National College of District Attorneys and the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.

Bevin Conn ('87) is a copy editor for SKIING in Boulder. He continues to free-lance for SKIING, Women's Sports & Fitness, Country Journal and Men's Fitness Magazine.

Marlene Prinzing Hackman ('87) recently left Colorado for the Los Angeles area where she is a yoga teacher and actress. She would like to hear from other CU grads in the area. Her e-mail address is mhackman@gateway.net

Cynthia Kridle ('88) is a self-employed advertising copywriter in San Francisco.

Karen Grogan Kurtz ('88) is assistant managing editor for the Statesman-Journal in Salem, Ore. Her husband, Craig Kurtz ('87), is presentation editor at the Statesman-Journal. A son, Peter Ryan Kurtz, was born in May.

Michael Mehle ('89) is rock critic for the Denver Rocky Mountain News.

Tanya Rinehart ('89) is manager for Buffalo Trails in Montrose. She guides European and Japanese tourists to Native American reservations.

Robert Tatlock ('89), a Denver sports producer, won Telly, Communicator and Omni Awards for excellence in sports television production and programming for his 1997 "Ride the Rockies" video.

The ‘90s

Eric Abramson ('90) is director of Yellow Pine Picture Co. in Boulder. The company recently moved its post-production facilities to 4th Stage Studio in downtown Boulder.

B.J. Hoeptner ('90) is communications coordinator for Cycling USA — the governing body for Olympic bicycling — in Colorado Springs and works part time for the Gazette in Colorado Springs.

Carol Rowe ('90 MA) was recently named director of communications for the College of Engineering and Applied Science at CU. She lives in Lyons.

Mary Schroeder Johnson ('90) in the fall of 1997 completed a three-year, 15,000-mile bicycle journey with her husband. They began in the Northwest Territories of Canada and ended at Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. She is a freelance writer and real estate consultant in Wasaga Beach, Ontario.

Andrew Beadle ('91) began work in February as a reporter covering the U.S. Senate for Congressional Quarterly in Washington, D.C.

Gregg Desmarais ('91) and Stephanie Mack Desmarais, (Psych '93) have a daughter, Hannah. They live in San Antonio, where Gregg is a prosecutor with the district attorney's office and Stephanie works with the Texas Department of Protective Services.

Carolyn Maas Hinkley ('91) is a part-time technical writer and editor for Digital Creators in Boulder. A son, William, was born in 1996.

Deborah Privitera Lagomarsino ('91) covers the foreign exchange market for Bridge News, formerly Knight-Ridder Financial News, in New York City. She has appeared numerous times on the "Nightly Business Report" discussing international events and the foreign exchange market. She lives in Hoboken, N.J.

Jon Sarche ('91) in June became a writer in the public relations-publications office shared by the CU Health Sciences Center and University Hospital in Denver. Previously, he spent six years with The Associated Press in Denver, Little Rock and Cheyenne. A son, Daniel, was born in January.

Anne Strericker ('91) is a marketing specialist for The Investext Group in Boston.

Ben Wallace ('91) is strategic planning director for Concept Group Inc., a St. Paul, Minn., marketing communications agency. He was elected to the board of directors for the Advertising Federation of Minnesota in June. A daughter, Julia Claire Wallace, was born in March.

Jonathan Weil ('91) is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal bureau in Dallas. He also writes "Heard in Texas," a weekly column that covers Texas-based stocks and is a regional version of the Journal's "Heard on the Street."

Karl Brauer ('92) is a technical editor for Edmunds Publications in Beverly Hills, Calif., and is helping the company to establish a Web site. His first child, Kirk Anthony Brauer, was born on July 5.

Senja Foster ('92) is the manager of public relations and marketing at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Conn.

Mark L. Lehnerz ('92) is an advertising specialist for Gates Rubber Co. in Denver. He was initially hired as copywriter and editor of the company's newsletter, published six times a year in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Thai and Indonesian. He is now in charge of producing everything from product brochures to multimedia CD-ROMs and trade show displays.

Susan Schwartz ('92) covers the town of Berwick for the Press-Enterprise in Bloomsburg, Pa. She won two second-place awards from the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishing Association for coverage of a local bank robbery. In her free time, she is studying Spanish and caving, "in hopes of becoming a bilingual, in-depth reporter."

Pam Weddig Williams ('92) became a graphic designer for Inside Communications of Boulder early this year, where she works with Velo News and Inside Triathlon magazines. She had worked for the Boulder Daily Camera from 1994 to 1997.

Malia Bohlin ('93) is a division manager for the Mile High United Way in Denver.

Kristy Borner-Kaus ('93) is research manager for Times-Mirror Magazines at The Skiing Co. in Boulder. She married CU engineering alumnus Stan Kaus in May 1997.

Joanna Horsnail ('93) is an attorney in the government practice group with Mayer, Brown & Platt in Chicago.

Michelle LeBlanc Hynden ('93) is a development, public relations and special events coordinator for a nonprofit community organization in Monte Vista. She also free-lances for Colorado Rancher & Farmer.

Julie Naasko Deutscher ('93) writes feature articles for The Nature Conservancy of Washington, publishes the organization's Web site and travels around the state visiting the conservancy's 31 nature preserves. In 1997, she left her position with the Washington State Legislature and founded her own company, Media Connect.

Ian Olgeirson ('93) covers telecommunications for the Denver Business Journal. His wife, Anjali Olgeirson ('92), is finishing her MBA at the University of Denver.

Jennifer Schramm ('93) is the morning and noon meteorologist at WSBT-TV in South Bend, Ind.

Allison Anderson ('94 MA) does free-lance research for magazines in New York City, mostly Vogue. She is also a free-lance writer for Speak Up, an English-language magazine published in Milan, Italy. She lives in New York City.

Kimberly Crosier Waag ('94) is field marketing coordinator for B.C. Northwest in Lynnwood, Wash. She coordinates operations in western Washington for the franchise developer of Boston Market Restaurants. Previously she worked in the corporation's offices in Golden.

Deb Fellner ('94) is news and lifestyle editor for @ Home Network in Redwood City, Calif. She recently began free-lance writing, and her work has been published in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Maiden Voyages, Salon and Women's Wire. Fellner recently won a writing contest for Maiden Voyages, for which the prize was a trip to Holland.

Julie Hoffman Marshall ('94 MA) won third place in editorial writing in the 1998 Society of Professional Journalists' Colorado awards contest. She also won the Scripps Howard newspapers' in-house editorial writing contest for the month of July. She was recently named associate editor of the Boulder Daily Camera.

Joshua Johnson ('94) recently worked for two years as a Peace Corps teacher for the Corps de la Paix Americain in West Africa.

Sherrie Lotito ('94) in August was named corporate public relations manager for Jones Intercable in Englewood.

James Lovely ('94) is editor of two weeklies: the Ute Pass Courier in Woodland Park and The Gold Rush in Cripple Creek.

Dan Pacheco ('94), formerly a reporter for The Denver Post, spent two years as an online producer at www.washingtonpost.com. Now he is a multimedia producer with Knight Ridder, authors "Click," a weekly column in The Washington Post and operates the Washington Creative Web Society at www. futureforecast.com/wcws.

Aaron Stern ('94) is a copywriter for Black Rocket in San Francisco.

Heather Williams ('94) is working in Washington, D.C., in the press office of Sen. Slade Gorton, R-Wash. Previously she worked as a missionary for Boulder's First Presbyterian Church in St. Petersburg, Russia, as a reporter for the Park Record newspaper in Park City, Utah, and as a river guide on the Arkansas River out of Buena Vista, Colo.

Susan Becker ('95) is marketing communications manager for Spinner.com, a leading Internet music service based in Burlingame, Calif. She formerly worked at Excite Inc. She lives in San Francisco.

Mark Carroll ('95) works for The Integer Group in Lakewood.

Emily Davies ('95 MA) is a writer and communications associate with the CU Foundation in Boulder. Previously, she was assistant director of communications at University Hospital in Denver.

Sam Flickinger ('95) has been a sports reporter at the Vail Daily since 1996, where he has covered World Cup skiing and mountain biking events. He’s getting ready for the World Alpine Ski Championships.

Michael Kelly ('95 MA) won first place in spot news and enterprise writing, and second in column writing in the 1998 Minnesota Associated Press Sports Association sportswriting contest. He writes for the Marshall Independent.

Emily Livingston ('95) is marketing communications manager for Sanford, a leading manufacturer of writing instruments, in Bellwood, Ill.

Jennifer Meyer ('95) lives in Malvern, Pa., and is in corporate communications for Rosenbluth International, a travel management firm.

Chip Ross ('95 MA) is an account executive for McCann-Erickson in San Francisco.

Christopher (Roybal) Romero ('95) is attending law school at the University of New Mexico.

Nicole Schlesinger ('95) works in graphics for Deloitte & Touche in Foster City, Calif.

Mari Bregman ('96) has been promoted to junior account executive at Bender, Goldman and Helper — a Top-10 entertainment public relations firm — in Los Angeles.

Monique Cuvelier ('96) free-lances from her Denver home.

Bob Frier ('96) is weekend anchor for KRDO-TV, the ABC affiliate in Colorado Springs. Previously he was the weekend anchor for the NBC affiliate in Palm Springs, Calif.

Kelley C. Gast ('96) is marketing director for SeaTac Mall in Federal Way, Wash.

Tracy Marx ('96) is associate producer and writer for "Biz Buzz," a New York-based show on the CNNfn financial network that focuses on creative business industries. She lives in Brooklyn.

Marjorie Oetting ('96) is an account executive with DDB Needham in New York City.

Jacqueline Schutty ('96 MA) is an account executive at BSMG Marketing Communications in Chicago. Her clients include Kraft Foods, the National Pork Producers Council and Mile Producers Board.

Spencer Cross ('97) is art director for Creative Intelligence in Los Angeles.

Elizabeth Daerr ('97) is an editorial assistant at the National Parks and Conservation Association in downtown Washington, D.C.

Isaac Gerstenzang ('97) is a marketing coordinator of Chevys in San Francisco.

Daniel Gruidel ('97 MA) is marketing director for Audio Adventures in Boulder.

Dara Javer ('97) is an account coordinator at Lowe Fox Pavlika, an advertising agency in New York City.

Christina Laughlin ('97 MA) is an office coordinator for Mariner Systems of Boulder.

Sheryl Levart ('97) of Brooklyn, N.Y., is an assistant editor at Industrial Press.

Carrie Luebcke ('97) is a morning and noon news anchor and reporter for KNDU-TV in Kennewick, Wash.

Kathleen Mahoney ('97) is a media buyer for Hal Riney & Partners in San Francisco.

Donald Marest ('97 MA) teaches history at Brooklawn Academy Charter School in Fairfield, Conn.

Audrey Peele Ward ('97 MA) is director of communications for the law school at the University of North Carolina. She lives in Durham.

Laura Schneider ('97 MA) is a customer communications specialist for Echo Star Communications Corp. of Littleton.

Paige Sheahan ('97) is an account executive at The Coloradoan in Fort Collins.

David Shugert ('97) works for Target and The Video Station in Boulder.

Norm Shearer ('97) is an art director at McClain Finlon Advertising Inc. in Denver.

John Snyder ('97) is a copy chief and page designer for the Alameda Newspaper Group in northern California. Among his projects is a Spanish-language supplement for The Oakland Tribune.

Brent Stein ('97) is an art director with Ogilvy & Mather in New York City.

J.T. Thompson ('97 MA) is assistant editor of Coastal Living magazine in Birmingham, Ala.

Bethany Weiss ('97) is an account coordinator for The Weber Group, a public relations agency in Palo Alto, Calif.

Scott Aaronson ('98) was recently accepted to The George Washington University's School of Political Management in Washington, D.C.

Laurel Busby ('98 MA) is a production assistant for Silver Lion Films in Los Angeles.

Malinda Miller-Huey ('98 MA) was recently appointed interim director of student affairs communications services and director of Web communications at CU.

Monica Pugno ('98) is a sportswriter for the Summit Daily News in Frisco, Colo.

Patrice Quintero ('98 MA) is communications manager for the National Off-Road Bicycling Association, or NORBA, the governing body of mountain biking in the United States based in Colorado Springs.

Jason Starr ('98) is a sportswriter for the Durango Herald.