1960s

Jack Counihan ’62 took early retirement three years ago from his position as promotion director at Newsweek. Before that, he did much the same at Sports Illustrated, LIFE, Field & Stream, The Wall Street Journal, The National (ill-fated sports daily), and Prentice-Hall. Jack says that he’s still vertical despite “a checkered career writing brochures, speeches, sales presentations, ads, marketing strategies, positioning statements, direct mail and, well, everything except actual journalism (much to Dean Blumberg’s dismay).” When he’s not chasing deer from his shrubbery in Garrison, N.Y., Jack does “all this stuff at home as a freelancer” while his wife, Ellen, continues her daily commute to the Big Apple. Counihan can be reached at jackcounihan@ aol.com.

After 29 years at Western Washington University's Department of Journalism, Lyle E. Harris B.A. '62, M.A. '67 has decided to continue going in circles by turning wooden bowls on his lathe. He and Betty Cargile Harris live in the woods with two dogs and some wild creatures and now, he writes, "will spend more time abroad since Bush will further cause international chaos for the next four years." E-mail Lyle at leh98284@yahoo.com.

Joe Hoppel '65 is a senior editor for The Sporting News, based in St. Louis, Mo., where he has been since 1982. From December 1967 to Febrary 1979, he worked on the copy desk at the Denver Post; from February 1979 to August 1982, he was a deskman at the Kansas City Star.

Nils Rosdahl ’67 was honored as outstanding instructor at North Idaho College at graduation last spring. He is in his 20th year in Coeur d'Alene, where he also writes a business column for the Spokesman-Review. The Sentinel, a student newspaper produced by his journalism students, has won first place for two-year college newspapers at the National Collegiate Press Convention in New York City the past three years.

John J. Schulz '62 is dean of Boston University's College of Communication. He's happy that the west wing of the building has not burned down, the 2,400 students seem happy, productive and forced to rigor and high professional standards in film, television, journalism, public relations, advertising and mass communication. And, he writes, happier still, there appears to be no revolutionary movement afoot within the faculty of 63 full-timers and 110 part-timers that keep the wagon rolling. Schulz writes: "All I want for Christmas is two more hours in each day and one more work day each week, preferably all bonus time."

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