News 2007
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- Theater Professor Bob Hedley to receive Award of Excellence from his Alma Mater
- SCT Salutes Marianne Galvin for 44 Years of Service
- SCT co-hosted ICA Pre-Conference along with UMich, Microsoft and Nortel
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- Len Guercio '83 film screening
- eVokability: The Walking Project will present a first glimpse at an open studio series at Dance Theater Workshop Studio this Spring
- MM&C faculty member to give talk titled "Telepresence Phenomena and
Research: The Big(ger) Picture" - Journalism Professor Karen Turner reads for Philly's Citywide Bee
- SCT Alumnus Steve Capus Profiled in Washington Post
- "Panoramas and Other Circular Stories," a video work installation by Film and Media Arts professor Roderick Coover
- John P. Connolly ’79 Appointed Executive Director of Actors’ Equity
- Alumnus Steve Capus Appointed President of NBC News
Robert Hedley will be presented with the Award of Excellence in Edmonton on September 27. Hedley, a graduate of The University of Alberta, will be recognized by the alumni association for his accomplishments in theater. When asked about this honor, Professor Hedley responded, “I am grateful in many ways, but particularly because it was there that I discovered serious theater and chose it as a profession.”
This past October, he was honored with the Barrymore Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the Philadelphia theater community.
Marianne Galvin, Manager of Administration, retired this May after 44 years at Temple University. After assisting thousands of students, hundreds of faculty, and multiple deans, she will be enjoying the shore, catching up onher reading, and traveling the world.
To view a slideshow of her retirement celebration, please click here.
Congratulations to Len Guercio '83, whose film, TIRAMISU, will be among the shorts and feature films screening in an international retrospective of new Italian-American cinema at the 43rd Annual Film Festival in Pesaro, Italy.John Turturro, Danny DeVito and Penny Marshall are some of the filmmakers who are scheduled to attend and present their films.
The festival is located in central Italy on the Adriatic coast and will take place from June 24 to July 2, 2007.
- eVokability: The Walking Project will present a first glimpse at an open studio series at Dance Theater Workshop Studio this Spring
eVokability is a performance piece that explores ideas and images surrounding the notion of “walking,” vis å vis the body with disabilities. Performers wear Costumes embedded with sensors that track the shape and force of physical gesture, using these dynamics to generate live media projections that amplify their movement. We have been working with each performer to technically “tailor,” her sensor-based Costume to her body and her movement. Each Costume functions as a media "instrument" that the performer plays: a virtual extension of the body, a narrative prop.
Sarah Drury, FMA Program's Assistant Professor, is the Project Director.
When:
June 14, 15, 16 2007
Dance Theatre Workshop Studio
219 West 19th Street, NYC 10011
June 22 & 23 2007Spirit Wind Studio
213 New St., Philadelphia, PA 19106
To request tickets, please contact Sarah Drury at: sarahdru@gmail.com
For more information about the conference, please click here.
The School of Communications and Theater is proud to co-cost this conference along with University of Michigan, Microsoft and Nortel.
Congratulations to MM&C faculty member Matthew Lombard, who will give an invited talk, titled "Telepresence Phenomena and Research: The Big(ger) Picture," at Telepresence World 2007, "A landmark summit on the emerging technologies of Telepresence, Presence, and Unified Communications" at the University of San Diego June 4-6.
Major sponsors of the event include Polycom, Teleris, Cisco and Telanetix. The International Society for Presence Research (ISPR), which Matthew heads, is a supporting sponsor.
To read details about the event, click here.
Newly appointed president of NBC News, Steve Capus ’86, is profiled in the Washington Post after several weeks of controversial decision making. Once a lesser-known executive, Capus has found himself in the spotlight surrounding the future of Don Imus’s morning show, and whether NBC should air the Virginia Tech shooter’s video.
To read the full story, click here.
John P. Connolly, SCT MFA ’79, has been appointed executive director of Actors' Equity, effective March 19, 2007. Mr. Connolly joins Equity directly from his position as national president of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA).
In his new role, Connolly will direct the collective bargaining process for more than 30 national and regional contracts, oversee the union's finances and supervise Equity's large professional staff. Connolly, who joined Equity in 1973, has appeared in numerous stage, film and television productions during his 35-year career as an actor. A union leader and activist, he has been a key negotiator in film and television contracts for actors in the entertainment industry over the last 10 years. He was inducted into the School of Communications and Theater’s Hall of Fame at the 2005 Lew Klein Alumni in the Media Awards luncheon.
Robert Hedley was honored with the Barrymore Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the Philadelphia theater community on Monday, October 23, 2006 at the Merriam Theatre. Hedley’s remarkable energy and commitment to theater have contributed to Philadelphia’s national reputation as a center of new play development. Over the course of his career, Hedley has worked with many local and national theater companies, and he has mentored, produced, and directed several esteemed playwrights.
He was a founding artistic director of the Philadelphia Company, now the Philadelphia Theatre Company. Hedley is in his sixteenth year as a full time professor of theater at Temple, and he currently serves as the director of international programs for the School of Communications and Theater.
He served as chair of the Theater Department from 1990-1996 and was the provost’s fellow for the arts. He has also taught theater and chaired departments at Villanova University and the University of Iowa.
Communications student Allison Burnette and Advertising student Kamilah DuBard were excited to see their commercial as a finalist in the Chevy Super Bowl College Ad Challenge. Chevy had invited college students nationwide to submit ideas for a Super Bowl ad featuring Chevy’s new line of cars and crossovers. More than 800 teams from some 200 schools applied.
Although their ad did not win the overall competition, the mockup was featured on The Early Show as one of the “Most Humorous” submissions. The friends and classmates were excited to see their design on national TV. CBS3 reporter Robin Macintosh visited Annenberg Hall to interview the students.
“It was crazy. I didn't imagine wed ever made it to CBS," Burnette told him.
Dubbard added, "I was just really happy to see it live and that was all we wanted for our dream, our baby to be on TV and that's what happened this morning."
To view the CBS3 story about Allison and Kamilah, visit http://cbs3.com/topstories/local_story_017171643.htm
During the 2006 Homecoming festivities, former Temple News writers, editors, photographers, and staff members gathered for a reunion in celebration of the independent student newspaper’s 85th anniversary.
Alumni toured the new Temple newsroom and Main Campus, and they shared their old Temple News stories over hors d’oeuvres and refreshments. Several alumni of the School of Communications and Theater were in attendance, including Dorothy Italie Kirsch ’36, the newspaper’s oldest living editor. Dr. Kirsch shared both her newsroom experiences in the ’30s and her extensive book of article clips.
- 2006 Lew Klein Alumni in the Media Awards
On Tuesday, October 24, 2006, Temple University’s School of Communications and Theater hosted the sixth annual Lew Klein Alumni in the Media Awards. Seven Temple alumni were inducted into the School’s Hall of Fame, including:
- Ray Didinger, Sports Journalist and Senior Producer, NFL Films
- Vince Hill, Anchor/Business and Finance Editor, KYW Newsradio 1060
- Patrice M. Kozlowski, Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications, The Dreyfus Corporation
- Larry Magid, President and Co-founder, Electric Factory Concerts
- Zachary Stalberg, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Committee of Seventy
- Joseph Terry, Director, The Oprah Winfrey Show
- Jeanne McHale Waite, Head of Production, Atlas Media Corp.
Although the School was set to present the 2006 Lew Klein Excellence in the Media Award to CBS News Correspondent Ed Bradley, he was unable to attend the luncheon due to an undisclosed illness. The Excellence in the Media Award celebrates outstanding members of the media whose achievements bring honor to their profession. Michael Colleran, president and general manager of KYW-TV (CBS), spoke on behalf of Mr. Bradley, conveying his regrets and asking to visit Temple at a future date to accept the award in person. Sadly, however, Mr. Bradley passed away of leukemia a few short weeks later.
Lew Klein has served the School of Communications and Theater as an adjunct professor for more than five decades. A seasoned professional who produced such landmark television programs as American Bandstand, Klein is respected by the Temple community and media professionals as a master teacher and wise mentor.
The Lew Klein Alumni in the Media and Excellence in the Media Awards were established through the generosity of H. F. “Gerry” and Marguerite Lenfest and Walter and Leonore Annenberg through the Annenberg Foundation. Proceeds from the Lew Klein Alumni in the Media Awards luncheon benefited the Lew Klein Excellence in the Media Fund, which supports professorships, scholarships, and other areas of need within the School.
Congratulations to alumnus Steve Capus ’86, who was recently named president of NBC News. Capus had been serving as acting president since Neal Shapiro left in September 2005. He served as executive producer of NBC “Nightly News” from 2001 until his promotion in June 2005 to senior vice president of the news division. Capus, a journalism major at Temple, began in local Philadelphia news before joining NBC News in 1993. He was inducted into the School of Communications and Theater Hall of Fame in 2001 at the Lew Klein Alumni in the Media Awards luncheon.
Are you worried that your kids are spending too much time online, instant messaging friends instead of actually hanging out with them? Do you know if your teen has a MySpace page, and what it looks like? Is the internet just a place where kids can be themselves, or are they revealing too much information about themselves, making them potential targets for sexual predators?
Dr. Dan Gottlieb and his guests will discuss the pros and cons of new media technologies and explore how parents and educators can instill critical medial literacy skills in children.
Panelists:
Dr. Renee Hobbs
Director, Media Education Lab
Department of Broadcasting, Telecommunications and Mass Media,
School of Communications and Theater & College of Education, Temple University
Judith Sachs
Editorial Director,
Parenting Teens Online
Dr. Dan Romer
Director, Adolescent Risk Communication Institute,Annenberg Public Policy Center,
University of PennsylvaniaWhen:
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
6 to 6:30 p.m. Reception
6:30 to 8 p.m. Discussion
WHYY Independence
Foundation Civic Space
150 North Sixth Street, Philadelphia
To RSVP for this event, or for more information: 215-351-0511
whyy.org/childrensservice
In the Spirit of Family, a quarterly series of panel discussions, is a collaboration between the WHYY Children’s Service and Dr. Dan Gottlieb of 91FM’s Voices in the Family. The Children’s Service at WHYY covers educational programs and services from pre-K through 12th grade.
