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front row, left to right: M. Yarbrough, S. Bok, P. Kann, J. Konner, L. Boccardi, H. Vendler, E. Seaton; back row, left to right: R. Pederson, S. Rowe, W. Ketter, G. Rupp, G. Overholser, S. Topping, J. Fuller, J. Dotson, W. Safire, W. Rugaber, J. Carroll, J. Risser
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Peter R. Kann, chair, Seymour Topping, administrator
Helen Vendler
Job title
Porter University Professor
First name
Helen
Last name
Vendler
Location
Cambridge, MA
(Courtesy of the National Endowment for the Humanities)
“When you’re in a state of perplexity, sadness, gloom, elation, you look for a poem to match what you are feeling,” says Helen Vendler. She writes that “Poetry is analytic as well as expressive; it distinguishes, reconstructs, and redescribes what it discovers about the inner life. The poet accomplishes the analytic work of poetry chiefly by formal means.”
Employer
Harvard University
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1
Walter Rugaber
Job title
president and publisher
First name
Walter
Last name
Rugaber
Location
Roanoke, VA
(Courtesy of Medill/Northwestern)
Walter F. Rugaber (BSJ60) was president and publisher of the Roanoke Times & World News, which is now called The Roanoke Times, and also serves as president of Landmark Publishing Group, headquartered in Norfolk, Va.
Employer
The Roanoke Times
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1
James V. Risser
Job title
director, John S. Knight Fellowships
First name
James V.
Last name
Risser
Location
Palo Alto, CA
Jim Risser has distinguished himself as an investigative reporter, an environmental reporter and as a leader in efforts to improve the quality of modern journalism.
Employer
Stanford University
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Jack Fuller
Job title
president
First name
Jack
Last name
Fuller
(Courtesy of the Newberry Library)
Jack William Fuller was born in Chicago, Illinois, on October 12, 1946. The son of Ernest Fuller, a financial reporter for the Chicago Tribune, and Dorothy Fuller, he followed his father into journalism, beginning as a copyboy at the Chicago Tribune at age 16. He received his BS degree in Journalism from Northwestern University in 1968, and also attended Yale Law School, receiving his JD degree in 1973.
Employer
Tribune Publishing Company
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1
John L. Dotson Jr.
Job title
president and publisher
First name
John L.
Last name
Dotson Jr.
Prior to joining the Akron Beacon Journal, John Dotson was publisher of the Daily Camera in Boulder, Colo.
In prior positions, he was director of night operations at the Philadelphia Inquirer, transportation and circulation administration manager of the Philadelphia Daily News, and executive assistant to Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc., President Sam Keel. He also worked in several editorial departments of the Inquirer.
Employer
Akron Beacon Journal
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Edward Seaton
Job title
editor in chief
First name
Edward
Last name
Seaton
Location
Manhattan, Kan.
Edward Seaton began his career in journalism as a general assignment reporter and copy editor at The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky. An honors graduate of Harvard College, he studied on a Fulbright grant in Ecuador and did graduate work in journalism at the University of Missouri. He was made a Knight of the Order of Christopher Columbus by the Dominican Republic for his work for press freedom, and is a recipient of Columbia's Maria Moors Cabot Prize.
Employer
Manhattan Mercury
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Seymour Topping
Job title
administrator, The Pulitzer Prizes
First name
Seymour
Last name
Topping
Location
New York, NY
Seymour Topping has had a varied career as foreign correspondent, editor, university professor and author.
He retired in 2002 as Administrator of the Pulitzer after nine years of service and was appointed San Paolo Professor Emeritus of International Journalism at Columbia University.
Prior to Columbia, he was a member of the New York Times for thirty years as chief correspondent in Moscow and Southeast Asia, foreign editor, deputy managing editor and managing editor from 1986 to 1987.
Employer
Columbia University
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George Rupp
Job title
president
First name
George
Last name
Rupp
During his nine-year tenure as president of Columbia University, Dr. Rupp focused on enhancing undergraduate education, on strengthening the relationship of the campus to surrounding communities and New York City as a whole, and on increasing the university’s international orientation. At the same time, he completed both a financial restructuring of the university and a $2.84 billion fund-raising campaign that achieved eight successive records in dollars raised.
Employer
Columbia University
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