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100th year is under way
Welcome to the Alumni Edition of The Daily
Collegian. April 18, 1986, marked the beginning
of the 100th year of continuous publication of a
student newspaper at Penn State.
Collegian is striving to make 1987, the anniversary
year, a successful celebration of Collegian history and a
sendoff to a bright future of student journalism.
Within this issue you will find tentative preregistration
information for the 1987 anniversary celebration weekend
and information about Collegian's 1986 reunion weekend,
which was held April 18 through 20.
If you attended the 1986 reunion weekend, you know
Collegian is well on its way to planning a major anniver
sary celebration. But we need your help to carry it off. If
you know of people connected with Collegian who might
be interested in participating in the 100th anniversary
celebration, please relay information to them and please
send us their names and addresses if you have them. We
need your ideas and your support to make the coming
year a success a reflection of all the successful years
you helped make possible.
Let us hear from you!
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COLLEGIAN 100 YEARS
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Friday, Aug. 15, 1986
Vol. 87, No. 31 * 8 pages University Park, Pa. 16802
Published by students of The Pennsylvania State University
©1986 Collegian Inc.
index
• Trace the 1986 reunion in photos
Page 2
• Tentative preregistration info
Page 3
0 It all started with The Free Lance
Page 4
e Who was there in April Page 8
William G. Landis, Jr
Co!logien Photo I Gregg Zelkin
alumni edition
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Reunion starts celebration
Collegian kicked off its 100th
year April 18 with a weekend
of activity for alumni and
friends. Fof those of you who couldn't
be with us, here's what you missed:
• A reception at the Holiday Inn
was held April 18 for people who got
into town that night.
• A tour of Collegian offices in
Carnegie Building Saturday morning,
April 19, was conducted by Collegian
General Manager Gerry Lynn Hamil
ton.
• A luncheon at the Holiday Inn,
Atherton Street, was capped off by a
Students maintain traditions
Students have maintained
Collegian's tradition of excel
lence and are striving to pass
that tradition to future generations,
Collegian student executives Anita
Huslin and William G. Landis Jr.
told a reunion luncheon audience
April 19.
The two students spoke at the
Holiday Inn, where alumni and
friends of Collegian had gathered
for lunch and a work session to pin
down ideas about Collegian's 100th
anniversary.
Huslin characterized the Colle
gian experience as one of team
work, professionalism, self
awareness, social consciousness
and responsibility.
In other words, she said, "A learn
ing experience."
"From its beginning 100 years ago
as The Free Lance, the student
newspaper of Penn State has been
nothing if not an exercise in self
education."
"And those of us who have worked
during the various stages of what is
now known as The Daily Collegian
whether it was in the 'Bos, the
'7os, the '6os, the 'sos, the '4os, the
'3os or even the 1920 s —know how
valuable that self-education has
proved to be," Huslin said.
"There is no better way to learn
than by actually doing," she said.
Landis stressed that learning
takes place in all departments at
Collegian.
work session, where alumni got down
to the nuts and bolts of what how they
wanted to celebrate Collegian's 100th
anniversary.
o A reception Saturday night gave
attendees a chance to mingle with
new and old acquaintances.
• A Sunday brunch at the Holiday
Inn was a chance for a farewell until
next April.
Members of the student and profes
sional staffs of Collegian attended the
functions and the Alumni Association
proved an invaluable aid in making
the weekend a success. For a better
idea of what went on, turn to Page 2,
He acknowledged that the audi
ence was primarily from the editori
al side of the paper and said he
wanted to shed some light on Colle
gian's present business operations.
"The budget for this year is about
$1.3 million," Landis told alumni.
"The Business Division has about
80 staff members," he said.
"It is made up of several depart-
Meeting sparks
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ake it big' was the con
sensus at a work session
April 19 about handling
Collegian's 100th anniversary cele
bration.
Reunion participants had different
ideas about how to make it big, but
they had the same idea about one
thing: Present and past Collegia
naires have a lot to be proud of, no
matter what form the paper was in
when they were staffers, and they
should make major note of the stu
dent newspaper's 100th anniversary.
The work session was held as a
brainstorming meeting on which the
coming year's celebration could be
Alumni proved to be excellent
brainstormers, as many, many ideas
were tossed around at the meeting.
The high number of suggestions
prompted Collegian management to
distribute surveys among alumni to
determine if the ideas could be con
solidated.
We gathered comments from the
surveys, and they follow, edited for
clarity. They are presented to spark
more ideas on your part, which Colle
gian looks forward to hearing.
• A panel debate featuring two
illustrious Collegian alumni Kay
Mills, Los Angeles Times, and Dick
Drayne, formerly Ted Kennedy's
press secretary.
• More get-togethers, cocktail
parties it's easier to mingle at
those than sit-down dinnersi.
• Meetings with current Collegian
staff members.
• Put up a bulletin board for busi
ness cards.
• A seminar with Bill Ulerich,
newspaper publisher and former Uni
versity Board of Trustees member,
as a panel member.
• A prestige speaker of national
stature, whether a Collegian alum or
not, for a keynote address.
• Alumni seminars on specific
subjects (newspapers, photo, mag
azines, advertising, sports, public
relations . . . )
e Have University give proper
recognition to Collegian and assist in
iocating Collegian alumni, through
news releases (advance publicity)
and Alumni Association. Have Penn
State publications help find promi
nent alumni.
• Seminars in specialized sub
jects, such as science or politics.
• Check Collegian staff members
who might be listed in Who's Who.
• Have meals on campus, at the
Nittany Lion Inn or at the HUB. Have
an open bar.
• Put together a videotape, a day
in the life of Collegian. Give out
awards for various honors.
• Institute an alumni recognition
program.
• Publish brief profiles of former
Collegianaires in The Daily Colle
gian.
• Improve Collegian's facilities.
Present facilities are dingy and de
pressing!
e Get other Penn State graduates
(besides Collegianaires) as seminar
leaders.
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Anita C. Huslin
ments: sales, office, marketing, ac
counting, national advertising and
layout."
Landis said the Business Division
concentrates on making the opera
tion a good learning experience
while keeping it financially sound.
Landis borrowed a quote from
Collegian General Manager Gerry
Lynn Hamilton to explain his feel
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to Invite University President Bry
ce Jordan as a guest.
• Hold campus tours and tours of
Carnegie Building.
0 Hold a joint banquet and staff
• Invite back journalists who got
things started with The Daily Colle
gian . . . there are many.
• Invite the person who wrote the
history of Penn State and have him
speak on role of Collegian in Penn
State history.
• Make luncheon focal point of
Saturday of weekend; limit business
meeting to a half hour.
• Start a fund to endow a Collegian
chair in the new School of Commu
nications for a visting professorship
filled by a Collegian staff member
who is working in journalism.
• Make lists of Penn State Pulitzer
Prize winners; Collegianaires who
teach in journalism.
• Find out and present details
about a 1970 Collegian editor who was
deposed by faculty; Collegian's role
during Vietnam activism.
• Find one person on each state
daily newspaper to make sure notice
of reunion is posted and graduates
know about what is happening. Also,
N.Y. Times and Washington Post and
wire services.
Seminar along the lines of
"Women in Journalism: background,
particular problems and obstacles
and outlook for the future."
• Have a discussion of people who
started out on newspapers, radio, TV
and if they did or did not continue
careers in journalism arid why, what
factors influenced their decisions.
And whether the fact that they were
male or female influenced their deci
sions.
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Other ideas discussed at the plan
ning meeting included:
e Ask The Associated Press or a
newspaper to act as a sponsor to
allow Collegian to pay for a big-name
speaker.
Appoint a committee to organize
the seminars, chosen from alumni
volunteers.
• Reproduce front pages and hind
them, for sale to alumni.
• Make up a list of Collegian firsts.
• Arrange a tribute to the late Lou
Bell, a University professor who was
helpful to many Collegianaires of his
time.
• Include information about the
celebration in The Weekly Collegian.
• Take out classified advertise
ments in Editor and Publisher to find
out how many Collegianaires are at
various news media organizations
and to further circulate surveys for
celebration ideas.
• Explore topics that encompass
different eras; themes that were ma
jor trends during certain eras.
• Hold a Saturday morning recep
tion at Carnegie Building every
Homecoming weekend.
• Plan to hold a major reunion in
1990 to celebrate the 50th anniversary
of Collegian Inc. and 50 years of
publication as a daily.
For tentative plans for 1987, based
on the suggestions, turn to Page 3.
ings about the role of students at
Collegian:
"We have a policy that says those
students who are on the Collegian
staff today are not the masters or
the creators of the organization.
Rather, they are caretakes or trust
ees. They have a responsibility to
make a contribution to Collegian's
tradition and to maintain the organi
zation for those students who will
follow."
Huslin said of the commitment of
Collegian alumni and present stu
dent staffs, "That sort of commit-.
ment and caring is what has brought
all of us together this weekend. And
that's what will bring all of us back
100 years from now."
As for Collegian's evolution from
The Free Lance to its present form,
former Editor Gail Johnson and
former Business Manager Karen
Jaret told the audience they dug
through old issues and discovered
some amusing twists.
For example, one issue informed
readers that the editors were sorry
the paper did not come out by its
proposed publication deadline.
Browsing through early issues also
showed product prices and priori
ties of readers changing over the
years.
The results of the research by
Johnson and Jaret can be seen
on pages 4, 5 and 7, in a section
lifted from the April 19, 1986,
issue of The Daily Collegian.
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