Alumni News
Compiled by Paula Wagner Apfelbach '83

40s-50s

A new book by William Ward MS'41, History of the Department of Communication at Cornell University, traces the evolution of that entity from the time when Cornell's first president planned the world's first university-level journalism instruction in 1874, to its status in 2000. The author, who lives in Ithaca, New York, is the former head of Cornell's communication department and an emeritus professor who taught for more than fifty years.

In The Enigma of Ethnicity: Another American Dilemma (University of Iowa Press), author Wilbur Zelinsky MA'46 draws upon more than a half-century of exploring the cultural and social geography of North America and fashions his expertise into an encyclopedic work that examines ethnicity's significance, evolution, and entanglements. Zelinsky is an emeritus professor of geography at Pennsylvania State University in State College.

Among those recently inducted into the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame was Ed Baumann '51 of Kenosha, Wisconsin. His career has included work as a reporter, writer, and editor for such publications as the Chicago Daily News, Chicago's American, Chicago Today, and the Chicago Tribune. When Baumann retired in 1988, he was honored as the Chicago Press Veteran of the Year.

Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger '52, MS'57 received an honorary doctorate of public service at the College of William and Mary's Charter Day ceremony in February in Williamsburg, Virginia. Beginning his career in the Foreign Service, Eagleburger was later an ambassador to Yugoslavia. He became former President George Bush's deputy secretary of state in 1989, and was named secretary of state in 1992. He currently serves as chair of the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims. Eagleburger, of Charlottesville, Virginia, has received the Presidential Citizens Medal, the Department of State's Distinguished Service Award, and an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II.

This update came from Laurie (Laura) Pike Besteman '57 of Bellevue, Washington: "Just wanted to tell you that I retired on December 31 after twenty years with Prudential Securities as a senior vice president of investments. My husband will continue with the firm, but on a reduced schedule, allowing us to continue to enjoy traveling and volunteering. Loved our fortieth [UW] reunion, and will be there for the forty-fifth!"

Starting in June, the new dean of the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public Health will be Bernard Goldstein '58. He is currently the director of the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, a joint program that he established in 1986 to combine the efforts of three higher education institutions. Goldstein is also a professor and the chair of the Department of Environmental and Community Medicine at one of the three institutions, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of the New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

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