Snappy Cardinal © Natasha Soglin for The Daily Cardinal Alumni Association
Thursday, April 26, 2012
WELCOME RECEPTION AND PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT
7 pm – 9 pm. Join us as we kick off the Cardinal's 120th anniversary with a welcome reception at Madison's Overture Center, featuring an exhibition of the best in the Cardinal's rich visual tradition, past and present. Exhibits will include work by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographers, and prints on display will be auctioned Saturday night to benefit the Cardinal's scholarship funds.
Friday, April 27, 2012
JOURNALISM PANEL DISCUSSIONS
Fluno Center's Howard Auditorium
10 a.m. - 12 p.m. The Daily Cardinal's journalists went on to have incredible success not only in newspapers but in television news as well. Join Emmy- and Peabody-winning journalists as they talk about how their Cardinal and UW experiences influenced their work.
1 p.m. - 3 p.m. The Cardinal counts among its graduates numerous winners of print journalism's highest honor, the Pulitzer Prize. Discuss newspapering with half a dozen of those winners, including David Umhoefer, Neal Ulevich, Eric Newhouse, Walt Bogdanich, and Abigail Goldman.
Satuday, April 28, 2012
CARDINAL OFFICE OPEN HOUSE
10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Relive your Cardinal days and meet today's staff in their natural habitat -- the Cardinal's Vilas Hall offices. The equipment may have changed somewhat, but the atmosphere is still the Cardinal you remember: young journalists fearlessly sifting and winnowing to find the truth.
GALA CELEBRATION
7:30 - 11 p.m. at The Orpheum Theater
Wish the Cardinal a happy birthday with drinks and dancing at one of Madison's most unique venues, the Orpheum! There will be a silent auction of art and photography to benefit the Cardinal's scholarship funds. Meet old friends and raise a toast to the Cardinal's next 120 years.
There are other events planned on campus to coincide with the anniversary. More details on those will follow.
Please consider organizing an informal gathering for your colleagues on Saturday afternoon at the bar or venue of your choice.
All events will be held in Madison Wisconsin
On Saturday, March 12, James Forsmo, Daily Cardinal graphics editor in Fall 1981 and 1984, passed away.
The DCAA is working with his widow, Sharon Ely Forsmo, also a Cardinal alumna, and the UW Foundation to create a benefit in his name.
The James J. Forsmo Art Scholarship would be a one-year scholarship for art students at the UW, with preference for those working at the Daily Cardinal. The UW Foundation will manage the fund and the amount and number of scholarships will depend upon the amount raised. The minimum that would need to be raised is $10,000 to endow a $1,000 annual scholarship (a matching fund scholarship with the Wisconsin Alumni Association).
The fundraising is starting with the sale of a poster that Jim designed. This poster can be purchased through the DCAA on this site. Of the cost, $25 will go to the scholarship and the rest toward shipping and handling.
Sharon will be holding a live silent art auction in Phoenix at First Studio on April 9. The DCAA hopes to follow this with an online art auction on eBay the following week through the end of the month. More information on the art auction will be forthcoming.
Any Cardinal alumni artists or photographers interested in donating work should contact us at +1 877 THE DCAA (843 3222) or dcaa@dailycardinal.net for more information.
Pictured in the attached photo (left to right) taken at the Newsroom Pub & Grill in Milwaukee are: Bill Kurtz (’73); Paula Brookmire (’72); Mark Bennett (current Cardinal sports editor); Alex Morrell (’09); Gabbi Chee, a senior at the University of Dallas who has been working with Brookmire as an intern at the Milwaukee County Zoo; Pulitzer Prize winner Dave Umhoefer (’83) and Pete Faust (’86). Not pictured: Justin Stephani (’10) and Michael Juley (’73).
The
question: What was life like at the Daily Cardinal in the ‘70s and ’80?
The answer:
Just as chaotic as it is now.
The
question: What did you learn at the Cardinal?
The answer:
More journalism than what we did in J-school.
The
question: How do I find a job in the real world?
Answer: Use
the skills you learned in the Cardinal newsroom – they are easily transferable
to virtually any job.
The
questions and answers flowed freely, as did the beer and soda, during the first
Daily Cardinal Alumni/staff mentoring meeting for Milwaukee-area current and
former staffers Aug. 11 at the Newsroom Pub & Grill. Jim Nelson, president
of the Milwaukee Press Club and also Cardinal alum, arranged for the meeting to
be held at the Newsroom Pub & Grill, which is the home of the Milwaukee
Press Club.
The meeting
was arranged by Michael Juley (Class of ’73) at the urging of Allison Sansone
of the Alumni Association, who graciously provided a listing of 300
Milwaukee-area Daily Cardinal alumni and a handful of names of current Cardinal
staff members who lived in the Milwaukee area. From the list of 300, 15 alumni
were invited to attend, along with four current staffers. The numbers were kept
low because such a meeting had never been organized before and organizers
didn’t really know what to expect.
Alumni who
attended included:
Bill Kurtz
(’73), a former member of the Cardinal sports staff and now a communications associate
with Carthage College.
Paula
Brookmire (’71-’72 graduate school), now publications coordinator for the
non-profit Zoological Society of Milwaukee. Paula brought along Gabbi Chee, a
senior at the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas, who has been working this
summer with Paula as an intern at the Milwaukee County Zoo.
Dave
Umhoefer (‘83), former Cardinal reporter (1981-83) and city editor (1983), now
investigative reporter and 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner at the Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel.
Pete Faust
(’86), former Cardinal sports writer and now a lawyer with the firm of O’Neil,
Cannon, Hollman, DeJong and Laing.
Michael
Juley (’73), Cardinal sports writer in 1971-’72 and co-sports editor in
’72-’73, now assistant metro editor/police and courts for the Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel.
Current or
just-graduated staffers attending included:
Alex
Morrell (’09), editor in chief 08-‘09, and now watchdog intern at the Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel.
Mark Bennett,
sophomore, sports editor.
Justin
Stephani, arts editor in spring 2009, managing editor fall 2009, copy chief
spring 2010, journalism grad spring 2010.
All those
in attendance agreed that the meeting was worth the time, and that the alumni
and current staffers should meet again next August. If you wish to attend next
year’s meeting, or just want to stay in touch with Milwaukee-area alumni and/or
current staffers, send an e-mail to Michael Juley at mjuley@journalsentinel.com
and we’ll keep in touch.
