My mother’s insatiable news appetite is quite possibly the sole reason I am at this school. As an only child, I did not have a sibling to keep me company, so she became my constant companion. When I woke up in the morning, I would go to my parents’ room, where the news was always on. At 6 a.m., my mother would be watching “Morning Joe,” and around 10 p.m., she would end her day with “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell.” Though I’ve wanted to be a broadcast journalist all my life, it never occurred to me to major in journalism, let alone go to the best journalism school in the world, until my junior year in high school.
We need to have a conversation about multimedia journalism at Medill
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From the desk of Glenn Mitroff, Outgoing Volunteer & Outreach Coordinator
Glenn Mitroff has worked as WORT’s Volunteer & Outreach Coordinator for 21+ years.
As I prepare for my retirement in June, I am excited to announce that Adrienne Ranney has been hired as WORT’s next Volunteer & Outreach Coordinator.
Adrienne will join the staff on May 31st, with an overlap with me until my last day on June 11th.
I would like to thank the Staff Collective, Board and the Hiring Committee for all of their focused work on updating the position description and conducting a well-designed recruitment and hiring process. I would like to especially thank presenters from the UW Diversity Forum for sharing resources from their session, “Designing a Fair and Equitable Hiring Process.”
A former Dunkirk resident is celebrating a significant birthday today.
Mary Lynch Cummings was born at Brooks Memorial Hospital in Dunkirk on April 26, 1921, to James and Helena Lynch. She graduated from Dunkirk High School in 1938 and received her teaching degree from New York State University. She then moved to Buffalo were she worked at Bell Aircraft.
In 1944, she contacted Florence Erikson, her physical education teacher in high school, about how she could become an officer in the Navy during World War II. After six weeks of training at Smith College, she realized her dream of becoming an officer in the WAVES, the women’s reserve. She was sent to Sea Island, Ga., for radar training and was then stationed in Vero Beach, Fla., as an air controller. After the cold winters of Western New York, she enjoyed the sunny days in Florida.