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A QUARTERLY PUBLICATION OF THE WALLA WALLA COLLEGE COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT

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Power of

Creativity Jerry Hartman challenges student innovation in the Communication Department’s new Media Arts Center

New Photojournalism Major and Minor Launched The photojournalism concentration and minor give students more options.

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Adventist Communicators Meet in Orlando The annual Society of Adventist Communicators conference held in October.

Alumni News Updates Where they are, what they’re doing.

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Professional Software Gift Enhances Student Learning King donates broadcast teleprompter system.

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arts center and new professor challenge student creativity print promotional materials for the college.

In summer of 2001, Hartman and his wife, Machelle (WWC chemistry, 2000), joined the Peace Corps where, with more than 120 volunteers, they served in the Philippines for two years.

“Since my junior year in college, I had decided that I wanted experience working in another culture,” Hartman says. He was a teacher trainer in the English language assistance program, leading workshops on such themes as critical thinking and creative teaching methods.

“We loved our time there,”

■ If you’ve dreamed about

computer. Students edit, deliver,

working in a state-of-the-art

and produce 30 minutes of live

television, radio, and drama facility, television from the studio every day. those dreams are becoming reality at Walla Walla College. A new 10,000 square foot media arts center is now in operation.

shoot multiple programs on different sets without having to set up and take down between

The facility’s new director,

shoots,” Hartman says. “Now

Jerry Hartman, joins the

we are restricted only by our

WWC faculty as instructor in

creativity. The positive upgrades

communication, specializing in

the department has made in

video and audio production.

video and audio facilities give us

The new television studio is alldigital—from television cameras

faculty news

“Our new studio space lets us

the ability to take more students into our courses.”

through video switcher—and

The new media arts center

includes a new Chyron graphics

incorporates three major facilities:

• James C. Hannum Studio, for production, recording and editing of television and audio projects and programs,

Hartman says. “It was eye-opening

• Donnie Rigby Stage, a black box theater performance space and additional studio, and

the challenge to move into a new

• Positive Life Radio, the college’s FM radio station.

After Hartman graduated from WWC with a mass communication degree in 1999, he worked for 6 months at Blue Mountain Television before becoming assistant director of marketing at WWC. In that position, he created television and

Nature in a Nutshell, released in October, is a 2004 Junior devotional book by ELAINE EGBERT, communications department DAVID BULLOCK, professor of office manager. The book, for children ages 10 to 14, features daily communications, presented the paper, Taking devotional thoughts that demonstrate liberties: John Ashcroft and the new rhetoric God’s evidence in nature. Egbert wrote of law enforcement at the Peace and Conflict the book because she loves children and Commission of the National Communication “nature helps us understand God better.”

Association’s annual conference in Miami, Fla., Nature in a Nutshell, published by in November. He serves as WWC Director of Review and Herald, is Egbert’s eighth Distance Learning and is on the board of the published book and is now available at Adventist Distance Education Consortium. the Adventist Book Center.

to see a whole different way of getting things done. But it’s great to be back, too. I’m intrigued by facility. I love to trouble-shoot and set up new systems.”

Hartman just installed a new 8-track digital recorder and industry-leading audio editing software in the studio’s audio production facility. Plans are underway to install a DVD recorder in the television control room for news production and broadcast.

PAM HARRIS, communications department chair, serves on the advisory committee of the Adventist Television Network. She has served two years on the Walla Walla Public Library Board of Trustees, chairing since January 2003. She is pursuing research on press coverage of Morgan v. The Commonwealth of Virginia.

MARILYNN LOVELE professor of communications board of the Little Theater o She is a member of the mark the house management team reading committee, which sh because of the opportunity it plays and gather ideas. This third on the Little Theater b

adventist communicators meet in orlando

photojournalism major and minor launches

Eight students and three faculty from WWC joined more than 200 communication professionals, students and faculty at the annual Society of Adventist Communicators conference in Orlando, Fla. in October. The conference provided workshops and discussions, worship and inspiration, and informal opportunities to meet and talk with other communicators. Shawna Malvini, Levi Waggoner and Kristi Spurgeon also had a chance to stick their toes in the Atlantic for the first time.

alumninews ARIC COOKSLEY (speech communication, 2002) married Melody Schwarz on July 27. He is teaching speech at Walla Walla Community College and working as foreman of carpentry at WWC. He hopes to begin a masters program in communication in the near future.

plans to teach religion and language arts on the secondary level.

PETRA HERNANDEZ (mass communication, 2003) and ADAM LOMBARD (mass communication, 2003) were married May 31 and live in Spokane, Wash.

JEN ELLIS (mass communication, 2001) is a third-year law student at University of Idaho College of Law and will graduate with her juris doctorate in spring. She plans to return to Washington state to practice law.

BRADLEY NELSON (mass communication, 2001) is pursuing a master of arts in theater at Ohio University in Athens.

TRAVIS GIARDE (mass communication, 2002) is cash posting specialist for CarToys in Seattle.

CHELSEY HAM (mass communication, 2003) completed an editorial internship at Pacific Press in Nampa, Idaho and is teaching College Writing at WWC. LORIN KOCH (mass communication, 2002) is pursuing a master of arts in teaching at WWC with emphasis on instruction. He

ESS, assistant s, serves on the of Walla Walla. keting committee, m, and the playhe especially enjoys t provides to read year is Loveless’ board.

NANCY SEMOTIUK, associate professor of communications, recently published Communicating with your teen: Simple strategies for better talks on the Disney-owned website, Family Fun Online.

DEBORAH POSTLEWAIT (communication media, 1984) is president and lead consultant of VIVID Technology Solutions. She helps educators across the country to integrate technology into the curriculum.

LIESL FANDRICH (mass communication, 2003) and BRIAN VISTAUNET (mass communication, 2003) were married Oct. 19. Liesl is an onair personality with KTSY-FM in Nampa, Idaho.

AMY WOLFSEN (speech communication, 1997) completed her master of arts in speech at Washington State University and plans to enter a Ph.D. program at the University of Utah in communication education.

■ Future photojournalists sign up now!

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A new concentration in photojournalism will debut in fall of 2004. The photojournalism concentration gives students another option besides the journalism/public relations and media concentrations in the mass communication degree. A photojournalism minor is also available.

“For several years the Communications Department has surveyed incoming freshmen during College Days about career options,” says Pam Harris, department chair. “Photojournalism was often listed as number one.”

Photojournalism careers have expanded beyond print to web-based opportunities.

New technologies and expanding cable television options have created a larger venue for photojournalists’ work, according to Harris.

Nancy Semotiuk, associate professor of communications and director of the program says “This is really an exciting major for students. There is no other like it.

It’s a blend of both visual and print media.”

Students graduating with a photojournalism major will find annual starting salaries near the national average of $30,000, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

“You can have an exciting and challenging career and still make a living,” says David Bullock, professor of communications.

ADVENTIST CHURCH COMMUNICATION LEADER VISITS MEDIA ARTS CENTER

TREGG RUSTAD (mass communication, 2001) works with Coldwell Banker Previews in Beverly Hills, Calif.

DEBORAH SILVA, assistant professor of communications, is completing her doctoral dissertation proposal on group communication in organizations through a structuration perspective.

■ Rajmund Dabrowski, communication director for the Adventist world church, visited the WWC campus in mid-October. The visit was Dabrowski’s first to WWC, and during his visit he toured the department’s new media arts center. He also met with students and faculty to discuss issues facing the world church and his work as communication director. “Walla Walla College is clearly one of the leaders in Adventist communication education in both its facilities and its quality instructional staff,” Dabrowski said.

Rick Hallock, right, explains NewsKing software at a workshop in the WWC news editing lab.

newsroom

Rick Hallock, a 1980 WWC electrical engineering graduate and senior programmer at Comprompter in LaCrosse, Wis.

PROFESSIONAL SOFTWARE GIFT ENHANCES STUDENT LEARNING

former teacher, was interested

Walla College to personally

in helping an educational

install NewsKing and give

institution—particularly the one

orientation sessions.

from which Hallock, a valuable employee, had graduated. The

Of course, the offer was

When Jim Hannum walked

Hannum instructed video

Communications Department

accepted. Hallock traveled to

into the Comprompter booth

courses at WWC until his

gratefully accepted the gift and

WWC in September where he

at the National Association

retirement this past spring.

used the newsroom system for

installed the software and trained

of Broadcasters convention

The person he met in that

about ten years.

students and faculty in its use.

in the early ’90s, he was not

booth was Rick Hallock, a

expecting to change the face

1980 graduate of the WWC

Then last May, when the

NewsKing allows quick access

of video instruction at Walla

electrical engineering program.

Communications Department

to news story information from

Hallock approached Hannum

moved into a new television

a wide range of sources and

because he recognized the

studio, the news production

WWC badge he wore. The

team needed updated

two began talking, and Hallock

software compatible with

introduced Hannum to his

Windows. Remembering

boss, Ralph King, president of

King’s generosity, and having

Comprompter.

heard of NewsKing, one of

Walla College. But more than ten years later, it’s clear that is exactly what happened.

the two broadcast industry

integrates the sorting, viewing, editing, and organizing of newscasts. This software, with a market value of $15,000, makes writing and production of news programs easier.

“Because of this generous

Upon hearing of the beginnings

standards, Comprompter’s

of the WWC Communications

newly developed software

donation, WWC students

Department’s Valley News,

system, Hannum called him.

have the opportunity to use the

King offered to donate to

Once again, expressing his

same kind of high-end software

the department a newsroom

appreciation for Rick Hallock,

that they will find throughout

software system called Electronic

King donated the new software

the news industry,” says Pam

NewsRoom. King, also a

and flew Hallock to Walla

Harris, department chair.

WWC Communications Department OPEN HOUSE & MEDIA ARTS CENTER DEDICATION including ribbon-cutting on the new Loren Dickinson speech classroom facility and conference room

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