Shorthorn Reunion Newspaper Program

Saturday, April 2, 201192nd AnniversAry reunion92nd AnniversAry reunion

hy have a reunion to celebrate a 92nd anniversary? Because it’s time for a re-union. And because it’s The Shorthorn and UTA Student Publications.

We scheduled and rescheduled this re-union several times. There were always reasons not to have it. But the longer we waited, the more the reasons for hav-ing it made the reasons for not having it seem less decisive.

We need this reunion because there are a lot of people here who don’t know Dorothy Estes and John Dycus, as hard as that is for many of us to comprehend. They need to know Dorothy and John … and Dorothy and John need to know them.

People from “back in the day” need to meet the 21st century staffers, folks who are doing amazing things online and still doing amazing things in print, every day. Take time to talk to them. Also take time to meet the terrific professional staffers who day-in and day-out know that we have very big shoes to fill and who are grateful that day-in and day-out we can call on people in the Shorthorn Nation who will come running to provide any help we need..

And 21st century staffers: Look at the

folks from back in the day very carefully: They’re not gods. They worked hard just as you work hard. They had good days and great issues – just as you have good days and great issues. And they also had those days that, well, weren’t so great but sure make good stories. Talk to them.

We’re part of a history that is continu-ing. We’re here to celebrate its beginning, and where we’ve been, and where we are

now, and to keep the connection alive and strong for the future. We’re record-ing much of the reunion for our website, so people who are not here in person can also share the experience.

So welcome, enjoy, and thanks for being here to celebrate the 92nd anniversary of The Shorthorn,* which is still our favor-ite newspaper.

—Lloyd Goodman

* and Renegade, and Tempo, and Reveil-le, and Arlington Review, and Prism, and Junior Aggie, and all of the other won-derful publications that at some point were created and thrived in this place we call UTA Student Publications.

WBecause we want one, that’s why

Reunion Program StaffEditors: Elise Anthony, Beth FrancescoWriters: Elise Cooper Anthony, Mark Bauer, Lloyd Clark, Michael Currie, Lee Escobedo, Laurie Fox, Caren M. Penland, Karisa Brunken Rowland, Susan Attinson Stephens, Danny WoodwardProduction team: Marissa Hall, Lorraine Frajkor, Michael Currie, Amber TafoyaProofreader: J.C. Derrick

Saturday, April 2, 2011 92nd AnniversAry reunion

The ShoRThoRn Reunion92nd AnniversAry | University of texAs At Arlington | BlUeBonnet BAllroom

AND A SPECIAL THANKS TO ...

Welcome• Mike Knox, UT Arlington assistant vice

president for Student Affairs (Introduced by Dustin Dangli, Shorthorn editor in chief)

Dinner

Battle of The Shorthorn Know-It-AllsHand-to-hand combat for your minds. (Edit that, John Dycus.)

Different Decades and a Shared ExperienceReminiscences from Shorthorn Editors • Daphne Harkey Motheral-Jose,

Shorthorn editor 1944-1945• Phyllis Hargrave Forehand,

Shorthorn editor 1952-1953• Donna Darovich,

Shorthorn editor 1968-1970, 1971• Moderator, Danny Woodward,

Shorthorn editor 1997

Telling It Like It May Have Been (to the Best of Our Memories)Share the Tales You Told Over Dinner

A Roadmap for The Shorthorn Nation

A Few Words From John DycusJohn Dycus worked at The Shorthorn

while earning a degree in business at UTA in 1970. Students told Dorothy Estes that John was someone she needed to hire. She did. John was Shorthorn adviser until 1998 and writing coach after that.

A Few Words From Dorothy EstesDorothy Estes became Student Publications director in 1970 and took a good program and made it the great pro-gram it is today. More than one person has noted that Dorothy seemed to have the ability to will things to happen. She retired in 1996.

A Little Shorthorn Music and a Lot of Student Pubs ScenesRemember into the evening with accompaniment by Mike Daniel’s playlist with songs suggested by Shorthorn editors and images from our collective photo files. Sing along if you dare; dance if you will; howl if you must.

Phyllis Hargrove Fore-hand (from top left), Donna Darovich and Daphne Har-key Motheral-Jose.

Major Sponsor: UT Arlington Division of Student Affairs

General Sponsors: DFW PrintingCowcatcher Magazine / Tim BlackwellPaul Long and Cari HydenKen Roselle

DONORSThank you to these Student Publications alumni and friends who made additional donations for the reunion or Shorthorn scholarships: • Jocelyn and Sam Allgood • Elise Anthony • Bill Benge • Shu Berger • Brandon Blasingame • Theo Carricino • Andrew Cavazos • Gary Dowell • Darrell Dunn • Dorothy and Emory Estes • Phyllis Forehand • Lloyd Goodman • Awais Ikram • Suzanne Jary • Daniel Johnson • Richard Johnson • Joan Khalaf

• Kelli Levey • Brad and Adrienne Loper • Bruce Meyer • Daphe and Dwayne Motheral-Jose • Michael and Samantha Phillips • Chris Piper • Will and Amy Porubsky • Zabrina Ransom • Jerad and Anne Rector • James Russel and Peggy Villines • Donna and Kris Seago • Jeff and Bevin Shaw • Bill and Claydell Stone • Dana Suhas • Lynne and Timothy Swihart • Brandon Wade • Jon and Laura Weist

SILENT AUCTION DONORSThank you to these businesses and individuals who donated items for the silent auction: Birra Poretti’s • BoomerJack’s • Dick Collier • The Dallas Morning News • Lloyd Clark • Tom Fox • Tom Geddie • Michael Hicks • Johnny High’s Country Music Revue • Sandy Kurtzman • Craig Lancaster • Paula LaRocque • Clint Niosi • Patsy Quimby • Phil Vinson • Ray Wylie Hubbard • Sherlocks • Social Bakehouse Cafe • Wild Horse Customs / Claudia Perkins • Jeff Shaw • Whole Foods • Special

thanks to The Dallas Morning News, Director of Photography Leslie White, Photo Editor Brad Loper and these Morning News photographers for donating prints of their work: Michael Ainsworth • Vernon Bryant • Evans Caglage • Louis De Luca • Tom Fox • Brad Loper • G.J. McCarthy • Lara Solt

SCHOLARSHIP SUPPORTWe would also like to give a special thanks to people who have supported Shorthorn scholarships through donations prior to the reunion.

The People Who Made This Reunion Possible

REUNION PLANNING COMMITTEELloyd Goodman • Dorothy Estes • John Dycus • Elise Anthony • Donna Darovich • Joan Khalaf • Michael Vega • Danny Woodward • Beth Francesco • Amber Tafoya • G. Marc Benavidez

SILENT AUCTION COMMITTEEClaudia Perkins • Ashton Whitley • Donna Darovich • Janet Neff • Tammy Skrehart • Melissa Segerlind • Melissa Winn

Reunion PlaylistMike Daniel

Reunion WebsiteAdam Drew

RegistrationBrian Schopf

ADDITIONAL THANKSDr. Frank Lamas, UT Arlington vice president for Student Affairs • Anza Stewart • Ana Sanchez • Angie Vargas • Charlyn Webb, UT Arlington Development Office • Stephanie Thompson, UT Arlington Alumni Association • Bear Lunce, UT Arlington Operations • Leslie Rule, UT Arlington Dining Services • UT Arlington Library Archivist Claire Galloway • Brittney Joyce, UT Arlington New Student Welcome Center

Why have a reunion on our 92nd Anniversary? Because we’re UTA Student Pubs, and we don’t do things quite like anyone else.

Call it a night at 11 p.m.

It took a lot of people to make this reunion happen. “Thank you” to the following:

Division of Student Affairs

Saturday, April 2, 201192nd AnniversAry reunion

1919Grubbs Vocational College, part of what became the Texas A&M System

OUR HISTORY 1919-1922

April 1919First issue publishes as The Shorthorn, magazine format, 48 pages, 6x9 inches, under editor Nathaniel Killough, sponsor W.A. Ransom and faculty adviser Thomas E. Ferguson. It was the first continuous publication at GVC. Distributed by subscription $1.50 yearly, 25 cents for a single issue. One hundred percent of students and faculty subscribed after the first issue. The Shorthorn’s

1920-21Jewel Kingrea becomes the first female editor in chief.

Nov. 19, 1921 First first headline to go more than one column publishes: “Grubbs Wins Champion-Ship, Beating T.M.CDefeated! Must We Say That?No, Completed Routed!”

Feb 14, 1919First and only issue publishes as The Grubonian, the brainchild of students Nat Killough and Herman Brautigam. They then decided to turn it into something that was a “literary news magazine” and regrouped. Dean Williams donated $2.50 as a prize in a contest to select the publication’s name. In a campus vote, Shorthorn was selected.

BY DANNY WOODWARD

In the E.H. Hereford Uni-versity Center basement where UT Arlington’s venerable stu-dent daily is produced — a newsroom since 1994 but be-fore that a bar, two things that some may say really aren’t so different — there’s an of-fice festooned with beanbag chairs, stacks of yellowing newsprint, and a command-ing view of computers and cub reporters.

At various times, this office has been called, charmingly, the Fishbowl. That’s mostly because it’s dominated by glass windows. But it’s also because, like an aquarium in a doctor’s lobby, everybody watches what happens here. And what hap-pens here matters.

Here is where the editor in chief of The Shorthorn sits. And so, here is where univer-sity news is born or buried, where ideas incubate, where young journalists are trained and summoned for account-ability. Here is staged a jug-gling act of photos and copy and ads and headlines and bylines and deadlines.

In 92 years of publication, 135 individuals have served as Shorthorn editor in chief. I was No. 112, for one exigent semester, in fall 1997.

It’s a learning process, and what editors learn is this: Shorthorn editor in chief is si-multaneously the most intimi-dating and most exhilarat-ing job you can imagine. You balance college energy with journalistic integrity, Bluto Blutarsky with Ben Bradlee.

And whether you do it for one semester or for half your col-lege life, you emerge forever changed.

“It prepared me for the ‘big time’—whatever that is,” says spring 1991 editor Glen Go-lightly, whose big time is pro-ducing films in Los Angeles. “Being editor in chief of The Shorthorn means being ready to do anything: write, edit, fix ancient computer terminals, deal with physical or verbal

threats, pat someone on the back, or kick him in the butt.”

Walt Stallings, editor in spring 1976, was to the point (and on point) when he said, “Actually, working on the paper was the fun part.”

In the same way that the boat ride is the fun part of being lost at sea.

The patriarch and his newspaper

The Shorthorn’s first editor was a farm boy from Dallas named Nathaniel Killough. He was a member of the Wil-sonian Literary Society, an or-ganization focused on training cadets (UTA was a military academy in those days) in de-bate, and he started a publi-cation to promote the club. His journalism résumé was limited: He had paid his tu-ition by delivering the Dallas Dispatch.

Still, he and Herman Brau-tigam, who would succeed Killough at the editor’s desk, assembled 20 of their peers and produced The Grubon-ian in February 1919. Their

Original Shorthorn editors M.N. Killough, left, and Herman Brautigam

This article is included with the permission of UTArlington Magazine, where it was published in 2011.


1923 College becomes North Texas Agricultural College (until 1949), became known as “northaggieland”; officials began unsuccessful campaign to bet the Texas A&M System to expand the junior college to a four-year institution

1923-1930

1923 Junior Aggie yearbook debuts.

1923 College becomes North Texas Agricultural College (until 1949).

1924Miss Enid Eastland, also the college’s PR person and the Shorthorn sponsor for one year, teaches the first journalism class.

Spring 1924Bylines used for the first time.

1925Shorthorn

editorial and

business staff

publication printed only once, on two 8 1/2 x 11 pages, and was remade as The Shorthorn two months later. Killough couldn’t have imagined how his little flier would take off.

The Shorthorn has been on campus longer than any build-ing (Ransom Hall opened later in 1919). Among student organizations, only the ROTC is older. The paper is one of the few links shared by almost all alumni and nearly all in-carnations of the university. For decades it has been rated one of America’s top college papers, and it was a charter member of the College Media Hall of Fame.

Not surprisingly, it has produced editors in chief who have earned acclaim in and out of journalism. Take Matt Stiles, editor in summer and fall 1999. He has won presti-gious Katy and Houston Press Club awards, was the Houston Chronicle’s reporter of the year in 2007, and was a founding

staffer for the influential up-start The Texas Tribune.

Jon Weist (fall 1981, spring 1982) is vice president in charge of governmental rela-tions for the Arlington Cham-ber of Commerce. Lee Dunkel-berg (fall 1974) is an award-winning voice actor, writer, and producer of documen-taries and movies. Bob Dil-lard (spring 1975) is a former county judge and publisher of the Jeff Davis Mountain Dis-patch, a weekly serving Texas’ Big Bend area.

Stallings is senior deputy managing editor for The Dal-las Morning News, placing him third in command in the newsroom at one of Amer-ica’s largest newspapers. He says that serving as Shorthorn editor meant you knew what you would encounter if you pursued a newspaper career. “The hands-on learning was invaluable, as was the great at-tention to the craft of journal-ism taught at UT Arlington by

teachers and advisers.”Some education comes

from the classroom. Some things take a newsroom. In the summer and fall of 1996, The Shorthorn editor was April Flanary Palmer, a ball of fire from Grand Prairie. Today she’s a defense attorney in the Texas Panhandle. She credits her time editing The Short-horn for, well, everything.

“It’s pretty simple,” she says. “If not for The Shorthorn, I would not have gone to law school. People think I’m crazy when I say that, because it seems I’ve drifted completely away from journalism. What I learned in the newsroom made me who I am as a woman, a mom, a wife, a friend, a busi-ness owner, an attorney, and a professional.

“I learned to handle the bullies; see through the crap; face down the fear of being the only person in the room who disagrees, strongly, with the system; and be proud that I am standing alone for the guilty. Everything I do today, I am able to do with a little more confidence because of The Shorthorn.”

‘The hardest calls’One pivotal story — usu-

ally accompanied by a thorny decision — seems to define the

tenure of almost every editor. In 1977 Phil Latham was

caught in the middle of a public feud between a frater-nity and a group of student-athletes. Other controversial stories have included Student Congress debates to legalize marijuana and provide on-campus abortions, the resig-nation of a university presi-dent, and the dropping of football.

“The hardest calls and most difficult stories were the sto-ries and editorials that might have played a peripheral part in ending the university’s foot-ball program,” says Theo Car-

1925Page 2 of The

Shorthorn

April 1930The Shorthorn nameplate

UTA Magazine

Walt Stallings, Short horn edi tor in chief in spring 1976, is now senior deputy man ag ing edi tor for The Dal las Morn ing News.

“I collected a lot of titles in a working life that has somehow navigated strange waters in 54 jobs, but no title ever meant more to me or made more of a difference than that of Shorthorn editor in chief,”

Theo Carracinoeditor in spring 1985



Duncan Robinson becomes

Shorthorn adviser.

racino, editor in spring 1985.(Some things never change:

“As I’m sure a lot of editors have discovered, the football thing gets stirred up once every few years,” says Jessi-ca Freeman, editor 20 years later.)

Sometimes the editor in chief ’s biggest challenge isn’t what to do with a bombshell story. It’s what to do with a staff of college students fo-cused on parties, late-night taco runs, and anything be-sides putting out a newspaper.

“We paid peanuts,” recalls Linda Ponce Campbell, edi-tor in spring 1978 and now an award-winning editorial writer for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, “but you still ex-pected people to meet dead-lines and not disappear or just sit around. The first time I had to fire someone, I learned I was not cut out for manage-ment. I could never be that George Clooney character who fired other people’s employees for a living.”

Firing an employee — a friend who was your equal a semester ago — is never easy, especially when you’re rely-ing on a shoestring group of stringers.

“It always seemed like we were short-staffed,” says Reese Dunklin, who was editor in fall 1995 and is now an in-vestigative reporter for The

Dallas Morning News. “We worked long hours because of that. But when we would break an important story or receive positive feedback from readers, our endurance was replenished, and the momen-tum continued.

“After a week or semester might end, we could look back with pride at what we did. The same holds true all these years later.”

‘I understand where you’re coming from.’

Shorthorn editors graduate into all sorts of gigs. Some find UTA a great fit. Donna Darov-ich, editor in 1968-1970 and

1971, became the university’s chief spokeswoman for 23 years. Heather Clampitt Levy and Trá Clough both were edi-tor in chief in the mid-1990s and returned as faculty in the English Department. I’ve worked in the President’s Of-fice here since 2004.

Darrell Dunn and Jason Wills aren’t on campus, but their impact is. Dunn (spring 1980, spring 1981) works for Academic Partnerships, a com-pany that helps the university develop and deliver distance education courses. Wills (fall 1992) is senior vice president for on-campus development at American Campus Communi-ties, an Austin-based company

that has proposed building a residential complex adjacent to the campus.

Then there’s Beth Fran-cesco. She was editor in sum-mer and fall 2002 and spring 2003. Soon after, she became one of the Corpus Christi Call-er-Times’ youngest city edi-tors. In 2008, she returned to The Shorthorn as newsroom adviser.

Which makes her a former editor charged with training the current one.

“Being editor in chief can be intimidating, hard work, and it’s thankless at a lot of points,” she says. “It means the world to me to help — both hands on and hands off — someone who wants to be a leader. My job is to make sure the staff, any staffer, has the tools he or she needs to be as good as he or she wants to be. I don’t think my career would have prepared me for this role had I not had the experiences I did as editor in chief.”

Mark Bauer, editor for all three semesters of 2010, says having someone who has been there, done that was an asset.

Francesco’s pride in the paper was evident, he says, and she expected the staff to keep the standards The Shorthorn is known for. “At the same time, having been a Shorthorn editor, she un-derstood the time restraints

1938Top half of front page

of The Shorthorn

UTA Magazine

Linda Ponce Campbell, 1978 Shorthorn editor, and Mark Bauer, 2010 Short-horn editor

1938 Format changes from six to seven columns, with inside pages numbers used for the first time. Lead paragraphs on major stories are set at two-column, 10-point type. Datelines and international stories are used for the first time, as World War II approaches.

1940 Seven-column front page


1941-19461941-42First student business manager, Dave Naugle, is hired.

student editors were under. That background allowed her to speak with authority when she would say, ‘I understand where you’re coming from.’ ”

Francesco has no say in ap-pointing the editor (that re-sponsibility goes to a commit-tee that considers staff mem-bers’ comments, among other things). She does, however, nurture the editor, and that’s a role she relishes.

“Once they are named ed-itor, they realize they don’t know everything, and it can be nerve-racking — like the first day they came to work at The Shorthorn,” she says. “It’s an incredible feeling to get to re-mind the editors in chief that they were selected on their merit and to train them to get them comfortable with the new role. Then you get out of the way.”

‘No title ever meant more’

Like many UTA students, Shorthorn editors in chief often come from humble be-ginnings to achieve great suc-cesses. That’s thanks, in part, to the education they receive while working on the paper and studying in the classroom.

“UT Arlington may not be as readily known as the pow-erhouse journalism programs

at the University of Missouri, Northwestern University, and the University of Califor-nia, Berkeley,” says The Dal-las Morning News’ Dunklin, a recipient of the prestigious Livingston Award recognizing outstanding young journalists. “But those programs also don’t guarantee that any student can learn better reporting and writing skills than those UT Arlington and The Shorthorn can teach its staff. I put our alumni up against the other leading journalism programs any day.”

And it’s many of these alums who will redefine journalism in 2011 and beyond. In fact, they’ve been doing it all along. The Shorthorn was among the first collegiate newspapers to go online, doing so in 1997. The Shorthorn was also ahead of other college papers (and some professional outfits) in pagination and digital pho-tography.

What’s next for The Short-horn and journalism in gener-al is a great unknown. But one thing’s certain, says The Dallas Morning News’ Stallings: “It’s

changing radically. But the ba-sics of reporting and editing are still the foundation for ev-erything. So the commitment to journalistic principles and public service needs to remain as strong as ever. Innovation and a broad range of skills will be required for anyone pursu-ing journalism going forward.”

In other words, at the end of the day, “credible journal-ism still matters.”

And so do credible journal-ists.

“People need good, accu-rate information to live their lives,” says Campbell, the Star-Telegram columnist. “You need to find ways to provide substance and credibility, not irrelevance. The future of the profession is yours to shape. Have fun.”

Fun’s never been a prob-lem. Ask any of us. Even on those days in the Fishbowl (in its numerous configurations, as The Shorthorn offices have moved six times) when exhila-rating is no match for intimi-dating.

“I collected a lot of titles in a working life that has some-how navigated strange waters in 54 jobs, but no title ever meant more to me or made more of a difference than that of Shorthorn editor in chief,” says Carracino, ‘85. “I can’t possibly be alone in that senti-ment.”

UTA Magazine

Now The Short horn’s news room adviser, for mer edi tor Beth Francesco, left, helps mold senior Sarah Lutz and other news pa per staffers into suc cess ful journalists.

1941Shorthorn undergoes its first makeover on deadline, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

1942The Shorthorn faces its first financial downturn caused by technology: many ads left for radio

1942• Ned Riddle is editor.• Shorthorn suffers

staffing difficulties, especially keeping

male staffers, because of World

War II.

1943Reactions to financial problems and resource shortages because of the war: seven-column format is cut to five, body type reduced from 10 to 8 point, film and flashbulbs become scarce.

Fall 1946The Shorthorn returns to six 15-pica columns; Arlington Journal loses its printing bid to Arlington Citizen; Citizen makeup influences Shorthorn appearance.

1946Junior Aggie yearbook staff


OUR HISTORY 1947-1950May 1948Under editor Robert Wright, The Shorthorn suggests the school needed a new name over the objections of adviser Duncan Robinson.

1948A&M Regents pass resolution asking the Legislature to change the name.

1949 • College becomes Arlington

State College.• The Shorthorn joins Texas

Intercollegiate Press Association, named best junior college newspaper in the state

1950 TIPA judges comment that The Shorthorn has too much flair and deny it an award.

1949 Yearbook renamed in student election, Reveille, resurrecting the name that had been used for a short-lived newspaper at Carlisle Military Academy, one of UTA’s predecessors (second choice: keep Junior Aggie)

The last Junior Aggie

Ryan Amacher was a big deal. So was the Confederate flag, the first Gulf War, condom machines, a string of student suicides and Maverick football. Former editors have recalled, via Facebook posts, the stories were a blockbuster stories during their tenure:

The Biggest News Stories of Our Time

Shorthorn staff had the challenge of uncovering and reporting frivolous spending — dedicating money into a less-than-hopeful athletic department and to extravagant parties — all at the hands of former university president Ryan Amacher. Reese Dunklin remembers the Ryan Amacher debacle: In a nutshell, Shorthorn staffers reported on the overspending, which led to a UT System audit and campus protest. Amacher, after three years in the presidency, resigned in 1995, and Provost Dalmas Taylor was forced out. Amacher still teaches economics at UTA.

Joan Khalaf said her biggest challenge was “a cross between the guy who started a football club, marched the campus and potentially stole money from the actual club” in 2007, and a fraternity that was investigated for an unknown hazing act in 2010. Khalaf said she first uncovered the story in casual conversation with anonymous sources.

Glen Golightly said that during his tenure in 1991, the big stories were the first Gulf War, the new condom machines in the dorms, and the Hooters girls making an appearance at home basketball games. Another big deal, he said, was the Progressive Student Union’s lobbying to open an abortion clinic on campus.

Bringing back Maverick football was the big scoop while Jessica Freeman helmed The Shorthorn. She said that during UTA President James Spaniolo’s first year, he conducted a feasibility study to reinstate a football team. Other presidents have tried the same and failed.

Pam Humphrey recalls the story that had her in hot water during the 1980s was an editorial by a staff writer on unilateral nuclear disarmament — the editorial did not go over well with the UTA administration.

Phil Latham remembers in the mid-1970s how Dorothy Estes and John Dycus came to the rescue after a story turned bad – probably not their first time, nor their last “save.”

Heather Clampitt Levy’s challenge in 1997 was an editorial on the Greek system’s block voting for student governance elections. She recalls that during that time, staffers were involved in an SPJ event. Heather said it turned into a standing-room-only event filled with angry people, but to this day, she believes she made the right decision to publish the editorial.

Ending UTA’s association with the Confederate flag and subsequent rebel theme were the big stories during Bruce Meyer and Donna Darovich’s tenures leading The Shorthorn in the late ‘60s, early ‘70s. Bruce said his approach was tentative but looking back, he said he wished he had been forceful. “I was pushing in the right direction.”

For Anthony Williams in 2007, a string of student deaths and suicides was his challenge while in charge of the paper.

Compiled by Susan Attinson Stephens


1951-1954

1953 The Shorthorn leaves TIPA and joins the newly formed Texas Junior College Press Association.

1951 Legislature outlaws compulsory student activity fees and made them voluntary. The Shorthorn was unprepared for the loss of $1 per student it received.

September 1951 Assembly of Sophomores chooses Rebels over Cadets as the new name. The Shorthorn didn’t weigh in.

1953 Duncan Robinson turns over adviser role to Billy Boyles.



This article is included with the permission of UTA

Magazine, where it was published in 2005.

As I hitched my saber onto my Sam Browne belt, prepar-ing to join the military for-mation on the street in front of Davis Hall (now Brazos residence hall), a fellow cadet exclaimed: “Pearl Harbor has been bombed. I heard it on the radio!”

The date was Dec. 7, 1941. The North Texas Agricultural College (now UTA) cadet corps was to parade that Sunday, honoring a World War I vet-eran who was to be presented, belatedly, a Purple Heart for injuries received in 1918.

William S. Rosamond of Burleson had been wounded in the Chateau-Thierry sector of France. His son, cadet Capt.

Paul H. Rosamond, was to pin the medal on his father’s lapel. Thirty-three months later, Army Lt. Paul H. Rosamond would be awarded a Purple Heart himself for wounds sus-tained while commanding an 81mm mortar platoon in—as fate determined—the Chateau-Thierry area.

In the reviewing stand for the parade was recently com-missioned Army Lt. Forrest Ulm, sitting next to Associate Dean George L. Dickey. Ulm had been a cadet major in the corps during the 1939-41 school year. (Within three years, 1st Lt. Ulm would be buried on an island in the Southwest Pacific

theater of the war.)Those of us parading ob-

served spectators collecting in two groups. As we came off the field, we learned that they were clustering around an individ-ual with a portable radio and beside a parked car equipped with a radio. The news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Har-

Documenting history in the making

Lloyd Clark, 1941 editor. He holds the front page that was remade after Pearl Harbor was bombed.

How The Shorthorn

reacted to the attack on Pearl

Harbor

Spring 1956 First letter to the editor publishes: A veteran asks why ASC students aren’t interested in campus doings.

1956Football team wins Junior Rose Bowl,

which serves as an emotional lead-in

to the campaign for senior college status.

Fall 1956Shorthorn relocates from the top floor of Ransom Hall to an old house on West Third Street.

Spring 1955 Switches from weekly to monthly publication for financial reasons. Printing cost: $130 per issue

Fall 1955 Paul Blakney becomes adviser, English instructor and public relations professional. He is credited with The Shorthorn’s professional appearance during the 1950s and 1960s. Blakney died in his office in Carlisle Hall in 1974.

Fall 1955National ads – Lucky Strike and Viceroy cigarettes — debut in The Shorthorn.


bor in Hawaii was spreading. As editor of The Shorthorn,

I had made the p. 1 dummy Saturday and had written in advance the account of the pa-rade and award as it was ex-pected to be performed. But certainly an event of the mag-nitude of the Japanese attack should be noted in the edi-tion to be published Tuesday. I called managing editor Vio-let Bean and asked her to get comments from individuals on campus first thing Monday morning.

A photo had been made at the beginning of the Sunday parade showing Lt. Ulm with Dean Dickey. It was sent to the engraver in Fort Worth via bus Sunday afternoon. The cut (wood-mounted engraving) was due back at the Arlington bus depot Monday afternoon.

I retyped the parade story, noting that while the cadet corps was honoring a World War I veteran, World War II was beginning.

When the editorial staff gathered at the printing plant Monday to “make up” the four pages, we were keenly aware that The Shorthorn was re-cording a momentous episode that likely would impact our lives in ways we never antici-pated.

The photoengraving was picked up at the bus station,

and we had page proofs ready for Professor Duncan Robin-son to see around 6:30 p.m. Mr. Robinson was The Short-horn faculty adviser and our journal-ism instructor.

Before we went home the night of Dec. 8, the Tuesday edi-tion had been put to bed in the plant of The Arling-ton Journal on East Abram Street. Mr. Robinson took leave of us, saying, “Well done” on compiling a timely account of history in the making.

Despite the apprehen-sion I felt in our country being at war, I believe I slept soundly that night with the knowledge that The Shorthorn was one of the first college weeklies to publish a story on World War II.

— Lloyd Clark (editor 1941-42)

Lloyd Clark now lives in Surprise, Arizona. A scholar-ship in his name is awarded

by the UTA Communication Department. He is featured on

the program cover

1957-1959

Feb. 17, 1959 Paul Blakney’s hand-tooled, serifed nameplate is first first used.

Fall 1957Ben Cook, the editor the previous year, returns as its sponsor. Lindsey resigned. Harry Cabluck, later a legendary AP photographer, joins the staff.

December 1957The Shorthorn had long supported four-year status for the college, including calling for a demonstration on April 10, 1957. Seventy-five students participated. The problem: By the time the next issue was published (April 16), this would be old news. A second event was planned, which included burning someone in effigy. No one showed. The photo on the front page of the April 16 issue showed someone holding the effigy. Copies of that issue were confiscated by the dean of men and ordered replaced by President E.H. Hereford. Staff were reprimanded for staging the second demonstration for photographic purposes and reporting that “a torch-bearing flock of students flowed out of dormitories.”

April 28, 1959 • Headline: “MADE IT AT

LAST.” ASC had become a four-year college.

• First editor as senior college status: Judy Walker

Spring 1957Southwest Printing Company wins printing bid over Arlington Citizen; eight-column format is introduced.

1959 Shorthorn photography staff, Guy Ham, left, and Louis Hudson



BY LEE ESCOBEDO

It’s Thursday night at J.R. Bentley’s, and news editor Mon-ica Nagy walks from the jukebox with a sly smile. “Here we go,” she calls.

A voice moans through speak-ers as the table of Shorthorn staff-ers closes its eyes, heads bobbing. “Turn up the lights in here baby/Extra bright, I want y’all to see this,” the singer instructs.

Turning up the lights is prob-ably the last thing this Short-horn crew wants to do, especially after settling in after a long week of chasing sources, arguing for front-page placement and post-ing breaking news online. But this is the theme song for staffers who make Thursday nights at the pub a weekly tradition.

Reporter Vidwan Raghavan waves his arms, dodging half-filled glasses while explaining-how he has tackled his new beat.

“I just met with the head peo-ple of the department to let them

know who I am,” he said. “That way, when they see my face, they don’t think, ‘Uh-oh, who’s this Indian guy trying to talk to me?’ ”

Gathering with friends over a pint and food has been a Short-

horn tradition for decades. In fact, past Shorthorn and UTA students have downed beers in the very space that the newsroom now resides. The Dry Gulch, which closed in 1993, was an on-

campus bar located in what now houses The Shorthorn.

John Ostdick was editor in chief in the spring of 1979 and called The Dry Gulch home after late nights on deadline.

“It was convenient and, like most college kids, we didn’t have any money and they had spe-cials,” Ostdick said. “We would go down there and do stupid things to try to impress each other with our intellectual capabilities.”

Many a Shorthorn staffer had an eventful night after too many drink, he said.

“It was a place where peo-ple would end up embarrassing themselves after getting a little too tipsy,” he said. “Some people would break up with their boy-friend or girlfriend in front of the whole staff. It’s one of those places where you learned more than you wanted to know, or should know, about each other.”

Pam Humphrey was news ed-itor on and off in the late 1980s. Married with small children dur-

Work hard, play harderEvery staff has its traditions.

Talking shop after hours is just one of them.

Seth and Susan Schrock (from left), Matt Fisher, Michael Currie and Daniel Lam enjoy a night at J. Gilligan’s in the early 2000s.

Fall 1962 Integration issues take top story: ASC becomes the first campus in the A&M System to integrate, occurred without fanfare.

Fall 1960 Shorthorn takes its first shots at student government.

Early 1960s Annual special section to recruit high school graduates is discontinued because of staff resentment.

Fall 1961 • Shorthorn rejoins

TIPA and wins third-place overall.

• Arlington Review literary magazine debuts.

1962Shorthorn staff


ing her time at The Shorthorn, she remembers The Dry Gulch as the place where, “she became a woman.”

“On Fridays, we would always go to The Dry Gulch and we would kill off several pitchers of beer,” she said. “There was a big joke going around that I won the “Kids are All Right Award.” Every time someone would ask about my kids, I would say, ‘Oh, the kids are all right.’ ”

As years pass, staffs change. So do the bars and restaurants where they hang out. But even when you leave the shop, the talk doesn’t stop.

“We would go there and talk, or rather gripe, about deadlines,” said former editor and writer Danny Woodward. “Which I’m sure is still happening today.”

In the late ’50s, former re-porter and sports editor Phil Vinson said the establishment of choice was at Cooper Street and Park Row Drive.

“There was a place on West Division called The Blue Lounge,” he said. “It attracted a lot of stu-dents, particularly The Shorthorn staff. It was quite a dive, an old, kind of beat up place. What I re-member about it was there were parts of the floor that didn’t have any flooring. It was just dirt.”

Bill Benge worked with Vin-son and said because of the lim-ited number of bars in the area, Shorthorn staffers during that era improvised.

“We would buy a pint and go out to what was then the brand new Shores of Lake Arlington,” he said. “We didn’t talk about work, just girls. It was very much a mixed group.”

Then, The Shorthorn’s office and Journalism Department were located in a renovated house on Third Street. Next door, in another renovated house, a makeshift diner popped up, called The Sugar Bowl. As Benge

tells it, the Sugar Bowl “was a greasy spoon with terrible cof-fee.” Lou Hudson worked at The Shorthorn at the same time and Benge said Hudson had a few hilarious tales to tell.

During a closing party at Sugar Bowl’s, he said via e-mail, one reporter got waxed before trying to get some work done. “He went back to the S-T office and banged out a great story, on a manual, of course, minus any

punctuation,” Hudson said via email. “Great read, though.”

Fast-forward half a cen-tury, and the sentiment hasn’t changed. After a long night of hangouts, talking shop and pumping too many dollar bills (yes, it’s a dollar a song now) into the jukebox at Bentley’s, the group of 10 staffers files out. “The night’s still young my friend,” managing editor Vinod Srinivasan says.

The Dry Gulch, now home to The Shorthorn office, was the site of many staff meetings. Here, John Ostdick and company hold a Halloween staff meeting at the campus bar in 1979.

1964-1965

1965 ASC becomes part of UT System. Shorthorn headline: Senate Okays Divorce / Rally, party slated by campus groups

Fall 1965 Ernie Leister is hired to assist Blakney with advising duties, especially yearbook and photo.

April 9, 1965 Shorthorn editorial is one of the first voices questioning the Rebel-Old South theme. This was included in a story about the name change and switch from the A&M to the UT System: “Some members of the campus community think ASC should break even more ties with the past, changing the school spirit theme from the Rebels-Dixie motif.” Shorthorn editorial says the time was right to change the “old, outmoded, needless them.”

1964 Tensions build between ASC and the A&M System about whether ASC needs were secondary to the needs of the College Station campus, full-scale controversy developed on campus, Shorthorn took no stand but thoroughly covered the controversy, including a 2,500-student rally.



March 13. 1967The name change becomes official; the college is part of the UT System and named University of Texas at Arlington. Shorthorn editorial declares this was probably the first divorce in history where everybody concerned lived happily ever after.

April 1966Old South Week is instituted; Shorthorn printed a Confederate flag in a special edition. Old South Week lasted one year.

1967 Cover of the Reveille

Spring 1968The Shorthorn, under editor Bruce Meyer, came out in favor of changing the Rebel theme.

Lasting relationshipsFirst came The Shorthorn,

then came marriage for these couples

BY LAURIE FOXYou never really know how it’s going to

work out in the real world past the college newsroom.

Will that appealing Shorthorn co-worker whose energy that you found so endearing become a great catch in the long run? Or was it just the deadline buzz and the drinks at J.R. Bentley’s?

There was just something about work-ing on The Shorthorn, elbow to elbow with some of the brightest, wittiest and hard-working people that we’ll ever meet.

So it’s not so surprising that some of those friendships turned into relationships. That many of those relationships, like mine, turned into marriages could be a little more unusual.

My husband, Tom, and I are keenly aware of our time at The Shorthorn as we celebrate 20 years together this month. We have photos scattered throughout our home from our 1997 wedding but also from those early dating years that were filled with such excitement and passionate journalism.

We want to remember those pieces of ourselves.

Those of us married to fellow Shorthorn staffers say that common history is one of the many ties that bind us together.

I’m also particularly fortunate that sev-

eral of best friends today are couples who met at the Shorthorn and married. Not only do we share many of the same memories, we all know there can be perks to sharing the same news space and Shorthorn history as our spouses.

Danny Woodward and his wife, Monica, credit the newspaper for bringing them together.

“We were just talking the other day about how it’s been 14 years this summer since we met at The Shorthorn,” Woodward said.

“She was an aspiring young writer. I was a young editor aspiring to get her attention.”

So in what ways is The Shorthorn woven into the fabric of all of our lives and mar-riages?

Several Shorthorn couples, including Tom and me, Brad and Adrienne Loper and the Woodwards, contributed their thoughts to the following list:

Laurie Fox is an Arlington-based free-lance writer.

Tom and Laurie Fox with their daughter Avery.


1968-1969Fall 1968Journalism instructor Roy Moses becomes Shorthorn adviser as Blakney phases himself out of the role.

Spring 1968The Shorthorn, under editor Bruce Meyer, came out in favor of changing the Rebel theme.

April 1968Student Congress voted out the Rebel theme, prompting demonstrations in from of the student center and the Shorthorn editorial: Let students vote on it.

November 1968Student Congress calls for referendum on Rebels or one of 36 alternatives. Shorthorn editor Donna Darovich and Student Congress president Jeff Hensley each wrote viewpoints for page 1. Also on the page: a story about Miss Dixie Belle and a Confederate flag overlay -- it was Homecoming. The flag overlay was attacked. Student Publications Committee met in emergency session. Special issue published containing the same two columns, additional letters that hadn’t been published because of space and a Young Democrats anti-theme resolution.

Spring 1969• Referendum: Rebels-Dixie theme won by 4-1 margin• Controversy continued. Editorial publishes on “two kinds of

protestors: those who fight for a cause and those who cause a fight.”• Students for a Democratic Society tried to organize on campus, failed.• Hensley resigned as SC president, with no Shorthorn comment.

First came The Shorthorn, then came mar-riage for these coupled exes:

• Sam and Jocelyn Allgood• Dennis and Lisa Mule Black • Paul Long and Cari Hyden• Danny and Monica Garcia Woodward• Brian and Kobbi Risser Blair • Tony and Amy Conn Gutierrez• Darrell and Michele Hopkins Byers• Tom and Laurie Fox• Del and Mary Hardee Pulliam• Reese and Mary Opolski Dunklin • Mike and Kathleen Chittenden Tucker• Robert and Mary Ann Hart• Miles and Mary Lynn Bryant• Nabeel and Jerusha Edwards Jaitapker • Brad and Adrienne Loper• Paul and Chris Nguyen Zoeller • Bob and Laurie Winters Trimble • CJ and Elizabeth Patton• Will and Amy Porubsky• Brooks and Leighanne Whittington• Steve and Susan Scott Wilson • Gary and Nancy Taylor Newsom • Phil and Norma Latham • Jeff & Bevin Hoskins Shaw• Seth & Susan Mooring Schrock• Kevin and Renee Gatons Fujii

• Sanjeev Datta met his future wife while cover-ing an assignment for The Shorthorn (she did not work here)

• And, one in the works: Newsroom adviser Beth Francesco (former EIC) and Michael Currie will tie the knot May 27, 2011.

Reese and Mary Opolski Dunklin

Dennis and Lisa Mule Black

Are we missing

you? Let us know, and we’ll add

you to the Ex-Files.

“Top Ten Reasons to Marry a Fellow Shorthorn Staffer”

1. We speak (and understand) cynical newspeak.

2. Those amazing Wall Street salaries.

3. We’re both insatiably curious and consider the potential story in everything.

4. We both think J. Gilligan’s Irish Nachos can make the perfect Thanksgiving dinner.

5. We both understand that “Half Irish” and “Best Chest” aren’t pick-up lines.

6. You spend all of your time there - you might as well get hitched to someone you’re with every day.

7. We redline our love notes to each other.

8. Some couples met in a bar or a bistro. We met at the copy desk.

9. Good writing still matters deeply to us.

10. We get to spend a romantic Saturday night at The Short-horn Reunion.

There are many more positives we could add to this list. I’m sure we could come up with a few downsides as well. One-half of a Shorthorn couple jokingly suggested that we should compile a “Top Ten reasons NOT to marry a fellow Shorthorn staffer.”

But, mostly, we are a testament to the fact that relationships that start in college journal-ism can stand the test of time.


BY MARK BAUER

Brad Loper sat atop the Hyatt hotel overlooking Dal-las with some friends when he pointed out The Dallas Morn-ing News building and made a prediction: By the time he was 30, he’d be working there. Or, at least, for a paper like it.

A little more than a decade later in 2005, Loper sat atop a parking garage – this time in New Orleans while cover-ing the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. His predic-tion had come true. In 2001, a month and a half prior to his 30th birthday, the former Shorthorner (’93) was hired on to The Dallas Morning News’ photojournalism staff.

What Loper couldn’t predict was the Pulitzer he and The Dallas Morning News photo staff would win “for [the] vivid photographs depicting the chaos and pain after Hurricane Katrina engulfed New Orleans.”

***

Michael Ainsworth, a 1990 UTA and Shorthorn grad, ar-rived in New Orleans before the storm hit and grabbed one of the last SUVs available at the airport.

Ainsworth wasn’t new to hurricane coverage. Nicknamed “Hurricane Boy” by his col-leagues, he had covered more than two dozen throughout his career. Camping out and wait-ing for a storm to strike New Orleans wasn’t foreign to him, either. Storms had threatened the Louisiana coastline before, and Ainsworth would lie in wait – but none had struck.

“I’ve been there so many times and didn’t know what to expect,” Ainsworth said. “In terms of how hurricanes go, it wasn’t really that bad.”

Ainsworth recalled hear-ing that the levees had been breached, but he wouldn’t know what that meant until morning.

***Unlike Ainsworth, Loper’s

original excursion to New

Orleans was unexpected and lasted fewer than 20 hours. He boarded a chartered jet to Hattiesburg, Miss., with the clothes on his back and a couple of cameras in tow, and then hopped on a New Orleans-bound helicopter to airlift pa-tients from Memorial Medical Center. He began shooting the moment he stepped onto the helipad, and within an hour and 15 minutes all the patients

had been evacuated. “For me, the whole situation

was over as it was unfolding in front of me,” Loper said about how little time he had to assess and process what was going on.

***A few days into the rescue ef-

forts, buses lined up outside the Superdome to transport evac-uees to Houston. Ainsworth noticed people weren’t paying much attention to what was

Exes share Pulitzer honorsThree alumni, now at The Dallas Morning

News, honored for hurricane coverage.


1971• Shorthorn office moves to

basement of the student center.

• Mavericks nickname is adopted for UTA.

1970Dorothy Estes is hired as Student Publications director; John Dycus graduates and continues working in Student Publications.

1971Editor Don Sloan

1970John

Dycus

From left, Brad Loper, Tom Fox and Michael Ainsworth speak to Shorthorn staffers during an end of semester party.

March 21, 1969Black students give a list of demands to administrators. Shorthorn replies by reprinting Star-Telegram editorial: why must our youth be such hell-raisers? Students try to remove Confederate motif pictures from the student center, deface a painting of a Confederate soldier and steal undistributed copies of The Shorthorn. Shorthorn editorial on April 18 berates the unapprehended students: We’ve had enough.


happening on the other side of the building, so he investigated.

“I got to the main tunnel part where people had been waiting a day. People were going to the restroom where they were.

It was one of the most cha-otic scenes I’ve ever seen in my life,” he said.

Ainsworth continued shoot-ing for 20 minutes until he noticed the line wasn’t moving; but he had what he needed.

***On the seventh day, Tom

Fox, another former Shorthorn-er and UTA graduate (’91), re-lieved Ainsworth of his duties. The two met at an overcrowded restaurant in Baton Rouge, where Ainsworth threw down a map to show Fox the places he’d already covered.

The next day, Sept. 5, Fox found himself driving through a neighborhood when he smelled petroleum. The black silt that covered the water was crude oil that had leaked from a nearby tank. Fox tried to get people in the photos, but nobody was around. When he returned Sept. 6, Fox snapped a photo of a dog covered in oil. The image made its rounds on the Internet and spurred an outcry to save the animals in the region. Hate mail started pouring in when people learned Fox didn’t save the dog. He thought he saw the animal again, but he isn’t sure

what became of it.Later, Fox accompanied sol-

diers with the Texas National Guard as they patrolled some neighborhoods west of down-town at dawn. Fox recalls hear-ing gunshots throughout the night, and the photo he took of the soldier – armed with gear and an assault rifle – expressed the kind of fear and uncertainty people experienced throughout the ordeal.

***When Pulitzer nomina-

tions came around, Ainsworth and others knew the staff was a frontrunner – if anything, because of the subject matter. But that didn’t prevent people from feeling surprised when the

award was announced, particu-larly because they didn’t know whose photos were included in the entry.

“When they announced it, it didn’t quite hit,” Ainsworth said. “In some ways, it still doesn’t quite hit.”

When he was in New Or-leans, Ainsworth said he didn’t realize the photos were any-thing special until he sent them back to the office. Really, he was just doing his job.

Ainsworth explained, in a story The Shorthorn ran about the trio’s recognition in the 2006 recognition, that know-ing Loper and Fox from work-ing at The Shorthorn together strengthened their work. Their

friendship he built with his co-workers during his time at the university was critical to the success of the coverage, he said.

“We would push each other. We would learn from each other,” Ainsworth said in 2006. “It was kind of like my college fraternity. That’s what made UTA so special.”

Post-award politics tam-pered some of the excitement, as did the nature of the tragedy. Although it was a staff award, those who didn’t have a photo in the entries found it hard to see it that way. “It’s hard to re-joice in that kind of situation,” said Loper.

Although eight were hon-ored – including Ainsworth, Loper and Fox – all three men emphasized the “staff ” in “staff Pulitzer.”

“It’s a team effort, it’s a team Pulitzer,” Fox said. “Regardless of who had a photo in it.”

SCHOLARSHIP RENAMEDOur Ex-Files are ripe with award-winning reporters, designers, photographers and communicators. In honor of the first and only Shorthorn-exes to win Pulitzers, Student Publications renamed the Arlington Morning News Scholarship for photography to the Pulitzer Club Scholarship in 2009.

The Dallas Morning News: Tom Fox

Tom Fox’s dramatic image, taken during a Texas National Guard patrol.

1972-1974

1973 • Last issue of

the Review published.

• Office is relocated to Preston Hall.

1974Office is relocated to the old Financial Aid Building south of Ransom Hall.

1972 Publication frequency is increased two twice a week, and students begin dabbling in electronic typesetting.

1974Claudia Perkins, Laura Allen and John Dycus


BY KARISA BRUNKEN ROWLAND

The smell of silver nitrate, newspaper ink and musky old newspapers from the morgue (the place where old newspapers used to be archived) once invoked in the news hound a type of inexplicable exuberance that only another news hound could understand.

But, as time marches on, tech-nology is marching across our vanishing heritage. Even the news-paper industry itself will one day be obsolete as faithful subscribers who find the internet intimidating eventually die off. They will ulti-mately leave behind a paperless, tree-friendly world devoted to the latest, ever-changing technology.

Here’s an ode to those once in-dispensable tools of a bygone era.

Our Vanishing HeritageTechnology renders pica poles, proportion wheels,

composing rooms, dark rooms, silver nitrate obsolete

Long nights in the paste-up room have been replaced with hours of work with pagination software.


1976Office is relocated to the top floor of Ransom Hall.

1976Shorthorn becomes a daily publication, which had been advocated by Dorothy Estes.

1975Shorthorn Yearbook

photo

1976


The pica poleReporters rarely got their

hands on them. Photogra-phers didn’t really care about them. It was one of several instruments that was the do-main of the newspaper gods – the news and copy editors and, most importantly, the design and layout editors. It’s an ar-chaic term for what amounts to little more than a ruler made of brass or aluminum once used to measure column inches. He who carried it in his hip pocket commanded the same authority as a com-mander brandishing his side-arm. Now, with the advances in the almighty Mac, pagina-tion is as simple as a key stroke or a mouse click.

Proportion wheelsWho remembers ’em? Who

needs ’em? Who cares? The proportion wheel helped lay-out editors size graphics or pictures correctly. Slide the wheel the wrong direction, and suddenly the term “news hole” made a lot of sense.

Composing roomsThis was once the place

in which layout serfs, now as much a part of newspaper history asWilliam Randolph

Hearst, once assembled pages. Now, more often than not, news editors design the pages themselves and send those pages directly to the printer where they burn the pages on to plates and print the final product.

Dark rooms and deadly chemicals

Ah, the smell of it. Silver nitrate in a pitch-black room where dedicated photogra-phers would blindly unroll film, hoping beyond hope of hopes they had caught that perfect shot. They would size the shot and dip the picture in the chemical brew to see what came out. Now? Dark rooms? We don’t need no stinking dark rooms! We have digital cameras with digital downloads and … ah, ain’t life grand?!

New technology has made newspaper life a lot easier in a lot of ways. But, as many vet-eran news folks will tell you, it’s a bittersweet relief, espe-cially for the sentimental types who resist change.

As most anyone will tell you, as we grow older, we be-came that much more resis-tant to change, just like those generations that have gone be-fore us. C’est le vie, or shall we just say …#30#

Before computers, there was paste-up. The production teams trimmed, lined up and pasted ads and editorial together to create pages that were taken to the printer.

1977-1979

1978Linda Ponce is named editor, the Shorthorn’s first Hispanic editor in chief.

1977Advertising manager Joann Daughetee

1979Advertising staff


The Front Pages


1981Shorthorn poll finds that 87 percent of students disagreed with University President Wendell Nedderman’s decision to ban the showing of X-rated films on campus.

1980Fall Shorthorn staff

If The Shorthorn had a face, it would be its front page. In 92 years of covering the campus and beyond, it’s had a lot of haircuts. Here is how it’s transformed through the years.

May 22, 1923 March 12, 1940


1982-1983

1982Shorthorn wins a national Pacemaker award, which is believed to be its first.

1982Last Reveille

November 22, 1968 May 8, 1970 October 10, 1969

September 12, 2001March 7, 1995November 26, 1985


While The Shorthorn’s pages mirrored the news on campus, its nameplate has reflected the tone and personality of the paper itself. Here, a look at how the nameplate has morphed since the paper’s birth in 1919.


1988John Dycus ushers in the computer age at the Shorthorn with a Mac SE30.

1986Melinda Jones

1985Covering the news: student with Gumby

Page 22 Saturday, April 2, 201192nd AnniversAry reunion

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1921

1923

1928

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1985

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1945

The nameplates

our hisTory 1984-1988

1988John Dycus ushers in the computer age at the Shorthorn with a Mac SE30.

1986Melinda Jones

1985Covering the news: student with Gumby

1989 to present


ORIGIN OF THE BULL Jeff Shaw

1989-1993

1993David Pellerin named editor in chief, the only staff photographer ever to hold the position

1990s Full pagination begins; pasteup ends.

Early 1990sTempo weekly features/entertainment magazine debuts, with Claudia Donaldson, Heather Clampitt and Mark Lowry as its editor-type forces; published until 1999.

1993Issue of Tempo

Saturday, April 2, 2011 Page 2392ND ANNIVERSARY REUNION

BY MICHAEL CURRIEThe Shorthorn 1999-2001

It’s everywhere. Promi-nently displayed on house ads. Peeking out on promo-tional material. Even bring-ing some life to business cards. If you see anything that’s Shorthorn related chances are you’ve noticed, what I call, the fierce cow logo. Former illustrator, de-sign and graphics guru Jeff Shaw created the logo in the summer of 2000 and its im-pact can still be seen today. I e-mailed my former Short-horn partner-in-crime about the origins of the logo and how it has become the Nike swoosh of The Shorthorn.

How did the logo come about?I think the design of the logo was when you were thinking about a re-design of The Shorthorn. I think we wanted some-thing iconic to go with our name, The Shorthorn. If I remember, the birthplace of the logo was in one of our Friday staff meetings on a napkin or sketch pad and showed it to you and Seth (Schrock). Either that or we were at Gilligan’s and I sketched it out on napkin between drinks. There were a lot of ideas that formed on napkins at Gilligan’s.

Did you think the logo would still be the main mark for The Shorthorn today (10+ years later)? No. Not at all. I should have created a contract and have Student Publications pay me every time they use it. Seriously though, I can’t believe they still use it. It makes me reminisce about all the good times we had there every time I see it.

How does it feel to be the creator of such an iconic, long lasting image? I’m hon-ored that they still use it. The Shorthorn has been a big part of my life. I’m glad the I was able to give back somehow. I never thought it would still be around. The Shorthorn helped me devel-op most of my work skills I use today. I’ve been lucky to meet a lot of talented people and hope to be able to work with them again.

ORIGIN OF THE BULL Jeff Shaw


1993David Pellerin named editor in chief, the only staff photographer ever to hold the position

1990s Full pagination begins; pasteup ends.

Early 1990sTempo weekly features/entertainment magazine debuts, with Claudia Donaldson, Heather Clampitt and Mark Lowry as its editor-type forces; published until 1998.

1993Issue of Tempo

BY MICHAEL CURRIE

It’s everywhere. Promi-nently displayed on house ads. Peeking out on promo-tional material. Even bring-ing some life to business cards. If you see anything that’s Shorthorn related chances are you’ve noticed, what I call, the fierce cow logo. Former illustrator, de-sign and graphics guru Jeff Shaw created the logo in the summer of 2000, and its im-pact can still be seen today. I e-mailed my former Short-horn partner-in-crime about the origins of the logo and how it has become the Nike swoosh of The Shorthorn.

How did the logo come about? I think the design of the logo was when you were thinking about a redesign of The Shorthorn. I think we wanted something iconic to go with our name, The Shorthorn. If I remember, the birthplace of the logo was in one of our Friday staff meetings on a napkin or sketch pad and showed it to you and Seth (Schrock). Either that, or we were at J. Gilligan’s and I sketched it out on napkin between drinks. There were a lot of ideas that formed on nap-kins at Gilligan’s.

Did you think the logo would still be the main mark for The Shorthorn today (10+ years later)? No. Not at all. I should have created a contract and have Student Publications pay me every time they use it. Seriously though, I can’t believe they still use it. It makes me reminisce about all the good times we had there every time I see it.

How does it feel to be the creator of such an iconic, long lasting image? I’m honored they still use it. The Shorthorn has been a big part of my life. I’m glad the I was able to give back somehow. I never thought it would still be around. The Shorthorn helped me devel-op most of my work skills I use today. I’ve been lucky to meet a lot of talented people and hope to be able to work with them again.



1996 Dorothy Estes retires as Student Publications director; Lloyd Goodman is hired.

1997The Shorthorn goes online.

BY CAREN M. PENLAND

Layoffs. Buyouts. Furloughs. Uncertainty.

Every Student Publications ex has been affected by drastic changes in the journalism in-

dustry in recent years, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, ei-ther directly or indirectly. Our friends and loved ones have lost jobs, lost income, or lost co-workers and fellow journalists to the financial crisis boggling

media outlets all over the coun-try. Even those lucky enough to escape massive cuts probably know others not so lucky.

The stories of those exes are both heartbreaking and uplift-ing.

Although our worlds have changed in recent years, some exes have, by being forced out-side of their comfort zones, discovered new passions and rewarding careers. Others, like Shorthorn exes Jason Sickles

-30-Embracing life after newspapers can come swiftly,

but exes say strong skills are transferrable – and that cuts can be a blessing in disguise.

1996Summer staff

1996 Dorothy Estes at TIPA


1998-2001

1998Michael Hines is named editor, the Shorthorn’s first African-American editor in chief.

1998John Dycus officially retires as Shorthorn adviser, and continues as writing coach, mentor and muse; Shorthorn Newsroom named the John Dycus Newsroom; Brian Boney becomes adviser.

2001Technology-related revenue shift No. 2: National ad revenues, which had increased sharply, fell sharply after the dot.com bubble burst.

(Shorthorn, 1989-93) and Matt Stiles (Shorthorn, 1998-2001), have adapted their skills to lead what many believe is the new path of journalism by making the transition from print to strictly online content.

Exes have gone back to school to study topics like crimi-nal justice, law, psychology, and medicine. They have launched their own businesses in pho-tography. They blog, publish fiction and have found fulfilling jobs in other industries.

Pam Humphrey (Shorthorn, 1985-88) is working on her first novel and a political blog for women in North Texas. Gary Dowell (Shorthorn and Tempo, ,1995-98) was laid off but found a new passion for writing movie reviews. Advocate maga-zine began publishing his work six months ago. Darrell Dunn (Shorthorn, 1979-1981) was vic-tim to multiple layoffs in recent years but found an opportunity to work from home editing and writing for an online invest-ment website.

Life after journalism, it seems, can be good, even if the life before is sorely missed.

“Getting canned helped me make a decision I would have struggled with for years: to stay at home with my girls,” says Melissa McGrann Wethe (Ren-egade, 2002-2004), who is a stay-at-home mom and free-

lances as a public relations spe-cialist for the City of Colleyville, Texas. “But part of me will al-ways be a reporter.”

Wethe was one of the first casualties of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, losing her police reporting job in the first of sev-eral layoff rounds in June 2008. She’d been married for less than a year, and the new family had just purchased its first home. Her husband, David, also was employed by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and feared for his job. He left the paper to join Bloomberg, a wire service. Within weeks, the young family moved to Houston and started a new life.

Wethe tried freelancing for the Houston Chronicle but was unable to join the staff full-time. Switching gears, she went back to school, obtained a para-legal certification and worked for a law office for two years.

But in the end, law wasn’t journalism. And with a baby girl on the way, Wethe said it just made sense to do the one thing she was as passionate about as journalism: Be a mom. The public relations gig was born from a source she nur-tured while still with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and al-lows her the flexibility of work-ing at home.

In spite of her current hap-piness, like many, the harsh

and involuntary break from print brought with it a certain amount of bitterness. For Wethe and many others, journalism continues to be that draining love-hate relationship, “like an emotionally abusive boyfriend, who keeps making and break-ing promises,” as Wethe puts it. “I found this love that was ripped away from me after I gave it my all.”

Asked if she’d ever try jour-nalism again, she says, “Even as scary and stressful as it was - all those meetings behind closed doors and rumors of layoffs - I’d still go back, given the right op-portunity, maybe when my girls are older.”

Other exes continue to strug-gle with the realities of budget cuts and dwindling opportuni-ties. John Ostdick (Shorthorn, 1979-?), who makes a living primarily through freelance work, says even the freelance market is being pounded by drastic changes, such as short-ened story lengths and corre-sponding pay and publications’ using staff members instead of freelancers to save money. The fact that the freelance market is saturated with talented jour-nalists doesn’t help, either.

“I’ve lost some clients be-cause of the ragged economy and what it has done to the publishing industry,” Ostdick said. “I am doing well, but it is

a constant struggle.”Ostdick shared that his son,

who attends the University of Tennessee, recently changed his major to journalism. He admits that he worries about the de-cision because, “I don’t know where our calling is headed.”

He had a frank discussion with his son about the state of the industry - not to dis-suade his son from pursuing his dream but to make sure he is prepared for the reali-ties he’ll face. Ostdick said his son is passionate about pur-suing sports journalism. And although sports reporting is a highly competitive field, oppor-tunities for reporters do still exist.

“I told him to fully develop his skills and be flexible,” Ost-dick said.

Regardless of whether Stu-dent Publications exes left jour-nalism voluntarily in recent years, or whether they’ve adapt-ed their skills or found new passions, their stories share similar messages: The skills they learned through journal-ism, and especially at Student Publications, translate to many fields and prepared them for what they’ve been through and are still struggling with.

“All these changes, it’s like stepping off a huge cliff,” Wethe said. “But you know, it’s going to be okay.”

February 2000 Covering the news: a streaker



2002Chris Whitley becomes Shorthorn adviser.

2004Production manager position reinstated, tweaked to include technical adviser; Adam Drew hired.

2002Student Congress launches effort to bring back the yearbook. Survey finds little student interest.

2003Renegade magazine debuts, wins Pacemaker award its first year; Steven Morris editor, Adam Pitluk adviser for debut issue.

Spring 2005Last issue of Renegade magazine published.

OUR FAVORITE SHORTHORN TRADITIONS

“Whenever ev-

eryone seemed

too exhausted

from studying

and working, I’d

sneak out of the

office and get a

few dozen Krispy

Kreme dough-

nuts and the silly

paper hats that

go with them.

Sugar often did

the trick — gave

just enough push

to get us through

the night.” Caren Penland,

2002-04

“Men on our staff held un-

official ‘Best Legs’ contests.

They would watch coeds

passing by UC (“the Sub”

then) and, looking just at

their legs, pick a winner.”

Donna Darovich, editor 1969-70; 1971

“The “Chipotle Thursday” tradition derived from standard college student fare: hunger and

short attention spans. Thursdays became a time late in the week students anticipated - a time

when the staff would gather around the conference table and put aside their differences and

agree on burritos. As with most good traditions, nobody could actually pinpoint when or how

the tradition started. It had founders, of whom we mourned when they graduated, but the

tradition continued. It also had rules: people could not eat at their desks. Those who broke

the rule were scorned and deprived of their chips and guacamole. The tradition ended when

The Shorthorn discontinued Friday’s print edition and began printing on Mondays. Nobody

really knows what ’Horn staffers now do or eat on Thursdays. But we can say with confidence,

pride, and a bit of bad gas, that it was – at one point – Chipotle. Mark Bauer, 2008-10

“Three of our greatest traditions: (1) Pitchers of beer at The

Dry Gulch after every Friday staff meeting. (2) Toga- and

other themed parties at The Farmhouse, where several gen-

erations of editors lived. (3) Going to West Fest and just

about any other place Brave Combo was playing. Participat-

ing in the chicken dance was mandatory.”

Pam Humphrey, 1985-88


2006-2011

2006• David Ok is named editor, The

Shorthorn’s first Asian-American editor in chief.

• Advertising sells its first online ad, to Studio Movie Grill.

2007Theshorthorn.com converts to a content management system, remaining one of the pioneering college media websites not developed on third-party hosts and templates.

2008• Beth Francesco, Shorthorn editor in chief

2002-03, becomes Shorthorn adviser.• Pulse, an entertainment tabloid, publishes

its first issue in the Thursday edition of The Shorthorn.

After learning how the circulation van came to be tiger-striped in 1994: “I didn’t

know that was how the painting tradition began. It continued for years, hand-paint-

ing it before the parade. Even after the van was condemned and un-drivable, we had

an official state waiver to not retire the van because it was a July 4 parade tradition.

We finally gave in when all the plastic in the dashboard area fell out and we were pay-

ing several hundred dollars a year to drive it one time. That’s the van we signed and

retired at the 2004 convention. It was last seen towing a trailer of lawn equipment.

The surplus guy at UTA swears it is now in Mexico.” Lloyd Goodman, 1996 to present

HONORABLE MENTIONS• The Smokers’ Porch at

Ransom Hall• Pool parties at Dorothy’s• Sweatin’ through the July

4th parade paper route• Urban legends about

John Dycus and his editing skills

2009Lloyd

Goodman gives Cub Scouts a

newsroom tour.

September 13, 2010First front page ad runs.

Spring 2010Under editor in chief Mark Bauer, The Shorthorn produces its first online newscast. It featured top stories and used the newsroom as a backdrop.

Fall 2010The Shorthorn moves, for the first time ever, to Monday to Thursday publication in an effort to increase readership.


STAY CONNECTED: THE SHORTHORN NATION

Everyone who worked on the staff of The Short-horn, Renegade, Reveille, Tempo, Prism, Junior Aggie, Arlington Review or any other UTA Student Pubs publication — and not just The Shorthorn — is part of the heart of the Shorthorn Nation alumni group. We have a network of more than 1,200 alum-ni, fiercely loyal to Student Pubs, many of whom hold positions in journalism, media and many other fields that build on the things they learned late at night as overworked, un-derpaid but very-appreci-ated staffers.

You are the Shorthorn Nation alumni group.

In a 2010 survey, Stu-dent Pubs alumni said the top priorities for the Shorthorn Nation should be raising funds to sup-port staff scholarships and operations, develop a jobs bulletin, plan a reunion and develop a mentoring program linking alumni and current Shorthorn staff. That resulted in a staff reunion, the Short-horn Nation Jobs Board ... and priorities for the new group.

Here are several ways to build the Shorthorn Na-tion, stay connected with other alums and help The Shorthorn.

A staff photo from the 1970s

LET FRIENDS KNOW WHAT YOU’RE UP TO

Sharing information about what’s happen-ing in people’s lives will be a big part of Short-horn Nation. We’ve cre-ated an e-form you can use to send us your news: job changes, marriages, births, awards, publica-tions ... if it’s something you want other friends to know about, your Short-horn Nation friends want to know about it, too. Also, use the form to send changes in your contact information — mailing address, e-mail, phone number, etc. Link to the form from www.uta.edu/studentpubs

STAY CONNECTED WITH SHORTHORN NATIONShorthorn Nation (Student Publications alumni website): www.

uta.edu/studentpubs (A revamped site with debut this summer.)Shorthorn Nation Facebook page for Student Pubs alumni:

www.facebook.com, then search for Shorthorn Nation

There’s a story...


SHORTHORN NATION FACEBOOK GROUPThe Shorthorn Nation Facebook group is only for people who

worked in Student Pubs: our alumni. Use it to communicate with other Student Pubs alums and get wonderful updates from Student Publications.

If you were a Shorthorn editor-in-chief, there’s a Facebook group “I-was-a-Shorthorn-editor-in-chief,” created by Danny Woodward (editor fall 1997) just for you.

OTHER SHORTHORN FACEBOOK GROUPSPeople have created and abandoned quite a few Shorthorn-related

Facebook groups, pages, sites and whatevers over the past few years as well as other online and social media presences.

Here are the ones that are currently actively and sort of official:The Shorthorn Online is The Shorthorn’s newly revamped, award-

winning online edition: www.theshorthorn.com“Like” The Shorthorn Newspaper Facebook page to receive Short-

horn news feeds via Facebook: www.theshorthorn.com/facebook For Tweets from The Shorthorn: www.twitter.com/utashorthorn

THE SHORTHORN NATION JOBS BOARD: FRIENDS HELP FRIENDS FIND JOBS

The Shorthorn Na-tion Jobs Board allows people looking for jobs to find out about them and people who know about job openings to share the information with other Student Pubs alumni. It’s set up as a subscriber listserve, so only people who want to receive the informa-tion will see it in their inbox … and so Student Pubs alumni who know about jobs can share the information with other Student Pubs alumni. To subscribe to the Short-horn Nation Jobs Board, send an e-mail to [email protected].

• In the body of

the e-mail, type: subscribe shorthorn-jobsboard Yourfirst-name Yourlast name

• Leave the Subject line blank.

• Do not include a sig-nature. The only thing in the text area should be the text mentioned above.

• Be sure to subscribe from the e-mail ad-dress that you want to use to receive postings from the Shorthorn Nation Jobs Bank.

Anyone who is a Short-horn Nation Jobs Board subscriber can post job information. If you’re not a subscriber and have information about a job that you’d like to share with other Stu-dent Pubs alumni, send it to Lloyd Goodman — [email protected] — and we’ll post it.

HELP SHAPE THE SHORTHORN NATION

The Shorthorn has been here since 1919; the Shorthorn Nation Alumni Group, not so long. We’ve had several false starts in getting an alumni group orga-nized. Now, we’ve laid the foundation. You can help move it forward and shape Shorthorn Nation. Want to help produce an alumni newsletter? Be on the Shorthorn Nation steering com-mittee? Plan reunions and other activities? De-velop financial support for Shorthorn scholar-ships and other needs? Help organize alumni to help current Shorthorn staff? Contact Lloyd Goodman, [email protected], and we’ll put you to work.

HELP CURRENT SHORTHORN STAFF

Hire a student as an intern or freelancer. Send the information to Lloyd Goodman so we can let students know about the opportunity.

Donate to Shorthorn scholarships so we can provide Shorthorn staff with the same training, experience and financial support that we provided to staffers when you were here. (There’s an article in this publication with more information about scholarships.)

Volunteer to lead a training session for Shorthorn staffers or mentor individual staff members.

Buy an ad. This pro-vides financial support for Shorthorn staff op-erations ... but also is the best way to market your business, event or service to the 40,000 UTA stu-dents, faculty and staff.

Dick Collier and Debra Jean Hall Webster


BY ELISE COOPER ANTHONY

Chances are, you still remember the sur-prise of hearing your name called. For years, student publications scholarships have been an academic lifeline for many staffers. After all, today’s j-school generation is just as likely to live on Ramen noodles as the ones from the ’80s.

Former editor-in-chief Reese Dunklin re-calls when he won the Roger C. Dycus award in the mid-’90s. “When I had my opportunity to apply and fortunately win, it meant a lot to me. Now, as a member of the selection committee for the award, it is my way to stay connected to the new generation of Short-horners,” Dunklin says.

Thanks to your generosity during this reunion, proceeds from the ticket sales and silent auction will help raise money for our scholarship fund. This lasting legacy provides support for students who are continuing the Shorthorn tradition of excellence today and into the future.

Student Publications currently awards these scholarships:

Shorthorn Scholarships

DID YOU KNOW?The Roger C. Dycus Schol-arship was started with a suggestion and a $100 donation.

Roger C. Dycus Scholarship Roger Dycus was the father of long-

time Shorthorn adviser and writing coach John Dycus. When Mr. Dycus died in 1986, former Shorthorn editor-in-chief Mark England proposed this scholar-ship; Shorthorn gradu-ate Craig Fujii donated its first $100. Mr. Dycus loved writing, especially the works of William S. Porter (O. Henry) and Jack London and poet Robert W. Service. He longed to attend the Uni-versity of Texas to study journalism but lacked money during the Depression for tuition. He retired from the Federal Aviation Ad-ministration in 1970 and for the remaining years of his life farmed 64 acres in Bridge-port, Texas, that his father-in-law had tilled before him.

Dorothy Estes Scholarship Energetic, determined and full of ideas,

Dorothy Estes took over a good UTA Stu-dent Publications in fall 1970 and proceeded to make it great. The Shorthorn under her leadership was known for reporting and

writing, photography, layout and design, ad sales and incorporating the latest tech-nology. It won every national and regional award given for college journalism, often more than once — she’s proudest of the SPJ Freedom of Information Award (1995) — and placed close to 600 students in the communications work force. Mrs. Estes provided the vision and the funding for in-house production and daily publication and established a recruiting system involving high schools and community colleges. She was always on call to mentor young advis-ers. She willed her students to succeed. She retired from UTA in 1996.

Charles LeMaistre Scholarship (reporting)

Dr. LeMaistre was UT System chancellor from 1971-78, a critical period of growth and recognition for UTA Student Publications. He arranged a gift from a Dallas benefactor to construct and equip the university’s first academic darkroom and, despite opposition, provided funding, facilities and support for the four-year communication program at the university. He is the only physician in system history to hold the chancellor’s post. In 1978, he was named president of M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, from which he retired in 1996.

Arnie Phillips Scholarship (advertising sales)

Arnie Phillips brought success and pro-fessional advertising standards to UTA Stu-dent Publications as advertising manager from 1984-96. Arnie knows how to sell, how to teach and how to recruit sales reps, and he did all three with flair while with The Shorthorn. He pioneered expansion of the department’s production facilities, created the Metroplex College PowerBuy group-school sales incentive and never missed an opportunity to offer a workshop for his students. He also was active in organizing seminars and improving sales methods for other area universities and colleges.

Paul Swensson Scholarship (copy editing)

In 1968, Paul Swensson established the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund’s copy-editing internship program to help prepare stu-dents to fill jobs that were going begging on American newspaper copy desks. A former managing editor of both the Minneapolis Star and Minneapolis Tribune, Paul Swens-son also was UTA’s first and only Profes-sional Journalist in Residence. As such, he helped Student Publications establish valu-able contacts with professional media. Mr. Swensson died in 2001 at age 93.

Dorothy Estes and John Dycus


Calvin Pyle Scholarship (advertising)

Innovative ad man Calvin Pyle provided the first professional advertising instruction for the university. Before the Communication Depart-ment offered advertising courses, student pho-tographer Sue Pyle persuaded her father to take a vacation from his Wyoming newspaper position and train the Shorthorn staff in ad sales, design and promotion. He was killed in a motorcycle ac-cident the week he returned home.

Brian Shults Scholarship (academic excellence)

Brian Shults wrote for The Shorthorn in the early 1990s, winning awards in features and news series and pretty much keeping his col-leagues entertained. As funny as he was tightly wound, Brian performed stand-up comedy when he wasn’t maintaining a 3.9 grade-point average or working on the paper or at the Star-Telegram as a reporter-clerk (he reviewed comedy routines for the Encore page). He died in March 1993. “He polished small news items with the same care that he used to compile major stories,” S-T assistant state editor Nancy Visser said at the time. “He did his job with the professionalism and diplomacy of someone with many more years in this business than he had.”

Greg Teer Scholarship (section editor)

As Shorthorn editor in fall 1985 and spring 1986, Greg Teer had a major voice in shaping the paper’s stance on the contro-versial cancellation of the UTA football program. Rarely has the editor’s job required more tact, civility and reasoning, and Greg met the challenge. His self-image was that of an urban sophisticate — he sported a neatly trimmed beard, he favored neckties and he never went home without his briefcase — yet upon graduation he found himself covering sev-eral rural counties for the Amarillo Globe News. And he loved it. He died May 1, 1990.

Sallie Waldron Scholarship (graphic design)

Born with great talent but limited resources, Sallie Waldron focused on providing educational opportunities for her children. All four of her children attended college, three of them complet-ing graduate degrees. As a tribute to her support and her love of beauty, her children established this scholarship to provide financial assistance for graphic design students. Selection criteria include

talent, intelligence and work habits. Mrs. Waldron was the mother of former UTA Student Publica-tions director Dorothy Estes.

Shorthorn Pulitzer Club Scholarship (photography)

When Dallas Morning News photographers won the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of hurricanes

Katrina and Rita in 2005, Short-horn exes Michael Ainsworth, Tom Fox and Brad Loper were included in the Pulitzer cita-tion. The Shorthorn scholarship for photography, created with a donation from The Arlington Morning News during the Ar-lington newspaper wars of the 1990s, was renamed to honor all Shorthorn exes who win a Pulit-zer Prize.

Other scholarships and awards

• Editor Scholarships: All staff-ers who are selected for a Short-horn editor position are eligible to apply for an Editor Scholarship.

• Rookie Scholarships: The only people who can apply for a Shorthorn Rookie Scholarship are students who will be attending UTA for the first time and have been selected for a staff position.

• Director’s AwardsOur healthy offering of scholarships doesn’t

cover the ever-enlarging areas in which our stu-dents excel. Director’s Awards recognize accom-plishment in areas not covered by established scholarships — innovation, online, and the like — until funding is available to establish scholarships.

HOW YOU CAN HELPStudent Publications schol-

arships are supported by do-nations supplemented by funds from the Student Publications operating budget. Amount and availability of all scholarships and awards is contingent on available funding.

After years of intentional planning and continuous growth in the amount of these scholar-ships — reaching more than $30,000 a year just a couple of years ago — the economy is taking its toll on the amount of funds available from the operating budget to support the scholarships. The initial $100 donation for the Roger C. Dycus Scholarship helped establish an endowment that provides more than $3,000 a year for that scholarship. Simi-lar donations for the Dorothy Estes Scholarship have created an endowment that provides more than $1,500 a year and growing … for that scholarship. The other scholarships still depending on funds from the operating budget until we build endowments to support them.

You can make online contributions for Shorthorn scholarships by using the form at http://www.uta.edu/student-pubs or you can send a check to UTA Student Publications Director; Box 19038; Arlington, TX 76019. UTS Student Publica-tions and the UTA Development Office can assist you if you want to make ongoing dona-tions ($10 a month adds up) rather than a one-time dona-tion.

The John Dycus and Short-horn Scholarship Fund: Unless otherwise requested, dona-tions will be applied to the John Dycus and Shorthorn Scholar-ship Fund and used for the scholarship or award where the funding need is greatest. The fund was created to honor longtime Shorthorn adviser John Dycus when he retired in 1998.

Need More Information?For details about Student Publications scholarships and awards, e-mail Student Publica-tions Director Lloyd Goodman: [email protected].

Lloyd Goodman congratulates Daniel Johnson on win-ning the Sallie Waldon Scholarship in fall 2007.

Larissa Robinson receives the Charles LeMaistre Scholarship award in 2007.


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