College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

• Greenlee alumni society begins to take shape
  

  
  Chris and Caralee Adams have a soft spot in their hearts for the journalism program at Iowa State.
  
  "We met as students on the Iowa State Daily," Caralee said. "We practically lived in Hamilton Hall and it was a point in our lives when we developed a passion for journalism. We have really deep ties to the program."
  
  So when the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication asked the Washington, D.C.-area couple if they are were interested in helping develop a new alumni organization for the Greenlee School, they jumped at the idea.
   
  "Both Caralee and I have maintained close contacts with the School over the years," Chris said. "It’s the place where we, and others like us, became real journalists. The professors meant a lot to me both professionally and personally. We wanted to be able to give back to the School and the Society sounded like a really good idea."
  
  As the co-chairs of the Greenlee Society of Alumni and Friends, Chris and Caralee have organized initial events in Des Moines and Washington, D.C. Plans are to establish additional chapters in Chicago, Minneapolis, Omaha, Kansas City, Dallas, Denver and Los Angeles.
  
  They are chairing a committee that includes Greenlee alumni in each of the cities, who will be responsible for coordinating events in their cities. Faculty Eric Abbott and Barbara Mack are the on-campus coordinators.
  
  The Greenlee Society is also affiliated and sanctioned by the ISU Alumni Association as an official branch of that organization.
  
  "We’re a low-key organization that is not trying to raise funds for the Greenlee School," Caralee says. "The goal of our organization is to bring alumni of the Greenlee School together to serve as a network to link alumni and provide information to current and prospective students."
  
  Greenlee alumni are being asked to serve as a resource to current students or recent alumni who are just beginning work in one of these cities. At the Des Moines and Washington, D.C. meetings, alumni have signed up to e-mail and mentor students and/or host visiting interns. Others have indicated a willingness to work with Greenlee faculty members through new technology for virtual classroom lectures.

Greenlee School Alumni Society reception in Washington, D.C.

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August 21 to September 3, 2006

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