Development and Alumni Affairs
Alumni of Distinction
Inducted in the 2000s
1970s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s • 2010s
Inducted in 2000
Dennis Kneale
JM 1979
Managing Editor, Forbes magazine.
Rene S. “Butch” Meily
MA 1979
Vice President, Rubenstein Associates.
Yvette Miley
TEL 1985
Assistant News Director and former Executive Producer, WTVJ-TV,
Miami.
Richard "Dick" Monroe
ADV 1967, MA 1968
Vice President for environmental affairs for Darden Restaurants
(Red Lobster and The Olive Garden), Orlando.
Joan Ryan
JM 1981
Columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the author
of the book Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking
of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters.
Carol A. Sanger
JM 1970
Vice President of corporate communications and external affairs
for Federated Department Stores Inc., Cincinnati.
Inducted in 2001
Donald Bacon
JM 1957
Senior Editor of Nation’s Business and associate editor
and senior editor of U.S. News & World Report.
C.B. Daniel
JM 1966
Chairman of First Union National Bank of North Central Florida,
a former member of the Florida Board of Regents and a corporate
executive with AvMed HealthCare in Gainesville.
Steen B. Johansen
TEL 1966
Documentary film producer.
Rosemarie “Dee Dee” Rolando Nye
PR 1973
Vice President of
Avaya Inc.
Inducted in 2002
John Dillin
JM 1958
Retired reporter and editor with The Christian Science Monitor.
C. Del Galloway
PR 1981, MA 1983
2004 President and CEO, Public Relations Society of America and Partner,
Husk Jennings Galloway + Robinson, Jacksonville.
Maryfran Johnson
JM 1978
Editor-in-Chief of Computerworld and Vice President of
editorial content for Computerworld.com.
Jamie McIntyre
TEL 1976
Military affairs correspondent at the Pentagon for CNN in Washington,
D.C..
Donald Thomas
PR 1968
COO of the American Cancer Society, Atlanta.
Bonni G. Tischler
TEL 1966
Assistant Commissioner of the Office of Field Operations for the U.S. Customs
Service. *
Read about the Class of 2002 in the Spring 2002 issue of communigator »
Inducted in 2003
Michael Connelly
JM 1980
Best-selling author, former reporter for the Los
Angeles Times.
MaryAnne Golon
JM 1983
Picture editor, Time magazine.
J. Keith Moyer
JM 1977
President and publisher, Minneapolis Star Tribune
W. Bradford Todd
ADV 1970
Principal in The Richards Group
Jean Hoehn Zimmerman
ADV 1968
Executive vice president of sales and marketing for the CHANEL
Beauté and Fragrance Division.
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Inducted in 2004
Mark Erstling
TEL 1975
Senior vice president and chief operating officer, Association
of America's Public Television Stations
Melissa Lammers
ADV 1979
Vice president, Pueblo International
Read about the Class of 2004 in the Spring 2004 issue of communigator »
Inducted in 2005
Ben Cason
JM 1965
Executive Editor, ThisWeek Community Newspapers
Carolyn Gosselin
PR 1980, MAMC 1983
Senior vice president/chief communications officer for CNL Financial
Group, Inc.
Deb Richard
ADV 1985
Professional golfer
with the LPGA Tour
Eric Wishnie
TEL 1984
Senior Producer, NBC Nightly News *
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Inducted in 2006
Matthew D. Bunker
PhD 1993
Reese Phifer Professor of Journalism at the University of
Alabama
James Harper
ADV 1963
Senior vice president for business development for Acordia
Guillermo I. Martinez
JM 1966
Syndicated columnist, two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee
Jennifer McMillin
PR 1988
Executive vice president with GolinHarris
Scott Sanders
ADV 1979
Producer
Johnny Tillotson
TEL 1959
songwriter/singer, two-time Grammy Award nominee
Read about the Class of 2006 in the Spring 2006 issue of communigator »
Inducted in 2007
Peter C. Barr Sr.
TEL 1957
Angela Buonocore
ADV 1978
Betty Cortina
JM 1992
Maryanne Culpepper
JM 1973, MAMC 1974
David Finkel
TEL 1977
Annie Lang
MAMC 1983
Keith Tribble
PR 1977
Read about the Class of 2007 in the Spring 2007 issue of communigator »
2008 Alumni of Distinction
Andy Fletcher
ADV 1979
Kristi Krueger
TEL 1986
Stephanie Sinclair
JM 1998
Hal Herman
JM 1949
Richard Bartlett
JM 1956
Read about the Class of 2008 in the Spring 2008 issue of communigator »
2009 Alumni of Distinction
Dana Bullen
JOU 1953
Darrell Hammond
ADV 1978
Yungwook Kim
Ph.D. 1999
Mickey G. Nall
MAMC 1982
Terry Van Nortwick
PUR 1970, MAMC 1977
* Indicates alumnus is deceased.
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