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Turn out the lights, this presidency’s over

 

Mark Mourer By Mark Mourer,
J-Exes president

 

Ever want to run a bar? I mean build it, or refurbish it…open it…run it...host Super Bowl parties there…invite the Bud girls to buy happy hour drinks at your place…sell a T-shirt that says “(your name here)’s Tavern”?

 

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Slater announces retirement

as dean of College of

Communication

 

Mark MourerDr. Bill Slater, dean of the College of Communication, which includes the Schieffer School, has announced his retirement at the end of the 2007-2008 academic year.

 

After a sabbatical, Slater will join the faculty of the Schieffer School, where he holds the rank of professor of broadcast journalism. Provost Nowell Donovan is appointing a search committee to look for Slater's replacement as dean.

 

 

 

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Fall '07 Issue |

 

New Hall of Excellence honoree announced

by TCU Schieffer School of Journalism

 

A well-known book editor and biographer has been named the 2007 inductee into the TCU Schieffer School of Journalism’s Hall of Excellence.  Ellis Amburn, a 1954 TCU journalism graduate, will be inducted into the hall at the Journalism Exes Breakfast Sept. 22.

 

Amburn was editor for such authors as John le Carré, Belva Plain, Muriel Spark, Joshua Logan and Jack Kerouac.  He wrote Kerouac’s 1998 biography, Subterranean Kerouac:  The Hidden Life of Jack Kerouac.


He also the author of celebrity biographies of Janis Joplin, Warren Beatty, Elizabeth Taylor, Buddy Holly and Roy Orbison. He worked as a ghostwriter for Priscilla Presley, Shelley Winters, Peggy Lee and Zsa Zsa Gabor on their autobiographies.

 

Amburn worked as a reporter at Newsweek following his graduation from TCU.   He entered the book publishing industry to work for G.P. Putnam’s Sons, and has also worked at Delacorte Press, Coward McCann, and William Morrow.

 

Tommy Thomason, director of the Schieffer School, said that Amburn “has brought the instincts of a reporter – especially his noted expertise as an interviewer – to his work as a biographer.

“Ellis is known as an exhaustive researcher,” Thomason said, “resulting in books that are considered excellent insights into their subjects.  Ellis Amburn will make an outstanding addition to a Hall of Excellence designed to honor TCU graduates who have made significant contributions in mass communications.”

The induction will be held at Joe T. Garcia’s Restaurant on Saturday, Sept. 22, Homecoming for TCU.

Other members of the Schieffer School’s Hall of Excellence are journalism educators Warren Agee and J. Willard Ridings; CBS newsman Bob Schieffer; Broadway and TV actress Betty Buckley; newspaper editor Ken Bunting; sports journalist Dan Jenkins; Washington Post online journalism pioneer Johnny Livengood; writers Bud Shrake, Gary Cartwright, and Skip Hollandsworth, public relations practitioners Jerre Todd and Camille Keith, and Society of Professional Journalists executive Russell Hurst.