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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 |

 

Linda Kaye Named to Hall of Excellence

by Tommy Thomason

Director, Schieffer School of Journalism

 

Normally, we induct Hall of Excellence honorees at the Exes Breakfast before an audience of appreciative alumni numbering around 100.

 

But there just wasn’t time.  This induction couldn’t wait.

 

Linda Kaye lay dying of cancer in a hospice unit in Southwest Fort Worth, and she needed to know that the Schieffer School was honoring her as one of our most outstanding alumni in photojournalism.

 

So instead of inducting her at a public meeting, Phil Record and I inducted Linda into the Hall of Excellence in her hospice room.  The little room was full of family and friends – Hospital workers said that was typical of those last days – and Linda wore a purple shirt and was covered in a TCU quilt.

 

As she would have wanted it.

 

I took both of Linda’s hands in mine and explained that we wanted to honor her as a graduate who had made an outstanding contribution in photojournalism – indeed someone who had helped to pave the way for women as sports photjournalists in the metroplex.  I read her the beautiful purple plaque that we give to all inductees and told her we would “officially” induct her next fall, but we wanted her to know, right now, that we considered her among our outstanding graduates.

 

Someone asked me later if Linda understood.  I think she did.  Her brother Roger, himself a journalist who used to work for the Star-Telegram, told us that she could not believe the outpouring of love  and support since she was hospitalized in late September.  Her room became a who’s who of Fort Worth media and university life, and her telephone calls wishing her well included Nolan Ryan and President George Bush.

 

It occurred to me as people were telling Linda after our short induction ceremony how much they loved her and how appropriate such an honor was, that only a month ago she would have kicked everyone the hell out of her room and told us that if we were going to be gushing like that, it shouldn’t be around her.

 

For many of you, Linda Kaye was as much a TCU institution as Frog Fountain.  But she was more than just a fixture at athletic contests and important TCU events—Linda was a photojournalist with a reputation for excellence.

 

She will be missed.