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Senior VP of Wendy's named 2008 Distinguished Alumnus
By Mark Kotowski
Denny Lynch, senior vice president of communications for Wendy's, has been named the School of Communication's 2008 Distinguished Alumnus of the Year for his impressive success in the field of communication. For the past 29 years, Lynch has overseen both the internal and external communication for Wendy's, the third-largest hamburger fast food chain in the world, acting as their spokesperson and directing their crisis management functions.
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Undergraduates awarded for achievements
The School of Communication is proud to recognize those students who have made significant contributions to the School this past year either through scholastic achievement, outstanding work in extracurricular activities or in other areas. The scholarships and awards presented this year are either funded through gifts endowed to the School or through contributions by various supporters. The School appreciates the support of the donors and is pleased that these scholarships offer students recognition of their accomplishments as well as financial aid.
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Washington Post editor, alumnus visits OSU
By Richard Oviatt
Leonard Downie Jr., one of the most respected men in modern journalism and an Ohio State alumnus, came back to visit OSU on February 11th. Downie spoke to journalism faculty and students for over an hour and followed that with a lecture and book signing for his new novel "The Rules of The Game.” The event was presented jointly by OSU's Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism, the John Glenn School of Public Affairs, and the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
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Former graduate students turn class discussion into book
By Michelle Fehribach
An esteemed Ohio State alumna used the inspiration from a course she took years ago at the university to write a book about a popular communication model. Susan Opt wrote “Rhetoric in Social Intervention” based on a communication course she took in the 1980s taught by Dr. William Brown. “[Rhetoric in Social Intervention] deals with how people bring about social change through communication interventions,” Opt said. “So it’s a model that says that social change is driven by communication. It’s driven by how we name experience and how we talk about our interpretations of experience. The book combines a model for looking at communication patterns to identify how change is occurring as well as making predictions about social change.”
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Lantern archives available online
By Richard Oviatt
Did you write or edit for The Lantern? Archives of all issues published from 1959-1972 are now available online. All issues from 1881-1997 will be available when the project to digitally preserve the articles is completed. Funding for the digitization and online presentation of the articles was provided by the Ohio State administration. Soon after, the University Libraries' Preservation Office/Digital Imaging Division and the Libraries' Digital Initiatives Steering Committee came together to make the project a reality.
Amy McCrory, a digital imaging specialist in the Preservation Office of OSU libraries, has enjoyed the task. "Some of the libraries' staff who worked on this project have lived in Columbus most of their lives, and they really enjoyed seeing pictures of old friends, reading about almost-forgotten events, seeing ads for restaurants and stores they used to frequent, and so on," she said.
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