Class of 2000 |
Jim McKenzie |
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The Graduates
Bonnie Allen
Larry Todd Jim McKenzie Roy Bonisteel Patricia Bell Wendy Tebb Lindsay Crysler Renee Pellerin |
Current LocationRegina, SaskatchewanEmail: Jim.McKenzie@uregina.ca
Posted on November 3, 2000 by Jim McKenzieClass of 2000 grads and others with good taste might like to check out the new Saskatchewan News web site, starting Monday, Nov. 6. It's called Saskatchewan News Daily (how do we come up with these original names!?). We're going daily for four weeks. See it !!!live and in colour!! at http://uregina.ca/mckenzij (or just click the icon on the j-school homepage.) This is part of what you guys used to call Practical Days - those last 2-3 days of the winter semester. But this year we ended classes a month early and are into what we now call Production Days. Besides producing a daily web paper, we're producing a weekly paper paper, and some radio and tv stuff. We're also producing very happy students, who don't have to suffer through classes in November. What about those last few December Days, which used to be Practical Days. We are now calling them Evaluation and Appreciation Days. We will use them to gaze upon the wonderous work of the previous month. Then it's Xmas party time, followed by byebye time till 2001.
Posted on September 15, 2000 by Jim McKenzieWendy's now a bureaucrat in the Faculty of Arts. Belinda Standish is our new secretary. She's smart, young, keen and newly married. Jill's doing a great job as head of the department. She's moved into Roy's old office and dragged all her left-wing posters with her. Donna Pasiechnik (Pu-chez-nik for the culturally challenged) is the new broadcast prof. She's smart, young, keen and ex-CBC. Smart, young and keen Karen Briere of the Western Producer is teaching ag J. I'm teaching history of the media. The class fell asleep during my first class. Amanda politely explained it was because "you've got a soothing voice." I'll give her a 10/10 when she wakes up again. Visiting prof Robin Taylor got into a fight (verbal) with a CBC guy giving a session the other night. Nobody slept thru that. We've added a month of "production days" in November. So classes end about Halloween, and then we'll do straight print for 2 weeks and the other stuff for the other two. > We killed the boring first week of techy intro. Cut it to one day, and filled the rest with pep talks from successful grads, exciting PowerPointers on journalism in the 21st century and other intellectual content. First Friday night was party night at Pats. I sent the newbies to Centrl Regina to find a story. 16 puffers, 5 quasi-stories and 4 pretty good ones. Are they smarter than you guys were at the beginning? Three of the returning interns - Ryan, Wayne and Cameron - did not return. The new class has 21 women and 4 men. So our Sunday morning hymn sing lacks base voices.
Posted on May 15, 2000 by Jim McKenzieHi Chad: You might want to tell the class of 2000 that the school's open house and 20th birthday party is coming up, and they're all welcome (if they haven't already seen enough of the place.) It's on Saturday May 27 from 9 a.m.to 1 p.m. The formal part begins at 10. We expect lots of guests (including some J bigwigs if class members want to meet, greet, schmoze potential employers.) Coffee, donuts, t-shirts for sale, and other exciting atttractions. Grads can bring parents (who might be in town for grad the day before) to see the school. Folks might also like to meet Ron Robbins, the founding director of the school. Rene T is working on this project and can tell you more about what she's putting together re the school's history. Jill and Roy are the chief organizers, so you could get further info from them if you want it. BTW, we will be sans a director come July 1, when Roy's term ends. We're switching to a different structure, with a dept head instead of a director. Jill is the first and dept head. |