Alumni news

Al McCoy, a 1954 Drake alum, was recently celebrated by the Phoenix Suns for 50 years as the basketball team’s play-by-play broadcaster. McCoy is a loyal supporter of SJMC, most notably donating to remodel the Meredith Hall basement audio facilities into podcasting booths.

Professor emeritus Herb Strentz wrote a column on the 75th anniversary of “flying saucers”: https://www.bleedingheartland.com/2022/06/18/notes-on-75-years-of-flying-saucers/ Strentz wrote his Ph.D. thesis on news coverage of UFOs and was a research associate on a U.S. Department of Defense project researching the phenomenon in the 1960s.

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The SJMC Monday Memo (and other days of the week as needed) is a newsletter to keep members of the wider SJMC community updated on School news, achievements, events and opportunities. If you have an item for the Memo, please send it to SJMC webmaster and multimedia professor Chris Snider (christopher.snider@drake.edu). SJMC alums and other professionals can also subscribe to the Monday Memo via email here: http://eepurl.com/bPNbxn