From time to time, we are notified that a magazine or newspaper has carried an article about a Reserve alumnus or alumna. While it is not always possible to link to a copy of the article for online viewing, the John D. Ong Library staff does maintain information designed to help you request a copy of the article from your local library or through various magazine or newspaper archives.

If you know of a recent news item featuring a Reserve alum, please contact the Ong Library so that we may add reference information to this page.

Here is the latest information on “In the News” sightings:

Alumnus/a Name: John Hewko '75
Title: Personnel Announcement from the Office of the President
Date: April 2, 2008
Source: Office of the Press Secretary
Summary: President Bush today announced his intention to nominate four individuals and designate one individual to serve in his Administration. The President intends to nominate John P. Hewko, of Michigan, to be Assistant Secretary (Aviation and International Affairs) at the Department of Transportation.

Alumnus/a Name: John Yang '75
Title: Yang Named NBC News White House Correspondent
Date: January 2008
Source: www.msnbc.com
Summary: Recently John Yang was named NBC News White House correspondent. He is based in Washington, D.C. and contributes to all NBC News properties, including “NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams,” “Today” and MSNBC. Yang joined NBC News as a correspondent in January 2007.

Alumnus/a Name: Neel Kashkari '91
Title:  Personnel Announcement from the Office of the President
Date: November 15, 2007
Source: Office of the Press Secretary
Summary: Neel T. Kashkari, of California, has been nominated by President Bush to be assistant secretary of the Treasury (International Affairs). Mr. Kashkari recently served as senior advisor to the Treasury secretary. Prior to that, he served as vice president of Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Alumnus/a Name: Mike Gillespie '85
Title: Running with Determination
Date: October 2007
Source: Mike Gillespie '85
Article Summary: Mike Gillespie is a successful inventor, but that may be the least of his accomplishments. Diagnosed with a life-threatening tumor in his '20s, he has defied odds and today runs his own company. Visit www.inventor.org/briteideas.

Alumnus/a Name: Ted Gup '68
Title:  Gup One of Five to be Inducted into the Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame
Date: August 18, 2007
Source: The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
Article Summary: An article in the Metro section announced that Ted Gup will be inducted into the Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame on October 25, 2007, at La Centre in Westlake, Ohio.

Alumnus/a Name:  Helen Hunter '06
Title: The World at Large: Opinions from an Intern

Source: Blog at www.pbs4549.org/worldblog.htm (Note: Link may expire without notice.)

Date: June 2007
Summary: Ms. Hunter holds a summer internship with PBS 45 & 49, two associated public television stations that serve a large northeast Ohio television market including Youngstown, Cleveland and Akron.   Each Monday, this Lewis & Clark College undergraduate shares her views on a current events topic. 

Alumnus/a Name: Andrew Haile '03
Title: WRA Alumnus Honored for Community Service
Source: News release from Western Reserve Academy
Date: May 2007
Article Summary: Hudson resident and Western Reserve Academy graduate, Andrew J. Haile '03 has been honored by Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, for his commitment to community service while a student there.

Alumnus/a Name: Patrick Taylor '03
Title: Hudsonite Lands Role on Television's Law & Order
Source: Hudson Hub-Times
Date: May 2007
Article Summary: Patrick Taylor '03 portrays a troubled teen in NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit television show on May 15, 2007 at 10 p.m.  Patrick is a senior at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.

Alumnus/a Name: Ted Gup '68
Title:  Gup's Latest Book Set to Go on Sale in Early June
Date: April 2007
Summary: The latest book from Ted Gup '68, Nation of Secrets: The Threat to Democracy and the American Way of Life, will go on sale June 5, 2007. In his new work, according to the book’s publisher, Doubleday, Gup turns his attention to a broader range of American institutions, exposing how and why they keep secrets from the very people they are supposed to serve.

Alumnus/a Name: Elizabeth Gillett '79
Source: News release from Hartwick College
Date: January 2007
News Release Summary: Elizabeth Gillett recently received the Distinguished Alumna Award from Hartwick College. Now living in New York City, she is an established designer who creates and markets fashion accessories for her own label and for private labels.

Alumnus/a Name: P. Steven Ainsley '71
Title: New Publisher Named for Globe
Source: www.boston.com
Date: September 8, 2006
Article Summary: In September of 2006, The New York Times Co. named one of its longtime newspaper executives, P. Steven Ainsley, to be publisher of The Boston Globe and head of the New England Media Group.

Alumnus/a Name: Fred Cummings '85
Title: Two Analysts Exiting KeyBanc Cap Markets
Source: Crain's Cleveland Business (Vol. 28, No. 1)
Date: January 2007
Article Summary: WRA Board of Trustees member Fred Cummings, a high-profile banking analyst, is leaving KeyBanc and will start his own asset management firm.

Alumnus/a Name: Mark Lewine '64
Title: Educator Recognized  
Source: www.cleveland.com
Date: November 16, 2006
Article Summary:  Professor of anthropology Mark Lewine has been named the 2006 Outstanding Community Colleges Professor of the Year, a national award.

Alumnus/a Name:  William D. Perez '65
Title: Wrigley Names Perez President and CEO  (Note: Link may expire without notice.)
Source: www.wrigley.com
Date: October 24, 2006
Article Summary:  The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company announced the election of William D. Perez as president, chief executive officer and a member of the company's board of directors. Mr. Perez spent 34 years with SC Johnson, including eight years as president and CEO of the multi-billion dollar privately held global consumer products company. In 2004, he joined Nike, Inc., where he served as president and CEO until earlier this year.

Alumnus/a Name:  Ted Humphrey '87
Title: Ted Humphrey is Co-producer and Writer on New ABC Series
Source: www.vindy.com
Date: September 24, 2006
Article Summary:  “The Nine,” which ABC premiered at the beginning of October, is a drama about nine strangers whose lives intersect at a Los Angeles bank during a 52-hour hostage situation. Ted Humphrey is a writer-producer for the up-and-coming new series. Humphrey says he never set out to write. He practiced law in Washington, D.C. for several years, then decided to try a new career and set out for Los Angeles.

Alumnus/a Name:  Elizabeth Fraser '89
Title: Everyday Scenes, Painted Everyday   (Note: Link may expire without notice.)
Source: www.nytimes.com
Date: August 31, 2006
Article Summary:  Portland (Me.) artist Elizabeth Fraser is highlighted in a New York Times article that discusses how the Internet can "change things fast" in the approach some artists have taken recently to exhibiting and selling their work.

Trustee Emeritus Name:  John D. Ong
Title: Ong to Serve as RTI International Senior Visiting Fellow   (Note: Link may expire without notice.)
Source: triangle.dbusinessnews.com
Date: August 11, 2006
Article Summary:  RTI International, headquartered in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, announced in August that former U.S. Ambassador to Norway John Ong will join RTI as its first Senior Visiting Policy Fellow.  The company does innovative research and identifies technical solutions for governments and businesses worldwide and is the second largest independent nonprofit research organization in the United States.

Alumnus/a Name:  Bancroft Poor '74

Title: The Environment and the Power of the Individual

Source: 2005 Waring Prize speaker
Date:  April 28, 2006
Link:  Read Alumni Bulletin article.

Alumnus/a Name:  Shawn Conly '82

Title:  Advertising and consumer insights for the video game market

Source:  Burton D. Morgan Lecture Series speaker.  Conly addressed the Reserve community in early April as part of the Burton D. Morgan Foundation Endowed Lecture Series. Conly was particularly popular with WRA students; he is vice president of advertising and consumer insights for Electronic Arts, the largest video game maker in the world.
Date:  April 2006
Link:  Read Alumni Bulletin article.

Alumnus/a Name:  William D. Perez '65
Title: Nike Corporate Jet Makes Safe Landing  (Note: Link may expire without notice.)
Source: washingtonpost.com (filed at 12:41 a.m. ET by The Associated Press)

Date: November 22, 2005
Article Summary:  Nike CEO William Perez '65 was a passenger on the company's corporate jet when landing gear problems prompted the plane's pilots to burn off extra fuel and put the aircraft through a series of twisting high-altitude maneuvers that finally resolved the problem.  The drama, carried live on national television, concluded with a safe landing at the Oregon airport where the flight originated.

Alumnus/a Name:  Ian Frazier '69
Title: Gone to New York: Adventures in the City
Source: Kirkus Reviews
Date: October 1, 2005

Section: Vol. 73 Issue 19, p1062-1062, 1/4p

Review Summary: Though currently a New Jersey suburbanite, Frazier resided for years in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. In these 22 pieces from the Atlantic Monthly, Double Take, Mother Jones, Outside and the New Yorker, the native of Hudson, Ohio, celebrates Gotham as only a wide-eyed transplant could. The essays begin in 1975--when the city teetered toward bankruptcy--and end in 2005, when, post-9/11, Frazier wished that city residents would "remain our hopeful, foolish selves while caught up, now inextricably, in the wider world." Like predecessors A.J. Liebling and Joseph Mitchell, he chronicles the manically funny.

Alumnus/a Name:  Ted Gup '68
Title:  In Praise of the 'Wobblies'   (Note: Link may expire without notice.)
Source:  NPR Website
Date:  September 12, 2005
Section:  This I Believe
Article Summary:   Ted Gup is a featured essayist for This I Believe, an NPR-sponsored national project that invites Americans to write about the core beliefs that guide their daily lives. NPR airs these personal statements from listeners each Monday on Morning Edition and All Things Considered.

Alumnus/a Name:  Michael McCally '52

Title:  Protecting the Environment and Preventing Nuclear War

Source:  Morley Science Medal speaker
Date:  April 14, 2005
Link:  Read presentation text

Alumnus/a Name:  Howard Lev '73
Title:  Food: Artisanal Taste Makers Take Their Passion National
Source:  Newsweek
Date:  September 26, 2005
Section:  Pages 48-54
Article Summary:   Featured as one of 15 top picks, Mama Lil's, Howard Lev's Seattle company, gets great press in this spread on businesses that have devoted their efforts to creating exceptional food using the best ingredients.

Alumnus/a Name:  James Robertson '55

Title:  Do Americans Still Want an Independent Judiciary?

Source:  Chapel Program speaker at Reunion Weekend 2005
Date:  June 11 , 2005
Link:  Read presentation text

Alumnus/a Name:  Jeffrey Jacobstein '02
Title:  Akron Youths Play New York
Source:  Beacon Journal (Akron)
Date:  June 14, 2005
Section:  n/a
Article Summary:   This article about the Akron Youth Symphony (scheduled to perform at Carnegie Hall on June 11,2005) includes interview quotes from WRA college senior Jeffrey Jacobstein who plated with the Akron Youth Symphony when he was a student at Reserve.  Now Jacobstein's brother, Eric, plays with the symphony and is a freshman at Reserve in the fall.

Alumnus/a Name:  David Nicksay '70

Title:  How I Got from Hudson to Hollywood

Source:  Burton D. Morgan Speaker Series guest speaker
Date:  February 24 , 2005
Link:  Read presentation text

Alumnus/a Name:  R. W. Apple, Jr. '52
Title:  Appetite for the U.S.A.
Source:  Newsweek
Date:  May 16, 2005
Section:  Page 11
Article Summary:   Discusses the book Apple’s America: The Discriminating Traveler’s Guide to 40 Great Cities in the United States and Canada.  (Apple’s latest travel guide offers a wide array of travel tips for forty U.S. and Canadian cities, including historical trivia, museums and other landmarks to see, activities to participate in, and recommended hotel and restaurant listings.  Offering a charming, refreshing, and often humorous perspective of each city’s character, this guide is for those who want to get the most out of the cities they visit.)

Alumnus/a Name:  Matthew LaWell '02

Title: A Bobcat in Ewing Kauffman's Court: A Young Man's Account of Fulfilling a Boyhood Dream

Source: Blog at www.kansascitybobcat.blogspot.com/ (Note: Link may expire without notice.)

Date: April 2005
Summary: Mr. LaWell is completing an internship with Major League Baseball and the Kansas City Chiefs. "I either cover the Royals' opponent or help cover the Royals if an MLB.com writer is in town to cover the opponent. When I'm covering the opponent, I write a pre-game notebook, a short running game recap, a longer more detailed gamer that needs to be turned in 90 minutes after the last out and a preview for the next game. When I help cover the Royals I write the notebook, the preview and a sidebar. I also travel to Wichita or Omaha about once a month to cover the Royals Double-A and Triple-A teams, the Wranglers and the O-Royals."

Alumnus/a Name:  Ian Frazier '69

Title:  Out of Ohio: Leaving Home
Source:   The New Yorker
Date:  January 10, 2005

Section:  pp. 40-45

Article Summary:  Much of this essay revolves around Frazier's coming of age in Hudson and briefly mentions Western Reserve Academy.

Alumnus/a Name: William D. Perez ’65

Title:  Nike Co-founder Resigns as President, CEO
Source: The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
Date:  November 19, 2004
Section:  From newspaper website; article by Anne M. Peterson, Associated Press

Article Summary:  Announces the appointment of Mr. Perez to the position of CEO for Nike Inc.

Alumnus/a Name:  Ian Frazier '69

Title:  If Memory Doesn't Serve
Source:   Atlantic Monthly
Date:  October 2004
Section:  Vol. 294 Issue 3, p. 103

Article Summary:  Presents information on Ian Frazier's earlier works, On the Rez (2000) and Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody (1987, 1997).

Alumnus/a Name:  R. W. Apple, Jr. '52
Title:  Kerry in the Lead, but Almost by Default
Source:  New York Times
Date:  October 21, 2004
Section:  Front section, p. A26
Article Summary:  Reports on U.S. Senator John Kerry's lead in Michigan over President George W. Bush for the presidential election.

Alumnus/a Name: Sean Cusack '00

Title:  The Production of Silicon Wafers Through the Use of the Czochralski Growth Process
Source: res: journal of undergraduate research and writing, University of Pennsylvania
Date:  Spring 2004
Section:  Volume 1 Number 1

Article Summary:  One of three authors for an award-winning article by the title noted above.

Alumnus/a Name: Hugh Geoghegan ’63
Source: Boston Globe
Date: April 18, 2004
Section: Sunday Magazine supplement
Article Summary: Discusses Mr. Geoghegan’s role with the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq.