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Sequence
22
We were not undergraduates. Nor were we the "Class of 1970." No, students in the Syracuse University master's degree program in radio and television were called "Sequence 22." TVR Department chairman Lawrence Myers, Jr. (pictured here) explained the nomenclature in a letter. "When we started our graduate program in 1950, we were accepting two groups each year; one started in June and the other in September. To keep them separated in the minds of the faculty, we considered each group a separate sequence and started a numbering system. After two years, we began accepting only one group each fall but retained our consecutive numbering." According to the introductory schedule which I still have in my files, Sequence 22 assembled for the first time on Tuesday, September 9, 1969, in Auditorium A-1 of the Newhouse Communications Center.
On Wednesday morning at 9:00, one of the professors, A. William Bluem, gave us part of our homework assignment for the next 11 months. In a few days we would receive a list of 500 books, of which we were expected to read 25 by the time we completed our studies. "A reading list such as this is only a beginning," he wrote in the foreword. "The graduate student in television, having committed himself to the concerns of public communications, has the obligation to make an immediate start." The 21 pages of authors and titles seemed daunting. However, having already accepted the concept of a well-rounded liberal education, I approved of this idea, and I did make an immediate start. I eventually would read biographies of James Gordon Bennett and Mathew Brady, A Guide to Keynes, memoirs by Leo Rosten and Eric Sevareid, chronicles of newsreels and the Associated Press, History of Radio to 1926, George Orwell's 1984, Rod Serling's Patterns, and many textbookish volumes. Next on the agenda, we reported to the Newhouse photo studio at 10:30. Chief TV-Radio engineer John Sorgel snapped our pictures with a Polaroid camera, three at a time. Apparently he didn't bother to make any adjustments to allow for our varying heights.
One person thought, "If anyone would have a list of our class, it would be Tom Thomas." Do have a list?! I certainly do! With pictures, even. Here you are, fellow Sequence-mates. |
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Sr. M. Jeanelle Bergen Elwood S. Berry Harold Blumberg |
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Laurence Borenstein Reta Bourlier Juliette Bowles |
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R. David Boyd Jon Brictson Peter Bushyeager
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Sandy Campbell Donald Carroll Mark Clarcq
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E. Price Comly Vicki Doenges Allen Dogger
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Charles Dunn Fred Fidanque Eric Glazer
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Marylou Haley Donald Ham John Hedinger III
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David Hepp Kenneth Highberger Karl Holifield
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Vincent Ialenti Barry Iselin Karen Jacobsen
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J. Stephen Kenna Stephen Krant Irina Kupcis
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George Lawrence Betty Lesser Richard Lewis
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David Lieberth Howard Lowe John MacKerron
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Edith McClurg Robert Menter Noelle Miller
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Filomenita Mongaya Susan Morris Sebiletso Mokone
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Edward Moro Mary Murrow Paul Neal
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Janet Papajani Wilder Penfield III James Powell
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Elsa Ransom Charles Reina Judson Rosebush
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Nancy Ross Alexander Sahlman Luis Santeiro
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Elliot Schwartz Arthur Scott Karen Shepard
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Kenneth Simon Patricia Sloan Paul Smith
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Stephen Talley Tom Thomas James Tonkovich
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Douglas Wakefield Michael Watt Theodore Wing II
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Marilyn Wishner Georgia Dzurica Joe Castiglione Ellie Hubbard
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Bruce Finley Hans-Jürgen Hermel Roy Morrow
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