One success is never enough

With all of the alumni and staff present, celebrating the joys of being together and being part of the Cardinal, it looked like we had done what we set out to do.

But we have only just begun.

With this issue, the DCAA begins the long haul: to continue to bring closer together and closer to the Cardinal and to help the Cardinal become the ideal of our own ideals as the best place to learn and teach the trade and business of journalism.

We are starting our first annual fund-raising campaign. Our goal will be nothing short of recapitalization and revamping the entire newsroom: to have the students' newsroom experience lack nothing their paid, professional counterparts possess.

We are doing this in the name of someone that those of us planning the award dinner got to know well: the late Miriam Ottenberg.

Miriam, a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter who credited her start to the Cardinal, exemplified the best possible result of student experience at the Cardinal. She went on to break ground at all levels of the trade, received its highest honor and got the utmost respect of her peers and sources, including Robert F. Kennedy.

This new newsroom will be her newsroom: it will be the best environment for students to develop into the next generation of groundbreakers. With your help, we can do this. And, Miriam, we think, would be proud.