2005 Daily Cardinal Alumni Awards
The winners of the Daily Cardinal Alumni Association are chosen by a committee of DCAA Board members and approved by the full DCAA board. The awards will be presented at our April 29, 2005 awards dinner in Madison. Congratulations to our 2005 winners:
Daily Cardinal Hall of Fame
This award is given to alumni who have made a major contribution to the history of The Daily Cardinal, and/or who have achieved significant renown in their chosen field. Past winners include Richard Leonard, Susan Davis, Leona Schecter, Miriam Ottenberg, Robert G. Lewis, Neal Ulevich, Walt Bogdanich and Robert Teague, among others.
This year's winners
Willard G. Bleyer, one of the Daily Cardinal's earliest editors and founder of the Wisconsin Journalism School.
Steven Pogorzelski, CEO of Monster.com
Cardinal Business Manager 1983
John Darnton, of The New York Times and winner of the Pulitzer-Prize in 1982 for his reporting from Poland.
Daily Cardinal editor 1967
Jack Geiger, physician, professor at the City University of New York Medical School whose work in rural health care and underserved populations has been cited by the United Nations Population Fund.
Daily Cardinal Editor 1944
Abigail Goldman, reporter for the Los Angeles Times, whose series on Wal-Mart won the Pulitzer Prize last year.
Daily Cardinal campus editor 1992
Robert Taylor Service Award
Named for the Cardinal's longest-serving board member, the late Professor Robert Taylor, this award honors a Cardinal alumnus who performed extraordinary service to The Daily Cardinal, either during his or her tenure as a student editor, or afterward as an alum. Past winners include Bill Swislow, Jeff Smoller, Ivan Strmecki and Brannon Lambert.
This year's winner
Gail Bensinger, who led the Cardinal during the tumultuous '64-'65 term, participated in the Selma March, and stood behind a staff member who was denounced for "living with known communists."
William Wesley Young Award
Named for the Cardinal's founder, this award recognizes a recent Cardinal graduate who has achieved significant advancement in his or her chosen career within five to fifteen years of leaving the newspaper. Past winners include Anthony Shadid, John Kovalic and Peter Kafka.
This year's winner
James Norton, 1998 Cardinal editor in chief, formerly the Middle East Editor for the Christian Science Monitor and now director of research for Al Franken's "The O'Franken Factor" on Air America Radio.
Alumnus of the Year Award
Given to the Cardinal alumnus who has achieved the most outstanding level of work in the past year. Past winners include Marilyn Johnson Shuman, Nancy Bobrowitz, Jonathan Wolman and Ben Karlin.
This year's winner
Anthony Shadid, whose coverage of the war in Iraq for the Washington Post, undertaken at great risk to himself just a short time after being wounded by gunmen in Ramallah while covering the Palestinian intifada there, was recognized with a Pulitzer Prize last year.
A special thanks to all those who submitted suggestions and nominees. Your efforts are greatly appreciated.
Hope to see you all at this year's event!
Nominations for DCAA Awards Now Open
Our 2005 event is approaching fast, and we need your suggestions for our DCAA Alumni Awards. Who should we honor for professional achievement or service to the Cardinal? Who should be our alumnus of the year?
Post your suggestions in the forum thread Here.
Nominations will be open until Nov. 15.
5 years of Daily Cardinal Alumni Award winners fill honor rolls
Forty-one alumni have been honored as either the Alumnus of the Year, the William Wesley Young Alumnus Award, the Robert Taylor Service Award or the Daily Cardinal Hall of Fame.
Cardinal alumni can all agree: few of us have worked harder or longer hours than when we worked at the Cardinal. One of the missions of the DCAA was to recognize those alumni whose work meant so much to the paper, who led it through world wars, staff strikes, protests and all kinds of problems.
We also wanted to recognize the alumni who went on to do great things for journalism, whose exploits and accomplishments have made everyone associated with the Cardinal proud. The following is a list of our honored alumni:
William Wesley Young Award
Given to a young Cardinal alumnus who shows promise in his or her career
| 1999 | Anthony Shadid |
| 2000 | John Kovalic |
| 2001 | Nathan Brackett |
| 2002 | Peter Kafka |
| 2003 | Stephen Thompson |
Alumnus of the Year Award
| 1999 | Jonathan Wolman |
| 2000 | Nancy Bobrowitz |
| 2001 | Eric Newhouse |
| 2002 | Ben Karlin |
| 2003 | Marilyn Shuman |
Robert Taylor Service Award
Given to a Cardinal alumnus whose work demonstrated outstanding commitment to the paper and made a lasting change in the Cardinal's history
| 1999 | Robert Taylor |
| 2000 | Ivan Stremcki and Brannon Lambert |
| 2001 | Dave Newman |
| 2002 | Bill Swislow |
| 2003 | Cliff Behnke and Jeff Smoller |
Hall of Fame
| 1999 | John Patrick Hunter | Richard Leonard | Karl Meyer | Edwin Newman | Miriam Ottenberg* |
| 2000 | Robert G. Lewis | Arlene Bahr Chandler | Eileen Martinson Lavine | Marilyn Johnson Shuman | Dorothy Browne Haines |
| 2001 | Mort Levine | Robert Teague | Neal Ulevich | Walt Bogdanich | |
| 2002 | Susan Davis | Jeff Greenfield | Irwin Maier* | Jerrold and Leona Schecter | Richard Schickel |
| 2003 | James Burgess | Avram Butensky | Rosanne Klass | Rocco Landesman |
* Posthumous