Taylor leaves legacy of service to Cardinal, UW
Longtime Cardinal supporter and staffer Robert Taylor, UW professor emeritus, passed away on December 27, 2002 from complications from a stroke. Taylor served the Cardinal for 40 years, giving his name to the DCAA service award.
Alumni who will be missed
This April, we will be hosting our fifth Daily Cardinal Awards Dinner. We will be celebrating the achievements of our own. We add them to the ranks of those we have felt extreme pride in being counted among them as fellow Cardinal staffers.
We do this, unfortunately, for the first time with the namesake of the Robert Taylor Service Award. As you have read in this issue, Bob passed away in December 2002.
Bob attended the Dinner every year and congratulated those who fit in his mold of providing service to the paper. He served on the staff and board of the Cardinal for almost 40 years. He taught us about commitment and history and the importance of being there to help.
I also want to remember two former advertising managers who left us recently: Syrentha Savio (1992) and Lisa Klitzky (1998). Both lost their lives to cancer at young ages. I worked with both of them and can say that these extraordinary people who you would have been proud to know. If you can, have a look at the Syrentha Savio Endowment web site http://www.syrentha.org. Help out if you can.
You will all be missed.
Cardinal alumni collaborate, take web magazine to print
Two Cardinal alumni from the late 1990s will bring their online magazine to print for the first time.
BOSTON, MADISON AND SANTA ROSA - Flak Magazine, an online journal that has written about everything from the implosion of Michael Jackson's career to the rise of McGriddles breakfast sandwiches, is distributing its first print incarnation after five years on the Web.
Flak, which reaches more than 120,000 unique online visitors every month, is helmed by two former Cardinal editors. James Norton Cardinal '98 heads the magazine from Cambridge, Mass., along with managing editor Eric Wittmershaus Cardinal '98. of Santa Rosa, Calif.
Originally conceived at a truckstop just outside of Madison in the fall of 1998, Flak (www.flakmag.com) blossomed into one of the Web's leading independent dailies, with more than 40 contributors. It was cited in a recent issue of The Columbia Journalism Review, quoted by Businessweek, and praised by outlets as diverse as the Houston Chronicle, the Detriot Free Press and the Utne Reader.
Its 104-page print edition (www.flakmag. com/print) unites a raft of regulars - including Film editor and former Cardinal editor Sean Weitner Cardinal '00 - with guest writers like Slate's Rob Walker and cartoonists including The Atlantic Monthly's Sage Stossel.
"It's sort of a relief to see all those ones and zeros finally become something more substantial," says Norton,who earns a living as the Middle East editor of The Christian Science Monitor. "As terrific as the Web has been to us, there's something intensely satisfying about finally creating a physical artifact. Online stuff can be pretty ethereal."
The magazine, which was printed in October will be sold in bookstores across the US, and by online mail order.