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Marjorie "Marge" Blewett died February 15, 2019 at the age of 91. During her time at IU, she was editor-in-chief of the Indiana Daily Student and worked for The Daily Herald, now The Herald-Times. She launched her post-graduate career at newspapers in Bloomington and Lafayette, but returned to the IU School of Journalism in 1965 as a lecturer. She then served as the school’s placement director for 20 years.
Blewett funded a journalism school scholarship, was a member of the IU Journalism Hall of Fame, founded the Ernie Pyle Society and was named Sagamore of the Wabash. She remained involved with the School of Journalism, and later The Media School, until the time of her death and was a mentor to many students.
Helen Rummel, BAJ’23, started as The Arizona Republic's higher education reporter in December 2023. (January 2024)
Samantha Latson was named a 2024 POLITICO Fellow. Before joining POLITICO, she was a breaking news reporter at the Kansas City Star. She covered the March for Our Lives protest against gun violence as an intern at the Washington Post. Latson was a reporter/editor on the Unforgotten 51 Project, which produced award-winning reports on the untold stories of murdered Chicago women. She won first-place NABJ Salute to Excellence awards in 2021, 2022, and 2023. (January 2024)
Macy "Mace" Broide died Dec. 22, 2017. At 17 years old, Broide arrived at IU shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor, which had a significant impact on the trajectory of his education, as he details in a memory honoring the former School of Journalism’s centennial. Broide got involved with the Indiana Daily Student as a freshman, working his way up to editor-in-chief of the paper.
His studies were temporarily interrupted as he was drafted to the war, where he worked as a war correspondent. He returned a decorated combat veteran, having earned silver and bronze stars for his combat reporting. After graduating in 1947, he was a political writer and TV newscaster for Scripps Howard in Evansville, Indiana. He later moved to Washington, D.C., to work as a campaign manager and aide for Sen. Vance Hartke of Indiana. After 10 years as a public affairs consultant, he returned to Capitol Hill as chief of staff of the House Budget Committee. His wife, Gloria Goldsholl Broide, ’47, also was a journalism student. She died in November 2009.
George K. Englehart was 93 when he died Dec. 3, 2015. He was a longtime Courier-Journal Indianapolis bureau chief, covering politics national politics and elections, the Indiana Statehouse and Southern Indiana news. He also wrote a political column for years before retiring in 1984. Englehart was inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame in 1987 and was the first president of the IU Journalism Alumni Association.
Bitt Moon will join the Department of Integrated Marketing Communication at the University of Mississippi as a tenure-track assistant professor in the fall of 2024. After earning her PhD at IU Media School last year, Dr. Moon has been a visiting professor in the program. (December 2023)
died March 26, 2019, in Sarasota, Florida. He was co-founder of the Neal-Marshall Alumni Club, a Kappa Alpha Psi life member and president and founder of the Center for Leadership Development in Indianapolis.
Bundles is believed to have been the first black student to earn a degree from the IU School of Journalism.
After serving as a photographer and reporter in the Navy during World War II following graduation, he became a circulation manager and learned the business side of journalism while mentoring the young students who delivered papers.
He worked as the sales and advertising manager for the Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company before serving as CEO of Summit Laboratories from 1962-1972.
As president and founder of the Center for Leadership Development in Indianapolis from 1977 to 2000, he prepared youth of color for futures in business and community leadership. When Bundles retired in 2000, the CLD had mentored more than 5,000 central Indiana students.
Bundles also served as director of the Indianapolis Convention and Visitors Association, was a founding director of Midwest National Bank and served as a festival director for the Indianapolis 500 and chairman of the Indianapolis Business Development Foundation.
Katherine Virginia Patton Sinn, longtime academic advisor in the former School of Journalism, died March 17, 2017. Sinn also worked as a recorder in the College of Arts & Sciences. She retired in 1988.
Jevan McCoskey is sports director for WXXV 25 in Gulfport, Mississippi. (December 2023)
