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Augist is usülly a quiet time muns:o students; very few faculty;otr it weather. It’s a great time toj4ecithe employers, internship

best of PaIl, alumni.what we did on August 22nd,

j2jwhen Jim Piatt, the Assistant,evelopment for the College[41rofCcnnm,caon, and I went to

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visited seveof those companiesincluding NorteIricsson, and DSC)to introduce the what the McClureSchool has to offI I also talked to the

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$10,000 scholarship check

MCI ScholarshipsThe MCI Foundation has given us

two more $5,000 scholarships for thisnext academic year. This is the secondyear we have received these scholarships,and we owe them to the good will ofFrank Kozel, retiring Senior VicePresident, and the hard work of alumnusLisa Gnibish ‘94.

Scholarships are awarded to Communication Systems Management majors ingood standing, who have demonstratedfinancial need, have a grade point averageof at least 3.0, and have completed thefirst four courses in the CSM curriculum.Current recipients are seniors ReginaSewell and Nathan Peters. Selections fornext year’s scholarships will be made thisspring.

New FacultyThe Communication Systems Man

agement faculty will fmally be at full

staff winter quarter. Philip DaleCampbell will be joining the facultyas an assistant professor. Phil hasbeen the Product DevelopmentManager at Cintech TeleManagementSystems in Cincinnati, where heworked on cost allocation and ACDsoftware products. Prior to joiningCintech, he held several positions atTelco Research in Nashville, Tennessee. Phil has a B.S. in Astronomyfrom the University of Michigan, anM.S. in Physics from Louisiana StateUniversity, and an M.S. inAstronomy from the State Universityof New York at Stony Brook.

Before going into industry, Philtaught astronomy and physics atLouisiana State, thó State Universityof New York at Stony Brook, andValparaiso University in Indiana. Heand his wife, Cindy, and their twosons are moving to Athens inDecember.

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New Advisory Board Member Michael P. Smith, Branch Manager ofNational AccountsforMCI Telecommunications in Columbus, presents Director Phyllis Bernt with a

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Phil will be teaching a variety ofcourses, including COMT 214(formerly COMT 100) and COMT444 (formerly COMT 470). If youwant to welcome him aboard, hisoffice address and telephone numberand his email address are:

015C RTVC Building614.593.4907pcampbelll@ohiou.edu

Communication Week

Plans are heating up for thisspring’s Communication Week. This

year we are departing from tradition.Instead of Wednesday, our day ofCommunication Week will beTuesday, April 30th. The theme forthis year’s Communication Weekdeals with communication andcommunity.

The Communication Week plannerswould welcome your input and ideas.Brett Lambing is the Comm WeekChair; the easiest way to reach him isthrough the School’s voice mailsystem at 614.593.0420, ext. 1999.Trevor Roycroft is the Comm WeekAdvisor; his number is614.593.4887.

Hope we see you in Athens onApril 30th!

Faculty Activities

We’re all keeping busy trying to stayon top of a very quickly changingfield. Hans Kruse, after working forNASA in Cleveland last summer, gave apresentation on satellite technology tothe PROMS 95 Conference in Salzburg,Austria, in October.

Varadharajan Sridhar presented apaper at the International Federation ofrations Research Conference on Operations Research and EngineeringDesign in St. Louis in October.

Trevor Roycroft was on a panel onthe impact of local telephone competition in Ohio; the panel took place inDayton and was sponsored by the Cityof Dayton, the Legal Aid Society ofDayton, and three state senators.

One of the last acts of Congress’ Office of Technology Assessment, before

it fell to the budget ax, was to releaseGlobal Communications: Opoortunities

Trade a report for whichPhyllis Bernt served as a reviewer andcontributor.

Let us know if you’d like furtherdetails about any of these activities.

Homecoming: LuckyFriday the 13th

Our experiment this year worked.Instead of competing with parades andfootball games on Homecoming Saturday,we held a reception on Friday afternoon,October 13th. It may have been Fridaythe 13th, but we felt pretty lucky becauseof the folks who dropped by:

Mark Atwood ‘93, Doug Boe ‘94(and his wife, Jennifer, a Journalismalum), Crystal Hayduk ‘93, ChristieKoza ‘94, Jon Petz ‘94, and Beth Young‘84. Advisory Board member John Lusaand his wife Marilyn also joined us.

We’d like to make Homecoming receptions on Friday afternoon a tradition.Hope you can join us next October 25th,1996.

Advisory BoardPresentation

The Advisory Board, at its fallmeeting October 26th and 27th,presented two panels for our studentsdealing with the impact of LocalCompetition. The first panel discussiondealt with LEC providers; the secondpanel covered business customers andtelecom suppliers.

From left to right, Christie Koza, Beth Young, Jenn!fer Bowie, Doug Bowie, Trevor Roycroft and Phyllis Bernt enjoy refreshments at the

Homecoming Reception.

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In addition to Board members DougBallou (Ballou Consulting), SteveBowman (The Associated Group), CarlBuckner (AT&T), Jason Comstock ‘89(CompuServe), John Lusa (InternationalCommunications), Brian Murphy(Nortel), Bob Olds (LCI International),Ron Ott (Cincinnati Bell), and BruceReynolds (Sprint), we had representatives from the PUCO, Ameritech, andTime Warner. Bruce Reynoldsspearheaded the planning for the panels.Randy Risch ‘93 was able to join us forpart of the Board meeting, but wemissed seeing Susan Lammert ‘87,Lori Rogers Sternisha ‘89, and AnneTimmonere-Bennett ‘85.

Congratulations!

Congratulations to the followingrecent graduates on their new positions.Chris Rezentes, James King and MattReese, MCI. Danielle Vrenna,Limited Distribution Services. BobMay, Chatham College. Tod Bickley,Claremont Technology Group, Inc.Mike Nelson and Jeff Perry, LCIInternational. Amy Frisch, J.C.Penney. William Coleman, militaryservice. Dennis Corfman, IntegratedTelemanagement.

Kwong Chiu is attending graduateschool at the University of Colorado.

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Future Grads - Put your resume inthe COMT Resume Book. Most ofmy interviews came from this book!It works! - Richard Raybould

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Where is Scott Chne’ - KevinFeder

Frank November - Hope you areenjoying London! Call me or email me. Sara Marxen - your..narneisinfamousonflourboaSt! -

DebMifler

Amy Hay - Let’s do lunch inWashington, DC. HOW aboutChinese? Call me 908-821-0063.Lori Kristoff - Hello!! Hope all iswell! - Irene Kehayas

Cody Lewis - Where are you?!!Karen Vasenda

Curriculum QuestionCurriculum, like anything else,

needs to be fine tuned, and fme tuningour curriculum is something we do allthe time. We are interested in knowingwhich of our courses are effective andwhy. We’d like your help in thiseffort, so please take a minute whenyou fill out the information form onpage 7 to let us know which CSM classyou found most valuable and why.

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Allen ‘94, Michelle Baer ‘94, DianeBeyman ‘93, Brian Chylik ‘94,Kevin Feder ‘94, Laurie Fisher ‘94,Leslie Gogan ‘94, Roberto Jesi ‘92,James King ‘95, . Jennifer

iddEeton ‘92, KristaMublenkamp ‘95, and Eric Zines‘91). Visiting alumni is definitelyone of the major perks of this job.So’s hearing from everyone outthere, so keep in touch!

Thanks to everyone who returned aresponse form from the summerWATSI1ne. Here’s what you told us:

Elizabeth Tragas-Duenas ‘86 is amanager for the Center forTechnology Enablement Group forErnst & Young, which specializes inplanning, designing, and procuringvoice/data communication networks.Peter Leusch ‘90 got married andbought a house. Lisa Chapman ‘85was promoted to Product Manager-Video Services at Ameritech. Shemanages VTel & PictureTel productlines. Heather Starr-Vizmeg ‘92, Sr.Voice Communications Analyst withRoadway Information Technology, isbuilding a new home on three acres.

Kevin O’Brien ‘89 is a Sales Representative for Bay Networks, coveringCincinnati, Dayton, and NorthernKentucky. Cory Sicldes ‘91, National Account Senior Technical Representative for Comdata Corporation,got married in January, 1994. JoelEidelberg ‘86, Carrier Account Manager with Cable & Wireless, has been

traveling throughout the U.S. tryingto sell access on the C&W Network.

Ric Wasserman ‘87, President ofWorld’s Best Bagels, Inc., is opening

a new store January, 1996, inColumbus, Ohio. Robert May ‘95,Telephone System Administrator withChatham College, manages a ROLM9751 CBX and is in charge of allphone services on campus. MichaelReese ‘92 is working at HuntsmanPackaging Corporation as an AreaSales Manager. Frank November‘92 is continuing his MBA course-work at the London Business School,

England.

Todd Bahner ‘86 got married inMay, 1995. He is a Product Manager, Hyperstream Frame Relay Service, for MCI. Crystal Hayduk ‘93is a Project Manager with AT&T

Global Business Communication Systems. Beth Young ‘84 returned toschool at Golden Gate University topursue a master’s degree in telecommanagement. Steve Engle ‘92,Senior Product DevelopmentSpecialist in Business and Technologyfor LCI International, married ‘93 OUalum Tina Giustino (Maria GiustinoLePore’s sister). David Drazga ‘88is working as a Consultant withAndersen Consulting.

Erin Revak ‘91 just graduated witha master’s degree in vocational rehabilitation counseling. She is lookingfor a position working with industrially and/or traumatically injuredworkers. Marshall Clark ‘85, Systems Analyst I with Synergy, Inc.,reports that Synergy is rapidlyexpanding and things are going well.Julie Meredith-Roddy ‘92, ProjectManager with Ameritech, marriedMichael Roddy August 12. AltheaHill ‘89, Technology Consultant withAT&T GIS, received her masters inmanagement last July. Lori Kristoff‘90 has been working for Ameritechin a sales support position. She hasalso been doing volunteer work forthe Ronald McDonald House.

Doug Burger ‘88, Design Coordinator for Norstan Communications, isworking towards an MBA degree atthe University of Cincinnati.Michael Stephens ‘93, AssociateProduct Manager-Internet Services at

LCI International, just fmished amasters program in information andcommunication sciences at Ball State.

Danielle Vrenna ‘95 is working at theLimited Distribution Services as aTelecommunication Analyst.

Glenn Ruff ‘88 accepted a positionas Corporate TelecommunicationsManager at CoreSource. His infantdaughter attended her first OU football game in September. KarlynneStanley ‘93 transferred to CITS,

another business unit of AT&T, as aTechnology Consultant. IreneKehayas ‘90, Voice Operations Coordinator for Merck & Company, isenrolled in the MBA Program at RiderUniversity in Lawrenceville, NJ. DebMiller ‘92 started working in June forCox Fibernet as a Hi-Cap Coordinator.Lori Poston ‘88, Sponsorship Sales Account Coordinator for Orlando Magic,finished her MBA from the universityof Central Florida in December 1994.Kevin Feder ‘94, National AccountSupport Consultant State Governmentand University Systems, at MCI is engaged to be married. RichardRaybould ‘95, TelecommunicationsSpecialist with Aetna Health Plans, saysthat he is getting great experience invoice/data. Jason HaIl ‘95 is workingas a Network Systems Technician atThe Longaberger Company.

Robin Polansky-Chilton ‘91 wasaccepted into Cleveland State’s 1997Occupational Therapy program. BradChilton ‘91 works for TRW and ispursuing an MBA at John CarrollUniversity. Jason Comstock ‘89, IP/Internet Services Manager at CompuServe, had a baby girl September 3,1995. Congratulations!

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