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Courses (pdf) | Communication Department Alumni Alumni of Castleton's Communication Program have found success in a variety of communication-related fields, from public information positions at local non-profit organizations to Sundance Festival honored films. Some are listed below. Alumni: Please contact the department if your entry needs to be changed or deleted, or if you would like to be added to the list. We have contact information on many Communication alumni, so if you want to get in touch with someone email us to see if we have information. Alumni Elissa Levin is a graphic designer for State Street Global Advisors in Boston. Tod Lyons, after 20 years service with the Coast Guard in which he worked on public communication situations from the Galapogos oil spill to 9-11, has become Senior Consultant for the public relations firm Ann Green Communications. Al Difiore recently recorded the soundtrack and mixed the film Stranger: Bernie Worrell on Earth, which has won a number of film festival awards. Brian Emerson is "Visual Assault Commander" at RSN where he produces extreme sport video. Kevin Rapf works at Park City Television which is at the heart of the Sundance Film Festival. Dave Dubois is sales manager for Shipyard Brewing in Portland, ME. Jay Sullivan produces promotional video at ESPN. Pat Kenny Gagnon writes and produces video for Bay State Medical Center and is an award winning poet and fiction writer. Craig Conklin is commercial producer for the UPN and WB affiliate in Raleigh, NC. Tony Norton teaches digital audio and media, and listening and analysis classes at The New England Institute of Art in Boston when he's not working on TV and film productions in the area. Rob Ayles, after working as Manager of Administrative Services of The WBUR Group in Boston for many years, is a fund raiser for The Greater Boston Food Bank. Dan Hunt is Program Director at WWKX, Providence. Lisa Linehan is a camera operator at WCAX, Burlington. Mike Wallace is partner and editor at Crystal Ball Video Productions in Phoenix. Dave Kaye is associate professor of theater at the University of New Hampshire. John Crowley has recently become Manager of Business Analysis for Neomorphic biotechnology firm. Jan Ellstrom just accepted a position with TVData creating ads in their book TV America and working on their web site. Tim Kane continues to edit for major network and advertising clients at Finish in Boston. Scott Knowlton, after years at Finish, recently started Engine Room Edit, a high end post-production facility with major advertising clients on Boylston Street in Boston. Kevin Hitchcock is a news videographer and editor for WTNH in New Haven. Abby Kellam recently became a marketing manager at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in New Jersey. Don Wells is Executive Producer of What Alice Found, an independent film that was one of the 16 finalists at the 2002 Sundance festival. Don's credits include Creator and Executive Producer of Scary Stories, and Executive Producer, Writer and/or Director of Disney's Z-Games, ESPN's Sports Figures (winner of the Parents' Choice Award), and Discovery Kids' special Kenny the Shark. Greg Wimer was "focus puller" on The Perfect Storm and first camera assistant on Cider House Rules and In the Bedroom. Joe Lewi, after a stint as General Manager of Rye Airfield, an extreme sports park, in Rye NH, is a marketing and promotional consultant. Matt Weiss, after 10 years at NBC, is Senior Design Engineer at Communication Engineering, Scott Trayer is a psychiatrist in Latrobe, PA. Tad Lemire continues as "morning drive" air personality at WCTK, Providence, RI. Travis Fahey, formerly an award winning reporter for the Addison Independent is a public relations specialist at General Dynamics in Burlington. Kevin Hitchcock is a news editor for WTNH in Connecticut. Matt Torneo edits highlights for SportsCenter and ESPN News. Andy Gillespie is a producer at Resort Sports Network at Sugarloaf/USA. Jason Gregg was recently appointed to the position of Media Production Specialist at Bryant University. Marilou Childs (Bagley) has moved into Customer Support at the high tech ink jet firm Dimatix. Rich Frost recently directed the independent film The Last Sentence, produced by the Newport Film Salon. His play Oh My God I am Heartily Sorry runs in New York this summer. Alex Hyatt is Assistant Editor of the NY State Department of Environmental Conservation publication The Conservationist. Mike Terry is an attorney with Konowitz and Greenberg in Boston. Lluvia Mulvaney-Stanak, after a stint as executive director of Outright Vermont in Burlington is Assistant Coordinator of Community Service in The University of Vermont 's Student Life Department. Dan Brown runs Foxfire Energy, a company that deals with Renewable Energy Systems. Matt Essenwine (aka Matt Forrest) is production director for Nassau Broadcasting's southern NH cluster of five radio stations in the Concord-Manchester area. Gordon Dritschillo, a reporter at The Rutland Herald, is working on a book on Stalin's forced repatriation of Cossacks in Austria after World War II. Sky Barsch, after becoming the Vermont Press Association rookie of the year at The Barre Times Argus in 2004, is a reporter for The burlington Free Press. Mark Maxham is a director for Fox Sports in L.A. where he works on extreme sports show 54321. He recently found himself working with... Dave Lee who is a producer for Speedvision in North Carolina. Josh Height is a master's candidate in digital media at Quinnipiac University. EMMY NOMINATIONS: Other Castleton alumni continue to work at NBC, Warner, major production and editing facilities in New York, LA, Phoenix, Boston and elsewhere, network affiliates all over the country, The Boston Globe and other major newspapers, major corporations and public relations firms, internet and web design companies, etc. |
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