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http://alumni.dailybruin.com/news-and-events

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The Daily Bruin Alumni Network is excited to host its first alumni reunion on the UCLA campus this fall! Please RSVP here: http://giving.ucla.edu/2018DailyBruinReunion

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Join us Friday afternoon for breakout sessions with past and present Daily Bruin staffers, along with tours of campus and the newsroom. A full daytime schedule to come.

That evening, we will gather in the James West Alumni Center for a reception and dinner program, which will feature the Daily Bruin Alumni Network's first Distinguished Alumni honoree and updates from the organizational leadership and fundraising committees.

Join one of our meet-ups on Saturday, either to tailgate the UCLA football game in Pasadena or watch together in Westwood. Location specifics to come.

Questions? Want to see who else is coming? Check out our Facebook event: www.facebook.com/events/315031935913662

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The Daily Bruin Alumni Network is dedicated to supporting the Daily Bruin and its thousands of alumni across the globe. In 2018, the UCLA Alumni Association recognized the group as an affinity network at the DBAN's first reunion on campus.

Through robust networking, mentoring and fundraising, we hope to build the Daily Bruin Alumni Network to support our fellow alumni and The Bruin. Please see the areas below that we are focusing on in the 2018-19 year.

To get involved in any of these committees, please contact the alumni network's leadership team here.

COMMITTEES AND PROJECTS

MEMBERSHIP & NETWORKING
There are over 2,000+ UCLA alumni with known ties to the Daily Bruin, but we need help getting them to join the Daily Bruin Alumni Network. This committee will work with the UCLA Alumni Association to bring more of our fellow alumni home, creating a comprehensive alumni directory and helping foster alumni connections through regional meet-ups and outreach. With a better understanding of our own alumni base and expertise contained therein, this group will work closely with the Mentoring team to connect students with alumni in various professions and with the Daily Bruin's student alumni director on newsletters, website updates and social media.

EVENTS & #DB100
Partnering with the UCLA Alumni Association and the Daily Bruin staff, this committee will plan and host the Daily Bruin's 100th birthday celebration in the 2019-2020 centennial academic year of UCLA. Committee members will develop daytime panels and workshops for students and alumni, along with dinner speakers and presenters. They will promote the event and recruit corporate partners to help subsidize and scale up the centennial celebration. This committee will also help lead nominations and awarding of the DBAN Distinguished Alumni Award.

SCHOLARSHIPS & FUNDRAISING
By the #DB100 Celebration, we aim to raise $20,000 for urgent equipment replacement needs at The Bruin ($10,000 alumni gift) and the first awards of the Daily Bruin Alumni Scholarship for students pursuing careers in journalism at The Bruin (four scholarships of $2,500 each). This committee will develop processes and administer the scholarship, including applications and interviews. It will cultivate donors and generate leads for possible contributions. With our partners at the UCLA Development Office and Student Support Initiative Office, members will study and develop a long-term DBAN alumni scholarship endowment.

ALUMNI MENTORING PROGRAM
In the 2018-2019 academic year, this group will help provide periodic professional critiques of Daily Bruin productions, both print and online editions, and host career preparation sessions. The committee will work with the Membership team to connect student staffers with alumni for career guidance. This team will also work closely with the Daily Bruin's student alumni director to develop the best ways to help students.

MEET THE ALUMNI NETWORK

LEADERSHIP TEAM

Lawrence Ma '95 & Tanner Walters '18 | Daily Bruin Alumni Network co-chairs

Jacqueline Alavarez '19 | Alumni Relations Director, Daily Bruin 2018-19

CLASS CAPTAINS

2010’s: Nicole Vas '10, Sam Schaefer '11, James Barragan '13, Jillian Beck '14, Jose Ubeda '15, Fran Manto '16, Emaan Baqai '17

2000’s: Sara Randazzo '08, Kelly Rayburn '04, Kate Stanhope '09

1990’s: Missy Anderson '96, Christine Strobel '94, Chris Schreiber '95

1980’s: Elisa Williams '82, Michael Bartlett '88

REUNION TEAM

Jillian Beck '14, Gil Hopenstand '97, Don Rosen '86

NETWORK COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Alejandra Reyes Velarde '17, Lauren Jow '12, Tyson Evans '05, Phil Carter '96, Wendy Witherspoon '90, Nancy McCullough '89, Lauren Bartlett '88, Alice Short '77

Currently, the News & Events section is just one normal page. Ideally, this would be a landing spot that links out to specific event pages.

I think some sort of tile formatting with a photo and text. Right now, we'd only have two of those to link to:

Network Launch in SF | Spring 2018

Daily Bruin Reunion | Fall 2018

For images to use:

The text and image for the "Network Launch in SF | Spring 2018" page:

The budding Daily Bruin Alumni Network began to take shape at an April 2018 event hosted by 1994-95 Sports editor Lawrence Ma in San Francisco. Current Daily Bruin staffers joined dozens of UCLA alumni to hear from Matea Gold, the national political enterprise and investigations editor at the Washington Post and a former Daily Bruin editor in chief.

The event helped launch the alumni network and celebrate journalism on campus. To read a full write-up of the evening, please check out the Daily Bruin's recap.

The text for the "Daily Bruin Reunion | Fall 2018 " page:

The Daily Bruin Alumni Network held its first official gathering on October 5, 2018, bringing alumni from across eight decades of the newspaper together in Westwood. More than 100 current and former staffers spent the day on campus, reconnecting with old friends and discussing how to help build the organization.

On Friday afternoon, the newsroom was open and there were breakout sessions with past and present Daily Bruin staffers in Kerckhoff Hall. Panels included discussions with Los Angeles Times reporters who are adjusting to a new office and new ownership. The current managing team discussed the latest news around campus and how things are going at The Bruin. Student staffers heard about careers from media and industry professionals.

The UCLA Alumni Association helped put on the evening's festivities in the James West Alumni Center, where alumni gathered for a reception and dinner program with drinks on the patio and a dinner buffet.

Patrick Healy, an NBC4 Southern California reporter and Daily Bruin alumnus, emceed the program. It also featured Cari Champion, the Daily Bruin Alumni Network's first Distinguished Alumni Award winner.

Champion is one of only a few African-American women anchoring shows at ESPN, and she has become a trailblazer in media. Described as a “game-changer” by Vogue in 2016, she was one of two women named to Sports Illustrated’s prestigious list of Six to Watch in 2016 and was recently included in the Ebony Power 100 of 2017 for representing women in an industry dominated by men.

Lawrence Ma '95 offered updates from the organizational leadership and fundraising committees, noting that the group became an official affinity network of the UCLA Alumni Association. Former media adviser Amy Emmert helped launch the network's mentoring efforts.

The event was planned by the Daily Bruin Alumni Network's reunion committee: Jillian Beck '14, Tanner Walters '18, Gil Hopenstand '97 and Don Rosen '86. Student participation was coordinated by Daily Bruin alumni director Jacqueline Alvarez '19.

Please enjoy photos from the event:

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New updates for the events page: http://alumni.dailybruin.com/news-and-events/

There are wording changes and changes to the image, so I'm reposting the whole page below:

2018
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5

Come back to Kerckhoff Hall to reconnect with fellow alumni and meet current Bruin staffers! We can't wait to see you.

RSVP here for the Daily Bruin Alumni Network's first reunion!

Event details

Afternoon schedule

Join us Friday afternoon for an open newsroom and breakout sessions with past and present Daily Bruin staffers. Panels will include discussions with Los Angeles Times reporters who are adjusting to a new office and new ownership. The current managing team will discuss the latest news around campus and how things are going at The Bruin. For students, sessions will include a careers panel.

Alumni Dinner and Distinguished Alumni Award

That evening, we will gather in the James West Alumni Center for a reception and dinner program, which will feature Cari Champion, the Daily Bruin Alumni Network's first Distinguished Alumni Award winner.

Champion is one of only a few African-American women anchoring shows at ESPN, and she has become a trailblazer in media. Described as a “game-changer” by Vogue in 2016, she was one of two women named to Sports Illustrated’s prestigious list of Six to Watch in 2016 and was recently included in the Ebony Power 100 of 2017 for representing women in an industry dominated by men.

Patrick Healy, an NBC4 Southern California reporter and Daily Bruin alumnus, will emcee the dinner. View his full bio here.

The network will offer updates from the organizational leadership and fundraising committees and there will be plenty of time to enjoy dinner with friends, old and new.

Saturday activities

UCLA football will face Washington at the Rose Bowl on Saturday, game time TBA. We will have casual meet-ups on Saturday to root for the Bruins, either tailgating the game in Pasadena or watching together in Westwood. Location specifics to come as game details are determined

Questions? Want to see who else is coming? Check out our Facebook event.

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"RSVP here for the Daily Bruin Alumni Network's first reunion!"

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"We are SOLD OUT of dinner tickets for the Daily Bruin Alumni Network reunion dinner. Please use this link if you are interested in buying tickets to the afternoon sessions only."

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1. Header should be "Give Back" instead of "Give"

2. Delete entire "Volunteer" section.

3. New text for the "Long-term endowment" sub-section

An endowment to supplement the Daily Bruin Support Fund would act as a means to help alleviate cuts The Bruin has undergone to its professional staff and operations. This would help provide academic scholarships for student journalists. Please contact Lawrence Ma (‘95) at [email protected] with interest or questions.

Move Matea testimonial to the BOTTOM of the About page, with a header like "Alumni Spotlight"

Daily Bruin Support Fund

Gifts to UCLA can be earmarked to this discretionary fund for the Daily Bruin. Donations go through Student Affairs for UCLA Student Media within Associated Students UCLA.

If your workplace matches gifts, please reach out so we can help facilitate your specific situation. Most corporate matches are eligible with this fund.

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Welcome to the official site of the Daily Bruin Alumni Network, a group devoted to supporting alumni of the UCLA Daily Bruin and student journalism at the university. The organization is an official affinity network of the UCLA Alumni Association.

MISSION STATEMENT

The Daily Bruin Alumni Network (the "DBAN") will actively engage the alumni of the Daily Bruin to serve as a robust community for all former staff members, in support of each other and The Bruin. The DBAN will provide funding, mentorship and professional development programs for aspiring student-journalists at UCLA, ensuring the excellence and longevity of The Bruin. The DBAN will encourage students to reach beyond UCLA, supporting community programs to advance news literacy and the free press.

HISTORY

The Daily Bruin Alumni Network's roots can be traced to 2016, when Lawrence Ma ('95) connected with 2016-17 Editor-in-Chief Tanner Walters ('18). Lawrence had earmarked a portion of his university donations for the Daily Bruin through UCLA Student Affairs, which transfers the money to ASUCLA and into The Bruin's independent finances.

Tanner had already created a new student position on staff to help get alumni efforts off the ground and was developing a directory of alumni names from archive staff boxes.

Working with the Daily Bruin and the UCLA Alumni Association over the next years, the network began to take shape. The DB alumni Facebook group was relaunched and alumni began to step up to join the Committee for the Daily Bruin Alumni Network. The group held its first events in 2018 and received official recognition as an affinity network of the UCLA Alumni Association.

Many attempts have been made over the past century to build an alumni association for the Daily Bruin. We have taken a number of steps to make this latest incarnation last in perpetuity. For example, The Bruin has committed to a permanent editor position in the student alumni director. By becoming an affinity network of the UCLA Alumni Association, the network has institutional support and expertise to build our numbers, maintain contact information and plan events.

We hope you'll join us as we continue to write our history!

NETWORK COMPONENTS

A governing board consisting of Daily Bruin alumni oversees, manages and promotes the alumni network. Committees are in charge of the following projects:

• Maintaining a directory for communications, a dedicated DBAN website and an active social media presence. This includes private Facebook and LinkedIn groups for our alumni in all professions to network, reconnect, promote events and to share general updates and career opportunities.

• Planning an annual on-campus general meeting and reunion, featuring speakers, career panels and receptions for Daily Bruin alumni from all professions, to strengthen bonds among each other and with the current students.

• Building scholarship programs and fundraising campaigns to support the Daily Bruin and its staffers.

• Developing a mentorship program and career guidance by alumni in journalism and related fields, including support like advisory workshops and newspaper critiques.

Please check out our "Volunteer" page to see more.

WHY SUPPORT THE DAILY BRUIN?

The Daily Bruin has had to undergo significant changes in recent years due to steadily- declining advertising revenue. To maintain daily publication, The Bruin has had to seek funding from student fees in 2009 and 2016. To limit rent costs, the Kerckhoff Hall office was reduced to about half its previous size in 2017. The full-time student media advisor position was eliminated, and the rest of the professional staff has been reduced to just three positions. Editor stipends have fallen sharply, requiring many staff members to take additional jobs.

The future of journalism depends on the continued success of college newspapers like the Daily Bruin, training the next generation of journalists and media professionals. To see how the DBAN and its members can help The Bruin, please visit our "Give Back" page.

THE WAY FORWARD

In 2019 – the centennial of UCLA and the Daily Bruin – we will work to build our board and committees. With official UCLA Alumni Association recognition as an affinity alumni network, we are prepared to hit the ground running for our goals and objectives.

As you scroll down alumni.dailybruin.com, the "Learn More" and "Give Back" buttons don't work.

Learn More >> http://alumni.dailybruin.com/about

Give Back >> http://alumni.dailybruin.com/give-back

The "Join Us" tab would ideally be its own webpage that embeds the form, rather than redirecting.

The button on the splash screen for the homepage would also need to redirect to this new page.

This is the embed code from Mailchimp:

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	<h2>Subscribe to our mailing list</h2>
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	<label for="mce-EMAIL">Email Address  <span class="asterisk">*</span>
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	<input type="email" value="" name="EMAIL" class="required email" id="mce-EMAIL">
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	<label for="mce-FNAME">First Name  <span class="asterisk">*</span>
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	<input type="text" value="" name="FNAME" class="required" id="mce-FNAME">
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	<label for="mce-LNAME">Last Name  <span class="asterisk">*</span>
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	<input type="text" value="" name="MMERGE3" class="required" id="mce-MMERGE3">
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	<label for="mce-MMERGE4">Daily Bruin section(s) and role(s)  <span class="asterisk">*</span>
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    <div style="position: absolute; left: -5000px;" aria-hidden="true"><input type="text" name="b_014c63d44740a2918c9745891_3dded81acb" tabindex="-1" value=""></div>
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Please add this sentence after the "ALUMNI MENTORING PROGRAM" paragraph:

To sign up for a critique session, please visit this site.

None of the links on alumni.dailybruin.com are taking me to the pages.

Please update this line:

We are SOLD OUT of dinner tickets for the Daily Bruin Alumni Network reunion dinner. Please use this link if you are interested in buying tickets to the afternoon sessions only.

To:

We are SOLD OUT of afternoon and dinner tickets for the Daily Bruin Alumni Network Reunion. Thank you to all who have RSVPed and expressed interest.

And please update the last line from:

Questions? Want to see who else is coming? Check out our Facebook event.

To:

Please check out our Facebook event for updates about the reunion or to ask questions. The UCLA Alumni Association will send parking details and directions to all attendees in the days ahead of the event.

Tanner's suggestions

Please remove Kate Stanhope from the "Additional" section at the bottom and add to the "Class Captain" section: http://alumni.dailybruin.com/volunteer

Kate Stanhope, '09

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Join us Friday afternoon for breakout sessions with past and present Daily Bruin staffers, along with tours of campus and the newsroom. A full daytime schedule to come.

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Join us Friday afternoon for an open newsroom and breakout sessions with past and present Daily Bruin staffers. Panels will include discussions with Los Angeles Times reporters who are adjusting to a new office and new ownership. The current managing team will discuss the latest news around campus and how things are going at The Bruin. For students, sessions will include a careers panel.

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Testimonial quote on homepage iscurrently stacked, which makes the photo huge. Would look nicer with the photo smaller and on the left or right side of the text.

Currently on: homepage (Gary Knell)

Testimonial for the "Give Back" page – preferably the sidebar version (example: Matea).

“Writing for the Daily Bruin got me out about campus and helped me to meet lots of people. I enjoyed the camaraderie in the newsroom and learning all about my new university. I also enjoyed honing my writing ability and the art of interviewing – skills that have helped me immensely in my 35 years as a lawyer."

–John Crittendon, 1977-78 staff reporter, class of '78
Trademark and copyright lawyer, Cooley LLP; Adjunct assistant professor, UCLA Law

@tannerbwalters can probably comment on where best it can go.

On News & Events page, new text for the fall reunion box:

Save the date: The Daily Bruin Alumni Network will host its first reunion and general meeting at UCLA in the fall. This will be our formal group launch and will offer a chance to gather in Westwood and hear about the current staff. Stay tuned for an RSVP link.

On the Join Us page, the current solution uses a really hacky way of doing the mailchimp embed. This plugin looks like it'd help: https://www.gatsbyjs.org/packages/gatsby-plugin-mailchimp/

Need to create a "Volunteer" tab that can go before "Give Back"

No header image. Here's the text for the page, with hyperlinks and styling:

Please help us build the infrastructure and the core programs of the Daily Bruin Alumni Network by becoming a team member of the Committee for DBAN! Our goal is to become an official UCLA Alumni Association affiliate network and a university-recognized support group for The Bruin, with robust networking, mentoring and fundraising capabilities, built to support fellow alumni and the Daily Bruin.

DBAN Project Teams

ALUMNI REUNIONS & EVENTS: Starting with our first reunion scheduled for October 5, 2018, DBAN will convene each fall for annual meetings and staff reunions. Other future events will include alumni panels for student staffers and regional Daily Bruin events in partnership with the UCLA Alumni Association.

SCHOLARSHIPS & FUNDRAISING: This team will study the funding needs of The Bruin, implement fundraising strategies, and advise on the administration of the Daily Bruin Support Fund (#63355O), an official UCLA Foundation fund created to enhance the news-gathering capabilities of The Bruin and to build a scholarship for DB staffers doing journalism of global reach and impact.

ALUMNI MENTORING PROGRAM: Due to declining revenue and budget cuts, a number of full time staff positions in support of The Bruin were eliminated over the past decade plus, including the full-time faculty-level advisor. This team will look into alumni mentorship programs, and new ways to provide Pro Bono advising and career development for the student-journalists.

THE BRUIN NEWS LITERACY PROJECT: A free and independent press is critical to a democracy. As a way of giving back to the community, we would like to encourage our student-journalists to engage the Los Angeles community and schools in teaching news literacy and the importance of the free press.

ALUMNI DIRECTORY & NETWORKING: The DB alumni is an incredibly diverse and accomplished group thriving in business, the law, government, academia, tech, entertainment, and of course journalism. Become a class captain and help us bring our fellow alumni home and together.

CONTACT US!

Lawrence Ma '95 & Tanner Walters '18
Co-Chairs, Committee for DBAN

Jacqueline Alavarez '19
Alumni Relations Director, Daily Bruin 2018-19

CLASS CAPTAINS

2010’s: Nicole Vas '10, Sam Schaefer '11, James Barragan '13, Jillian Beck '14, Jose Ubeda '15, Fran Manto '16, Emaan Baqai '17
2000’s: Sara Randazzo '08, Kelly Rayburn '04
1990’s: Missy Anderson '96, Christine Strobel '94, Chris Schreiber '95
1980’s: Elisa Williams '82, Michael Bartlett '88

REUNION TEAM

Jillian Beck '14, Gil Hopenstand '97, Don Rosen '86

ADDITIONAL DBAN COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Alejandra Reyes Velarde '17, Lauren Jow '12, Kate Stanhope '09, Tyson Evans '05, Phil Carter '96, Wendy Witherspoon '90, Nancy McCullough '89, Lauren Bartlett '88, Alice Short '77

Thanks for updating yesterday's stuff, a couple updates and a question:

Can we edit the hyperlink for Daily Bruin's Facebook to: https://www.facebook.com/dailybruin

Can we remove the image in the header? Is it possible to embed next to the text so it's smaller and just adds some art? Like the side photo on the Give Back page.

Please add a new section below all the current text:

STAY CONNECTED

Subscribe to "What's Bruin," a weekday newsletter by the Daily Bruin!

QUESTION:
Instead of putting emails out there (hyperlinks on our names right now), could we put a contact box, similar to this style: https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-plugin/ -- let me know and we can talk more specifics.

Love how the new site has the form embedded! It'd be great to get some of the original intro text from this form: https://dailybruin.us18.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=014c63d44740a2918c9745891&id=3dded81acb

Join the Daily Bruin Alumni Network, and stay updated with our launch!

Please fill out this form to join our alumni association and to help us build our directory. Share the link with your DB friends, too! For additional details, visit alumni.dailybruin.com.

Are you interested in being a Class Captain for your graduating year? Please email Tanner Walters at [email protected] to discuss our alumni outreach team!

Would like to create a new page that can be in a dropdown under "About" called "Distinguished Alumni"

This page should have a short introduction, then be split into HTML links within the page (each name and year).

The Daily Bruin has recognized a select few of its thousands of alumni for their contributions to journalism and the world. From 2000 to 2005, former staffers were honored each year. The Daily Bruin Alumni Network brought the tradition back with its inaugural inductee in 2018. Read more about each honoree here.

William E. Forbes ’27 –– Class of 2000
Flora Lewis ’41 –– Class of 2001
Stanley Rubin ’36 –– Class of 2002
Frank Mankiewicz ’47 –– Class of 2003
Harry Shearer ’64 –– Class of 2004
Marty Sklar ’55 –– Class of 2005

Class of 2000
William E. Forbes ’27

This biography was written prior to his induction:_

Daily Bruin Alumni William E. Forbes's dedication to the University of California was deeply ingrained in him throughout his life, with his involvement in the UC system extending far past his 1928 graduation date to include a full-term as a University of California Regent.

Born in Asoka, Nebraska, in May of 1906, Forbes settled in the Los Angeles area, spending a great portion of his life off the coasts of the Pacific Ocean.

During his time at UCLA, Forbes studied political science and worked for the school newspaper, whose name was changed in 1926 from the Daily Grizzly to the Daily Bruin. Forbes was the Daily Bruin's first editor in chief, and gave a series of lectures in journalism courses, passing on his knowledge to younger students.

Forbes served as president of the UCLA Alumni Association from 1959 to 1961, and was awarded the organization's University Service award the first time it was given in 1962. The award honors UCLA alumni and friends whose time and volunteer commitment contributes significantly toward the enrichment of university.

As president of the UCLA Alumni Association, Forbes was an ex-officio UC regent. Beginning in 1962, Forbes served a sixteen-year term on the University of California Board of Regents, a term that saw the state under the watch of then-governor Ronald Reagan for about a decade.

It was a time of extensive development for the university, during which the Board of Regents oversaw a decentralization of the system's administration, giving each campus a greater opportunity to develop its own structure and identity. Forbes's also dealt with antiwar and civil rights movements that garnered the support of many of the university's students during his tenure as a regent. The Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley, in particular, often became a point of contention between then-UC president Clark Kerr and students, and Forbes led a committee that studied the students' dissatisfaction and unrest.

As a regent, Forbes spoke out against the creation of UC student fees in 1972, and helped several campuses develop their education abroad programs.

Prior to becoming a regent, Forbes went to work for Columbia Broadcasting System. He rose through the ranks of CBS and served as an executive from 1937 to 1944 for what was then a young network that broadcast on television for the first time in 1938. Upon leaving CBS, Forbes joined as an executive with Young and Rubicam, working with the advertising and marketing company until 1951, when he joined the Southern California Music Company. He left the company after serving as its president, one of the oldest instrument dealers in California, in 1962.

Forbes died in Pasadena in 1999.

Class of 2001
Flora Lewis ’41

This biography was written prior to her induction:

In the 60 years since graduating from UCLA, Flora Lewis has been one of America's most distinguished correspondents and commentators on international affairs. In recognition of a lifetime of contributions to journalism that began at the Daily Bruin, Flora Lewis will be inducted into the UCLA student newspaper's Hall of Fame on June 7, 2001, at its year-end banquet.

During the course of her long and illustrious career, Lewis has been the New York Times' Paris bureau chief, the author of several books on foreign affairs, and the Washington Post's first woman foreign correspondent.

She continues to write a weekly column for the New York Times Syndicate, "Foreign Focus," from her Paris home.

Lewis was born in Los Angeles in 1920 to Pauline and Benjamin Lewis, a prominent attorney. She finished high school early and graduated Summa Cum Laude from UCLA when she was just 18. She then went to Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and, where she earned her masters' degree in 1941.

Lewis then went to work for the Associated Press New York office, and soon afterward was transferred to Washington D.C. to cover the Navy and State Departments. In 1945, she was transferred to London.
She was married in London to Sydney Gruson, a New York Times foreign correspondent she had met while a student at Columbia. They would have three children.

She left the Associated Press in 1946 began freelancing for a number of publications, including Time Magazine, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Economist of London, the London Observer, and France-Soir of Paris.

After returning to New York City in 1955, Lewis worked as an editor at McGraw-Hill before joining The Washington Post to cover Eastern Europe. In 1965, she became the first chief of the Washington Post's newly opened New York City bureau.

Lewis moved back to Europe again in 1967 and began writing a syndicated column from Paris, with datelines from Vietnam, where she traveled five times during the war, the Middle East and the United States.

In 1972, she joined The New York Times in Paris as its bureau chief and, in 1976, she added the title of European diplomatic correspondent. She became a foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times in 1980 and held that position until 1990, when she began writing her current column.

Flora Lewis has been honored four times by the Overseas Press Club for best foreign- affairs reporting, best daily newspaper or wire interpretation of foreign affairs, and for best analysis of foreign affairs in Western Europe. In January 2000, she received the group's Lifetime Recognition Award. For career achievements, Lewis was awarded the National Press Club's Fourth Estate Award, Columbia Journalism School's 50th Anniversary Award and the International Women's Media Foundation Lifetime Award. She has also been awarded The Edward Weintal Award, The French Government's Cross of the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, the Matrix Award for Newspapers from New York Women in Communication and the Elmer Holmes Bobst Award in Arts and Letters from New York University.

She is the author of five books, including "Europe: Road To Unity" (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1992) and "Europe: A Tapestry of Nations" (Simon & Schuster, 1987).

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Lewis died in Paris the next year, in 2002.

Class of 2002
Stanley Rubin ’36

This biography was written prior to his induction:

During his long lifetime, Stanley Rubin has written and produced for television, film and radio, won the very first Emmy award, worked under Ronald Reagan in the military and served as president of the Producers Guild of America. But his experiences at the Daily Bruin remain some of his fondest memories.

Rubin was a Bruin staffer during the mid-1930s, and served as editor in chief in 1936-37. He remembers his DB experience as an educational one, not only in journalism but also in loyalty. Rubin recalls a time when one of his editorials enraged a campus group so much that they invaded the newsroom and tried to attack him. But the staff stood up and protected their editor, an act that Rubin has never forgotten.

After leaving UCLA, Rubin worked as a publisher's assistant before landing his first job in the entertainment industry. Working in the mailroom of Paramount Pictures, Rubin learned how a studio works and found his career. He was soon elevated to the position of script reader.

Rubin's first foray into professional writing was the novel "Who Wants to Be Born These Days?," which CBS made into a radio play. The play received great reviews, but before Rubin could continue his writing career, World War II broke out.

In 1942, Rubin enlisted in the First Motion Picture Unit of the Army Air Corps. There, he helped produce morale and training films for the war and got to know a young, charismatic captain named Ronald Reagan.

For Rubin, the war provided an important education in filmmaking. "I learned a hell of a lot more about writing screenplays during the war than I had ever known before," he said. After leaving the army, Rubin recognized that television was beginning to grow as a medium. In 1948, Rubin jumpstarted the first nationally sponsored weekly television series, a program of short story dramatizations known as "Your Showtime." An episode of that program, titled "The Necklace," won the very first Emmy award in the category of best film made in Hollywood for television. Rubin subsequently produced "General Electric Theatre," which was hosted by Reagan, for several years.

Rubin went on to produce numerous TV movies, including the Golden Globe Award winning "Babe," about famed female athlete Babe Didrickson, and the NAACP Image Award winning "Don't Look Back," about the great African American baseball player Satchel Paige.

Rubin also made a name for himself as a motion picture producer. His first full-length feature, "Narrow Margin," was nominated for an Oscar in the best story category and was recognized as outstanding film noir. He also produced "The President's Analyst" and "River of No Return," starring Marilyn Monroe, whom Rubin had rejected for a role in "Your Showtime" when she was an unknown, out-of-work actress.

A member of the Writers Guild of America, Producers Guild of America (which he served as president during the 1970s), the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Rubin is married to actress Kathleen Hughes, star of the B-movie classic "It Came from Outer Space," and has four children. Although he has a long and distinguished career in the entertainment industry, Rubin still considers his time on the Daily Bruin staff one of the greatest experiences of his life. In fact, Rubin will commemorate that experience with a memoir in the upcoming compendium "1936," to be published in the spring of 2002.

"I appreciated my experience at the Daily Bruin and I still do to this day," Rubin said. "I loved every minute I spent on it."

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Rubin died in Los Angeles in 2014.

Class of 2003
Frank Mankiewicz ’47

This biography was written prior to his induction:

Frank Mankiewicz is a vice chairman of Hill & Knowlton’s Washington D.C. office and a senior member of the media and public affairs practices. In this position, he counsels numerous national and international clients on media strategy and public affairs.

He entered UCLA in 1941 and, after a three-year absence for infantry service in World War II, graduated in 1947. Mankiewicz was sports editor of the Daily Bruin in 1946, co-editor in the summer semester of 1946, assistant editor in the fall semester, 1946, and editor, 1947. He also played outfield for the freshman baseball team in 1942, batting .260.

Prior to joining Hill & Knowlton's predecessor, Gray and Company, in 1983, Mr. Mankiewicz was president of National Public Radio. Under his leadership, the NPR audience increased from two to eight million listeners for a network of nearly 300 non-commercial stations.

Active in politics, Mankiewicz served as press secretary to the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy, as presidential campaign director for Senator George McGovern, and has been active in national and regional political campaigns as a senior advisor to political candidates. In the mid-1960s, he served as regional director of the Peace Corps for Latin America. He is fluent in Spanish and conversant in French.

A lawyer and member of the California, District of Columbia and Supreme Court bars, Mankiewicz also has broad experience as a print and electronic journalist, as a TV anchorman, as an analyst of American politics for American and foreign television and radio, and as a syndicated columnist.

Mankiewicz is the author of numerous articles in magazines and journals, and four books: Perfectly Clear: Nixon from Whittier to Watergate (1973); U.S. v. Richard M. Nixon: The Final Crisis (1974); With Fidel: A Portrait of Castro and Cuba (1975); and Remote Control: Television and the Manipulation of American Life (1977).

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Mankiewicz died in Washington, D.C., in 2014.

Class of 2004
Harry Shearer ’64

This biography was written prior to his induction:

The many voices of Daily Bruin Alum Harry Shearer are probably some of the most well-known in the United States. Listeners may be familiar with his weekly hour-long radio program Le Show on the Santa Monica-based station KCRW, or more likely, with the evil scheming of Mr. Burns, the ponderings of Principal Skinner and the piety of Ned Flanders on the Fox television series The Simpsons, characters whose words are the product of Shearer's voice-acting.

A Los Angeles native, Shearer entered UCLA at the age of 17 and spent his college days working for the Daily Bruin, beginning as a reporter and moving on to become features editor, editorial editor, associate editor and city editor. He graduated with a degree in political science, and attended graduate school at Harvard. With Vietnam raging, Shearer interned for California's state legislature and taught school in Compton after graduation.

Shearer covered the Watts riots for Newsweek in 1965, but decided to direct his talents toward fields other than journalism, starring as bassist Derek Smalls in This is Spinal tap, a 1984 mockumentary detailing a British rock band's U.S. tour. The film, whose script he cowrote, made him a cult figure and recognized icon.

Shearer first entered the world of entertainment at the age of seven, landing his first role as a character on The Jack and Benny radio program after a piano teacher secured an audition for him. After starring in the 1953 television feature Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, Shearer played Eddie Haskell in the pilot episode of the acclaimed television series Leave it to Beaver.

With a talent for voices and satire, Shearer and friends began a radio show titled The Credibility Gap, a forum through which he captured the attention of an audience that included Cartoonist Matt Groening.

The two met in Los Angeles, and years later, Groening asked Shearer to work doing voice-overs for the Simpsons. Shearer accepted, and now the characters he gives life to filter daily onto the television screens in the homes of millions.

For over two decades, Shearer's voice has been a strong one on a number of issues, including the media. He is known to some as an outspoken intellectual, and loved by others as a slew of Simpsons characters.

Class of 2005
Marty Sklar ’55

This biography was written after his death in 2017:

Marty Sklar was a visionary leader for over half a century at Disney Enterprises, quickly working his way up to become Walt Disney’s right-hand man fresh out of college.

Sklar was a third-year student at UCLA and editor of the Daily Bruin when he was recruited to create The Disneyland News, a 10-cent tabloid newspaper to be sold at Disneyland’s Main Street. Sklar told the Daily Bruin in an interview in 2013 that he almost didn’t return the first call from Disney. After further pursuit from the company, he agreed to help.

He joined Disney full time after graduation in 1956 and served in a multitude of roles. He helped design many famous park attractions, including “It’s a Small World” and Space Mountain. He also oversaw international design and construction efforts across the world.

In addition to his parks work, Sklar also wrote speeches for Walt Disney and created marketing materials. Sklar served an instrumental role within the organization, serving as the vice chairman and principal creative executive at what is now known as Walt Disney Imagineering.

Before retiring in 2009, he finished his career as the International Ambassador for Walt Disney Imagineering. His job entailed lecturing at art and design colleges and architecture schools to attract talent. Sklar was named a Disney Legend in 2001.

Sklar was born on February 6, 1934, in New Jersey. He died in his Hollywood Hills home in July 2017.

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