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Publisher’s Statement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........ p age 07 Editor’s Letter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......... p age 08 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........ p age 09 The Beginning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......... p age 10 1960-1969 Protest and Progress. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........

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Investigation and Discovery. . . . . . . . . . ........ p age 34 1980-1989 Expansion and the Rise of Technology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......... p age 53 1990-1999 The Dawn of a New Era. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........ p age 64 2000-2010 The Daily Titan’s Advisers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........ p age 76 The Daily Titan’s Editors in Chief. . .......

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The Daily Titan’s 50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition Staff List. . . . . . . . . . ........ p age 78

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Publisher’s Statement

By Anthony R. Fellow, Ph.D.

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ithin these pages are recorded the first drafts of the history of California State University, Fullerton. It’s a rich history that began with the establishment of Orange County State College in 1957. There have been countless milestones during this time, and many of these have made Titans jump for joy.

For example, the College of Business Administration and Economics and the Department of Music in 1965 and 1966, respectively, became the youngest in the nation to win accreditation.

Ten years later, the university awarded its 25,000 degree. By 1989 a satellite campus at Saddleback College, Mission Viejo opened, and attracted some 2,300 students.

What a joyous time it was when CSUF’s women’s basketball team won its first national championship in 1970; the men’s gymnastics team won the NCAA division championship in 1971, 1972 and 1974; the women’s fencing team won a national championship in 1973; the men’s baseball and women’s gymnastics teams won the national championships in 1979. The mighty Titan baseball team would go on to win its third

NCAA championship in 1995. All of these exuberant occasions are recorded for posterity in the pages of the Daily Titan.

The Titan also recorded visits by the rich and famous. Ronald Reagan, for example, made his final Orange County public appearance as president, when he spoke in the Titan Gym in 1988.

CSUF alumnus Kevin Costner threw out the first pitch when the sports complex opened in 1992.

Other celebrities reported about in the Titan included: General Colin Powell, Academy Award-winning director James Cameron, Nicolas Cage, Carol Channing, Natalie Cole, Bill Cosby, Walter Cronkite, Whoopi Goldberg and Fred Friendly.

The Daily Titan, one of the nation’s outstanding student newspapers, also recorded some of the sadder moments. Included among these was the 1976 shooting spree, which killed seven in the library.

Chronicled here are the triumphs and tragedies of a remarkable university, now one of the finest and largest, with a student population surpassing 37,000. We are lucky to have these pages, which open a precious window into the contours of the past.

{50} Dr. Anthony R. Fellow is the Chair of the Department of Communications and the publisher of the Daily Titan.

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Editor’s Letter

By Monzerrath Gonzalez

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hen I arrived at Cal State Fullerton four years ago, I never imagined the impact that the Daily Titan would have on my life. Today, as managing editor of the publication, I am proud to present to you the 50th Anniversary edition.

In this publication we have brought together a front-page story from each of the 50 years that the Titan has been the leading news source for CSUF. The stories of five past advisers and one editor in chief, all whom led the Titan during different decades, precede the covers.

In these pages you will see headlines that changed lives on this campus and the world. You will meet people who have fought for what they believe in, lost their lives in tragic events and created controversy. You will also witness moments of great triumph and consequence that have marked the history of the school forever.

As I researched the hundreds of past issues I realized that all of the editors, reporters and photographers who have passed through the newsroom faced the same struggles we face today.

As CSUF students we must separate ourselves from our peers, and become public critics, columnists, writers, reviewers, detectives and more.

The Daily Titan has given me, and the hundreds before me, an opportunity to taste the reality of

the journalistic world and for this we will all be indebted.

The stress-filled nights, lost sleep, long hours of hard work and time sacrificed without family and friends, are all worth it when we arrive on campus the next morning and see the paper in the hands of our fellow students. There is nothing more rewarding than seeing your byline in the Titan and knowing that you have worked hard and have left your imprimatur, hopefully for the betterment of the university.

Today, more than ever, the Daily Titan faces the challenge of evolving into something more than a paper that is printed four times a week.

We must take what we have, build upon it and make the Titan the best multimedia publication it can be.

This is a challenge that the current editorial and advertising staffs have taken on and are proud to fight for.

I would like to give special thanks to Professor Robert Sage, who started collecting information for this project several years ago.

This would not have been possible without his great advice and patience. I would also like to thank the contributors – Jay Berman, Jeffrey Brody, Tom Clanin, Jim Drummond, Anthony R. Fellow, Wayne Overbeck, Rick Pullen and Jason Shepard, who took time out of their schedules to help us complete this task.

I hope you enjoy this small anthology of Daily Titan history.

{50} Monzerrath Gonzalez is the current managing editor of the Daily Titan.

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Introduction

By Jason Shepard, Ph.D.

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or a half century, the Daily Titan has been a center of journalism training for students at Cal State Fullerton and a launching pad for careers at all levels of newspapers.

The pages that follow chronicle a remarkable history, as written by the staffs of the Daily Titan over the years. We see the campus transform from Orange County State College, as it was called at its inception in 1957, to CSUF today – and the growing pains, academic programs, protests, achievements and tragedy are dominant themes of the reporting.

We also see national and world events through the lens of our journalism students, from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, to the anti-war and counter-culture protest movements of the 1970s, to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and most recently the election of President Barack Obama. We also find peculiar omissions. For example, the front page on Nov. 5, 1980, fails to note that former Calif.

Governor Ronald Reagan won the presidential election the night before.

So it goes with newspapers: the successes and failures are set in ink forever.

College newspapers have long been the incubators for the passion and energy that drives

professional journalists. Journalism professors like to think their classrooms are the training grounds for professionals. But the college newsroom, frenetic and imperfect as it often is, has always been the crucible of journalism training.

Journalism is changing quickly, and the Daily Titan strives to be at the forefront of change.

Our student journalists will need to tell stories and report news using the latest techniques and technologies. They will need to gather primary documents to publish online, shoot video and audio to supplement print stories, reach new audiences through social networking technologies and interact with sources and readers in new ways. They need to do all of this while learning and nurturing the basic journalistic skills of digging for information, persistently dogging sources and remaining fair and objective conveyors of facts.

It is a rewarding time for the Daily Titan as we look back at our accomplishments over the past 50 years. But it is also an exciting time of looking forward, striving to be on the cutting edge of collegiate journalism in a new era. As the Daily Titan forges ahead and charts new territories of journalism in the next half century, we will inevitably make some mistakes along the way. But if history is any lesson, the Daily Titan will remain important and relevant to campus life for the next 50 years and beyond.

{50} Dr. Jason Shepard is the current adviser of the Daily Titan.

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1960-1969 The Beginning

By Jim Drummond

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arly issues of the student newspaper, named the Titan Times and the Titan during the nine years before the Daily Titan, mirrored the physical and academic growth of the campus. As the college morphed through the names Orange County State College, Orange State College, California State College at Fullerton (first with and then without at) and finally California State University, Fullerton.

These first Titan Times issues reported on the Intercollegiate Athletic Program, classes conducted by the first five faculty members, the selection of royal blue and white as school colors, social activities, as well as the hopes and dreams of the first five graduates.

During the next year the newspaper began weekly publication under Assistant Professor James Alexander. Department Chair J. William Maxwell completed a Fulbright Scholar Program and assumed the

position of the newspaper adviser for the remainder of the Titan Times eight-year run.

The move to a professional journalism program matched the college’s move to its current site, although classes were held in temporary buildings.

Through news stories and photographs during these early years, the paper chronicled the rapid addition of nationally accredited academic programs and the equally quick physical growth of the campus.

The newspaper began biweekly publication in fall 1965 and triweekly in fall 1968, it covered student clubs and organizations, as well as activities at the early residence halls.

It also promoted the first of several years of elephant racing on May 11, 1962. Newspaper stories continued to follow athletic success in several men’s sports and the first women’s basketball team.

The student protests of the mid- and late1960s were also a staple of campus activity and press coverage. The first recorded protest occurred in 1963, when students gathered to voice opposition to the name

change of the school from Orange State College to California State College at Fullerton.

As controversy over the Vietnam War heated up, so did the newspaper’s lively Letters to the Editor column.

A march to support United States troops in Southeast Asia was chronicled, along with teach-ins, anti-draft rallies and a host of noontime speakers in the quad area, which supported and opposed the country’s foreign policy. A controversy surrounding the one-act play, “The Beard,” embroiled local politicians, outside media, campus administrators, faculty and students in a dispute over the meaning of academic freedom in a college setting.

During the first decade, the campus grew from 452 to 12,835 students, from five to 564 faculty members and from five graduates to the awarding of 1,726 bachelor’s and 420 master’s degrees. In that time student and academic life reflected the same forces at work on the larger national and worldwide stages, and all of it was presented to readers on the hundreds of pages of the student-run newspaper.

{50} Jim Drummond was the editor in chief of the Daily Titan between 1965 and 1966.

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Protest and Progress

By Wayne Overbeck Ph.D. and Rick D. Pullen Ph.D.

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hen the Daily Titan was launched in 1969, there was unprecedented turmoil in hundreds of colleges and universities across the nation. Students protested against the Vietnam War and the military draft, campaigned for justice at home and challenged authority as never before.

The event that led to some of the worst confrontations at Cal State Fullerton was an appearance at an academic convocation by Governor Ronald Reagan on Feb. 9, 1970.

Hecklers, including a child in the bleachers who made a famous gesture of contempt, disrupted his speech repeatedly.

At least 40 students and two faculty members were arrested on campus during the unrest in 1970. Many other students and faculty members received what appeared to be unduly rough handling by police. The chant “pigs off campus” was heard often.

The campus calmed somewhat after a tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s. Yet, students continued their political involvement in 1973 with various actions amidst criticism of President Richard Nixon, who had won a second term with a landslide victory over Senator George McGovern.

The team of Nixon and Spiro Agnew caught students’ attention when allegations were made that Vice President Agnew had accepted kickbacks in his home state and that Nixon had known and approved of the Watergate burglary.

In a campus poll, students supported the impeachment of President Nixon for the firing of Archibald Cox, special Watergate prosecutor.

Other news on campus involved a decision to change the name of Fullerton State College to California State University, Fullerton. All colleges in the California State University system that met qualifications established by the Board of Trustees became universities.

The mid-1970s also featured the tragic campus shootings of nine people. Edward Allaway, a former campus custodian, opened fire with a .22-caliber rifle in the library entrance, basement and halls killing seven and injuring two. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity and was mandatorily admitted to Patton State Hospital.

This shooting took place while the Summer Titan was being published on a weekly basis. However, given the international media attention, the students published a special edition that covered all aspects of the tragedy. This was the first special edition produced in the history of the campus newspaper. The edition went on to win numerous awards at the annual California Intercollegiate Press Association’s competition.

On the sports front, the 1970s were good to CSUF. The basketball team, under the direction of Coach Bobby Dye, shocked the nation in 1978 with two wins in the NCAA playoffs. CSUF became one of 16 teams to compete for a spot in the final eight. The accomplishments were covered thoroughly by staff reporters.

The underdog Titans went up against fourth ranked New Mexico and accom-

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plished the impossible: a five-point win. As a result, the nickname “Cal State Who” or “Cal State Disneyland” became buzzwords on sports pages across the nation. The shock was intensified in the next game when the Titans upset heavily favored University of San Francisco by three points.

The Titans gained respect as a result of the wins and then went up against one of the national favorites, University of Arkansas.

But the dream crumbled in a close game with the Razorbacks, when two final shots went astray and the Titans lost by three points.

The 1970s were marked by disagreements and conflicts between the Daily Titan and student government. Reporting focused on alleged misconduct by student body presidents and members of their staff. Also, a commission that was part of the student government conducted an audit of Daily Titan books amidst charges that funds were being used inappropriately. This era also marked the change in the selection process of Daily Titan editors, taking away power from the associated students and other non-communications programs on campus.

During the 1970s, the Daily Titan housed four different advisers. Wayne Overbeck yielded to Rick Pullen in 1973. Pullen served three years and stepped down. In 1977, James Fields began the academic year as adviser, but fell ill in the spring. Rick Pullen returned to the helm in the spring of 1978. The late John Kaufman followed Pullen in the fall of 1978.

{50} Dr. Wayne Overbeck was the adviser of the Titan from the fall of 1968 to the spring of 1969 and of the Daily Titan from fall 1969 to spring 1973. Dr. Rick D. Pullen is Dean of Communications and was the adviser of the Daily Titan from the fall of 1973 to the spring of 1976 and the spring of 1978.

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1980-1989

Investigation and Discovery

By Jay Berman

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s the 1980s began, if Cal State Fullerton was known for anything outside Orange County, it was most likely either for the library shootings of 1976, or for the unexpected success of the 1977-78 basketball team.

Bobby Dye was in his fifth year as Titan coach when he took his team to the Western Regional Finals in 1978. Two years later, Dye was about to move on. On February 13, 1980, a Daily Titan story reported that Dye, who had won 109 games and lost 78 in seven years, was going to resign, saying it “was time for someone else to be head coach.”

Surprisingly, Dye’s resignation was not the main story that day. Across the top of Page One was the account of a dispute between student government officials over rules and procedures.

Perhaps the most significant story of 1981 dealt with something that did not occur on campus, but about 16 miles south. On Feb. 17, an Air California Boeing 737 was en route from San Jose to John Wayne Airport in Orange County. As the plane was about to land, its pilot swerved to avoid another plane on the runway.

A feature on the recruiting of members by the Church of Scientology may have been the highlight of the 1982 Daily Titan. The parents of two CSUF students had claimed that members of the organization had misled their children into purchasing Scientology “tests” under the guise of filling out surveys.

In an article that appeared on Nov. 16,

1982, a reporter, went to a Scientology office and took a similar survey. He was told he would need to purchase additional materials as well. Once the Scientology representatives were told their visitor was a reporter, they declined to speak to him further and telephone calls were no longer returned.

Football made the news in 1983. The Titans needed only to defeat Fresno State to earn a spot in the California Bowl. On Oct. 22, 1983, the Titans beat the Bulldogs, 18-17.

The Oct. 25 Daily Titan featured a front-page article, detailing how the Titans had taken the lead on a touchdown pass by Damon Allen, but did not wrap up the win until Fresno State fumbled deep in Fullerton territory with less than a minute to play.

On Oct. 13, 1984, a student named Minh Van Lam was arrested and charged with shooting Physics Professor Edward Cooperman to death in his office. Because the incident took place over a weekend, a story was not published until Oct. 16.

The March 29, 1985, front-page article reported that Lam had been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in Cooperman’s death. The story, reported how Lam, after shooting the professor, had placed the gun in the dead man’s hand, in an attempt to make the crime look like a suicide. Later, during police questioning, he said the gun had discharged during “playful wrestling” over it.

The spring of 1986 brought another volatile subject to Page One. A university employee received a telephone call, asking why a television show with white supremacist leanings was being taped on campus.

Apparently, no one on campus had known about the show until the caller brought the show’s credits to the attention the employee.

The program showed it was taped at the Instructional Media Center under the library. The Daily Titan, investigated and on April 2, 1986, revealed that the show, “Race and Reason,” had been taped at CSUF for nearly two years. The host and producer was former Ku Klux Klan member, Tom Metzger.

The article quoted sources that both criticized and defended the taping. Metzger was eventually pressured to take the show off campus.

The top headline from 1988 was the appearance of President Ronald Reagan in the Titan Gym. A week before the election, Reagan was the first incumbent president ever to appear on campus. In his 35-minute speech, Reagan praised George H.W. Bush – his vice president – as a man “of leadership and vision.” Bush defeated Democratic candidate Michael S. Dukakis a week later, capturing the presidency.

The front-page story of spring 1989 was a four-part series which ran May 9-12, detailing the problems of the School of Business Administration and Economics. The Titan reported about the school nearly losing accreditation, being split by rivalries from within, and by being run by a small group of instructors who did not value faculty output at CSUF. Headlined “School of Discontent,” the series seemingly explored every angle of the school, coolly and without any hint of favoritism for one side or another.

{50} Jay Berman was the adviser of the Daily Titan from the fall of 1981 to the fall of 1992.

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1990-1999

Expansion and the Rise of Technology

By Jeffrey Brody

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he 1990s marked the start of the Milton Gordon era at Cal State Fullerton.

In the spring of 1990, the Daily Titan featured a front-page story that the California State University board had selected Gordon, the Vice President of Academic Affairs at Sonoma State University, to succeed President Jewel Plummer Cobb.

The campus reaction about the incoming president, a mathematician who received his doctorate at the Illinois Institute of Technology and promised to address issues of diversity, was positive. Gordon assumed duties in the fall, arriving during a time of state budget cuts.

The fate of the football program at CSUF dominated headlines during the early 1990s.

In 1991, both the University Athletic Council and the Academic Senate voted to abolish football, but Gordon threw the program a lifeline with the understanding that alumni and community members would help raise funds for the declining program.

The dire state of the budget dominated headlines for the rest of the year. In the fall, CSUF announced that it would layoff faculty and cut classes at every campus.

The university cut 200 classes and did not renew contracts for many professors.

The Titan highlighted the opening of the Titan Student Union on March 24, 1992.

The success of the baseball team overshadowed the poor performance of the football program. At the end of the fall semester, Gordon suspended next year’s football season, marking the death of the program. As the Titan noted, football never came back.

In April 1993, student reporters covered a meeting with former President Richard Nixon. The aging president, who rose to political power in Southern California, was nearing the end of his life.

In the fall, when fires raged throughout the county, reporters covered the fate of students, faculty and staff who lived in the Laguna Beach area by producing a special issue on the devastation.

The information revolution caught the eye of the Titan staff, which produced a spe-

cial issue on May 20, 1994, devoted to the technological changes occurring across campus. The staff predicted that “by fall, computer users across the globe can thumb through the pagesof the Daily Titan via the Internet.”

In a May 21, 1996 special report, the Titan highlighted the technical advancements that were being made on campus. By the end of the summer, Internet access would be available in the library and most university buildings.

Walter Cronkite spoke at Front & Center during the 1998 school year. The veteran newsman visited the campus at a time when the Titan reported that gas cost 98 cents per gallon. The fear was that gas would tip over the $1 per gallon mark, a concern for students at a commuter school.

Among the most complicated issues the Titan staff covered through the 1990s were budget cuts, faculty contract disputes, university audits and campus growth. The next century brought a tidal wave of students to boost enrollment to a record high.

{50} Jeffrey Brody was the adviser of the Daily Titan from the fall of 1993 to the spring of 2002.

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2000-2010

The Dawn of a New Era

By Tom Clanin

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onflicts, campus growth and escalating financial problems have been consistent topics in the Daily Titan during this decade.

As the paper reported on President George W. Bush’s slow march toward war with Iraq, the paper’s editors contemplated on how they would cover the invasion and occupation. Ronald Paul Larson, an Army veteran on campus who had worked on the newspaper staff, talked to the editor in chief in early 2003 about covering the war. She contacted the Pentagon, and Larson was embedded with an engineering command.

He entered Iraq in the first days of the March 19 invasion. Larson continued sending dispatches from Iraq until late May when he returned to Fullerton.

The paper’s March 20 front page was filled with news about the air attacks on Iraq. The editorial that day called the invasion “unforgiving and unfair” and warned that the U.S. must “be ready to deal its repercussions.” It turned out that the paper had to deal with its own repercussions. Campus reaction was swift and harsh. The paper printed two full pages of Letters to the Editor attacking the Daily Titan for not supporting the president.

One Titan editor resigned in protest.

The Daily Titan reported on the murder of 32 people at Virginia Tech in April 2007; an

accompanying story described Fullerton’s security measures. The paper also covered the memorial held on campus two days later.

The paper also covered Bush’s re-election four years later and Barak Obama’s historic victory as the first African American president.

The Titan published an extra edition after CSUF student Courtney Stewart was killed along with Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart and Henry Pearson by an alleged drunken driver in April 2009.

The Titan also covered conflicts with happy endings. Summer Titan reporters traveled to Omaha, Neb., in the summers of 2004, ’06 and ’07 to cover the NCAA baseball national championships. The Titans won the title in 2004, but were eliminated in the other two attempts at the national title.

University enrollment continued to grow during these years, and administrators took steps to address the burgeoning student population. Construction was completed on a performing arts center, a 95,000-squarefoot Student Recreation Center and new headquarters for the College of Business and Economics. The Daily Titan reported that a $30 per semester student fee, approved in a referendum in 2001, was paying off the Rec Center’s construction bills.

The decade also saw the completion of two parking structures, with a third currently under construction on the east side of the campus. The Daily Titan published a story

about the first two structures in the spring of 2002, reporting that the work was to be completed by 2005.

The two structures, which added more than 3,000 parking spaces on campus, came with a price, however. Parking fees paid for the structures, and the Titan article reported that parking fees would increase from $54 per semester to $99 that fall and would climb to $144 in fall 2004. The campus issued fewer parking permits during the construction, causing additional headaches for students commuting to campus.

The increased parking fees were not the only financial hardships the campus community had to deal with.

The state budget crisis in early 2003 forced a $72 tuition increase for undergrads. A $345 million California State University budget cut forced an additional 30 percent fee increase later that spring. Dwindling state resources prompted the university system to continue to raise fees. Limited state resources also caused friction between the faculty and the CSU Board of Trustees. The Daily Titan reported in February 2002 that faculty held a strike authorization vote that had been scheduled after contract talks had dragged on since spring. Faculty eventually received a salary increase.

The scene was repeated in spring 2007, when faculty approved two-day rolling strikes after contract talks stalled. A few weeks later the chancellor’s office agreed to a 20.7 percent pay increase spread out over four years. {50} Tom Clanin was the adviser of the Daily Titan from the fall of 2002 to the spring of 2008.

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Stay Tuned for History to Unfold ...

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T he D ai ly Tit an’s

Advisers Ernie Becker Fall ’59 - Spring ’60 Jim Alexander

Fall ’60 and Summer ’65 J. William Maxwell Spring ’61 - Spring ’68 Wayne Overbeck Fall ’68 - Spring ’69 (Titan) and Fall ’69 - Spring ’73 Carolyn Johnson

Summer ’73 Rick Pullen Fall ’73 - Spring ’76 and Spring ’78 Jim Fields Fall ’76 - Fall ’77 John Kaufman Fall ’78 - Spring ’79 Gary Granville Fall ’79 - Spring ’81 Jay Berman Fall ’81 - Fall ’92 Sue Schenkel Fall ’92 - Spring ’93 Jeff Brody

Fall ’93 - Spring ’02 Tom Clanin Fall ’02 - Spring ’08 Ricardo Chavira Fall ’08 - Spring ’09 Jason Shepard Fall ’09 - Present

Advertising Adviser Robert Sage

Summer ’01 - Present

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T he D ai ly Tit an’s

Editors in Chief Here is a listing of editors from 1960 through 2009. The newspaper was named the Titan Times from 1960 to 1968, when it published biweekly (1960), weekly (1960-1965) and twice weekly (1965-1968); the Titan from 1968-1969, when it published three times a week; and the Daily Titan since 1969, when it began publishing four times a week. The chief editors used different titles during their individual tenures, as listed below.

1959-1960 – Fall and Spring, Chuck Loyd (managing editor).

1960-1961 – Fall, Carolyn Bridge; Spring, Don Andersen (editors).

1961-1962 – Fall, Gail McKay; Spring, Clyde Morris (editors).

1962-1963 – Fall, Warren Deacon; Spring, Ernest Lopez (editors-in-chief).

1963-1964 – Fall, Marjorie Clark (editor); Spring, W. P. Fogard (editor-in-chief).

1964-1965 – Fall, Richard Tarquinio; Spring, John Hardy (editors-in-chief).

1965-1966 – Fall, Jim Drummond (editor); Spring, Don Lorenzi (editor-in-chief).

1966-1967 – Fall, Gary Lycan; Spring, Robert Feldman (editors-in-chief).

1967-1968 – Fall, Ann Shiners; Spring, Tim Vollman (editors-in-chief).

1968-1969 – Fall and Spring, Paul Attner (editor).

1969-1970 – Fall, Bill Schreiber (editor-in-chief); Spring, Sylvia Onalfo (editor).

1970-1971 – Fall, Sylvia Onalfo (editor); Spring, Mike Gibb (executive editor).

1971-1972 – Fall, Richard Staley; Spring, Ken Trust (executive editors).

1972-1973 – Fall, Tom Belton; Spring, Jim Benson (executive editors).

1973-1974 – Fall, Ray Estrada; Spring, Susan Sawtelle (executive editors).

1974-1975 – Fall, Ed Zintel; Spring, Robert Rohwer (executive editors).

1975-1976 – Fall, Sherry Angel; Spring, Geno Effler (executive editors).

1976-1977 – Fall, Carolyn Howerton; Spring, Peter Hecht (executive editors).

1977-1978 – Fall, Dennis Peck; Spring, Stephen Nill (executive editors).

1978-1979 – Fall, Jean Meyer (executive editor); Spring, Rick Ruiz (managing editor).

1979-1980 – Fall, Al Benton; Spring, Keith Thursby (executive editors).

1980-1981 – Fall, Dawn Bonker; Spring, Sheila Giddings (executive editors).

1981-1982 – Fall, Scott Gullett (editor); Spring, Michael Albin (executive editor).

1982-1983 – Fall, Michael Mahi; Spring, Stuart Durando (executive editors).

1983-1984 – Fall, Ken Daley; Spring, Scott French (executive editors).

1984-1985 – Fall, Patrick Dunne (editor); Spring, Marie Montgomery

(executive editor).

1985-1986 – Fall, Jonathan Volzke; Spring, Dan Trotta (editors).

1986-1987 – Fall, Joyce Garcia; Spring, Stuart Dedic (editors).

1987-1988 – Fall, Deborah Blankenberg; Spring, Shauna Snow (editors).

1988-1989 – Fall, Larry Nista; Spring, Andre Meunier (executive editors).

1989-1990 – Fall, Dan Whitcomb; Spring, Phil Metzger (executive editors).

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Continued from page 77 1990-1991 – Fall, Anne Peterson; Spring, Jennifer Moulton (executive editors).

1991-1992 – Fall, MarleneMcLean; Spring, Brady McDonald (executive editors).

1992-1993 – Fall, Antonio A. Prado; Spring, John Sinclair (executive editors).

1993-1994 – Fall, Marie Loggia; Spring, Phillip Brown (executive editors).

1994-1995 – Fall, Annette Chavez; Spring, Geoffrey Bilau (executive editors).

1995-1996 – Fall, Jennifer Leuer; Spring, Leigh Logan (executive editors).

1996-1997 – Fall, Adam Eventov and Becky Besbris; Spring, Christine Castro

(executive editors).

1997-1998 – Fall, Jack McIntyre; Spring, Nathan Orme (executive editors).

1998-1999 – Fall, Denise Carson and Maryanne Wardlow (editors-in-chief);

Spring, Kerry Murray (executive editor).

1999-2000 – Fall, Chris Whyte; Spring, Joe Florkowski (editors-in-chief).

2000-2001 – Fall, Fermin Leal; Spring, Denise Smaldino (editors-in-chief).

2001-2002 – Fall, Darlene Barrientos; Spring, Amy Rottier (editors-in-chief).

2002-2003 – Fall and Spring, Kimberly Pierceall (editor-in-chief).

2003-2004 – Fall, Benjamin Becker; Spring, Melissa Chavez (editors-in-chief).

2004-2005 – Fall and Spring, Marti Longworth (executive editor).

2005-2006 – Fall and Spring, Nicole M. Smith (executive editor).

2006-2007 – Fall, Julie Anne Ines; Spring, Adam Levy (executive editors).

2007-2008 – Fall and Spring, Ian Hamilton (executive editor).

2008-2009 – Fall, David Carrillo; Spring, Jessica Terrell (executive editors).

2009 – Fall, Skyler Blair (executive editor).

Summer newspapers were named Summer Titan Times, Summer Titan and The Summer Titan. Even though a newspaper was not published each summer, this list is incomplete. Send additional information to history@dailytitan.com.

1965 – Jim Drummond and Mike Warnken, co-editors.

1968 – Ralph Donald, editor.

1971 – Steve McCloud, editor-in-chief.

1972 – Janice Rodger, executive editor.

1973 – Ray Estrada, executive editor.

1974 – Robert Rohwer, executive editor.

1975 – Margaret Storll, executive editor.

1976 – Stephen Nill, executive editor.

1977 – Deborah Mackey, executive editor.

1978 – Patricia Kurtz, executive editor.

2004 – Matri Longworth, executive editor.

2005 – Kim Orr, news editor.

2006 – Julie Ann Ines, news editor.

2007 – Joe Simmons, news editor.

The D ai ly Tit an’s

50th Anniversary C ol le c tor’s E dit ion

Executive Editor of the 50th Anniversary Edition Monzerrath Gonzalez

Contributing Editor of the 50th Anniversary Edition Adrian Gaitan

Contributing Editor of the 50th Anniversary Edition Skyler Blair

Copy Editors

Ashleigh Johnson, Jeremiah Magan

Editorial Adviser Jason Shepard

Production Designer Mandi Braga

Contributors

Jay Berman, Jeffrey Brody, Tom Clanin, Jim Drummond, Anthony R. Fellow, Wayne Overbeck, Rick Pullen, Jason Shepard

Director of Advertising Adrian Gaitan

Ad Production Sidney Cumbie – Cover Design Mandi Braga

Advertising Representatives

Katie Hennessey, Elizabeth Hernandez, Emily Miramontes, Megan Gates

Advertising Adviser Robert Sage

Publisher Anthony R. Fellow

Deans of the College of Communications Rick Pullen, S. Irene Matz, Peggy Garcia-Bockman Main Line (657) 278-3373 Advertising (657) 278-4411

Advertising Fax (657) 278-2702 E-mail: ads@dailytitan.com

The Daily Titan 50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition is a student publication printed in honor of a half century of journalism excellence. The Daily Titan operates independently of Associated Students, College of Communications, CSUF administration and the CSUF System. The Daily Titan has functioned as a public forum since inception.

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