Dan Davenport bikes through midtown Manhattan to get to work. A crush of creativity, passion and desperation, that ride rewards and tests Davenport every day. Not surprisingly, that’s an apt description of Davenport’s life. Davenport graduated from Greenlee in 1984, and worked at newspapers and the ISU alumni magazine VISIONS before landing a job at … Continue reading Dan Davenport ’84
Falling in love with journalism was not what Tara Deering-Hansen had in mind when she started college. In fact, her first semester at Iowa State was spent as an agricultural engineering student. Deering-Hansen says she was weeded out after the first semester. Switching gears, she began her journey toward a career in journalism with an … Continue reading Tara Deering-Hansen ’99
Class: 1966; Technical Journalism Then: TKE (member); Iowa State Daily (sports editor); Ethos magazine (staff writer) Now: Retired from Economic Education and Media Relations, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis In his own words: I went on to the University of Iowa, getting an MA in journalism in 1968. After a stint as a Navy … Continue reading Joseph Elstner ’66
Aimee Malone’s pet peeve has always been when people use the wrong words and punctuation—a sign that she was destined to be a copy editor even as a high school student. “I was one of those people in high school who’d mark up everyone else’s papers in English class and get dirty looks for it,” … Continue reading Aimee Malone ’13
Amid the clamor of his favorite cafe in Vienna (where the Internet and views are grand), Kaleb Warnock shared the story of what brought him there in the first place. Warnock initially visited Europe in 2011 as a percussionist with Iowa State’s wind ensemble. One bicycle ride through a city park was all it took … Continue reading Kaleb Warnock ’12