Collegian AIG Prepares for Board of Directors Election

Published by Barbara Stack on

The ballot to fill four seats on the Collegian AIG Board of Directors remains open for self-nomination by any Collegian alumnus.

A statement of interest, a resume and the signatures of 20 Collegian AIG members in support of the candidacy must be received at CollegianAIG@gmail.com by July 30.

Candidates must be willing to serve a term of three years and be a member of the Penn State Alumni Association.

The annual election will be conducted online between Aug. 30 and Sept. 6. The recommended slate will be posted on the Collegian AIG website (psucollegianalumni.com) by July 4.

Based on recommendations from its Nominating Committee, the board has endorsed four candidates to fill four seats.They are incumbents Chris Korman (2004) and Jerry Schwartz (1977) and newcomers Jim Kuhnhenn (1976) and Diane Davis Otter (1990).

  • Chris Korman is sports editor of The Baltimore Banner. He spent most of his time at Penn State in the Collegian’s offices, working on the sports desk.
  • Jim Kuhnhenn is a writer, editor, researcher and consultant with a long career as a Washington journalist. He served as Collegian news editor in 1975-76.
  • Diane Davis Otter is vice president of editorial at A+E Global Media. She was editor-in-chief of The Daily Collegian in 1989-90. She also served as managing editor and the first sports administration reporter.
  • Jerry Schwartz spent the entirety of this 45-year career at The Associated Press in New York. He was editor of The Daily Collegian in 1975-76.

The Collegian AIG board is a working group that promotes The Daily Collegian, its staff and Penn State. The board creates opportunities for the Collegian AIG membership to support the work of Collegian student staff professionally and financially. The AIG also provides Collegian alumni ways to connect with each other for personal and professional enrichment. 

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Barbara Stack

I started my journalism career at The Daily Collegian, where I covered cops, "radicals and minorities," and served as editorial page editor. After graduation, I worked as a reporter and feature writer for two community papers, The Tribune-Review and the Beaver County Times, before being hired by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. I worked for the Post-Gazette for 27 years as a reporter, assistant city editor and editorial page writer. For a decade I covered issues regarding children and families, and a series of stories I wrote, along with a court case I persuaded the Post-Gazette to pursue, led to an order opening to the press and public dependency hearings in Pennsylvania juvenile court. In 2007, I began working as a blog writer for the United Steelworkers Union, composing blogs and op-eds that were published in the name of the union's international president. I am now retired and working as a consultant for The Pittsburgh Foundation's communications department.

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