PD and BJ stars in latest Jargon issue

Jargon, the magazine of Kent State University's School of Journalism which arrives in the mail this week, includes the usual smattering of alumni from the BJ and PD.

Four Plain Dealer stars are featured at length in the main article and one, Regina Brett, is a BJ transplant. Others who tell how KSU prepared them to excel in journalism careers are Connie Schultz, Mary Kay Cabot and Rachel Dissell. Mentioned are:

• Brett, '86, for a series "The Inheritance" about the battle she and her daughter both fought against cancer,
• Schultz, '79, for a series on the band journey toward playing in Beijing weeks before the Olympics
• Cabot, '84, for a series of videos covering the 2008 Browns trainng camp.
• Dissell, '01, on an 18-year-old girl who overcame a near fatal attack that left her emotionally and physically scarred.
  

Beacon Journal types In a list of KSU's Pulitzer Prize winning alums, some of whom actually worked on the stories, were Albert Fitzpatrick, Lacy McCrary, Ron Clark, Jim Toms, Jeff Sallot and Chuck Ayers. John Filo, who shot the famous photo of Mary Vecchio at Kent State, also was mentioned. Photographer Paul Tople was not in the list but was quoted in an accompanying story.