Another award for Cathy Strong

Cathy Strong, 1970s BJ reporter and on the Massey University faculty in Wellington, New Zealand, won the Dalton-Landon Foundation Service Award.

Cathy Strong

Cathy has been editor of the Teaching Journalism & Mass Communications journal of SPIG (Special Primary Interest Group) for three years.

The award is named for SPIG founders Terry Dalton and Kim Landon.

In 2013 Cathy got first prize in the Great Ideas For Teachers competition at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication at its conference in Washington, D.C.

Cathy’s career has included work for the BJ, South Pacific Television, Television New Zealand, Radio New Zealand, Solomon Islands Broadcasting, National Business Review,  Energy Source TV (USA & New Zealand) and teaching journalism in Dubai.

She visits America from time to time to visit family and friends. Cathy’s daughter, Rebecca, and sister, Janet Mullins, live in the state of Washington. Pamela and Penelope also are Cathy’s daughters.

 

Cathy had a reunion with former BJ co-workers Pam McCarthy, photographer Don Roese and former TV Editor John Olesky.

Don and John visited Cathy separately in New Zealand. Don met John and former BJ reporter Paula Tucker at Auckland Airport when Don and wife Mary Ann were leaving after visiting Cathy and John and Paula were about to have a reunion with Cathy.

Cathy, Pam, Don and John had another reunion in Ohio in 2017 when Cathy was visiting in America.

Cathy also does a lot of snowboarding and water skiing.