乐播传媒 in the News: June 2, 2017
Family gives record-setting donation to liberal arts college 鈥� The Associated Press
The public launch of The 乐播传媒 Campaign and the surprise announcement of the $50 million gift from Michael ’80 and Alison Grott Bonney ’80 on May 16 garnered national media coverage.
The Associated Press story, “,” was picked up by many media outlets including ABC News, CNBC, Fox Business, Yahoo! Finance, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Seattle Times, Houston Chronicle, The Roanoke Times, The Washington Times, and US News & World Report.
In addition, original news stories appeared in , , and the .
McDreamy receives an honorary degree from 乐播传媒 College 鈥� The Boston Globe
Actor, philanthropist, and Lewiston native Patrick Dempsey, at 乐播传媒 to receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree last Sunday, caught the media’s attention, including , who writes the paper’s Names column.
“It was a homecoming of sorts for Dempsey,” wrote Shanahan.
Kate Berger ’17 (center) of Newton, Mass., and classmate Sadie James of Avon, Maine, take a selfie with actor and philanthropist Patrick Dempsey as graduates line up on Alumni Walk on Commencement morning. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/乐播传媒 College)
乐播传媒 honored Dempsey for his efforts to create the Dempsey Center in Lewiston. In partnership with Central Maine Medical Center, the center provides education, wellness services, and other forms of support to anyone affected by cancer.
Dempsey’s honor, and quoted Cara Starnbach ’19 of Needham, Mass., who talked about Dempsey’s involvement with the annual Dempsey Challenge fundraiser each October.
鈥淗e always stays involved on an annual basis, and his successes are something celebrated in Lewiston,鈥� said Starnbach.
Patrick Dempsey tweeted his degree: “Such an honor.”
Elizabeth Strout ’77
Elizabeth Strout鈥檚 follow-up to Lucy Barton is a master class on class 鈥� The New York Times
Myriad news outlets have glowingly reviewed Elizabeth Strout’s new novel, Anything Is Possible.
The novel “might look like a sequel” to Strout’s My Name Is Lucy Barton, says , but “it鈥檚 actually something far more complex, reaching across space…and through layers of memory.”
that the prose is “wrenchingly lovely. It almost always is with Strout,” adding that one reads a Strout novel “for the same reason you listen to a requiem: to experience the beauty in sadness.”
“confirms Strout as one of our most grace-filled, and graceful, writers.”
Her Pulitzer Prize-winning Olive Kitteridge mined the depths of regret, “of the pain that comes from knowing that many things, even most things, are not in fact possible,” the Globe notes.
Yet there’s also in Strout’s work “unbidden, shattering grace,” says the Globe, “what Flannery O鈥機onnor called ‘the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace’ into human lives. In these moments, a deeper knowledge of self becomes possible; radical change 鈥� from selfishness to selflessness; from bitterness to love 鈥� becomes imaginable.”
Do good looks mean better job opportunities in China? 鈥� Radio Taiwan International
The Radio Taiwan International program Margaret Maurer-Fazio about on how attractiveness influences people’s chances for job interviews.
In China, job candidates must include photographs with job applications, which, of course, is “a fundamental difference” from U.S. practices, notes Maurer-Fazio, the Betty Doran Stangle Professor of Applied Economics at 乐播传媒.
Maurer-Fazio collected stock photo portraits, tested them for attractiveness with Chinese audiences, and then worked with the 乐播传媒 Imaging Center to digitally alter some, making them less attractive.
The photos were paired with mock resumes and submitted to thousands of job openings in China.
The result? “Overall, an unattractive applicant had to put in about a third more applications to get the same number of callbacks,” Maurer-Fazio says.
Boston Cannons draft 乐播传媒’ Charlie Fay 鈥� WCSH-TV
On May 28, the day he graduated from 乐播传媒, men’s lacrosse standout Charlie Fay of Falmouth, Maine, was drafted by the Boston Cannons of Major League Lacrosse.
Charlie Fay ’17 of Falmouth, Maine, shown competing against Middlebury in May, has been drafted by the Boston Cannons of Major League Lacrosse. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/乐播传媒 College)
Fay was the fifth selection made by the Cannons and the 59th pick overall, making him 乐播传媒’ first lacrosse player to be drafted by an MLL team, .
On Tuesday, the with the Cannons’ head coach about Fay’s selection.
Portland chefs Mike Wiley and Andrew Taylor win James Beard Award 鈥� Portland Press Herald
The James Beard Award represents “coveted recognition that chefs consider to be the Oscars of the food world,” .
Along with manager Arlin Smith, Mike Wiley and Andrew Taylor co-own three Portland restaurants, Eventide Oyster Co., The Honey Paw and Hugo鈥檚. They won their award in the Northeast category.
Andrew Taylor ’03 poses with one of his restaurants’ seafood providers, Matt Moretti ’06, purveyor of Bangs Island Musssels. (Josh Kuckens/乐播传媒 College)
Local agency adds golf, stresses tourism 鈥� Crain’s Cleveland
Sports agent Sam Duvall, who formed Topnotch Management in 2016 after he left Lagard猫re Tennis, where he was a vice president, wants to enter the golf tourism space, writes Kevin Kleps for Crains’s Cleveland.
Kleps explains that while Topnotch Management may appear to be “a boutique sports marketing agency” with a roster of “13 tennis players, including American star John Isner, and six up-and-coming golfers,” the firm is “really an events, tourism, and marketing company.”
That’s due to Duvall’s partnership with Vermont-based Grand Slam Tennis Tours, which brings “an average of 2,000 clients each year to prestigious tennis tournaments” where customers enjoy perks like “city tours, courtside seating, and meet-and-greet dinners.”
Grand Slam, Duvall tells Kleps, has tennis tourism “down to a science.” Now Topnotch wants to do the same with golf, as “Duvall believes golf tourism is more of an untapped market,” writes Kleps.
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