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Liz DeSantis is a multimedia journalist for WKRN News 2, a central Tennessee and southern Kentucky news network. Previously, she covered the Indiana Statehouse and served as an education and economy reporter for Indiana Public Media. She also worked as a production assistant for "World News Tonight with David Muir" and served as an investigative reporter at the Arnolt Center for Investigative Journalism. (May 2026)
Shirley Kurlander died on May 16 at the age of 90. While at IU, Kurlander was the assistant editor for Indiana Daily Student. She also served as a secretary of the Independent Party, as a member of the IU Student Foundation, and was most notably inducted into Theta Sigma Phi, a national honors society and professional fraternity for women in journalism.
Kurlander had a distinguished career in journalism, serving as Assistant Women’s Editor of The Indianapolis Star and later as an associate editor of WFYI-TV 20 Member’s Magazine.
Committed to Jewish education and civic engagement, Kurlander was the first president of both the Auxiliary to the Hasten Hebrew Academy of Indianapolis, and the Parents Club of Sigma Alpha Mu at IU. She served as president of both the Women’s Service League of the Indianapolis Jewish Community Center and The Guild for Hooverwood Living.
Kurlander also served on the boards of the Indianapolis Symphony Society, the Museum of Art Alliance, the Women’s Auxiliary of the Marion County Medical Society, the National Council of Jewish Women, the Hasten Hebrew Academy, the Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis, Congregation Beth El Zedeck Sisterhood, and Hadassah.
Among her many honors, Shirley received the Martin L. Larner Leadership Award from the Indianapolis Jewish Community. She and her husband were also inducted into the Indiana University Presidents Circle and received the HAI-Life Distinguished Service Award from the Hasten Hebrew Academy.
CIndy Brown was named Top Wedding Photojournalist in the Americas for 2025 by the Wedding Photojournalist Association. (May 2026)
Jo Beth Bootz is the instructor of the media communications and broadcasting program at the Southern Indiana Career & Technical Center. She is also the general manager of 90.7 WPSR and elected as the first female president of the Indiana Association of School Broadcasters. (May 2026)
Meredith Collins is in her third year of postdoctoral training in the Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Rutgers Cancer Institute. She studies the effects of entertainment media use on coping, social support, and meaning making among adolescents and young adult cancer survivors. She received her doctoral degree in May 2023 from the University of North Carolina Hussman School of Journalism and Media. (May 2026)
Miya Ingle joined KCTV5 as a weekday morning reporter and Sunday morning anchor. Previously, she was an evening anchor. (May 2026)
Abby Haymond is a news reporter/MMJ at WBRC 6 News. Previously, she was a Weekday Evening Anchor for ABC Ten First News. (May 2026)
Marjorie "Marge" Blewett died February 15, 2019 at the age of 91. During her time at IU, she was editor-in-chief of the Indiana Daily Student and worked for The Daily Herald, now The Herald-Times. She launched her post-graduate career at newspapers in Bloomington and Lafayette, but returned to the IU School of Journalism in 1965 as a lecturer. She then served as the school’s placement director for 20 years.
Blewett funded a journalism school scholarship, was a member of the IU Journalism Hall of Fame, founded the Ernie Pyle Society and was named Sagamore of the Wabash. She remained involved with the School of Journalism, and later The Media School, until the time of her death and was a mentor to many students.
George K. Englehart was 93 when he died Dec. 3, 2015. He was a longtime Courier-Journal Indianapolis bureau chief, covering politics national politics and elections, the Indiana Statehouse and Southern Indiana news. He also wrote a political column for years before retiring in 1984. Englehart was inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame in 1987 and was the first president of the IU Journalism Alumni Association.
Macy "Mace" Broide died Dec. 22, 2017. At 17 years old, Broide arrived at IU shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor, which had a significant impact on the trajectory of his education, as he details in a memory honoring the former School of Journalism’s centennial. Broide got involved with the Indiana Daily Student as a freshman, working his way up to editor-in-chief of the paper.
His studies were temporarily interrupted as he was drafted to the war, where he worked as a war correspondent. He returned a decorated combat veteran, having earned silver and bronze stars for his combat reporting. After graduating in 1947, he was a political writer and TV newscaster for Scripps Howard in Evansville, Indiana. He later moved to Washington, D.C., to work as a campaign manager and aide for Sen. Vance Hartke of Indiana. After 10 years as a public affairs consultant, he returned to Capitol Hill as chief of staff of the House Budget Committee. His wife, Gloria Goldsholl Broide, ’47, also was a journalism student. She died in November 2009.
