NEWS RELEASE

October 16, 2014

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact Information:
Lauren Acquaviva, Communications Director
Office (978) 555-5555
E-mail: l_acquaviva@salemstate.edu

AMESBURY COLLEGE TO HAVE FIRST EVER LARGE-SCALE REUNION

AMESBURY, Mass Amesbury College is pleased to announce its first ever large-scale class
reunion. The reunion will be held October 22-25, 2015. All graduating classes of the School of
Journalism are invited. The reunion will be held in conjunction with the schools 75th anniversary
celebration.
John Lancomb, dean of Amesbury College for the past five years said, The schools
long history of excellence makes this an especially important occasion. Were expecting a large
turnout. The school has received replies from graduates ranging in age from 24 to 98. Current
records show there are nearly 700 living alumni of the school.
Joe Smith, the executive editor of the Los Angeles Times, is a graduate of this program.
Smith said, I owe practically all of my success to what I learned while at Amesbury. While the
newspaper business has certainly changed over the years, the school, to its credit, has remained
on the cutting edge of journalism education. There are five current or former members of
Congress, eight corporate presidents or CEOs, 148 editors, and 53 publishers that are graduates
of this program.
Amesbury College is a nationally famous, small liberal arts college on the East Coast. Its
reputation for academic excellence has consistently placed it in the top 10 in private colleges in

-More-

the country. This school has the oldest journalism program in the Mid-Atlantic region of the
United States.

###