The Penn Stater Magazine

Two Articles Worth Reading

June 1, 2009 at 1:19 pm Tina Hay 1 comment

I mentioned the other day that we hadn’t won anything in the overall magazine category in this year’s CASE awards, but that we did win two gold medals in the category called “Best Articles of the Year.” I thought you might want to see the two articles that won.

One of the gold awards was for “The Family Tree” (Nov-Dec 2008), a story by Vicki Glembocki ’93, ’02g, about the film No. 4 Street of Our Lady, which chronicles the heroic efforts of a Polish woman to shelter several Jewish families from the Nazis during the Holocaust. The film is the work of three Penn State faculty members—one of whom is the daughter of one of the Jews who was saved.

As for the other gold award, well, a year or so we learned of a Penn State grad, Andrew Bieniawski ’89, who leads a U.S. government effort to track down and remove nuclear materials that are still scattered throughout eastern Europe, remnants of the Cold War. The effort often involves delicate negotiations with other countries, and lots of secretive work under cover of darkness. We sent Jason Fagone ’01 over to Hungary to follow one such cloak-and-dagger mission, and the resulting article, “The Hungary Job” (Jan-Feb 2009) is one of the most engrossing reads we’ve printed in a long time. It won the other gold medal.

You can download a PDF of “The Family Tree” here and a PDF of “The Hungary Job” here.

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Tina Hay, editor

Entry filed under: College of Communications, College of Engineering, The Penn Stater magazine. Tags: Andrew Bieniawski, Best Articles of the Year, CASE, Jason Fagone, Judy Maltz, No. 4 Street of Our Lady, Vicki Glembocki.