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You’re Moving Where?
The dispatcher at the moving company took my name, address, date of move and the number of rooms in my apartment. Then she asked, “And where are you moving to?”
“State College, Pennsylvania,” I said.
Long pause. Very long pause.
“Are you sure?” she asked.
I laughed. I’m sure she thought I was a little crazy. I was calling from Miami, where it was about 75 degrees and sunny, and I was looking at the beach from the window of my home office. The temperature in snow-covered Pennsylvania was in the teens.
But none of that matters to me. I’m going home.
And Penn State is home. I wasn’t born there, but I definitely grew up there.
As a Penn State student, I made lifetime friends and connected with the professors and mentors who launched me into a fulfilling career in journalism. Later, as a professional living in State College, covering the university and its sports teams for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, I met my husband, also a Penn State grad. Our wedding photos were taken at the Nittany Lion Shrine.
I love the energy of a university and its community, and I can’t wait to get there and become part of that again.
Even if it means digging out my socks, sweaters and boots.
Lori Shontz, senior editor
New Senior Editor on the Way
Lori Shontz (photo by Christian Gooden)
We’re thrilled to report that we’ve got a new senior editor coming soon to The Penn Stater, to fill the vacancy created when Maureen “Little Mo” Harmon became editor of the alumni magazine at Denison University. I say “thrilled” for two reasons—one, because we’re real tired of being short-handed, and two, because we think we’ve made a great hire.
The new senior editor is Lori Shontz ’91, a veteran journalist who has worked at three major newspapers in her 18-year career: the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and, most recently, the Miami Herald. She’s currently the editor of the Herald‘s Sunday sports section—a section that ranges from 18 to 32 pages every week. She maintains strong Penn State ties and serves on the advisory board for the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism in the College of Communications.
Lori might post a blog entry soon, if time permits while she’s packing up in Florida and trying to remember where she stored all those winter clothes.
Tina Hay, editor
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