>> Yeah, I went to Penn State back in the early 1970s.
I'm a history major.
When I got out of Penn State, which was in 1973, like today, the country was mired
in a pretty intractable recession.
I got a job at a local department store, said to myself, "This isn't going to work.
I need to do something else."
So I went back, got a Master's degree in Journalism here at Penn State,
was able to get a job as a reporter, which at the time in the mid-1970s was very hard to do
because college students in droves were majoring in journalism, inspired by Woodward/Bernstein
and what they did to take down an American presidency.
So I worked for three years as a reporter.
I came back here in 1978 as a writer/editor in the Department of Public Information,
worked my way up the ladder over the ensuing 17 years to become Assistant Vice-President
for University Relations, which is to say the chief communications position at the university.
I left for eight years.
I worked at Georgetown University.
I worked at the University of Arkansas both in University Relations or Communications
and Marketing, and then in 2003 this job came open and I applied and, lo and behold,
I got it and I've been here ever since.
It's been eight years now that I've been the Executive Director
of the Penn State Alumni Association.
So that in a nutshell is my career path.