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The Dean's National Industry Council is comprised of distinguished MCMA alumni from across the country. Their mission is to enhance the quality of education at Southern Illinois University for the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts. The Council will advise the Dean on long-term goals, identify industry trends and help develop the necessary resources for the academic programs.

Randy A. Daniels is currently the Vice Chairman of Gilford Securities Inc., a private equity partnership in New York.

On April 12, 2001, Daniels was appointed New York State Secretary of State by Governor George E. Pataki. Daniels resigned in 2006 to run for the Governorship for the State of New York.

From December 1999 to April 2001, Daniels was Senior Vice President of Canyon Johnson Urban Fund, L.L.P., a real estate equity fund based in Beverly Hills, CA. From 1995 to 1999 Daniels served under Governor Pataki as Senior Vice President and Deputy Commissioner of Economic Revitalization at the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC). At ESDC Daniels managed the Department of Economic Revitalization, where he oversaw the Harlem Community Development Corporation and coordinated New York Stateís role in the federal Empowerment Zone program and Enterprise Community programs.

In 1997 Governor Pataki nominated Daniels to the State University of New York (SUNY) Board of Trustees. The Governor later named him Vice Chairman of the SUNY Board, where he continues to serve as Chairman of the Investment Committee, Co-Chair of the Committees on General Education and Charter Schools, and is a member of the Executive and Finance Committees.

Before heading ESDCs Department of Economic Revitalization, Daniels was Press Secretary to the Prime Minister of the Bahamas from 1988-92, Director of Communications for the New York City Council Presidentís Office from 1986-88, and was an adjunct journalism professor at both the City College of New York and Columbia Universityís Graduate School of Journalism.

Daniels has extensive experience in journalism. He was Managing Director of Jacaranda Nigeria Limited ñ a television training program for Nigerian television ñ from 1982-84, National Correspondent for CBS News based in New York City from 1980-82, Foreign Correspondent for CBS News in Nairobi, Kenya, from 1977-80, Correspondent for CBS News in Chicago from 1972-1977, and Reporter for WVON Radio in Chicago from 1970-72.

Daniels graduated from Southern Illinois University in 1973 and holds a bachelorís degree in Radio-Television.

Daniels is married to the New York State Supreme Court Justice Sallie Manzanet and has two grown daughters from a previous marriage.

Arthur Wiese, Entergy Corporation's vice president, corporate communications since July 2000, has had a long career in public affairs, communications, and journalism. His responsibilities with the Fortune 200 energy company include internal and external communications, media relations, community relations, advertising, opinion research, Internet communications, crisis planning and response, event planning, radio and television production and (in the Northeastern states) local government relations.

Wiese, who divides his time between Entergy's headquarters in New Orleans and its Washington office, supervises communicators working in 19 locations in seven states from Texas to New England.

Under Wiese's direction, the Corporate Communications department has won 25 national and nearly 100 regional awards from such organizations as the Public Relations Society of America, the International Association of Business Communicators, the American Society of Professional Communicators and PR Week. He led Entergyís communications efforts in twin 2000 ice storms in Arkansas, then the worst in company history; the corporationís unsuccessful merger with FPL Group in 2000-01; six hurricanes that struck Louisiana or Texas in 2002, 2004 and 2005, including Katrina, which has been called the worst national disaster in American history; and the defense of Entergyís Indian Point nuclear plants in New York in 2001-04 against attempts to force their closure due to terrorism fears. The Indian Point effort was honored by PR Week as the nationís best public affairs campaign of 2002 and by the Edison Electric Institute as the industryís best advocacy campaign of 2004. PR Week and the Public Relations Society of America both honored Entergy with their crisis communications awards for 2005 for its response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. PR Week also named Entergyís hurricane work the nationís best public relations campaign of the year.

Before joining Entergy, Wiese was vice president, public affairs for the American Petroleum Institute in Washington, D.C., the primary trade association for the multinational oil industry. Among the issues in which he had a lead role for API were human health concerns about gasoline in 1984, the worldwide collapse of oil prices in 1986-87, the Exxon Valdez oil spill response in 1989, the invasion of Kuwait and the Persian Gulf War in 1990-91, the campaign to defeat a BTU-based national energy tax in 1993, the market introduction of reformulated gasoline in 1995-96, and controversies over rising gasoline prices in 1996 and 1999.

Prior to his career in public affairs and communications, Wiese was for 17 years a journalist, covering the White House under Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan; three presidential campaigns; and stories on four continents. He is the recipient of nine national and regional reporting awards. From 1973 until 1982 he was the Washington bureau chief for The Houston Post. He also served as president of the National Press Club in 1979-80, the youngest president at age 32 in that organizationís then 71-year history.

Wiese has been active in many professional, civic and charitable causes. He served as chairman of the National Energy Foundation in 1997-99 and president of People for the USA Foundation in 1998-99. He is a director emeritus of the National Press Foundation in Washington, D.C. and a current member of the boards of the Foundation for American Communications in Los Angeles, the Shakespeare Festival at Tulane University in New Orleans, the Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana, the Public Affairs Council in Washington, the Foundation for Clean Air Progress in Washington and the Clean and Safe Energy Council in Washington. He also is a former chairman (2002-04) of the Nuclear Energy Instituteís Communications Advisory Committee.

A native of Texas, Wiese holds a Bachelor of Science degree in journalism, government and history from Sam Houston State University, graduating summa cum laude in 1967, and a Master of Science degree in journalism and history from Southern Illinois University, also graduating summa cum laude in 1968. He was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow in political history at the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1981 and completed the executive development program at Cornell Universityís Johnson Graduate School of Management in 1984.

He has been married since 1967 to Nanette Wiese, an editor and writer. They live in Mount Vernon, Va., on land that once was part of George Washingtonís estate. Their daughter, Kimberly W. Dahmani, is a psychologist and life coach in Washington, D.C.

Larry R. Henry ('64) has more than 30 years experience in the magazine industry. In 1986, he formed Viscom Publishing which published five monthly magazines in the health care industry. He sold that company in 1996. Prior to that, he held various positions with various magazine publishers including editorial, marketing, advertising and publishing responsibilities. Most of his career assignments have taken place in the New York City area. He currently serves as president of Real World Communications, a Minnesota based company involved in educational products for health care professionals. Larry and his wife Linda ('64) now live in Marion, IL.

Chief Executive Officer of Broadspot World Wide Wireless (BWWD.TV)
IVI Communications, Inc.

Nyhl Henson is a cable television programming pioneer and entertainment industry executive who will serve on the Board of Advisors. An early leader in recognizing the value of cable television programming, Henson was instrumental in the conversion of Warner Communications' Star Channel into a satellite-delivered service known as "The Movie Channel." He served as the first general manager of Nickelodeon TV and was a key contributor to the development of MTV from Nickelodeon's "Pop Clips" program. After leaving Warner, Henson became vice president of programming and production with Oak Media Development, where he pioneered the pay-per-view genre with such events as the Rolling Stones in concert and the Leonard-Hearns and Holmes-Cooney championship fights.

In 1983, he helped to create Music Village Group, a Nashville-based entertainment Company, and Music Village USA, a 40-acre theme park. Henson was named Chairman and CEO of Country Music Television when Music Village acquired the fledgling network. Country Music Television was later sold to Group W Cable as part of a $1.5 billion package. Henson most recently has served as CEO of Craftsman and Scribes Creative Workshop, an award-winning New York City-based children's television production company. He also has been involved in the development of several land-based entertainment complexes including projects in Branson, Missouri and Nashville, Tennessee. He is currently the Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of IVI Communications.

Senior Vice President Marketing & Sales Strategy TV Networks Distribution

Industry veteran Brian Hunt joined NBC Cable Networks in 1996, where he focuses on core campaigns and promotions that support all nine NBC Cable properties including Bravo, Bravo HD+, Telemundo and mun2. Hunt also manages the Time Warner/Advance-Newhouse programming relationship. In this role, Hunt works with senior management from Time Warner and NBC Cable on various contractual programming issues.

During his time at NBC Cable, Hunt has been instrumental in developing some of the cable TV industry's most successful local ad sales promotions. Designed to take prestigious cable network telecasts and co-brand them with affiliates for ad sales partnerships, these unique and highly successful programs have become industry standards.

Hunt's current focus is rolling out several new promotions and programs, including the local ad sales program for the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. It was for the 2002 Olympic games in Salt Lake City that Hunt created the first CD-ROM local ad sales and accompanying strategic sales training support program. Embraced by the industry, this hugely successful sales program for affiliates also extended to the popular "Bring Home the Gold" Olympic promotion for cable operators, linking to advertising partner Visa.

In addition, Hunt's efforts include re-launching CNBC's local ad sales program with innovative themed promotions like CNBC Dividends, Tax Tips and Personal Finance Tips. He initiated a similar program for MSNBC, the company's cable news channel.

Previously, Hunt served as Vice President and General Manager of TCI Media Services for the New York DMA. Prior to that, he served with TCI/United Artists Cable Ad Sales in St. Louis, Hartford, Peoria and Southern Illinois.

Hunt holds a B.S. in Finance from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale and an M.B.A. from Fontbonne College in St. Louis, MO. He currently lives in Manhattan with his wife, Rachel and his 11-year-old son, Chandler.

Founding Partner, President Symmetrical Resources

With more than 25 years of top management experience in the media research industry, William Livek is the co-founder and President of Symmetrical Resources, Inc., President and CEO of ADcom Information Services, Inc. and Co-owner of Simmons Market Research (www.smrb.com) Bill also serves on the Board of Directors of both companies.

Prior to founding Symmetrical, Bill was a partner of Birch Radio and President and CEO of Birch Scarborough Research. Under Bill's leadership, Birch Radio became one of the nation's fastest growing media research companies and in the mid-80's was named to INC. Magazine's list of the 500 fastest-growing privately held companies for two consecutive years. Bill also led Birch Scarborough Research to become the dominant supplier of qualitative information for media clients as well as the industry's primary newspaper marketing information tool. In addition to his work at Birch Scarborough, Bill served as Vice President of Radio Sales and Marketing for the Arbitron Company, where he was responsible for developing Arbi Trends, a monthly ratings service, and implementing the four-week cumulative ratings model for radio.

Bill is an alumnus of Southern Illinois University. He graduated from the Radio-Television Department in 1976.

Although he credits his current-day work ethic to spending his "Wonder Bread" years as the youngest son of dairy farming parents in Harvard, Illinois, Dennis Lyle knew early on that dairy farming was not a career of his choice. Dennis would spend those many summers in the mid to late 1960s doing farm-related chores with his small transistor radio tuned to Chicago rock stations WLS and WCFL booming rock n' roll at his side dreaming of someday working in the broadcast profession.

While Dennis' passion for broadcasting may have been nurtured on dairy farms in McHenry County, it was Southern Illinois University that allowed Dennis the opportunity to pursue his dream of a career in broadcasting. Barely unpacked for his 1971 freshman year at SIU, Dennis stumbled upon campus carrier current radio station WIDB, and the rest, as they say, is history.

While WIDB allowed Dennis to perfect his craft as an on-air announcer, it would be local Carbondale stations WCIL-AM/FM that would provide Dennis with his first paycheck for announcing on the radio. Dennis' role at the Carbondale radio stations grew throughout his four year undergraduate years at SIU, eventually leading to additional positions of sales, sales management, General Management, and remarkably, ownership of the locally owned stations.

Rather than leave the community, Dennis and his elementary school teacher wife Paula (Ritchey) would make Southern Illinois their home and eventually purchase the stations with their newly formed company; Lyle Broadcasting. Shortly after purchasing WCIL-AM/FM, the Telecommunication Act of 1996 came to pass, providing an opportunity for small broadcast companies like Lyle's to sell to larger regional and national broadcast companies. As sole partners in their company, Dennis and Paula decided to sell their stations, with Dennis returning to his alma mater to complete a Masters degree in Telecommunications, which he completed in 2000.

On track to become Chairman of the Board of the Illinois Broadcasters Association, an opportunity in 1999 was presented to Dennis to instead assume the role of President/CEO of the association. Dennis was awarded that position in June of 1999, a position he holds to this day. In 2008 Dennis was elected to the position of President of the National Alliance of State Broadcasters Associations.

Always one to believe in giving back to his community, Dennis has been an advocate for economic development for Southern Illinois, having served twice as Carbondale, Illinois' Chamber of Commerce President, as well as a term as Carterville's Chamber of Commerce President, and is currently an advisory member of Williamson County's REDCO (Regional Economic Development Corporation) board of directors and an active member of the Marion, Illinois Chamber of Commerce Marketing Committee.

A registered lobbyist in the state of Illinois, Dennis resides in Carterville, Illinois with Paula, his wife of 28 years. Dennis and Paula are the proud parents of two sons (Kristopher and Matthew)

Judith Roales, a veteran newspaper writer, editor and publisher, is the former Publisher and Executive Vice President of the St. Petersburg Times. Now retired, she works as an advisor to newspapers in countries of the former Soviet Union.

One of only a handful of top women executives in the newspaper industry, she joined the Times-which is among the nation's major newspapers in both size and reputation-in December 1994. Responsible for advertising, circulation, production, finance administration, and all non-news activities at the newspaper, she has led the company through major business changes.

Ms. Roales' 30-plus year career has been in the newspaper industry and in the federal government.

She began in journalism at the Wilmington (DE) News-Journal in 1964 and was its first female hard news reporter. She later reported for the Cocoa (FL) Today, the Frederick (MD) News Post and the Fredericksburg (VA) Free Lance-Star.

In 1975 she joined a privately owned newspaper group, Independent Newspapers Inc, as a reporter on a rural beat for its main paper, the Delaware State News. She spent nearly 20 years with Independent, working her way up from reporter to editor to Washington Bureau Chief, then corporate vice president, and finally president of the group's 24 newspapers. She was responsible for the start-up of three daily newspapers for the group and the purchase of several others.

She has also worked as a policy analyst for the Office of Technology Assessment, which was a research arm of the U.S. Congress. While there, she was the principal author of a half dozen books on technical maritime subjects. She was named by President Jimmy Carter as Assistant Deputy Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Later she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Environment, Safety and Health at the U.S. Department of Energy.

During the 1980's, Ms. Roales was a key player in the development of environmentally benign printing products, such as rub free soybean inks, low VOC chemicals, and recycled newsprint. She committed newspapers under her management as early test sites for such products and was an active spokesperson pushing for their acceptance and use by the newspaper industry. She has been responsible for numerous business innovations for privately owned newspapers, leading them in their battle to survive in the world of corporate media conglomerates.

She has served as a director of PAGE, a purchasing cooperative for privately owned newspapers; as a director of the Inland Press Association and the Newspaper Association of America; and as a trustee for the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, among many other boards.

Craig graduated from the School of Journalism in 1976 and in 1978 he received an MBA from Tulane University. As a student Craig was active with the Daily Egyptian. He grew up in Mt. Vernon, IL.

In 1978 Craig became Manager of Marketing at CIGNA Corporation. He was in charge of financial services, progressive assignments in marketing, product development and operations.

In 1983 Craig became the Market Development Manager at SCM Corporation Allied Paper Division. Craig was responsible for new product development, business and technology acquisition and strategic planning.

In 1987 Craig was selected to be Vice President of Marketing. He was responsible for marketing, strategic planning and acquisitions.

In 1991 Craig was hired as Walgreen Vice President of Advertising. His responsibilities included: corporate advertising, sales promotion, package design, direct marketing merchandising, point of purchase programs, and store grand openings.

In addition Craig was the Past Chairman for the Retail Advertising and Marketing Association, Director of the National Retail-Federation, named to Newsweek's and Advertising Age's "Marketing 100," inducted into the Retail Advertising and Marketing Association Hall of Fame, and currently is Chairman of the Retail Marketing Institute

Don graduated from the School of Journalism in 1961. While at SIU he was a member of Sigma Pi Fraternity. He grew up in Herrin, IL. He is married to Joanna G. Stork and has one son. Joanna was a graduate of SIU. She graduated from the College of Education with a degree in Elementary Education in 1960.

Don's entire career since leaving SIU in 1961 has been in the St. Louis area. He started in 1961 after graduation working for an outdoor advertising firm for one year. Then he went to work for Gardner Advertising, which was the second largest advertising firm in St. Louis at that time. Gardner Advertising was sold. The Media Department of Gardner remained in St. Louis and Don became President of that media firm in the mid 1980's. This firm became Advancers and Don was the only President before it became partners with PHD in 2002.

In 1971 he received the Journalism Alum of the Year Award and the Alumni Achievement Award for Professional Achievement in 1983 which was awarded by the Alumni Association during Homecoming at that time. It was a different medallion than what is given out by the Colleges now.

Advancers Media Programming bought large slots of TV advertising time across America and then resold the slots to large corporations. They have national accounts such as: Kellogg, Ralston Purina, Anheuser-Busch, and Jockey. Advancers annually sold over $1 billion of TV advertising and had a 30 year tradition of service before joining PHD.

Donald A. Stork was the President of the St. Louis branch of PHD USA, a member of PHD Worldwide. PHD is an Omnicom media network of select entrepreneurial independent media specialist companies. The partners are Advancers (St. Louis, Chicago, New York), Creative Media (New York, San Francisco), Penta Com (Detroit, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York), HPYN (Toronto) and PHD UK.

Currently, Don is semi-retired. Don is a consultant for Media Management Inc.

Charlotte Suhler is from a publishing family of daily newspapers in Southern Illinois (Mt. Vernon) and graduated from Southern Illinois University ('65) with a degree in journalism and education. She worked in advertising, newspaper, trade magazine and newsletter publishing. She was a member of the founding staff of New York magazine and served as an elected public official in Darien, CT. She is an active volunteer and does fundraising work for various charities. She also serves on the board of Norwalk Community College.

Charlotte is married to John Suhler and they have three daughters, Courtney, Ashley and Brook.