Four to enter CMU Journalism Hall of Fame in November

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A retired photojournalism professor, an international business journalist, a newspaper publisher and an executive sports editor will enter the CMU Journalism Hall of Fame in November.

The four will become the ninth induction class since the Hall of Fame began in 2002. Ceremonies are Nov. 11 at the Mount Pleasant Comfort Inn & Conference Center, 2424 S. Mission St.

Elliott S. Parker

Parker, who, for most of his career at CMU, taught all of the photo classes, expanded the photo program and worked with students who later became prominent photojournalists. He also pioneered the use of computer-assisted reporting, desktop publishing and media design in the Department of Journalism.

He was one of the early adopters of Internet technology in the department, and was a noted scholar of Southeast Asian studies. He retired in 2007.

A well-known photographer in his own right, Parker also taught and mentored numerous photojournalists who have gone on to wide acclaim. They include Michael S. Green of the Associated Press, Steve Jessmore, senior photo editor of the The Sun News in Myrtle Beach, S.C. and Cathaleen Curtiss, former vice president of global photography at America Online.

Dale A. Duncan

All three photojournalists are already in the Journalism Hall of Fame.

Duncan is a 1976 graduate, who is president and CEO of the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel in Maine.

He previously served as president and publisher of The Indianapolis Star and Indianapolis News, vice president of the publishing group for Capital Cities Communications and as president and publisher of The Times Leader in Wilkes Barre, Penn.

His Capital Cities tenure included serving as president of the The Oakland Press, which twice was named Newspaper of the Year by the Michigan Press Association. He also was a founding member of CMU’s Lem Tucker Scholarship Speaker Series.

Pete Engardio

Engardio, a 1980 graduate, worked for Business Week magazine from 1985 to 2009, serving in the Atlanta bureau and in Hong Kong where he covered Asian business for six years. He moved to New York in 1996 as Asian editor and was editor of the Asian edition from 1999 to 2001.

Engardio recently formed his own company, Engardio Media, and resides in Brooklyn, NY.

He has won three Overseas Press Club awards for his Asian reporting. He also has won the George Polk, Loeb and Sigma Delta Chi awards.

He is recognized as a leading national expert on Asian business and co-authored or contributed to books on Asia and India. He has an MA from the University of Missouri and has been a Reuters Journalism Fellow at Oxford University.

Engardio was a CMU commencement speaker in May 2010.

Mary Ullmer

Ullmer is a 1984 graduate who is the executive sports editor at the Grand Rapids Press.

Ullmer has the distinction of being the first woman sports editor at several newspapers. She has worked for the Chicago Tribune, South Florida Sun Sentinel, Springfield (MO) News-Leader and the Muskegon Chronicle.

She also directs coverage of Detroit’s four major sports franchises for the eight-member Booth Newspaper group and handles the MLive.com sports feed.

She is known for mentoring and developing sports writers, including Jon Paul Morosi, national baseball writer for FOXSports.com, John Eligon of the New York Times, Marlen Garcia, NCAA sports writer for USA Today, columnist Michael Rosenberg of the Detroit Free Press and Chip Scoggins, Minnesota Vikings beat writer for the Minneapolis Star Tribune.