Here’s wishing a very, very special VizEds birthday to Randy Stano, a superb journalism professor at the University of Miami.
Randy turns 60 today.
Randy Stano. All photos in this post
were donated by people who wish to
remain anonymous. Heh.
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Randy is the Knight Foundation Chair Professor for the School of Communication at the University of Miami’s School of Communication. He’s also the editorial advisor for Miami’s yearbook, The Ibis.
A graduate of Syracuse University, Randy was Texas high school journalism teacher of the year and National Journalism Teacher of the Year. He was the assistant art director for The Kansas City Times and The Kansas City Star and, later, director of editorial art and design at The Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, N.Y.
Randy wears a crown at his 53rd
birthday party in April 2001.
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In 1985, Randy became director of editorial art and design for The Miami Herald, leading the team that won a Pulitzer Prize and Best of Show in the annual Society for News Design contest for its coverage of Hurricane Andrew.
He has redesigned a number of papers including La Nación in Costa Rica, The Prague Post in the Czech Republic and The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Randy and his students at SND/Phoenix in 2001.
Randy is third from left. Second from left is
Miranda Mulligan, who later earned a masters
degree from Ball State and is now a multimedia
producer for The Virginian-Pilot.
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I’ve met Randy a few times and have found him to be engaging and fun. And he certainly knows his stuff. His students swear there’s not a better journalism professor anywhere.
Randy was president of SND in 1992 and wasa quickcourse chairman for several years. Those Hawaiian-style shirts I enjoy wearing? I was first inspired to try them after observing Randy wearing them at a quickcourse, more than a decade-and-a-half ago.
Randy shares a birthday with actors Ali MacGraw, Debbie Reynolds, Lon Chaney and Gordon Jump, historian William Manchester, baseball Hall of Famer Phil Niekro and German Chencellor Otto Von Bismarck.
Plus, today is One Cent Day. Seriously.
Best wishes for a fabulous birthday, Randy!
Classes in video journalism
photo sources hardly need to be anonymous… they were provided by myself and Lori Todd, both ex-students and ex-assistants of his…
Happy Birthday, Stano!
Stano rocks. I should have appreciated him more when I was in college, lol. Happy birthday!
Randy,
Wonderful party! Thank you so much for including me! And happy birthday!
Randy was amazing as a cute little instructor of “Superivising Secondary School Publications” back at the Summer Journalism Institute at The University of Iowa in 1974. He’s still cute (or maybe charming is a better word choice) and still talented. He is instrumental in the professional success of his students by encouraging them to be fearlessly creative and in the continuous awards this the University of Miami Ibis yearbook garners each year by allowing the outrageous while pushing the basics. It’s a joy for me to continue to be his friend and his yearbook publisher.
Happy Birthday, Randy!
Randy’s party was fantastic! Great paella too.
Yup. EXCELLENT party! EXCELLENT BIRTHDAY BOY!!! We did the redesign of the Prague Post together back in ‘99. Great designer, journalist, friend.
Hey Randy!
Congrats! Had a blast when we were down - we’ll have to celebrate on our next go around!
best,
Brad