Charles Apple

Here’s wishing the happiest of VizEds birthdays to Randy Stano, a professor in the University of Miami’s School of Communication. Randy turns 61 today.

A graduate of Syracuse University, Randy was named Texas high school journalism teacher of the year and National Journalism Teacher of the Year before getting into newspapers. He worked as assistant art director for the Kansas City Star and Kansas City Times, director of editorial art and design at The Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, N.Y., and director of editorial art and design for The Miami Herald.

Randy served as president of the Society for News Design in 1992 and was the SND’s 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, Gordon Jump, Debbie Reynolds, Annette O’Toole and Lon Chaney, wrestler Randy Orton, author Anne McCaffrey and German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck.

Plus, in addition to being April Fool’s Day, today is One Cent Day. Seriously.

Best wishes for a happy birthday, Randy!

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