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Wildcat alumni celebrate 100 years of student press

Richard Gilman, publisher of The Boston Globe who began his career at the Arizona Daily Wildcat, will deliver the keynote address and join about 250 former student journalists at the UA newspaper's 100-year reunion dinner Friday.

Arizona Student Media officials expect alumni from as far as Malaysia and Japan to attend the banquet.

UA students began publishing a newspaper in 1899 as the monthly Sage, Green and Silver. One hundred years later, the Daily Wildcat serves a readership of 40,000 and millions more through the Wildcat Online.

Arizona Student Media has organized a few projects to commemorate the 100-year celebration, including a poster, a Centennial Alumni directory and a supplement produced by the University of Arizona Department of Journalism included in today's Wildcat.

Among the newspaper's alumni, Melissa Vito, UA dean of students, was a Wildcat reporter in 1974.

"Despite the fact that I did not pursue a journalism career, I consider the experience I got on the Wildcat to be the most useful toward my career success," Vito stated in the alumni directory.

Gilman served as a Wildcat reporter and editor in 1969 and went on to work at the Arizona Daily Star. He later became the vice president of The New York Times before heading New England's largest newspaper, The Boston Globe.

"The Wildcat produced not only professional journalists, but others who succeeded in business or education careers," Woodhams said. "It was a stepping stone for their future."

The 100-year reunion dinner will take place Friday at the University Park Marriott at 6:30 p.m.