Tina Hay Named Penn Stater Editor

8-01-96
University Park, Pa. -- Tina M. Hay has been named editor of The Penn Stater, the University's bi-monthly alumni magazine.

Previously, since 1983, Hay was communications assistant to the dean in the College of Health and Human Development (and its predecessor, the College of Human Development). She developed the magazine Health and Human Development Research, which earned a gold, silver, and two bronze medals from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). She also revamped the college's alumni newsletter, oversaw the development of a family of promotional publications, and helped create the college's Web site.

She is a frequent contributor to Currents, the national professional magazine of CASE; her most recent feature covered editorial freedom and conflict in alumni magazines.

In 1990 she co-authored a book, "Recollections: Your Memory-a-Day Journal," with former College of Education faculty member Bernard J. Badiali (now a faculty member at Miami University of Ohio). The book, a guided journal to help older adults write about their lives, was published by Scott, Foresman and Company.

The Penn Stater is the primary benefit of membership in the Penn State Alumni Association, which -- at 136,000 members -- is the nation's largest alumni association. In addition to serving as editor of the magazine, Hay will oversee other Alumni Association publications as well as the content of the Alumni Association's World Wide Web site.

Hay is also known as the voice of Penn State women's basketball, having been public address announcer for the Lady Lions' home games for the past 11 years. In addition, she is coordinator of the Folk Show on WPSU, Penn State's regional public radio station, from which she received the 1994 Volunteer Award.

Hay began her professional career as director of news operations for Eastern Broadcasting Corporation in State College, then continued part-time as sports director while pursuing a degree as a returning adult student at Penn State. She graduated with highest distinction and with honors in management in 1983. She participated in the University Scholars Program, and her senior honors thesis on the National Coal Policy Project resulted in three articles in scholarly journals.

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Editors: Tina Hay, a native of Somerset, has lived in State College for the past 20 years.

Contact:
Alan Janesch, (814) 865-7517 (office), (814) 867-3621 (home), axj12@psu.edu