Nearly $14,000 has been raised to date in two fund-raising efforts benefiting The BG News. According to Michelle Banks, '92, BGNAS board member and BGSU's director of annual giving, $12,016 has been contributed to the Terry Goodman Memorial Journalism Scholarship fund and another $1,952 has been donated to the newly created BG News Fund.

These are the criteria for the Terry Goodman Memorial Journalism Scholarship. This scholarship is open to both incoming freshmen and enrolled students.

By BOB BORTEL
BG News Adviser
BGSU '77, '83

It wasn't that long ago, at least not in our minds anyway. Those days in college -- the friends, the experiences, the late nights in the newsroom, or later on winding down after deadline at some favorite gathering place.

A lot hasn't changed. The BG News and the BGSU journalism department are still partnering to develop some of the best professional journalists today, or graduates choosing to make their mark in another career, using those skills they first found or developed at BGSU and maybe the student newspaper.

Award-winning journalist and family man

Ask Craig Goodman about his brother Terry and he doesn't hesitate: "He was about love of family, love of the journalism profession, and trying to help out someone who needed it."

Those values are at the core of the Terry Goodman Memorial Journalism Scholarship, a program begun in 2004 to honor the 1978 Bowling Green State University journalism graduate who became an award-winning journalist in Northeast Ohio.