(C) 2008 Syracuse Press Club.

Timothy Bunn had a career of more than 30 years as a journalist before retiring last year. He started as a copy editor at the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, rising up to the position of metro editor for the D&C.
    After a two-year stint at the Miami Herald, Bunn returned to New York in 1981 to assume the position of assistant managing editor of the Post Standard. A year later he was promoted to managing editor of the paper. He later became executive editor of the Herald-Journal and Herald American. When those two papers were merged into the Post-Standard, he became deputy executive editor of the Post.
    
     Ron Graeff, better know as Ron Hastings to Central New York TV viewers, spent  more than 20 years at channel 3 as a reporter, anchor and producer. He's won numerous awards, including the Press Club's Professional Standards Award. He is also a past president of the Press Club. After departing channel 3 in 1989, Ron turned most of his energies to teaching. He was a visiting professor of broadcast journalism at Newhouse from 1990-1998, was a visiting professor at LeMoyne in 1999. Since 2000 he has served as assistant professor of communications studies at SUNY Oswego here he was names outstanding faculty advisor in 2003 (for WNYO-FM) and again in 2006 (for WTOP-TV).
    
     Maureen Green is a native of Worcester, Massachusetts who came to Central New York for graduate work at the Newhouse School of Communications and never left. Maureen began her broadcast career reporting for Channel 9. She then joined WTVH as a reporter. Her ability to communicate and relate to an audience quickly won her the job co-anchoring the noon news with Ron Curtis. Maureen later took over the co-anchor chair for the evening news broadcasts. During that time in the 1980's WTVH dominated the local news ratings. At times, the noon news desk she shared with the late Ron Curtis garnered more than 60 percent of the viewers watching television. 
    
     J. Luther Sylvahn was a prominent member of the African-American community during 1930's, 40's and 50's. Originally from Louisiana, Sylvahn settled in Syracuse in the 1920's. He invested in real estate, and dabbled in local politics, but his real love was the weekly Syracuse Progressive Herald. Sylvahn published the paper from 1933 to 1958; the paper was aimed at serving the black community, which at that time was mostly located in what was the 15th Ward, in an area east of downtown. The paper never earned enough advertising revenue, so Sylvahn subsidized it out of his own pocket. In an article in the Post-Standard, one long time reader said that at the time "... daily papers did not carry news of the black community, unless it was bad news."  Marjory Wilkins told the Post "He pretty much told it like it was and people appreciated that."  J. Luther Sylvahn died in 1977.