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Cal Delta Spotlight USC House Corporation of Phi Delta Theta | Summer 2013 | University of Southern California Alumni Offce | P.O. Box 80828, Atlanta, Georgia 30366 | www.phideltatheta-caldelta.com USC House Corporation Alumni Spotlight: John C. Huck ’87 A Word from our New President From the Editor: For this edition of the ow I know how Gene newsletter, we’re shining the Cal Delta NBartow felt. In case Spotlight on our Brother John Huck ’87. you’re not versed in 1970’s From Chicago, IL, John is a two-time trivia, Bartow took over as Emmy® award-winning anchor for FOX5 UCLA’s basketball coach News in Las Vegas. Our past Chapter when John Wooden retired. President, he is currently working on his Similarly, Steve Scully ’81 Masters in Communication Management has fnished a remarkable at USC. John recently muscled his way run as House Corporation through the Nevada Silverman Triathlon President and I’m succeeding him. Steve led - branded as the toughest course in North the near-miraculous effort to rebuild a burned America. He is also dedicated to raising out shell into the nicest fraternity house on the awareness and support for the Southern Row, even offering his personal guarantee to a Nevada Alzheimer’s Organization, among construction loan to keep funds fowing to the many charitable efforts. Though May is the rebuilding effort. It’s simply accurate to say busiest time of year for John, he stepped up that without Steve our chapter house wouldn’t to the plate for an interview with us. Read be standing today. on to fnd out more about our generous and As I ponder how to follow that dedicated Cal Delta brother. performance, the University of Maryland’s Rebecca Martinson unwittingly provided How did you get into Broadcast some help in managing expectations. Her Journalism? now-famous email rant to her sisters in the I actually majored in business at USC but DG House was so profane that it makes gang- fgured out toward the end that I really banger trash talk sound like the banter at an wanted to pursue this job. So while I was Amish quilt and craft sale. holding down a job at John Hancock, I It’s usually a nine hour day unless I’m Filling Steve Scully’s shoes is daunting. interned at CNN’s Hollywood bureau and working on a story doing a public appearance But I’m pretty sure I can do as well as Ms. got a tape together that was just bad enough on behalf of the station. Then it becomes Martinson. to get me my frst job in Nebraska. Probably a 12-14 hour day but I’m not complaining At our own chapter the caliber of the not the smartest way of breaking into the because there is always someone else who actives is stellar. It’s a key reason I’m fred up business but it worked. will do my job for cheaper. to be part of House Corporation. ‘SC alumni often comment on how high the admission What type of news do you enjoy reporting What is the most diffcult type of standards have become. And if you want to see on most? assignment that you receive and why? real-life examples, stop by the house. You’ll I enjoy the surprise reunions involving our Whenever it’s a story where children are meet guys with the intellect you would expect soldiers. Usually, the family is at a baseball killed. We had a story here last week where plus the social savvy to match. game or some event completely unaware a 15-year-old was killed as he was being Fully half of America’s college graduates and the mother or father returning home is robbed of his iPad and then today with the during the past fve years have never landed a hiding somewhere. The look on the kids’ tornadoes in Oklahoma City and many of job and remain unemployed today. Meanwhile faces of disbelief followed by tears of joy is those killed were kids who were at their it’s been fun to see our USC Phi Delts overcome just terrifc. Those stories never get old. I school. this poor environment en masse with offers also enjoy when one of our reporters picks Another type of story that is diffcult to from frms like Lionsgate, Apple and Disney. up on a story of someone who was wronged, report but for altogether different reasons is It’s also striking to see how much the or lost their job, or was scammed and nine overheated political races. Ultimately, the actives appreciate it when alumni visit the times out of ten, we have viewers who email partisans on both sides are never satisfed house. They know that the best fraternities-- us offering that person a job, or money, or with the coverage and they are convinced we those that are around over the long term--are whatever is needed to fx the problem. are working for the other side. As long as I the houses with strong alumni presence. get emails from both parties, I know we’re How do you spend an average day on the doing our job. See PRESIDENT continued on page 3 job? See EMMY, continued on page 4