Posted: 6/15/2009
(SOUTH BEND, IN — June 15, 2009) Brown Mackie College — South Bend announces that Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Dean Calbreath, will deliver the keynote address during the college’s 126th Commencement Ceremony on Friday, June 26, 6:30 p.m. at the Century Center, 120 S. St. Joseph Street in South Bend. He will address nearly 300 Brown Mackie College — South Bend graduates.
Mr. Calbreath began his career as an investigative journalist infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan and writing about the People’s Temple with reverence for the innocent and caution for the masses. As a staff writer for the San Diego Union-Tribune and The Wall Street Journal — European edition, he accurately shared the humanity of world altering events. His accounts of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union and Gorbachev’s reforms, U.S. presidential elections, the Yugoslav war, and recent changes in China were among those that landed on doorsteps keeping the public informed and alert.
In 2006, Mr. Calbreath was part of the San Diego Union-Tribune team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism: National Reporting. They tirelessly discovered trips, residences, donations, and other suspicious benefits provided by defense contractors for members of the U.S. House Armed Services and Intelligence and Appropriations committees. Their work led to U.S. Representative Randy Cunningham’s imprisonment and the awakening of a complacent public.
Just before being awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2006, Mr. Calbreath spoke with legal, business, and English classes at Brown Mackie College — South Bend about the importance of ethics and education.
For additional information about the commencement ceremony or Brown Mackie College — South Bend, contact Louise Stienkeoway at 574-237-0774or visit www.brownmackie.edu/pr.aspx?ID=grad094.