Daily Titan 65th Anniversary Reunion
April 23 – 25, 2025
Special 25th anniversary events also planned for Tusk alumni!
The all-time reunion of Daily Titan news and advertising staff members — delayed by the pandemic — is now scheduled for April 2025.
Daily Titan’s quinquennial (every 5 years) all-time staff reunion will be held on campus in conjunction with COMM Week 2025. All staff members from 1960 to 2025 are invited.
It’s been 10 years
since the last reunion.
Time to renew old friendships.
Revised Schedule
- COMM Week on Wednesday & Thursday
- Participate in panels and meet other working professionals. Your chance to meet the current journalism students and dispense (or receive) sage advice! Comm Week events will be listed here.
- Wednesday, April 23
- 4 to 5 p.m.: Daily Titan Editorial Alumni Panel / COMM Week.
- 6 p.m. to wee hours: No-Host Happy Hour in Downtown Fullerton.
- Thursday, April 24
- 1 to 2 p.m.: Daily Titan Advertising Alumni panel / COMM Week.
- 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.: Open house tour the Daily Titan newsroom and meet the current staff.
- Shuttle rides to Alumni House at 4:15.
- 2 to 3 p.m.: Tusk 25th anniversary panel / COMM Week. Contact Jeff Brody to be a panelist.
- 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.: Alumni cocktail reception at Golleher Alumni House with past staff and advisers.
- 7 to 9 p.m.: Doors open at 6 p.m.; awards hosted by Communications Department begin at 7 p.m.
- Friday, April 25
- Morning: Tentative Tusk alumni breakfast. For more info, contact Jeff Brody.
- 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.: Family softball versus current Daily Titan staff, and sandwich picnic lunch. South NCAA softball field, adjoining the baseball and softball stadiums. Best to park at north end of campus the Goodwin Field.
- Sunday, April 27
- Morning: Tentative Tusk alumni lunch. For more info, contact Jeff Brody.
No 60-year reunion was held during the pandemic era, so the 65th anniversary attendees will have a lot of catching up to do — but a video prepared for the 60-year reunion is linked below.
A note about timing: Easter and Passover fall extraordinarily late in 2025, well after the usual college spring break season. The reunion is being held on Wednesday noon through Friday afternoon to better fit with COMM Week 2025 and to avoid post-holiday weekend flights home.
Meanwhile, we’ve posted a video made for the 60th anniversary in 2020, and also Daily Titan’s 50th anniversary story, 50-year print special section and online 50-year special section.
Tentative highlights include:
- Faculty advisers, including eff Brody, Jason Shepard, Michelle Kurland and Walt Baranger.
- Alumni and families softball game on Friday.
- Reception at Alumni House.
- Daily Titan annual awards dinner with alumni honorees.
- Tour the Daily Titan newsroom and meet the current students and faculty advisers.
- Opportunities to attend and speak at COMM Week 2025 events.
Prof. Wayne Overbeck (1943—2025)
Prof. Wayne Overbeck, the adviser who made Daily Titan daily in 1969, died at age 82 on April 12, 2025. He had been looking forward to attending the reunion.
Many of you may remember Prof. Overbeck from his media law class, which he taught until 2002. He wrote a roundup of his amazingly eventful years as Daily Titan’s adviser from 1969 to 1973.
His Facebook page and his Daily Titan history web site have more details of his career.
Get Reunion Updates
If you have any questions about the reunion or wish to receive emailed reunion updates, contact Walt Baranger (DT staff 1983–85 & DT adviser 2019-2023). Be sure to mention the name of your DT adviser and your years on staff!
The official Daily Titan Alumni page on Facebook is approaching 400 members. Feel free to join us there!
We continue to build an all-time list of editors and advisers. Have a look!
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