1983 Hellinger Award Winner- David Szymanski

Szymanski, left, with CBS anchorman Dan Rather.

Buffalo native David Szymanski was the first Hellinger candidate to receive a unanimous vote by the Faculty Advisory Committee that selects winners.

He was the first two-semester editor of The Bona Venture in 25 years and also wrote for The Laurel Humor Magazine in addition to work on broadcast news and sports for WSBU. A resident assistant for part of his college career, Szymanski was a three-and-a-half year co-host of a discussion and call-in radio program with Fr. Dan Riley, OFM.

Off campus, he was an instructor for a class on Mass Media at Archbishop Walsh High School, worked as a reporter for The Buffalo News and Buffalo Downtown and did broadcasting work for WGRQ in Buffalo. A winner of a Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Fellowship, he was placed as a copy desk intern with The Evening Journal in Wlimington, Delaware.

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