Voice of America Sports Editor Parke Brewer '75 Speaks Thursday Night

March 19, 2003

March 19, 2003, Greencastle, Ind. - Parke Brewer, sports editor for Voice of America and a 1975 graduate of DePauw University, will present a talk titled, "Playing the Game: Promoting America Through Sports," tomorrow night, Thursday, March 20 at 7:30 p.m. The speech, in Watson Forum of the Eugene S. Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media, is presented by the Media Fellows Program and is free and open to the public.

Parke Brewer has had a long and notable career in radio, newspaper and television. He has worked for the Mutual Radio Network, Enterprise Radio (the first all-sports radio network), ESPN, ABC-TV and Radio, the Associated Press, cable television's Satellite News Channel before joining VOA, the U.S. government's worldwide radio network, twenty years ago. Brewer was appointed sports editor in 1987, and has covered 10 Olympics, seven World Cup soccer championships and numerous Super Bowls, World Series, Final Fours and other major sporting events.

The seeds for Brewer's uncommon success were planted at DePauw, where as a student he was a speech major, wrote sports for The DePauw and provided play-by-play of basketball games and color commentary of football broadcasts on WGRE. During his junior year, Brewer participated in the GLCA Arts Program in New York City, interning with ABC Sports television.

His wife, Denise (Ward), is also a 1975 DePauw graduate, and their daughter, Bethany, is a DePauw sophomore.

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