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PAULA ZAHN TO SPEAK AT QUINNIPIAC COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT
HAMDEN, CONN. - May 13, 1999 - Fox News Anchor Paula Zahn will be the keynote speaker at the undergraduate commencement ceremony at Quinnipiac College at 11 a.m. on Sunday, May 16. Approximately 800 students are expected to take part in the ceremony.
"We are very pleased to have Paula Zahn accept our invitation to be Quinnipiac's undergraduate commencement speaker this year," said John L. Lahey, president of Quinnipiac. "She is a national award-winning journalist with a genuine quality that inspires public trust and guarantees journalistic integrity."
Zahn, 43, used her cello scholarship to get a degree in journalism, and from there it was on to the television news business. After a three-year stint at ABC News, Zahn joined "CBS This Morning" as co-anchor, a post she held from 1990 to 1996. While at CBS News, Zahn also co-anchored CBS Sports' weekday morning coverage of the 1994 Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer with "CBS This Morning" co-anchor Harry Smith and served as primetime co-host of the 1992 Winter Olympic Games in Albertville, France with sportscaster Tim McCarver. Earlier this year, Zahn joined the Fox Network as anchor of "The Fox Report."
Zahn joined CBS News from ABC, where she served as co-anchor of "World News This Morning" and news segments on "Good Morning America." Zahn first joined ABC News in November 1997 as anchor of "The Health Show."
She had been an anchor and reporter at KCBS-TV, the CBS-owned television station in Los Angeles. While at KCBS-TV in 1986-87, she won an Emmy award for her reporting on the mid-air collision of an Aeromexico jet and a private plane over Cerritos, California.
Zahn was awarded a 1994 Emmy for Outstanding Coverage of a Continuing News Story for her reporting on the mainstreaming of the mentally handicapped, and a commendation for her series of reports on gender bias in education.
Born Feb. 24, 1956 in Omaha, Nebraska, Zahn received a bachelor's degree in journalism from Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri, which she attended on a cello scholarship.
Quinnipiac College is a private, coeducational, non-sectarian institution located 90 minutes north of New York City and two hours from Boston. The college has 250 full-time faculty and enrolls nearly 4,000 full-time undergraduate and 2,000 graduate students in more than 50 undergraduate and 13 graduate programs of study in Business, Health Sciences, Law, Liberal Arts, Education and Communications. Quinnipiac consistently ranks among the top northern regional universities in US News and World Report's America's Best Colleges. For more information, visit www.quinnipiac.edu.
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