Cassidey Kavathas is a senior journalism major with a history minor from Lancaster, New York. She serves as Associate Editor of 博纳的冒险 after completing a semester as Advisory editor and as Editor-in-Chief and News Director of WSBU-FM, 88.她在巴斯酒店工作了六个学期. 她在大学的发展办公室担任同伴教练. She has reported for News21, TAPintoGreaterOlean, The Chautauquan Daily and PolitiFact NY. 她是教务长奖学金的获得者, the Catherine and Russell Jandoli Scholarship and the Russell Jandoli Endowed Scholarship.
坐在Spot Coffee靠墙的小桌子旁, 我对鲍勃·麦卡锡笑了笑, ’76, as I flipped to a clean page in my reporter’s notebook and clicked my pen. A rookie journalist interviewing the veteran about his retirement — a lot has changed since our first meeting.
作为一名高三学生, I job shadowed McCarthy in his element at the Erie County Executive debate in 2019 where McCarthy served as one of the four moderators. It was that evening that I connected my dreams of pursuing journalism with a Bonaventure education.
I wouldn’t be scribbling notes as McCarthy recounted the many stories of his time with The Buffalo News if Dean Aaron Chimbel didn’t immediately welcome me into the Bona Family when we first met.
圣的社区. 博纳旺蒂尔大学 shaped me into the person and journalist I am today. Without the mentorship of McCarthy through numerous email chains; late nights in 博纳的冒险; laughter in the DJ booth at The Buzz; and my professors, 作为一名大四学生，我就不会有现在的经验.
2022年夏天, I sat in the newsroom of The Chautauquan Daily when author Salman Rushdie was attacked on the Amphitheater stage at Chautauqua Institution. 我们的全球网赌十大网站编辑室被置于一个国际全球网赌十大网站故事的中心.
I wouldn’t have been able to jump into action and report if I didn’t go through Denny Wilkins' 201 and 202 classes. 他的指导使我成为现在的作家. His interview and press conference lessons gave me the confidence to speak up and go door to door to interview members of the community.
The following semester I joined TAPinto Greater Olean, ran by Anne and Rich Lee. 刚结束一个夏天的报道工作, I used their class and organization to hone my skills on a local level and reported outside of the Bona Bubble. 李开复要求我把一个全国性的话题本土化. Little did I know that his challenge would be the focus of the biggest moment of my journalism career yet.
In 2023, I accepted a position as a News21 Fellow based out of 亚利桑那州 State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. 我在凤凰城作为博纳文蒂尔大学的学生度过了最后一个夏天, 亚利桑那州, 在罗伊案被推翻后对美国的报道. 韦德. My reporting group’s story focused on New Mexico and specifically a few towns along the Texas border. I took a national topic and investigated and reported it on a local level. The story I produced was then published on a national level through The Associated Press, ABC全球网赌十大网站和华盛顿邮报. This opportunity would have never been possible if Chimbel did not see promise in me on my first visit to Bonaventure and set me up to shadow McCarthy.
The meeting at Spot Coffee felt full circle as I wrote about the end of McCarthy’s journalism career with The Buffalo News and he asked about what I would be doing in 亚利桑那州. 当我收到谷歌提醒说我的报道被美联社发表时, 麦卡锡是最早知道这个消息的人之一. 我准备离开博纳旺蒂尔开始我的职业生涯, I can’t wait to be the “Bob McCarthy” to the next student who took a chance on the small university in the Enchanted Mountains.
2023年10月
The following was written by Cassidey Kavathas in 2021年11月, during her sophomore year:
通往圣的路. 博纳旺蒂尔大学对每个人来说都是不同的. 我认为我的道路是独一无二的. 信不信由你，我本来不想来博纳旺蒂尔的. It was actually my mom who forced me to go to Communications Day and tour the school. Mothers are always right as the second I set foot on campus I felt like I came home.
Bonaventure周围的社区意识与其他任何地方都不同. 即使作为一名未来的学生，社区也欢迎我. 我第一次来学校是Aaron Chimbel, 詹多里传播学院院长, 特意把我介绍给这个家. 当时, I was struggling to find internship and job shadow opportunities in the journalism field due to being a high school senior. Dean Chimbel reached out to our network of alumni to help me even before I was considered a true Bonnie.
Through the dean, I met Bob McCarthy, ’76, a veteran political reporter for the Buffalo News. Bob invited me to shadow him in the newsroom during the debate for Erie County Executive in 2019. 就像迪恩·钦贝尔一样, Bob welcomed me into the Bona family before my application to the university was even submitted. The night I spent shadowing him not only ignited my need to pursue journalism but confirmed that there is nothing like being a part of the Bonaventure community.
At an admissions event and my first-ever Bonnies basketball game at the KeyBank Center in Buffalo, I
收到意想不到的惊喜. I met Bob again, this time with his wife, Ann Flynn McCarthy, Class of 1974. She welcomed me with open arms just like any Bonaventure alumni, student, faculty or staff would. 鲍勃告诉我他要在活动中讲话. You can imagine my surprise when he started speaking about me as he stood at the podium in front of everyone. It was during this speech he officially welcomed me into the Bona family, 宣布我被大学录取.
As a sophomore, I’m blessed with the sea of opportunity that engulfs me at Bonaventure. 我很荣幸担任本报全球网赌十大网站编辑一职, 博纳的冒险, 也是我们电台的全球网赌十大网站总监. I believe that I wouldn’t have excelled as much without the true welcome into the community by Dean Chimbel, 在我们第一次见面的时候分享了一件免费的t恤和一个温暖的微笑. It is also through the mentoring skills of Bob McCarthy that I have realized my genuine love of journalism and writing.
卡西迪·卡瓦塔斯著
2021年11月
