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	Raymond Burr was an internationally acclaimed television and movie actor and producer. He received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters in 1993, (deceased).
	Lex Fletcher, (B.A., 1973) is a producer, director and cinematographer of award winning documentaries. Fletcher applied to and was accepted into the Stanford University M.A. Communications Program. There he hooked up with classmate Rob Fruchtman and returned to South America twice to shoot footage for Last of the Incas,a documentary about the ancient Inca trail that winds through jungle mountains to Machu Picchu. In 1980, Ted Turner had the idea for a new network that would have 24 hour-a-day news and CNN was born. Fletcher was CNN’s first cameraman in the northwest, a job that required him to shoot many hours of video every day to fill the never-ending need for news. Fletcher started doing work for the Breast Cancer Fund in 1998, when a team of 12 women, including 5 breast cancer survivors, climbed Mount McKinley in Alaska as a personal challenge and to bring global awareness to the crisis of breast cancer. Climb against the Odds was aired nationally on PBS and ABC, and won many awards. In 2003, Fletcher was Director of Photography on the award-winning documentary Trust Me: Shalom, Salaam, Peace, a funny, inspiring, and moving film about overcoming prejudices and fears at an interfaith summer camp in North Carolina. Trust Me originally aired on Showtime and was directed by Rob Fruchtman. In 2004, Fletcher was Director of Photography, working once more with director Rob Fruchtman, on a 13-part reality TV series called Samurai Sportsman, aired on the Outdoor Life Channel. He was granted the Distinguished Alumni Award in 1993.
	Laurie MacDonald, (B.A., 1976) Laurie MacDonald, (B.A., 1976) is the co-head with Walter F. Parkes of DreamWorks Pictures, Motion Picture Division , and is also a prolific motion picture producer. She recently teamed with Parkes as a producer on the family hit "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events," starring Jim Carrey, Meryl Streep and Jude Law, under the direction of Brad Silberling. They are also producing a number of upcoming films, including "The Legend of Zorro," the sequel to their earlier hit "The Mask of Zorro," which reunites Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones; Michael Bay's futuristic action thriller "The Island," starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson; and the tentatively titled "Just Like Heaven," which pairs Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo under the direction of Mark Waters. Last year, MacDonald and Parkes, together with Steven Spielberg, produced Spielberg's "The Terminal," starring Tom Hanks. In 2002, MacDonald served as an executive producer on Spielberg's "Catch Me If You Can," starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks. She and Parkes also produced that summer's sequel "Men in Black II," which reunited stars Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones and director Barry Sonnenfeld. The duo had earlier produced the 1997 sci-fi comedy smash "Men in Black," which brought them Producers of the Year honors at ShoWest. In addition, MacDonald was an executive producer on the Oscar®-winning Best Picture "Gladiator," which was one of the most honored and successful films of 2000. Her credits as an executive producer also include the recent remake of "The Time Machine," "The Mask of Zorro," "The Peacemaker," "Amistad" and "Twister."
	Jacques Tate, (B.A., 1979) is a television, stage and film actor, puppeteer, physical comedian and stuntman. Best known as Jack from Jack in the Box. He received the Distinguished Alumni Award in 1997.
	Steve Zaillian is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Schindler’s List and Searching for Bobby Fischer. He also worked on the script for “Gangs of New York” and “Black Hawk Down.”

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