The thread that ties us together

Yesterday, (2002 alum) Willie Allen Jr. sat at my table during dinner and spoke with some of us about how he got into photography and why his job was so important to him. I really appreciated him sharing his story, not only because I could relate to it as a fellow journalist but because it helped me understand what an important link reporters, photographers and other people in the newsroom share. We all want to tell a story. We just go about it in different ways.

-- Bethonie Butler, University of Maryland, The Providence (R.I.) Journal