Staff

Kerry Temple

Editor
1974 ND bachelor’s degree
temple.1@nd.edu

Kerry Temple joined the staff of Notre Dame Magazine in 1981 and has been the editor since 1995. He has written dozens of articles and essays for this magazine and others on a wide range of topics and is the author of Back to Earth: A Backpacker’s Journey into Self and Soul. After graduating from Notre Dame in 1974, he returned to his home state to earn a master’s in journalism from Louisiana State University, and has taught nonfiction writing at Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s College. A 20th-century words-in-print guy, he is still adjusting to 21st-century technology and the new media.

Carol Schaal

Managing Editor/Web Editor
1991 ND master’s degree
schaal.2@nd.edu

Before arriving at Notre Dame Magazine in 1987, Carol Schaal’s background was in newspapers — as, at various times, a feature writer, reporter and copy editor. She also has taught many classes and continuing education seminars at Indiana University South Bend, from journalism to grammar to the history of mystery novels. She is managing editor/web editor of the magazine and holds a bachelor’s degree in English and sociology from Indiana University and a 1991 master’s degree in English from Notre Dame. A frequent public speaker, she has been known to make audiences laugh, supposedly on purpose.

John Monczunski

Associate Editor
monczunski.1@nd.edu

John Monczunski is an associate editor of Notre Dame Magazine with a primary interest in science and research reporting. A Marquette University journalism graduate, he says Notre Dame and Notre Dame Magazine have been his life, and since he has been a member of the staff since 1974, it’s hard to argue with that. He is at work on two nonfiction books, Tale of the ’hound, which deals with a 30-day bus trip around the United States, and Testament: A Bad Catholic’s Search for the Good. The Chicago native is the father of two daughters who are ND alumnae.

John Nagy

Associate Editor
2000 ND master’s degree
nagy.11@nd.edu

John Nagy joined Notre Dame Magazine as an associate editor in 2006 and has been known as “the other John” ever since. He worked for seven years in media and public relations in the Washington, D.C., area, getting his start in online journalism when respectable people didn’t do such things. He holds degrees in English and history from the University of Virginia and Notre Dame, and he’d like to write a book someday but figures he’ll have to wait until either he grows up or his six kids do. His wife, Alicia née Scheidler ’99, is his hero.

Kerry Prugh

Design and Art Director
kprugh@nd.edu

Kerry holds a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art, where she studied graphic design. She then spent seven years as a designer working for not-for-profit clients. In 1996 she moved to the South Bend area, where she worked as an art director for RHB, specializing in marketing for education and other related not-for-profits. She joined the staff of Notre Dame Magazine in August 2010 and calls it her dream job. When not in the office, she usually can be found with her daughter at the stables, where they share a passion for horses and other animals. She still hopes to have “fancy chickens” if her husband ever agrees.

Julie Ettl

Business Manager
ettl.3@nd.edu

After 15 years in New York publishing with Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., Julie Ettl found herself on a sailboat in Lake Michigan and is now a landlubber with a sailboat neon sign and 18 years at Notre Dame Magazine. As business manager, she takes on the general mechanics of the magazine’s operation, from monitoring the budget to fund raising, from proofreading to serving as liaison with printers, from poster sales to rights and permissions to overseeing distribution and other circulation tasks. She still describes herself as a classic New York woman who loves the classics: Anna Karenina, Bach’s Brandenburg concertos, Mom’s strand of pearls, a good Chardonnay and, of course, Cary Grant.

Liam Farrell

Alumni Editor
2004 ND bachelor’s degree
lfarrell@nd.edu

Liam Farrell joined the magazine staff as its alumni editor after five years covering politics for newspapers in his home state, Maryland, before returning to the Midwest. He graduated from Notre Dame in 2004 and got his master’s in journalism from Columbia University in 2005. The Alumni Association’s senior editor, Liam likes to supplement his enthusiasm for Notre Dame football by reading Albert Camus, watching Mad Men and listening to Explosions in the Sky. Please contact him if you know where to get a good crab cake in South Bend.

Matt Cashore

Contributing Photographer
1994 ND bachelor’s degree
mcashore@nd.edu

Matt Cashore first picked up a camera to fulfill a high school fine-arts requirement, and he’s never been the same since. He first darkened the door of Notre Dame Magazine while still a student. Working with the magazine has allowed him to see campus from the steam tunnels underground to hanging out of a helicopter 300 feet over the Golden Dome. Some of his favorite magazine assignments have taken him on adventures to see the Notre Dame community at work in the wider world. He worked with Kerry Temple in 2007 on the book Celebrating Notre Dame.

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