Professor Emeritus John Hewitt writes with some sad news.

I just had a call from Joan France in North Carolina to say that long-time BECA professor Art France had died on Saturday. He was a wonderful guy with a great sense of humor and was a tireless teacher. Even after he left the university, he ran a free workshop for minority students in the East Bay to teach video production and journalism.

I will miss him greatly.
And I have copied his obit here.

Arthur Lloyd France, 78,peacefully passed on to eternal rest on December 6, 2008, in Raleigh, NC

BECA 650 Sports Broadcasting Class brings live play-by-play sports coverage of Gator Athletics back to SFSU. This live sports coverage is made possible in part with funding from the BECA 1000 campaign.

BECA Lecturers Jennifer Vaughn and Val Sakovich (also of Academic Technology) worked hard to make simulcasts happen this semester. This project required collaboration from units across the university, including Creative Arts Technical Services, The Athletic Department, and Academic Technology.

Check out the latest episode of College Sports Report, produced by the students in BECA 650 Sports Broadcasting.

There she was - the media lawyer and BECA faculty member - holding two bells with tie-dyed, green-and-red gloves and looking studiously down at music as she stood with eight other musicians in an old court room on the second floor of the original San Mateo County Courthouse. Professor Miriam Smith and the rest of the SFSU Handbell Choir played a concert in the old courthouse - now the county's historical museum - in Redwood City on December 6th. What a delightful concert it was, too, with holiday music from England, Poland, Russia, France and the U.S.!

The BECA 650 Sports Broadcasting class has teamed up with the Athletics Department to bring you LIVE play-by-play coverage of the SF State Gators Basketball games for the remainder of the Fall Semester!

Check out the live webcast on http://www.ustream.tv/sfstate

If the link doesn't work, just go to www.ustream.tv and search for sfstate

Fri. Dec. 5
SF State vs. Cal State Stanislaus
Women @ 5:30pm, Men @ 7:30pm

Students who enroll in BECA 580 - Media and Community Service - for the Spring 2009 semester will spend the semester preparing for an international trip - this time, to Delhi, India!

The students of the Broadcast & Electronic Communication Arts, Marketing,
and Design and Industry cordially invite you to attend the premier
presentation of their public service advertising campaigns for the Habitat
for Humanity Greater San Francisco on Tuesday December 16th from 2-4PM in Studio 1. More information after the jump.

Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco is a local affiliate of Habitat
for Humanity International that partners with hardworking families,
community volunteers and donors, to build affordable ownership homes in