Apr 06, 2025

Jandoli School faculty members Anne and Richard Lee, lecturer and professor, respectively, presented at the Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism on March 28.

Their presentation was titled "The Story of Taro Tsujimoto, the Japanese NHL Draft Pick Who Never Existed."

Tsujimoto was the creation of the late Paul Wieland, director of Communications for the Buffalo Sabres from 1970 to 1995. Wieland, widely known for hoaxes and pranks, later taught in the Jandoli School. He retired in 2017 and died in 2023.

The conference was cosponsored by the American Journalism Historians Association and the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.