Bill Tam
meus, BJ ’67, longtime editorial page columnist for The Kansas City Star, has written a book, "They Were Just People: Stories of Rescue in Poland During the Holocaust," to be published by University of Missouri Press in 2009. Co-authored with Rabbi Jacques Cukierkorn, the book is about Jews in Poland who survived the Holocaust with non-Jewish help.
Tammeus was a featured panelist at the CORP-sponsored presentation "The Life of Meaning: Finding and Reporting It in a World of Crisis" held Sept. 11, 2008, as part of the Missouri School of Journalism’s Centennial Celebration.
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Tammeus wrote a daily column for about 25 years – ranging from humor to serious issues – as well as editorials about religious affairs. Since 2004, his column has appeared in the Star‘s Saturday Faith section. Though he retired in 2006, Tammeus, a past president of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, continues to write the Star’s weekly Faith section column on a freelance basis. He also writes a daily blog, "Faith Matters," about religious matters.
University of Missouri Press published Tammeus’ first book, "A Gift of Meaning," a collection of his columns exploring meaning among events he covered and experienced in his career and life, in 2002. Tammeus also has done freelance reporting for numerous publications, including The New York Times and The Washington Post.