Clemson Smith Muņiz is the founder and president of Smith Muņiz Productions, an innovative Spanish-language sports media company based in New York. Since his start with The Daily Pennsylvanian, he has worked in media for 32 years in a career that has evolved from English to Spanish, from print to broadcast, and from sports to news, and back to sports. He was the first play-by-play announcer in Spanish for the Knicks, the first to call games in Spanish for the Jets, St. John's basketball and Army football, and the first to broadcast the Yankees, the Mets, the Knicks and the CityHawks arena football on local Hispanic television.

While Smith Muņiz Productions works with teams, leagues, networks and publishers to reach Hispanics via print, television, radio and the Internet, Smith Muņiz is also one of the most experienced Spanish-language announcers in country. The voice of los Knicks en espaņol since 1994, Smith Muņiz has the third-longest tenure among NBA Spanish-language announcers. He is also starting his eighth season as the voice of los Jets espaņol, his sixth on Monday Night Football and his third with Army en espaņol. Last February, he provided color commentary for the Univisiķn Radio broadcast of Super Bowl XLI from Opa Locka, Florida. He is currently heard in New York on WADO 1280 AM.

In contrast to the general market, Hispanic print is a growing industry. A former sportswriter for the Hartford Courant, the New York Daily News, and El País, Spain's largest newspaper, Smith Muņiz has produced print inserts for the NFL and translated children's books for Dorling Kindersley, a division of Pearson. He has also helped launch a number of Spanish-language magazines, from Más in 1989 to MLB en espaņol in 2000 to Fútbol Mundial in 2002 and Béisbol Mundial in 2005. Smith Muņiz still edits MLB en espaņol, while Fútbol Mundial and Béisbol Mundial are now part of the Mundial Group. All three publications are still going strong with a circulation of more than 1 million each.

Many networks also reach the Hispanic market through SAP, or Secondary Audio Programming. Smith Muņiz works with HBO Sports on the Spanish-language SAP productions of Inside the NFL, Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel and Hard Knocks. Los Knicks en espaņol is also heard on the MSG Network SAP. Other production credits include SAP versions of Peter Jennings Reporting: The Search for Jesus, for ABC News; Baseball: The Latin Passion, for MLB Productions and NBC, and Todos los Corazones del Mundo, the Spanish-language version of Two Billion Hearts, the official film of the 1994 FIFA World Cup.

Raised in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, Smith Muņiz majored in History at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a four-year Varsity athlete in Sprint football, a broadcaster on WXPN AM, and Sports Co-Editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He is the current president of the Association of Latino Alumni, and lives in Garrison, New York with his wife, Mary Ann Coleman. Smith Muņiz and his wife have endowed a scholarship at Penn.

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Dr. Teresa Chin Jones was born in the former USSR during WWII to a Republic of China diplomat who came to live in the United States in 1950. Chin Jones spent 24 years involved in the Foreign Service in Canada and Belgium. Her roles included Environment, Science and Technology Counselor; Economic Reporting Officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Montreal; Chief of East Asia and Pacific Division, Office of S&T Cooperation; Deputy Division Chief, Office of Export Controls; Nonproliferation and Export Controls; Intelligence Analyst; and many others.

In 1998, Chin Jones retired from Foreign Service and created ProWriters, Inc., a freelance writing company with her husband, David Jones, C'63, G'64. Together, they edit National Coalition for Advanced Manufacturing Weekly. Chin Jones' children's book Tales of the Monkey King is due out by December 2007.

Chin Jones received a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1963 and a Ph.D. in Physical Organic Chemistry in 1966. She and her husband, who met during their undergraduate years at Penn, are the proud parents of three Penn alumnae: Martha ENG'91, Lisa ENG'91, GEE'91, and Margaret ENG'99 W'99.

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