New York, NY – Seven members of the Wagner College football program met with Harry Coghlan, 1987 Wagner graduate, former Seahawk football player and current General Manager of Clear Channel Outdoor, NY & Spectacolor Divisions, in the company's board room overlooking Times Square on August 5.
Clear Channel Spectacolor is one of the world's leading broadcast and outdoor sign companies and Coghlan gave generously of his time, delivering a wide-ranging slide presentation focusing on Clear Channel in particular and the broadcast and outdoor advertising industry in general.
The seven student athletes, #
Quintin Anderson# (Rochester, NY/ Penfield),
Ken Howard (Plainfield, NJ/ Nassau CC),
Jason Hyland (Holmdel, NJ/ Holmdel), #
Adams Issaka# (Woodbridge, NJ/ Woodbridge), #DavidLopez# (Boca Raton, FL/ Heritage), #
Matthew McGuinness# (West Caldwell, NJ/ West Caldwell), and #
Edgar Sheppard# (Washington, DC/ Georgetown Prep) met for several hours with Coghlan and members of his senior staff.
Following lunch, Coghlan took the team members and several Wagner College administrators on a tour of Times Square, pointing out large advertisement signs of many of Clear Channel's clients. The tour concluded at the Times Square steps where, adjecent to the steps, the Wagner athletics logo was featured on the Spectacolor HD display next to the TKTS outlet.
The opportunity to meet with Coghlan came about largely due to the efforts of Tulin Aldas, Wagner's Assistant Director of Career Development.
"When I found out that Harry was a football alum, I pitched the idea to him and he loved it and then he started lining up his top VP's. And now hearing from the students and hearing the wonderful things they had to say afterwards, I'm just so pleased with how well it went," said Aldas. "The students that were there really represented themselves and Wagner very well.
"Harry and his senior staff took out pretty much their entire day," she continued. "They really treated us to a wonderful, wonderful experience. They gave up their time, they gave up their resources and then capped it all off by giving us some prime real estate on Times Square for Wagner and for our students."
