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Charlie Brill was, at one time or another, educator, photographer, author, sailor, and practical jokester.
Joining Kent JMC in 1964, Charlie spent the next 30 years teaching, cajoling, demanding that his students learn to see the world visually and that they try to capture that world on film.
He knew and appreciated the importance of the printed word, but it was the photograph - properly conceived and executed - that made a story come alive, Charlie believed.
During his time at Kent JMC, Charlie would plunge into his teaching enthusiastically. And when the world of academia became too much for him, he would retreat. He jogged, went cross-country skiing, put his boat in the water and sailed away. And, he would return to the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota to visit his Native American friends.
Charlie died on June 25 from complications following a fall from a ladder while painting his house in Paradise, Mich. He was 71.
He was born in Milwaukee, Wisc. on Feb. 2, 1932. He earned bachelor and master's degree in journalism from the University of Minnesota. He also served in the Air Force in Germany.
Charlie worked six years for the Minneapolis Tribune after the service. He was the "first University of Minnesota School of Journalism graduate to specialize in photojournalism," according to an article in the October 1958 issue of the NPPA magazine, then
called National Press Photographer. Jim Gordon, retired photojournalism professor at Bowling Green State University and former editor of NPPA, says the headline on the story called Charlie "first of a new breed" of photojournalists.
Charlie Brill
Photo from "Red Lake Nation" cover
Charlie is survived by his wife, Jan; son, Mark, of Tucson; daughters: Lisa, of Cleveland, and Amy Selke, of Boston; six grandchildren; and his brother, James, of Menominee Falls. A service was held on June 28 in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.
Memorial contributions may be made to Faith Lutheran Church in Sault Ste. Marie or the American Cancer Society.
In addition, a Kent JMC scholarship is being established, according to Jeff Fruit, school director. Jan Brill and her children will decide on the kind and amount of the scholarship, and details will be announced later. However, alumni and friends who wish to contribute may do so through the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and we will earmark those funds for the scholarship once it's established.
Jan may be contacted at P.O. Box 3, Paradise, MI, 49768.
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