On Friday, March 28, students from the Klein College of Media and Communication attended, and appeared in, the taping of the 1,000th episode of the Tamron Hall Show. 

“We are so proud to be a part of your episode 1,000,” said David Boardman, dean of Klein, on Friday’s taping of the episode. “You mean so much to our university. You represent everything that we stand for.” 

Dean Boardman was joined by 12 Klein students, who attended the show not only to congratulate Hall, KLN ’92, on her 1,000th episode, but to also present her with her 2022 Gallery of Success Award.  

The Gallery of Success is Temple’s annual celebration of alumni achievement. One graduate from each of Temple’s 17 schools and colleges is honored at the annual gallery. Klein honored Hall in 2022 in recognition of her career as an Emmy award-winning TV host, journalist, author and philanthropist. 

Since 2019, Hall has hosted the Tamron Hall Show, which airs on weekdays at 2 p.m. EST. 

“It is so inspiring—I’ve been watching all things Tamron since my childhood,” said Rachel Williams, Class of 2026, a journalism major from Easton, Pennsylvania, who presented Hall with her Gallery of Success Award. “It’s nice to know that we have the same roots, and I can make an impact like she has had on the journalism world and society as a whole.” 

Dean Boardman and Williams also presented Hall with a glass owl, a nod to Temple’s mascot, which represents the university’s founding mission of providing a high-quality education to all kinds of students. 

“We were created as a university that gives access to excellence to a lot of people who previously, back in the 1800s, didn’t come to universities,” Dean Boardman said. “They were night owls. They worked during the day and came to school at night.” 

“The community at Temple University reminds us that when you give people an opportunity, dreams can come true,” Hall said as she emotionally looked out at the studio audience. “This has been a dream. And Rachel, I can’t wait to see what you and all of the journalism students do.” 

The Klein students from journalism, communications, and media studies and production programs who attended included: Alana Beltran, Nola Dowd, Mariam Elias-Danjuma, Kevin Gruen, Colt Gunn, Owen Hill, Jesse Kosierowski, Christian Lee, Lauren Morris, Kamil Rozanski, Gianna Voges and Rachel Williams. 

Those students and other members of the Klein community gathered in the atrium of Annenberg Hall on Monday, March 31, for a viewing of the special 1,000th episode. Camera crews from ABC’s Philadelphia affiliate station covered the viewing party and spoke to Klein students in attendance. 

“Rewatching Tamron’s 1,000th episode right here in Annenberg, where she started, was even more inspiring than being at the show,” said Kosierowski, Class of 2026, a communications major from Dallas, Pennsylvania. “It just reminded me that the experiences I’m gaining at Temple can help me get there some day, too.”