Duquesne Alum Turned Successful Evening News Anchor: Meet Tracy Carloss
It was just 35 years ago that Tracy Carloss was walking down Academic Walk, proudly wearing her sorority letters and waving to friends as she passed Rooney Field, which was then just a parking lot. While she has made many accomplishments throughout her career as a weekend anchor/reporter for News5 in Cleveland, Ohio, she recalls her time at Duquesne like it was just yesterday. “Oh gosh, I loved my time at Duquesne,” she said. “My favorite memories are definitely the ones connected to my sorority.” Tracy was a sister of Zeta Tau Alpha. Through events such as Greek Sing and Carnival, she made lifelong friends whom she still gets together with to this day. She was also the chapter president of Zeta, which provided her with valuable leadership skills. But between the sorority events in the Union Ballroom and the struggle of living in the non-air conditioned yet infamous St Ann Hall, she was attending classes in College Hall, which according to her, still looks the same. W...