Welcome
to the Alabama Newspaper
Hall
of Honor
Oct.
9, 2004
Ralph B. Draughon Library
Auburn University
Photos
and Web page by Ed
Williams
willik5@auburn.edu
Professor
Department
of Communication
and Journalism
Auburn
University
Inductees
John Quincy Adams Jr.
Editor and Publisher
The Southern Star, Ozark
Bertie Gammell Parish
Editor and Publisher
The Clayton Record
Members of the audience listen to induction of John Quincy Adams Jr.
and Bertie Gammell Parish.
Rebecca Parish Beasley talks about her mother, newspaper woman
Bertie Gammell Parish.
The family of John Quincy Adams Jr.
The family of Bertie Gammell Parish.
chairman of the Hall of Honor Committee. Mrs. Smith is associate editor of The Eufaula Tribune.
Joe Adams is editor and publisher of The Southern Star, the oldest family-owned newspaper in Alabama.
Rebecca Parish Beasley, daughter of the late Bertie Gammell Parish,
accepts
plaque from Ann Smith, chairman of the Hall of Honor Committee.
Rebecca Beasley
succeeded her mother, Bertie Gammell Parish, and grandparents,
William L. Gammell
and Pearle E. Gammell, as editor and publisher of The Clayton Record.
From left, Joe Adams and Rebecca Parish Beasley, and Adams' wife, Dot.
Dr. Dale Harrison, chair of the Auburn University Department of
Communication
and Journalism, gives the state's newspaper women and men an update on
journalism
at Aubur. Seated from left are Ann Smith, associate editor of The
Eufaula Tribune;
Felicia Mason, executive director of the Alabama Press Association; and
Ben Shurettt,
president of the Alabama Press Association, and editor and publisher of
The Fort Payne Times-Journal.
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Thanks for visiting my Alabama
Newspaper
Hall of Honor Web page!
The next Hall of Honor
induction
ceremony
will be in fall 2005. Details later.
Ed Williams
Professor, Department of Communication and Journalism
willik5@auburn.edu
Tichenor Hall 217
Auburn University, Ala. 36849