Welcome to

The Auburn Plainsman-Journalism
2002 open house and reunion

Nov. 16, 2002

Web page and photos by Ed Williams
Department of Communication and Journalism


From left, Steve Stewart, managing editor, The Decatur (Ala.) Daily and member of Journalism
Advisory council, retired journalism department head and journalism founder Jack Simms,
retired journalism professor Mickey Logue, and Patrice Stewart, The Decatur Daily.

Journalism administrator Elsie Reynolds, left, and Plainsman manager Jan Waters.

Dr. Dale Harrison, head of Department of  Communication and Journalism,
and his father, Bill Harrison, of Huntsville.

From left, retired journalism professors Jack Simms and Mickey Logue,
and journalism graduate Dara Parr Kloss of Auburn.

Glenda Logue, wife of retired journalism professor Mickey Logue, and former Plainsman
photographer James H. Banker Jr.

Plainsman manager Jan Waters and favorite grandson,
Patton Waters.

Journalism graduates Julia Proctor, left, and Ali Heck.

Paul Hopkins Jr., brother of 1984-85 Plainsman editor Lynne Hopkins, and retired
journalism professor Mickey Logue.

     From left, Auburn journalism graduate Troy Turner, managing editor of
The Anniston Star, Steve Stewart, managing editor of The Decatur Daily,
and Patrice Stewart, The Decatur Daily.

Journalism graduate Sean Gourley, The Montgomery Advertiser.

 August 2001 journalism graduate Laura Susan Bamberg, left,
and Plainsman office staff member Kim Rape.  Bamberg is a
staff writer at The Marietta (Ga.) Daily Journal.

Auburn journalism graduate Sean Selman, media relations specialist at
Georgia Tech, and retired journalism professor Mickey Logue.

Auburn journalism graduate Melanie Hiett Bennett,
The Columbus (Ga.) Ledger-Enquirer, and son, Cody.

Journalism Advisory Council members tour The Auburn Plainsman
From left:  Jack Smith, editor, The Eufaula Tribune, Troy Turner, managing editor, The Anniston
Star, Melanie Hiett Bennett, The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Carol Pappas, editor and publisher,
The (Talladega) Daily Home, Steve Stewart, managing editor, The Decatur Daily, and Bill
Perkins, editorial page editor, The Dothan Eagle.  Turner, Bennett, Pappas and Perkins are Auburn
journalism graduates.  Tour guide is Plainsman assistant Intrigue editor Karen Johnson

Journalism Advisory Council members meet in journalism library in Tichenor Hall.
Meeting with Advisory Council president Paul Demarco and other council members is Dr. John Soloski,
dean of the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia.

Jack Simms glares at the camera.

Cody Bennett stares at the camera.

Thanks for visiting my Web page!

-- Ed Williams, Faculty Adviser, The Auburn Plainsman

Make plans to attend the 2003 Plainsman-journalism open house.

Date and details will be announced later.