G RADY F ELLOWS T RIBU T E E VENIN G Honoring the 2010 Grady Fellowship Inaugurating the Fellowship’s Sanford Circle Saluting Grady’s Peabody Awards Legacy Thursday, November 18, 2010 MAHLER AUDITORIUM THE GEORGIA CENTER FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA ATHENS, GA PROGRAM November 18, 2010 WELCOME Menu E. Culpepper Clark Dean, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication q REMARKS Salad Jere Morehead ROASTED BUTTERNUT SQUASH TIMBALE Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost WITH POMEGRANATE AND ARUGULA The University of Georgia HONOR ROLL CALL OF THE GRADY FELLOWSHIP q PRESENTATION OF 2010 FELLOWS AND Entree INAUGURATION OF THE FELLOWSHIP SANFORD CIRCLE DUO OF HORSERADISH ENCRUSTED BEEF TENDERLOIN WITH A DEMI-GLAZE & E. Culpepper Clark GRILLED SWORDFISH WITH A CITRUS COULIE SAUCE Swann Seiler, ABJ ’78, President, Grady Board of Trust DUCHESSE POTATOES Chris Jones, ABJ ’73, Incoming President, Grady Board of Trust STEAMED GREEN BEANS 70 YEARS OF THE PEABODY AWARDS q A GRADY LEGACY Dessert Horace Newcomb, moderator, Director, The Peabody Awards FRENCH CHOCOLATE RASPBERRY CAKE Neil Aronstam, ABJ ’65 WITH CHOCOLATE SHARDS AND CRÈME FRAICHE Tom Dowden, ABJ ’62, MA ’64 Betty Hudson, ABJ ’71 Tom Johnson, ABJ ’63 CLOSING Phil Gailey (ABJ ´66) THE GRADY FELLOWSHIP Phil Gailey who grew up on a small farm near Homer, didn’t have access to a daily newspaper until he was in high school, but he had an English teacher, Beatrice Hendricks, who helped him make up for lost time. She “The Board of Trust of the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism required him to read the Atlanta Constitution in the school library, with and Mass Communication congratulates The Grady Fellowship, the members of which, particular attention paid to the columns of Ralph McGill, Eugene Patter- by virtue of their accomplishments, friendship and service are members son and Harold Martin, and to write a weekly essay. emeritus and honoris causa of the Trust. On behalf of the Grady Board of Trust, join The result was a journalism career than spanned more than four decades at the Atlanta Constitution, The Miami Herald, The Washington Star me and the faculty, staff, students and alumni of the Grady College in saluting them.” and The New York Times. He spent almost 20 years in Washington, D.C., - E. Culpepper Clark, Dean reporting on Congress, the White House and national politics. Long-time friend Eugene Patterson convinced his former Atlanta colleague to join him at the St. Petersburg Times where Gailey was Editor of Editorials and Vice President from 1991 until his retirement in 2008. The paper won its first Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing during his tenure. Carolyn Abney Steve Koonin Carolyn Carmichael Abney admits that her life has been about as far from Steven R. Koonin is president of Turner Entertainment Networks, Atlanta. a straight line as you could get. She thought she’d be a Latin teacher until He oversees programming, marketing, scheduling, strategy, operations, she “settled down and had kids.” Neither happened. Since graduating from advertising sales and other core business functions for the cable networks Emory University and Georgia State University, she’s found success in a va- Turner Broadcasting System (TBS), Turner Network Television (TNT), riety of pursuits including real estate, finance, writing, teaching, art and pho- Turner Classic Movies (TCM) and truTV. He also works with Turner tography. Broadcasting Sales to maximize ad sales for the company’s entertainment networks, and he oversees Peachtree TV, the Atlanta broadcast station From 1973-80, she taught at Atlanta’s Fortune Institute, then co-founded The that launched in October 2007. Condo Marketplace, bringing her national recognition in the real estate field. Abney has lived in England, Holland and Italy, but now calls Athens home. Koonin was selected for TV Guide’s “The Power List” and was named one She has taught cooking and wine classes in Italy and Georgia, and was the wine writer for The Floren- of the “Smartest People in Television” by Entertainment Weekly in 2008. Prior to joining Turner tine, Tuscany’s only English-language newspaper. In 1998, she co-founded Athens-based smARTlens in 2000, he spent 14 years at the Coca-Cola Company as vice president of consumer marketing. In Corporation, a company that is redefining photography through its innovative products, and where 1998, he was named Sports Executive of the Year by Sports Business Journal while serving as Coca- she serves as marketing specialist, U.S. and international. Cola’s vice president of sports and entertainment marketing. Koonin studied marketing at UGA. Randall Abney (BBA ´63) Edwin Pope (ABJ ´48) W. Randall Abney has followed ideals his entire life that he learned at the age John Edwin Pope grew up in Athens and was sports editor for the Athens of 14 when he received his Eagle Scout Award. His sense of adventure and Banner-Herald at the age of 15. Pope has been a sports columnist at The desire to see the world has resulted in traveling the United States and nearly Miami Herald for more than 45 years and is one of sports journalism’s 100 countries in a variety of media-related jobs and entrepreneurial ventures most honored writers. He is the recipient of the Red Smith Award for for more than 35 years. excellence in sports journalism, the Knight-Ridder award for editorial ex- cellence, an unprecedented three Eclipse awards from the Thoroughbred From 1989-1996, he held a number of positions with Atlanta’s Telecorp Racing Association and the A.J. Liebling Award for excellence in boxing Systems, Inc., where he helped create and implement automated computer journalism. solutions including pay-per-view for cable and satellite industries worldwide. Two years later, the company merged with Syntellect, Inc. where he served He has been inducted into several halls of fame, including the National as vice president of international media services. In 1998, he co-founded Athens-based smARTlens Sportswriters and Sportscasters, College Football, NFL Pro Football, Florida Sports, and the Grady Corporation, a company that is redefining photography through its innovative products, and where he College of Journalism. Pope was honored three times by the National Headliners Club as the na- serves as chairman, CEO and president. One of the company’s products won a 2009 Academy Award tion’s best columnist. He is one of only a handful of writers to have covered every Super Bowl. for Technical Achievement. Though “retired” he still writes more than 50 columns a year for The Miami Herald. Bo Spalding (ABJ ´78, MBA ´79) THE SANFORD CIRCLE Bollard P. “Bo” Spalding is founder and principal of Jackson Spalding, one of the largest independent marketing communications firms in the Southeast, “The posthumous inductions of Joe Belew and Betty Gage Holland inaugurate the with offices in Atlanta, Athens and Dallas. Spalding began his career at the Atlanta Journal, where he covered government and business. In 1982, he Sanford Circle within the Grady Fellowship. Named for Steadman V. Sanford who joined Bank South Corporation in Atlanta. As senior vice president and di- founded the study of journalism at the University of Georgia and whose legacy lives rector of public affairs and communications, he was responsible for internal communications, media relations, investor relations, sponsorships and cor- on at Grady, in UGA football and through the Regents System, the Sanford Circle of porate philanthropy. the Fellowship was created to honor absent friends of Grady College, whose achieve- The Atlanta native co-founded Jackson Spalding in 1995. In addition to his ment and generosity of spirit remain with us.” management role there, he works closely with clients, providing special expertise in financial and banking services, speech writing and media, investor communications, marketing and corporate iden- - E. Culpepper Clark, Dean tity strategies. Spalding holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Georgetown University, in addition to his two UGA degrees. James H. Tate (ABJ ´42) Joe Belew (ABJ ´72) James H. Tate, Jr. received his ROTC commission as a second lieutenant in the Joe Duncan Belew was president of the national Consumer Bankers Associa- U.S. Army on the same day that he graduated from UGA. For the next 39 years, tion (CBA) and a member of the Grady College Board of Trust. As the orga- the military played a prominent role in his life. He served as a press briefing nization’s president, Belew directed all CBA activities and served as the lead officer, public information officer and news division chief. spokesman for bank lenders on consumer banking. Prior to working with the CBA, Belew served seven years as executive assistant to U.S. Rep. Doug Bar- Wounded at Normandy, he served both on active duty and in the Army Reserve, nard (D-Ga.), a leading member of the House Banking Committee. He also retiring as a lieutenant colonel in 1981. After discharge from active duty in worked on the U.S. Senate staff for three years and was a veteran of many 1955, he joined Atlanta Gas Light Co. as director of public relations, although national and regional political campaigns. The Clayton native died in 2009 his work later encompassed advertising, special projects, and employee, at age 59. financial and customer information. He retired as vice president of corporate communications in 1986. Tate also wrote, designed and published “Keeper of the Flame,” a history of the company. His writings have appeared in The New Yorker, Readers Digest, Army Information Digest, the Atlanta Journal, Rome News Tribune and Cobb County News. Betty Gage Holland Philanthropist Betty Gage Holland was the widow of James M. Cox Jr., former chairman of Cox Enterprises Inc., parent company of The Atlanta Journal- Constitution.