Two named to Cincinnati Hall of Fame in 1998

Harmon, 81, was sports editor of the Cincinnati Post from 1951 till 1985. He became curator and historian of the College Football Hall of Fame in 1986. Before he joined The Post, he was sports editor of the Cedar Rapids, Iowa Gazette, from 1947 till 1951. He began his career as a sports editor of the Champaign, Illinois, News-Gazette in 1942 and remained there till 1947.

In 1969, he received the Fred Hutchinson Memorial award for community service. He also has been the contributing sports editor for the World Book and received the International Churchmen's Sports Writer Of The Year award in 1973.

 

Pat and Laura

He also did some sports commentator work on television for both WCPO-TV and WLW-TV. Harmon has served on the selection boards of the Pro Football (for 22 years) and Baseball (for 38 years) Halls of Fame, not to mention similar service for the horse racing, auto racing, boxing and golf halls of fame.

Pulfer last year was honored by three of the country's most prestigious news organizations. A collection of her work was given top honors by Gannett in competition among columnists in the chain's 91 newspapers. Ohio's Associated Press awarded her first place for a column she wrote about the murder of a child in Dayton. She was also named Best Columnist in Ohio by the state's Society of Professional Journalists.

Editor and publisher of Cincinnati Magazine (which won numerous journalism awards under her leadership) for 15 years before joining The Enquirer, she is a regular commentator for National Public Radio's Morning Edition. Her work has been published in national magazines, such as Reader's Digest, and her column for Gannett News Service appears regularly in newspapers all over the country.

Cochran keynotes banquet

The banquet also featured the chapter's annual awards for feats of journalistic excellence and the induction of two new members of the Cincinnati Journalism Hall of Fame, Cincinnati Enquirer columnist Laura Pulfer and former Cincinnati Post sports editor Pat Harmon.

Jean Cochran

Cochran joined NPR as an associate producer with Morning Edition in 1981 after a brief stint at WAMU-FM/Washington, DC. During her 10 years with Morning Edition she worked on all production aspects of the program, helping to define the sound and format as the show developed.

Prior to this, Cochran worked as a reporter and newscaster for WVMT/Burlington, Vermont; WLNH/Laconia, New Hampshire; and WCFR/Springfield, Vermont. Cochran earned a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism from The American University in Washington, DC.