CINCINNATI
JOURNALISM
PREVIOUS HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
1996 INDUCTEES
Eleanor Adams
Eleanor Adams was society editor for Cincinnati Enquirer from 1970
to 1980. Previously she had been the assistant society editor at the
Enquirer from 1959. She also worked at the Cincinnati Times Star. She
has a journalism degree from Indiana University and a master's degree
from the University of Missouri. Prior to working in Cincinnati, Ms.
Adams worked for eight years at the Indianapolis Times as the women's
and society editor with a daily column. Ms. Adams also started the
Cincinnati Women in Communication chapter. She is keeping busy these
days as a member of the MacDowell Society, with the Friday Morning
Symphony, the Cincinnati Opera, and the Cincinnati Zoo as a member of
the safari club. She plays tennis whenever she can.
Don Herman
Don Herman, the dean of Cincinnati area newscasters, has been
reporting news on the air from Cincinnati since 1961 when he went to
work for WCKY. He has been with the station ever since, remaining as
news director after it changed its call letters to WSAI. Currently,
he is teamed with popular radio broadcast personality Bob Braun in
the 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. period, which even includes a sponsored poetry
reading session by Herman each day. Herman, 69, began his broadcast
career with radio station WPAG in Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1947. He
earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of
Michigan. He has achieved numerous honors, including the Cleveland
Press Club statewide award for news commentary in 1991; the Marconi
Award in 1993 as part of the team recognized as large-market station
of the year; the Ohio UPI award for spot news anchoring in 1978;
American Bar Association Certificates of Merit in 1970 and 1980; and
the Freedom Foundation of Valley Forge Award in 1978.
Joseph "Joe" W. Quinn
Joe Quinn was the Cincinnati Post High School Sports Reporter from
1937-1976, except for two years he served in the Army (1943-1945).
During his career at The Post, Joe had an impressive list of firsts.
He was the first to name a city all-star team for high school
athletes. He published the first column in the city devoted to high
school sports. He was the first to develop high school coverage into
a daily beat. And, he inaugurated the high school correspondents
program, giving hundreds of local youngsters a chance to taste the
world of journalism. Throughout his career, Joe was suitably honored
by his community and his peers, including: He was the first recipient
of the Plo Deo et Juventute award for service to youth from the
Catholic Youth Organization (1961); in 1967 he was honored by the
Southwestern Ohio High School Football Coaches Association; in 1968
he received the Tri-State International Appreciation Award from the
then thriving tennis tournament. In 1977 he was the Cincinnati Club's
Man of the Year. Upon retirement, his friends endowed a prize at the
University of Kentucky's School of Journalism. The first Joe W. Quinn
Prize for Journalism was awarded in October of 1980.
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1995 INDUCTEES
Mary Linn White: 1944-1987
Mary LInn White started at the Cincinnati Post after a summer
stint at the old Times Star in 1944. She moved to the women's
department where she stayed until she quit because of marriage and
motherhood. She wrote part-time for a neighborhood newspaper. In 1970
she went back to the Post, again to the women's department, to fill
in for six months and stayed until she retired in 1987. While there
she wrote about people, fashion, books and sometimes politics.
David Lyon: 1960s-1995
David Lyon covered the Warren County area for more than 30
years. He graduated from the University of Michigan and then worked
for newspapers in Michigan and Naples, Fla., before becoming the
Warren County reporter for the Dayton Daily News in the 1960s. In the
mid-1970s he was the Mason reporter for the Western Star of Lebanon,
and then joined Press Community Newspapers in December 1991. He was
killed in a car crash on his way home from covering a Mason City
Council meeting on Feb. 27, 1995.
James Schottelkotte: 1948-1995
Jim Schottelkotte was hired as a copy boy in August 1948. Early in
his career he wrote a youth column for a couple of years. He also was
a general assignment reporter. He became sports editor in November
1967 and became managing editor in May 1976. He spent his entire work
life with The Enquirer, except for a two-year high school job of
clerking at a drug store. He joins his brother in the Cincinnati
Journalism Hall of Fame - broadcaster Al Schottelkotte was inducted
in 1990.
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1994 INDUCTEES
John R. Clark: 1939-1994
Johnny Clark is a legend in Butler County. He was hired out of
Hamilton High School in 1939, and when he retired in 1994, he still
ran circles around teams of young competitors from rival newspapers.
He was the leading reporter on the James Ruppert Easter Sunday
murders, Chem-Dyne chemical waste problems and countless other Butler
County stories.
Edwin T. Halloran: 1929-1978
Eddie Halloran started selling newspapers at Fifth and Race
streets before joining the Cincinnati Post as a copy boy in 1929,
where he started two days before his 17th birthday. In his years as a
reporter, he worked rewrite, covered police, the federal building,
city hall and the courthouse. He was among those who covered the
infamous Hahn trail (she went to the electric chair for poisoning old
men) and was an official witness at her execution in the Ohio
Penitentiary in December 1938.
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1993 INDUCTEES
Clay Wade Bailey: 1938-1974
Kentucky Post, 1938-1974. Bailey was the Frankfort Bureau Chief
who covered the capitol during the administrations of 11 governors
while keeping everyone's respect. Bailey's biggest honor came in 1970
when Gov. Louie Nunn named the C & O railroad bridge after
Bailey. Today, the span still ties Covington to downtown Cincinnati.
Peter Grant: 1932-1968
WLW-AM and WLWT-TV, 1932-1968. Grant was Cincinnati's most
respected and pre-eminent broadcast journalist for more than 30
years. Because WLW had a signal that reached all over the country,
his reputation as a newsman was extended nationally.
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1992 INDUCTEES
Gerald White: 1967-1978
Cincinnati Enquirer, 1967-1978. Gerry White was the city's premier
investigative reporter long before Watergate made investigative
reporting fashionable. He was a meticulous reporter who spent hours
poring over government records. The Cincinnati Professional Chapter of SPJ named
its top annual awards after White recognizing outstanding achievement
in investigative reporting.
Earl Lawson: 1949-1985
Cincinnati Post, 1949-1985. Earl Lawson covered the Reds for the
Post for 34 years. He joined the Cincinnati Times Star right out of
high school. By 1949, he was sharing the baseball heat. By 1951, he
earned the beat full-time and continued to cover baseball in
Cincinnati for the next 34 seasons. His book, "Cincinnati Seasons,"
was published in 1987.
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1991 INDUCTEES
Lafcadio Hearn: 1872-1878
Cincinnati Enquirer reporter, 1872-1876; Cincinnati Commercial
reporter, 1876-1878.; master of crime reporting in Cincinnati;
immortalized in 1982 by Cincinnati author Jon Hughes in his book,
"The Tanyard Murder: On the Case with Lafcadio Hearn."
Marianne O'Regan: 1945-1984
Radio copy writer in Cleveland, 1945-1948; 36-year career at the
Cincinnati Post, 1948-1984, including positions as reporter, women's
page editor, assistant news editor, op-ed page editor, and editorial
page editor; credited with transforming the Post's old Society Page
into the modern feature section that it is today.
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1990 INDUCTEES
Walter Lanier "Red" Barber: 1908-1992
Cincinnati Reds announcer on WLW radio; Brooklyn Dodgers
announcer; weekly sports commentator on National Public Radio.
Wendell Phillip Dabney: 1865-1952
Founder, editor and publisher of the Cincinnati Union,
Cincinnati's only African-American newspaper, for nearly a half
century; founder of the Douglass League for black Republicans;
founder of the Cincinnati chapter of the NAACP.
Al Schottelkotte: 1927-1996
Cincinnati Enquirer reporter/columnist; WCPO-TV feature reporter,
news director and anchorman; president of the Scripps Howard
Foundation and reporter for "Spotlight Report" feature on Scripps' WCPO-TV (Channel 9) in Cincinnati.
E.W. Scripps: 1854-1926
Founder of what is today the E.W. Scripps Co., the media giant
based in Cincinnati; started the Penny Post with $10,000, later
changing it to the Evening Post and then the Cincinnati Post.
Alfred Michael Segal: 1883-1965
Cincinnati Post reporter, city editor and columnist from 1904
until his retirement in 1965 at age 82; author of the highly popular
"Cincinnatus" column for the Post for four decades; inducted into
Ohio Journalism Hall of Fame in 1981.
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