Past Honorees
The Front Page Follies scholarships are awarded in the name of an East Tennessee journalist, journalism supporter, or entity that has shown exceptional achievement in journalism excellence. These are the honorees for the 29 years of the Follies’ existence. While some have now passed away, we remember and honor all of them still.
(Many thanks to Charlie Daniel for his thoughtful and humorous cartoons which have graced the FPF invitations and cast tee shirts each year.)
Tom Siler, Knoxville News Sentinel sports editor
Escar Thompson, Associated Press, Knoxville bureau chief
Horace V. Wells Jr., editor & publisher, Clinton Courier-News
Glenn McNeil, executive director, Tennessee Press Association
Charlie Daniel, editorial cartoonist, Knoxville News Sentinel
Carson Brewer, columnist, Knoxville News Sentinel
Alex Haley, author of Roots and other works, resident of East Tennessee until his death
Carl Williams, news anchor, WBIR-TV
Tom Hill, publisher, The Oak Ridger
Kelly Leiter, professor and dean, University of Tennessee
Sammie Lynn Puett, professor and vice president, University of Tennessee
Wilma Dykeman, columnist, Knoxville News Sentinel
Carl Vines, Knoxville bureau chief, United Press International
Ben Byrd, sports editor, Knoxville Journal
Harry Moskos, editor, Knoxville News Sentinel
Heartland Series creators, WBIR-TV
Georgiana Vines, columnist and associate editor, Knoxville News Sentinel
Bob Gray, news reporter, WATE-TV
Richard Smyser, editor, The Oak Ridger
Bill Williams, news anchor, WBIR-TV
Jack Kirkland, chief photographer, Knoxville News Sentinel
Bobby Denton, WIVK-FM radio personality and general manager
Ron McMahan, editor, Knoxville Journal
Jim Crook, professor and director, UT School of Journalism, “Father” of the Front Page Follies
Sam Venable, columnist, Knoxville News Sentinel
Jackie Brown, news writer, Knoxville News Sentinel
Tutt Bradford, publisher, Maryville Daily Times
Tom Chester, managing editor, Knoxville News Sentinel
David Haley Lauver, songwriter, speechwriter and humorist, chief writer of the Front Page Follies since its inception
Jack McElroy, editor, Knoxville News Sentinel and Richard Hollow, First Amendment attorney
“The Jones Boys”– John M. Jones Jr., editor of the Greeneville Sun; Gregg K. Jones, co-publisher, the Greeneville Sun and president and CEO of Jones Media Inc.; Alex Jones, currently director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University after a lengthy career in journalism
[Updated 6/25/10]
