The Press Club of Metropolitan St. Louis will honor Russ Mitchell, anchor
of the “CBS Evening News” weekend editions and a native St. Louisan, with the club’s first National Journalism Achievement Award.
Mitchell, who still has a home in Kirkwood, will accept the award Dec. 13 at the Press Club’s 18th annual Media Persons of the Year Scholarship Dinner at the Sheraton Westport Chalet.
Also being honored will be Charles Klotzer and the St. Louis Journalism Review as the club’s 2006 Media Persons of the Year and Bill Greenblatt, UPI photographer, with the club’s Catfish Award. For ticket information, call 636-227-2100, ext. 1973, or write stlpressclub@logan.edu.
SLPS principals attend Leadership Institute
Thomas Cason, Soldan International Studies High School principal, and Sylvia Shead, Roosevelt High School principal, recently attended the fifth annual Summer Leadership Institute of The Principals’ Partnership, a program of the Union Pacific Foundation. The Principals’ Partnership is a nationally recognized professional development program involving 1,000 public high school leaders.
In addition to the Summer Leadership Institute, The Principals’ Partnership provides principals with access to current educational research, regional professional development and individual consultants, according to Darlynn Herweg, director, Union Pacific Foundation. More information about The Partnership can be found at www.principalspartnership.com.
Ben Hooks honored by FCC
Dr. Benjamin Lawson Hooks, the first African-American Federal Communications Commission commissioner, was honored this week in a ceremony at the commission.
The agency and the FCC Benjamin Hooks Chapter of Blacks in Government recognized Hooks as an advocate for equal opportunity in the communications industry. They also honored what they describe as his historic contributions as executive director of the NAACP, judge, professor, attorney, ordained minister, orator and civil rights pioneer.
President Nixon appointed Hooks as a commissioner in 1972. He served until 1977.
Black drivers feeling gas pinch
An AOL Black Voices poll asking whether higher gas prices have impacted drivers concluded that more than 50 percent of respondents said “yes.”
More than 53 percent said gas prices had affected them “a lot” while 26 percent said “some.” Twelve percent said they are not impacted at all while nine percent said “a little.”
The 53 percent assessment at Black Voices is almost 10 percent higher than most general polls on the same question.