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Lillian Smith Book Award
The Southern Regional Council has given its 1999 Lillian Smith Book Award to the University of Georgia Press for A Clashing of the Soul: John Hope and the Dilemma of African-American Leadership and Black Higher Education in the Early Twentieth Century.
Written by Leroy Davis, an associate professor of history at Emory University, A Clashing of the Soul is a biography of John Hope, the first African-American president of both Morehouse College and Atlanta University. One of the most distinguished in the pantheon of the early 20th-century black educators, Hope had a lifelong commitment to black public and private education, adequate housing and health care, job opportunities and civil rights. Davis, who spent nearly 10 years researching Hope’s life, examines the conflict inherent in Hope’s attempt to balance his joint roles as college president and national leader.
First given in 1968, the Lillian Smith Book Awards are presented each year to recognize and encourage outstanding writing about the American South.
Cutlip: Influential PR figure
A leading public relations trade publication has chosen Scott M. Cutlip, former dean
of the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, as one of the century’s 10 most influential figures in public relations.
PR Week, an industry newspaper, cites Cutlip as the person who gave legitimacy to public relations education through strong research and scholarship and creation of a teaching model for future generations of educators.
In the paper’s list of the 100 Most Influential PR People of the 20th Century, Cutlip ranks 10th. Among the 90 others on the list, who are not numerically ranked, the newspaper includes C. Richard Yarbrough of Atlanta, a graduate of the Grady College.
Cutlip began his career in education at the University of Wisconsin, where he taught from 1946 until joining the UGA faculty as a visiting professor in 1975. He became acting dean of the journalism school later that year, and served as permanent dean from 1976 until 1983.
The paper credits Cutlip, who retired from UGA in 1985 and now lives in Madison, Wis., with “structur[ing] the model of university-based public relations education for decades to come, which included an emphasis on ethics and research.”
Yarbrough, a 1959 UGA journalism graduate, was a public relations executive with Southern Bell, AT&T and BellSouth, and also operated his own agency, in a career spanning more than 35 years. Manager of communications for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, he is known as the “dean of public relations in Georgia.”
SEC Entrepreneur of the Year
Former gymnast Kathy Dwyer has been honored by the Southeastern Conference in the inaugural BellSouth/SEC Women Entrepreneurs of the Year program.
The program is designed to identify outstanding women entrepreneurs who have graduated from an SEC institution and either have participated in intercollegiate athletics or have supported female student-athletes as an alumna of their institution.
The 12 winners, representing each of the SEC schools, will be honored at the 2000 SEC women’s basketball tournament in Chattanooga in March.
Dwyer joined the UGA gymnastics team in 1989 as a walk-on. She went on to earn All-SEC honors in vault and helped the team win the 1989 national championship. Following her graduation, Dwyer open the U.S. Gold Gymnastics Academy in Destin, Fla., where she currently serves as owner, head coach and director.
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