HOMECOMING RESERVATION
The 73rd Student Publications Homecoming Breakfast — our Centennial Breakfast celebrating 100 years of the Talisman and the College Heights Herald — will be at 8 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, in the atrium of Jody Richards Hall, across Normal Street from the Adams-Whitaker Student Publications Center.
The breakfast also will celebrate the School of Media & Communication’s gallery show, “The Highest Office,” as the closing event for the show featuring the work of 16 photojournalism alumni, and former Herald and Talisman staffers, who have covered presidential campaigns from Richard Nixon to today.
Tickets for the breakfast are $20 per person, or free for student staff members of the Talisman, the Herald, Student Publications Advertising and Cherry Creative.
The breakfast will start at 8 a.m., with the program at 8:30 a.m. In addition to mingling with your Student Pubs and WKU family and enjoying some spectacular photography, we’ll honor First Amendment attorneys Jon Fleischaker and Kim Greene with the 2024 Friend of Student Publications Award for their tireless and selfless dedication to helping our student journalists through the years.
We’ll end the breakfast by 10 a.m. for those of you who want to stroll through tailgating before the football game kickoff at (the crazy early hour of) 11 a.m.
Al Cross, the dean of political journalism in Kentucky and a 2024 inductee into the WKU Hall of Distinguished Alumni, also will speak. Cross was one of the very few people who, at different times, served as editor-in-chief of the College Heights Herald and advertising manager. Cross, who shared in a Pulitzer Prize for The Courier-Journal’s coverage of the Carrolton bus crash, was The CJ’s longtime political reporter and recently retired as the founding director of the Institute for Community Journalism and Rural Issues at the University of Kentucky.
We’re also inviting David C. Wilson, the dean of the School of Public Policy at the University of California-Berkeley and another 2024 HODA inductee, to speak. Wilson worked on the sports staff for the College Heights Herald in 1983. We do not yet have confirmation on whether Wilson will be able to attend the breakfast.
Make your reservation for the 73rd Student Publications Homecoming Breakfast on the link below. You may notice that the set-up is different than the past few years because the amount you pay for the breakfast is going directly into the Student Publications Legacy Fund in the College Heights Foundation. If you have any problems or concerns, reach out to Chuck Clark at 270-745-4206 or [email protected].
HOMECOMING RESERVATION
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