The University’s Manship School of Mass Communication has announced four new inductees into their Hall of Fame including two posthumous inductees, according to a University news release.
Russell Carollo, Pulitzer Prize winner and 1982 graduate, was awarded a Pulitzer in 1998 for National Reporting following his investigation of medical malpractice in the military.
Jacklyn Ducote, Baton Rouge community leader and 1964 graduate and 1965 master’s recipient, was the first female president of the Public Affairs Research Council and the executive vice president of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry.
Laurie Smith Anderson died in 2007 after an award-winning career at The Advocate and the State-Times. She graduated from the University in 1975.
Hugh Mercer Blain spent his time at the University as an English professor and faculty adviser to The Reveille in 1908. His training sessions for the staff of The Reveille developed into the first journalism course at the University.
Tickets to the event are available for $50 by contacting Sara Courtney, Manship Schools Development Director. The deadline to purchase tickets is April 27.
——Contact Lindsey Meaux at [email protected]