WKU Board Approves Room
Names In Three Buildings
May 15, 2003
Bowling Green, Ky. - Western Kentucky University's Board of Regents has approved the naming of classrooms, offices and other rooms in three University buildings in recognition of donors, benefactors and distinguished faculty.
Five rooms in Mass Media and Technology Hall will be named in honor of the following:
*David B. Whitaker Sr., a former College Heights Herald editor, longtime journalist, a member of the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame and head of the WKU journalism department from 1977 to 1984.
*Robert Adams, a former Herald editor, the paper's adviser since 1968 and director of Student Publications since 1988.
*Jo-Ann Huff Albers, head of the journalism department from 1987 to 1999, director of the School of Journalism and Broadcasting from 1999 until her retirement this year and a member of the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame.
*Charles M. Anderson, a leader in the development of public broadcasting at Western and a former vice president of information technology.
*Frances Richards, the first Herald editor in 1925 and a journalism teacher for nearly 40 years on the Hill.
Seven rooms in Mass Media and Technology Hall will be named for the following donors:
*Landmark Community Newspapers Inc. of Shelbyville, a company with 51 papers in 12 states.
*Alumnus Neil F. Budde and his wife Virginia B. Edwards. Budde, a 1977 graduate and founding editor of the Wall Street Journal's online version, is the owner of The Neil Budde Group, an online media company.
*Alumni Alan W. and Cathy J. Palmer. He is a 1975 graduate, a Bowling Green city commissioner and teaches public relations at WKU; she is a 1981 graduate and a cost analyst for General Motors in Bowling Green.
*Virginia Wood Davis estate. Davis, a 1943 Western graduate, died in 1990.
The regents conference room, which will be located in Mass Media and Technology Hall, is being named for Cornelius A. Martin, vice chair of the WKU Board of Regents and president/CEO of the Martin Management Group.
In Diddle Arena, the Lady Topper basketball office will be named for donors Mitchell and Mary Isabelle Lady Hunt. She is a 1973 and 1977 graduate of Western; he is an inventor and consultant.
At the Kentucky Museum, rooms will be named for the following donors:
*Dr. Thomas H. and Nancy Disher Baird. He is a 1954 Western graduate and a retired physician; she is a 1975 Western graduate and the Library Special Collections Kentucky History Librarian at WKU.
*Thomas S. and Audrey L. Redford. He is a 1951 Western graduate.
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