Bowling Green, Ky. - Bob Adams, longtime adviser of Western Kentucky University's award-winning student newspaper, has been named to the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame.

Adams and five other honorees will be inducted on April 19 in Lexington.

"I've been fortunate to have worked with the very best people in the business," said Adams, who joined the staff of the College Heights Herald as a student in 1962 and was editor in 1964. He has been an adviser to the Herald since 1968.

Adams' first journalism class at Western was taught by Miss Frances Richards, who became the Herald's first editor in 1925 and was the paper's adviser until 1964. Adams worked for publications directors Jody Richards, now Kentucky's House Speaker, in the late 1960s, and David B. Whitaker, a 1986 inductee into the journalism hall of fame, from 1970-88.

Adams also worked with two other hall of fame members – 2002 inductee Jo-Ann Huff Albers, former director of WKU's School of Journalism and Broadcasting; and 1990 inductee Jim Ausenbaugh, former WKU journalism faculty member.

"To have mentors and colleagues of that caliber gives you a lot of advantages," said Adams, an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Broadcasting and a former publisher or co-publisher of five newspapers in Kentucky and Tennessee.

Adams has been director of Student Publications since 1990, has directed high school journalism workshops and has helped countless students find summer internships or full-time jobs.

"This award actually belongs to all the students," Adams said. "Without the people who made the commitments they've made through the years to both the Herald and the Talisman, this wouldn't be happening."

Others being honored in the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame's 25th anniversary year are: Gene Clabes, former owner of Recorder Newspapers and a past president of the Kentucky Press Association; broadcaster Lee Denney of WBKR-FM/WOMI-AM in Owensboro; Bob Johnson, a former broadcaster with WHAS radio and television in Louisville; the late Marguerite McLaughlin, University of Kentucky; and Bob Schulman, who worked for the Courier-Journal and WHAS-TV.

The induction luncheon will begin at noon (EST) April 19 at The Campbell House at Crowne Plaza in Lexington.

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For information, contact Bob Adams at (270) 745-6278.