EAST LANSING, Mich. - Five Michigan journalists will be honored April 17 at the 14th annual induction banquet of the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame.
The banquet will be held at the Kellogg Center at Michigan State University beginning at 6 p.m. Tickets are $30 each and are available by calling (517) 353-6430.
The 1999 inductees are Julie Candler, the first woman automotive columnist in the nation; Lawrence DeVine, retired Detroit Free Press arts and entertainment writer; Gratten Gray, The Monroe Evening News chairman; the late Louis Martin, early Michigan Chronicle editor and political adviser to three presidents; and Stan Soffin, former Michigan State University School of Journalism director and current MSU ombudsman.
The five new inductees will bring the total number of hall of fame members to 96.
The banquet also will include the presentation of the Martha Rayne Award for Media History Research to Willah Weddon for her book Michigan Press Women: Today and Yesterday.
The Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame is co-sponsored by the Detroit and Mid-Michigan chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists; the Detroit chapters of the Asian American Journalists Association; National Association of Black Journalists and Women in Communications of Detroit; the Michigan Association of Broadcasters; the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association; the Michigan Press Association; the University Press Club of Michigan; the Michigan Press Women; the State Bar of Michigan; and the journalism programs at Central Michigan University, Michigan State University and Wayne State University.
The Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame permanent display is in the first-floor lobby of the Communication Arts and Sciences Building at Michigan State University.