Getting public records
they don't want us to have

Tom Chester, assistant managing editor of the Knoxville News-Sentinel, will be guest speaker at the Oct. 18 meeting of the East Tennessee Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Chester’s talk, “Public Records, Public Lives,” will address the problems of getting public records when officials do not want to release them to the media.

University Center

To give students the opportunity to hear the presentation, the chapter has made arrangements to hold the meeting in Room 220 at the University Center on the UT campus. This room holds about 45 people. Parking is available in the garage next to the University Center.

This will be a brown bag lunch. If you wish, you can buy sandwiches, salads or hot lunches at two different dining areas on the first floor of the building and carry your food upstairs to the meeting room.

UT Graduate

Chester, a 1978 graduate of the University of Tennessee, has been an editor and reporter with the News-Sentinel since 1987. Before that, he was an editor and reporter for the Knoxville Journal and a part-time sports reporter for the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser.

Chester, in addition to having served four years in the U.S. Air Force, has been a house painter, carpenter’s apprentice, quality control specialist in the textile industry, grave digger, pots and pans scrubber in a hospital, grocery store clerk and farm hand.

Brown to lead ETSPJ

Wynne Brown, freelance writer and editor and expert horsewoman, will serve as president of ETSPJ during the coming year. She will be assisted by vice presidents Alan Carmichael and Adina Chumley. Jan Maxwell Avent will continue as secretary and Bonnie Riechert as treasurer. Dave Winstrom is immediate past president.

Carmichael, a partner and co-president of Moxley Carmichael, served as chairman of this year’s Front Page Follies and will be vice president for Follies. Chumley, an associate producer/writer for Scripps Productions, will serve as vice president for the Golden Press Card awards.

Avent is assistant editorial page editor at the Knoxville News-Sentinel, and Riechert is an assistant professor in the U.T. College of Communications. Winstrom, a former producer for the Food Network, is now a news director with the Fox network in New York. Dorothy Bowles, professor of journalism in the U.T. College of Communications, will serve a two-year term on the board as campus liaison.

Serving the second of two-year terms on the board are co-program chairs, Lisa Hood Skinner, freelance journalist and director of marketing and public relations for the Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge, and Jean Ash, freelance broadcaster and China tour leader. Georgiana Vines, deputy managing editor of the Knoxville News-Sentinel, will serve her second year as membership chair.

Follies auction item winners listed

1. Cap signed by Phil Fulmer; basketball signed by Pat Summit--bought by Bill Baxter for $200.
2. Dinner with Victor and Joan Ashe at the Sunspot--Ginger Baxter, $325.
3. Dinner with Tim Burchett at Woodsmoke Lodge--Joe Johnson, $110.
4. News-Sentinel ads--Victor Ashe, $1,350 and Randy Tyree, $1,200.
5. HGTV letter jacket, bathrobe, cap, garden- ing gloves, shirts--Anne McKinney $325.
6. Dinner with Randy Tyree at Calhoun's--Julie Hardin, $100.
7. "Live at Five" appearance on Channel 10-- Ginger Baxter, $400.
8. Lunch with Jimmy Duncan at the Capitol and USAir tickets--Jim Clayton, $1,050.
9. Photograph by Howard Baker--Tom Hill, $375.
10. Walking tour with Jack Neely--Cynthia Moxley, $100.
11. Appearance on Hallerin Hill show--Nick Pavlis, $325; SportsTalk appearance--Danny Mayfield, $150.
12. Daniel cartoons--Bill Baxter, $700.
13. Golf with Rick Katzfey--Gene Patterson, $125.
14. Golf with Matt Hinkin--Jim Clayton, $150.
15. Lunch with Rachelle Kennedy and Margie Ison--Victor Ashe, $110.
16. Photograph by Jack Kirkland--Karen Bridgeman, $550.
17. IPIX photo of Lady Vols at the White House--Ron Bridgeman, $375. Thanks to everyone who donated and bought items.