From left: newspaper publisher Betty Magie, a Hall of Honor inductee in 2005; Davies; Harris; Journalism Professor Larry Foley, Hall of Honor inductee in 2005; and advertising executive Jim Faulkner, also inducted in 2005.
Journalism alumni Richard W. Davies and E. Lynn Harris were inducted into the department’s Hall of Honor
Friday, Oct. 31, 2008 in a lunch-time ceremony at the Alumni House. In their acceptance speeches, Davies and Harris both credited the journalism department for supplying them with the skills necessary for success.
Davies is executive director of the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism, where he oversees development and operations of state parks as well as promotion of Arkansas through the tourism.
Harris is among the country’s most successful novelists and regularly teaches a fiction course in the esteemed Master of Fine Art’s writing program. A 1977 graduate, Harris was the university’s first black editor of the yearbook and first black male cheerleader. After 13 years working as a salesman, Harris followed his passion for literature with the publication of his first novel, Invisible Life.
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