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Your email message will read: this text is not editable This message was sent from Georgia Magazine (http://uga.edu/gm/). 100 candles - Class Notes Extras December 2011 Issue Lessie Smithgall’s birthday party this year was no small affair. Family, friends and admirers came from near and far to Gainesville in April to celebrate with Smithgall (ABJ ’33) as she turned 100. “People lined up in a receiving line to speak with her,” says Horace Newcomb, director of the Peabody Awards, which honor excellence in radio, television and new media and are housed in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. “They would introduce themselves and kneel down beside her to talk and be with her.” Newcomb holds the Lambdin Kay Chair for the Peabodys, a product of Smithgall’s generosity. She and her husband established the chair in 1997, but Smithgall played a role in bringing the awards to UGA long before that. As a WSB television copywriter in 1938, Smithgall overheard her boss, Lambdin Kay, talking about radio awards in need of a sponsor. She set up a meeting between Kay and her college mentor, Grady College Dean … Read full article at http://uga.edu/gm/ee/index.php?/single/2011/12/1322/.
