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The Denver Press Club will induct five greats of Denver and Colorado journalism into the club’s Hall of Fame at its 14th annual banquet on
Friday, October 2.

Dick Kreck, Marilyn Robinson and Paula Woodward will be honored for outstanding journalism careers, and posthumous awards also will be given to Red Fenwick and Harry Rhoads.

Tickets are $65 and can be purchased by logging on to blacktie-colorado.com, then on Denver under the Event Calendar, and then clicking on October 2. The deadline for ticket purchases is Wednesday, Sept. 30.

The social hour will begin at 6 p.m., followed by the dinner and the awards ceremony at 7 p.m.

HALL OF FAME MEMBERS

1996

  • Reynelda Muse, anchor, KCNC-Channel 4
  • Bill Hosokawa, editor, The Denver Post, author of Thunder in the Rockies
  • Bob Palmer, anchor, KCNC-Channel 4, former DPC president
  • Gene Fowler,* The Denver Post reporter, author of Timberline, biographer of John Barrymore.

1997

  • Gene Amole, Rocky Mountain News columnist, KVOD owner
  • Harry Farrar, Denver Post sports columnist
  • Gene Cervi,* founder of Cervi’s Journal, precursor to The Denver Business Journal.

1998

  • Tom Gavin, editor at the Rocky Mountain News and The Denver Post.
  • Francis Melrose, columnist for the Rocky Mountain News
  • Don Kinney, television news anchor, host of “State of Colorado,” past DPC president
  • Dick Connor,* sportswriter for The Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News.

1999

  • Dusty Saunders, broadcast critic for the Rocky Mountain News, past DPC president.
  • Isabelle Holmes, editorial writer for The Denver Post
  • Sam Lusky,* city editor for the Rocky Mountain News, public relations pioneer.

2000

  • Hal Heffron, editor for the Rocky Mountain News, former DPC president.
  • Ivan Rosenberg, longtime editor of the Southwest Denver Herald Dispatch
  • Zeke Scher, legal affairs reporter for The Denver Post
  • Lee Casey,* columnist for the Rocky Mountain News

2001

  • Jean Tool, commercial artist, caricaturist, former Colorado GOP chairman.
  • Paul Conrad, Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for The Denver Post.
  • Thomas Hornsby Ferril ,* Colorado Poet Laureate, publicist for Great Western Sugar Company.
  • Edwin Palmer Hoyt,* editor, The Denver Post

2002

  • Ed Sardella, anchor, KUSA-Channel 9
  • Tom Pade, photojournalist for KMGH-Channel 7, past DPC president
  • Joe McGowan Jr.,  Associated Press bureau chief in Denver, Boston and longtime foreign correspondent.
  • Ralph Moore, * sportswriter for The Denver Post.
* Inducted posthumously.

2003

  • Fred Brown, legislative reporter and political columnist for The Denver Post, past DPC president.
  • Virginia Culver, reporter for The Denver Post, one of the first two female DPC members.
  • Sue O’Brien, * editorial writer for The Denver Post.
  • Jim Conrad,* commercial artist and sculptor.

2004

  • Dan Gibson, artist for the Rocky Mountain News, past DPC president.
  • Roger Ogden, general manager, KUSA-Channel 9.
  • Ed Stein, editorial cartoonist for the Rocky Mountain News.
  • Pat Oliphant, Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for The Denver Post.
  • Greg Lopez,* columnist for the Rocky Mountain News.

2005

  • Bill Peery, photographer for the Rocky Mountain News.
  • William Kostka Jr., public relations pioneer.
  • Lou Kilzer, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for the Rocky Mountain News and The Denver Post.
  • Carl Akers,* pioneer broadcaster with KUSA-Channel 9.

2006

  • Cle Cervi Symons, editor of Cervi’s Journal and past Denver Woman’s Press Club president.
  • Joe Fuentes, reporter for Rocky Mountain News and public relations professional.
  • Peter Blake, reporter and political columnist for the Rocky Mountain News.
  • Starr Yelland,* anchor and broadcast pioneer for KMGH-Channel 7.

2007

  • Patricia Calhoun, co-founder, publisher and editor of Westword.
  • John Ensslin, reporter for the Rocky Mountain News, past DPC president.
  • George Lane, reporter for The Denver Post.
  • Jack Kisling,* reporter and columnist for The Denver Post.
  • Helen Bonfils,* publisher of The Denver Post

2008

  • Dick Woodbury, Denver correspondent for Time Magazine, reporter for The Denver Post.
  • Joan White, reporter and editor for The Denver Post
  • Denny Dressman, sports editor and vice president of human resources for the Rocky Mountain News, past DPC president.
  • Gil Spencer, editor of The Denver Post, New York Daily News and Philadelphia Daily News.
  • Jack Foster,* editor, the Rocky Mountain News.