Avon Edward Foote

FOOTE, AVON EDWARD, radio and television producer, communications educator, born Burnsville, Mississippi in Tishomingo County, September 24, 1937; son of Avon Ruble Foote and Lila Broughton Foote; B.S. in Mathematics, Florence State College, 1963; M.S. in Communications, University of Southern Mississippi, 1968; Ph.D. in Speech Communications (electronic media production and management), The Ohio State University, 1970; married Dorothy Veronica Gargis, Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Administration [French Huguenot spelling of "Garrigues or Garrigus"], March 15, 1960; children: Anthony Edward, Kevin Avon and Veronica Michele; Avon's employment history: Announcer, Station WJOI, Florence, Alabama, 1958 to 1960; production manager, Station WOWL-TV, Florence, 1960 to 1964; advertising coordinator, Plough Inc., Memphis, 1964 to 1966; faculty adviser, Station WMSU, University Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, 1966 to 1967; producer-director telecommunications, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 1967 to 1969; associate professor, University of Mississippi, Oxford, 1971 to 1972; adjunct professor, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 1972 to 1974; project director, Ohio Valley Medical Television System, Columbus, 1972 to 1974; faculty and coordinator graduate studies, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia, Athens, 1974 to 1980; associate professor of Broadcasting, University of North Alabama, Florence, 1980 forward; professor, UNA in England, University of London, 1990 and 1991; instructor, UCLA/UNA joint certificate in film, 2004; awards judge, Ohio State Awards, 1968 to 1973; chairman, faculty screening committee, George Foster Peabody Radio-TV Awards, 1976 to 1979. Board of directors, Florence YMCA, 1982 to 1986. NDEA fellow, 1967, National Academy of TV Arts and Sciences Memorial fellow, 1970; recipient Community Service award Florence Civitan Club, 1990, for Shoals CP Telethon hosting; first place award, Corporate Video Competition, National Broadcasting Society, 1991; regional first and national third place award College Emmy, Hollywood Academy TV Arts and Sciences, 1984; honorable mention, comedy awards, National Broadcasting Society, 1987. Providing image for history brochure, Johns Hopkins University Press (oldest in US), 2002; Industry-Faculty Seminar fellow, International Radio-TV Society, New York, 1987. Member, Radio-Television News Directors Association, 2001-04, Alpha Epsilon Rho (founding advisor, North Alabama Chapter, 1981 and advisor 2002-03), BBC Networking Club (1994 to 1996). Republican. Anglican. Club: Exchange (board of directors 1984 to 1986). Collection developer: The Persian Gulf War Video Collection (1992-2001), opened in Broadcast Pioneers Library of American Broadcasting/National Public Broadcasting Archives, University of Maryland, new Hornbake Library facilities, 2002 with Grand Opening in New York, Grand Hyatt Hotel, September 18, 2003; Editor: The Challenges of Educational Communications, 1970; CBS and Congress: The Selling of the Pentagon Papers, 1972. Contributor, Broadcasting and Bargaining, 1970; Chotankers, 1982. Editor, National Association of Educational Broadcasters, Educational Broadcasting Review, 1969 to 1973 [selected as reference shelf materials for collections on various public radio, public television topics, including Allerton House Conferences, National Public Broadcasting Archives, University of Maryland, 2002]. New York Festivals, International TV Program and Promotion, National Jury Chairperson (there were 25), 2002-04, with Chairperson judging visit, New York office, 2003. Additional study at New York University; and University of Mississippi. Producer of TV programs; Web developer of chotank.com -- an original BBC Networking Club website from Cambridge, 1995; sometimes Web Consultant with Dr. Dorothy Gargis Foote to son Kevin's FastHealth Corporation, Tuscaloosa, in AM South building. FastHeath is now in over 170 hospitals in 39 states and is making a 2004 publicity splash with billboards in Tuscaloosa. Two Huntsville-Decatur-Florence affiliates of FastHealth.com are Helen Keller Hospital, Sheffield, Alabama and Athens-Limestone Hospital, Athens, Alabama.

Florence Home in Forest Hills: 256-767-5159; Huntsville Home and Thornwood Office with Thorn tree mascot overlooking Marshall Space Flight Center: 256-880-7929; UNA Office: 256-765-4489 or fax at 256-765-4839 e-mail: chotank@aol.com or aefoote@una.edu.

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but great for genealogists!

Chotankers: A Family History in Windsor Library
near Windsor Castle, Click for info

Nancy Crowder Foote BIBLE records
with notes by Eddie Foote on
relatives: Sam Phillips family of
Lauderdale County, Alabama, Finch Grisham, Henry S. Massey
and Gilson Foote families of Tishomingo County, Mississippi

Correction--CHOTANKERS:The Book

1994 FAX to Horton Foote

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Foote comments on T. S. Stribling, winner 1933 Pulitzer Prize

Burke's Peerage and Gentry --
Two years ago, you would have Clicked Here to
read about Foote-Stuart family of Chotank and their friendship with
Robert E. Lee.
But, ATAVUS, Burke's on-line journal for March-April 2003
has been taken off line.
The original Burke's article by Dr. Avon Edward Foote explained that Henry Stuart Foote, one of the founders of the University of North Alabama and pre-Civil War Governor of Mississippi, was a kinsman of both families.
C-Span has supported in 2009 the Smithsonian Collector's Edition of Lincoln: America's Greatest President at 200. The map of "12 Days on the Run", page 77, includes location of "Dr. Richard Stuart's Home". The back cover features the C-SPAN advertisement.

Shelby Foote: A Writer's Life by C. Stuart Chapman is in hundreds of libraries across the US. You can check the On-Line Computer Library Center's WorldCat database in Dublin, Ohio (OCLC) with the help of your local college or university reference librarian to determine which of its 42,000 member libraries in 86 countries have the University Press of Mississippi 2003 book. Or by clicking on author's name you will be able to select a state or country for a library list direct from OCLC. C. Stuart Chapman writing from Boston University made Chotankers (1982) by Avon Edward Foote, professor, University of North Alabama in Huntsville-Decatur-Florence TV Market (DMA), the primary reference source for Northern Virginia history of Shelby Foote's ancestors in "Chapter I, Roots".

Chapman is press assistant to US Congresswoman Barbara Lee, representing 9th California District including Oakland, 108th Congress.

WSJ BLOG on China FULL WSJ BLOG: "China Stars at the Peabody Awards for Electronic Media" Includes Dr. Foote's Two Comments on Georgia Recognition for China