Ohio U. honors 1st Black journalism grad

Jet, Nov 12, 2007

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OHIO U. HONORS 1ST BLACK JOURNALISM GRAD: Ohio University recently dedicated the new Alvin C. Adams Residence Hall, honoring the school's first Black journalism graduate. Adams, who died in 2004, was in the class of 1959 and had a successful career in journalism and public relations that included work at JET and EBONY Magazines in the '60s. His widow, Ada Woodson-Adams, is joined by Ohio University President Roderick J. McDavis and her sister-in-law Dessie Workman at the dedication. The new residence hall on the Athens, OH, campus houses more than 350 students in 180 rooms. It is the first residence hall built on campus in more than 30 years and Adams is the third Black in school history to have a building named after him there. He joins John Newton Templeton and Martha Jane Hunley Blackburn, Ohio University's first Black male and female graduates, who are honored with the Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium.