| Show §3)e ake ©ribune gait Lifestyle Thursday Morning— January 15 1987 Page 16 Section A Journalist has seen history come full circle By Nancy Hobbs Tribune Lifestyle Writer Journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gau- lt has seen history come full circle with herself in the center as a participant In 1961 amid the jeering protests and riotous atmosphere at the University of Georgia the young woman — one of two blacks to integrate the Southern college — was escorted off the campus by state police in a suspension "for her own safety” She returned shortly afterward continuing to endure the harsh discrimination aimed at her by looking beyond it and to the goal she hoped to achieve: To learn about journalism and to become a respected professional in the field Last year the anniversary of Ms Hunter-Gault’- s admission by federal court order the college recognized her journalistic achievements with the George Foster Peabody Award the most prestigious honor in broadcast journalism The irony of the honor was that it was given for Ms Hunter-Gault’- s se ries on South Africa “Apartheid’s People” The series was originally produced for The MacNeilLehrer NewsHour for which Ms Hunter-Gau- lt is national correspondent and substitute anchor It was subsequentPBS documenly shown as a one-hotary The award was “very poignant” in a telephone said Ms Hunter-Gau- lt interview from her New York office She anticipated a trip to Salt Lake City later in the week Ms Hunter-Gauwill be the keynote speaker Jan 16 for the Martin Luther King Day Celebration at the University of Utah Olpin Union Ballroom at noon “Nobody gets the Peabody without continearning it” Ms Hunter-Gauued “Certainly I’ve been in the business a very long time and haven’t received a Peabody To get it for this series was an interesting full turn of history It was at the University of Georgia which presents the Peabody that I had my first real harsh confrontation with segregation and all that’s involved” By the time Ms Hunter-Gault lt lt “At the time we she and black student Hamilton Holmes now a physician were entering the University of Georgia I don’t think we did it for the sake of making history I did it because I wanted to study journalism and this was the one place that existed for me to study journalism in d Georgia It was a school paid for out of my parents’ taxes just like the other students graduated in June 1963 the Civil Rights Movement was well under way In August of that year Martin Luther King Jr led the march on Washington where he gave his “I Have a Dream” speech That she will be speaking in celebration of Utah’s first Martin Luther King holiday (it was recognized as a national holiday in 1986) is a humbling experience said Ms Hunter-Gau- lt state-supporte- “Our preoccupation was not with our place in history but with doing what had to be done at the moment We didn’t think of it as anything other than a step in the direction of achieving our own ambitions” "Automatically I think the significance and memory of Martin Luther King attaches to you the speaker It’s humbling to be asked to ‘represent’ some thought at a time when people are commemorating Martin Luther King” Often referred to as a “civil-righpioneer” the role Ms Hunter-Gau- lt played furthering the cause for which Martin Luther King devoted his life is not insignificant She is uncomfortable with the “pioneer” label admitting that her desire and drive to attend the University of Georgia were not motivated by its potential historical import Ms Hunter-Gaul- t graduation was asked by The New Yorker magazine to apply for a job Although not initially hired as a writer she quickly moved up the ranks and became a “Talk of the Town” reportUpon ts er That experience was followed by a move to broadcast journalism at WRC-Tin Washington and a year later back to print as a New York Times metropolitan reporter coverthe urban black community She’s ing earned numerous journalism awards including the National Urban Coalition Award for Distinguished Urban Reporting and the Lincoln University Unity Award Ms Hunter-Gaujoined her current employer “The MacNeilLehrer NewsHour” (at that time “The MacNeilLehrer Report”) in 1978 Although she still does a lot of writing on different topics for various magaon the zines probing issues PBS news program have special aplt th peal “One nice thing about it is that unlike commercial television we have the luxury of a full hour so that any subject we cover we feel confident we’ll be able to do it in the amount of time it requires to really tell the story That’s what I consider to be the essence of good journalism “A lot of the issues we cover are complicated and you can’t tell them in two or three minutes You need time to let the story breathe to let the people speak” Charlayne Hunter-Gault’- s speaker for Martin Luther King Day commemoration Celebrating Utah’s statehood PRICE — Despite the fact that the train carrying 90 people from Salt Lake Davis and Utah counties to Helper for the 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