CoSIDA added nine inductees into its Hall of Fame on Thursday. Front from left, Herb Hartnett (Pennsylvania/Maryland), Ron Higgins representing his father the late Ace Higgins (LSU), Tammy Boclair (Vanderbilt) and Bill Sansing (Texas). Back from left, Paul Allan (Minnesota State-Mankato), Bill Hamilton (South Carolina State), Eric McDowell (Union, N.Y.) and Louis Bonnette (McNeese State). Not pictured, Phil Langan (Ithaca/Princeton/Cornell/Brown)
Related Stories:
Texas' first sports information director Sansing inducted into CoSIDA Hall of Fame
by Thomas Stepp, Texas Media Relations
http://www.mackbrown-texasfootball.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/062509aaa.html
Kami Watson Huyse of My PR Pro led a panel on "The Latest in Social/New Media"
It was all in the family as Louis Bonnette was joined by his two sons on his induction into the CoSIDA Hall of Fame. Both sons followed Bonnette into the sports information field, with Michael (left) serving as assistant athletic director for sports information at LSU and Matthew (right) as assistant SID at Northwesterm State (La.). Louis Bonnette is associate athletic director and sports information director at McNeese State.
Justin Doherty of the University of Wisconsin (left) is handed the gavel as the incoming president of the College Sports Information Directors of America by outgoing president Nick Joos of Baylor University