The Friends of The Daily Texan Hall of Fame event to be held April 17 on the University of Texas campus will be dedicated to beloved educator and outstanding journalist Griff Singer.
Griff died at the age of 93 on Wednesday, March 25. Information is pending on a memorial service.
In January Singer was hospitalized after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of malignant lymphoma. The illness quickly led to complications, including pneumonia and severe breathing problems. Despite beginning chemotherapy, his condition deteriorated rapidly.
Griff had a remarkable career, touching every base as a journalist; he was a printer, a reporter, an editor, a teacher and newspaper consultant.
Griff had an outstanding career as a journalist, and was working at The Dallas Morning News when President Kennedy was assassinated and helped direct coverage of the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath, including the investigation and the Jack Ruby trial.
In his teaching career at UT, Singer taught courses in reporting, copyediting, newspaper layout, and design. He made the transition from hot type to computers to digital during that time and organized and team-taught the first offering of computer-assisted reporting and later sports reporting. Singer holds Bachelor of Journalism (1955) and Master of Arts in communication (1972) from UT Austin.
The tribute to Singer will be held during the Friends of The Daily Texan’s Hall of Fame event.
Register to attend at:
https://friendsdailytexan.wildapricot.org/event-6522425
The event on the plaza will begin at 5 p.m. with an outdoor reception on the Walter Cronkite Plaza, located between the Texas Student Media building and the Moody College of Communication complex. There will be a variety of food and beverage stations.
The adjacent Daily Texan newsroom will be available for tours at 4 p.m. and will remain open to any attendees up until the start of the formal program.
The reception ends at 6:45 p.m., and then moves to a comfortable Moody auditorium for Hall of Fame inductions and awarding of scholarships to Daily Texan staff members. The event will begin at 7:15 p.m. and end at 9:30 p.m.
Griff was a long-time board member of Friends of The Daily Texan, Inc.
The Friends of The Daily Texan, Inc. is a 501 (3) (c) non-profit corporation established to lend support and assistance to The Daily Texan, an institution at the University of Texas at Austin since 1900. Members include alumni of The Texan, plus other supporters of a free and unfettered student media at UT. The group’s guiding principle is etched in stone at the entrance to one of the buildings occupied by The Texan during its illustrious journalistic history: Vincit omnia veritas. Truth conquers all.