SPORTS INFORMATION STAFF
SPORTS INFORMATION DIRECTOR - Russell Rice was named sports information director at UK in May, 1969, after serving two years as assistant to Ken Kuhn, who retired after more than two decades of service with the University. Rice came to the Wildcats from The Lexington Leader, where he sBA was a general reporter eight years and sports editor five years. / A native of Paintsville, Ky., he won letters in football, basketball and baseball at Van Lear High. After serving with the U.S. Marines in World War II, he attended Kentucky Wesleyan College and received his bachelor's at the University of Kentucky in 1951. He has served as manager of the NCAA Mid-East Basketball Tournament (1968), and chairman of the Basketball Hall of Fame Committee of the College Sports Information Directors Association and was recipient of the 1971 Churchmen's "Sportswriter of the Year" award. As a newspaperman, his duties ranged from agricultural hearings in Washington to spending three months as the traveling companion to a Kentucky gubernatorial candidate. He attended a national sports editors seminar at Columbia University and reported the activities of such Wildcat teams as football coach Charlie Bradshaw's "Thin Thirty" and "The Runts" of basketball coach Adolph Rupp. He is a former Kentucky area correspondent for Time-Life-Fortune magazines and was Kentucky editor of Tobacco Magazine and Religious News Service. For the past 10 years, he has pursued a hobby of researching Kentucky basketball and football. He authored "The Wildcats: A Story of Kentucky Football," and "The Big Blue Machine: A Story of Kentucky Basketball". He edits the K-Men's Newsletter and has been honored by that organization for outstanding service. He also was honored by WAVE-TV for "Outstanding Contribution to Televised Sports." He is the first member of the Southeastern Conference Publicity Directors Association to be elected to a two-year term and currently is serving his second year as president of the Blue Grass (Kentucky) chapter of the U.S. Harness Writers Association which was organized in 1977. He is married to the former Doris Thacker of Knott County. They have four children Mrs. Rodney Morris of Louisville, Mrs. Mike Covington of Georgetown and Russell James and Kim of Lexington.
ASSISTANT SPORTS INFORMATION DIRECTOR-Jack Perry joined the sports information staff in March, 1970, after 15 years with the Lexington Herald-Leader, where he was librarian for 10 vears. A native Lexingtonian, Jack attended the University before entering the United States Air Force. He is married to the former Barbara Sanders of Lexington. They have four children Mrs. Greg Moore of Owensboro, Mrs. Deborah Case, Jack David and Todd of Lexington.
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