Dr. Charles J. Elmore, SSU’s professor emeritus of humanities, honored at The Savannah Tribune Hosts Biscuit Brunch and Sneaker Ball
The Savannah Tribune hosted a Biscuit Brunch and Sneaker Ball Soirée at the J. W. Marriott Plant Riverside Ballroom on June 28, 2025. Mr. Shawn “J. Chris” Christopher was the perfect emcee who engaged the crowd. Honorees Ms. Dawn Baker, Dr. Charles J. Elmore, Ms. Vaughnette Goode-Walker, Dr. Charles Hoskins, and Mr. Walter Moore were given unique pen sets to continue their writings about African American history. Dr. Elmore and Dr. Hoskins researched those archives incessantly, many times for their books, for their recapitulations of accurate information per Mrs. James. She also mentioned that Dr. Elmore, in his capacity as Department Chair of the Mass Communications Department at SSU, as well as the administrators at SCAD and The Savannah Morning News were a tremendous help when a fire at The Tribune in January 2006 could have preempted the paper that week, but the paper met its deadline. Under Elmore's leadership, Savannah State University's department of mass communications ...