Dr. Charles J. Elmore, SSU’s professor emeritus of humanities, honored at The Savannah Tribune Hosts Biscuit Brunch and Sneaker Ball

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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 was accredited in May 2007 by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (ACEJMC), at the time joining the University of Georgia in Athens as the only other mass communication program in the state of Georgia with that accreditation. 

In 2013, he came out of retirement to lead the mass communications department at Savannah State University to ACEJMC reaccreditation from 2013 to 2019. He was a tenured professor of Humanities and the head of the Mass Communications Department. He also received the 1999 Governor's Award in the Humanities from Roy Barnes, then governor of Georgia. 

He was awarded the Richard R. Wright Award of Excellence - the highest award given by Savannah State University - in November 2015.  In February 2016, he was named to the inaugural Hall of Fame of Savannah State University's Southern Regional Press Institute in its 66th year of existence.

Photographer: Shot by Somi (L-R) Savannah Tribune publisher, Shirley B. James, Dr. Charles J. Elmore, and Tanya Milton, Vice President and Advertising Director of The Savannah Tribune.


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