Rice's HERE (Houston Enriches Rice Education) Project will celebrate Wash Allen's 45 years in broadcasting Oct. 22 at the 2011 HERE Legacy Award ceremony.
The event will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Alice Pratt Brown Hall's Stude Concert Hall on the Rice University campus, located at 6100 Main St. For directions, go tohttp://parking.rice.edu/
Allen began his career as a 14-year-old broadcaster at WDIA Radio in Memphis, Tenn., and went on to major in Speech and Drama at Tennessee State University. He has spent over 45 years in broadcasting, holding several managerial positions at radio stations in Nashville, Tenn., Cleveland, Washington, Detroit and Houston, respectively. He was syndicated on ABC Radio Network for 12 years on the Solid Gold Soul format and has worked on the Houston radio scene at KYOK Radio in 1969 and with KCOH since 1971. Allen became Houston’s first African American TV host with a weekly program called “Talent Unlimited” on KHOU, the local CBS affiliate, from 1971-1974.
Among the guest speakers at the ceremony are M. Helen Cavazos, president of M. H. Cavazos Associates; Judy Foston, president of Foston International; Anthony Le, president of Double Eight Properties; U. S. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee; Ethel Porter Taylor, former television executive; Michael McCall Allen, Wash Allen’s son; Waverly Nolley, attorney at Waverly R. Nolley & Associates; Karen Carter Richards, CEO and publisher of Houston Forward Times Newspaper; andWilliam Terrell, director of African-American Programming at South Carolina Education Television.
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