ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, March 12, 1997 TAG: 9703120101
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 7 EDITION: METRO
Fresh from two Grammy Awards, country star Vince Gill has picked up another honor.
The Tennessee PGA Junior Tour, open to players under 19, was officially renamed the Vince Gill Tennessee PGA Junior Tour, officials said Monday.
Gill, an avid golfer, is a frequent visitor to public links in Nashville and to the Golf House Tennessee, home to a golf academy and a nine-hole course for beginners. He also runs the ``Mini-Vinny,'' a tournament for pre-teen players. His celebrity pro-am - The Vinny - benefits selected charities.
A young Desmond Tutu looked to Jackie Robinson for inspiration in fighting apartheid in South Africa.
The retired archbishop and Nobel laureate was given a humanitarian award at the annual Jackie Robinson Foundation dinner Monday night. The dinner celebrated the 50th anniversary of Robinson becoming major league baseball's first black player.
Tutu's earliest memory of Robinson was reading about him in a magazine as a boy in a South African township.
``It gave me an inspirational lift, to know black people could do it, this in South Africa that was saying the opposite to a young boy,'' he said. ``This, I'm sure, was an inspiration to me.''
Tutu, who won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize for his anti-apartheid work, said Robinson would have mixed feelings about the state of race relations today if he were still alive. ``He'd be sad, too, all the potential has not been realized,'' he said.
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