ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times

DATE: Thursday, April 24, 1997               TAG: 9704240038
SECTION: VIRGINIA                 PAGE: C-3  EDITION: METRO 

COMMUNICATIONS HALL OF FAME TO ADMIT 5 TO ITS HONORS ROSTER THE HALL HAS HONORED 61 PEOPLE SINCE 1986.

The Virginia Communications Hall of Fame will induct five members tonight. In addition to Forrest M. Landon, former executive editor of The Roanoke Times, they are:

John B. Adams Jr., chairman and chief executive officer of The Martin Agency, a Richmond advertising company. During Adams' 24-year tenure, the agency's billings have gone from $6 million to more than $325 million.

J. Stewart Bryan III, publisher of the Richmond Times-Dispatch and chairman, president and chief executive officer of Media General Inc..

Richard T. Robertson, president of Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, who started as an advertising salesman for a Richmond television station.

The late Joseph E. Nettles, a journalism educator at the University of Richmond.

The Hall of Fame, housed at Virginia Commonwealth University's School of Mass Communications, honors Virginia natives or people identified with Virginia who have made outstanding long-term contributions in the communications field. Sixty-one people have been honored since the hall was created in 1986.

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