2020 Hall of Fame

Jim Bohannon was born in Corvallis Oregon, where his father was serving in the army. When he was nine months old, his parents brought him to Lebanon, Missouri, where he grew up. He also began his broadcast career there in 1960 with a job at hometown radio station KLWT paying one dollar per hour. Following his graduation from Lebanon High School in 1962, Jim attended Southwest Missouri State in Springfield where he worked part time as a news reporter at KWTO-AM and a rock-n-roll DJ at KICK-AM.

Betsey Barnette Bruce, St. Louis’s longest serving television journalist, covered politics, education, general news and the business side of sports. She began her career as a junior high student journalist in Western New York writing school news columns for The Tonawanda News. Her first broadcast work was on WBEN radio in Buffalo, NY as a Girl Scout correspondent from the 1965 National Girl Scout Roundup in Farragut,

Don Hicks was born on mother’s Day, May 9th 1948 in Asheville County, Texas. He grew up on his family’s farm and ranch, which was established by his great-grandfather in 1876. He attended school in the small town of Glory, Texas, and graduated high school there in 1966. His father wanted to expand the farm operation and asked Don to be his partner in purchasing additional land,