From Hall of Honor press release dated Oct. 9, 2002:

Don Perkins arrived at Wittenberg in 1970 and spent six years as the university's sports information director. He was named director of public relations in 1974 and held that position for 23 years. Perkins secured campus visits by Sports Illustrated and ABC-TV's "Wide World of Sports," successfully promoted 20 Wittenberg men and women athletes for All-America honors and wrote cover stories about Tiger coaches for the national publications Basketball Times and Football Weekly. Perkins was awarded the NCAA Gold Medallion for superior service to the NCAA and college athletics, and upon retirement in 1997, the Council for Advancement and Support of Education selected Perkins to receive the Frank M. Ashmore Award for career contributions to the field of college public relations as a lecturer, author and mentor. Now a public relations consultant, Perkins was honored by Wittenberg with an Honorary Alumnus Award in 1989 and The Class of 1914 Award in 1993. He was also inducted into the Central State University Marauder Athletic Hall of Fame for his work as their sports information director in the 1960s.

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