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 hundreds of libraries across the US. You can check the On-Line Computer Library Center's WorldCat database in Dublin, Ohio (OCLC) with the help of your local college or university reference librarian to determine which of its 55,000 member libraries in 110 countries have the University Press of Mississippi book, published spring 2003. Or by clicking on author's name you will be able to select a state or country for a library list direct from OCLC.Writing from Boston University, C. Stuart Chapman made Chotankers: A Family History (1982) by Avon Edward Foote, professor, University of North Alabama in Huntsville-Decatur-Florence TV Market (DMA), the primary reference source for Northern Virginia history of Shelby Foote's ancestors in "Chapter I, Roots". Chapman is press assistant to US Congresswoman Barbara Lee, representing 9th California District including Oakland, 108th Congress. A kinsman of Shelby's family, Mississippi Senator and Governor Henry Stuart Foote lived with his first wife Elizabeth Winter, whom he married in Tuscumbia, Alabama, and their children at Oakland, California, before returning to Mississippi on the eve of the American Civil War. She died in Oakland and is buried there. Governor Foote married in Nashville a second time, and the couple's home is the oldest building on the Vanderbilt University campus. Both Shelby Foote: A Writer's Life and Chotankers: A Family History, featuring Henry Stuart Foote's genealogical research, are in the Vanderbilt University Library. UNA Professor Foote believes that Henry Stuart Foote would have prepared the genealogical history of the Footes at his Nashville home. The house has been a part of Vanderbilt from the University's beginnings as a Methodist Episcopal Church School, that was named "Central University" when founded. The home, part of the original Vanderbilt campus in 2006, is known fondly by faculty, students and alumni as "Old Central". The family genealogical summary by Senator Foote is Appendix I on page 281 of Chotankers. Henry S. wrote the short history before 1880 using research and records of William Hayward Foote of Hayfield in Virginia near Mount Vernon. In the record on Samuel Foote,  Henry wrote "SAMUEL, b. Jan. 25, 1659-60; d. Mar. 27, 1697; buried at Windsor." Of George Foote, Henry wrote, "Moved to So. Carolina and d. there." Both Avon Edward Foote and Shelby Foote traced their ancestory to George Foote of Chester County, South Carolina, who is the son of George Foote and Frances Berryman Foote of BrentTown in Virginia. Shelby's ancestor is William and Avon's ancestor is Gilson, his brother. The two brothers lived in South Carolina in 1810 before Gilson left the state to avoid charges of theft. Gilson ran off to New Orleans taking Gilson, Jr. and Sarah with him. Gilson, Jr. married Nancy Crowder, and his wife and children bought land in Tishomingo County, Mississippi in 1845 after Gilson Jr.'s death. Sarah's daughter Lucinda married John Milton Massey. And their son, Henry S. Massey, was a next-door neighbor of Lila Frances Broughton Foote when she was growing up in Iuka, on the very same homesite where she lives on 4 July 2008. Charlotte Foote Grisham was Lila's great-grandmother. The Grishams, Footes and Masseys all knew of their Foote ancestors. Shelby's ancestor, the son of Gilson's brother, moved from South Carolina to Macon, Mississippi nearly ten years before Gilson, Jr.'s death. Douglas Southall Freeman, Pulitzer Prize winning biographer of George Washington and Robert E. Lee, wrote: "Family history is the only history made or written at Chotank."
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Ohio Educational Broadcasting (OEB) network, Columbus, 1972 to 1974 with Richard Hull, executive director of OEB [The System had become an ARC | Appalachian Regional Commission demonstration project before Foote took over management]; faculty and coordinator graduate studies, School of Journalism and Mass Communication,
University of Georgia, Athens, 1974 to 1980; associate professor
of Broadcasting, University of North Alabama, Florence, 1980
forward; professor, UNA in England, University of London, 1990 and 1991; instructor, UCLA/UNA joint certificate in film, 2004-2006. Awards judge,
Ohio State Awards, 1968 to 1973; chairman, faculty screening
committee, George Foster Peabody Radio-TV Awards, 1976 to 1979.
Board of directors, Florence YMCA, 1982 to 1986. NDEA fellow,
1967; National Academy of TV Arts and Sciences Memorial fellow,
1970; recipient Community Service award Florence Civitan Club,
1990, for Shoals CP Telethon hosting; first place award, Corporate Video Competition, National
Broadcasting Society, 1991; regional first and national third
place award College Emmy, Hollywood Academy TV Arts and Sciences,
1984; honorable mention, comedy awards, National Broadcasting
Society, 1987. Providing image for history brochure, Johns Hopkins University Press (oldest in US), 2002; Industry-Faculty Seminar fellow, International
Radio-TV Society, New York, 1987. Member, Radio-Television News Directors Association, 2001-04, Alpha Epsilon Rho (founding advisor, North Alabama Chapter, 1981 and advisor 2002-03), BBC Networking Club (1994
to 1996). Republican. Anglican. Club: Exchange (board of
directors 1984 to 1986). Collection developer: 
Grand Hyatt Hotel, September 18, 2003; Editor: The Challenges of Educational
Communications, 1970; CBS and Congress: The Selling of the
Pentagon Papers, 1972. Contributor, Broadcasting and Bargaining, edited by Allen E. Koenig at Ohio State, 1970; Chotankers, 1982. Editor, National Association of Educational Broadcasters, 
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