Longtime University of Mississippi Department of Journalism and Calhoun County Journal publisher S. Gale Denley died early this morning at Baptist Memorial Hospital Oxford following a lengthy illness. He was 72.
Denley was also a former syndicated columnist. At Ole Miss he served as professor of journalism and director of the Student Media Center, which was renamed in his honor following his retirement. He was actively involved in MPA affairs, including serving as its president in 1983. He was inducted into the MPA Hall of Fame in 1996.
On his blog this morning Sid Salter wrote “My friend and mentor S. Gale Denley of Bruce died shortly before 3 a.m. this morning at Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi in Oxford of complications from kidney disease… Read Sid’s entire obit here.
The funeral will be Sunday at 3 p.m. at Bruce United Methodist Church. The body is at Parker Memorial Funeral Home in Bruce.
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