Bernard Mayes

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Bernard Mayes in 2006

Anthony Bernard Duncan Mayes (10 October 1929 โ€“ 23 October 2014) was a British broadcaster, university dean and author. In the United States, he founded

National Public Radio. He also founded one of America's first suicide prevention hotlines
.

Biography

Born in

Senate
for his public service.

Invited in 1984 to join the Rhetoric and Communication Studies faculty of the University of Virginia, in 1991 he was appointed assistant dean in the College of Arts and Sciences, and then chair of the Communications department, finally founding the Program in Media Studies. He was awarded the Sullivan/Harrison award for mentoring and received a commendation by the University Seven Society. On retiring from the University in 1999 he published his autobiography Escaping God's Closet, which received the Lambda Literary Award for religion and spirituality, and in 2000 University of Virginia alumni named the Bernard D. Mayes Award after him.[5] His papers are kept in the National Public Broadcasting Archives of the University of Maryland, the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, and in the Library of Congress.

In 1991 he co-founded the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual Faculty, Staff and Graduate Student Association at the University of Virginia, known as UVA Pride, and the Serpentine Society. On his retirement in 1999, the Serpentine Society gave Mayes a lifetime achievement award for his accomplishments and for his contributions to UVA in particular. Each year since then, the Serpentine Society has honored a distinguished graduate of UVA with a Bernard D. Mayes Award for service and leadership in the LGBT community. Mayes also received a lifetime achievement award from San Francisco Suicide Prevention. In 2010 he was given a prestigious

Jefferson Award for Public Service, most notably for his suicide prevention work still used as a model nationwide. He last resided in San Francisco.[3]

Broadcasting career

Beginning in 1958, Mayes worked as a journalist for the

National Public Radio. He then became a consultant for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in Washington, D.C., advising universities and communities across the country.[6]

Mayes's dramatic works included:

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Augustine's Confessions and The City of God, Mises's Human Action, Plutarch's Lives, and Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson) and was often heard in The Black Mass, Erik Bauersfeld
's series of dramatic adaptations for KPFA. An illustrated collection of Mayes's lighter broadcast pieces was published in 1985 under the title This is Bernard Mayes in San Francisco.


Death

Mayes died on 23 October 2014, of sepsis.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Bernard Mayes, priest - obituary". Telegraph.co.uk. 3 March 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  2. ^ "Bernard Mayes, KQED-FM's first general manager, dies at 85". KQED.org. 24 October 2014. Archived from the original on 26 October 2014. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
  3. ^ a b Whiting, Sam (28 April 2012). "Bernard Mayes to be honored as lifeline to the suicidal". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on 16 October 2023. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
  4. ^ "Oasis California". Archived from the original on 4 August 2006.
  5. ^ "A Life History of Bernard Mayes". University of Virginia. Archived from the original on 1 August 2015. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
  6. ^ "KQED-FM's first manager: Launching NPR took a lot of doing". KQED.org. 4 May 2011. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
  7. ^ Death Certificate of Bernard Mayes, certified by Prescott Woodruff, M.D. on 28 October 2014.

Further reading

External links

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