Kentucky
Educational Television (KET) Northern Kentucky Regional Board members gathered
at Fort Mitchell Country Club last month, each with a bottle of top shelf
bourbon to contribute to a silent auction package that will be a feature of the
Dec. 7th KET Martinis & Mistletoe event at Drees Pavilion, honoring
northern Kentucky’s Jack and Phyllis Moreland.
Once
a month, since 1997, representatives from KET, have made their way to Fort
Mitchell to meet with members of its regional board at Fort Mitchell Country
Club (FMCC). The board’s goal is twofold – it forms relationships that help KET
stay in touch with the pulse of the region, its people, events, and happenings,
while the board spreads the word about KET and helps raise important funds.
Board
member Milly Diehl, who was raised on Edgewood Road in Ft. Mitchell, which she
says was most often described as ‘on the third fairway’ of FMCC’s golf course,
spent her youth much like her fellow KET board members – Gee Gaither and Carol
Bierne – with neighborhood kids at FMCC. She says she was a latecomer to the
NKY KET board, having moved after high school to Lexington to attend UK, and
not returning to northern Kentucky for 21 years. But her time in Lexington was
critical to her relationship with KET.
“It
was in Lexington that I came to know, respect, and revere the role of KET in
advancing the educational and cultural horizons of Kentuckians,” says Diehl.
“In later years, I came to be friends of both Len and Lil [Press], and to fully
appreciate the genius that built one of the foremost public education
television organizations in the country. So, being a board member is like
coming full circle.”
O.
Leonard Press was the founder of KET, and the driving force behind making KET a
nationally recognized model for educational and public affairs programming.
Press died in July at the age of 97.
The
Martinis & Mistletoes event is the NKY board’s annual event in the region.
This year the event honors Jack and Phyllis Moreland. Jack, who is president of
Southbank Partners and the Newport Southbank Bridge Company, had a long career
in education as a public high school teacher, principal, and superintendent;
interim president of Northern Kentucky University; and as a top Kentucky
education official who helped merge the state’s community colleges into the
system that is now known as the Kentucky Community and Technical College System
(KCTCS).
KET
values the board’s role in making an impact in the region.
“As Kentucky’s only statewide television network, KET further
engages Northern Kentucky and the surrounding region via the Northern Kentucky
Regional Board – a dedicated group of opinion leaders and business influencers
who are pivotal in KET’s on-the-ground approach to making a deep impact for
Northern Kentucky,” says Katelyn Lincoln, KET director of philanthropy. “Their
annual gala, Martinis & Mistletoe, is entering its 12th year
and has raised more than $355,000 for KET programs and services.”
In
June, KET productions and programs received seven Regional Emmy Award
nominations from the Ohio Valley Chapter of the National Academy of Television
Arts and Sciences. In 2007, the network received an Emmy for Best Regional
Documentary on its three-hour documentary history of northern Kentucky’s Boone,
Kenton, and Campbell counties – the first long-form documentary on the region.
“We hope everyone will join us on Wednesday, December 11 at the
Drees Pavilion in Covington as we honor Jack and Phyllis Moreland,” says
Lincoln.
Visit www.ket.org/martinis for
more information and to purchase tickets.
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