Tag: Anne Cox Chambers
With Phoenix Flies, Atlanta Preservation Center offers a peek inside hundreds of city landmarks
This year the organizers will pay homage to the role women have played in keeping Atlanta’s—and America’s—historic fabric intact.
Forward Arts Foundation celebrates 50 years of supporting Atlanta art
In 1962 a chartered plane crashed in Orly, France, killing 106 of Atlanta’s core art patrons. Afterward, it seemed the light went out of the art scene here. But three years later, a group of energetic, civic-minded women lit the spark again, establishing the Forward Arts Foundation to support the visual arts, the group’s mission then and now.
Cox family, McGill, Fink to be inducted into 2012 Atlanta Press Club Hall of Fame
This week the Atlanta Press Club announced its 2012 Hall of Fame inductees, including beloved University of Georgia journalism professor Conrad Fink, who died in January at age 80. Atlanta Journal-Constitution owner Anne Cox Chambers, her late sister Barbara Cox Anthony and their father Governor James M. Cox will also be honored at the October 10 ceremony at the InterContinental hotel in Buckhead. Pulitzer Prize winners Atlanta Constitution publisher Ralph McGill and reporter George Goodwin will also be honored at this year's event.
Anne Cox Chambers
Even though Anne (with an e, please) Cox Chambers reigns as the richest person in Atlanta—her estimated $13.4 billion almost ten times what Arthur Blank could cough up—you wouldn’t necessarily know it after a visit with the Cox Enterprises doyenne.