STUART G. NEWMAN

Past SATW President Marcia Levin and Marco Polo members Bill Hensley & Aaron Cushman have made contributions to the SATW Foundation in honor of Stuart G. Newman’s 90th birthday, outstanding career in the travel industry over the decades and longtime service to SATW. President of Stuart Newman Associates in Miami, Stuart is public relations professional and Marco Polo member of SATW, recognized for exceptional service to the organization. Additionally, he is a longtime member of the Board of Directors of the SATW Foundation, which sponsors the annual Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition. All contributions to the Foundation go toward costs of the competition, which recognizes and rewards outstanding work in the field of travel journalism. Stuart is a journalism graduate of the University of Florida and long has supported the Lowell Thomas awards.

Past SATW President Marcia Levin has made donations in honor of Stuart Newman’s 94th and 95th birthdays and continued activity in public relations and service to SATW.

In March 2019, Newman died at the age of 96. He will be remembered for an outstanding career and service to the Society and the Foundation.
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TOM ADKINSON

SATW Active Kay Harwell Fernandez has made a contribution to the SATW Foundation honoring the work and contributions to SATW by Marco Polo member Tom Adkinson. Since he frequently sends clips of her stories he sees in the Nashville newspaper, she wanted to do something in return, supporting the Foundation, which Tom serves as a board member.

Tom has been involved with travel journalism and public relations since 1972, when he sold his first free-lance travel article. That led to a job at Southern Living Magazine as assistant travel editor. He has free-lanced to media across the nation and worked at newspapers in Knoxville and Birmingham. He entered public relations to work for Opryland and the Grand Ole Opry and eventually was vice president of corporate communications for their parent company, Gaylord Entertainment. After serving as Vice President/Director of Communications for BOHAN Advertising/Marketing a number of years, he now is a freelance writer in Nashville.
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MARCIA LEVIN

Marco Polo member Stuart Newman has made a contribution to recognize the service and dedication to SATW member Marcia Levin.

Marcia graduated with a degree in journalism from the University of Miami, where she also did graduate work in broadcasting. She worked in radio, then in print at the Hollywood Sun-Tattler, a Scripps-Howard publication. After a stint as features editor, she left to freelance in 1984.

In between she raised three sons and now enjoys nine grandkids — eight are boys. She continues to write and participate in SATW. She comments that her SATW friends are amazing and helped her considerably with their friendship when she lost her husband in 2007.

She commented recently, “It seems I’ve been writing most of my life, from contest jingles in grade school (which I usually won) to novels (still unsold) and hundreds of articles on how to pack for a three-week cruise or a proposed walking tour in Nassau and what to expect at the ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia. In recent years, I’ve been writing more about cruising than anything else. I’ve had the travel bug most of my life, and travel writing has been an amazing fit for me. In the process, I’ve made many wonderful friends through SATW and feel fortunate in my career — and my organization.”

Marcia has held many positions in SATW, including: Chair, Atlantic-Caribbean Chapter, 1998-2003 Society Board Member; President-Elect, 2003; Society President, 2004 and recently Chair, Indianapolis Convention 2012. She continues to write and contribute to numerous print and online media.
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FRAN GOLDEN AND DAVID G. MOLYNEAUX

Past SATW president Marcia Levin and Marco Polo member Lois Gerber have made donations in honor of the marriage of SATW Foundation president David G. Molyneaux and SATW Active Fran Golden, both award-winning travel writers-editors. Vows were exchanged Nov. 8, 2014, aboard the Regal Princess on a cruise following its naming ceremony in Fort Lauderale, FL. Onboard were godparents for the ship, six members of “The Love Boat,” the iconic television show of the 1970s that introduced many viewers to modern cruising. Gavin MacLeod, who was Capt. Stubing on the show, did a reading at the couple’s wedding, which was performed by Regal Princess Capt. Edwin Perrin in the grand atrium. Opera singer Annette Wardell sang. Molyneaux is editor of TheTravelMavens.com and a cruise columnist for several publications, and Golden is a cruise and travel columnist for a variety of media and co-author of “Frommer’s EasyGuide to Alaskan Cruises and Ports of Call 2014.”