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LEE REMMEL TO RECEIVE THE 2000 RED SMITH AWARD
Red Smith Sports Award Banquet Release
posted 01/18/00
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| Lee Remmel |
Green Bay Packers Executive Director of Public Relations Lee Remmel has been named the recipient of the 2000 Red Smith Award according to Banquet Chairman Mike Reese. This honor is given annually to an individual who has contributed or continues to contribute to sports either on or off the field in the stats of Wisconsin. The presentation will be made at the 35th Annual Red Smith Sports Award Banquet on Tuesday, January 18, 2000, at the Paper Valley Hotel in downtown Appleton, WI.
Remmel is in his 26th year with the Packers front office, having served previously as Director of Public Relations in 1974 and from 1980 through 1988 and as Director of Publicity from 1975 through 1979.
He was named Executive Director of Public Relations in March of 1989 by Bob Harlan with responsibility for overseeing the public relations, marketing and community relations areas. Prior to joining the Packers organization on March 24, 1974, Remmel was a sports writer and columnist of the Green Bay Press-Gazette for 29 1/2 years.
While at the Press-Gazette, he was the only sports writer in Wisconsin to have been directly involved in coverage of the Packers throughout all of the team's coaching regimes to that point, beginning with founder E.L. "Curly" Lambeau and continuing until the naming of Bart Starr in 1975. In 1967, he was voted Wisconsin's Sports Writer of the Year.
The Shawano, WI, native was inducted in the Packer Hall of Fame on March 30, 1996.
courtesy Red Smith Sports Award Banquet
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