Jake Wade

Journalism
Inducted: 1992
  • Born in Dunn, 1901 
  • Graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1923 
  • Sports editor at Charlotte Observer from 1930–1946
  • Sports information director at UNC from 1946–1962
  • Wrote for newspapers in Raleigh, Fayetteville, Gastonia, Greensboro, Pittsburgh, and Charlotte before joining Observer
  • Died in 1962