Dr. Herbert C. Gabhart & Bob Mulloy Honored With Cecil Scaife Visionary Award

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LaRawn Scaife Rhea & Brittany Schaffer

The Cecil Scaife Visionary Award was presented posthumously to Dr. Herbert C. Gabhart and Bob Mulloy at a private reception preceding Belmont’s Best of the Best concert at The Curb Event Center on the Belmont University Campus on what would have been Cecil Scaife’s 97th birthday, April 13.

Nashville Record Producer Joe Scaife and his sister, LaRawn Scaife Rhea, created the award to honor their dad’s contributions to the Music Business Program at Belmont and to celebrate those whose lives and work have made it possible for future generations to realize careers in the music industry.

Along with the award, The Cecil Scaife Endowed Scholarship was created, and each year, a rising junior or senior in the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business is awarded a scholarship.

“Without Dr. Gabhart and Bob Mulloy’s belief in Dad’s vision for this program, it would not have been possible. It is an honor and privilege to present this award posthumously to Dr. Gabhart and Bob Mulloy on behalf of my brother and his wife, Danielle, their children, Jaela and Tristan, and my husband Richard and me,” says LaRawn Scaife Rhea. “Mike Curb was the first recipient of this award in 2008, and he and his wife Linda have brought this program to where it is today.”

Brittany Schaffer, Dean of the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business, accepted the award. The beautiful Kosta Boda black and clear crystal award will be showcased on campus to remind students of the men whose shoulders they stand on.

Past Visionary Award recipients celebrated for their contributions, in addition to the inaugural recipient Mike Curb, include Brenda Lee, Ray Stevens, Amy Grant, Tony Brown, Wynonna Judd, David Briggs, Norbert Putnam, Jo Walker-Meador, Senator Marsha Blackburn, “Sunshine” Sonny Payne and Harold Bradley.

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