Thursday, October 28, 1999
Channel 5 cameraman leaves mark
OBITUARY: SCOTT BARKLEY
BY SUE MacDONALD
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Scott Barkley, a dedicated family man and award-winning chief photographer for WLW-TV (Channel 5), died Tuesday morning of complications from a brain tumor, diagnosed in July.
Mr. Barkley, 52, of Anderson Township would have celebrated his 23rd anniversary with his wife, Elizabeth “Buffy” Barkley, in December.
So profound was his influence on the Cincinnati TV news scene that Channel 9 and Channel 12 have offered to cover the WLW-TV newsroom on Saturday morning so that Channel 5 news staffers can attend Mr. Barkley's funeral.
“All the years, the experience, the positive attitude, the friendship and leadership that Scott brought every day to work are things that can't be replaced,” said Sally Macy, assistant news director at Channel 5. “Everybody in the newsroom learned so much from him.”
During his quarter-century career as a cameraman, Mr. Barkley traveled to the Far East with the Cincinnati Sister Cities program and covered Pope John Paul II's 1995 visit to New York City. During the 1993 uprising at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility at Lucasville, he was allowed inside the prison fence to photograph the surrender.
In 1983, Mr. Barkley was the only NBC cameraman on the scene in Beirut, Lebanon, when an American military barracks was bombed.
“I used to pick up Scott to get him to and from his radiation treatments, and he told me that he met a man at the Barrett Cancer Center who had seen Scott's videos from Lebanon almost 20 years ago,” said family friend Judy Ball. “That was how this man had found out that his brother from Cincinnati was still alive, and that meant so much to Scott. That's the kind of meaning that Scott sought in his work. It was the human element that so spoke to him.”
Born in Fort Wayne, Ind., Mr. Barkley began his journalism career in the mid-1960s as a U.S. Air Force writer/photographer for the Stars & Stripes. He worked at TV stations in South Bend and Indianapolis before joining WLW-TV in 1974.
He won four regional Emmy awards in his career and the Archdiocesan Medal from the Archdiocese of Cincinnati in 1983 for video about then-Archbishop Joseph Bernardin. He also was the first man to receive a media award from the Greater Cincinnati Coalition on Domestic Violence in 1994.
“When we were reviewing his career, he said he'd received many awards, many Emmys and many recognitions, but that was the one that meant the most to him,” said his wife, who teaches English at the College of Mount St. Joseph.
“As the father of three daughters, he understood the importance of making people aware of the impact of domestic violence on women.”
Mr. Barkley met his wife when she was a Sister of Charity handling communications for a video about the canonization of Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American saint. They married in 1976.
“His greatest achievement in life was his marriage and his three daughters,” she said.
Mr. Barkley was a member of the Christ Renews His Parish team at Immaculate Heart of Mary church in Anderson Township and a member of the 1997 parish search committee for a school principal.
Other survivors include three daughters, Katie, Liz and Annie, all at home; two brothers, Gregg of Michigan City, Ind., and George of Chicago.
Visitation will be 4-8 p.m. Friday at T.P. White & Sons Funeral Home, 2050 Beechmont Ave., Mount Washington. Mass of Christian burial will be 10 a.m Saturday at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 7820 Beechmont Ave., Anderson Township. Burial will follow at St. Stephen Cemetery in Fort Thomas.
Memorials: Barkley Children Educational Fund, c/o Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 7820 Beechmont Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45255.
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