Terry leveraged his connections in the industry to give students real world experience, including industry vets like acclaimed journalist George Curry, the former Editor-in-Chief of Emerge Magazine, who became the second Black journalist to join the staff of Sports Illustrated. Curry was also founding director of the Washington Association of Black Journalists (WABJ). He went on to launch WABJ’s own High School journalism program, the Urban Journalism Workshop, in 1986.