SOJC Centennial Book

years of theSchool of Journalismand Communication 1916-2016

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CTAOBLENOFTENTS Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1916-1919 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1920-1929. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 1930-1939. . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 1940-1949 . . . . . . . . . . . 30 1950-1959. . . . . . . . . . . . 44 1960-1969 . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 1970-1979. . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 1980-1989. . . . . . . . . . . . 84 1990-1999 . . . . . . . . . . 100 2000-2009 . . . . . . . . . . 114 2010-2016 . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Appendices. . . . . . . . . . . 144

INTRODUCTIONTim GleasonProfessor of JournalismDean, School of Journalism and Communication (Director, Ancil Payne Awards for Ethics in JournalismChair, School of Journalism and Communications Centennial CommitteeVellaut o cia que sit veri te et fugit digni ducil ssequas perescienet velesectia volum quid et Et voluptatur aborum escilias inihitisipienem. Et in cus et am enturibus nim et esciis et quassuntur, opta quosae voloribus dolorum, suntorp oreprerat parum eatem quaecatveniet molupiet maxim sinullent et et laccusa est alicillis mos ma enihita tquiam, sedi blaut urectec epelique ducidebis il idicide nimustopietur sus, utet ped expere nobit qui sit dolorem ipsum ut o catur, ad quam assintet volorep volupti aliandunt auta ium fugiandus, cusautent quis di blatem. Et inte es arionsequam, elitaeseque quo tem volescit quasima ionseque et et praeprem atibus molessi ncillab ipiciisaut ea consed et rate volupta tataquam reiur enihita tquiam. nemposam nonem exces pero tem ad quisquamenimet doluptat rehentium voles unt ipicimus, es rest fuga. Nemquid est debitateslabori siminus nem hilia pro tem qui nem faciet Ume esti sit que debis et occullis asitiis modioria voles et verum volorrovidus explaqui anditam, tem si beaquat audam namus eatur dolorerciis intibea que poremporem abo. quias mi, sit dit ea quiae. Et et volorum qui ratvoloriassum faccus dignietur. Anissed qui omnis aperiorio berum reptibus abo. Cit am quas volectatur, sition eaturitam mincto quiae maio modiorporro volupturibus incimolum evelique num voluptus aborumquiCesseri tiores aut dolecatur? et verum perumquundae eaquam, que quodi tem quam, cusant audant, quaspit quaerum ne cum fugianivolorrovidus expla quias mi, sit dit ea quiae. Et idis acestem andis ab iumqui blaciunte omnimus mporum, sectiis cum fugia consed modis deet volorum qui rat abo. Cit am quas volectatur, acepremquia nonsequiat porum hariaes debis latur? Uptame et optaspici re magnitatinissition eaturitam incimolum evelique num audis dolupta quisquiam lignam doluptatiunt reptati busdaes dolecus etur? Axim eliquamTiosam volendigende eat. Porerum quatem ulpa vendebit, omnihitaecto qui odia dis ipsa ni andi tem quam et ent apitionse volenimperequibus veles ut volupti dolum eum ipidiossi rehenet eos audi tendae nobit que rerspid utet conserum hiciis eum quam, to endisque nonbea dolestrum aut od explaut occusam lamusti maio mod quibus et in etur? Quia voluptatium nes samusti onsequam, ut laut harum ressitantiatia veni sit odipsam, tem fugitat dolorem ad moluptur quisquiam lignam doluptatiunt eserum quisti re lacculp arciis inis sumque exnos illa quid qui numendi debitiunt volupta ulpa dis ipsa ni Abo. et est, to eium is ut eum lantur, sincia con cum

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TOWhen UO President Prince LucienCampbell brought reporter EricAllen to Eugene in 1912, the UObecame home to one of the rst journalism programs in thenation. For the rest of his life,Allen worked tirelessly toinstitute his vision of aprofessional program combininga broad liberal arts foundationwith practical experience in thecraft. By all accounts, it was asuccess. In 1916, the program waselevated to school status with twofaculty members and a graduatingclass of four. By the end of thedecade, the school boasted awell-regarded faculty, a growingstudent body, and signi cantties to journalists in Eugene andacross the state.

Eric W. Allen Leads New School of Journalism The School of Journalism’s commitment to ethics, innovation, and action started with its rst dean, Eric W. Allen. While working for the Seattle Post Intelligence, the experienced newspaper reporter caught the eye of UO President P.L. Campbell, who drafted Allen in 1912 to head up the university’s infant journalism program. As part of his vision for a professional program, Allen felt it was paramount that J-students get practical experience in a wide variety of journalistic tasks, from reporting to typesetting to printing. To that end, he set up the University Press and a teaching lab. By 1916, what had begun as a single journalism class in 1901 had grown under Allen’s leadership into a full- edged program with ve courses, all taught by Allen and one other faculty member, Colin V. Dyment. That year, the UO Board of Regents raised the edgling program to the status of a School of Journalism — one of the rst in the nation — with Allen as dean. Allen, who had a degree in philosophy, held a strong belief in the virtues of a broad liberal arts background. By the 1930s, he required journalism students to take more than 60 percent of their coursework outside their major. He established the rst journalism graduate program in the Northwest in 1930. Allen held the longest tenure of any dean in the school’s history, serving until his death in 1944. In his nearly 30 years at the helm of the J-School, he saw the study of journalism grow from a mechanical, skills-oriented practice to a professional experience imbued with the kind of knowledge gained only through a complete education. To a great extent, he was a leader in this growth, and his philosophy and dedication to journalistic ethics still guide the SOJC today.1998

Practical Newspaper Training, 1916New Journalism SchoolEmphasizes Hands-On TrainingA big believer in practical experience, Allen insisted his students learn howto accomplish all of the tasks that journalists of the day were responsiblefor. The students in the upper left corner are newswriters getting out storiesfor the Oregon Daily Emerald, Eugene dailies, or class work. The top rightimage is a typesetting class. And the bottom photo shows the J-School’sadvertising class in 1918. J-Students Take Over Eugene Guard As part of the school’s rst practical course, Journalism Laboratory, 100 students each term spent a week publishing the Eugene Guard with no supervision. This class becomes a rite of passage for students for many decades.

Oregana, 1915 Oregana, 1915 Oregana, 1915 2007 Oregana, 1917 The School of Journalism Graduates Its First ClassFour students — (left to right) Grace H. Edgington, BA ’16; Wallace C. Eakin, BA ’16; Merlin Batley, BA ’16; and Henry Heidenreich, BA ’16 —made up the J-School’s inaugural graduating class. Edgington, who returned to the Journalism School as a faculty member, editor of the OldOregon alumni magazine, and dean of the women’s college, later became rst lady of Idaho and wrote several books about life in her adoptedstate. Eakin worked as a reporter and editor for various newspapers across Oregon, Batley traded journalism for a business career in California,and Heidenreich taught secondary education in Arizona. Colin Dyment, J-School’s Second Faculty Member Allen recruited Dyment, a journalist and editor of the Oregon Journal, in 1913 to help him develop his nascent journalism program. The two men were the only full-time faculty teaching ve courses when the program became a school. Dyment left UO in 1917 to teach at the University of Washington and then serve in World War I. He returned in 1920 to be dean of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. Journalism Student Co-Writes UO Fight Song For eight years, the edgling Oregon Marching Band played a borrowed rendition of “On Wisconsin!” at all UO games. Dissatis ed with this embarrassing state of a airs, band director Albert Perfect collaborated with journalism student DeWitt Gilbert, BA ’20, to write “The Mighty Oregon March,” which has lived on ever since as the iconic “Mighty Oregon” ght song.

George S. Turnbull Joins the School of Journalism 1998 1998 Turnbull, a reporter from The Seattle Times, ended up being the J-School’s longest-serving faculty member. He succeeded Allen as the school’s second dean in 1944 and continued to hold o ce hours well into the 1960s. W.F.G. Thacher Brings Advertising to the Curriculum W.F.G. Thacher, a professor of English who also taught advertising, joined the Journalism faculty in 1917. Two years later, at the rst annual Oregon Press Conference, held at the School of Journalism, Thacher said: The fundamental quality of every good ad is sincerity. Simple. Downright honesty. Next to that comes enthusiasm, the quality that makes truth glow and shine. 2001 Lucile McDonald Becomes First Woman Reporter at the Bend Bulletin When McDonald, class of ’23, quit school at 18 to ll one of the many posts vacated by male reporters during World War I, she launched a 70-year trailblazing journalism career that included stints as the rst female copyreader in the Northwest, rst woman on a rewrite copy desk in New York, and rst female United Press night editor in South America. School of Journalism Hosts First Oregon Press ConferenceNewspaper writers, editors, and publishers from around the state convened at the UOcampus once a year for nearly half a century. The longstanding event helped establishthe J-School’s growing connection to Oregon’s professional journalism community.



TOThroughout the School ofJournalism’s rst full decade,it continued to growth in bothenrollment and faculty. Classesover owed into one rundown“shack” after another, until theschool nally secured a buildingof its own to house its rapidlyexpanding student body andtheir newspaper, the OregonDaily Emerald. Meanwhile, theemergence of a consumer culturein the U.S. brought advertising tothe forefront, and the school hiredits rst female professors soonafter women gained the rightto vote. By mid-decade, the UOJ-School was the eighth largest inthe nation.

“The Shack” Adds Extra Space for an Expanding J-SchoolThe rst of two “shacks,” a converted one-story residence moved onto campus behind McClure Hall to provide more room for journalismclasses and the Oregon Emerald. Students of the “Shackdom” era, a ectionately called the “Shack Rats,” had to put up with cramped quarters,rough-hewn furniture, and already obsolete typewriters.Oregon Emerald Goes Daily Emerald Media Group, 1920The student newspaper’s roots reach back to 1891, when the university’s rst student publication was called the Re ector. The publicationchanged its name to the Oregon Emerald in 1900, then to the Oregon Daily Emerald in 1920 in recognition of its move to a weekday daily.For many decades, the paper’s focus was almost exclusively on campus events, such as registration, fraternity and sorority rushing, visitingluminaries, and sports coverage. 

Old Oregon, 1922 Oregon Code of Ethics for Journalism Is Established Colin V. Dyment made history when he composed a code of ethics for Oregon newspapers at the request of the Oregon State Editorial Association. One of the rst documents of its kind in the country, the code’s preamble stated: Of all these agencies the printed word is most widely di used and most powerful.... We therefore pronounce the ethical responsibility of journalism the greatest of the professional responsibilities, and we desire to accept our responsibility, now and hereafter, to the utmost extent that is right and reasonable in our respective circumstances. SOJC Broadside, 1951 Journalism Program Hires Ralph D. Casey Expansion of course o erings and increases in enrollment prompted an enlargement of the overburdened faculty, and Ralph D. Casey, an experienced newspaperman, was hired as an associate professor. Casey later became president of the American Association of Schools and Departments of Journalism, an organization that also elected Dean Eric Allen president in 1923 and 1930.

©The Register-Guard, 1922 | Second J-School “Shack” Burns to the GroundWhen a gusty July wind swept across a burn pile of discarded railroad ties, the old,open-air gymnasium that was converted in 1921 to provide extra space for the School ofJournalism went up in ames. University President P.L. Campbell directed re ghtinge orts from the roof of the rst, smaller shack that housed the historic Washingtonhandpress that’s now located in Allen Hall. When it looked like the rst shack wouldalso catch re, Professor (later dean) George Turnbull almost single-handedly savedthe press by dismantling it and passing pieces out the windows to waiting hands.Oregana, 1922 Washington Handpress in Allen Hall, 1955 2002 Politician Matthew Harris Ellsworth Graduates Ellsworth, BS ’22, returned to his alma mater in 1928 as an associate professor for one year before purchasing an interest in the Roseburg News-Review, of which he eventually became editor and publisher. But by the 1940s, he traded in journalism for politics when he became an Oregon state senator. He later served as a U.S. congressman, and President Eisenhower appointed him to a two-year term as chairman of the United States Civil Service Commission in 1957.

| Students Mingle at the Journalism Jamboree In the J-School’s early years, it hosted the annual Journalism Jamboree for the students, faculty, and alumni of both University of Oregon and Oregon State University. It was traditionally a masquerade with both men and women, but it was strictly a no-date a air. The annual dance typically followed the homecoming parade and bon re and was the reason many students decided to major in journalism in the rst place. | J-School Breaks Ground on a New BuildingIn June, Dean Eric Allen o ciated over the start of construction of a new, three-story, brick building to house the rapidly growing Journalism School. BehindAllen in this photo are the J-School’s faculty, including (left to right) Ralph D.Casey, George Turnbull, Grace Edgington, Robert Hall, W.F.G. Thacher, ColinDyment, and William G. Hale. Standing behind the group is McClure Hall, and tothe right is the rst journalism “shack.”

| Women Flock to JournalismAs women across the nation gained unprecedented freedoms, including the right to vote and hold white-collar jobs, several female studentstook their seats in journalism classes alongside their male classmates at the J-School. As you can see in this page torn from a student’sscrapbook, some of the new journalists-in-training sport bobbed hair, considered by many a symbol of women’s rebellion against sexisttraditions. 2007 | Journalism School Hires First Female Faculty(left) Lillian Tingle, Oregon Daily Journal, 1913 Although the very rst journalism course taught at the university in 1901 was led by a(right) Grace Edgington, Oregana 1915/16 woman, Luella Clay Carson, it wasn’t until the 1920s that the School of Journalism o cially added women to its faculty. Lillian Tingle was hired to be a professor of “home economics journalism,” and Grace Edgington, BA ’16 — one of the school’s rst graduates — served as an assistant professor of rhetoric and the acting dean of women.

| The New Journalism Building Opens for BusinessThe new Journalism Building, which was completed in time for fall term, also housed the Chemistry Department on the top oor.Built near the site of the shack that burned down the year before, the new building eventually became part of Allen Hall in the1950s. A prayer delivered at the dedication said: Bless this school of journalism. Inspire both teachers and students with high hopes and worthy purposes. Give them a right judgment in the use of this great power entrusted to them. Stir them to so prepare themselves that they may ful ll their course in this life with honor, delity, and integrity that the way of men shall be that of righteousness.

Western Novelist Ernest Haycox Graduates Voted one of the 24 best Western writers of the 20th century, Haycox, BA ’23, penned two dozen novels and about 300 short stories. Fans of his work, including Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway, read his stories in Collier’s Weekly and The Saturday Evening Post. Several of his books were turned into popular Western movies, including Stagecoach, Union Pacti c, and Montana.Oregana, 1923 2000 Oregana, 1923 | Newspaper Editor E. Palmer Hoyt Graduates 1998 Hoyt, BA ’23, joined the sta of The Oregonian in 1926 as a copyeditor and became its editor and publisher 16 years later. In 1946, he left to serve as editor and publisher of The Denver Post, which he transformed into one of the best papers in the nation. During Hoyt’s 55-year career, he was known as an outspoken critic of Senator Joseph McCarthy and one of the rst to argue for federal aid to education. | UO School of Journalism Joins the AASDJ UO School of Journalism Ranks in Nation’s Top 10 The UO School of Journalism was one of only 18 schools to be accepted into the American Association of Schools and Departments of Journalism (AASDJ). When it was only 10 years old, the UO’s J-School earned The AASDJ, now known as the Association for Education in Journalism and a place among the biggest players in the nation. The top Mass Communication (AEJMC), was quickly recognized as an organization of nine member schools, in order of enrollment, included the elite journalism education programs in the country. In 1947, the AEJMC University of Missouri (236 students), University of developed standards and a system of accreditation to bring prestige to its Washington (226), Iowa State (199), University of members, and in 1948, it accredited the rst journalism programs, including Wisconsin (178), University of Kansas (157), Columbia (151), the UO’s J-School. University of Michigan (142), University of Oregon (136), and Ohio State (104).

Oregana, 1927 | General Herbert B. Powell Graduates Powell, BS ’27, worked only brie y as a reporter at the Bend Bulletin before joining the U.S. Army as a commissioned second lieutinant. One of two four-star generals to graduate from UO, Powell rose quickly through the ranks during his 43-year military career. He called on his journalism training to win a national award for public relations achievement for cementing relations between the Army and the civilian community at Fort Benning, Georgia. When he retired from active duty in 1943, President John F. Kennedy, whom he advised during the Cuban Missile Crisis, appointed him Ambassador to New Zealand. Ad Exec George Weber Oregana, 1929 Attends J-School 2004 2000 As a young advertising major, Weber, class of ’29, won a summer internship at a Portland agency, where he met Arlyn Cole and Mac Wilkins. The two men were so impressed with Weber’s promise that he became their rst employee when they opened Mac Wilkins and Cole. Weber paid the favor forward by nurturing young talent in summer internships and entry-level positions throughout the 40 years he worked for the compamy, which was renamed Cole & Weber. As vice president, general manager, president, and nally chairman of the board, Cole helped turn the ad agency into one of the largest in the West. UO Typography Class Gains International Acclaim The British Museum selected Education & The State, a book produced by the J-School’s Advanced Typography class, as one of 20 outstanding publications in American printing. Education & The State, 1927 courtesy UO Knight Library



TOThe Great Depression was hardon all American institutions, andthe School of Journalism was noexception. The J-School nearly closedits doors forever when the OregonDepartment of Higher Educationvoted to send its students to theUniversity of Washington. Whenstudents, faculty, and champions ofjournalism from around the staterose to the school’s defense, however,the board reversed its decision andsaved the school. It was a victoryfor everyone as many reveredjournalism graduates emerged, suchas Sports Illustrated editor RichardW. Johnston and pioneering femalejournalist Laurie Johnston, namesakeof the Johnston Lecture, and belovedOregon Governor Tom McCall.

Emerald Media Group, 1932 | Allen Insists That J-Students Get a Broad Liberal Arts Education By the 1930s, journalism students are required to take more than 60 percent of their coursework outside of the major due to Eric Allen’s strong belief in the bene t of a liberal arts education. Allen says: Our conception of training on journalism includes the two items of professional facility (or training) and general understanding of the subject matter of important news (or education). We can conceive that a good newspaperman is not only one who can ll his job with speed and competency and good judgment, but one who has an intelligent grasp upon social and economic and political problems ... and who is able to evaluate news and interpret it in the light of this knowledge. | Oregon Board of Higher Education Recommends Shutting Down the J-School Senate Bill 192 authorizes the Oregon Board of Higher Education to “reduce or eliminate duplication” in courses. The board surveys state o erings and recommends that the UO dismantle the School of Journalism and transfer its students to the University of Washington.

Emerald Media Group, 1932 | Oregon Board of Higher Education Convinced to Keep the Journalism School OpenA letter to The Oregonian from a group of alumni after the state board closes the School of Journalism argues the school’s merits: It was more than a school where classes were attended, knowledge handed out, examinations taken. It was a spirit... Within these walls hovered a spirit of congeniality and vigor, of appreciation of common work, thus striving to attain ideals of work, thus striving to attain ideals of the right way to live as well as the right way to write.On April 30, 1932, The State Board of Higher Education reverses its decision.

| Senator Richard Neuberger, class of ’35 Showing an interest in politics even his college years, Neuberger was elected the rst underclassman editor of the Emerald. After graduation, he wrote for numerous national publications, including The Oregonian, and authored several non ction books. Neuberger was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives in 1941, the State Senate in 1948, and the U.S. Senate in 1954, although he died before he could complete his rst term. 1998 2004 | Laurie Johnston Graduates A longtime pioneer for women in journalism, Laurie Johnston, BA ’36, was honored by Sigma Delta Chi, the men’s journalism honorary, in her sophomore year. After graduation, she was one of the few female war correspondents at Pearl Harbor. She went on to make a name for herself in the traditional male newsrooms at Newsweek and The New York Times, where she earned a reputation for the wit and humanity of her work. | Oregon Governor Tom McCall GraduatesOregana, 1936 Before entering politics in 1949, Tom McCall, BA ’36, was a newspaper reporter, radio and TV news analyst, and political commentator. During his two terms as Oregon’s governor, McCall helped create a 1998 framework for land use and environmental consciousness that helped save Oregon’s beaches, produce the nation’s rst state land-use planning law and bottle bill, and clean up the Willamette River.

| Richard W. Johnston, class of ’36 Old Oregon, 1935After cutting his teeth at The Register-Guard and Portland Journal, Johnston was a WWII correspondent 2001 Oregana, 1936for United Press. After the war, he joined Time magazine, then became text editor of Life magazine. In 20011954, Johnston became one of the founding sta members of Sports Illustrated, which eventually namedhim executive editor. Johnston’s wife, fellow SOJC Hall of Achievement honoree Laurie Johnston,established the Richard W. Johnston and Laurie Johnston Lecture in honor of her late husband in 1984.SOJC Revives the High School Press ConventionEric Allen (standing on far left) was part of the student/faculty committee that planned the on-again,o -again High School Press Convention, held on the UO campus in 1935 after a three-year hiatus.The committee also included (left to right) Peggy Chessman Lucas, BA ’36; William E. Phipps, BS ’35,previous editor of the Emerald; Henriette Horak, BA ’36; Robert Lucas, BS ’36, editor of the Emerald;Marge Petsch, BA ’36; and Stanley Robe, BA ’36, MA ’39. | Eleanor Aldrich Forrester, class of ’37Eleanor Aldrich Forrester stayed true to her newspaper family’s tradition in journalism throughout herlife, from her years on her high school newspaper, to launching a North Bend weekly with her husbandBud Forrester, to taking over the East Oregonian when her father died. During more than 20 years atthe EO, Eleanor’s business acumen complemented Bud’s talent as a journalist and led to success andexpansion when the Forresters, along with their sons and Eleanor’s sister, took on The Daily Astorianand several other papers in Oregon and Washington.

| Oregon Newspaper Roll of Honor Established Eric Allen was one of the rst luminaries of Oregon journalism named to the Oregon Newspaper Roll of Honor. The roll, which was a list of the winners of the Amos E. Voorhies Award, was established by the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association in honor of the semi-centennial of Grants Pass publisher and “dean of editors” Amos Voorhies’ involvement in Oregon jourrnalism. | Printer John Henry Nash Joins the FacultyWhen world-renowned ne-art printer John Henry Nash—known for his great talent and ery temperament—fell on hard times during the Depression,he struck a deal with UO President Donald Erb to take a half-time appointment as a lecturer in typography for $2,000 a year, which would applytoward the $50,000 purchase of his printing equipment and library of of rare books and prints. Although it was supposed to be a 25-year contract, theuniversity backed out when the option lapsed in 1943. Nash sold his library for $100,000 instead to a buyer who gave it to the University of California,Berkeley. During his few years on the faculty, Nash had little contact with students but was remembered as an irascible but likeable gure.

George S. Turnbull Publishes History of Oregon NewspapersBefore he succeeded Allen as the J-School’s dean, Professor Turnbull lled much of his non-teaching time with researching and writing abouthis favorite topic, journalism in Oregon. The content included in his rstbook can be traced back to 1923, not long after Turnbull began editingOregon Exchanges, a UO J-School publication targeted toward “Oregonnewspaper folk.” | Turnbull Honored at Banquet More than 100 giants of journalism from around the university and the state gathered to appreciate George Turnbull for his 23 years with the J-School and congratulate him on the publication of his History of Oregon Newspapers. Among those in attendance were his mentor, Eric Allen (standing, second from right), and Harris Ellsworth, BS ’22 (seated on right), publisher of the Roseburg News-Review and one of Turnbull’s former students.



TOFor the J-School and the world, the1940s were a time of transition.As legions of American men headoverseas to serve in World War II,women take the reins for the rsttime in businesses, newspapers, andclassrooms across the nation. Beforethe troops come home, the schoolloses its founder and champion, EricAllen. Allen’s longtime colleague,George S. Turnbull, steps in to guidethe students, many of whom will goon to make history despite wartimeinterruptions to their education.By the end of the decade, thecurriculum fully enters the age ofradio, and the school becomes oneof only 35 in the nation to achieveaccreditation.

Student Mentor Alyce Oregana, 1940 Sheetz Long Graduates 2002 2006 With Alyce Sheetz Long, BS ’40, MS ’63, at the helm, South Eugene High School’s student newspaper is named one of the best in the nation. Many of her SEHS students who go into journalism credit Long for her extraordinary mentoring and encouragement. She became an assistant professor in the J-School in 1969 as well as editor of Old Oregon. Sports Writer George Pasero Graduates Pasero, BS ’40, whose sixty-year newspaper career began at UO, served as sports editor of the Oregon Journal before becoming a sports columnist for The Oregonian. The Oregon Sports Hall of Famer and seven-time Oregon Sports Writer of the Year ran a department, covered a beat, and wrote a daily column for forty-one years.Oregonian, 1941 | Pearl Harbor Attack Launches U.S. and the UO into World War II Local presses couldn’t keep up with the details of the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, as newspaper extra editions lay in heaps, already outdated by radio news ashes throughout the day. That week, the Emerald’s front page featured open letters from sixteen Japanese-American students denouncing the attack and asserting: “Being born, reared, and educated in the United States, we are American citizens, and regardless of facial characteristics, consider ourselves to be just as American as our fellow students.”

Oregana, 1942 | PR, News Legend Buck Buchwach Graduates Buchwach, BS ’42, was a legendary reporter—and eventually editor-in-chief—for The Honolulu Advertiser. But he was just as well known for his public relations feats, including convincing Hawaii’s governor to march down Bishop Street with a Dixieland band and a block-long spool of paper, which 120,000 people signed in support of statehood. Oregana, 1939 2007 | Academic Leader Lyle M. Nelson Graduates Nelson, BA ’42, launched his nearly forty-year academic career at the UO. Perhaps his biggest contribution to the eld was establishing the John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford, which has granted scores of professional journalists a year of study to deepen their understanding of issues shaping the world. 1999 2003 | Professor Warren C. Price Joins the Faculty Known for his impeccable standards, strong opinions, and gru —but kind—disposition, Price spent more than a quarter-century in Allen Hall teaching journalism and serving twice as acting dean. He also kept his hand in the news business by editing Sunday Register-Guard editions and other papers in the summer.

Oregana, 1942 | Star Reporter Ann Sullivan Graduates When Ann Sullivan, BA ’42, began her fty-one-year career at The Oregonian right after graduation, she Oregana, 1942 was the only woman in a newsroom su ering a wartime shortage of men. By the time the war ended, she had earned a reputation as a star reporter. Her coverage of the 1968 Oregon State Penitentiary riot earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination, and she won several awards for science writing before retiring in 1993. 2009 Helen Angell Kitchen Becomes First Woman Editor of the Emerald Helen Angell, BA ’42, made J-School history when she took the paper’s reins her senior year. After graduation, she worked for Reader’s Digest for two years before heading to Egypt as a researcher for the U.S. O ce of Strategic Services, a predecessor of the CIA. She won an award from the Secretary of State for outstanding service in 1958 and eventually became one of the nation’s most respected and widely published experts on African a airs. 1998 | Charles Hulten Leaves UO for the U.S. Government Eric Allen brought in Hulten, a talented reporter from Wisconsin, as a part-time instructor in 1934, and he quickly moved up to associate professor. During the war, he was appointed to the U.S. Bureau of the Budget before moving to the O ce of War Information and then UNESCO in Paris.

Mary E. Conn Brown Elected First WomanOregana, 1926 President of Oregon Press ConferenceOld Oregon, 1942 When the J-School hosted its twenty-fourth annual Oregon Press Conference, it elected Mary Conn Brown, BA ’26, editor of the Redmond Spokesman, to the presidency. Brown was known for her adventurous nature as much as for her journalism. According to legend, she climbed mountains, ew airplanes, swore like a sailor, and drank like a soldier, all while running the Spokesman for 40 years. | Dean Allen Supports Gas Rationing When UO President Donald Erb asked students to leave their “pleasure cars” at home in response to gas rationing e orts during the war, Dean Allen lent his support by being photographed on a bicycle—a contraption the Emerald called “somewhat of a novelty.” Meanwhile, many students ooded local farmers with requests to use horses and buggies. 1998 War Refugee Henriette Horak Joins Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps A missionary brought Horak, BA ’36, to the U.S. from her native Czechoslovakia at 15 after her parents were killed during World War I. After graduating from the J-School, she worked at the San Francisco Chronicle, edited the Slav-American News, managed the all-male advertising sta of the California Prune Growers Association, and joined the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, where she rose to the rank of third o cer.

National Japanese American Student Relocation Council Keeps Students Out of Internment Camps When the War Relocation Administration was created, nearly 110,000 American citizens of Japanese descent on the West Coast were ordered to evacuate or relocate to internment camps. At the beginning of the 1941-42 school year, 22 Japanese-American students were enrolled; by the end of the school year, only a dozen remained on campus. Dean of Personnel Administration Karl W. Orthank, BA ’13, MA ’15, a former editor of the student newspaper and Oregana, worked with the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council to transfer at least 10 UO students to universities and colleges outside the evacuation zone. | Oregon Newspaper Hall of Famer Wes Sullivan Graduates When Sullivan, BS ’43, was called to serve in the Air Force, Dean Allen helped him graduate early. After the war, Sullivan launched a 56-year career with the Salem Statesman-Journal that included stints as editor-in-chief and chairman of the editorial board. He also served on the school’s Journalism Advancement Council and helped build the Sullivan Reporting Lab in Allen Hall in memory of his wife and his father. Trailblazer Milly 2010 Oregana, 1942 Wohler GraduatesOregana, 1943 After spending most of the 1950s balancing freelance writing with motherhood, Wohler, BS ’43—known as the “Grand Dame of The Oregonian”—became a full-time reporter for the paper in 1966. By 1980, she was the rst woman to hold an upper-management position. She won numerous awards for section editing and travel writing, but her biggest impact was as a trailblazer who wrote about battered women when the issue was taboo and about the women’s movement before others took notice of it. 2005 | Harry Schenk Leaves UO for State Government O ce Oregana, 1942 Schenk, BA ’33, began his career in the publishing industry as business manager of the Emerald. In 1938, he became an assistant professor of journalism and manager of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, but he gave up both posts after only ve years to become Oregon’s assistant secretary of state.

Old Oregon, 1944 World Correspondent Arno Dosch-Fleurot Interned by Nazis UO alum and globe-trotting newspaperman Dosch-Fleurot, BL 1901, is said to have introduced the phrase “Red Terror” in the U.S. media. He led an exciting life as a journalist in Europe—including a narrow escape during the Russian Revolution and a trip to Libya with Mussolini—until he was interned in France alongside other journalists, diplomats, and Red Cross workers. Margaret Cuddeback Old Oregon, 1944 Released from Japanese Prison Camp After her time in the J-School, Cuddeback’s, class of ’30, search for a job in social work took her to Japan, where she worked for ten years before taking a job at the University of Shanghai in China. In 1943, she was interned at a concentration camp with other American, British, and Dutch nationals. During her ten months of internment—which she describes as relatively comfortable—she kept busy as a teacher, interpreter, and monitor of single women. ‘Father of West Coast Advertising’ Don Belding Attends UO Belding, class of ’44, was already an advertising VIP when he attended the J-School in his 40s. Nineteen years after launching his career as an unpaid o ce boy, he co-founded Foote, Cone & Belding, which served such clients as Walt Disney, Howard Hughes, Sunkist, and Max 1998 Factor. Belding also directed the original Smokey the Bear forest re prevention campaign. His namesake Belding Awards still recognize the best creative in the West.

Daily Emerald, 1943 | Sally Allen Dies Dean Allen’s wife, who was beloved around campus, was a successful playwright, poet, and novelist. Among the many UO luminaries who paid tribute at the time of her death was W.F.G. Thacher, who said: She was great in her capacity for sympathy, for compassion, for kindness. Her greatness was of the heart as well as of the mind. ... Few have lived so richly as did Sally Allen; few could leave so rich a heritage of devoted friendship. | Dean Eric Allen Dies 1998 Allen, who served as dean from 1916 until his death, remains the longest-serving dean in J-School history. An excerpt from an editorial on the death of Eric Allen in the Salem Capital-Journal, March 7, 1944, reads: His personal interest in his students extended far beyond the classroom and out into the world of their chosen profession. He was a friend and counselor to whom they could always turn. He was a student of newspapers, of life, literature and the arts. But above all, he was human, friendly, and sympathetically understanding.Publishers Auxiliary, 1944

George S. Turnbull Becomes Second Old Oregon, 1974 Dean of the School of Journalism Turnbull, who remained dean until his retirement in 1948, is credited with helping set the direction of journalism education in Oregon and, to a great extent, for the nation. As dean, he acquired more personnel and equipment, including a telegraph machine to provide daily press reports for news editing classes. He kept regular o ce hours until his death in the early 1970s and remained an active part of the journalism program longer than any other faculty member in the school’s history. 1998 | WWII Quonset Hut Becomes the J-School’s Latest ShackBy the mid-1940s, McClure Hall was covered in ivy, run down, and overcrowded. To house the journalism over ow, a WWII-erawood and metal Quonset hut is erected beside the building.

Oregana, 1947 Oregonian, 1945 | Japan Surrenders and World War II Ends News of Japan’s surrender rst broke in the U.S. via radio around midnight of August 15, 1945. The nation—which had suddenly become a global superpower—was thrust out of the Great Depression and the uncertainty of wartime into an unprecedented period of peace and prosperity. Journalism students had much to look forward to as they entered an era of expanded international press relations. 1998 2000 Professor Roy Paul Nelson Graduates ALUMNI MEMORY Nelson, BS ’47, MS ’55, became one of the Alfred “Ted” Goodwin, BA ’ , JD ’ nation’s leading authorities on design and Senior Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals magazine layout as well as one of the J-School’s most popular professors during his nearly 30 years on the faculty. He was also a freelance editorial cartoonist whose works appeared in papers across the country and in many UO publications. When I graduated, I went to work for William Old Oregon, 1960 Old Oregon, 1960 Tugman at the Register-Guard for two years, then continued part time for three more years as a Saturday-night front-page editor for the Sunday paper while attending law school during the week under Dean Hollis. I am proud of my Oregon journalism degree and believe that my early training in discovering and evaluating facts as a reporter helped me with the success I achieved later as a lawyer and judge. I cherish the memory of Eric Allen, George Turnbull, Warren Price, and others of the J-School of the 1940s. 2002

Photo courtesy of Maryan Roe | Turnbull Retires as Dean but Remains Active in J-School ALUMNI MEMORY Although Turnbull holds the o ce of dean for only four years, his ties to and in uence on the School Mary Howard Roe, BA ’ of Journalism—which he joined in 1917 and did not leave until his death in the 1970s—are stronger than perhaps any other faculty member in the school’s history, save Dean Allen. His students, as evidenced I recall my great shock when I discovered in the alumni letters above, widely regard him as kind and competent, both as a teacher and as a dean. cockroaches crawling out of the cracked cement oor of the shack at night when I Cli ord E. Weigle was night editor. We were called the “Three Becomes Dean O’Clock Club” because we worked so late Weigle, a former newspaperman and journalism nishing the layout, composing type, and faculty member at Stanford—where he would proofreading. Not many men were around return after only two years at UO—takes up the during World War II, so when we walked dean’s mantle when Turnbull retires. Weigle home at night, if we saw any man around, places greater emphasis on the graduate we would turn in at some other house and program and on radio. Students in radio courses pretend that’s where we were going. Emerald during the 1949-50 school year assist regularly sta ers also got to publish the Eugene Guard in the preparation of programs for Eugene radio for a day, and I was city editor. It stands out stations and for state-owned station KOAC. in my memory because the day we published it in April 1945, President Franklin RooseveltOregana, 1950 had just died, and I wrote the front-page story about Vice President Harry Truman ascending to the presidency.

School of Journalism Gains Accreditation Of the 300 journalism programs in the nation, the UO J-School becomes one of only 35 to achieve accreditation from the American Council on Education for Journalism. The school’s approved study sequences include news and editorial writing, radio news reporting, and advertising—business background. Old Oregon, 1948 2012 Oregana, 1947 | State Senator Ted Hallock GraduatesHallock, BS ’48, entered the UO as a prelaw student in 1940 but enlisted shortly after Pearl Harbor.After the war, he changed his major to journalism—a good decision, based on his fast success. He wonthe Peabody Award as a radio talk show host only four years after graduating. By 1959, he was ready toswitch gears and founded the Hallock Agency, the longest continuously operating, locally owned adagency in Portland. In 1963, inspired by his coverage of elections, he won a State Senate seat that heheld for twenty years, during which he passed landmark environmental legislation.

Oregana, 1948 Sports Promoter photo courtesy Ed Artzt Harry Glickman Graduates Known as the “father of pro sports” in Oregon, Glickman, BA ’48, graduated with dreams of becoming a sports writer. But when a job with The Oregonian fell through, he decided to try sports promotion instead. In 1960, he co-founded the Portland Buckaroos, one of the most successful franchises in minor league hockey history. He is best known, however, for helping to found the Portland Trailblazers in 1970 and serving as its president from 1987 to 1994. Glickman was inducted into the Oregon 1998 Sports Hall of Fame in 1986 and received the ALUMNI MEMORY UO Distinguished Alumni Award in 1998. In Ed Artzt, BS ’ 2016, Glickman was honored by the UO with a Ret. Chairman and CEO, The Proctor & Gamble Co. 1999 Pioneer Award. My class was one of the last postwar classes comprised mostly of returning Robert S. Reed WWII veterans. Most of my freshman Graduates classmates were grizzled war vets about 8-10 years older than I was. It was a time of After learning the newspaper business from transition—the nal days of the Quonset every angle over 40 years—as a reporter, hut, where we learned copywriting to the editor, ad salesman, and owner—Reed, BS tune of a hickory stick (the most valuable ’49, became president and CEO of Tribune course in my four years at UO), took the Company’s syndication arm. During his twenty-year tenure, Tribune became the rst courses in advertising copywriting and most respected syndication company in the radio news writing taught in the J-School, newspaper industry, expanding distribution and started the rst UO radio station, for such personalities as Andy Rooney and for KWAX. Our J-School was behind the curve of comic strips like Dick Tracy. In 1994, he retired change already underway in the profession. to start a comics pagination business that Television news was big in most major served 350 newspapers with daily comics. U.S. markets, and we were just getting started in radio! But it was headed in the 2005 Oregana, 1949 right direction. The quality of instruction was terri c, and the disciplines I learned at Oregon served me well throughout my career in business.



TOThe postwar years were good to theSchool of Journalism. When J-studentsand faculty moved into the new EricW. Allen Hall — one of the largestjournalism education buildings inthe country — they gained access tostate-of-the-art amenities includinga movie auditorium and a radio/TVbroadcast studio, where studentsapplied the school’s expandingbroadcast curriculum. In the midst ofthe ad industry’s heyday, news andradio ad executive Willard Thompsonhelped the school’s advertisingprogram become one of the beston the West Coast. And by the timeCharles Duncan took over as dean in1956, the J-School had a reputation forplacing every graduate in a job beforecommencement.

Gordon A. Sabine Takes Over as Dean Sabine, who joined the faculty in 1948, was a driving force in the campaign to build the new Allen Hall and in strengthening the link between the J-School and high school journalism throughout the state. During Sabine’s tenure, the annual High School Press Conference welcomed nearly 1,000 students each year to campus for journalism workshops and competitions. First Campus Radio Station Goes On Air The FCC authorized a campus radio station, KDUK (later changed to KWAX), where students could work for credit and experience. In 1952, the Oregon Association of Broadcasters entered into a joint arrangement with the School of Journalism to operate out of the school, where it was based until the late 1970s. Oregana, 1950 Foreign Correspondent James N. Wallace Graduates2004 Wallace, BS ’50, spent 30 years chasing down stories around the world as a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and U.S. News & World Report. He set up the WSJ’s Beirut bureau in 1957, then went to Cuba, which eventually expelled him. He’s been stationed in Tokyo, Moscow, Beijing, and Indochina, where he covered the Vietnam War. And when he returned home in 1983, he was senior editor of international news for U.S. News & World Report and served on the UO 1999 Journalism Advancement Council. Utility CEO Robert H. Short Graduates Short, BS ’50, may well be the only utility CEO to have a journalism degree. He started his career as city editor for the Klamath Falls Herald and News, then was news editor at KUGN Radio in Eugene before becoming public information director at Portland General Electric. He worked his way up to vice president in 1964 and president in 1977 before retiring in 1988 as chairman of the board and CEO of the utility. For his community service work, Short earned the UO Distinguished Service Medal in 1986.

WSJ’s Fred Taylor Graduates Oregana, 1950Taylor, BS ’50, worked for The Wall Street Journal for 30 years, rst as a copyreader at the New York bureau, then as a reporter. From there, he moved up theranks to Detroit bureau chief, assistant managing editor in charge of West Coastoperations, managing editor, and, nally, executive editor. He started the WSJ’s“Labor Leader” column in 1964, covered the Pentagon in Washington in the late1960s, and oversaw the production and content of The Wall Street Journal Report,a nationally syndicated TV show. He was so respected in the industry that, afterhis retirement in 1986, he was selected to be a Pulitzer juror four times andchairman of the Pulitzer jury for biography/autobiography twice. Poet, Teacher, Nun Madeline DeFrees Graduates DeFrees, MA ’51, was Sister Mary Gilbert when she attended the J-School. She taught 1998 school throughout Oregon before getting her bachelor’s and master’s degrees, then published several books and poetry collections Oregana, 1951 while teaching at universities throughout the nation. In 1973, she was dispensed of her religious vows so she could dedicate herself to her writing. In 1981, she won a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and her poetry collection Blue Dusk, published in 2001, earned the prestigious Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and a2013 Washington Book Award. Popular Professor Ken Metzler Graduates Ken Metzler and Don Smith at the Daily Emerald o ce 2008Metzler, BS ’51, who enrolled at UO just as WWII veterans were returning to campus, workedon the Emerald, freelanced articles for The Oregonian, was a member of Sigma Delta Chi,and roomed with Fred Taylor. After graduation, he returned to UO as editor of Old Oregonand as a part-time faculty member in the J-School. He moved into Allen Hall full time in1971 after completing a master’s degree at Northwestern. Metzler was a popular magazineteacher known for his enthusiastic teaching style and door prizes. He was also the authorof Confrontation, a crticically acclaimed account of the UO in the late 1960s, and CreativeInterviewing, a groundbreaking textbook on the craft of interviewing.

Old Oregon, 1954 Procter & Gamble CEO Ed Artzt Graduates ALUMNI MEMORY Old Oregon, 1952 Artzt’s, BS ’51, J-student friends made fun of him for Larry Hobart, MED ’ pursuing advertising, but his highly successful career and his impact on advertising and marketing proved the In 1952, the Oregon Daily Emerald sta was housed wisdom of his decision. He started at Procter & Gamble’s in a World War II Quonset hut — a structure that ad agency as an account executive in 1953 and worked his looked like a longitudinal half-slice of a huge way up to chairman and CEO of the company by 1990. metal pipe. The tube was located right next door Artzt was elected to the National Sales and National to the J-School. We called it “the Shack.” Inside Advertising halls of fame and won the UO Pioneer Award were phones, manual typewriters, copy paper, a in 1996. 4x5 Speed Graphic camera, and a rotating crew of student reporters, copyeditors, columnists, 1998 cartoonists, and editors who covered panty raids, fraternity rushing scandals, campus speakers, Harold Hughes, First Eric student government, and Oregon sports. W. Allen Memorial Fellow That fall, the Emerald endorsed Adlai Stevenson Hughes, city editor of the Astorian-Budget, was chosen for president in a front-page editorial. Students from among a group of working newspapermen for put the paper together across the street at the the newly established $1,000 Eric W. Allen Memorial University Press, where “hot type” from linotype Fellowship, donated by the Eugene Register-Guard in machines was leaded and set in forms and honor of the school’s rst dean. headlines manually put in place from type boxes. Robert B. Frazier Oregon’s Journalism School, headed by Dean Named Nieman Fellow Gordon Sabine, provided the grounding that made a career of the written word a reality: Each year since 1940, Harvard University grants a language accuracy and timeliness. The curriculum Nieman Fellowship to a midcareer journalist to facilitate encouraged academic dipping into many a year spent re ecting and honing skills. Frazier, BA ’48, disciplines, including science, history, political was a reporter at the Eugene Register-Guard when he science, philosophy, and literature. The lessons traveled to Harvard to study sociology and psychology. learned were applied in the Shack but carried over Frazier would return from Harvard to a distinguished to a lifetime of work. career on the Register-Guard editorial pages where he helped shape the public conversation in Oregon for a Storytelling was the message we got in the Shack. quarter-century. Use the inverted pyramid, let the lead set the tone, keep it tight but make it bright. I practiced these lessons as a reporter at the Oregon Statesman in Salem and carried them forward in a political life in Washington, D.C., where writing was an essential tool in public debate and every participant had a story to tell. It also stood me in good stead when I wrote my 2013 historic novel Basalt City, the story of the Ku Klux Klan in Oregon in the 1920s. 2000