Editorial cartooning course starts at Iowa State University
SUI launches a first of its kind editorial cartooning course in February to teach students to interpret the news through cartoons. Instructor Dick Spencer notes artistic ability not required. twenty two students enrolled, split between art and journalism. The class outputs one editorial weekly for The Daily Iowan and Frivol magazine, with reprints by major papers.
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Dick Spencer
Spencer
Daily Iowan
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Des Moines
Look Magazine
SUI Information Service
Journalism grads fill many positions in field
SUI journalism graduates have found jobs as teachers reporters and PR personnel, per the job placement service. Gail E. Myers and Jean Shoquist, both MA in journalism, join ISTC Cedar Falls in public relations roles. Other grads, including Robert McGranahan Jim Wilt George Hanrahan John Carpenter Neal Black Bill McBride Max Elder Carroll Thompson, hold or pursue journalism vacancies across universities newspapers and public relations offices.
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SUI
Gail E. Myers
Jean Shoquist
Iowa State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
Miss Shoquist
ISTC
Arizona
Myers
Daily Iowan
Istc Bureau of Public Relations and Information Services
Robert McGranahan
Jim Wilt
George Hanrahan
Wilt
Des Moines Tribune
Hanrahan
Des Moines Register
John Carpenter
Carroll E. Thompson
Ed Murphy Wins AP Feature Contest in 1948
Ed Murphy a 1948 graduate of the SUI school of journalism won first place in a feature story contest from Texas Associated Press member newspapers. His winning piece covered a hen laying several eggs in one day. Murphy, then director of public information at Sam Houston State Teachers College Huntsville Texas, was a graduate assistant in news workshop while pursuing his M A. dur ing his last semester.
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Ed Murphy
SUI School of Journalism
Texas Associated Press
Murphy
Sam Houston State Teachers College
Huntsville
Texas
SUI graduate wins reporting award for court coverage
Frank Holowach, M A graduate of the SUI school of journalism in 1948, has won first place in the Pennsylvania Newspapers association annual contest for court reporting. As Titusville Herald city editor, he was cited for his February sentencing story on Crawford county defendants.
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Frank Holowach
SUI School of Journalism
Pennsylvania Newspapers Association
Titusville
Herald
Holowach
Crawford County
Advertising sequence trains students for agency and media careers
The school of journalism ads program prepares students for roles in advertising agencies newspapers retail advertising departments and PR firms. Courses include mass communications principles copywriting advertising layout typography and advertising campaigns with staff experience on The Daily Iowan. Leaders include Prof John V Lund Eugene Harlan and Harry Ainsworth.
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Daily Iowan
Quence
John V. Lund
University of California
Lund
Eugene Harlan
Harlan and Hunt
Harry Ainsworth
Gimbel’s
New York
Alumnus Joins Reader’s Digest Quotes Section
John Mooney, a late thirties SUI journalism alumnus who married an Iowa City girl, was featured in Reader's Digest Quotes. His line insists there is nothing wrong with being a self-made man if the job isn’t finished too soon. The Mooneys reside in Salt Lake City where he works for the Salt Lake City Telegram.
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John Mooney
SUI School of Journalism
Iowa City
Reader’s Digest
Mooney
Betty Boiler
Mrs. Boiler
Towa City
Meooneys
Salt Lake City
Professor Lund Named Head of Advertising at SUI
Prof John Y Lund of the University of California takes charge of SUI's advertising sequence in September succeeding Prof Philip W Burton who left for Syracuse university school of journalism. Moeller cites Lund as an outstanding advertising teacher and author of Newspaper Advertising whose text is used by SUI and 60 other institutions.
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John Y. Lund
University of California
Lund
Philip W. Burton
Syracuse University School of Journalism
Leslie G. Moeller
SUI School of Journalism
California
University of California Department of Journalism
University of Washington
University of Oslo
Norway
Camas
Wash
Post-Record
Admission paths for journalism graduate programs outlined
The article describes two Master of Arts tracks in mass communications and a PhD route at the School of Journalism. One MA type requires 30 hours with a thesis, the other 38 hours without a thesis, typically spanning two semesters plus a summer session. PhD committees include five members.
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Sion
School of Journalism
Mass
Arthur Barnes
Ad fraternities active at Iowa
The two national advertising fraternities Alpha Delta Sigma and Gamma Alpha Chi have been active at Iowa. Alpha Delta Sigma prepared a detailed campaign presentation with market analysis media selection copy and merchandising ideas shown to advertising clubs in Des Moines and Sioux City. Gamma Alpha Chi the women’s fraternity held Careers In Advertising seminars for women and aided campus public relations campaigns.
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Alpha Delta Sigma
Gamma Alpha Chi
Iowa
Des Moines
Sioux City
Des Moines Radio Awards Named for WSUI Students
WHO news manager Jack Shelly announced special prizes for SUI radio journalism students. Three WSUI staff members will receive $50 awards for top radio news work.
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WHO
Des Moines
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