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Newspaper
Iowa Quest
Location
Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1955
Page
8
George Ver Steeg editor of the Pella Chronicle says a weekly lacking editorial comment becomes a personalityless paper. He laments substitutions like canned editorials and columns and urges editors to guide community thought at the State University Fall Newspaper Conference.
Prof. Leslie G. Moeller of the State University of Iowa School of Journalism is named chair of the 1955 Iowa Press Association Master Editor Publisher awards committee. The honors, established in 1932 by Grant L. Caswell, recognize Iowa editors and publishers. The group will announce the winners at the Iowa Press Association convention banquet in Des Moines on Friday April 15.
Gene Ingle of Des Moines a junior in the State University of Iowa School of Journalism is named editor for the December May period. New staff include Jerry Hess Schleswig managing editor Ira Kapenstein New York wire editor Drake Mabry Albia city editor Arlo Jacobson Gilmore City sports editor Jean Leinhauser Ottumwa society editor Amie Gore Kankakee TL chief photographer.
Leading book designer Bruce Rogers is celebrated in a November display in the south lobby of the Communications Center at the State University of Iowa. The exhibit features ten Rogers books including the Lectern Bible from 1935 and other works from 1900 to 1953.
Earl Hall, managing editor of the Mason City Globe Gazette, receives the Mutual of Omaha Criss award and gold medal for over 20 years of highway safety work. He led safety messages in his paper for 23 years and has held multiple national and state posts and honors in safety and journalism.
E John Kottman a graduate student in journalism at the State University of Iowa is appointed business manager of the Daily Iowan the student newspaper He holds a BA in advertising from SUI earned in 1949 and previously served as news editor of the Osage Press News and advertising manager there He also acted as representative for Equitable Life Assurance Society in Osage His main duty is running the advertising department and using the paper as a workshop for students in advertising.
Six State University of Iowa School of Journalism faculty members have appeared as Career Day speakers at Iowa high schools since March 1954. The list includes Lester G. Benz Walter A. Steigleman Edward F. Mason Ellis H. Newsome Willbur Peterson and Ernest F. Andrews with dates and locations across Miles Eagle Grove Spencer Grinnell Mt. Vernon Clarinda Mason City Logan Cedar Falls and Cedar County High School Day events.
William E. Porter argues Italy’s Communist bloc press remains responsive to readers and is not collapsing for economic reasons. He notes Italy’s 1953 vote tallies, about 110 daily papers with roughly 10 percent Communist or pink, and that L Unita Avanti and Il Lavoro Nuovo are official organs with targeted readership and little display advertising.
Prof. Leslie of the University of Iowa School of Journalism told the Wisconsin High School Editors Conference at the University of Wisconsin Madison on October 23 that good minded students should consider journalism as a career.
Life photographer Wallace Kirkland exhibited a collection at the State University of Iowa Communications Center in June. Most images came from a Chicago Art Institute showcase forming part of a series on outstanding contemporary photographers.
A one hour program titled outstanding cancer activity by the Alpha Delta Sigma fraternity chapters in Iowa aims to support cancer education. The project merges university work with state cancer education agencies and is backed by the Iowa division of the Society.
The Iowa Journal of Design from the University of Iowa is undergoing its ninth edition revision. Lester is directing the Community sequence and the new edition is in division. Approximately the eighth edition has been purchased since November 1950.
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