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Newspaper
Iowa Quest
Location
Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1950
Page
7
Journalism graduates face a tighter job market as the SUI placement office reports fewer openings. Most postings come from small dailies and weeklies paying about 50 dollars weekly, with growth in public relations and specialized editing roles.
John Scott Davenport a SUI journalism instructor accepts a commission from William C Brown Co Dubuque IA to edit a 16 book Modern Newspaper Management series. First title Newspaper Circulation Backbone of the Industry by Davenport, others by Walter Steigleman Indiana University faculty.
Alpha Delta Sigma members from SUI chapter showcased a complete hypothetical ad campaign for Pop-It popcorn to business groups in Iowa. The 30 minute presentation covered market research media choices and packaging with a visual campaign and commentary. The last showing occurred at the Iowa Business and Professional Women's small business clinic in November.
An experimental Iowa City publication produced by University of Iowa students in news workshop and linecasting classes. Editorial staff list includes Paul Brink, Carl Brahce, Mig Righter, Pat Lounsbury, Beverly Lindsay, Donald Key, Hugh Bale and others with reporters such as Louis Becker, John Bennet, James Biery, Tony Campos, Robert Chase, Sinming Chiu, Vance Clark, Jean Duncan, Richard Halleck, Frederick Hoar, Tony Huebsch, Julienne Jensen, Keith Kirkpatrick and more.
Iowa journalists will gather for three spring meetings at Iowa State University. Telegraph editors met Jan 22 to form a state group and draft by laws. March 4 5 covers mechanical production for weeklies and small dailies. April 29 30 features Iowa Press Women Inc sessions led by SUI journalism staff.
The Philip Ward Burton chapter of Alpha Delta Sigma initiated six professionals and nineteen undergraduates on January 6. Pro initiates include Robert Harter of WHO Des Moines John Urice of H. W. Eastor and Sons Chicago Eugene McGuire Des Moines Register and Tribune Glen Boylan Athens Press Iowa City and Lewis Warren Oelwein Daily Register. Student initiates span seniors and juniors from Davenport Des Moines Sioux City Kansas City and other cities with one sophomore also named.
Graduate Assistant Jack Moorhead joins SUI's journalism program assisting Charles Barnum in news workshop teaching. Moorhead, a 1935 Northwestern graduate, moved from the Albuquerque Journal to SUI last September and holds an MA candidacy in public relations. He previously served as AP political writer in Kansas City and owned the Neodesha Daily Sun before 1948.
The SUI school of journalism will offer its first circulation management course in the 1950 spring semester taught by John Scott Davenport. It covers newspaper consumption theories, distribution, circulation department operations, and Audit Bureau of Circulation practices. Davenport’s clients include Louisville Courier-Journal and Times, Decatur Herald-Review, Bloomington Daily Herald, and Champaign-Urbana Courier.
Prof. Leslie G. Moeller says the Iowa campus has assigned a temporary barracks designated IATB near The Daily Iowan shop to house offices for Frivol Hawkeye and six faculty members. The expansion spreads SUI facilities across six campus buildings.
An outdoor privy float on Clinton street won the Independents Cup for best float by independent campus organizations in Iowa's first Homecoming parade last October. Conceived by Charlie Carroll and painted by Dick Spencer II, the phone booth reveal followed as a member phoned Iowa's football score over Indiana. The Lion's Club silver cup will be awarded soon. Four Sigma Delta Chi members animated the display on a truck bed decorated with cornstalks and farm tools.
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