University of Montana President's Annual Report, 1964-1965

SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM Professor Nathan B. Blumberg, Dean The School of Journalism completed a successful 51st year. The journalism program is thriving, but the radio-television curriculum was badly damaged by the loss of the television studios for the entire year. Radio station KUFM went on the air winter term, providing students, faculty and residents of the area with quality music, drama and information programs. No staff replacements will be necessary. Professor Dean Rea withdrew his resignation which had been submitted during spring quarter. Curriculum and Enrollment The enrollment increased again for the eighth consecutive year. The School of Journalism has been administratively responsible for 134 students during the year. There were at the end of the year a total of 109 undergraduate students in journalism, 4 graduate students in journalism and 21 radio-television students. A total of 23 degrees of bachelor of arts in journalism, one degree of bachelor of arts in radio-television and two degrees of master of arts in journalism were awarded at the June commencement. O nee again, the high regard in which the school is held by professional journalists was demonstrated by the large number of requests for our graduating seniors. Many more job offers were received than could be filled, and Professor Dugan, who handles journalism placement duties, reported that starting salaries went up again for our graduates. The internship program for undergraduates placed a total of 32 of our students in summer jobs on newspapers and with radio and television stations. Staff Activit ies Tom Pettit, NBC news correspondent, was the ninth annual Dean Stone Night speaker and 1965 Professional Lecturer in Journalism. His 3 Zo - 2 - speech was utilized as the lead article in the 1965 edition of the Montana Journalism Review. The banquet was held May 9 in the Yellowstone Room of the Lodge and attracted approximately 153 persons. Hal Stearns, publisher of the Harlowton Times and the Eastern Montana Clarion at Ryegate, served as a special lecturer for a three-day period spring term. Professor Dugan, in addition to his placement responsibilities, again served as adviser to the Montana Kaimin. He addressed the Washington State Press Association convention in Spokane, the U.S. Forest Service Middle Management School in Missoula, the Lee Newspapers Publishers meeting in Butte, the Food Industry Seminar at MSU, and the Moore High School commencement. He was director of the Newspaper Fund Publications Seminar here last summer and again was chairman of the School for Administrative Leadership on campus. He also is a member of the public information committee of the Mental Health Planning Project. Professor Brier devoted considerable time to our program of service to high school journalism. As adviser to the Montana Interscholastic Editorial Association for the third year, he published seven issues of the High School Editor during the academic year, and was in charge of the two-day 15th annual fall meeting which attracted a record attendance of 503 registered high school students and advisers from 66 schools in Montana. He also was editor of the eighth annual Montana Journalism Review and was adviser to all journalism freshmen. He was moderator of a four-member panel discussion of the free press-fair trial controversy at the Sigma Delta Chi regional convention in Seattle, and was interviewed on "Control of News" on KGVO-TV. He worked for a fifth summer as a newsman for the Associated Press. Professor Rea served as faculty adviser to the undergraduate chapter of Theta Sigma Phi and as academic adviser to all journalism sophomores. In addition, he addressed the annual meeting of the Newspaper Advertising Executives Association in New Orleans, La. The NAEA had sponsored his $2,500 grant for study of newspaper advertising at the Charleston (S.C.) News & Courier and the Evening Post last summer. 3 X ) -3- Professor Hess, who serves half-time in the academic program of the School of Journalism, was convention co-chairman of the Montana Broadcasters Association annual meeting and chairman of the MBA public service committee; director of public information and board member of the Missoula chapter of the Red Cross; chairman of the Montana Red Cross public information advisory committee; director of a workshop on uses of television for approximately 50 county agents and extension division personnel, and speaker to Missoula Kiwanis Club. He was adviser to radio-television sophomores, juniors and seniors. His other activities are included in his report on the Radio-Television Studios. Professor Norton, who devotes approximately three-fourths of his time to the academic program of the School of Journalism, received a master of arts degree in journalism from the University of Oregon in August, 1964. He was adviser to radio-television freshmen, served on a panel on broadcast news at the MBA convention in Missoula and delivered a commencement address at Thompson Falls High School. He has been awarded a $1,000 fellowship to work on the staff of Advertising Publications Inc. in Chicago for eight weeks this summer. The grant was made by the Association for Education in Journalism and the American Business Press. Professor Johnson, who serves one-quarter time with the School of Journalism, served as secretary-manager of the Montana Press Association and edited 12 issues of the Montana Fourth Estate. She also addressed the Northwest Association of Secondary and Higher Schools in Portland; Colorado Press Association in Denver; 50th anniversary of the founding of the Choteau County Free Library in Fort Benton; Montana Institute of the Arts annual festival, and the Jaycees at Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge. Dean Blumberg served during the summer as an American Specialist for the U.S. Department of State in Trinidad, British Guiana, Surinam and Jamaica, and spent fall term as a visiting professor at the Pennsylvania State University. He served on the accreditation team appointed by the American Council on Education for Journalism to inspect the journalism program of San Jose State College and later was elected vice chairman of the ACEJ accrediting committee at its annual meeting in Chicago, He -4- was master of ceremonies at the third annual Branding Iron banquet of the Great Falls Press Club, spoke at a dinner honoring Pulitzer Prize winner Mel Ruder in Columbia Falls and addressed students at the MSU Leadership Camp. He edited one issue of Communique for journalism alumni, conducted the scholarship program and was academic adviser to all journalism seniors and graduate students. He directed the selection and installation for the Montana Newspaper Hall of Fame and again was a member of the state selection committee for the Rhodes Scholarships. Other Matters The Melvin and Myrtle Lord Scholarship of $300 was offered for the first time this year. It was made possible by the interest from a gift presented by Mr. and Mrs. Lord, graduates of the School of Journalism. The Minneapolis Star and Tribune announced the establishment of a $400 scholarship for the outstanding journalism junior beginning in 1966. Four seniors were graduated with honors and they and other journalism students won more than their share of honors and awards open to all university students. The staff again judged high school newspapers and Professor Brier served as judge of high school yearbooks. Research: Professor Brier was editor of the eighth annua! Montana Journaiism Review, which contained 40 pages and was the largest yet published. It was sent to practicing journalists, editors, publishers, educators and research specialists. The quality of this publication has drawn many letters of praise from persons in several areas of journalism. Following are publications and research in progress: Professor Brier: "How to Write Effective Headlines," Montana Fourth Estate, December, 1964, pp. 5-6. Book review of Thirty-Eight Witnesses by A .M . Rosenthal, Montana Kaimin, Dec. 9, 1964. G-2-3 -5- ln Progress: A book about writing for newspapers and wire services in collaboration with Howard Heyn, night editor of the Los Angeles bureau of the Associated Press- MSU research grant for summer, 1965, to study the first newspaper in Montana, the Virginia City Montana Post- Professor Hess: In Progress: Radio production textbook (with Professor Norton). Professor Rea: "The 1964 Fellowship Report," Proceedings of the Newspaper Advertising Executives Association, Danville, 111., Newspaper Advertising Executives Association, 1965, pp. 48-50. In Progress: MSU research grant to prepare a press law guide for Montana. Professor Norton: "Dad Goes Back to College," Old Oregon, Eugene, University of Oregon Alumni Association, September-October, 1964. "Road to Responsibility: Public Affairs Broadcasting," Montana Journalism Review, School of Journalism, no. 8, 1965, pp. 19-21. In Progress: Radio production textbook (with Professor Hess). -6- Professor Johnson: Farewell to Troy, a novel, Houghton-Mifflin, Boston. "Fashion Discovery in the Aegean," Continental Magazine, summer, 1964. Several book reviews; some short stories reprinted in anthologies. In Progress: Research in classical literature on Medea of Colchis for a novel. Dean Blumberg: "Close Call in British Guiana: No 'Second Cuba' This Time," Montana Journalism Review, no. 8, 1965, pp. 9-12. # J ’-Z.cT RADIO « TELEVISION STUDIOS Assistant Professor Philip J. Hess, Director The radio studios were used by more students for laboratory work during the past academic year than during any previous period. There was virtually no television activity during the year. More radio stations in the Northwest have carried our programs to a greater audience than in the past. Radio Programs More than 100 stations in Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Colorado carried MSU radio programs to a potential audience of several million. One hundred ten different radio programs were broadcast by these stations for a total of 7>370 separate radio broadcasts of MSU programs. The programs varied in length from 10 minutes to 30 minutes for a total of 680 hours.

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