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Journalism School Invited Haugland Relates Past To Become MPA Member One of the largest associations ember the school was named an On AP Aviation Beats of magazine publishers in the associate member of Associated United States, Magazine Publish­ Business Publications. BY VERN HAUGLAND ’31 ers Association, Inc., has invited Chief value of both affiliations ’47, how editor of “Hospitals,” the The aviation run on a news service or major newspaper is the MSU School of Journalism to will be in material's made avail­ official journal of the American become an "Education Associate able for instructional purposes and Hospital Ass’n., and Phil Payne just plain wonderful. So many stories that you never really member.” in contacts with working members and Bill Forbis.jboth 1949 grad­ get caught up with your work. Some of them are new and Only five other journalism of both the business and general uates, now on the staff of “Time” startling—sensational items for the world’s front pages. Others schools in the country have been magazine fields, said Dean Ford. magazine; admitted to membership on a simi­ The MPA was organized Novem­ Many others are staff members are of top regional or local interest. Mainly they’re easy to find lar basis, according to Dean James ber 3, 1919, in New York state and of trade or technical publications and easy to write. L. C. Ford. They include schools now includes most of the major or have done Ca considerable The gathering of these stories to Baltimore,’ or in the Detroit to of journalism at Minnesota, Mis­ general-interest magazine publish­ amount of free-lance writing for involves much travel, for the most Dayton areas or from Santa Ana souri, Northwestern, Syracuse, and ers in the country. Education As­ magazines. part by air. From Washington you to ■ Los Angeles—or best of all, Wisconsin. These schools and sociate members are entitled to Courses now offered in the may hop over to Paris for a week­ over the medieval towns of Bel­ Montana are the only ones accre­ attend meetings and receive regu­ magazine sequence at MSU include end, or to Miami for lunch. You’re gium, from Brussels to Liege. dited for magazine training. lar mailings. But they have no magazine makeup and editing, away from home only long enough Forty minutes of soundless soar­ MSU thus becomes the only vote. magazine article writing, and to free your wife from the kitchen ing, in a sailplane high over the school west of the Missouri so A number of MSU graduates in trade and technical journalism. routine for a few days, barely long dunes of Kitty Hawk, in 50th-an- honored. The recognition is the journalism now hold responsible These are supplemented by train­ enough for the children better to niversary celebration of the first second which has come during-the positions in the magazine publish­ ing in advertising, typography, appreciate you when you return. flight of the Wright Brothers. A current school year to the MSU ing field, according to Dean Ford. photography and other related You meet unusually interesting DC7 inaugural flight, nonstop, Los journalism school. In early Dec- Among them are Arnold A. Rivin fields. and important people. And you Angeles to New York. A flying work With a grand, companionable press conference with Eddie Rick- gang of writers. Not long ago a enbacker in the Super-C Constel­ former Associated Press staff man lation. A “flight-seeing” tour of told me, “I think you have the the Caribbean. An inaugural flight most attractive job in the AP.” I from New York to Manchester, I didn’t disagree with him. England. And so it goes. Communique Most of my mail comes address­ There are times that the job is Volume XII. May, 1954 Number 2 ed to the AP Aviation Editor. heartwrenching, sickening. A That’s a bit of a misnomer. Avia­ Banshee jet fighter, giving a fir­ tion writer or reporter expresses ing demonstration at Inyokern, it more correctly. I do almost no fails to discharge its rockets, Buzzetti Missing; editing of other persons’ copy in plunges straight into the ground Montana Publishers Honored this job, but I write all the time— before your eyes. Automobile Found about all phases of civil and mili­ Arf F-89 in an air show at De­ At Sigma Delta Chi Initiation tary aviation. When I’m in Wash­ troit goes out of control, narrowly On Bay Bridge ington I cover the Civil Aeronau­ misses crowded throngs and des­ Two veteran Montana weekly newspaper publishers were tics board with a fine-tooth comb troys itself and its two occupants, An auto belonging to John and keep an eye also bn the Civil honored at the annual spring initiation of the Montana State just beyond a thousand parked (Jack) Buzzetti ’47 was found in Aeronautics administration, the cars. A Navy training plane com­ University chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism the early morning of May 8, on the airlines, certain committees in ing in for a landing misses the fraternity. San Francisco-Oakland bridge. No Congress, the aircraft industry, arresting cable, caroms against trace of Buzzetti Lhas been found. the National Advisory Committee the carrier Monterey’s island The two chosen for “profes­ sident of the Montana Press asso­ Two notes were discovered in for Aeronautics, the many aviation sional” membership in the fra­ ciation; Superstructure and plunges over­ the car. The first read “God will organizations and a good hunk of board into the Gulf of Mexico. ternity because of their leadership Nine journalism majors initiated know I’m innocent.” The other the Pentagon. as student members at the same That may be why you sprout for many years in the weekly pub­ asked that three [persons be noti­ Because it so happens that I time were Glenn Chaffin, Corval­ fied—Capt. Helen J. Buzzetti, In­ stick exclusively to aviation and new gray hairs when things turn lishing field in the state were lis;-Dick Edgerton, Whitefish; Bill sour on trips of your own when Joseph Gehrett, retired publisher dianapolis, Edward J. Buzzetti, am the only remaining full-time Heintz, Moccasin; Lloyd Kjorness, Missoula, and Josephine Hurley, specialist in that field on any the cockpit of your B-25 starts of the Laurel Outlook, and T. J. Spearfish, S. D.; Dick Lillie, Great filling with black smoke over the Hocking, publisher of the Glasgow Parks Air Force/Base, Calif. news service, and because of the Falls; Frank Milburn, Missoula; Buzzetti was assistant Red Cross AP’s tremendous “circulation,” I lonely semi-dessert of the Texas Courier. Allan Porter; Shelby; Ed Stenson, Panhandle, for example. Gehrett was publisher of the field director at-Parks Air Force probably write and file more Spokane; arid Dan Zenk, Tampico. base for: the last’year. He was a words on aviation read by more The pilot radios the nearest air­ Outlook for nearly 40 years before At a banquet following the ini­ field he has an emergency, has no his recent retirement. During that native of Hardin, -Mont., and was people, day in and day out, than tiation, Mr; Hocking told student graduated from MSU in 1947. He anyone else, hydraulic power and must land time his paper was known for its members that they were entering without flaps, without brakes, per­ community leadership and was received his master’s degree from I’m speaking only of quantity, one of the world’s most interesting the University of Wisconsin. He mind you—not quality. I make no haps without the landing gear highly rated in state contests. A and rewarding vocations. Each lowered. You see fire engines rush son, J, O. Gehrett, is now publisher work day represents a new oppor­ has worked for the Salt Lake Tele­ bold claims there. gram and the San Francisco An attractive quality of the field out to the airport from the nearby of the Deer Lodge Silver State tunity and new challenge, he said. town, and realize that it’s to your Post. Other speakers included George Chronicle. of aviation is the variety it offers. His booklet, prepared for the use Even a variety of transportation. possible assistance they are com­ Hocking became publisher of the McVey, Butte Standard editorial ing. Glasgow Courier in 1913 and last writer and state chairman of the of country newspaper corre­ A quick rollercoaster ride in a T-33 spondents, is used! widely around jet trainer or a 20-hour mission in The landing gear/ luckily, locks year published his fortieth anni­ fraternity. down into place, but without versary issue. His paper also has the country. a 10-engine B36—take your choice. Professional members of the A helicopter ride from Washington brakes the plane lands “hot”— been highly rated in both state and organization attended from Mis­ much too fast—scoots down the national contests.