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This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the Journalism at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Communique, 1953-2020 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 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. He is a past pre­ soula and Butte. wonderfully long runway, slows Jim Bormann gradually, and finally rolls gently off the far end of the strip. All five Publishers Honored by SDX . . . of you jump out, look at each other Gives Talks and then double up with laughter at the way everyone’s hands are trembling. To J-Students The weekend round trip /to Paris, for a gourmet’s dinner at Jim Bormann, director of news the Ritz and a .party at Margaret and public affairs for radio station Biddle’s chateau in Fontainebleu, WCCO, Minneapolis, Minn., gave was fun. The plush tour of Belgium two professional lectures at the (by way of Iceland), as the guest School of Journalism on May 4 of Sabena, was a great experience. and 5. But the big event of 1953 in In the first lecture entitled this reporter’s log was the jour­ “Freedom of Information" Bor­ ney to England and back in a mann stressed that information six-jet B-47. from government Sources should The first time a reporter had flow freely. A person should have crossed the Atlantic in this fashion as much information as if he were —the first time the B-47 had flown at a government proceeding first the, big ditch with four men hand. aboard. We made it from Lime­ The televised Kefauver and the stone, in Maine, to Fairford, near recent McCarthy hearings were JIM BORMANN London, in four hours and 45 min­ cited as examples of how people utes, for an average speed of 616.8 were able to have full access to Jim Bormann, director of miles an hour. Our top speed, information, news and public affairs for radio nudged along by an 85-knot tail­ Taking photographs and broad­ station WCCO, Minneapolis, de­ wind—665 miles an hour. That’s casting judicial proceedings should livered two professional lectures movin’— and the speediest cross­ be allowed in the courtroom with­ in the MSU School of Journalism ing on record; a mark that was to out restraints, according to Bor­ May 4 and 5. He has worked stand for almost half a year be­ mann. for the Associated Press in Chi­ fore another B-47 exceeded it. “The traditional pure objective cago as chief of bureau for AP’s About the only serious gripe the writing is now Outdated,” Bor­ radio division. aviation writer has about his job mann said in his second lecture on is- that b.ecause of the shortage of integrity in the hews. time; he has to miss out on some Superficiality of news writing BUE, MELLOTT, LEE SPEAK mighty fine story possibilities. or only getting the facts straight TO HAMILTON JOURNALISTS Broke my heart to reject a heli­ without interpreting them, is one Olaf J. Bue, professor of jour­ copter ride from Washington down of the main threats to newspapers. nalism, was the guest speaker at the Atlantic coast to Panama—a Bormann is past president of the annual Quill and Scroll ban­ wonderful way to see the country. the National Association of Radio quet in Hamilton on April 14. Broke it again to pass up the re­ News Directors and has been a Professor Bue was accompanied cent month-long Air Force good­ member of the Council on Radio on the trip by Barbara Mellott and will jet-plane tour of South Ame­ Pictured above from left to right are Dr. James L. C. Ford, Dean Journalism and a director of the Carole Lee, journalism students at rica. Been broken a lot of times, of the School of Journalism; Joseph Gehrett, retired publisher of the All-Media conference. He re­ MSU, both of whom are Hamilton matter of fact. It’ll heal quick the Laurel Outlook; T. J. Hocking, publisher of the Glasgow Courier, ceived the Marquette university high school graduates with out­ day an aviation story takes me to and Ray Moholt, Glendive, president of the student chapter of Sigma By-Line award “for performance standing records of activity in and through my favorite state, Delta Chi. of competent journalism.” high school journalism. Montana. Page Two COMMUNIQUE May, 1954 Kain Writes of Journalism Communique | Jim Says-— Dear Alums: Career From MSU Shack Published by the seniors in the Montana State University School of Journalism for alumni of the school; I-must have been pretty opti­ mistic when I wrote that lari: Com­ To State Department Work Editor ——------Trank Milburn Jr. munique column—or perhaps I was carried away by a few BY RONALD KAIN *22 Staff---- ...... Winnie Dinn, Elmer Freedle, Bill Jones, and Walter O’Donnell vagrant sunbeams over Sentinel. The beaten-up World War I barracks at the University For since then, Spring has really °^^^°BB been chased back into its hole by where I first learned to write a news lead and edit copy was Old Man Winter. In the past well named “The Shack.” A crude, uncomfortable, ugly shell week (and May is here), we’ve of a building, it stood as eloquent testimony that the worth of Vacancies Listed Had temperatures in the twenties, a school is determined not by the luxury of its physical ap­ I Ray Says— snow blanketing a few rash and By Ford’s Office now ruined spring flowers, and pointments but by the quality of Dear Grads: its teaching staff and student body. With graduation only a few chill winds howling off Lolo. May­ good people of the town, hoping weeks ahead; job notices both for be I’m going to have to snowshoe Even in those days the “J” School at least to earn board and room (Ed. Note: Ray Wight joined had established a reputation as one summer and permanent work have the teaching staff of the into Holland lake this summer! while waiting (and praying) for a been received by the office of the But we know that Spring is here of the best in the country. local pewsman to quit or get fired. journalism school in Septem­ To me, as to most of its grad­ School of Journalism. Anyone in­ ber, ’53.) on the calendar, if riot by the One day of utter frustration and terested should contact the per­ weather outside. For a bunch of uates, the Shack remains a golden humiliation convinced me that I The editors of this publication memory. We were blest with a sons listed below or Dean Ford. seniors and juniors have rolled was not cut out for a salesman', and The regional office at Des assure me that I’m about due to back into town after publishing faculty of exceptional quality— I took off for Seattle. contribute a letter, regardless of kindly, lovable, wise, old Dean A. Moines of the Doane Agricultural trips around the state, we’re For a solid week, spurred by the Service, Inc;, isi looking for a copy­ other commitments. In prepara­ swamped grading high school steady attrition of my small sav­ reader who will handle certain tion, I’ve studied the earlier effu­ papers for the Interscholastic ings, I sloshed through an almost production phases of direct mail sion of such masters of prose style MIEA meeting,, and Aber day has incessant Seattle midwinter down­ campaigns for the Doane publica­ as Messers Ford, Bue, and Dugan, come and gone while posters bloom pour looking in vain for work. In tions. Agricultural courses will and find them pretty solidly made on every wall for the campus poli­ the nick of time a (friendly editor give the applicant a head start, up of quips and comments on the ticians. told me that the Yakima Herald but are not necessarily a must. doings of the alumni, a field High on the list of pleasant was looking for help. I telephoned, Contact Deane W. Trick,. Doane wherein I’m not especially well in-' events in my day are the personal boarded a train, and a day later Agricultural Service, Inc., Regional formed. calls from former graduates, as began my first job as a courthouse Extension Office, Plymouth Build­ Come to think of it, though, I well as the almost daily letters and police reporter, at $35 a week'. ing, Des Moines 9, Iowa. have had working contacts With from many of you, telling me of I was coming up in the world. Edward M. Yocum, Station KG- a few MSU J-School graduates, your hopes and achievements. I In addition to covering my reg­ HL, Billings,' Mont., is looking for Colin Raff was city editor of the hope those letters will keep on ular beat, I tried my 'hand at fea­ a copywriter-reporter. Salt Lake Telegram for a while coming to me in the years ahead ture writing, with encouraging re­ Ambrose G. Measure, Kalispell during a period when I was on a for it’s a genuine pleasure to be sults. Later on, the proficiency that Times-Monitor, 219 First Ave. E., desk job for the Salt Lake Tri­ kept in touch with what you’re I developed in the feature field Kalispell, wants a person who can bune. I understand Colin is now' doing and thinking. paid off, adding not only wider handle the front office. The person in the near-Cadillac class with Among the calls paid recently opportunity and variety to my would have to sell advertising, Montana Power. work but also some more than wel­ have been visits from Tom Am­ solicit job work, buy supplies, Felictia Pease was doing re-write brose and Gene Beauchamp, both come supplementary income. make bids on jobs, and generally Nine months after I started oh the Tribune state desk when I back from Far East service and run the office; had left the paper for a teaching looking just fine. Incidentally, work in Yakima a telegram from R. B. Staufer, Employee Rela­ Dean Stone advised me that the job, but was still returning for an they are a couple who can and tions Department, Spokane Daily occasional vacation fill-in or what will do a top job on any paper— Butte Miner had an opening at Chronicle, Spokane, is looking for $42.50 per week. That was $7.50 riot bn that desk. East I heard of yes, they’re interested in going to male candidates for full-time Fil she was sinking slowly into work. We have four good girl more than I was earning, and I work. climbed that rung in the ladder the obscurity of the Trib society graduates this spring, also, who of financial success with alac­ department; I don’t know whether are available. L. Stone and his young assistants, rity. newsworthy aspects of life in the she has managed to escape or .not. Ed Dugan just walked in and Ralph Casey and Art Christiansen, Butte in those days was rough world’s most dynamic and many­ Then there was Earl Martell on slapped down another bunch of both destined for distinguished ca­ and tough indeed—New York later faceted metropolis. He occupies a the Trib-Tele copy desk. Earl high school papers. I guess I’d reers. They opened for us the door seemed a model of law and order, front-row seat et an endless pro­ is now vice-president in the firm better get back to business, instead to the most interesting; the most by comparison—and a year on the cession of realjlife dramas, some of Cogswell and Co. here on the of indulging myself in the fun of stimulating, the most educational, Butte police and courthouse run comical and some tragic, some campus. If there were others, I’ve sitting here and chatting with you. and, from a strictly financial gave me a thorough indoctrination­ sacred but most of them profane. probably mistakenly figured them But the rest of the paper’s full.of standpoint, perhaps the least re­ in the seamier aspects of life in the Since the reporter’s interest is so to be Missouri graduates, which is news arid I’ll look forward to warding of all the professions. In Copper City. The late Gene Mac­ largely concentrated upon the un­ a statement to be pondered. hearing from you. the more than thirty years that usual, the sensational, and the pre­ Kinnon, another top-notch product Your MSU School of Journalism As ever, Jim have elapsed since I said goodby of "the Shack, was my friendly but dominantly unwholesome aspects to the Shack in 1922, I have never of life, he all too often becomes is a splendid plant with a top­ enterprising rival on the. Ana­ quality faculty in charge—better made much more than a modest conda Standard. He kept me on my imbued with a corrosive cynicism. living. But I have savored, enjoy­ If not dissolved, cynicism almost exempt me, though. I like the RMIPA Meeting toes. City Editor Don Noel, a won­ country. I like the climate, even; ed, and, I believe, comprehended derfully patient and helpful man, inevitably ends.his usefulness to this weird and wonderful world his profession and to society. at least I would have Said I did enabled me to round out my ex­ until the first of March, when win­ Draws Delegates as few outside of the journalism perience by filling in occasionally A half-conscious realization profession could hope to do. that I was becoming a victim of ter arrived. Nice, anyway. From Four States as telegraph editor, as state editor, Well, more next time. Good The first stop in my journal­ and as make-up man. this stealthy assassin was one of Montana State University was istic career was Great Falls. For several factors that led me, three luck to all. of you wherever you Hoping to find my way into are; the site of -the 1954 Rocky Moun­ about a year and a half I was big-time newspaper work, I left years after I joined the Herald tain Intercollegiate Press conven­ managing editor, reporter, copy Tribune, to leave the newspaper Sincerely, the Miner in the fall of 1925 to Ray Wight tion May 6, 7, and 8. The associa­ reader, business manager, and take a year of graduate work in field for an editorial position tion is composed of 35 universities circulation promoter of the Mon­ history, political science; and with a (New York publishing and colleges in eight Rocky Moun­ tana Banker, a monthly trade economics at Harvard unversity. firm. The typewriter and the tain states. magazine. It took all of my carefully hoard­ editor’s pencil Ihave been my Seven on Faculty Some 40 delegates from four I was paid $27.50 a week plus a ed savings, but was the best in­ constant companions and sources states attended the convention. valuable bonus in the form of a vestment I ever made. Harvard of livelihood ever since, With Long Service Many of the meetings were con­ worm’s-eye view of the banking gave me some good kicks in the There followed years of study ducted in the MSU School of Jour­ profession. Fortunately this ven­ pants along with many quite un­ and writing in the foreign affairs Plan Retirement nalism. ture into trade journalism was cut official benefits. One of these ben­ field; World War II service in short by the publisher’s failure in efits was the opportunity to study England, Belgium, and the Nether­ a business venture in California. lands with the IK S. Office of War Seven long-time members of the economics under Professor Edwin University faculty have announced He returned to take over the reins Gay, distinguished former editor Information; a hot-too-successful Curry Gives Talk of his one-man journal. Unceremo­ their retirements as of the end of of the New York Post. effort to establish myself as a free­ this year. By state law they are niously-1 joined the ranks of the At the end of my year at Har­ lance writer after the war; and At Matrix Banquet unemployed. finally, in 1949, appointment to my not allowed to continue on the vard Professor Gay was kind faculty after reaching the age of Determined this time to get into enough to give me letters of intro­ present post as chief review officer 70 years. Peggy Simpson Curry, Scottish real newspaper work, I set out for duction to several of his former of a basic intelligence publication born, Wyoming novelist, was the West Coast. In Spokane, my program in the. Department of Those leaving the staff are: Mrs. newspaper colleagues in New Mary Brennan Clapp, wife of speaker for the annual Matrix first stop, there were no openings. York. Owing entirely to his help State. Here in .Washington Lady Honor Table banquet in the I rashly undertook to sell Spokes­ Luck smiled on’ me again when former MSU president, Dr. C. H. I landed a job on the New York Clapp, assistant professor of Bitterroot room of the Florence man-Review subscriptions to the Herald Tribune shortly after I Bob MacHatton ’22 became one of hotel, March 28. my colleagues in the Department. English, who joined the staff in reached the big town. True, 'my 1937? Dr. Rudolph O. Hoffman, The keynote of her address, en­ starting salary of $25 a week was The road from the Shack has professor of French, who came to titled “From Fact to Fiction,” was Theta Sigs Install anything but impressive; yet with been -long, winding, hard at times, that everyone has talent for some­ filled with dead-end streets and the University in 1921; Dr. Rich- scores of far more experienced srd H. Jesse, vice president of the thing no matter what it is. Mrs. Officers for Year newsmen knocking ait the doors of other pitfalls and discouragements Curry said that it belongs to the as well as with achievements and University, professor in and chair­ the Gotham papers, I was pheno­ man of the Department of Chem­ individual to recognize and appre­ Shirley DeForth, Glendive, was menally lucky to get aboard. inspiration. Yet it has been inter­ ciate this talent as well as to use installed as president of Theta I was lucky again when I tim­ esting most of the way, highly ex­ istry, who joined the staff in 1912. it. Dr. Charles W. Leaphart. Dean Sigma Phi,, women’s journalism idly entered the Herald Trib’s citing at times, "and by and large As far as writing is concerned, honorary, on April 30. Installa­ vast city room my first day on extremely rewarding. I would like of the School of Law, a member tion of officers was held at the of the faculty since 1912, former she said that fact ends and fiction the job. Imagine my surprise and to follow the same path from the begins in the mind of the writer. home of Mrs. James L. C. Ford, delight to find Dick Crandell; beginning once jmore. I believe I acting—president of the University* Dr. Harold G. Merriam, professor In comparing news and fictional alumnae advisor to the group. a fellow student from the Shack, could do better, the second time writing, Mrs. Curry concluded that Muriel Griffin, Missoula, took waiting for the city editor to around the course. of English, chairman of the Divi­ office as vice-president; Mary Lou sion of Humanities and chairman fiction demands discrimination hand out the day’s news assign­ and distortion so that the facts of Zimmerman, Billings, as secretary; ments. A day or two before my of the Department of English Verna Johns, Great Falls, treas­ FOUR KAIMIN ASSOCIATES member of the staff since 1919. fiction are not the facts of life. arrival Dick had begun what CHOSEN FOR 1954-55 STAFF Mrs. Curry, who was a panel urer; and Joan Harbolt, Chinook, turned out to be, as every one Dr. Paul C. Phillips, professor keeper of the archives. Associate editors for the 1954-55 of history and political science and member of the summer writers’ knows, a long and distinguished conference two years ago, is the Mrs. Beatrice Pierson, journal­ career in New York journalism. Kaimin have been announced by director of the University museum ism school librarian and Miss Grif­ Publications committee. They are and Northwest Historical collec­ author of the novel, “Fire in the fin were initiated into Theta Sigma What formal education can com­ Ed Stenson, Spokane, Wash., news tion, whose service to the Univer­ Water,” based on the life of Scot­ Phi. pare with that offered a general editor; Kim Forman, Miles City, sity dates back to 1911; and tish herring fishermen. She has assignment man on a New York also written poems and short Mrs. Ford received recognition campus editor; Pat O’Hare, Ste­ Thomas C. Spaulding, professor of daily paper? Day after day, and vensville, society and feature edit­ forestry, a 1906 graduate, who re­ stories. Some of these have been for her service to the group dur­ often far into the night, he must published in the Saturday Evening ing the past year. or; and Art Mathison, Deer Lodge, turned and joined the forestry perforce delve into the myriad sports editor. faculty in 1915. Post, Colliers, arid American Magazine. May, 1954 COMMUNIQUE Page Three

Story Ideas Found Everywhere, Just Checkin’ In . . . Perhaps in Old Papers, Diaries Vem Haugland ’31 is living at Art Lundell ’53 is stationed at By Alice Hankinson Maxwell ’23 219 Holmes Run road, Sleepy Hol­ Scott Air Force Base near Belle­ low, Falls Church, Va. ville’, Ill, He is attending com­ Great Falls Almost every writer is asked it is lost. Talking about it makes munications school. He mentions the same question—where do you it lose some of its fire and glamor. Bob Crennen ’51 is now at having seen Bob. Alkire ’53 when get your ideas? ’The answer too Once, long ago, a member of my family read a treasured letter to United Press, Advertiser Build­ he arrived at Lackland Air Force Alum News is almost the same; From every­ ing, Honolulu 2, T. Hz Base at San Antonio, Tex. He me. It was the account of my writes that about April 20 he will J-School products living in where. Everywhere means listen­ mother and father leaving Minne­ probably be set to leave Belleville Great Falls include not only a ing and reading; keeping ever alert sota in the dead of winter for a Joseph Renders *50 has a new for parts unknown. He is hoping number engaged in-'jburnalism and for an idea which you can develop new home in the west. There were address. It is 3100' Fifth avenue allied fields but also a lawyer, an for an assignment in the U. S. into an article or short story. You five children. I was the youngest, North, Great Falls, Mont. insurance man, several housewives an infant carried in my mother’s Helen Lenhart ’53 writes from a promising actress, a 'number of may find an idea in an old news­ arms. Bert Gaskill ex-’5O is living Montreal, Can., that she is work­ would-be golfing greats and not a paper, or .a diary, of talking to a I was deeply moved by the in­ at 3507 East Lake, Butte, Mont. ing in the advertising department few ardent baseball 'enthusiasts. pioneer. You may find it when cidents in the letter and as soon of the Merck pharmaceutical com­ Those actively engaged in jour­ you are with a group of teen­ as I could, wove it into a story. nalistic fields include’ Gordon Cun­ Mrs. John S. Roberts (Merrilyn pany. She is living with a French agers,, or in a tiny item in a metro­ The Woman’s Home Companion family there and is teaching them niff ’35, Great Falls Tribune ad­ bought the story changing not one Wentz ’46) writes that she is living vertising department; Bill Stell- politan newspaper or magazine. word or line, and even keeping at 2635 Louise Lane, Billings, Mont. English while she is picking up French-; She is doing part-time re­ mon ’51, roving reporter for the In the beginning journalism my title; “The Journey.” porting for The Monitor, a subur­ Montana-Farmer Stockman; R. D. trains individuals to have an In reality I had never known Mrs. Thomas E. Lommasson ban paper iri Montreal. Her ad­ Warden ’27, Tribune executive awareness for news, especially the any of the happenings on that (Eileen Roy ’49) is now living at dress in Canada is: c/o Mme. editor; Bill James ’41, Marianne often hidden value of any happen­ journey, so I hunted up old rail­ 1921 Virginia, N. E., Albuquerque, Boulizon, 656 Wiseman, Montreal, Hodgkiss ’51, Roil Rice ’48, Joe ing. That training never leaves road conductors who told me what N. M. Quebec. Renders ’50, E. P. (Dazz) Furlong one. That we don’t make more early trains were like, what dis­ ’35, and Marge Cole; ’46, Tribune use of it is the pity. Somewhere tances they covered in a day, etc. Mrs. Roscoe Herrington, the Bud Scotten ’52 Writes that he is news staff; Ray Fenton ’43, Tom along the line we get lost in jobs I went to Sears Roebuck and made former Donna Ring '51, is the now in Korea. Before going there Kerin ’40, and Bob Lathrop ’37, arid duties. the acquaintance of its early cata­ mother of a boy, bom on April 5, he became engaged to Rose White Great Falls Leader hews depart­ The idea for a story is at first logs which gave me the pictures of 1954. of Billings ment; Zelma Hay (Mrs. George L.) so nebulous that we have to clothes, worn at that time. Then Schroeder ’28, Wendt Advertising hold on tight to keep it. With with what I’d like to call a com­ Mr. and Mrs. Ted Delaney ’47 William D. Emery ’50 is adver­ Agency, and Robert- H. Bennetts work and imagination it grows. passionate understanding of what are the proud parents of a girl. tising director of the morning ’46, Electric City Printing Co. Joe Nevertheless it is first “idea.” this journey must have been, the They are living at 520 North Ave. Clarksburg Exponent and-the eve­ Shoquist, former J-School prof, is A real word of caution would be events jelled into a yarn. E., Missoula, Mont. ning Clarksburg Telegram in a member of the Tribune news —keep it to yourself. Get it A small item in an Idaho news­ Clarksburg, W. Va. He was pre­ staff. down on paper, write and re­ paper intrigued me a few years Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Harold viously with the Ogden, Utah, Warden is also commanding of­ write until it is ready for mar­ ago. It was an account of a family Steams was a 7 lb. 14 oz. son at the Standard-Examiner. ficer of the Naval Reserve Electro­ ket. If possible, sell it before living on a river island and their Wheatland Memorial hospital. He nics Battalion in Great Falls. Fur­ you tell anyone about this idea. difficulties. 'This too went into joins three brothers and two sis­ Joseph Stell ’50 is a reporter and long was recently ‘re-appointed Far tod. often young writers, on fiction appearing as. “Sanctuary” ters. His name is Thomas John. photographer on the, Pueblo Chief­ local official scorer for the Pioneer fire with 'some idea, tell it to in Liberty. The idea which spurred Hal is a *36 graduate and is pub­ tain, a daily in Pueblo, Cold. Baseball League. James is corres­ others, and somehow in the telling me on was an island in a river. lisher of the Harlowton Times. pondent for Time -and Life. Up until that time I hadn’t even Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Keller be­ Jack Kuenning ’46 is assistant been conscious of .islands in rivers. Les Sooey, advertising manager came the parents of a son, John city attorney and active in the Students Edit Four Research revealed there were of the Park County News in Liv­ Vincent, April 7. They also have Cascade County Chapter of the many, some of considerable size. ingston, has assumed the duties of a three-year-old daughter, Kris­ American Cancer Society, having Montana Papers A family made too many people business manager of that paper, tie Lou. Keller ’48 is sports edi­ recently won a bout with that op­ in the story. In my final draft les is a '46 graduate. tor the Little Falls Daily Tran­ ponent. Jack Hallowell ’42 is asso­ Journalism students at MSU got there were only two characters. script in Little Falls, Minn. ciated in the Cogswell Insurance “on the job” experience this spring This story resold later at a good Second Lt. Robert F. Alkire ’53 Agency here. Lee McGregor (Mrs. by taking over for a brief time rate to a Canadian magazine. is spending a 40-day leave in Mis­ Clyde Reichelt ’47 is now an Richard) Pattison ’52 is with the publication of four of the state’s area feature writer arid photog­ Occidental Life Insurance Co. newspapers. An elderly lady sitting out on soula prior to service in Korea. the lawn at a summer resort He is assigned to aircraft control rapher for the Morning Democrat Clary Kaufman (Mrs. Harlan) For the seventh successive year, in Davenport, la. Since he gradu­ C.ory ’43, Mary Bukvich (Mrs. a group of students .-traveled to said something like this to me: work and works with radar. Since “When I was 12 years old my his Air Force service began four ated-, he has worked for the Lewis­ Ray) Fenton ’43 andAMarilyn Hill­ Lewistown where they replaced town Daily News, Lewistown, stand (Mrs. Robert) Bennetts ’46 the regular staff members of the brother died and my father months ago, he has been stationed never whistled or sang again.” at Lackland Air Force Base at San Mont.; the Antioch Ledger, Anti­ are housewives, busily engaged in Daily News in putting out the och, Calif.; the Salt Lake Tribune raising families. Marilyn and Bob April 22 and 23 issues of the paper. The Old lady was 86. I began Antonio, Tex., and attended thinking about that father. What school at Panama City, Fla. and Telegram, Salt Lake City; Bennetts ’46 are state district vice Ken Byerly, publisher of the Daily Utah; and the Marshalltown Time presidents of JayCeens and Jay- News, reports that the students kind of a man was he that 74 years later his memory was so Nathalie McGregor '52 was mar­ Republican in Marshalltown, la. Cees, respectively. Clary Cory is took over all of the duties of re­ the promising actress, having porting, editing, photography, and fresh in that old lady’s mind? ried March 2 to Dick Pattison at brought down the horise with her Billings. Dick is a reporter for Edwin P. Astle ’32, former fea­ advertising. Out of this came “Pa Was Al­ ture writer for the Kaimin, is chief vocal selection in the first annual Journalism majors who took the ways Whistling,’; first appearing the Great Falls Tribune. They Junior League Follies here re­ were married at the Episcopal of field party for Agricultural Na­ Lewistowri trip were headed by as a short short in Liberty, picked tural Resources for the United cently. > Bob Chesnover, senior journalism up by Reader’s Scope, then appear­ church. Their address is 117 Park Ben Hogan and Babe Didrickson Drive, Great Falls, Mont. States government in Haiti. He major from Bozeman, who as­ ing in two Canadian magazines, in and his family are living in Port patterners-after include James, sumed the duties of editor. Others England, and in Australia, as well Hallowell, the Bennetts and Cole, William Forbis ’39 wrote the au Prince. included Shirley DeForth, Glen­ as in two anthologies. The' “Pa” while those who privately Check dive; Winnie Dinn arid Dorothy in my story was a modern Pa—so feature article for Time maga­ up on Furlong’s official baseball zine of Feb. 22 on Haiti and its Norma Mae Milkwick .Lamberg Reeves, both of Butte; Muriel were the children. I lifted the ’51 has joined her husband, E. S. scoring are Cunniff, James, Ben­ Griffin and Frank Milburn, both family from the long ago, to the President Magloire. The article netts arid Renders—to name a few. rated the cover picture for that Lamberg in Honolulu, Hawaii, of Missoula; Art Mathison, Deer present, understandable and I where he is stationed at Fort Offspring of the various families Lodge; Patricia O’Hare, Stevens­ hope, interesting background. issue. Forbis is Time’s contri­ mentioned above are -too numer­ buting editor arid spent a month Shafter. ville;' Jim Tutwiler, Drummond; My recent story in Colliers came ous to more than mention, but it and Dan Zenk, Tampico. about first because of the setter on the island gathering material might nqt be a bad idea for the J- ‘for the story. Mrs. C. E. Lanstrum (Blanche Three weekly newspapers, the in the story. He belonged to a Coppo ’30) is working in the clerk School to begin plans for an annex, Phillips County News, published family in the neighborhood. I fell and recorder’s office of Flathead because there’s probably more than Albert Erickson ’31, state ad­ by J. Russell Larcombe; the Ronan in love with him and he, gradually, county. a little printers’ ink' flowing in Pioneer published by Ray Loman, with me, mostly because there was vertising director, has been elected their veins. to the board of directors of the and the Terry Tribune, published- no one at home who gave him C. Darrell Coover ex-’49 has by Dick MacDougall were also love. Before he left the neighbor­ National Association of Travel Or­ received a $4,000 fellowship from ganizations for a period of three taken over by journalism majors hood, when the family who owned the American Political Science as­ Publishers Praise for one issue. him were moving away, I wrote a years. He will represent the sociation. This fellowship en­ Rocky Mountain region. Bob Newlin, Lewistown, was complete description of him, down titles him to spend nine months as Work of Students editor of the Malta paper. He.was to his last freckle. When the time one of 10 “Congress internes,” Donna Fanning ’48 was married assisted by Joan Brooks, St. Ig­ came I was ready to put him in a learning the ropes on the staffs On Press Trips yam. to Roy Bryggman. Their home is of congressional committees of the natius, and Bill Jones, Miles City. They were in Malta from April 18 “Man Bait” in the Woman’s 1227 Waller St., San Francisco, Seriate and House. Coover has Three publishers of Montana where he is attending dental to 23. Home Companion came as a re­ •been a member of the staff of the newspapers, which journalism Joan Kilburn, Ovando, a senior school. Bozeman Chronicle since 1950. majors put out for a brief time in sult of a fishing trip in the re­ April, have written Dean James journalism major, was editor of mote Buffalo Hump country. A daughter was bom on Feb. 19 Charles Preuninger ’51 is out L. C. Ford commending the work the Ronan paper. Ed Stenson, “Oregon’s Our Goal” in This to Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Van of the Army. His address is 820 done, by the students. > Spokane, Wash., and Dick Lillie, Week came about as a result of Luchene in Mesa, Ariz. Bob is Arthur, Missoula, Mont. J. Russell Larcombe, publisher Great Falls, went with her as reading a pioneer diary pub­ a ’49 graduate. Mrs. Van Lu­ of the Phillips County News, wrote staff members during the week lished in a small town news­ chene (Kathleen Koefod) is a ’48 Pat Graham ’52 can be reached that the students were turned loose of April 16 to 23. Mr. Loman is paper. Two sawmill stories came graduate. They have named the at the- Statesman-Examiner, 211- as far as the office was concerned. a 1949 graduate of the MSU J- from repeated visits to my baby Lynn Marie. 213 South Main street, Colville, “I didn’t see a galley proof or a school. brother’s sawmill. Wash. line of copy, except a couple of MacDougall, who took over In all of these stories I had to Ken Payton ’51 formerly with legal publications, all the way publication of the Terry Tribune do a lot of research, so every de­ the Lewistown Daily News, is now Dorothy Rochon Powers ’43 has thru,” Larcombe wrote; “so if in February after approximately tail would be authentic. “High employed by the Waterloo, la., begun a column in the Spokesman- they wanted to test out the free­ 10 years in the MSU printing shop; Pockets” in “Everywoman” came Daily Courier as sports writer and Review. The column, entitled “Our dom of the press, they sure had turned his paper over to Mathison, from the nickname given an odd Photographer. He is married to Town,” appears in the Sunday the chance to do it.” i editor and Jo Ann La Duke, character in my home town. “The the former Dolores May Umber of editions. Ray Loman ’49, publisher of the Ronan, and Walter O’Donnell, Million Dollar House” in This Lewistown and they are parents of Ronan Pioneer Press, Wrote Dean Havre, during the week of May 7 Week was made possible through a girl, Susanne Lynette, bom Jack Seigle, graduate student in Ford that the program of sending to 13. my real estate experience. “Shi- Feb, 4, 1954. 1952-53, is stationed at Camp Gor­ three students worked so well that varee” in The American jelled don, Ga., where he is taking 14 he hoped that it would be done “the students you send have al­ from hearing a friend’s father tell Les Kares ’50 is freelancing weeks of training with the Signal next year. ways been excellent and a credit about a man in his town who. got television news coverage in the Corps. He was employed on the "I’m quite sure we received to themselves as well as to the his bride through a matrimonial northwestern area of the country. Choteau Acantha during the sum­ some good publicity around the School of Journalism and Montana magazine. He works with sound movie equip­ mer and joined the army in Dec­ community as well as contribut­ State University. However, I do Ideas are everywhere. I find ment and is also making commer­ ember. He plans on returning to ing to the education of the stu­ not think we have had a better it fun discovering them, then cials for television. His address is MSU to finish his master’s degree dents,” Loman- continued. group than this year’s.” trying to clothe, warm, and N621 Burns road, Opportunity; when he completes his service Ken Byerly, publisher of the Byerly also extended an - invita­ glamorize them—hoping always, Wash. time. Lewistown Daily News, Wrote, tion for the program to continue. of course, for a sale. communique May, 1954 Page Four Former Graduate Wuerthner and Governor Dewey . . . Letter From Reinemer Encourages News Guild Movement in Montana decent paycheck brings.” The local Dear Gang: I’ve let your invitation to con­ Guild, during its three years of tribute to the Spring Communique existence, has raised the average lie in my desk until almost dead­ salary of editorial employees by line time because, frankly, I didn’t about 50 per cent. Because of the think that any of my activities Guild, working conditions have recently were of sufficient impor­ been improved, rules standardized, tance to warrant coverage in Com­ frictions decreased. 4 munique. Most of us J-School Now other eligible employees, grads are busy raising families (2 in the advertising and circulation boys here), planting lawns (mine’s departments, and in the business > up), knocking out copy (mine is office, are becoming interested in duller than usual. Now that the the Guild. dogwood is out I prefer to spend The Guild is raising the stand­ the late afternoon in the' yard ards of American journalism. It is rather than in the office.) Life doing this by providing wages and rolls on, and every so often there working conditions which encour­ is a pleasant reCollection of MSU age good men to stay in news work, days, like when a newsy letter instead of accepting attractive of­ from Jud Moore arrives, or when fers in public relations or govern­ Ole Bue writes about life around ment. By various projects in the the oval, or when the surprising hundred or so locals throughout intelligence comes in that ole Bud­ the country, it is encouraging dy Bottomly is married, or when talented youngsters to go into jour­ you ask a former Utah editor if nalism, and encouraging newsmen he knows Bob and Alice Blair and in the business to do better work. the reply is “Hell, I hired Bob’*, And, if I may be permitted to or when you land at Atlanta at 1 localize the situation, I think that a.m. and call-Oppenheimer but of the next time some Montanan be­ bed. moans the exodus of young news­ But tonight the thought occurs men from the state, or the dearth that one of my activities is worth of good dailies in the state, he some space. That activity is the should relate those situations to American Newspaper Guild. the lack of a strong Guild move­ We didn’t hear much about the ment in Montana. It’s no hard and Guild back at MSU. One of the fast rule but, generally speaking, main reasons we didn’t was be­ where you have a good Guild you cause it wasn’t—and still isn’t— have a good, aggressive news­ strong out there. The only local in paper. The employees are alert, the state is at the Great Falls Tri­ perhaps spunky, because they bune and Leader. have to organize and talk up to Since leaving Montana I’ve had the boss. And management is an opportunity to see, first hand, efficient, because it has to be' to what the Guild has done for jour­ give the employees a fair shake nalism, and I’ve been a part of the and at the same time meet other Guild. Here on The News, the rising costs of production. Guild has obtained for newsmen Thanks for the space, and re­ what Hal Boyle, AP columnist and gards to the old gang. former Guild international vice Vic Reinemer ’48 president, once said newspapermen CMR No. 332, Box 562 need most, “the dignity that a Charlotte 7, N.C. Pictured above is TV star John Cameron Swayze norland America” series of TV shows, Fram pre­ shaking the hand of Governor Thomas Dewey of sented a “Vacationland America State of the Week” New York. Behind Swayze is Julius Wuerthner, plaque to the governor of each state Fram saluted. Seniors Take Nine Journalists J-School graduate who is now director of public The gentleman behind Governor Dewey is uniden­ To Receive BAs relations for the Fram Corp. For its “Vaca- tified. Kaimin Survey Nine students will receive their Bachelor of Arts degrees in Seniors Examine Public Relations News Relates Journalism June 7. For Seminar Three men of the class are Press Coverage Nine out of ten students usually joining the armed services. They Wuerthner’s Position at Fram read the Kaimin, while the re­ are Dick Lillie, Great Falls; Bill On State Stories Julie Wuerthner Jr. ’49, director of public relations at the maining tenth student reads the Jones, Miles City; and Jim Lar- (This article appeared in the Fram corporation headquarters, Providence, R. I., was featured paper occasionally, so discovered combe, Malta. March, 1954, Montana' Press journalism seniors in taking a Four of the five women are Bulletin.) I in Feb. 1 Public Relations News, a weekly public relations pub­ readership survey on the campus seeking employment: Montana newspapers’ coverage lication for executives. paper as a seminar project. Margery Foot, Kalispell, is a of the operation of city and county More than a third of the students news-editorial major and prefers The News told the story of a relatively small company which governments and of other group tied public relations into its mer­ read the Kaimin advertisements editorial work on a small daily or activities appears to be on the in­ usually or always, while1 occasional weekly in the Flathead valley, if crease, according to “dips” studied chandising program to create sent to editors by Pres. Steven B., readership sends the ad traffic up possible. by senior journalism students at greater consumer and dealer good­ Wilson. to a total of 92.7 per cent for all Joan Kilburn, Ovando, is major­ the university? will. Fram corporation, manufac­ The project was written in a three categories. Classified ads ing in the magazine sequence and two-week period by PR director command exactly the same pro­ The weekly, assignments involv­ turer of filters (oil, air, fuel, and Wuerthner. He worked 20 hours would like to get general maga­ ed searches‘through the Montana portion of readers as do the display zine work in San Francisco. water) decided to supplement the a day to meet the deadlines. ads. Beverly Praetz, Chinook, is also papers to find evidence of both efforts of automobile and travel Months later, when the “Vaca­ In a voluntary “remarks” sec­ routine and£ahterpretative stories tionland America” films were be­ a magazine major and wants to of the communities’ organization industries by promoting the travel- tion for suggestions, the three work on .'the editorial staff of a ing shown over the nationwide ideas most frequently proposed and operation. by-auto theme. hook-up, Wuerthner used the pro­ home magazine. She would prefer The Fram campaign was launch­ were: Several papers, in addition to gram as a peg for creating addi­ to work on the west coast. news emphasis, have extended the ed over the NBC-TV network, with 1. More humor and more Bibler. Dorothy Reeves, Billings', majors tional goodwill and recognition 2. More pictures. picture to editorials of explanation. the commentator, John Cameron among the consumer groups in ■ in advertising and would like Two early in March used a ques- Swayze, and his family tailing part. 3. More stories about people radio or TV advertising work in each of the areas filmed. Instead rather than events. tion-and-answer evaluation story During 13 “Vacationland America” of using blanket releases, Wuerth­ Billings. and urged readers to send to the shows, the Swayzes were seen Another advertising major, ner sent individual stories stress-? publishers their ratings of their touring 24 states and several Cana­ ing local angles and saluting the Winnie Dinn, Butte, has a position dian provinces. with the Wendt Advertising towns. specific section’s tourist attrac­ Streit’S Book “The seniors found some excel­ To supplement each TV tour, tions. Some 4,000 stories and mats Agency in Great Falls. lent stories, and their sense of res­ Fram prepared a vacation infor­ Al Porter, Shelby, intends to were prepared. More than 1,000 ponsibility for that type of writ­ mation booklet, with a press run stories and editorials were pub- On Sale Soon work for an independent oil com­ ing is sharpened by the stories and of one million per trip. Distribu­ pany after graduation. lished. Rhodes scholar Clarence K. editorials that they clip,” said tion was first to customers of entire cost for booklets re- Fram dealers and was 'later ex­ The Streit ’19 has announced that his Prof. E. B. Dugan. leased to ' the press; presentation new book, “Freedom against It- The subject areas involved in tended to schools for use in geo­ plaques, some trips by Wuerthner; self” will be off the press May 26. Article by Embody the “treasure hunts” included: graphy classes, hospitals, Boy photos and releases; reprints; clip­ It is his first major book since history, population, and resources; Scouts, libraries, company reading ping services, and miscellaneous “Union Now.” Used in Magazine local government; crime, public racks, etc. The United States In­ totaled $3,000. Streit was nominated for the safety, workers, wages, and con­ formation agency distributed thou­ Wuerthner has led a busy life Nobel Peace Prize in 1952. His Shirley M. Embody ’52 writes of ditions of ^employment; housing, sands in 69 foreign countries. her first job of selling advertising since his graduation from MSU. work as peace delegate in Europe planning, and zoning; health; or­ This year, to mark Fram’s 20th He completed work on a master’s in 1918, and as New York Times in the April issue of The American ganized caSof the sick; provisions anniversary, the booklets have Press, The article, “The Ad and degree at the Graduate School correspondent from 1929 to 1939 for special groups; education; reli­ been incorporated into a 64-page of Retailing, New York univer­ won him the title, “Elijah from i,” tens of her experiences work- gion; public assistance; family wel­ travel brochure which is being The Colfax Commoner, a sity, in 1950. He worked oh the Missoula,” in an article in a 1950 ing for fare, child stare; minorities; plan­ New York Times classified ad­ Times magazine. weekly newspaper published in ning agencies; clubs and associa­ DUGAN FEATURE SPEAKER Colfax, Whitman county, Wash. vertising staff while attending In 1939 he was given an honor-, tions, and recreation. AT STATE HEALTH MEETING NYU. ary degree at MSU when he was Miss Embody tells of the pitfalls They also sought stories dealing Ed Dugan, professor of journal­ Following his work at NYU he a commencement speaker. of a new job; her experiences with with rural^prganization, including worked at the Fred Eldean organi­ Streit served as Kaimin editor various dealers, and her general family life; migration, health, land ism, was the feature speaker at the monthly meeting of the Montana zation, public relations counsel, in 1916-1917. impressions of a new job. division and operation, and ele­ where he handled industrial and “Looking for an advertisement ments of conflict. State Board of Health April 19 in the Sam W. Mitchell building in trade organization accounts. After BRINK WORKS AS REPORTER is an experience in itself. I some­ “It would be unfair to cite exam­ a year there he joined L. Richard ON MEXICO CITY PAPER times find it beneath a tractor ples of only a few of the news­ Helena, He spoke on publicity techniques and methods. Guylay & Associates, a public re­ Beverly Brink ’50 is working as where someone is doing a grease papers, when the students have lations firm specializing in politi­ a reporter on the only English job, or in a flour mill with flying turned in hundreds of clippings in The invitation was extended to Professor Dugan by Dr. G. Carlyle cal public relations. That firm was language paper in Mexico, The chaff in my nostrils and cats un­ two months, but publishers can the late Sen. Robert Taft’s counsel. News, located in Mexico City. She der my feet; or in the back of a have the satisfaction that what Thompson, executive officer of the board, who said that his associates After several campaigns Wuerth­ is temporarily working as society grocery store while dodging flying they’re doing by way of good ner left to join the Fram corpora­ watermelons being unloaded from repeatedly see the need of main­ make-up editor while the editor sound coverage isn’t passing un­ tion. is on vacation. a truck. . . .” noticed,” Dugan reports. taining good public relations.