Six journalists and
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
JOURNALISM WEEK awarded medals for
distinguished
service.
Individuals receiving the 1957 Jv[issouri Honor Awards for Distinguishecl _Service in Journalism are: Dr. Hollington K. Tong, Ambassador of the Re public of China to the United States, has known this land and its people hrst as a student and later in journalistic and oHicial capacities. After attending Park College, he enrolled in the University where he was a journalism student in 1 ~)I 1 and received an A.B. degree .in 1912. He did post-graduate work at Columbia University. Returning to China, he pioneered in modern journalism as publisher of the Yung Pao, a Chinese daily. He also served as editor or managing editor of a number of Chinese and English-language publications. In the war years he served ~,s a high information officer and an in defatigable and fair-minded interpreter of China and China's cause to the outside world, He is the author o( "Dateline: China" and "Chiang Kai-shek." He was Ambassador to Japan from 1952 to 195G. Ht ·-... . ._ Roy A. Roberts, editor, president, and general man One of the two stone /io11s al west ager of the Kansas City Star, joined the staff as a entrance, .fay H. Neff Hall, which were gifts reporter in 1908. His connection with the Star goe5 of the Chinese National Government in 19p.· back even further; as a boy on a bicycle he carried the paper in Lawrence where later, as a University of Kansas student, he began his writing career as a cor respondent for the paper. He has exposed to his tre mendous interest every facet of the Star's operation in jobs from cub reporter, to Washington correspond ent, to managing editor, to boss of it all. The staff recognizes him now as the Star's top reporter. Mr. Roberts has been director of the Associated Press, president of the \,Vashington correspondents' Gridiron Club and of the American Society for Newspaper Editors.
HONOR MEDAL WINNERS Hollington Tong Clint Denman
2 / MISSOURI ALUMNUS / APRIL '57 Honor guest at the 1957 Journalism Banquet is Riley Harris Allen, editor of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, recepient of the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism. Mr. All en, who will accept the award, has himself he~n honored at home and abroad for his humanitarian, civic, and journalistic services. ;\ native Texan and a graduate of the University of Chicago, he has heen editor of the Star-Bulletin since 1912, following newspaper work in Seattle. He was with the American Red Cross _in Siberia from 1918 to 1920. I-le received the honorary i\merican Farmer award from the Future Farmers of America at the 1956 annual convention in Kansas City. He is also recipient of the citation of "Distinguished Citizen" presented by the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. The Hawaiian Chinese Civic Association mad e him an honorary and life memher. Mr. Allen is vice-president and secretary of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Ltd., the Hilo Iribune-Herald, and the Honolulu Lithograph Company. He is vice-president of die Hawaiian Broadcasting System. Rothwell Gymnasium, scene of the Jm1rn;ilism Banquet, will have a Hawaiian motif, through the efforts of Mr. Allen and Mis touri Journalism alumni in Hawaii. Special effects will include a Hawaiian nu t Riley Allen rigger canoe. Exotic native flowers will decorate the speakers' tables. Guests will receive leis, and the menu will include island delicacies.
Ralph McGill, vditor o[ the Atlanta Constitution, 1nany contributions to Missourians with his campaigns is rvgarde(l as one or the greatest natural writers o[ our for local ancl state-wide improvements, waged privately tin1e. Born on a farm in Tennessee, he attended Vaml and through his paper. erbilt University. He bqian his newspaper career with Vernon C. Myers has been publisher of Look maga the Nashville Banner, lirst as police reporter then as zine since I Dfil!. Sinc:v then he has bevn elected to the sports columnist. In l!)!!H he moved to Atlanta and Board o[ Directors of Cowles Magazines, Inc. A St. the Constitution, and ten yva rs later was awarded a Louisan, he was (.!;l'aduated with a H.J. degree in 1932 , Rosenwald rellowship for travel in Europe. Return became circulation manager of the Ellinghan1 (111.) ing rro1n Europe to the editorship or the Constitution, Daily Record and Weekly Democrat, an(l joinetl the his daily colnmn was moved from the sports page lo Des Moines Register and Tribune in 1933, bvcoming the editorial page an(l later to the [rnnt page. His promotion manager two years later. ln I\)88 he joined latest internationaI assignment took him to Jndia, Look Jviagazine in Des Moines ancl four years later and his reporting job on that country is considered the moved to New York as a member of the sales staff. most competent of any done to date. A[ter war service he was west coast advertising man Clint H. Denman bought thv Sikeston (Mo.) Hendel ager, and in 1947 became promotion manager in New in 191/i and maintained a hig·h standard of journalism York. Later that same year he was· made assistant throughout the years as its editor and publisher. He to the president, ancl in 1951 became vice-president sold the paper to the owners of the Sikeston Standard of Cowles Magazines. in 195 ,1 . Since then, he has continued writing for news Elon Borton, New York, is president and general papers: he supplies fifty Missouri papers and many manager of the Advertising Federation of America, outstate papers with weekly discussions of the Inter the world's largest such organization. He founded the national Sunday School Lesson. Mr. Denman was Advertising Managers Club of Chicago, and is vice president of the Missouri Press Association in 19<10. president of the International Union of Advertising. The son of a Methodist preacher, he has been promi For twenty-two years he directed advertising ancl sales nent in church work for half a century. He has made promotion for La Salle Extension University, Chicago.
Ralph McGill Vernon Myers Roy Roberts Elon Borton
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