J-MC School Hall of Fame

All degrees are from The University of Iowa, unless otherwise noted. Leading date marks the year of induction into the Hall of Fame. Date in parentheses is their U.I. degree year.

2005 John Calhoun Merrill emeritus professor of journalism at the University of Missouri at Columbia rceived his doctorate from the UI School of Journalism and Mass Communication in 1961, is an internationally renowned scholar in the field of media ethics and the philosophy of journalism. He has taught for more than 50 years at institutions around the world, has been a senior fellow at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center in New York and has received the Distinguished Service Award in International Communication from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, among many other honors. He began his career as a newspaper reporter in the 1930 and continues writing today as a columnist for the Columbia Missourian.
2004 J. Alan Cramer, Past Publisher Wayne (NE) Herald – J. Alan Cramer, a 1955 School of Journalism graduate, became a newspaper owner and publisher at age 24, when he took over the Wayne (NE) Herald following his father's death in a plane crash. That began a 47-year journalism career during which Cramer was co-publisher and majority owner of 23 newspapers, two radio stations and a cable TV system in California, Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana and Nebraska.
2002 Joe Bartelme deceased B. A. (1954), M. A. (1955); ran news operations of UI's radio station, WSUI, as part of the Journalism-Mass Communication Broadcast News Workshop; won national acclaim from the Radio-Television News Directors Association and Foundation, the George Foster Peabody and Colombia University DuPont Awards; served as vice-president of NBC Network News.
2001 Hanno Hardt Taught at UI (1968-2002); became the Fulbright senior lecturer in Yugoslavia (1986-1987); served as professor in communication in the faculty of social sciences in University of Ljubljana, Slovenia since 1991; authored and co-authored several books including: Critical Communication Studies: Communication, History and Theory in America, Idea of Mass Communication, Interactions: Criticaol Studies in Communication, Media & Journalism and with UI Ph.D. alumn bonnie Brennen, Newsworkers: Toward a History of the Rank and File and Picturing the Past: Media, History and Photography. Web site: http://skylined.org/hardt/
2000 James Harris B. A. (1969); founded Iowa City's Prairie Lights bookstore, one of the top independent bookstores in the US that regularly schedules readings featuring well-known authors that are broadcast on public radio stations.
1999 William Hageboeck deceased B. A. (1928); served as advertising manager, general manager and publisher for the Iowa City Press Citizen; served as director of the Iowa City Chamber of Commerce; received the Outstanding Citizen Award from the Iowa City Rotary Club (1963) and UI Distinguished Alumni Award for Service (1992); served as member of UI's School of Journalism Professional Advisory Board.
1998 Diane Ying M. A. (1968); served as editor-in-chief of the Commonwealth Monthly, Taiwan's first successful business monthly which she launched; formerly advisor to Taiwanese President Lee Tenghui; received Meggassaisai Award and the UI Distinguished Alumni Award for Achievement (1996).
1997 Brian Ross B. A. (1971); received Peabody Award (1974), the Columbia Award (three times), the Sigma Delta Chi Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Award (1979), the National Emmy Award (twice), Overseas Press Club of America Award, award for best TV spot news reporting from abroad, and the George W. Polk National Television Reporting Award. Brian became ABCNEWS' chief investigative correspondent in 1994 after an 18 years at NBC.
1996 Carol McKay B. A. (1971); served as photo editor at U. S. News & World Report, director of photography at the Kansas City Star, and photo editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Sentinel; worked in the Milwaukee Bureau of United Press International.
1995 John Camp M. A. (1971), B. A. (1966); won a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing (1986) and was a finalist for the same category in 1980; published a novel titled Rules of Prey (1988) and 11 additional "Prey" novels subsequently under the pen name of John Sandford.
1994 John McCormally Served as editor and publisher of the Burlington Hawk Eye; shared a Pulitzer Prize for public service with his staff when he was editor of the Hutchinson (Kansas) News (1965); won William Allen White Award writing (1979), distinguished Service Award from the Iowa Newspaper Association (1986), and two Iowa Newspaper Association Newspaper of the Year Awards; regular panelist on the Iowa Public Television program "Iowa Press"; founded the Iowa Freedom of Information Council.
1993 John Cochran M. A. (1967); served as chief Capitol Hill correspondent for ABC News, chief NBC White House correspondent (1988-1993) and chief European correspondent and chief diplomatic correspondent for NBC News; reported as a freelancer from Southeast Asia during the height of the Vietnam War.
1992 Frank Luther Mott deceased Editor of Journalism Quarterly (1930-1935); served as director of UI's School of Journalism and Mass Communication (called State Univ. of Iowa at the time, 1927-1942); was Dean of the School of Journalism at the U. ov Missouri (1942-1951won a Pulitzer Prize in American History for his four-volume A History of American Magazines (1939).
1991 Mildred Wirt Benson deceased B. A. (1925), M. A. (1927); first woman to receive a master's degree in journalism at UI; wrote more than 120 children's books, many under pseudonyms; using the name Carolyn Keene, she created the Nancy Drew mysteries series; worked at Toledo Blade until her death at age 96 in 2002.
1990 Frank Eyerly deceased Was associated with the Des Moines Register for 42 years (1927-1969) and served as managing editor the last 23 years.
1989 Donald Padilla deceased B. A. (1947); founded, directed and was a First Fellow of the Minnesota Newspaper Foundation; founded financial news wire; received over 35 awards including the Minnesota Press Club's Distinguished Service Award, an award from the National Press Photographers Association, and the Paul M. Lund Public Service Award from the Public Relations Society of America; named "Mr. Public Relations of the Twin Cities."
1988 Wayne A. Danielson B. A. (1952); taught at University of Wisconsin (1957-1959); served as dean of the University of North Carolina's journalism school (1964-1969) and of the University of Texas School of Communication (1969-1979); served as president of the Association for Education in Journalism (1970-1971); known for work in computer applications for newspaper.
1987 Peter M. Sturtevant M. A. (1967); served as national editor of all CBS bureaus (1974-1981); served in numerous positions at CBS for 18 years; senior producer of CNN's "Moneyline" (1985), and vice president for business news for CNBC (1990).
1986 Judy Klemesrud deceased B. A. (1961); won the Page One Award from the Newspaper Guild of New York (1973, 1983), and the J. C. Penney-Missouri Newspaper Award for best feature story (1974); wrote for the New York Times "women's pages" from 1966 to 1985. She got the Times to publish their first major article on the feminist movement in 1970 and devoted about 20% of her writing to the movement. She is still a frequently quoted author about writers and movie actors.
1985 Carole Simpson Attended UI in 1964 working toward a master's degree; taught journalism at Northwestern and Tuskegee Institute; first woman newscaster at WSUI; worked for NBC (1974-1978); joined ABC in 1982 where she became an Emmy Award-winning senior correspondent; served as president of the Radio and Television Correspondents Association (1982-1983). (ABC biographical sketch)
1984 Catherine Covert deceased B. A. (1945); received the annual Howard Blakeslee Award for outstanding reporting to the general public in the field of heart and blood vessel diseases, the Albert and Mary Lasker Award for Distinguished Science Writing (1952), the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication's Outstanding Achievement Award (1953), and the Empire State Award for excellence in medical reporting (1960); first woman professor in the Newhouse School of Journalism at Syracuse University, and first woman to head the AEJMC History Division (1975).
1983 Charles Swanson M. A. (1946), M. A. (1946), Ph. D. (1948); second Ph. D. graduate at UI, served as director of research in the University of Minnesota's journalism department (1949-1952), vice president and director of research for the Curtis Publishing Company (1954-1964), and vice president of academic affairs at California State at Fresno (1973-1976); taught at New York University (1968); authored The Golden Chain.
1982 David Manning White Ph. D. (1942); published 18 books including Mass Culture: The Popular Arts in America (1957) and with Ralph Nafziger, Introduction to Mass Communications Research (1958); chaired Bradley University's journalism department (1947-1949) and Boston University's School of Public Communication (1964-1975); taught at Virginia Commonwealth University (1975-1982); developed the "gatekeeper" theory; helped establish Nafziger-White dissertation award.
1981 Frederick T. C. Yu M. A. (1948), Ph. D. (1951); first non-American student in the nation to earn a Ph. D. in mass communication; taught at the University of Southern California for three years, served as vice dean (1979); taught at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism from 1962 and was named the first CBS professor of International Journalism in 1980; author of five books.
1980 Corena J. SerVaas, M.D. B. A. (1946); edited the Saturday Evening Post; co-wrote several cookbooks including Saturday Evening Post Fiber & Bran Better Health Cookbook and The High Lysine & Fiber Cookbook; published several newsletters; appointed by President Reagan to the first Presidential Commission on AIDS; founded and chaired the nonprofit Benjamin Franklin Literary & Medical Society (1976).
1979 Dorothy Moeller deceased B. A. (1925); publisher of Bremer County Independent & Waverly Democrat during World War II; conducted the first national study on the use of the daily newspaper in the classroom (1956), which later became the nation-wide Newspapers in Education program; edited the Iowa Voter, the state league's bulletin.
1978 Arthur J. Snider deceased B. A. (1938); reported for the Chicago Daily News from 1946-1978; worked at Chicago Sun-Times from 1978-1980; won the Howard Blakeslee Award for excellence in reporting diseases of the heart and blood vessels (1967), the National Headliner Club's annual award for outstanding news story (1948); served as president of the National Association of Science Writers (1953), president of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing (1966); inducted posthumously into the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame (1982).
1977 Murray Seeger B.A. (1951), started career at Buffalo Evening News, moved to Cleveland Plain Dealer, becoming City Hall and State House Correspondent. Won Nieman Fellowship in Journalism at Harvard University (1961-62); editorial director KYW-TV and Radio, moving to the New York Times covering labor (1964-65). Joined Newsweek Washington Bureau, economics correspondent, and taking same assignment at the Los Angeles Times (1967). Was LAT Bureau Chief in Moscow and Bonn and European Economic Correspondent in Brussels; won Loeb Award for economic journalism. Joined AFL-CIO as Information Director (1982-87), moved to Singapore as senior editorial consultant at The Straits Times. Joined International Monetary Fund as assistant director, Department of External Relations (1990-94). In retirement, was senior advisor to curator, Nieman Foundation; Washington Representative, Committee to Protect Joursnalists; and diector of Committee on the Future of Journalism. Taught journalism at U. of Michigan, U. of Maryland, American U., and George Washington U. Visiting journalist in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Jordan, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Sri Lanka and South Africa. Author, Discovering Russia: 200 Years of American Journalism (2005).
1976 Herb Nipson M. F. A. (1948); worked at Ebony for 40 years (1949-1989); hired as an assistant editor he retired as executive editor at Ebony.
1975 Philip. D. Adler deceased B. A. (1926); served as editor and publisher of the Kewanee Star-Courier for 23 years; founded and directed UI's School of Religion and served as president of its board of trustees; served as national chairman of UI's Arts Center campaign (1964-1966), and president of newspaper syndicate Lee Enterprises (1960-1970); chaired the UI Foundation (1968-1970); received UI's Distinguished Alumni Award for service (1966) and the Hancher-Finkbine Alumni Medallion (1970); the new Adler J-MC Building (2004) is named in his honor. (biographical sketch)
1974 Malcolm S. MacLean deceased Served as director of UI's School of Journalism (1967-1974); served as president of the International Communication Association; co-developed the Westley-MacLean communication theory model; co-founder of University College at University of Minnesota; became the Gallup Professor of Communication Research at UI (1964). (biographical sketch - Iowa Journalist)
1973 Paul Engle deceased M. A. (1932); won the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize for Worn Earth, a collection of poems (1932); served as director of the Iowa Writers Workshop (1941-1966); served on the National Council of Arts (1965-1971); co-nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize (1976); co-founded the UI's International Writing Program (1967) and co-directed it (1967-1977). (biographical sketch - DesMoinesRegister.com)
1972 Wallace Stegner deceased M. A. (1932), Ph. D. (1935); established the Stanford Writing Program (1946) and served as its director for 26 years; won a National Book Award for The Spectator Bird (1976), five O. Henry Prizes (1942, 1948, 1950, 1955, 1964), and a Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Angle of Repose (1972); taught in the creative writing programs of the University of Wisconsin and Harvard University. (biographical sketch - Barnes & Noble)
1971 James F. Fox deceased B. A. (1940); served as Chase Manhattan Bank's public relations vice president (1957); taught at New York University (1984); served as national president of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) (1975); received PRSA's Golden Anvil Award (1978); one of the 26 charter members of PRSA's "College of Fellows."
1970 Joseph W. Shoquist B. A. (1948), M. A. (1951); served as president of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (1983); served as editor of the Milwaukee Journal (1967); served as president of the Associated Press Managing Editors (1979); served as dean of the College of Journalism at the University of South Carolina from 1986ˆ1991.
1969 Paul Conrad B. A. (1950); won five Sigma Delta Chi awards for editorial cartooning; won three Pulitzer Prizes for editorial cartooning (1964, 1971 and 1984) and two Overseas Club awards; was named to the Nixon Enemies List. (biographical sketch - Library of Congress )
1968 Joseph Benti M. A. (1962); won two Emmy Awards as a reporter at Los Angeles-based KNXT (KCBS) in 1978 and 1979 for his work as anchor and writer-reporter for a series of reports on the Panama Canal; anchored the "CBS Morning News" from 1966-1970. (biographical sketch - PDF file)
1967 Peter Hackes deceased M. A. (1949); served as city editor of UI's WSUI radio station; at NBC won an Emmy Award for coverage of the Apollo space flights in 1969 and 1970; won a Peabody award at NBC's "Second Sunday" program; served as NBC's congressional correspondent.
1966 Leslie G. Moeller deceased B. A. (1925); served as sixth director of UI's School of Journalism (1947-1967); one of the first two graduates from the UI's School of Journalism; taught at UI for 26 years; ran the Bureau of Newspaper Service (1946); served as chair of the Association for Education in Journalism's (AEJ) Committee on Professional Freedom and Responsibility, the Committee on Journalism and Language Skills (1975), AEJ's Committee on Standards in Teaching (1953-1956), and as chair of the accreditation committee for the American Council on Education in Journalism; became the UI School of Journalism's first John F. Murray Professor (1972).
1965 Wendell Johnson deceased B. A. (1928), M. A. (1929), Ph. D. (1931); served as director of UI's Speech Clinic (1943); served as chief administrative officer of the Iowa Program in Speech Pathology (1947); chaired the UI Council on Speech Pathology and Audiology (1951), the forerunner of the department of Speech Pathology and Audiology; edited the Iowa Literary Magazine (1928); became the Louis W. Hill Research Professor (1963). (Memorial Web site by Nick Johnson)
1964 Arthur M. Barnes deceased B. A. (1936), M. A. (1937); faculty member at UI from 1945-1969; served as director of Pennsylvania State University's School of Journalism; co-founded the Iowa Radio News Association.
1963 Earl F. English deceased M. A. (1937), Ph. D. (1944); served as dean of the University of Missouri's School of Journalism (1951-1970); designed the accreditation system for the American Council on Education for Journalism; founded the University of Missouri's Freedom of Information Center (1958).
1962 J. Hartzell Spence deceased B. A. (1930); author of the novel One Foot from Heaven, a New York Times bestseller for 54 weeks in 1941 and several other books; managed United Press International's Special Service Division (1935-1941) and wrote for Look, Reader's Digestand Saturday Evening Post until the mid-1960s. (biographical sketch, DesMoinesRegister.com)
1961 Jess Gorkin deceased B. A. (1936); edited the Daily Iowan (1936-1937); served as editor of Parade magazine for forty years; and edited 50 Plus from 1978-1983.
1960 Harry Boyd deceased B. A. (1929); edited the Daily Iowan in 1928 and the Cedar Rapids Gazette for three decades; had a nationally syndicated column called "My America"; served in the offices of the Iowa Daily Newspaper Association.
1959 W. Earl Hall deceased B. A. (1918); received UI's first Distinguished Service Award (1963); served as editor of the Mason City Globe-Gazette for 43 years; edited the Daily Iowan (1917). (biographical note, U. Iowa Libraries)
1958 Conger Reynolds deceased B. A. (1912); Public Relations Director of Standard Oil; taught journalism at UI, ran its public relations services; started an Army news service in France during World War I; received the Award of the National Association of Public Relations Counsel (1948); served as director of the Office of Private Cooperation in the U. S. Information Agency (1956-1961).
1957 Frank J. Starzel deceased B. A. (1964); general manager of the Associated Press, the world's largest news organization from 1948-1962; Daily Iowan staffer; finished his degree at age 60.
1956 Kenneth MacDonald deceased B. A. (1926); headed news operations for the Des Moines Register for 50 years (1927-1977) where he maintained a news staff that won 12 Pulitzer Prizes over several decades; Daily Iowan staffer. Obituary, Editor & Publisher
1955 Daniel Starch deceased M. A. (1904), Ph.D. (1906); founded the Starch Continuing Readership Research Program. (1932) He is best known for devising a procedure for measuring the readership of advertisements known as the Starch Recognition Procedure; founded Daniel Starch and Staff (1923); received UI's Centennial Award; published Principles of Advertising (1923).
1954 Richard L. Wilson deceased B. A. (1926); presented the most comprehensive agriculture program coverage of President Roosevelt's "New Deal" federal farm and public welfare programs; won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting (1954); headed the Washington bureau for the Des Moines Register, Minneapolis Star and Tribune, and Look (1938-1970); received Sigma Delta Chi's annual award for Washington reporting.
1953 Beatrice Blackmar Gould deceased B. A. (1921); edited the Ladies' Home Journal for 27 years with husband C. Bruce Gould; edited the UI's Daily Iowan; wrote for the Ottumwa Journal, Des Moines Capital, Des Moines Tribune, and the New York Sunday World; wrote several plays with husband Bruce including The First Gentlemen of Her Time, Man's Estate, and The Terrible Turk.
1952 Theodore F. Koop deceased B. A. (1928); edited the Daily Iowan; created CBS' Face the Nation; presided over the Radio-Television News Directors Association. (biographical sketch, UI Libraries)
1952 C. Bruce Gould deceased B. A. (1922); co-founded humor magazine Frivol (1919); wrote for the New York Post (1924-1931), the Wall Street News, Saturday Evening Post; wrote several plays with wife Beatrice Blackmar Gould including The First Gentlemen of Her Time, Man's Estate, and The Terrible Turk; co-edited the Ladies' Home Journal for 27 years with wife. (biographical sketch, Princeton library)
1950 Harvey Ingham deceased Co-owner and editor, from 1903 to 1943, of the Des Moines Register; joined he NAACP in Des Moines, Iowa, and fought against the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s.
1951 Wilbur L. Schramm deceased Ph.D. (1932); founded the Iowa Writers' Workshop; served as director of the School of Journalism (1943-1947); designed the first doctoral program in mass communication in America; founded University of Illinois' Institute of Communications Research; founded and served as director of Stanford University's Institute of Communications Research; founded the East-West Communication Institute in Honolulu, Hawaii. (biographical sketch from The Beginnings of Communication Study in America: A Personal Memoir) (Pete Pardo's biographical essay)
1949 Marquis W. Childs deceased M. A. (1925), Honorary Doctorate of Literature (1969); won first-ever Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary (1970); wrote and edited many books including The Peacemakers, Taint of Innocence, and Witness to Power; consulted for President Franklin D. Roosevelt; presided over the Overseas Writers and Gridiron Club. (biographical sketch, DesMoinesRegister.com)
1948 George H. Gallup deceased B. A. (1923), M. A. (1925), Ph. D. (1928), LLD (1967); founded Gallup Poll in 1935; founded Quill & Scroll Society at the UI in 1926; taught at UI. (student biographical essay by Jeffery Sellers)