J. Willard Ridings
Head of Dept. of Journal iem and Director of Publicity, Texas Christian Univ., Ft. Worth
Mr. Ridings grew up in northern Missouri, graduated from the University of
Missouri, and for many years did repretoire work on the Kansas City Star and
St. Louis Post Dispatch. He taught at the University of Mo. and has been at
T.C.U. for 15 years.
Is President of the American College Publicity Association, and is here in
: Lawrence to attend the joint meeting of District VIII of the American College
Publicity Association and District VI of the American Alumni Council.
An interesting sidelight is that Mr. Ridings’ son, Paul, has the same title at
Midland College, Fremont, Nebr. as his father, ani both are attending the meeting
here together. This is the only father-son combination of college publicity
directors in the world. Both father and son belong to the same three
fraternities: Delté Upsilon

Sigma Delta Chi

Pi Delta Epsilon
They form the only father-son combination to hold master degrees from the

School of Journalism at University of Mo.