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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Jan. 14, 1986
Foundation Honors Washington Writer
Clark R. Mollenhoff, Pulitizer Prize winning Washington Correspondent, will give the 15th annual William Allen White Lecture here February 10.
Mollenhoff will speak at 3:30 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union after receiving the William Allen White Foundation's seventh citation to an American journalist for service to his profession and to his community.
Mollenhoff has been a Washington reporter since 1950 for the Cowles Publications, which include the Des Moines Register and Tribune, the Minneapolis Star and Tribune and Look magazine.
HE RECEIVED THE 1958 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. He has won numerous other awards including the Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for Washington correspondence, the Sigma Delta Chi Award for public service in journalism, the Heywood Broun Memorial Award and the John Peter Zenger Award.
In 1860 and 1961, Mollenhoff spent 11 months studying in nations throughout Africa and the Middle East on an Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship. Since returning to Washington, he has been especially active in studying and writing about problems of secrecy in government.
He received a law degree from Drake University in 1944. He studied at Harvard University on a Nieman Fellowship in the 1949-50 school year.
EACH YEAR, the William Allen White Foundation meets here on February 10, the birthday of the late editor of the Emporia Gazette in whose honor the foundation was established in 1944.
The board will meet at 9:30 a.m. in the William Allen White Memorial Reading Room. Byron E. Guise, president of the foundation, and
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editor of the Marysville Advocate will preside. Burton W. Marvin, director of the foundation and dean of the KU School of Journalism will present his annual report.
At a luncheon at 12:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union, a Kansas editor will receive the foundation's annual citation presented to a Kansas journalist in recognition of service to journalism and his community. Rolla A. Clymer, editor of the El Dorado Times, will give the presentation address at the luncheon.
MOLLENHOFF WILL SPEAK informally and answer questions at a dinner at 6 p.m. in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union. The dinner will be sponsored by Sigma Delta Chi and Theta Sigma Phi, men's and women's professional journalism societies.
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