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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1941.
Flint's Friends Send Flood of Letters
Many Messages From Officials
Numerous letters have been received from former students and admiring colleagues since Prof. L. N. Flirt announced his retirement as chairman of the department of journalism.
john himself.
Following are some excerpts chosen at random from a few of the letters:
... there are a lot of things we could say in a letter of this sort. But, somehow, no matter how we say them, they don't sound just right. . . perhaps there's an answer. You, as teacher and friend, have contributed so much to the lives of both of us that you are a part of us. And, because you are a part of us, we rather think you will know what we want to say, and can't . . .
Mr. and Mrs. George F. Church, Oklahoma A. and M., Stillwater, Okla.
Felicitations . I doubt if one could invest himself for a generation in a more fruitful field of labor than training gifted young men and women for this noble profession. I am sure all those who have sat in your classes have gone out into the world equipped not only with better technique for their tasks, but with a higher ethical concept of their responsibility to society at large.
Frank E. Burkhalter, Baylor University.
. . . Your department has long been looked on as one of the most substantial and best administered in the country. From everything that you have said, thought, done or touched there have stood forth a clear mind, a sturdy personality, and a figure of "man-thinking" responsibility.
West Virginia University.
. . . Throughout all the years to come, your own students, journalism students throughout the nation, practitioners of journalism, and teachers will continue to listen to, and respect, you as a really great newspaper man who will always continue to be an inspirer of still better journalism.
Elmer J. Emig,
University of Florida.
From United Press
. It occurs to me on the eve of your retirement as head of the department of journalism at the University of Kansas that there probably is no other man who has exercised a greater influence on United Press in recent years than you, and I hope it is not amiss to add my mite to the expressions of appreciation that I know must be flooding your desk . . .
Jacques D'Armand, Manager, Southwest Division United Press Associations.
Among those students who are with United Press and who join me in this expression are:
Margaret Plummer Richards, Kansas City bureau.
Earl J. Johnson, vice-president, general news manager.
Miles W. Vaughn, night news manager.
L. B. Mickel, superintendent of bureaus.
Merton T. Akers, New York bureau manager.
William B. Dickinson, New York copy desk.
J. Alan Coogan, manager Rio de Janeiro bureau.
George B. Roscoe, Washington news desk.
William Downs, London bureau.
William Danenbarger, Southern business representative.
Chiles Coleman, Atlanta bureau.
Joe Myler, New York bureau.
Tom Bright, Sacremento bureau.
. . I regret that my recent connection with the U.S. government makes it impossible to be present. . . it appears a former Austrian house painter needs attention. . .
You will remember that I was classes of yours which had on their rolls such famous journalists as Doris Fleeson, Chet Shaw Llewell White, etc. We were rather cocky in those post-war days and gave everyone concern. I would like to live those days over in Lawrence this June by gathering at the table with you and your students of the early '20's . . . extending sincere congratulations.
Chet Shore,
Captain, 137th Infantry,
G-2 Press Section, 35th Div.
. . . In the seventeen years I have been meeting you at the K.I.P.A. and Teachers Council, you have been a great inspiration to all of us. Your high standards have helped us so much . . .
Hazel K. Pullman, Instructor of Journalism, Garnett, Kans.
All the happiness in the world to you in the future.
A man who deserves the finest tribute and who is getting it.
. . . I know your friends who are there in person are going to express
their appreciation for all the things you have done for us personally and the University, in thousand different ways. I wish that I could say them all, because it still wouldn't express the gratitude for things you have done for me . . . I run acorss your former students and friends here in California as often as I did in Kansas. Your friends certainly aren't localized. Last week I walked into a newspaper office here and saw "The Conscience of a Newspaper" on the shelf. We discovered we were both your former students!
Congratulations to "Daddy" Flint--in the teaching of journalism to express to you personally our appreciation of the service that you have given our chosen field . . . I send these words to you, not with the feeling that you have in any sense reached an end of your service, but that this year stands out only as another milestone in a long series.
Westwood Hills News-Press Los Angeles, Calif.
Publisher,
Morgan Coe,
Truly, L. N., you have meant much to me, and if in my small way I have found any niche whatever in this turbulent and highly compressed existence, the greater portion of the credit goes to your sterling guidance during those formative years
Karl Koopner, Vice-President and Managing Editor, KMBC, Kansas City, Mo.
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University of Kentucky.
... The standards you set, and the achievements you attained are standards for all the rest of us to aim for . . . I, for one, am glad you will continue your guiding presence in the department. That fact alone will insure the fine work's continuing.
Niel Plummer,
A. A. Applegate,
Michigan State College.
. . I wish it were possible for all of us who are comparatively new
... Your record is an enviable one not only in point of time but because of the significant contributions that you have made . . I can only hope that when I have served a quarter of a century in the field of journalism educating my name will be associated with just a portion of the fine achievements that are yours.
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