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Latin America expert joins journalism staff
Day will receive his Ph.D. degree in journalism from the University of Minnesota July 15. As an assistant professor of journalism, he will develop the school's program in international communication and also will teach basic news writing and editing.
J. Laurence Day, Minneapolis newspaperman and former South American press association editor, will join the staff of the School of Journalism September 1.
Day, 31, has taught at Brigham Young University and the University of Minnesota. He was born in Preston, Idaho, and attended Idaho Falls High School. He was a bureau assistant in Idaho Falls for the Salt Lake City Deseret News and while achieving his bachelor's degree in journalism at Brigham Young University served as editor of the all-American college newspaper, the Daily Universe, in 1959-60 and also was a reporter for the Idaho Falls Post-Register.
IN 1661 he attended the University of Argentina, Buenos Aires, as an Inter-American Press Association scholar and was awarded a master's degree from Brigham Young with a thesis on working newspapermen's organizations in Argentina. While in that country, he served as correspondent and night editor for United Press International, Buenos Aires, in 1961 and 1962, and also as a correspondent for McGraw-Hill World News.
In 1963-64 Day was awarded a Ford Foundation Fellowship and the Carroll Binder International Communications Scholarship at the University of Minnesota and was, successively, editorial assistant and assistant editor of Journalism Quarterly, research publication in mass communication.
In 1964 he visited six Latin American countries as chief of field research for the university and the U.S. Information Agency. Under Minneapolis Foundation Andrews Fund and McMillan
Fund grants he returned to South America in 1965 to conduct field research on professional journalists. His doctoral dissertation was an analysis of efforts toward professionalization of Latin American journalists.
DAY, WHO SPEAKS and reads Spanish and Portuguese, was a Latter-day Saints missionary in Uruguay in 1955-57.
He has written numerous indepth articles on Latin America for United Press International and the Minneapolis Tribune, where he has served full-time as a copy editor since last August.
Day is an active member of the Overseas Press Club of America; of Kappa Tau Alpha, scholarship society in journalism, and of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism society.
Smith, Maloney attend meeting
Friday, June 24,1966 Summer Session Kansan
Two faculty members of the School of Engineering and Architecture are attending the American Society of Engineering Educators conference June 20-24 at Washington State University, Pullman, Wash.
They are William P. Smith, dean, and James O. Maloney, professor of chemical engineering.
A main topic at the conference is last year's ASEE goals report which recommended that the first professional engineering degree be given after five years of study instead of four years.
For Academy Changes
WASHINGTON—(JPI)—Rep. Robert Ellsworth, R Kan., has filed a bill abolishing the selection of service academy cadets and midshipmen by representatives and senators.
Ellsworth said the present selection by politicians was "inefficient and unfair."
Two KU students have received W. E. Lundquist Memorial Scholarships for 1966-67.
Win Lundquist honor
The awards are restricted to students from McPherson County and were established by the estate of the late Mrs. Ada Lundquist of McPherson in memory of her husband.
Carolyn J. Graber received a renewal grant. Maria Ruth Dahlsten will transfer to KU from Kansas State.
Three movies will be shown at 8 p.m. today outside at Robinson Gymnasium. They are "Happy Holiday Along the Potomac," "European Tapestry" and "Come to Texas."
Three movies tonight
SUA
FRIDAY FLICKS
SUA
"The Great Imposter"
Starring: Tony Curtis
Friday, June 24th
In Air Conditioned
Dyche Auditorium
7:00 & 9:00 p.m.
Admission 35c
RECORD DEPARTMENT
Complete line of Transistor Radios
MODEL M-2862
AM-FM $24.95
AM-FM $39.95
Sale $5.95 Diamond Needle