Friday. June 17, 1966 Summer Session Kansan
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"Stop the presses!" he shouted, and brought down the wrath of the publisher.
That isn't how it happens in the movies, but it's how it happened to Paul S. Swensson, executive director of the Newspaper Fund, Inc., but then an editor of the Minneapolis Star.
It was a dramatic moment. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the President of the United States, was dead. The country must be informed. Swenson chose to break all the house rules and interrupt the run in order to include the story on the first page.
It wasn't the insertion of the story that disturbed his publisher; it was the fact that some areas of the circulation field were deprived of the paper because of a missed train connection. They had no news at all that day.
IT WAS NOT THE FIRST time Swensson had behaved in an unorthodox manner. During the depression, when other college graduates were unable to find jobs and were on relief, he worked as a reporter on a small paper in Mitchell, S.D., although he had had no formal training in journalism. He used three by-
lines trying to assess, by the amount of mail each received, which style would be most effective for him to use.
He gained more experience in the area of communication in other parts of the country, notably in Minneapolis. There he was contacted by Dow-Jones in 1961 to head up a recently created branch of its business family, the Newspaper Fund, Inc., with headquarters in Princeton, N.J. In this capacity, he was on the KU campus last week.
The purpose of the Newspaper Fund is to encourage able young people to enter the field of journalism, which now has come to include the media of radio and television as well as the written word. This is being done to some degree through such programs as the two now in progress on the campus of the University of Kansas, the Publication Advisers Institute and the Newspaper in the Classroom Workshop.
Design student awarded trip to international conference
Michael Meister, Independence, Mo., junior, has been awarded a fellowship from the International Design Conference in Aspen, to attend this summer's conference in Aspen, Colo., June 19-24. Mr. Meister is a student of design at KU.
OTHER METHODS INCLUDE programs of internships on participating newspapers for promising young people and further scholarship grants to college seniors who participated during the
According to Eliot Noyes, president of the international design organization, and president of his own design firm in New Canaan, Conn., the purpose of the conference is to communicate a better understanding between the functions of management and design. Speakers and panelists for the 1966 conference have been chosen to cover all areas of design—architectural, industrial, graphic, and communications—with special emphasis on education.
summers after their junior years.
The theme of this summer's conference will be "The sources and resources of 20th century design." Program chairman for the 1966 Conference is Allen Hurlburt, vice-president of Cowles Publications. The conference is open to anyone interested in design.
Not a teacher himself, Swenson explained his great interest in education when he said, "Anyone who is an editor certainly involved in teaching." Though he has always enjoyed editing and its associated teaching duties, he believes that "writing is a marvelous way to convey information from one place to another," and perhaps prefers that aspect of journalism.
Swensson is in his late fifties. He is the son of a Swedish immigrant who became a minister, and appreciates the varied background the necessary travel afforded him. He is a graduate of Gustavus Adolphus, St. Peter, Minn., and has done further work at the University of Minnesota and the University of Stockholm. He holds an honorary degree from his alma mater. He chuckled when he said that he had been awarded a doctorate of humane letters, though the school which gave it to him still has no department of journalism.
Trujuns . . . the real he-man look in casual shoes. Look for the arrowhead inside, your sign for a real hand sewn front outside. Trujuns . . . new casual leader.
"GO WEST, YOUNG MAN, go West," advises Mr. Swensen, just as Horace Greeley did so long ago. He believes that the best opportunities for young journalists are in the Midwest, where the salaries are better and the chances for individuality are greater.
He encourages any young person with any inclination toward writing to give journalism a try. The Newspaper Fund will help in any way it can.
Cleon A. W. Capas, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, and Albert R. Lopes, University of New Mexico, and Manuel A. Rodriguez, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colo., are the authors.
A KU professor is co-author of a publication for the teaching of Spanish at first and second year levels.
During the month-long trial, Prof. Rudolph continued his teaching activities at the University of Nebraska. His tight schedule included an 8 to 9 class, then a quick trip to the Federal Building, one block away, to work on the case until 5 p.m.
KU man author of Spanish book
At the summons of President Johnson, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe joined a group of distinguished medical practitioners and scholars in Washington Wednesday to lay the final administrative groundwork for the beginning stages of Medicare.
convicted. The case has been appealed to the Eighth Circuit Court in St. Louis, Mo.
Professor Wallace Rudolph, visiting professor from the University of Nebraska, recently arrived on campus for the summer session. He is the court assigned counsel for Duane Earl Pope, McPherson College football hero who, on June 4, 1965, held up the Farmer's State Bank, Big Springs, Neb., took $1589 at gun point and methodically shot four bank officials, killing three.
Prof. Rudolph says he is enjoying his stay in Lawrence and plans to be joined next week by his wife and 10 month old daughter, Alexey. He plans to return in September to his permanent position at the University of Nebraska where he has been since 1961.
Their "The Spanish Verb and Review of Expression Patterns" is a supplementary text aimed at helping the student achieve automatic flexibility and habitual use of the patterns of Spanish expression.
The defense attorney for the Duane Pope murder trial is on the KU campus to teach Torts I in the School of Law.
ON DEC. 3,1965, Pope was
Wescoe confers at White House
Pope lawyer here
President Johnson called the day-long meeting in order to brief his staff and the physicians on the complexities and predicted difficulties the program is expected to encounter when it is officially launched on July 1. The Chancellor will return to the campus next Wednesday night.