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Caption: Dedication - Editor's Hall of Fame
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I ' l i l l '' .i ' Hi ' M I M . I i l l ' i n i l l l l M I I M l M M I U M I I t l r l l l l l l l ^ l M H i ' I M I I I N I I I I U M H I M M I I t l l M l l i l F l r l l l l l ' i n i l l l H ' I M M I I / M t l i t l i i t t l l i l i ' l i , i , , r M i i i i F 1 r u . l . . i r IIIPMUIMiHl EDWARD WYLLIS SCRIPPS Edward Wyllis Scripps was born on a farm at Rushvillc, Illinois, June 18, 1854, and died aboard his yacht off the coast of West Liberia, Africa, March 12, 1926. He was elected to the Hall October 4, 1929 —Election 11. He was the youngest of thirteen children, four of whom became famous in journalism. At the age of eighteen, he left the farm to go to Detroit, possessed of his savings of eighty dollars and long-cherished dreams of a career in journalism along original lines. There he became associated with his brothers, James E, and George H., and their sister Ellen Browning Scripps, in (he founding of The Detroit News. In 1878, Edward W. Scripps left the News to start the first of his own string of newspapers, the Cleveland, Ohio, Penny Press. Then followed others until at the time of his death there were thirty strong dailies which he had founded or acquired, and also the United Press Associations, Newspaper Enterprise Association, and several other newspaper-service organizations. In 1920, he founded and endowed Science Service. Scripps retired from the management of his newspaper enterprises in 1920. MIIIUIIMIMItllUHIIIIIIIlHMMHIllMMIIMMniniMIIIIHMMMMUMinil1HIIIIIIIIIIIMUrMHHMIIinillllllllirlMMinMlnUIII1linilMtn|HIMUMIIMIIlMIIIMiniUllllltUl [Page 3$
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