Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1928 [PAGE 446]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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On nomination of the Illinois Clay Manufacturers' Association F. W . Butterworth, Western Brick Company, Danville On nomination of the Chicago Branch of the American Ceramics Society John Clifford, President Chicago Pottery Co., 1924 Clybourn Ave., Chicago J. A. DeCelle, Manager Chicago Hardware Fdry. Co., North Chicago I. B. Fry, Vice President and General Manager, Coonley Mfg. Co., Cicero William E. Levis, Vice President and General Manager, Illinois Glass Co., Alton H. J. Lucas, General Manager, Northwestern Terra Cotta Co., 2525 Clybourn Ave., Chicago. William Schlake, President, Illinois Brick Co., Conway Bldg., Chicago According to the action of the Board on April 20, 1927 (page 24.7), the Illinois Clay Manufacturers' Association, representing the heavy clay products industries, was to nominate onerepresentativeand the Chicago Branch of the American Ceramics Society six representatives on the Advisory Committee. O n motion of M r . Armstrong, these appointments were m a d e .

REPORT ON SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM

(41) The following report of progress on the School of Journalism by the Acting Director, Professor L. W . Murphy: September 22, 1927 David Kinley, University of Illinois Dear M r . President: Registration for the first semester in the School of Journalism is practically complete and I wish to offer you the following summary of the progress made thus far in the organization and operation of the new school. Your faculty committee on the School of Journalism recommended the establishment of a School of Journalism which should offer work open to junior, senior, and graduate students. It recommended further that freshmen and sophomores be offered special facilities within a pre-journalism curriculum organized in the same way as the curricula preparatory to law and medicine. This recommendation was made after the faculty committee had met with representative newspaper men of the state who were invited to the University for a conference on the plans of the committee. The report, therefore, embodied the suggestions of the newspaper men in so far as they were practical and in accordance with University policy at this time. Among the newspaper men present at this conference were: John Harrison, editor of the Danville Commercial News; S. P. Preston, publisher of Gillespie News; C. W . Bliss, editor of the Montgomery News; Verne E. Joy, editor of the Centralia Sentinel; A. L. Bowen, chief editorial writer of the Springfield Illinois State Journal; and W . F. Hardy, editor of the Decatur Herald. At your suggestion I took over the report of the committee and proceeded with the work of organizing the school. In this work I followed the recommendation of the committee rather closely and made arrangements for the work of the first semester. The old members of the journalism staff were all retained and the following were added: Assistant Professor R. R. Barlow, experienced newspaper man and teacher, formerly instructor in the University of Minnesota and assistant city editor of Minneapolis Tribune; Miss Helen Peffer, assistant, experienced reporter and editor who has been with the University in another capacity for several years; Mr. Burrus Dickinson, half-time assistant, graduate of Eureka College and the University of Illinois; Victor Krannert, lecturer, manager of Illini Publishing Company; F. D. Ball, assistant, also assistant to the Director of Publicity. Thusreinforcedthe faculty presents a strength it has not had in numbers, experience, and graduate standing. The position allowed as associate professor was notfilledthis year because of the first year. of students who would seek for a desirable man and because during short time available in which to elect business and advertising courses of the the number small