Inducted: 1979 S. EDWARD LEE (1886-1982) founded the Harper County Journal at Buffalo and published the paper for many decades. The paper holds countless state fair awards for excellence. He is the epitome of the country editor and publisher who works as long and hard for community betterment as he does for his own business. […]
Inducted: 1979 RAY J. DYER (1899-1992), manager (1932-34) and president (1955-56) of the Oklahoma Press Association, ranked among the top newspaper editors and publishers of the state. He worked on newspapers in Kansas and Missouri before coming to the Oklahoma City Times as telegraph editor (1925-26). He was managing editor of the Oklahoma News from […]
Inducted: 1979 PHIL DESSAUER (1918-1997) is only the second Oklahoman to serve as national president of the Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, doing so after nearly four decades of service to the organization. A BA and MA (1939) graduate of the University of Missouri, he worked on the Daily Oklahoman, the Oklahoma City […]
Inducted: 1979 JOHN FISCHER (1910-1978) ranked among the top magazine editors in the nation during his 34 years with Harper’s magazine as editor (1944-52), editor-in-chief (1953-67), and contributing editor (1967-78). A native of Texhoma, he worked on the Daily Oklahoman (1928-32), with United Press while a Rhodes Scholar (1933-35), and the Associated Press Washington Bureau […]
Inducted: 1979 HARRY S. CULVER (1922-2005) was international vice president-at-Iarge for the Newspaper Guild. He served four terms as secretary-treasurer and two terms as president of the Wire Service Guild. A native of Chickasha, he worked on the Anadarko Daily News (1947-48) and the Shawnee News-Star (1948-49) before joining United Press (now United Press International) […]
Inducted: 1979 EARL H. RICHERT (1914-2005) went from the lowest to the highest job with Scripps-Howard Newspapers during his 43 years with the company. These range from copy boy for the Oklahoma News (1936-37) to editor (1959-69) and editor-in-chief (since 1969) for all 18 of the company’s newspapers. Reared in Blaine County, Okla., he graduated […]
Inducted: 1979 CHARLES LONG (1938-2008) achieved national prominence as news editor (1967-71) and editor (1971- ) of The Quill, award-winning national magazine of the Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi. He is the first Oklahoman to edit this publication. His success earned him selection to Who’s Who in America. A 1961 graduate of the […]