by Buddy Broncho | Jun 10, 2019 | 1994
Inducted: 1994 OMER N. SCHNOEBELEN (1912-2005) took over the Mooreland Leader in 1946 when his father retired from the paper. Schnoebelen’s role as a weekly publisher included reporting, selling ads and operating the Linotype. Called a force for the improvement...
by Buddy Broncho | Jun 10, 2019 | 1994
Inducted: 1994 MARGARET TAYLOR (1926-2005) was president of the Oklahoma Press Association in 1990-91, the first woman to serve in that office. She began newspaper work in 1953 when she and her husband, Joe Taylor, leased the Hinton Record. Three years later the...
by Buddy Broncho | Jun 10, 2019 | 1994
Inducted: 1994 F.E. “WALLY” WALLIS (1907-1981) was an Oklahoman and Times sports writer for 27 years and the state’s foremost golf authority, winning national honors for his writing on the subject. He served as president of the Golf Writers...
by Buddy Broncho | Jun 10, 2019 | 1994
Inducted: 1994 ERIC ALLEN (1916-1986) served in 1969-70 as president of the Western Writers of America. He wrote 30 books, mostly Western fiction, selling his first one in 1959. One of his screenplays, Smoke in the Wind, starred Walter Brennan. Allen wrote feature...
by Buddy Broncho | Jun 10, 2019 | 1994
Inducted: 1994 JANE BRYANT (1933-2019) published a newspaper at age seven in her neighborhood in Cushing and continued in journalism in grade and high schools and at the University of Missouri, working summers during college for the Cushing Daily Citizen. She joined...
by Buddy Broncho | Jun 10, 2019 | 1994
Inducted: 1994 FERDIE J. DEERING (1910-1993) spent 48 years with the Oklahoma Publishing Co., including 30 years as editor of the Farmer-Stockman during which he worked to help farmers adapt new technology to their operations. Upon his death he was lauded as having...
