by Buddy Broncho | Jun 10, 2019 | 1995
Inducted: 1995 W.P. “BILL” ATKINSON (1906-1999) has had a varied career as journalist, builder, educator and politician. He began his journalistic career as a printer’s devil while in high school and later was the founder of the Oklahoma Journal. Atkinson was...
by Buddy Broncho | Jun 10, 2019 | 1995
Inducted: 1995 DONOVAN BANZETT (1903-1983) was enthralled with newspapers from the time he learned to read. In 1925 he started the Edmond Booster, which he printed at first in his mother’s kitchen. Keeping that paper for the next 25 years, he also published...
by Buddy Broncho | Jun 10, 2019 | 1995
Inducted: 1995 JAMES W. BRADSHAW (1923-2006) spent 43 years as an Oklahoma newspaper writer and editor, 39 of them on the Shawnee News-Star. He retired from the paper in 1991 after 14 years as managing editor. During his years in Shawnee, Bradshaw chronicled numerous...
by Buddy Broncho | Jun 10, 2019 | 1995
Inducted: 1995 KLINA E. CASADY (1891-1981) and her husband, John Casady, published the Cheyenne Star in Roger Mills County for several decades. She wrote a column, “Thinkagraphs,” for many years, always boosting Cheyenne and Western Oklahoma, and continued...
by Buddy Broncho | Jun 10, 2019 | 1995
Inducted: 1995 PAUL ENGLISH (1937-2016) had a distinguished reporting career for more than 30 years. He spent two years on the Duncan Banner, 20 years with United Press International and many years on the Oklahoman. His reporting at the state capitol spanned the terms...
by Buddy Broncho | Jun 10, 2019 | 1995
Inducted: 1995 MARLAN DEE NELSON (1934- ) became director of the Oklahoma State University School of Journalism and Broadcasting in 1982 and earlier was an administrator and professor at Southern Illinois University and Utah State. His innovative leadership at OSU...
