Drake University - Quax Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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JL E Dean Curtis faculty figures Journalism Neil Bernstein After acquiring an M.S. in TVfRadio at Syracuse University, Assistant Professor Neil Bernstein moved from a television production job in the Pittsburgh office of the 30th largest ad agency in the U.S. through two other jobs to become Director of Promotion for a Baltimore radio station. Then he completed course work for the Ph.D. in communication at Michigan State University before coming to the Drake School ofJournalism in 1964. During the summer of 1965, Bernstein was an educator fellow of the Central Region, American Asso- ciation of Advertising Agencies, spending two months with the Chicago office of the J. Walter Thompson Company. Since coming to Drake, he has helped in founding the Film Arts Society, and appeared in the Drama Work- shop production of The Fantastiks.

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ag? -1-1-:--QL As mileage and social distance between nations and people shorten through everyday contact, the need for social communication grows. Journalists, and that certainly includes broadcasters, find it necessary not only to be faithful carriers of news but to be informed interpreters of news. Nor is this new professionalism held to the realm of satellites. A cry for understanding is in backyards, on political platforms, everywhere. Here is today's jolting challenge to Schools of Journalism . . . Dean Hugh E. Curtis. The School of Journalism seeks to graduate students who, first, are sure of their abilities as communicatorsg second, who understand and look forward to the career Jim Duncan Jim Duncan is the head ofthe Radio- TV Department at Drake. He is an established free-lance writer, who has appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, Sports Illustrated, Pageant, Sport and others. He has co-authored a syndicated column which has ap- peared in over 730 daily newspapers. Duncan never attended school until he was tem' but at fourteen he was valedictorian of his high school. At Drake from 1927-37 he was Phi Beta Kappa and the Missouri Valley Con- ference 44O champion in 1930. He holds Bachelor of Arts and- Master of Science degrees. As an athletic coach in the thiities, his teams competed against sports greats such as Bob Feller and Nile Kinnick. Frank Mathews Frank Mathews, Associate Professor of Journalism, comes to Drake from Vienna, Austria, via the Meredith Publishing Company. Mathews directs the Graphic Journalism sequence at Drake, and has had extensive exper- ience in the graphics industry. Before coming to Drake he worked in his family's lithographing plant in Aus- tria, and rose to the position of Assis- tant Art Editor at Meredith. He is a graduate of the College of Graphic Arts in Vienna, Austria, re- ceived a M.S. degree in political science at the University of Vienna and a M.A. in advertising and commercial art at the State University of Iowa. His special field of interest is incunabula, the study of the history of printing, and fine typography. opportunities offered in Journalismg and, third, who will be immediately satisfactory as employees in such fields as urban and community newspapering, radio broad- casting, magazine and book writing and production, print and broadcast advertising, photo journalism, communications research, public relations, journalism education, the wire services and governmental journal- ism and publicity. Graduates are trained to consider themselves not as schooled in every detail of a trade, but as having been guided through the liberal arts toward understanding of and executive ability in their communication interests. W1 27