Kent State University - Chestnut Burr Yearbook (Kent, OH)

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Fred Sparks, foreign corre- spondent and staff writer for the Chicago Daily Newts, gave the keynote address on Press In Korea, at the opening session of the Short Course to more than 200 photog- raphers in the Arts Building at Kent, March 18, 1952. Observers, who were members of the annual Kent State Short Course in Press Photography, seem very en- grossed in examining the new Kodak BC flash gun which J. Winton Lemen demonstrated for them. rm H I Hhm ' ' - Mr ■ B i bL m k H h Ih i H This picture was taken of the photo short course display of prints which were entered in the national contest. Bob McMaken, former Kent student and Stater photographer, received honorable mention in society on his picture.

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Hopes and Hard Work Earn Success Since the origination of the Annual Press Photography Short Course in 1938, Kent students have listened attentively to visiting photog- raphers speak on their chosen profession, only hoping someday to achieve the same prominence. Two former students reached this goal during the 1952 course. Roger Baele, editor of the 1950 Burr, returned to campus to receive the top trophy for sports photography in the national contest, and John Stage, former news bureau photographer took his place among such men at Mott, Karsh, Halsman and Scherschel as short course speakers. This world ' s largest gathering of news photog- raphers has attracted more than 3,000 cameramen in its 1 1 years of service. J. Winton Lemen of the Eastman Kodak Company is demonstrating the Kodak BC Flash Gun to Short Course members here.

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Memories and Friends From the three two-credit courses in Journalism offered at Kent 25 years ago the school of journalism, then not even a department, has grown in leaps and bounds. At present time, the school of journalism is nationally known and held in high respect by those in the practicing fields. The National Press Photographer ' s Association has cited it for pioneering in the education for press photography, a field in which the school enjoys an international repu- tation, and the State of Ohio cited the journalism school for advancing the prestige of the State. Through the hard work and efforts of the journalism professors and the in- terest shown by every J -major, the prestige the jour- nalism school holds is being scattered all over the nation. And perhaps even more important is the attitude of the j- students here. Everyone of them will always carry heart- warming memories of the J -school, the J -profs, their ex- periences, their work on publications . . . their friends. 28