Penn State University - La Vie Yearbook (University Park, PA)

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LA VIE BOOK OF THE SENIOR CLASS I959 EDITOR ART EDITOR Joseph D. Patton, Jr. Kay N. Noonan THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY University Park, Pennsylvania

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DEDICATION Home football games found Isuu Bell busy Lou Bell joined students with other sports writers in press box as an ardent sports inn For nearly 35 years, Louis H. Bell served the Pennsylvania State University as a student, alumnus, teacher, and administrator. As an undergraduate from 1925 to 1929, Lou was a member of Alpha Tau Omega social fraternity, and Pi Delta Epsilon and Sigma Delta Chi professional fraternities. He worked four years as a member of the Penn State Collegian staft and served as editor of the paper his senior vear. He was sports editor of LA VIE and historian of his Class. Skull and Bones and Lions Paw membership were among the honors he received. Upon his graduation in 1929, Lou entered the Held of journalism, working with , reral Eastern Pennsylvania newspapers. He returned to Penn State in 1934 as an meter in journalism. In 1941, he resigned as assistant professor of journalism to organize promotion r the General Extension Services and the war-time Engineering, Science, and Management War Training Program. In 1943, he was named Director of Public Information and University Editor. One of his accomplishments in this position was the establishment of the Pennsvlvania .tate Universitv Press as a media for publishing scholarlv works of facultv members. He was active 'in the American College Public Relatioiis Association arid served a term as national vice-president for membership. He was cited by that Association in 1952 for outstanding achievement in public relations. Ill health last summer prompted Mr. Bell to assume a restricted schedule and he returned to teaching journalism on a part-time basis and directing the activities of the University Press until his death on Oct. 16, 1958, Lou Bell during his 25 years on the faculty and staH maintained a keen interest in students and their activities. He served as adviser to Collegian and Froth and was a director of LA VIE, Collegian, and Thespians. Many students came to his office for Friendly advice and Pennsylvania publishers and others also sought his help in employing Penn State graduates. Because of this sincere interest in the Penn State student and his untiring efforts to achieve a better Penn State, we are proud to dedicate our yearbook, the 1959 LA VIE, to Louis H. Bell. Discussing manuscript for the University Press