Finding aid prepared by Whitney S. Olthoff
Indiana University School of Journalism
Chair’s records,1922-1976, bulk
1938-1968
Collection is open for research. Advance notice required.
The School of Journalism was established in 1911 as the Department of Journalism and
was at that time part of the College of Arts and Sciences. In 1932, IU students
could earn a bachelor’s degree in journalism for the first time. The name of the
department was changed in 1974 to the School of Journalism, but remained as part of
the College of Arts and Sciences. In 1982, it became a system-wide school,
coordinating journalism courses across all eight campuses. It became an independent
school within the IU system in 1986.
John E. Stempel was head of the Department of Journalism from 1938 until he retired
in 1968. He was a classmate of famed World War II reporter Ernie Pyle at Indiana
University. During Stempel’s chairmanship, the School of Journalism moved to Ernie
Pyle Hall, where it remains today. In addition, it was during his leadership that
the highly-respected High School Journalism Institute was established in the summer
of 1946.
The collection is organized into one series, Administrative files, and arranged in
alphabetical order.
The collection has been organized into a single series of Administrative files,
arranged alphabetically by folder heading. The records span 1922-1976, with the bulk
dating from 1938-1968. Materials in the collection include correspondence, staff
records, research, clippings, reports, contests, and information on organizations
and departments. Prominent in the collection are faculty annual reports, records
related to the Associated Press and its state photo contest headed by John E.
Stempel, workshops developed and run by the school, departmental correspondence, and
records related to the Indiana Daily Student and other campus publications.
IU newspaper and magazine publications that were not related to research or
correspondence were pulled.
Additional records such as newsletters, annual reports, bulletins, and publications
may be accessed in the
Archives of Institutional Memory
Series:
Box 1
Administrative files, 1925-1976,
undated
Abel, Wallace, 1958
Alisky, Marvin Howard, 1953-1964
Allard, Winston, 1950-1958
Alumni Office, 1964-1967
A.A.S.D.J. (Association of Accredited Schools and Departments of
Journalism), General, 1943-1966
American Association of Advertising Agencies, 1956
American Newspaper Publishers Association, 1938-1968
American Press Society, 1938
American Statistical Association, 1955-1965
American Universities Field Services, 1960-1961
Andrist, Ralph K., 1952
Annual Reports,
1943-1962
Alisky, Marvin Howard, 1953-1957
Ellison, Jerome 1955-1958
Fleming, Wray E., Undated
French, J. Wymond, 1939-1949
Gieber, Walter, 1953-1954
Graduate Assistants, Undated
Haskins, Jack B., 1963-1965
Jenkinson, Edward B., 1960-1962
Jensen, Rosmond, 1956-1957
Jordan, James R., Undated
Knight, Oliver, 1958-1960
Lynch, Mervin Dean, Undated
Mahler, James, 1954-1956
Mehling, Reuben, 1958-1960
Savage, Stephen G., 1953-1954
Wolfe, M. Wayne, 1953-1954
Wagner, Paul, 1940
Wright, Joseph A., 1939-1942
AP (Associated Press),
Case, 1943
Chicago,
1943-1955
General,
1935-1967
Indiana Continuing Study Committee, 1950-1956
Monopoly Suit, 1942-1945
New York City, 1940-1962
Newswriting Contest, 1967
Photo Contest,
1974
1973
1972
1971
1970
1969
1968
1967
1966
1965
1964
1960-1963
1941-1959
Washington D.C., 1941-1958
APME (Associated Press Managing Editors Association),
Continuing Study Committee Content Study, 1950-1957
Convention,
1957-1966
General,
1941-1952
General,
1953-1968
News (Journalism) Research Committee, 1963-1966
Oatis, Bill – Managing Editor’s committee, 1951-1956
Resolutions Committee, 1948-1955
Arbutus,
1955-1967
1963-1967
1967-1968
Contracts and Bids, Other Forms, 1961-1967
Final Reports of 1960, 1960
Monthly Financial Statements, 1961-1966
Profit Sharing, 1960-1967
Requisitions,
1962-1966
Box 2
Arts and Sciences, College of, 1938-1966
ASNE (American Society of Newspaper Editors), 1940-1968
Associated College Press, Norman Lea, Editor, 1939-1950
Associated Technical Publications, 1940-1946
Association for Education in Journalism (AEJ),
1958-1969
Long Range Planning Committee, 1966
Audio-Visual, 1947-1966
Ayer, N.W. and Son – Casey, Ray D., 1939-1940
Ball, Everett, 1953
Baker, Frank S., 1939-1950
Bartley, Ross, 1939-1966
Biddle, Ward G., 1938-1946
Boyd, John A., 1938-1957
Brandenburg, George, 1938-1951
Briscoe, Dean H. T., 1938-1954
Brochure, 1974-1976
Bureau of Co-operative Research and Field Service, 1951
Bryan, William Lowe, 1922-1954
Bureau of Institutional Research, 1964
Burger, Chester F.X., 1938-1949
Burkholder, Ralph, 1950-1958
Business, School of, 1938-1952
Business, School of, Personnel and Placement, 1938-1949
Butler University, 1947
Camera Material, 1957-1963
Campus Press,
Ed Arnold Article, 1967
High School Publications, 1969-1970
Johnson, Steve – Article on “Cutting the Umbilical Cord”,
Undated
Obscenity, 1968-1969
Problems and Issues, 1967-1970
Publications, other campuses, 1968-1971
Purdue Exponent, 1968-1970
Rights and Freedoms Statement, NSA and AAUP, 1967-1969
Campus Publications,
The Spectator, 1966-1969
The Tempo, 1969
Casey, Ralph D., Department of Journalism, University of
Minnesota, 1938-1950
Catalog, 1970-1975
Construction and Planned Inventory of Indiana University,
1953-1954
Contest Judging, 1951-1967
Contests, 1966-1967
Convocations, 1943-1958
Copy Right, 1948-1966
Crim, Walter H., 1938-1946
Correspondence, Departmental,
A, 1956-1967
B, 1947-1968
C, 1956-1968
D, 1955-1968
E, 1949-1968
F, 1949-1968
G, 1946-1968
Box 3
H, 1940-1968
I, 1950-1966
J, 1951-1968
K, 1950-1968
L, 1950-1968
M, 1944-1968
N, 1949-1968
O, 1944-1967
P, 1944-1967
Q, 1954-1965
R, 1950-1968
S, 1945-1968
T, 1950-1967
U, 1950-1959
V, 1951-1963
W, 1950-1968
X Y Z, 1950-1967
Correspondence Study – Rogers, Louise, 1950-1970
Crane Ammunition Depot, 1944-1945
Craven, Joseph, 1939
Crawford, Horace D., 1939-1941
Crimson Bull, 1952-1956
Curriculum, Committee on – College of Arts & Sciences,
1939-1966
Daily Student,
1954-1968
Advertising, 1970
Army and Navy Supplement, 1943
Awards, 1966
Black Page, 1969
Box 4
Budget, 1964-1968
Centennial, 1967
Common Sense, 1973
Contests and Awards, 1969
Continuing Study, 1968-1969
Criticisms, 1964-1974
Current Memos, 1969
Faculty Council Report, Siffin Committee, 1968-1969
Faculty Subscriptions, 1969
Farmer Committee – Report on IDS to, 1969
Financial, 1969
Financial, 1970-1971
Holsinger Personal Statement
IDS in Review, 1973
Libel Complaints, 1966-1973
Masthead Applications, 1967-1968
McEvoy Study, Undated
Policy, 1969
Politics, 1952-1966
Printing, 1938-1953
Proofreaders, 1964-1966
Proposal - Clippings, 1968-1969
Proposal for reorganization – first, 1969
Proposals, Points of Difference, Undated
Proposal, Reaction to, 1969-1970
Publisher, Applicants for, 1969
Readership Survey Instructions, 1952
Reporter’s Workshop, Undated
Staff Certificates, 1960-1968
Staff & Staff Instructions, 1939-1967
Staffs, 1967-1969
Style Book, 1939-1966
Us Last Week and Dingy Grey, 1968-1969
(2 files)
Datisman, Don F., 1946-1951
Davenport, John Scott, 1947-1949
Dean of Faculties, 1954-1965
Dean of Women, 1939-1945
Distributive Education, 1955
Dow Jones & Co. Foundation, 1957
Dowling, Leo R. – Assistant Dean of Students, 1948-1963
Dunagin, Ruth, 1949-1952
English Department, 1941-1965
East European Studies, Institute of, 1954
Education, School of, 1938-1959
Ellison, Jerome, 1955-1965
Episcopal Church, 1966-1967
Extension Division,
Bloomington, 1945-1966
East Chicago, Calumet, 1955
Fort Wayne, 1939-1968
Jeffersonville, Southeastern Center, 1944-1968
Richmond, Ind., Earlham Center, 1954
South Bend, South Bend – Mishawaka Center, 1946-1969
Facsimile, 1948-1949
Faculty, Committee on – Student Relations, 1949-1957
Farm News, 1960-1963
Ferrey, Ed, 1945
Finnegan, Richard, 1943-1953
Fleming, Wray E., 1961-1964
Ford Foundation, 1961-1967
Foreign Journalists, 1969
Foreign Press Correspondents of the United States, 1940
Foundation Day, 1941-1950
Franklin, J.A., Comptroller, 1942-1960
French, J. Wymond, 1938-1953
Gary Post Tribune, 1946-1967
Gieber, Walter, 1952-1955
Box 5
Governor’s Youth Council, 1960-1962
Grants-in-Aid, Committee on, Professor Horack, Secretary,
1949
Greenberg, Bradley, 1963
Grusin, Harry Jack, 1947
Gunning, Robert, Director Readable News Reports, 1945
Hadley, J. Edwin, 1957-1962
Hall, Ford P., Professor Department of Government, 1962-1963
Haney, John A., 1952-1953
Hartley, Paul A., Director Personnel Division, 1942-1946
Headlining America, 1939-1940
High School Conferences, 1940-1954
High School Journalism Institute,
1967-1972
1969-1975
1974
1975-1976
HSJIers Now I.U. Students, 1961-1973
Hildwein, Richard L., 1963
Hines, Neal O., 1939-1966
Honors, Committee on, 1957-1966
History, Department of, 1942-1948
Hoosier State Press Association,
1934-1953
1939-1945
1954-1967
Hoosier State Press Association – Mechanical Conference,
1948-1956
Hudson, T. Roy, 1952
Illinois Institute of Technology, 1957
Indiana Broadcasters Association, Inc., 1962
Indiana Collegiate Press Association, 1959-1968
Indiana High School Press Association, 1944-1961
Indiana Industrial Editors Association, 1956-1967
Indiana Newspaper Personnel Committees, 1961-1966
Indiana Newspaper Sesquicentennial Committee, 1953-1954
Indiana Press Institute,
1955-1958
1959
1959-1961
1961
1962
1964-1966
Financial, 1958-1961
Indiana State Police, 1952-1963
Indiana University Foundation, 1945-1968
Indiana University Press, 1947-1968
Indianapolis Engraving Co., Service Engraving Co., Stafford
Engraving Co., 1940-1948
Indianapolis News, 1939-1964
Indianapolis Star, 1941-1967
Indianapolis Times, 1939-1965
Inland Daily Press Association, 1955-1968
International Circulation Manager Association, 1945-1949
International Education, 1963-1964
International Council of Industrial Editors, 1959-1960
International News Service, 1940-1951
International Press Institute, 1959-1968
Isaacs, Norman, 1961-1965
Journalism,
Building Appropriations and Proposals for, 1925-1951
Building Equipment, 1954-1961
Building Space and Use, 1951-1968
Box 6
Conference, 1931-1945
Conference Programs from other schools, 1939-1944
Course Descriptions for Deans’ Offices, 1952-1966
Curriculum and Instruction, 1951-1965
Education for, 1949-1964
Field Examinations, 1964-1965
Overseas Projects, 1956-1968
Radio Broadcasting, 1938-1956
Research, 1940-1963
Statement concerning work in, 1940-1954
World War II Program, 1943
Junior Division Data, 1947-1965
Kappa Alpha Mu, 1946-1959
Kilkenny, William John, 1952
King Features Syndicate, Rogers, Richardson, 1950-1961
Knight, Oliver H., 1958-1966
Kohlmeier, A.L. Acting Dean of Faculties, 1943-1946
Labor Press, 1963-1966
Law School, 1957-1967
Legislative Service – Chamber of Commerce, 1967-1965
Library,
Correspondence, 1942-1963
Fund, 1940-1969
Newspapers, 1940-1950
University Library, 1940-1966
Linotype Companies, Mergenthaler Co. etc., 1939-1946
Linton, Professor E.M., 1943
Lockwood, Gordon B., 1946-1954
Loftus, Leo Gerard, 1952-1953
Louisville Courier – Journal and Times, 1945-1967
Lynch, Mervin D., 1962-1963
McClure, Leslie, 1946
Merchandising Research, 1938-1941
Mergenthaler Linotype Co., 1949-1953
Miller, Dr. Robert A., Director of Libraries, 1942-1951
M.P.A., 1961-1966
Mahler, James L., 1947-1963
Maintenance, 1975-1976
Medical Education, Experimental Program on, 1960
Marquette University 50 Year Celebration, 1961
Medicine, School of, 1939-1960
Lowell Mellett Fund for a Free and Responsible Press, 1967
Minnesota, University of, Ralph O. Nafziger, 1938-1948
Missouri, University of, Dr. Frank L. Mott, Director School of
Journalism, 1942-1952
Moore, Levi P., Publicity Director Indiana State Fair, 1946
Murphy, John D., 1957
Music, School of – Curricula, 1946-1965
National Council on Professional Education for Journalism,
1945
National Duplicated Papers Association, 1942
National Endowment for the Humanities, 1966
National Merit Scholarships, 1961
National Newspaper Association, 1939-1965
National Newspaper Promotion Association, 1945-1957
National Press Photographers Association, 1967
News Clinics Speakers, 1954-1960
News Photography, Undated
Newspaper Advertising Executives Association,
1946-1959
Reports, 1948-1956
Newspaper Classified Advertising Managers, 1965-1966
Newspaper Law, 1948
Newspaper Week Stamps, 1942
Newspapers, History of, 1940-1965
Nigerian Project – IFE University, 1961-1962
O’Bannon, Lew P. and Robert, Corydon Democrat, 1950
O’Dell, DeForest, 1941-1956
Office Equipment, Inventory, 1938-1947
Olson, Kenneth E., 1940-1956
Patterson, Don D., 1946-1948
Perry, J. Douglas, 1955
The Penal Press, 1960-1972
Personnel, Division of, Jack N. Ray, Director, 1947-1967
Personnel Questionnaire, 1942
Peruvian Seminar, 1960
Photography, Including: Supplies, Equipment, Courses, Engraving,
1939-1954
Photography Club, Indiana Union, 1947
Pi Delta Epsilon Fraternity, Gramley, Dale H., 1940
Pi Lambda Theta – Honorary National Association for Women in
Education, 1939
Police Administration, 1957-1961
Postwar Planning Committee, 1944
Prentice-Hall Publishing Company, 1957-1966
Printing Programs for H.S. and Colleges, 1960
Public Relations, 1962-1964
Public Relations Committee (formerly Publicity Committee),
1952-1960
Box 7
Publications,
1940-1961
1945-1946
Publicity, 1925-1946
Pulitzer Awards, 1939
Purdue University, 1937-1966
The Quill, Peters, Ralph L., Editor, 1938-1967
Radio Committee, 1947-1957
Radio,
Council on Radio Journalism, 1950-1961
Curricula, 1947-1957
Inter-Divisional Committee on Broadcasting, 1952-1953
Radio and TV – General, 1952-1967
Ray, Royal 1942-1946
Reed, Fenwick T., 1946-1966
Registrar, 1939-1965
Reporting, 1941
Research,
Community Analysis, 1940
Content Studies, 1955
Faculty Research, 1962
General, 1945-1962
In Progress, 1940,
1954
Media Records, 1954-1957
Readability Studies, 1954
Wire Service Studies, 1953-1955
Research Computing Center, 1963-1966
Research Grants – Proposals, 1961-1968
Resolution Prepared for State Board of Education, 1939-1940
Rison, Jasper, 1956-1958
Rochester Athenaeum, 1938-1941
RTNDA (Radio Television News Directors Association), 1960-1966
Safety Department, 1950-1963
Savage, Stephen G. (Chris), 1940-1965
Scanagraver, 1951-1957
Scholarly Journal, 1962-1964
School of Journalism, Report of, 1938-1953
School of the Sky, 1949-1950
Schulte, Henry Frank, 1964-1965
Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 (GI Bill), 1944
Sheehan, John P. (Jack), 1962
Shideler, Paul – The Indianapolis News Photographer, 1943
Shoemaker, R.L. (Col.), Dean of Students, 1945-1947
Short Courses – I.U. and other schools, 1945-1949
Merle Sidener Memorial, Inc., 1957
Siebert, F.S., 1946-1967
Sigma Delta Chi,
Bloomington, 1939-1969
Chicago, 1958-1967
Indianapolis, 1957-1967
Louisville, 1953-1965
Visitation Report, 1961
Smith, H.L., Dean of Summer School, 1938-1945
Sons of Indiana, 1948
Speakers – Invitations to People to Speak at I.U., 1951-1965
Speeches, 1939-1965
Stahr, President Elvis J., Jr., 1962-1966
State Department, Foreign Journalist Program,
1959-1965
Analyses of the Project, 1960-1961
Stiegleman, Walter, 1941-1958
Stempel, John Dallas, Undated
Stewart, Raymond F., 1952
Strain, William H., Acting Director of Admissions, 1946-1950
Student Government, 1967
Student Publications Board, 1960-1969
Summer Session, 1952-1966
Syndicates, 1946-1951
Teacher Training, 1949-1963
Teachers Agencies, 1939
Telephone Services, Extension of, 1962-1970
Theta Sigma Phi, 1939-1968
Box 8
Thiele, Norma, 1966-1968
Time, Inc., 1952-1965
Tippecanoe Press, 1967
Todd, Joe, 1940-1943
Trapp, William O., 1940-1950
Treasurer’s Office, 1950-1965
Trueblood, H. Dixon, 1946-1964
Tall Story Contest – Clippings, 1939-1940
Union, 1942-1946
University Publications – Press, Chamness, Ivy, 1939-1950
University Regulations (concerning faculty), 1939-1947
University School, 1940
Veterans, 1944-1952
Wagner, Paul H., 1939-1956
Wall Street Journal, 1957-1968
The Wall Street Journal – the Newspaper Fund, Inc., 1959-1965
Warren Yearbook Exhibit, Warren, S. D. Company, 1939-1940
Washington Proposal, 1964-1965
Weather, 1949
Wells, Herman B,
Inauguration, 1938
1937-1962
West, Camden, 1939
Western Newspaper Union, Nordholm & etc., 1939-1947
WFIU, 1950
Wheeler, John, 1940
White, David Manning, 1955-1957
Wilcox, Walter, 1958
Wolfe, M. Wayne, 1953-1965
Workshop,
Newspaper Fund,
Applicant Inquiries, 1960-1961
Fellows 1961,
1961-1962
Swensson Operations, 1961-1966
Teacher Workshop,
1973
1962
1963
1974
1975
Financial, 1960-1962
Inquiries from other schools, 1960-1961
1961
Operation
Wright, Joseph A., 1938-1955
Wright, W. W., Dean, School of Education, 1943-1951
Writer’s Conference, 1941-1961
Writer’s Digest – Awards Writing Program, 1961-1962
Wyatt, Robert (High School Journalism Field), Undated
Yeager, E. L., Director of Two-Year Elective Course, 1939
Yeoman School, 1942