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Group Gathers
For 33rd Meet
By TOMMY JOHNSON
Milton L. Carr of United Press
International replaced Lyle C. Wil
son, vice president and Washington
manoKer of UPI. Carr, a recent cor
respondent in Havana, outlined re
cent developments in l.atln America
McGILL SPEAKS
Ralph McGill, noted publisher and
columnist of the Atlanta Constitution,
replaced John 1 lotion her*; of the
Pulitzer Prize Board on the Thursday
program.
Hohenberg, a Columbia University
professor, reportedly had transporta
tion difficulties in getting out of New
York.
The noon session featured a talk
by cartoonist Kd Dodd, who related
numerous experiences as creator of
the Mark Trail comic strip.
A panel session for personnel of
daily newspapers was held Thursday
afternoon. Theme of the panel was
"Tile Newspaper's Image In the Com
munity.” Louis C. Harris of the
Southeastern Newspapers of Augusta
led the session.
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(■eorgia Kress Institute Thursday. Itotli iddrcsscd the Institute.
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Press Institute Underway;
Top Newsmen Participate
1HGM I ABIES: President O. Aderhold poses with other dignitaries
who were on the Wednesday night program. Seated (1-r) Jack Will
iams, Institute chairman; Stanley Swinton, Al* executive; and Bill
Hartman, president of the Athens Hotary Club; standing (1-r), Ader-
hold, Athens Mayor Italpli Snow and Dean John E. Drewry.
TIMELY TOPICS
Dignitaries Address
Thursday Sessions
Thursday morning’s session of the Institute included talks by
Milton L. Carr of United Press International, Ralph McGill of the
Atlanta Constitution and Ed Dodd, creator of the “Mark Trail”
comic strip.
A UPI correspondent in Havanna
for several years, Milton Carr out
lined recent developments In Latin
America.
He noted that the United States
has made several recent attempts to
befriend Latin America: “All have
been poorly timed.”
Elaborating on this, Carr pointed
out that former President Eisen
hower’s trip to that area last year
was "a ease of too little and too late."
"The Communists had spread word
there that the Eisenhower trip was
only to line up the Latin American
countries on the side of the U.S.,"
he concluded.
Ralph McGill, substituting for John
Hohenberg of the Pulitzer Prize
Board, explained procedures used by
the board to select a Pulitzer Prize
winner.
McGill said he believes the impact
of the prizes in the public service
field is very significant.
Cartoonist Ed Dodd related some
of his experiences as creator of
"Mark Trail.”
"Writing is 65 per cent of a comic
strip,” Dodd said. “There must be
a good idea behind a strip—although
the drawing may be excellent—if It
is to be successful.”
The first function of a comic strip
is to entertain, Dodd noted. “How
ever, the educational feature has
slipped into it.”
He cited several instances which
support his belief that comic strips
must either get better or “go out of
business. I think this is good, and
they undoubtedly will have to get
better.”
Golden Otiill Announce*
Nine For Membership
Golden Quill, honorary journalism
society, named seven University stu
dents and three associate members
to its rolls at a Friday morning
breakfast held at the Georgia Center.
Selected for membership were:
Billy Rushing, Nancy Flowers, and
Wyek Knox, all top staff members
of the Pandora: Terry Hazelwood,
Bill Hoagland, and Alan Wexler, of
the Red and Black; and Tom Bla
lock, editor of the Georgia Agricul
turalist.
Miss Emily Woodward, founder of
the Georgia Press Institute, Worth
MacDougald and Bob Fowler were
selected for associate membership.
MISS WOODWARD-
Institute Founder Sees
Progress In 33 Years
On hand for the opening session of the Georgia Press Institute
Wednesday night was the institute’s founder—a lady who never at
tended a jounralism school as a student.
Miss Emily Woodward of Vienna
was the first president and only
woman president of the group,
records show.
When asked what were her rea
sons for founding an institute such
as the one being presently held at
the Georgia Center, Miss Woodward
replied: "The Georgia newspaper edi
tors Just needed to get together and
talk over their problems.”
“We held the firsi institute at
Wesleyan College in Macon 33 years
ago,” she noted. "It was quite small
• hen and I have been amazed at the
institute's growth to what it is to
day.”
"We were lucky to have such peo
ple as Mr. W. T. Anderson of The
Macon Telegraph who liked the in
stitute and made the whole thing
possible.”
The first meeting of the institute
was held in 1927. Mercer University.
Emory, and other educational insti
tutions wanted to hold the institute
at their schools in a “round-robin"
affair, but the University campus
soon became the permanent, annual
site.
Tlu> Georgia Press Institute
opt lied its Ttrd session at the
Georgia Center Wednesday, at
tracting some :«)<) newspapers pub
lishers, editors and reporters to
the University campus.
Outstanding journalists from
across Hie nation highlight a host of
events planned for the three day
institute. Delegates representing
virtually every paper in Georgia were
on hand at an opening dinner Wed
nesday night.
Slated to climax the institute will
be addresses by Lieutenant Governor
Garland Byrd and University Presl-
dent O. C. Adcrhold Saturday morn
ing.
Stanley M. Swinton, Associated
Press director of world services, was
featured speaker at Wednesday night
confronting the U. S. in dealing with
Latin America.
The University Glee Club, under
the direction of Byron Warner of the
Music Department, furnished enter
tainment for the opening night.
DIGNITARIES
Among the dignitaries present
were Athens Mayor Ralph Snow,
President Aderhold, Georgia Press
Association President Charles N.
Martin Jr., Press Institute Chairman
Jack Williams, Jr., institute founder
Miss Emily Woodward, and Athens
Rotary Club President BUI Hartman.
The Athens Rotary Club and the
University sponsored the Wednesday
night, affair. Dean John E. Drewry
of the Henry W. Grady School of
Journalism, co-sponsor of the Insti
tute along with the Georgia Press
Association, was master of cere
monies
A .breakfast meeting of the Asso
ciation's hoard of managers kicked
off the Thursday session. Members
of the board are as follows:
Frank Edenfield, Millen News;
Waldo L. CcLeod, Donalsonvllle
News; Edge Reid, Columbus Ledger;
Doyle Jones, Jackson Progress-
Argus; Mrs. Martha F. Rrown, North
DeKall) Record and Norcross News;
Bert Struby, Macon Telegraph-News;
Mark Pace, Dalton Citizen.
Jack Williams Jr., Waycross Jour
nal-Herald; James Waldrop, Dawson
County News, Dawsonville; Graham
Ponder, Madisonian, Madison; and
Harvey Walters, secretary-manager.
INSTITUTE GROUP
Members of the institute com
mittee besides Williams Include the
following: James Hobgood, Calhoun
Times; Albert Jenkins, Baxley News-
Banner; William S. Morris III, South
eastern Newspapers, Inc. and, Harold
Rhoden, Lyons Progress.
Ex-officio members of the institute
committee are Dean Drewry and
Charles Bell, Georgia Center con
ference coordinator.
Two of the speakers originally
scheduled to appear on Thursday’s
program were unable to attend be
cause of transportation difficulties
out of New York.
MISS EMILY WOODWARD, founder of the Georgia Pres* Institute,
is shown w ith Dean John E. Drewry of the Henry W. Grady School of
Journalism, left, and BUI Hartman, president of the Alliens Rotary
Club, at Wednesday night’s institute session. Photos by John Furman