About The Georgia post. (Knoxville, Crawford County, Ga.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 2013)
Why I Love Community Newspapers! By Julia Traylor Dyar I’d really rather make that - “Why I Love Newspapers!” After all, every newspaper has its own community of readers - urban or rural folks, or both. A real newspaper is one that contains local/state/na tional/world news, editorials or opinion columns, feature stories, photographs and ad vertisements. If it has a cross word puzzle and “the fun nies” it is that much better. In my opinion newspapers are necessary to the preserva tion of recorded history and our quality of life. How can we know where we are go ing unless we know where we have been? How can we appreciate where we are now until we know how far we have come and who helped along the way? When you need to know something about a town or city read its old newspapers to see what its citizens were reading at different times in history. This is the best tem perature chart you can find. For World War II days you will find the latest news from the war front and on the edito rial pages you will find opin ion reflecting love of country, pride in our armed forces, hope and suggestions for a better future and gratitude for our blessings. The newspaper will contain births, deaths, marriages, school/church/ social and sports coverage, all of which give the reader a mental picture of the “com munity” and its people. And that’s what matters! Newspapers educate us on local, state and national is sues that greatly affect our lives. Newspapers make us better citizens, better neigh bors, better shoppers. Newspapers have been an important part of my life since 1941.1 was 16 years old and a cheerleader at Greens boro (Ga.) High School when the late Alva Haywood was Sports Editor for the Greens boro Herald Journal. Alva gave me my first by-line for reporting on away basketball games for the paper. That same year I was one of three senior class members to visit the school principal’s office to get permission to start a school newspaper. We did, and I was hooked. My next writing experience came while I was a student at LaGrange College from 1942 to ’46 and wrote for the school’s literary publication, The Scroll. I also sold ads to help pay for its publica tion. I really swallowed the line in 1948 when I married Hubert Dyar, then editor of The Royston Record, and became its associate editor and a weekly columnist. At that time I was also a stringer for The Atlanta Constitution and in the mid-1950s wrote a Sunday column on Geor gia folks in The Anderson (S.C.) Independent. During those years I was most grate ful for a patient and loving husband who had learned enough at the Grady School under Dean John Drewry to teach me what I needed to know to become a life-long newspaper-woman. I didn’t know then, that I would lose him at 47 and have to be a career woman the rest of my long life. But I’m getting ahead of myself, because the best years we had together came when we moved to Atlanta in 1958 when he became execu tive secretary of the Georgia Literature Commission and I got a job at the Georgia Press Association. No longer was I just working for one news paper, but for all the newspa pers in Georgia and I loved every minute of it. Once more, I had a great boss in the late Harvey Walters, who taught me so much as his as sistant, preparing me for the promotion to executive man agership of the GPA some years later, a position I held until 1978, when I returned to my roots in LaGrange, Ga., as public relations di rector of my alma mater, La Grange College. Hubert had died in 1973, the year after I became manager of GPA, and I was beginning to feel the need to be with family again in LaGrange. My leav ing Atlanta and GPA was a tough decision, but my con tact with newspapers contin ued as I wrote stories about the college every day for the LaGrange daily and for the hometown newspapers of our students at LC. When I retired from the college in 1993 I was bored to tears and asked my good friend, the late Glen Long at the LaGrange Daily News, for a job as proofreader or “just anything.” He wanted a columnist, so we settled on my writing a weekly histori cal column based on news papers 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago by month. I’m still writing “Memoried Glances” in July, 2013, and will begin my 20th year in December. The History Press of Charles ton, S.C. published my book based on my columns that covered the years from 1894 to 1980 in 2011. It is entitled, “Remembering LaGrange” and is in paper back form. At my age I’m not planning to write another book, but I am hoping that heaven will have a newspaper job open when I get there. 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