The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-04-01
COLLECE-BRED EDITORS.


Greenville News IS a " Otford man,
his afternoon contemporary, Mr.. }.
Rutledge AIcGhee Of the Greenvllle
Evening Piedmont being graduate
Of the State university, as is also,
by the way, the latter's. brother,
Zach McGhee. Editor Charles H.
Henry Of the Spartanburg Journal
is from Furman. Editor Hartwell
M. Aver of the Florence Times,
studied at Furman and is a gradu-
ate Of the University Of South Caro-
ina-and a lawyer besides. Hubert
Osteen of the Sumter Daily Item Is
graduate of the Normal college Of
Nashville.
Elebert H. Aull Of The Newberry
Herald and News is a graduate Of
Newberry college and so is his son,
John K. Aull. Editor Wallace Of the
; Newberry Observer, who was for
time editor Of the Greenville News,
holds a diploma from Woford. The
late James T. Bacon Of the Edgefeld
Chsonicle hepd degrees from both
Union college at ScAaoectady and
the University Of Leipsic, Germany.
Frank Fooshee Of the Winnsboro
News and Herald has the masters
degree from Woford. Archie Willis
Of the Laurensville Herald and the
|! Woodruff News is another Wofford
man. Alva K. Lorenz Of the Aiken
Journal and Review is graduate Of
the University Of South Carolina.
Editor c.. T. Connors Of the LancaS-
ter News was educated at the King;
Mountain Military academy and tie
, University Of the South, Sewanee.
Mr.. John T. Bigham, an Erskine
graduate, has retired from the
Chester Lantern after long career.
R. L. Freeman of the Pee Dee Ad-
vocat is from Wake Forest. Both
+ of the Gardners who edit the Green
wood journal George W., Sr., and
/ George W., Jr.,-are Furman men.
Harry Legare Watson of the Green
wood Index is also Furman gradu-
ate, and holds degree also from the
University Of North Corolina. His
partner, Joel Bailey, was star ath-
| lete at Wofford. Renwiek Bradley
of the Abbeville Press and Banner
is a graduate Of Erskine. So was
his late contemporary, the late Ia
mented R. R. Hemphill Of the Able
vile Medium. John ". Holmes Of
the Barnweu People is from Wof-
ford, R. 7. Jaynes Of the Keowee
Courier from old Adger college at
Walhalla; J. C. Mace Of the Marion
Star from the College of Physicians
and Surgeons, Baltimore. Neils
Christensen Of the Beaufort Gazette
was educated at the North and took
law at the University of South Car
olina. Editors Brooks and Mar
shall Of the Belton Times are grad
yates of Furman. Mr.. Henry A.
Whitman, recently in newspaper
work at Columbia, but now libra
rian to the supreme court, has q
trunk full of diplomas, including
sheepskins from the University Of
Georgia and from Harvard. Rion
McKissick, who has gone to the
Richmond Times-Dispatch, is a Har-
ward graduate in law, but got his
B. A. from the University Of South
| Carolina. Richard W. Simpson, Jr.,
city editor Of the Times-Dispatch,
began his education at Woford and
graduated on the News and Courier.
Patillo II. MCGOWAN Of the News
and Courier has a law degree from
the University Of South Carolina.
Lewis G. Wood, who has recently
gone to the New York Tribune, is 8
former student of the University Of
South Carolina and the University
of the South. Yates Snowden, until
lately news editor Of the News and
Courier, now professor Of history in
the University of South Carolina, is
graduate Of Charleston college. So
also is John A. Moroso, now of the
New York Times.
This list is also doubtless capable
of extension. It is not put forth as
complete. It is presented merely
for what interest it may have as in
dicating the number of eollege-bred
men doing newspaper work in the
State. Of course nothing said here
in is to be construed as an argument
that such training is absolutely nec-
essarv to success. Some Of the
most worthy and influential men the
State press has ever had neither had
nor needed diplomas to attest their
.:---aquestioned learning as well as