The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-13

| Greenville News is a Wofford man.
MS afternoon contemporary, J.
Rutledge MCGEE of the Greenville
Evening Piedmont being a graduate
of the State university as is also. bv
the way the latter's brother, Zach
| MCGEE. Editor Charles H. Henry of
of the Spartanburg Journal is from
Furman. Editor Hartwell M. Aver,
OF the Florence Times, studied at Fur
man and is a graduate of the Uni
versity Of South Carolina-and a law
yer besides. Hubert Osteen of the
Sumter Daily Item is a graduate of
the Normal College of Nashville.
| Elbert 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
Newberry Observer! who was for
time editor Of the Greenville News,
holds a diploma from Wofford. The
late James T. Bacon Of the Edgefield
Chronicle held degrees from both
Union college at Schectady and the
University of Leipsic, Germany. Frank
Fooshe of the Winnsboro News and
Herald has the masters degree from
! Wofford. Archie Willis of the Lau-
rensville Herald and the Woodruff
| News is another Wofford man. Alva
, X. I,OranZ nf ho 4
Review is graduate of the Univer-
sity of South Carolina. Editor c. T.
ConnOrS Of the Lancaster News was
educated at the Kings Mountain Mill
tary academy and the University of
the South, Sewanee. M. John T. Big
ham, an Erskine graduate, has retired
from the Chester Lantern after a long
career r. L. Freeman of the Pee Dee
Advocate 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 a Furman gradu-
| olC, dlio d ueSIcc dlSO the
University of North Carolina. His
partner, Joe Bailey, was a star athlete
at Wofford. Renwick Bradley of the
Abbeville Press and Banner is a
graduate of Erskine. So was his late
! contemporary, the lamented r. r.
Hemphill of the Abbeville Medium
John w. Holmes Of the Barnville Peo-
pie is from Wofford, r. T. Jaynes of
the Keowee Courier from old Ad-
ger college at Walhalla; J. c. Mace of
{ the Marion Star from the College of
! Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore.
Neils Christensen of the Beaufort Ga
Zette was educated at the North and
took law at the University Of South
Carolina. Editors Brooks and Mar
| shall of the Bolton Times are gradu-
ates of F'urman. Henry A. Whitman,
recently in newspaper work in Colum-
bia, but now librarian to the supreme
court has a trunk full of diplomas,
| including sheepskins from the Uni
! Rion McKissick, who has gone to the
! Richmond s-Dispatch, is a Har-
! ward graduate in law, but got his B.
| A. from the University Of South Caro-
lima. Richard w. Simpson, Jr., city
editor of the Times Dispatch, began
his education on the News and Cour-
fer. 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 a 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 Uni
versity Of South Carolina, is a grad
uate of Charleston college. So also
is John A. Moroso, now of the New
York Times.
This list is also doubtless capable
! of extension. 1t is not put forth as
complete. 1t is presented merely for
| what interest it may have as indicat-
| ing the number of college-bred men
! doing newspaper work in the state.
OF course nothing said herein is to
| be construed as an argument that
such training is absolutely necessary
to success. Some of the most worthy
andd influential men the State nreSS
has ever had neither had or needed
diplomas to attest their unquestioned |
learning as we'll as their native abili-
ty. Newspaper work is in itself lib |
eral education. 1t is not to be dis |
puted that a passage through the |
graduation of an Office is the finest |