Evening star., 1952-06-23
Il Newsmen Awarded
Neiman FeIIowships
To Study at Harvard
BY the Associated Press

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass, June %
The names of II newsmen who
will study at Harvard University
for year under Nieman Fellow
ships were announced today.
Also announced were the names
OF three foreign newsmen to study
under associate Nieman Fellow
ships.
The fellowships were estab-
lished in 1888 under the grant of
Agnes Wahl Nieman in memory
Of her husband, Lucius Nieman,
founder of the Milwaukee Journal,
ito pomote and elevate standards
Of journalism in the United
States"
Mrs. Nieman left Harvard what
amounted to about 81, ,40O, 900.
The associate fellowShips are sup
ported by the Carnegie Corp.
Begin Studies This Fall.
The American newSmen who
will begin their studies in Sep
tember are:
Keyes Beech, 80, Far East cor
respondent for the Chicago Daily
News. He left school in the eighth
grade in ST.. Petersburg, Fla. and
has been working on newspapers
since he was IL. He covered the
Korean war for his newspaper
and was a Pulitzer Prize winner
last year.
MANY of Mr.. Beech's dis
patches have appeared in The
Starr
Robert E. Lee, 80, of 1910 Thirty
fifth street NV. Washington, D.
c., United Press reporter. A
native of Newark, N. j., he began
newspaper work on the Newark
News and joined the United Press
In 1949. specializing in major
labor developments. He was
graduated from Amherst College
in 1910 and had five years Navy
service.
Arthur c. Barschdorf. IS. re-
porter, Hammond tIndD Times.
He is a native of Adams, Mass,
attended Williams College and
Northwestern University nights. !
Oregon Reporter in List.
Robert B. Frazier, 81. reporter.
Eugene (Oreg.) Register Guard.
He was graduated in journalism
from the University of Oregon in
1948 after four years Of Army war
service.
william Gordon, SO, managing
editor, Atlanta, (Ga0 Daily World.
After four years of Army service,
he was graduated in 1947 from
Lemoyne College. In 1949 he
joined the Atlanta World, the
only Negro daily in the South.
Donald D. Janson. 81. copy desk
editor, Milwaukee Journal. He
was graduated from the Univer-
sity of Missouri in 1943 and took
a masters degree at the Univer-
sity of Minnesota in 1948 after
three years Navy service.
Calvin w. Mayne, 26. reporter,
Rochester IN. " Times Union.
He was graduated from Ohio State
University in 1948.
Melvin Mencher, IS, State polit-
ical reporter, Albuquerque IN. M
journal. He was born in New
York and was graduated from the
University of Colorado in 1947.
Watson Sims, 80, Associated
Press correspondent, Chattanooga,
Tenn. He was graduated from
Tufts College during Navy service
in 1916 and received a masters
degree from Columbia in 1947.
San Francisco Writer.
William Steif, 20, reporter. San
Francisco (Calif.) News. He was
graduated from Stanford Univer-
sity in 1916 after three years
Army Air Force service.
John Strohmeyer, %, reporter,
Providence (R. T. Journal. He
was graduated from Muhlenburg
College in 1947 after two years as
a navy officer. then was gradu-
ated from the Columbia Univer-
sity School of journalism in 1948.
Kenneth E. Wilson. managing
editor, Santa Rosa tCalif.) Press
Democrat. He wa graduated from
the University of California in
1948.
Associate Nieman fellowships
we're given to j. H. Flower, 81, as
sistant city editor of the Sydney
Morning Herald, Australia; Robert
F. Nielsen, 20. political writer,
Toronto Star, and Ross c. Savers,
33, city editor, Auckland Star.
New Zealand.