St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1953-09-18
Rowan Nomed One
Of 100 Newsmokers
Of The Mill Civ

Carl T. Rowan, staff writer on
the Minneapolis TRIBUNE and
president OF the Minneapolis Ur-
ban League was named among the
100 Ncwsmakers Of Tomorrow"
in search for the outstanding
young men from Greater Mime
spolis conducted jointly by the
Minneapolis Chamber OF CONNER
ce and TIME Magazine.
The men selected and their
wives were honored at a banquet
Wednesday night at the Hotel
Radisson at which time Frank
Leslie, chairman OF the commit
tee of senior citizens" who made
the selections. and James Linen.
publisher of TIME, Gerald Moore,
president of the Minneapolis Civic
and Commerce Association, and
Mayor Eric Hoyer spoke.
Response was made by two of
the young men named in the per-
sons of Prof, Robert II. Beck OF
the History and Philosophy de-
partment OF the University OF
Minnesota and Stanley j. Nelson
Of the Minneapolis Honeywell
Regulator Co.
Other guests at the banquet
were members OF the Committee
for Minneapolis Future, Chamber
OF Commerce and TIME repre-
sentatives. and prominent civic,
professional and business figures.
Wives also attended. II was a
beautiful affair.
Each of the men honored re-
ceived a handsome brochure with
photos OF the 100 men selected and
OF the selecting committee.
The 100 young men named were
chosen by the committee as out
standing representatives Of the
city's future leadership, and their
activities cover twenty-cight diff
ferent fields: advertising. archi-
lecture. art. banking. broadcast
ing. civic service. construction.
education, food processing. gov
eminent, insurance. investment
banking. journalism. labor, law.
manufacturing. marketing. medi-
cine. merchandising. milling. mus
&c. printing, publishing. public re-
latons. real estate, religion,
scientific research. sports. Before
making these selections. the Com
mittee carefully studied the near
ly 1900 nominations received from
the public and civic organizations.
Al least "a OF those nominated
were young Negro-Americans.
To be considered the candl-
dates had to be between the ages
Of rs through 80. and must not
only have exhibited achievement
in their field. but also show great
promise for the future.
Speaking for the elder citi-
zens' OF Minneapolis who served
as the Committee for Minneapo-
lis Future, Frank Leslie said,
This was one of the most diff
ficult tasks we OF the Committee
have ever undertaken. To choose
only one hundred from the hun
dreds Of versatile and promising
young leaders of whom Mime
apolis can rightfully boast was a
painful task.
Every time we went over the
names, individually and collective
~, we were faced with one spec
ter that we might be overlooking
someone Of great promise. And
the very representative nature Of
our selections meant that many
promising young men could not be
named.
Minneapolis is the third city in
which this program has been CO.
sponsored by TIME Magazine
and the local Chamber OF Com
merce. Atlanta was the first,
Pittsburgh was the second and
two similar programs are now
getting under way in San Fran
cisco and Seattle.
Serving with Frank Leslie on
the committee which did the
selecting were Theodore c. BE
gen, wilhelrnus p. Bryan, Harry
A. Bulls. Clarence r. CLANCY,
Walter Cramond. DR.. Harold 5.
Diehl. J. b. Fagre, r. Peavey
Heffelfinger, Mayor Eric Hoyer,
p. y. Juster. Stuart Leck, Cecil
e. Newman, Rufus Putnam,
Leonard Ramberg. Gideon Sey-
mour, J. Cameron Thompson.
George w. Wells Paul b. Wishart,
Val Wurtele and DR.. Reuben X.
Youngdahl Advising them in
certain specialized fields were
Or. Earl r. Baumhofer, DIR. Or
wood J. Campbell. DR.. Claude
J. Ehrenberg. Judge ID. r. La
Belle. Paige Lehman, Judge Dana
Nicholson. Torrance L. Webster
and DIR. s. Marx White.
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