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Show Journalism Meeting Will Consider "Today's Needs1' "Today's Need ... Interpreters" Interpre-ters" has been chosen as theme of the 25th annual Utah School Journalism Conference at Brig-ham Brig-ham Young University to be held Saturday Oct. 29, in the Joseph Smith Building. Journalism students and teachers teach-ers from almost every Utah and Southern Idaho high school are expected at the silver anniversary anniver-sary meetings of the conference. Noel H. Duerdon. BYU journalism journal-ism instructor, has been named chairman of the event. Meetings will begin at 9:30 a.m. in the Joseph Smith Auditorium Audi-torium with a keynote address i on the conference theme. The! students then will go to section meetings to hear an authority in one of the phases of school journalism jour-nalism work which includes newspaper reporting and editing, sports, photography, yearbooks, magazines, and business. In the afternoon, the students will meet for discussion and workshop sessions. ses-sions. 'The conference theme was chosen in light of the fast-moving events of today's civilization," civiliza-tion," Mr. Duerdon said. "It was felt that with the emphasis given science and in view of the thousands thou-sands of rapidly moving events in the world today and this includes in-cludes the local communities and the schools the role of the journalist who can tell his fellow citizens the meaning of events is of increasing importance. We will try to show each student how he can perform this vital function for his school with the facilities available." The Utah School of Journalism Conference is the oldest and one of the largest of its kind in the West. It is free to all those attending. at-tending. Mr. Duerdon said. |