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Show First Journalism Vorkshop Proves Success, Sets Pattern for Students Forty-five nigh school journalists journal-ists attended Branch Agricultural college's first annual Writers' Workshop, Saturday, Dec. 15, at the college Old Main building. They came from Millard, Cedar City, St. George, Hurricane, Val-1 ley, Kanab, Hinckley, Milford, Tropic, Enterprise and Parowan high schools in Utah and Moapa and Virgin Valley high schools In Nevada. Sponsored by BAC journalism 1 department with the assistance of the Salt Lake Tribune-Telegram, Deseret News and Iron County Record, the conference and workshop offered theoretical and practical training in jour-, nalistic skills involved in thej editing, management and make-up make-up of newspapers, yearbooks and . magazines, as well as work in duplicating, radio news writing and photography. Eight scholars and journalists of the intermoun-tain intermoun-tain area conducted the workshops. work-shops. A press conference In which student journalists interviewed Heber Hart, regional editor, Salt Lake Tribune-Telegram; Dr. Carlton Carl-ton Culmsee, dean of the school of arts and sciences, Utah State Agricultural college, and Merwin Fairbanks, state editor, Deseret News, analyzed "Opportunities and Demands of the Journalistic Profession". Participants acknowledged ack-nowledged the value of training on school publications, but Mr. Hart stressed the importance of work on local weeklies and service ser-vice as rural correspondents as preparation for a career in journalism. jour-nalism. The responsibilities of the pournalist to his community communi-ty were emphasized by Mr. Fairbanks. Fair-banks. Morning and afternoon workshops work-shops in news writing were conducted con-ducted by Dr. Culmsee, Mr. Fairbanks Fair-banks and Mr. Hart. Radio news-casting news-casting was taught by Prof. Twain Tippetts, chairman of the division of English and speech, B. A. C, and Frank Barecco, news bureau, radio station KSUB. Students Stu-dents in the radio workshop recorded re-corded on tape the news reports they had written, playing them back to analyze the rhythm, smoothness and style of their work. A roundtable of business managers man-agers of school publications was conducted by Prof. A. W. Stephenson, Ste-phenson, chairman of the divi sion of commerce, BAC. The group decided that other means than advertising were ideal for financing school publications. Other workshops dealt with magazine mag-azine layout, taught by Miss Amiloe Schmutz, editor of "The Pen", University of Utah literary magazine; photography, taught by Dale Kemp, Cedar City Photo shop. During a luncheon in the college col-lege cafeteria, Dr. Culmsee addressed ad-dressed the group on "School Publicity". He declared that the prime responsibility of a school publicity worker who has been ashed to sup'rvire fvhool publications publi-cations is to keep in mind the I need for clear, easily understood communication with the public. Prof. Tipnetts also gave a short talk during the luncheon. Students who attended the workshop in duplication observed the operation of the lithographic lithogra-phic process, conducted by Mr. Hart, and stencil duplication, demonstrated by Mr. Fairbanks. Operation of printing press operation op-eration was demonstrated in the shop of the Iron County Record, by Morgan Rollo, editor and publisher pub-lisher of the paper. The committee in charge of the conference, included Richard M. Rowley, instructor in English and Journalism, BAC, chairman; Prof. Stephenson, Prof. Tippetts; Don Knight, editor, Bacian, weekly BAC newspaper; David Endsley, editor. Agricola, BAC student yearbook; Dayle Parkins, busi- ness manager, Agricola; Neil Twitchell, business manager, Bacian; Ba-cian; Arlington Wood, and Janice Heywood. |
