NSPA & ACP THROUGH THE DECADES

< ADVISER ORGANIZATION CONVENES

Rowena Harvey, South Side High School, Fort Wayne, Indiana, proposes a national association of high school journalism directors, and the American Association of High School Teachers of Journalistic Writing convenes its first meeting at the sixth CIPA convention.

In 1930, it becomes the National Association of Journalism Advisers, and, in 1935, it becomes the National Association of Journalism Directors. In 1963, 38 years later, it becomes Journalism Education Association.

1925

418 YEARBOOKS JUDGED

Approximately 418 yearbooks are judged in the fifth All-American Yearbook contest. The top five collegiate and scholastic yearbooks competed for the All-American cup, and winners were the Savitar, University of Missouri, and the Totem, South Side High School, Fort Wayne, Indiana.

European Journalism Tour

A full-page ad in Scholastic Editor promotes the European Journalism Tour. Described as a “purposeful 45day tour,” it features “fast ships that insure members of the tour the maximum of time in Europe.” The cost of the tour ranges from $465 to $520 and includes an Editing of School Publications course. E. Marion Johnson conducts tours.

1926

South Side Times Sets The Pace

For the second time in three years, The South Side Times newspaper, advised by Rowena Harvey, earns the All-American Cup and establishes itself as one of the best scholastic newspapers of the era.

< QUILL & SCROLL FOUNDED IN IOWA

At the University of Iowa, George H. Gallup Sr. founds Quill and Scroll, which would grow into an international honorary. Gallup was also one of the original judges of the NSPA “Pace-maker” competition.

In July 2022, Quill and Scroll merges with NSPA.

Magazine Moves To Minneapolis

Scholastic Editor moves to Minneapolis “in order that it may continue under the editorship of E. Marion Johnson, who has been appointed chairman of the University of Minnesota Department of Journalism.” The magazine moves to Folwell Hall, then home of the journalism department.

As questions increase about CIPA’s future, the magazine promises “several announcements of real interest to everyone of our readers and the school world in general.” The association does not function during the 1926-27 school year

1927

FIRST PACEMAKERS PRESENTED

The Pacemaker awards are presented for the first time. They are recognized as the top prizes in scholastic and collegiate journalism.

“The designation of Pace-Maker is a very appropriate one in the spirited race of newspapers, magazines and annuals for the highest honors,” Scholastic Editor reports. Gallup H. Gallup judges the competition, and the Pace-Maker is awarded a “silver loving cup.”

THE SOUTH SIDE TIMES and the journalism program at South Side High School, Fort Wayne, Indiana, was an early pioneer in scholastic journalism. (top) The cover of the February, 1924, Scholastic Editor magazine showcases The South Side Times. (center) Adviser Rowena Harvey sit at her desk complete with a telephone. (bottom) The South Side Times editorial staff works at individual desks and a circular copy desk modeled after professional newsrooms. 061

Dynamic Duo

“Director Fred Kildow, an assistant professor of journalism who, with his splendid background and long period of work with the group, is admirably fitted to direct its destinies,” Scholastic Editor magazine reports in 1936. Lucille Kildow, his wife, serves as assistant director. The dynamic husband-and-wife team are “in a student-made flash photo” at the 1936 NSPA Detroit convention.