OBITUARY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 246, 31 July 1935, Page 5

OBITUARY

DR. WALTER WILLIAMS.

DEAN OF SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM.

(United Press Association —Copyright) (Received Thik Day, 10.25 a.m.) NEW 7 YORK, July 30.

' A message from Columbia announces the death of Dr. Walter Williams, President of the Univ ersity of Missouri, Dean of the School of Journalism of the University of Missouri, and honorary President of the, Press Congress of the World.

Dr. Walter Williams was regarded by his American contemporaries as a man of many parts. He had a distinguished career as journalist, teacher and author. In his early days he founded, owned and edited some halfdozen newspapers in the Middle W 7 est States.

In .1908 he gave up practical journalism to become a teacher of journalism, having been appointed Professor of History and Dean of Journalism at the University of Missouri. For 10 years before_ joining the staff lie had been chairman of the Executive Board of Curators of the University, and a strong advocate of a school in which to educate men and women for the profession of journalism. He was the founder and first president of the World’s Press Congress, 1915-1926; first president of the American Association of Schools and Departments of Journalism, 1916; and exchange Professor of the National University of Mexico, 1925. He was a Fellow of the British Institute of Journalists. A much-travelled man, he was a wellknown figure on the continents of America, Asia, Africa,- and Europe. Amid liis many activities he found time to -write a dozen books on history, travel and journalism. He was an advocate of the exchange of journalists, indeed of everything that would contribute to the uplift of journalism and its increased usefulness as a promoter of international goodwill and the cementing of world friendship. .Dr. Williams paid a visit to New Zealand in the early part of last year, spending several weeks in the Dominion.

MR FREDERICK W. CORNWALL.

NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day

Mr Frederick William Cornwall, a well-known Jersey breeder and judge, of Bell Block, is dead,' aged 68. Mr Cornwall engaged in farming in the Bell Block district 40 years ago, acquiring pedigree stock from Mr W. K. Hulk, the pioneer of the Jersey breed in Taranaki. From that Mr Cornwall built the herd upon which his own reputation as a breeder was established. Mr Cornwall was an honorary life member of the New Zealand Jersey Breeders’ Association, and filled judging engagements all over New- Zealand. He never and is survived by three sisters —Mrs L. O. Sladden (New’ Plymouth), Mrs Davies ‘(Nelson) and Mrs iPott (South Africa).