OBITUARY

Evening Post, Issue 27, 31 July 1935, Page 10

OBITUARY

DR. WALTER WILLIAMS

(Received July 31, 2 p.m.) COLUMBIA, 8.C., July 30. Obituary.—Dr. Walter Williams, president of the University of- Missouri.

Dr. Walter Williams, president of the University of Missouri, U.S.A., was regarded by his.American contemporaries as a man of many parts. He had a distinguished career. In his early days he founded, owned, and edited some half-dozen newspapers in the Middle West 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 ten years before joining the. staff he had, been chairman of /the. . executive board of curators of the 'university,1 and a strong advocate of a" school in which' to educate men' and women for the profession of journalism. He was founder and first president of the World's Pres3 Congress, 1915-26; first president, Am-' erican Association of Schools and De-. partments of Journalism, 1916; exchange professor of the National Uni-' versity of Mexico, 1925; and a fellow; of the British Institute of Journalists., A much-travelled man, Dr. Williams' was a well-known figure on .the con-i tinents of America, Asia, Africa, and' Europe. Amidst his many activities i 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 thatwould contribute to the uplift of journalism, and its increased usefulness as I a promoter of international good will j and the cementing.of world friendship. ( In 1934, with Mrs. Williams; also a | practical journalist and author, he visited New Zealand.