Past Student Newspaper Editors
Past Student Newspaper Editors
Included here are the names of those persons listed as "Editor-in-Chief," "Managing Editor," or "Editor." During academic year 1936-37 a "Board of Editors" controlled the production of the paper. During 1983-84 year another "Board of Editors," the faculty of the Mass Communications Department, controlled production, though students reported and wrote and the stories.
World War II, the move of the campus to Charleston, and student apathy have at times prevented publication of a student paper. The first student newspaper was published in March, 1920, and was produced as a monthly, for which students paid a $1 subscription. The title page of the first issues notes that the "... work Comet is not used in the ordinary sense ... a heavenly body ... but our Comet is to be one of the visitors which has its circuit of recurrence." Yearbooks for the academic years 1927-28 through 1930-31 list the Comet as active, and state names for the editors, but no copies of those papers have survived.
Comet (1920 - 1978)
Perspectus (1978 - 1979)
Colloquoy (1979 - 1983)
Eagle Dispatch (1983 - 1987)
Golden Reporter (1987 - 1999)
- Spring 1920 David Kirby
- 1920-1921 David Kirby
- 1921-1922 Harry Francis King
- 1922-1923 Spence Shannon
- 1923-1924 Chester N. Fannin
- 1924-1925 F. Y. Blanton
- 1925-1926 E. Wendell Riblet
- 1926-1927 J. Doyle Yoak
- 1927-1928 Kester Epling
- 1928-1929 Cecil G. Frantz
- 1929-1930 Caldwell Dudley
- 1930-1931 Ernest Snodgrass
- 1931-1932 Caldwell Dudley
- 1932-1933 No paper
- 1933-1934 No paper
- 1934-1935 No paper
- 1935-1936 No paper
- 1936-1937 Robert Dorsey, Claude "Buddy"Ramsey, Norton B. Levin,Board of Editors
- 1937-1938 Claude Ramsey
- 1938-1939 Helen Bibby
- 1939-1940 Mary Elisabeth Knapp
- 1940-1941 Miriam Thomas, Fall
- 1940-1941 Shirley Rosenbaum, Spring
- 1941-1942 Shirley Rosenbaum
- 1942-1943 Stanton Withrow
- 1943-1944 Jean Lawhead
- 1944-1945 Jo Alice McIlhattan
- 1945-1946 Jo Alice McIlhattan and Roberta Riggleman
- 1946-1947 Roberta Riggleman
- 1947-1948 Harold C. Gadd
- 1948-1949 Virginia Bailey, Fall
- 1948-1949 L. E. "Ed" Peters, Spring
- 1949-1950 L. E. "Ed" Peters
- 1950-1951 Bill Keenan
- 1951-1952 George Spruce
- 1952-1953 Richard Carpenter
- 1953-1954 Libbie Cline
- 1954-1955 Dave Freeman
- 1955-1956 Ed Morris
- 1956-1957 Ed Morris
- 1957-1958 Ed Morris
- 1958-1959 Hollie Hodges, Fall
- 1958-1959 Tommy Bunting Spring
- 1959-1960 Shirley Ritz
- 1960-1961 Nancy Young
- 1961-1962 Nancy Young
- 1962-1963 Roger Morris
- 1963-1964 Gail Vaughan
- 1964-1965 Susan Faber
- 1965-1966 Richard Christian
- 1966-1967 June Herron
- 1967-1968 June Herron
- 1968-1969 Melinda Kuhn
- 1969-1970 Jim Fuller
- 1970-1971 Cathy Fleet
- 1971-1972 Ron McGill
- 1972-1973 Jonathan Rudge
- 1973-1974 Brad Snyder
- 1974-1975 Cyndi Smith
- 1975-1976 Susan Hendricks
- 1976-1977 Susan Hendricks
- 1977-1978 Eugenia Whittington
- 1978-1979 Cathy Tarkett
- 1979-1980 Bonnie McCann
- 1980-1981 Bonnie McCann
- 1981-1982 Kathy Moran
- 1982-1983 Randy Bryant
- 1983-1984 Mass Communications Faculty
- 1984-1985 Tim Armstead
- 1985-1986 Ginger S. Thompson
- 1986-1987 Ginger S. Thompson
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