The Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism
1908: The World's First School of Journalism
1909: Move to Switzler Hall
1909: First Graduates
1910: The First Editors Week
1910: Students Found National Journalism Organization
1912: Organizing Journalism Educators
1912: First International Graduate
1913: World's First Bachelor of Journalism Degree
1913: Photo Illustration Training
1914: The Journalist's Creed
1915: Williams Leads International Journalism Organization
1916: Missourian Name Change
1917: World War I Affects Journalism Enrollment
1917: Journalism Education in China
1919: The Gift of Jay H. Neff Hall
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First International Student Graduated

 
Hin Wong of China became the first international graduate of the School. Wong later served as chair of the Department of Journalism at Yenching University in China, a program that was sponsored by and modeled after the Missouri School of Journalism.


Hin Wong yearbook photo, 1910.
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