The Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism
Frank L. Martin in the Neff Hall Newsroom
Margaret Davidson and Hazel Ludwig
Walter Williams with the Captain of the S.S. Yorck
Maurice Votaw
Stone Sundial Presentation
1923 Honor Students
1930 Country Newspaper Production Class
The Columbia Missourian, June 2, 1923
Dean Walter Williams in Cap and Gown
The Missourian Magazine, Nov. 1, 1924
Walter Williams with British Journalist Percy Bullen
A. Kimura, Japanese Consul General from Chicago
First Trans-Atlantic Phone Call
1929 Picnic at the Home of Walter Williams
Vernon Nash, Exchange Students and Walter Williams
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First Trans-Atlantic Phone Call Made

Faculty, students and guests of Journalism Week 1927 listened to the first trans-Atlantic telephone call from Columbia, Mo., to London on May 12. Ralph H. Turner, BJ '16, news manager at the United Press, made the call to the UP London bureau, which lasted six minutes and cost $162.


Guests of Journalism Week 1927 listened to the first trans-Atlantic phone call to London via headphones.
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