The Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism
1981: Missourian Installed New Press
1982: Former Top Network Executive Named Dean
1982: First Endowed Chair Established
1983: School Celebrated 75th Anniversary
1983: James Atwater Named Dean
1983: Major ABC News Show Headlined J-Week
1984: SABEW Headquartered at School
1984: Journalism and Women Symposium Founded
1984: Quantitative Research Center Created at School
1985: Women Gained Enrollment Majority
1985: Famous Journalist Left Estate to School
1986: New Directions for News Founded
1986: Emerging Technology Used for Production, News, Advertising
1986: Advertising Department Revamped
1989: Dean Mills Named Eighth Dean
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Former Top Network Executive Named Dean

 
Elmer Lower, BJ '33, former ABC news president and a journalism faculty member, was appointed the School's sixth dean for the 1982-1983 school year. Lower joined the faculty in 1978.

Elmer Lower, BJ '33, fourth from right, with other Missouri Journalism grads at CBS in New York, 1958 (top left); Lower, with Dean Mills, at the September 2008 dedication of a new bust of founding dean Walter Williams (bottom left).

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