NEW NAME
Int 1948, Stanford’s Division of Journalism became renamed as the Stanford Institute for Journalistic Studies, in order to better describe the department’s activities of the time: mass communication research and the emphasis on graduate instruction.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE STANFORD DAILY ARCHIVE
TEACHING
Faculty who taught in the 1940s:
- Berton Joseph Ballard, 1935-1939, 1943-1944, News Writing; Forms of Journalistic Writing; Principles of Advertising
- Mitchell V. Charnley, 1943-1944, Public Opinion and Propaganda; History of Journalism
- Edward J. Demson, 1941-1943, 1946-1947, 1948-1949, Business Management
- Paul C. Edwards, 1939-1943
- Robert C. Elliott, 1943-1944, Editorial Techniques
- Edwin P. Gerth, 1943-1944, Procedures in Advertising
- Rex Hardy Jr, 1939-1941, Pictorial Journalism
- Miller Holland, 1939-1945
- Robert L. Housman, 1945-1946, Editorial Techniques; Forms of Journalistic Writing
- Charles Morris Hulten, 1939-1940, Editorial Techniques
- Miles Whitney Kresge Jr, 1946-1947
- Raymond D. Lawrence, 1936-1937, 1938-1941, 1946-1951, Seminar: Society and mass communication; Techniques in Propaganda; Investigative Methods in Journalism
- Truman Robert Letts, 1941-1942, Editorial Techniques
- Douglass Wood Miller, 1946-1948, Forms of Journalistic Writing; History of Journalism; Editorial Techniques
- Thomas Minton Newell, 1941-1943, 1945-1948, 1949-1953, Mechanics of Publishing; Editorial Techniques; Seminar: Experimental Editorial Techniques
- James Cudner Nute, 1936-1944, Typographic Design; Mechanics of Publishing; Advertising Production
- Albert George Pickerell, 1946-1947, Editorial Techniques
- Herbert Kittredge Reynolds, 1941-1943, National Campaigns
- George R. Rinehart, 1940-1941, Editorial Techniques; History of Journalism; Sociological Aspects of Journalism
- Richard Alfred Russell, 1936-1941, Principles of Advertising; National Campaigns
- Darwin L. Teilhet, 1941-1942, Procedures in Advertising
- George Stanley Turnbull, 1948-1949, Editorial Techniques; Mechanics of Publishing; Media of Mass Communications
- Neal Van Sooy, 1935-1939, 1940-1941, Newspaper Accounting and Cost Finding; Business Management; Advanced Business Problems
- Clifford Francis Weigle, 1934-1949, 1950-1970, 1971-1981, News Writing; Practical Editing; Feature Article
Course offerings in the 1940s:
Stanford President’s Annual Reports from the 1940s:

1940
President's Annual Report
VIEW

1941
President's Annual Report
VIEW

1942
President's Annual Report
VIEW

1943
President's Annual Report
VIEW

1944
President's Annual Report
VIEW

1945
President's Annual Report
VIEW

1946
President's Annual Report
VIEW

1947
President's Annual Report
VIEW

1948
President's Annual Report
VIEW