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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National Journalism Organization Founded


 
The faculty founded Kappa Tau Alpha, a national journalism honor society, in 1910. Other organizations founded during the decade include Alpha Delta Sigma (ADS), a national advertising fraternity, in 1913; and chapters of Theta Sigma Phi, a women's journalism sorority (1911), and Sigma Delta Chi, now the Society of Professional Journalists (1913).


Active student groups included Sigma Delta Chi (top, in 1913); Kappa Tau Alpha (middle, 1911); and Theta Sigma Phi (bottom left, 1915). Oscar Riley, BJ '11, (bottom, right) was a founding member of KTA in 1910.
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