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1940-49

Ed Meyer, BJ '49, spent 40 years as a radio and television reporter and newscaster, the last 30 years with ABC stations in Washington, D.C. He won a George Foster Peabody award in 1983 as well as national awards from Ohio State University, the Freedom Foundation and Sigma Delta Chi. After retirement, Meyer taught broadcast journalism at Mt. St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg, Md. He now lives in Lee's Summit, Mo.  Added: May 5, 2008

Oscar Paul Gendelman, BJ '47, died Jan. 28 at the age of 86.  Added: April 8, 2008

Anthony Joseph Gomes, BJ '41, died Dec. 23, 2007, in Kenmore, Wash. Originally from Kobe, Japan, Gomes worked as a printer at The Seattle Times for 37 years before retiring in 1984.  Added: March 4, 2008

William Thomas Raidt, BJ '40

William Thomas Raidt, BJ '40, former president and chairman of the executive committee of D'Arcy MacManus & Masius, died Oct. 10, 2007, in La Jolla, Calif. He was 88 years old. Raidt's career with D'Arcy spanned 40 years, starting in the St. Louis office with subsequent assignments in Cleveland, New York and Chicago. He was instrumental to the merger of D'Arcy and the MacManus, John & Adams agency and the later merger with Masius Wynne-Williams. Raidt began his career with D'Arcy but then served as a press liaison on Gen. Douglas MacArthur's staff in the Pacific during World War II. He worked closely with the celebrated war correspondent Ernie Pyle and was with Pyle the night before he died from enemy fire in 1945. Prior to re-joining D'Arcy after World War II, Raidt co-hosted a program on the Mutual Radio Network called Opportunity USA, where post-war GI's discussed their plans for the future. One of his early agency assignments was on The Spike Jones Show on CBS Radio, sponsored by his client, Coca-Cola, where Raidt was responsible for hiring future 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace as an announcer on the show. Walter Cronkite was also among his many life-long friends. His many awards include the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism in 1982 and the Chicagoan of the Year award from the Chicago Boys and Girls Clubs. Raidt enjoyed a 25-year retirement in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., where he wrote an occasional op-ed for The Rancho Santa Fe Review, "The Going Raidt." He served several years as Rancho Santa Fe Foundation President. A father of six, he is survived by three sons, two daughters, six grandchildren and Joan, his wife of 58 years.  Added: Feb. 22, 2008

Paul D. Adams, BJ '49, died July 15, 2007, in Eldon, Mo., at the age of 87. He began his career at KFRU radio as a student. Adams was featured in the spring 1999 issue of MIZZOU Magazine as "America's Oldest DJ." He is survived by his wife, Rose, BS Ed '62.  Added: Feb. 19, 2008

E. Hirst Mendenhall, BJ '41, died Jan. 27 in Columbia, Mo., at age 88. He came to the School from his native Indiana in the late 1930s. Within days of the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, Mendenhall enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps. He flew 65 combat missions, including two on D-Day, and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. In 1949, Mendenhall joined McDonnell Realty, which was owned by his father-in-law, Ira McDonnell. He later formed Mendenhall Realty, and the two companies eventually merged to form Boone Realty. Today, the company is still operated by the Mendenhall family as Re/Max Boone Realty. He was a 50-year member of the Kiwanis Club, a commander of the American Legion, a life member of the Columbia Board of Realtors and was awarded the highest honor of Realtor of the Year. Mendenhall was a regional vice president for the Council of Residential Brokers of the National Association of Realtors.  Added: Jan. 30, 2008

Walter Reed, BJ '49, and his wife Jeanne in Switzerland, September 2007.

Walter Reed, BJ '49, retired as longtime public relations director of the U.S. vending industry's national association in 1989. He then conducted a worldwide consulting service until a few years ago. Reed and his wife travel extensively throughout the world, and he is active in his local Rotary Club and district. Reed is now completing archival and other research for a book, Children as Victims of War, which deals with Jewish children's refugee colonies in World War II. The Reeds have three sons and live in Wilmette, Ill. Reed participated in his 50-year class reunion in 1999.  Added: Jan. 16, 2008

Kathleen White Miles, BJ '48, died Dec. 22 at her home in Clinton, Mo., after a brief illness. She was 80. Miles had been publisher of The Clinton County (Mo.) Democrat since 1986. She was a popular columnist for The Democrat, writing the column "Bits and Pieces" from 1980 until December 2007. She edited The Benton County Enterprise in the 1950s while also reporting for The Democrat.  Added: Dec. 26, 2007

Don Mozley, BJ '42

Don Mozley, BJ '42, was recently inducted into the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame in California. He was a broadcaster for CBS Radio and KCBS/74 in San Francisco for 62 years, including 10 years as a network correspondent in New York, San Francisco and the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Mozley was the youngest CBS News correspondent when hired in 1942, at age 21. After covering World War II for the network, he was assigned to the atomic bomb tests at Bikini in the Marshall Islands, then came home to travel on the presidential campaigns of Sen. Robert A. Taft, Richard M. Nixon and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. He later became news director of KCBS for fifteen years, where he also served as a news anchor and reporter, in addition to covering the automotive industry in his long-running "California Driver" features. He continues to provide new car reviews in "Don Mozley's Auto Test," which can be heard on the KCBS.com Web site. Mozley was honored with the Excellence in Journalism Award by the Society of Professional Journalists' Northern California Chapter in 1986 in recognition of his distinguished career in broadcasting.  Added: Dec. 19, 2007

Gerald Singer, BJ '40, served 28 years in the U.S. Army Reserve, retiring on June 21, 1971, as a lieutenant colonel. He is a veteran of World War II and the Korean Conflict. After his military retirement, Singer entered the retail management business. He also retired from Saks Fifth Avenue and from Brooks Brothers after opening the Houston Galleria store. He married a former student in education, Natalie Fisch, in 1941. Their daughter, Barbara, graduated from the University of Missouri Honors College with a degree in education and taught in Houston. Singer and his wife just celebrated their 66th wedding anniversary in August 2007.  Added: Dec. 13, 2007

Frances Anne (Pittam) Shears, BJ '43, died Oct. 28, 2006, at age 84. She lived in Hutchinson, Kan., with her husband of 62 years, Dr. Robert Shears.  Added: Aug. 23, 2007

John Reginato, BJ '47, a member of the California Outdoors Hall of Fame and the California Tourism Hall of Fame, died July 28 in Tacoma, Wash. For more than 40 years he led the Shasta-Cascade Wonderland Association, an organization dedicated to progress and prosperity in the 30,000 square-mile Shasta Cascade region of northeast California. As the general manager, Reginato promoted hunting, fishing and camping on talk shows and in lectures, and he fielded questions from journalists and outdoor writers around the world. He helped establish, among other important projects, the Whiskeytown National Recreation Area and the Sacramento River Trail. After graduating from the Missouri School of Journalism, Reginato, a U.S. Air Force veteran, worked for a sports advertising agency in San Francisco, Calif. He then moved to the Shasta-Cascade region to begin his career with the Wonderland Association.  Added: Aug. 2, 2007

David Byrnes, BJ '49, is a retired publisher living in Riverside, Calif.  Added: July 25, 2007

Now 80 years old, Al Clem, BJ '49, and his wife, Ruth, live in retirement in Sedona, Ariz., a small town midway between Phoenix and the Grand Canyon. Clem retired as vice president and director of investor relations of a large bank holding company in Chicago, Ill. Earlier, he worked for newspapers in North Carolina and Iowa, then for Abbott Laboratories, a drug and chemical manufacturer. Clem served at sea with the Navy in 1945-46 and 1951-52.  Added: July 23, 2007

Samuel Papert Jr., BJ '41, longtime president of an advertising sales company in Dallas, Texas, died July 3 at age 86. His father started the Texas Daily Press League company, which handled national and out-of-market advertising sales for newspapers, in 1922. Papert took over as president from 1951 until the early 1990s, when he became chairman and the league was renamed The Papert Companies. Prior to joining his father's company, Papert earned a master's of business administration from Harvard University in 1943 and then served in the U.S. Army until 1949.  Added: July 11, 2007

Marshall Dean, BJ '47, writes a column, "Rambling Prose," that has been published weekly by the Wetumpka (Ala.) Herald for almost 10 years. The columns are written "from the sunny side of the street." In addition to publishing several stories on the Internet, Dean is editor of 43K CONTACT, the newsletter of his World War II aviation cadet class. He just mailed the 43rd issue and said that most of the content comes by e-mail from members, all of whom were pilots during the war. Dean retired from the Air Force in 1967 as a Lieutenant Colonel.  Added: June 7, 2007

Ewald A. "Wally" Richter, BJ '48, died April 15 in Jefferson City, Mo. He served as the director of information for the Missouri Bar Association for many years before his retirement. The E.A. Richter Award in Citizenship Education, established by the Missouri Bar in his honor, recognizes outstanding contributions by Missouri's teachers, administrators and/or schools to citizenship education efforts in the state.  Added: April 18, 2007

Mary Dempsey, BJ '41, died June 8, 2006.  Added: Jan. 19, 2007

Charles Ridgway, BJ '47, has just authored a new book, "Spinning Disney's World," hitting the lighthearted highlights of his career as a publicist for Disneyland and Walt Disney World during four decades of unique promotional events. In "retirement," he continues to travel around the world, occasionally writing stories about his travels for Sunday newspapers. He also has become an accomplished photographer whose pictures are distributed by photo agencies. He lives in Longwood, Fla., and continues to attend every new Disney World press event. [More]  Added: Jan. 8, 2007

H. Denny Davis, BJ '49, who served more than 20 years as a foreign correspondent with United Press International before returning to his hometown to own and operate the local newspapers, died Dec. 30. He worked in Peru, Brazil, and Mexico for UPI from 1956 to 1975 before becoming a regional executive with the news service in Charlotte, N.C., from 1975 to 1978. He returned to his hometown of Fayette, Mo., in 1978 and operated a printing business until 1984, when he bought the Fayette Advertiser and the Democrat-Leader. After retiring in 2000, he continued to work several hours a week for both papers until May 2005. He was inducted into the Missouri Press Association Hall of Fame in 2005.  Added: Jan. 2, 2007

Walter C. Taylor Jr., BJ '41, died Dec. 17 in Bellevue, Wash. From 1981 to 1995, Taylor owned the award-winning Peninsula Gateway weekly newspaper in Gig Harbor, Wash., with his son, Thomas. In 1983 he and his son Andrew founded Japan Pacific Publications, a Japanese-language publishing company in Seattle that publishes Seattle's Japanese language visitors guide and the Soy Source, Seattle's Japanese language newspaper. Previously, Taylor was the owner and publisher of the Newport (Ore.) News Times, and with his late partner P. Lee Irwin, owned and operated the Gresham (Ore.) Outlook, The Sandy (Ore.) Post, the Parkrose (Ore.) Enterprise, the former Lincoln County Leader in Toledo, Ore., and the former Lincoln County Times in Waldport, Ore. For a time the two men also were partners in the publication of the Tillamook (Ore.) Herald and the Seaside (Ore.) Signal.  Added: Dec. 21, 2006

John Jacobs, BJ '47, was recently honored by the city for 60 years of community service to Gainesville, Ga. His impressive list of civic accomplishments include chairmanship of the Brenau University Board of Trustees, president of the chamber of commerce and his current role as president of the Northeast Georgia History Center. Professionally, Jacobs is chairman of the board for Jacobs Media, operators of three radio stations and an online newspaper, accessnorthga.com.  Added: Dec. 5, 2006

Harold Hornstein, BJ '47, was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Connecticut Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists on May 25, 2006. During his 54 years as a Connecticut journalist for the Westport News and other newspapers, Hornstein earned 12 major national, regional and state awards.

Billy I. Ross, BJ '48, is the senior author of a new book, Advertising Education: Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow. The book is a third update of his original book written in 1964. Publication and distribution of the book is through the support of the Louisiana State University Manship School of Mass Communication and the Texas Tech University College of Mass Communications.

William "Bud" Murphy, BJ '49, died May 11, 2006, in Bellevue, Wash. He was 86. Murphy held successful management positions within the newspaper industry before starting his own business as a publisher of weekly community newspapers in Indianapolis. He also developed and operated a real estate investment corporation until his retirement in 1996. He is survived by four children, seven grandchildren, a sister and two nieces.

Robert William "Bob" Tonn, BJ '49, died Jan. 6, 2006, in St. Louis. He was 85. Tonn served with the 24th Air Depot Group, 20th Army-Air Force in the Pacific during World War II. After graduation from MU, he served as the executive director of the St. Louis Area Council of Boy Scouts of America. He then returned to the military as a civilian with the Army Aviation Systems Command (AVSCOM) until he retired in 1990. He is survived by his wife, two sons, two sisters and a brother.