Newhouse Celebrates 50 Years of Journalism

a black and white photo of a page of a newspaper — Syracuse Herald-Journal coverage of the event.

At a gala dinner on Sept. 21, 1984, the Newhouse School celebrated 50 years of journalism at Syracuse University. The event observed the founding of the School of Journalism in 1934.

The event was attended by the widow and sons of S.I. Newhouse Sr., who died in 1979. Marty Glickman ’39, a prominent sportscaster, and Mel Elfin ’51, Washington bureau chief for Newsweek, spoke at the celebration, while Everette Dennis G’64, executive director of the Gannett Center for Media Studies at Columbia University, delivered the keynote address. “We are on the verge of becoming an information society,” Dennis said. “Mass communication today is absolutely essential to the understanding of society.”