front row, left to right: R. Donovan, J. Pulitzer, W. McGill, N. Noyes, W. Carroll; back row, left to right: W. Dickinson, J. Cowles, P. Day, L. Hills, B. Bradlee, J. Reston, S. Meyer, J. Hohenberg (absent from photo: V. Royster) -- photo taken April 8, 1971 by Manny Warman/Columbia University
In his decades-long career, the two-time Poetry winner remained committed to world literature, ecology and pacifism.
New York Times obituary, July 23, 1996
Vermont Royster, a former editor of The Wall Street Journal who won two Pulitzer Prizes and helped to shape his newspaper into the country's leading business daily, died yesterday in a retirement community in Raleigh, N.C., The Journal said. He was 82.
The Journal said Mr. Royster had been in ill health for several years.
(Courtesy of The New York Times)
By R.W. Apple Jr.
December 7, 1995
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6— James Reston, former columnist, Washington correspondent and executive editor of The New York Times, died tonight at his home here. He was 86.
The cause was cancer, said his son Thomas.
Joseph Pulitzer Jr. Is Dead at 80; Publisher Was Avid Art Collector
by DENNIS HEVESI
Published: Thursday, May 27, 1993
(Courtesy of The New York Times)
By Edward Wyatt
December 19, 1997
Newbold Noyes Jr., who as editor of The Washington Evening Star from 1963 to 1975 was the last member of four generations of his family to lead the newspaper, died yesterday in Sorrento, Me. He was 79.
Mr. Noyes had heart problems, said a son, Newbold Noyes 3d.
(Courtesy of The New York Times)
Correction Appended
Sylvan H. Meyer, a newspaper editor and outspoken white supporter of civil rights in Georgia in the 1950's and 60's, died on April 8 at his home in Dahlonega, Ga. He was 79.
Mr. Meyer, who was chairman of the Georgia advisory committee to the United States Civil Rights Commission from 1958 to 1965, advocated peaceful integration, a stand that led to death threats against him and his family.
William J. McGill, distinguished psychologist, author and president of Columbia University during the decade of the 1970s, died Sunday, Oct. 19, in La Jolla, Calif. He was 75 years old. He had suffered a severe heart attack last Wednesday and was a patient in John M. and Sally B. Thornton Hospital of the University of California, San Diego. He had been chancellor of UCSD from 1968 to 1970, before joining Columbia, and had been an adjunct professor there again for the past 17 years.
