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Norval Neil Luxon

1899–1989 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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By Norval Neil Luxon

Responsibilities of journalism : proceedings of the dedicatory ceremonies for Howell Hall as the new home of the School of Journalism

Luxon, Norval Neil, 1899-1989; University of North Carolina (1793-1962). School of Journalism · 1960 · University of North Carolina

Proceedings of the ceremonies dedicating Howell Hall as the new home of the School of Journalism at the University of North Carolina, published at Chapel Hill in 1960 with a foreword by Norval Neil Luxon. Topics include journalistic ethics and the teaching of journalism at Chapel Hill, so the addresses record what the school said about its own work.

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Norval Neil Luxon papers, circa 1930-1989.

Luxon, Norval Neil, 1899-1989 · 1930

Norval Neil Luxon (1899-1989) was a faculty member at Chapel Hill and Ohio State University, and his papers, circa 1930 to 1989, run to about 12,800 items in 15.5 linear feet in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4585. Journalists fill the subject list, among them James Reston, Vermont Royster, Clifton Daniel, Gerald W. Johnson, Sam Ragan and Holt McPherson, with William C. Friday and Gail Godwin also named.

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