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Edwin Bayley Edwin Bayley was my oldest friend--a man whose companionship, encouragement, and understanding I was privileged to enjoy for 54 years. I was continually impressed by his competence in whatever he chose to do--whether it was political reporting, advising a governor (Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin) and a President (John F. Kennedy), or starting and guiding a graduate school of journalism. Ed's formal education was in English at Lawrence College in Appleton, Wisconsin (now Lawrence University). He never took a course in journalism, so far as I know. Nevertheless, in 1946 he became the city hall reporter for the Milwaukee Journal, then chief political reporter. I arrived at the Journal two years later and, for reasons I fail to remember, Bayley and I quickly became friends outside of work. We visited each other's homes and played tennis together, often as partners in doubles against two others on the Journal staff. He left the Journal in 1959 to work with Governor Nelson. We remained friends and continued to see each other, when circumstances permitted, as the Bayleys moved to Washington and then New York as Ed's career progressed. In 1969, Bayley was appointed professor and dean of Berkeley's new Graduate School of Journalism. We renewed our close friendship when he persuaded me to leave the Journal and teach reporting and science writing at the new journalism school. At Berkeley, Bayley and I shared a certain anxiety over never having studied the subject we were about to teach. We exchanged ideas constantly about what to tell our classes, and I still have the notes Bayley prepared for his students studying reporting. He said the reporter must be tenacious, ingenious, and knowledgeable. He must write well, and "he must make people trust him." Bayley possessed those qualities and abilities in abundance. He guided the school for 16 years, then retired in 1985. He was also honored with the Berkeley Citation that year, and in 1986 his alma mater in Appleton conferred on him an honorary doctorate and Alumni Distinguished Service Award for his service to journalism and graduate education. Edwin Bayley, the founding dean of Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, died October 27 in Green Bay, Wisconsin at the age of 84. Survivors include his children Thomas '81 and Mary, a granddaughter, and his sister. --Remembered by James Spaulding, professor emeritus of journalism |
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