In memorium ...
Bill Ward took over the print Journalism program (part of the overall Mass Communications Department at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, Illinois in the late 1960's. He reimagined the entire print journalism program and had the reworked courses in place when I attended the university in 1971. I was critiqued, encouraged, and pushed to write better, to photograph better and to design and layout magazine and newspaper pages throughout my time in the journalism program by Bill Ward. He guided a small team of us students to create two or three issues of a semi-annual magazine for SIU students. He encouraged me to work on the student newspaper.
I graduated in 1974 with confidence in my ability to produce meaningful photographs and clear, informative reporting.