Newark Evening News - Some Distinguished Newark Evening News Alumni

Some Distinguished Newark Evening News Alumni

• John T. Cunningham, prolific and wide-ranging writer on the history of New Jersey

• Lloyd M. Felmly, Editor of the Newark Evening News and a friend of public health. There is also an award set up in his honor. Lloyd M. Felmly Award : Established in 1976 and named after Lloyd M. Felmly, an editor of the Newark Evening News and a friend of public health, the annual award is presented to an individual for outstanding contribution in the media to the cause of public health in New Jersey .

• Howard Roger Garis, reporter, who created the Uncle Wiggily character as a News reporter. His Uncle Wiggily books later sold in the millions, and the Wiggily character appeared daily in the News for nearly four decades. He also wrote the first 32 volumes in the Tom Swift, series, which he wrote under the pen name of Victor Appleton.

• Lilian McNamara (Garis). The first female reporter on the News, she later married a fellow News reporter, Howard Garis. She helped launch the Bobbsey Twins series and wrote some of the early volumes.

• George P. Oslin, leading reporter. He later became Public Relations head of Western Union, and in 1933 invented the singing telegram.

• Lute Pease, News editorial cartoonist and winner of the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.

• Richard Reeves, writer for the News from 1963 to 1965. Later he spent one year at the New York Herald Tribune and then The New York Times as Chief Political Correspondent. His best-selling books included President Kennedy: Profile of Power (1993), and President Nixon: Alone in the White House (2001). He currently is a syndicated columnist and lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

• Andrew E. Svenson worked for the News from 1932 until 1948. After leaving the newspaper, he joined the Stratemeyer Syndicate, where he became a partner in 1961. Svenson shared the major writing chores with Harriet Adams. Under a variety of pseudonyms, many shared with other authors, Svenson wrote books for the Hardy Boys, Bobbsey Twins, Tom Swift, and Honey Bunch series.

• Arthur Sylvester, who headed the News bureau in Washington, D.C. In 1960 he joined the Kennedy administration as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs.