First Edition Of Journal Research Articles

The first 50 years of the JPPR – a proud journey

The first 50 years of the <scp>JPPR</scp> – a proud journey

Editor’s Preface

Editor’s Preface Howard Schlossberg, Editor/JSM This is officially my first edition of Journal of Sports Media and I can’t tell you how excited I am. This issue is full of enriching and groundbreaking stuff for which the journal has become noted under founding Editor Brad Schultz. There’s not enough room here for me to do an adequate job thanking Brad sufficiently enough for stewarding this thing through from birth. He was kind enough to make me a part of the founding Editorial Advisory Board and to allow me to handle coordinating book reviews. All that said, I have no intention of taking the journal anywhere that Brad would not have. The informational value will remain the same, the goals the same, the output the same. I’m a career sportswriter-turned-professor and I still practice both so I maintain a keen interest in advances and trends in the ways sports are reported and the research that evaluates and tracks it while also identifying where it’s going and maybe just how long it may take to get there. (Yes, I believe “sportswriter” is one word, with all credit due to the great Frank Deford.) I’m not looking for the next great groundbreaking piece on sportswriting trends though. That’s what you’re looking for. I’m just the conduit to get it out there. Like me, you are not only sports fans but “fans” of how it’s reported and why it went in that direction. It drives you. Fuels you. Makes you hoard information, save everything relative and clip holes in newspaper sports sections. It makes you ask questions. So I’m asking a question now, and that’s for you to keep asking about sports coverage, how it got where it is and where it’s going. And why. What technologies are driving it and what people are driving those technologies. Who’s the next Roone Arledge and who’s the next, dare I say it, Keith Olbermann, Jim Gray and/or (Deadspin’s) A. J. Daulerio? I’m not the only inquiring mind out there that wants to know. So let’s [End Page vii] go find ’em. Well, you do that. I’ll help and I’ll distribute too. You guys play power forward and shooting guard and I’ll play point guard, OK? One last thing: I could’ve written this in the last edition, in which Brad sort of transitioned over to me. But because of the great work he’s done and will continue to do, I couldn’t bring myself to write an initial preface as editor in an edition for which he solicited, edited and supervised all that appears. I would not rain on his parade. So, enjoy reading about the World Wide Web and the spider web that’s swallowing up traditional newspaper sports coverage in this issue. Enjoy discovering how Tiger Woods did himself in (did he ever) when he initially came back and even more about how new media is driving all of us in traditional media to be more adaptive, insightful and critical in our reporting. I know I am. Reach me directly with any questions or concerns. I’m at 312-369-8904 at the Journalism Department at Columbia College or am reachable by email at hbssports@gmail.com or hschlossberg@colum.edu. And no cheering in the press box. [End Page viii] Howard Schlossberg, Editor/JSM Columbia College Chicago Copyright © 2012 University of Nebraska Press

English

Welcome to the first edition of Journal of International and Comparative Education. This new journal, I hope and believe, will become a seminal site for published work that will have profound implications in the International and Comparative Education field. This journal commemorates the launching of the Centre for Research in International and Comparative Education. A heartfelt thanks to the Vice Chancellor, Professor Ghauth Jasmon, Deputy Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation, Professor Hamzah Abdul Rahman and everyone at University of Malaya for their rigorous support and assistance for the centre, and the journal. The papers in this journal are peer-reviewed and assured to be the quality readers expect. For that, I sincerely thank my Editorial Board and International Advisory Board who have worked hard to ensure standards of papers published in this journal are not compromised in any way.

A History of the American Risk and Insurance Association, Part II

INTRODUCTION This is second installment of a history of American Risk and Insurance Association, covering postwar years through early 1960s. This was era of growth and expansion for universities, spurred by impact of GI Bill benefits that allowed many veterans to attain college education that was only a dream at time of their enlistments. The basis of these comments is mainly written records of association, supported here and there by independent source. THE POSTWAR ERA Because of war, 1942, 1943, and 1944 annual meetings of American Association of University Teachers of Insurance (AAUTI) had been cancelled. An annual volume on a current topic was published each year in lieu of meeting proceedings. In volume published in March 1945, President Frank G. Dickinson (American Medical Association) reported that he had two principal goals for his term of office. He hoped to establish literature prize, and he planned to explore possibilities of publishing a quarterly journal soon after war. The first goal proved easier to accomplish. The Executive Committee established Elizur Wright Insurance Literature Prize and named as 1944 winner Malvin E. Davis for his book Industrial Life Insurance. Davis was associate actuary of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. The prize included a certificate and a cash award of $250. An anonymous donor, described by Executive Committee in March 1945 issue of Journal of American Association of University Teachers of Insurance as an outstanding insurance executive in Middle West, funded prize. By next year, a committee had been established to review submissions for Wright award. The formation of Wright Award Committee brought number of standing committees for association to six. As for journal, it was, like many association issues, discussed a number of times and worked on by various committees. Its development illustrates way association evolves, with many accomplishments following a fits and starts course to a final resolution. Dickinson had hoped to obtain 1,000 prepaid subscriptions at five dollars per year. It would be several years before journal became a reality. Table 1 lays out some of major developments in moving toward a true academic journal. Other significant issues that would be on association's agenda included membership growth and a possible name change. Issues that would be of lesser importance included establishment of a faculty fellows program, consideration of regional chapters of association, and relationships with insurance industry. Discussions of changes in annual meeting and of formation of a fraternity/society for students of insurance would also take place. ESTABLISHING AN ACADEMIC JOURNAL As noted in Table 1, year 1957 brought changes in association's journal, in name, in format, and in editor. During that year a group called Society for Insurance Research decided to join AAUTI. (It would later be reported that cost of assuming that group's liabilities was $307.62.) This group had published a periodical entitled Review of Insurance Studies. The contents of all three years of that publication were listed in first edition of Journal of Insurance. William T. Beadles was not only first vice president of association but also business manager for Journal of Insurance at its founding. (In 1957 there was a motion to appoint a new business manager for journal for purpose of obtaining more advertising.) The Journal of Insurance was subject of some serious discussion during its early years, discussion that would result in reappointment of John Bickley as editor. The journal was having problems with its publication schedule. Professor Bickley assured members that the four 1958 issues of journal will be published on time. …