Lizzie Kunde
Bruce Westley, former chairman of UK journalism school, dies at 74
Bruce H. Westley, a former chairman of the University of Kentucky School of Journalism, died yesterday of complications from an aneurysm at the UK Chandler Medical Center. Mr. Westley, who lived at 1272 Priscilla Lane, was 74.
He began working at UK about 1968 and was chairman of the journalism school from 1969 to 1975. He retired in 1981. He was a specialist in research methods and theory in the study of social and mass communications. Mr. Westley was elected president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications in 1972, and in 1985 he received the association's Paul J. Deutschmann Award for research. He also was the founding editor of the association's Journalism Monographs and had been associate editor of its Journalism Quarterly.
He taught for more than 20 years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before moving to Lexington. He was the first recipient of the University of Wisconsin's Harold L.. Nelson Award in mass communications. He had worked for newspapers in North Dakota and had been a copy editor at the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison and a reporter for the Providence, RI., Journal and Evening Bulletin. He also had written books and articles about media research and had lectured in Ecuador for the State Department and at the University of Michigan.
Mr. Westley, a native of Cooperstown, N.D., received a bachelor's degree from the University of North Dakota in 1938 and a master's degree from Columbia University in 1941. He did additional graduate work at the University of Michigan. He served in the Army from 1942 to 1946. After retirement he continued to teach at colleges and universities, including West Virginia University, and edited and wrote books.
Survivors include his wife, Rosemary N. Westley; three sons, Richard A. Westley of Madison, David M. Westley of Boston, and Paul M. Westley of Lexington; two daughters, loan Westley of San Francisco, and Barbara Fister of St. Peter, Minn.; two brothers; a sister, and nine grandchildren. Arrangements were incomplete at W.. Milward Mortuary- Broadway.
Published in the Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, Kentucky) on Tuesday April 3, 1990. Written by Jennifer Hewlett, Herald-Leader staff writer.
He began working at UK about 1968 and was chairman of the journalism school from 1969 to 1975. He retired in 1981. He was a specialist in research methods and theory in the study of social and mass communications. Mr. Westley was elected president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications in 1972, and in 1985 he received the association's Paul J. Deutschmann Award for research. He also was the founding editor of the association's Journalism Monographs and had been associate editor of its Journalism Quarterly.
He taught for more than 20 years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before moving to Lexington. He was the first recipient of the University of Wisconsin's Harold L.. Nelson Award in mass communications. He had worked for newspapers in North Dakota and had been a copy editor at the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison and a reporter for the Providence, RI., Journal and Evening Bulletin. He also had written books and articles about media research and had lectured in Ecuador for the State Department and at the University of Michigan.
Mr. Westley, a native of Cooperstown, N.D., received a bachelor's degree from the University of North Dakota in 1938 and a master's degree from Columbia University in 1941. He did additional graduate work at the University of Michigan. He served in the Army from 1942 to 1946. After retirement he continued to teach at colleges and universities, including West Virginia University, and edited and wrote books.
Survivors include his wife, Rosemary N. Westley; three sons, Richard A. Westley of Madison, David M. Westley of Boston, and Paul M. Westley of Lexington; two daughters, loan Westley of San Francisco, and Barbara Fister of St. Peter, Minn.; two brothers; a sister, and nine grandchildren. Arrangements were incomplete at W.. Milward Mortuary- Broadway.
Published in the Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, Kentucky) on Tuesday April 3, 1990. Written by Jennifer Hewlett, Herald-Leader staff writer.
