Excerpt from Ohio Journalism Hall of Fame: Addresses at the Inauguration of the Hall and the Announcement of the Result of the First Election Faculty Club Rooms, November 9, 1928, 6: 30 P. M<br><br>That much was then announced and found approval in many letters and editorial comments in Ohio-newspapers.<br><br>The next matter to be determined was the manner of selecting those who should be thus honored. It was desired by the faculty of the school that, as far as possible, the selection should be made by living journalists and historians Of the state, and So it was decided to ask fifty or more men and women, representative of the various organizations of newspapers in Ohio, to serve as judges of the persons nominated for the honor. Invita tions to this service were sent out, and very promptly a committee of fifty judges was secured. Necessary rules to govern the nominations and the elections were adopted, and last August the first ballot was sent out. It contained the names of fifteen men prominent in the early journalism of Ohio, with a few lines of description Of the service that each had rendered. All had been duly nominated, but the fifteen did not include all who had been mentioned for the honor. The choice of the names to go on the first ballot was arbitrary, but necessarily so. It was desired to begin at the be ginning, and proceed in order through the years, and it was necessary to limit the number that some adequate result might be obtained.<br><br>Others prominent in the early journalism have since been nominated, as well as many who later lived and labored; and next year it is expected that another ballot will be sent out, in the year following that, a third, and so on till the galaxy of the great in our profession is complete.<br><br>In this task of expressing the admiration of this generation for the great figures of the past, the aid of all newspaper men and women is solicited. Nominations may be made by anybody in the business or professional Side of present-day Ohio journalism, or by those in other occupations submit ting a name through a newspaper man or woman. Such nominations are invited. All will be carefully filed and from the list future ballots will be made up. If the photographs and available facts with regard to each nominee are also sent, the nominator will by that much have helped in this labor of love.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.