Hank Nuwer retirement story: Daily Journal

Here is the story link and excerpt. 

Hank Nuwer, professor emeritus at the college, is one of nine faculty and staff members who retired this year. Prior to teaching journalism, Nuwer was a journalist himself, covering some of the landmark events of the 1960s for the Putnam County Courier in New York.

“In the late ‘60s I was with the Putnam County Courier; the stories were amazing,” Nuwer said. “I covered Woodstock, the (Apollo 11) astronauts’ parade in New York City (and) I covered the Washington Peace March. During the ‘60s, I was really interested in journalism.”

 

….It was at Ball State University where Nuwer made one of his greatest marks in the teaching profession, he said.

“I spent four years at Ball State and I’m in the Ball State Journalism Hall of Fame,” said Nuwer, who was inducted in 2010. “We won national awards for our publication, both the Pacemaker Award and the Gold Circle Columbia Scholastic Press Association Award. Three years we had Pacemakers, and one year we tied the University of Texas and Vanderbilt (University) for the best publication in the country. We had a $4,000 budget for the year.”

The Pacemaker Award is the top award given to college publications.

When Nuwer left Franklin College in June, he had worked there for 18 years, teaching both journalism and sports communication. During that time, he wrote dozens of literary works, including plays, books and essays, several of which are focused on hazing, a subject he has written about since 1978, after a student at one of the colleges he attended died in a hazing incident, Nuwer said.