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UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION numerous other positions at various church levels. Despite his health problems, there was no advance warning of a heart attack which claimed his life on June 17, 1978. He was 66 years of age. Though he wrote no thundering editorials like those of famed William Allen White; and while his words have not been indelibly inscribed in journalistic annals, Roy Gibson was a newsman's newsman. He was a publisher who used the columns of his paper to construct, not destroy; who unfailingly treated people justly in his news accounts and believed, as The Journalist's Creed proclaims, that the test of good journalism is the measure of its public service. Because all this is true, he is eminently qualified for membership in the Utah Newspaper Hall of Fame and deservedly takes his place among those whose names are outstanding in Utah press history. WILLIAM GLASMANN, Ogden Standard Born November 12, 1858 - Died May 12, 1916 Installed in Hall of Fame at Salt Lake City, 1964 On November 9, 1894, William Glasmann and his wife, Evelyn became the owners, publishers and editors of the Standard in Ogden, establishing the family ownership which endures to this day in the fast-growing, enterprising, progressive Ogden Standard-Examiner. William Glasmann was born November 12, 1858 in Davenport, Iowa, the son of William and Catherine Cramer Glasmann. He died May 12,1916. The Glasmanns owned a large buffalo ranch in Tooele County, south of the Black Rock swimming resort at the time they purchased the Standard Publishing Company as an investment. The ranch at that time boasted of its buffalo steak dinners, and the family planned to use pro- 538 |
