Louis E. Ingelhart was a longtime member of College Media Advisers, Inc. and their First Amendment award is named after him. The Ball State University professor died yesterday at 86. In an e-mail to the CMA-L listserv, BSU Daily Adviser Vince Filak said the staff worked from about 7 p.m. Sunday until 4 a.m. this morning getting out a special issue. The online site is worth looking at. Here are links to their stories:
Louis E. Ingelhart leaves behind legacy
Advocate defended student media rights
Former chairperson devoted to students, journalism program
Our View: BSU should cement Louie’s legacy - FORUM
on Jan 8th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
Yesterday, January 7, while straightening up my office at home, I found a story I wrote about Dr. Ingelhart while in grad school in 1990 at Ball State University. When I re-read my story yesterday, I thought that maybe Ball State University’s Journalism Department might want a copy of it to put with its files about him for after his death whenever that might occur although I had not heard anything about his health and had no reason to worry about it. I had heard nothing about him since 2000 when I saw him at the ACP convention in D.C. How strange that I would stumble across my story and think about his passing away, and then the next day I read an e-mail that said Ingelhart had died on January 7.
He was an inspiration for me. I invited him to lecture at my undergrad college in Virginia in 1989, and as a complete surprise he agreed and flew down from Muncie. When he asked about grad school, we talked about Ball State’s excellent program in Journalism. That led to a graduate assistantship that paid for my masters degree in Journalism from BSU.
His physical being may have departed, but his legacy of support for student press freedom will live on forever.
Sincerely,
Allan Lovelace, 1991 MA in Journalism