Background
Spencer, Dale Ray was born on October 21, 1925 in Pocatello, Idaho, United States. Son of Howard Harris and Eleda (Eastman) Spencer.
Spencer, Dale Ray was born on October 21, 1925 in Pocatello, Idaho, United States. Son of Howard Harris and Eleda (Eastman) Spencer.
Student, Idaho State University, 1945. Student, University New Mexico, 1946. BJ, University Missouri, 1948.
Master of Arts, University Missouri, 1955. Juris Doctor, University Missouri, 1968.
Sports reporter stringer Salt Lake City Tribune, 1942-1943. Teaching assistant University Missouri, Columbia, 1947, graduate assistant, 1947-1948, member faculty, 1950-1988, professor journalism, 1971-1988, chairman news editorial department, 1979-1980, lecturer communications law, 1958-1988, McIntire Distinguished professor, 1988, adjunct professor Law School. Sales manager E.W. Stephens Public Company, 1949-1950.
Private practice Columbia, from 1968. Linotype oerator Columbia Missourian, 1947-1948, assistant managing editor, 1950-1973, managing editor, 1973-1974, legal counsel. Copy editor Buffalo Evening News, 1952.
Weathercaster Station KOMU-television, 1953-1958. Founder, 1st president Missouri Assembly of Faculty in Higher Education, 1975-1976. Member bar relations committee American Newspaper Publications Association, 1976-1982, member legal affairs committee, 1982-1986.
Member bar task force American Bar Association-American Newspaper Publications Association, 1981-1986, member governing committee of forum committee on communications law, 1981-1989. Member advisory board 13th Judicial Circuit Juvenile Court, 1984-1989. Member bicentennial committee on community forums Missouri Press Bar Commission, 1987-1989.
Member Missouri Freedom of Information Council, 1987-1988. Member advisory board FirstNet United States of America, 1987-1989.
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Board directors Wonderland Camp for Handicapped Children, Lake Ozark, Missouri, 1973-1988. Vice president Freedom of Information Foundation, 1979-1988. Served with United States Naval Reserve, 1943-1946.
Member American Bar Association (forum committee on communications law), Missouri Bar (chairman public information committee 1981-1983), Investigative Reporters and Editors, Missouri Press Law Group (organizer, acting chairman 1982-1989), Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, American Judicature Society, Boone County Bar Association, Supreme Court Missouri History Society, Federal Communications Bar Association, Sigma Delta Chi (national vice president 1951-1953), Kappa Tau Alpha, Kappa Alpha Museum Clubs: Kiwanis.
Married Lillian Joy Hodkins, December 21, 1947. Children: Melinda Sue, Jennifer Joy.