Background
Hoar, Jere Richmond was born on October 23, 1929 in Dyersburg, Tennessee, United States. Son of Eldon Jesse and Lula Mae Zimmerman (Parks) Hoar.
writer communications educator
Hoar, Jere Richmond was born on October 23, 1929 in Dyersburg, Tennessee, United States. Son of Eldon Jesse and Lula Mae Zimmerman (Parks) Hoar.
Bachelor of Science, Auburn University, 1951. Master of Arts, University Mississippi, Oxford, 1954. Doctor of Philosophy, University Iowa, 1960.
Reporter Troy (Alabama) Messenger, 1947-1949, Troy Herald. News editor The Oxford (Mississippi) Eagle, 1953-1954, Journal Southern Commerce, Oxford, 1953-1954. Editor Iowa Public Magazine, Iowa City, 1954-1956.
Graduate assistant University Iowa, 1954-1956. Assistant professor journalism University Mississippi, University, 1956-1959, associate professor journalism, 1959-1967, professor journalism, 1967-1986, emeritus professor journalism, since 1986. Preceptorship in law Freeland & Gafford Law Offices, Oxford, 1966-1967, 69-71.
Lawyer, Oxford, since 1971. Professor journalism Center for Cooperative Study in Britain, King's College, London, summer 1988, 90. Advisor Mississippi Poll.
Reference person Mississippi Press. Expert witness in field.
Local in political campaigns. With United States Air Force, 1951-1953. Member American Bar Association (governing committee forum on communications law), Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (chair teaching committee law division), Mississippi Bar Association, Sigma Delta Chi, Kappa Tau Alpha.
Married Betty Jane Smith, May 12, 1954 (divorced September 1977). Children: Lu Ann Smith, Thomas Jonathan, Benjamin Jere.