Tom Dearmore wrote with eloquent voice.Tom Dearmore punched some of the more prestigious and interesting tickets in his field during a distinguished career in newspaper opinion writing that ended with his death at age 76. NCEW NCEW National Conference of Editorial Writers members who attended the San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden convention in 1983 will remember his steady hand as convention chair. He was a Southerner, Arkansas-born, who started his career writing editorials for the Baxter Bulletin, his family's newspaper in Mountain Home, Arkansas Mountain Home is a city located in Baxter County, Arkansas, a wet county, and is the county seat.GR6 It was incorporated in 1888. The city sprang up around the Male and Female Academy which Professor J.S. Howard founded during the 1850s. . He went on to grace opinion pages of the Washington Star The Washington Star, previously known as the Washington Star-News and the Washington Evening Star, was a daily afternoon newspaper published in Washington, D.C. between 1852 and 1981. and The Arkansas Gazette with his editorial writing. He was the first Arkansan to win a Nieman Fellowship (1959-1960). He retired in 1991 from the post of editor of the San Francisco Examiner The San Francisco Examiner is a U.S. daily newspaper. It has been published continuously in San Francisco, California, since the late 19th Century. History 19th century The beginning of the Examiner is a topic of some controversy. . A former Star colleague, James Heavy of the San Francisco Chronicle The San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young.[2] The paper grew along with San Francisco to become the largest circulation newspaper on the West Coast of the , wrote "racial equality and fairness became a lifelong theme of Dearmore's eloquent editorial voice." He said Dearmore brought a rare "blend of country warmth, humor and hard-eyed political perception." The Gazette, in a farewell editorial, told of Dearmore's early alliance with a fellow country publisher, Orval Faubus, helping Faubus win election and then breaking with the governor when he embraced segregation as a political philosophy. "Tom Dearmore would have none of it. It wasn't just his sense of right and wrong that was offended; it was his elemental patriotism. He knew this was not the American way, and said so. Again and again. In print. And when his former friend Orval tried to kick him off the parks commission, he wouldn't budge." The editorial described him as a classic conservative who fought right-wing extremes in Arkansas and left-wing ones in California. Survivors include a daughter, Diana Dearmore; a son, Jonathan Dearmore; and a granddaughter. His wife, Reba Byrd Dearmore, preceded him in death. |
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