Daily Staff Writer

Dr. James F. Evans, a 1954 graduate in agricultural journalism from Iowa State, has been chosen to receive the highest recognition awarded by the ISU department of journalism and mass communication.

The James W. Schwartz Award for Distinguished Service in Journalism was established in honor of a former chair of the department of journalism and mass communication.

At the time of his retirement in 1995, Evans headed the Office of Agricultural Communications and Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana, where he worked for 33 years. He also served in the United States Air Force as a career counselor and information services officer, worked three years with a Chicago advertising agency and was also involved with farm broadcasting.

Former winners of the Schwartz Award include: Hugh Sidey, Time magazine; Donald Jackson, journalist, editor, author and historian; Thomas J. Knudson, Pulitzer Prize winner; Roy Reiman, Reiman Associates; Geneva Overholser, Washington Post; and Kevin and Mollie Cooney, KCCI-TV.