User:Coolpug05/Bart McDowell

Hobart Kelliston McDowell Jr. (September 10, 1923 - January 17 2009), better known as Bart McDowell, was a Other names:

- Hobart K. McDowell Jr. - Hobart Kelliston McDowell Jr. - Bart McDowell

Backgroud:

- Attended San Angelo High School and wrote for the Evening Standard while still enrolled for a summer, where he got his shortened "Bart" name after he was confused for his father [Hobart K. McDowell Sr.] when he penned his first byline "the garbage man gets the dirt on everybody" as "Hobart K., Jr." https://www.newspapers.com/image/6182228/?terms=bart%2Bmcdowell

- Edited the Campus Corral at San Angelo High School.

- Attended San Angelo College, was elected Best All Around Boy in his freshman class, served as sophomore vice president and editor of the Ram-Page. He completed his junior year at the University of Missouri School of Journalism before going into the Navy for World War II. Separated as a Lt. (j.g.)? in 1946, he got an A.B.? from the University of California as a political science major, then returned to Missouri for graduate work. While there in 1948, he was given the Walter Williams Award during Journalism Week by the Missouri Writers Guild. While in college, McDowell also worked as a radio announcer. McDowell also served as associate editor of the Town Journal and The Rotarian (before South America) and associate editor of the Republican News. He met Martha Shea at the University of Missouri. They married in 1951 after a two year trip to South America as a free lance writer in 1949. By 1960 they were living in a suburb of Washington, D.C. with their three children.

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Useful Links:

- https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1CARJNJ_enUS803&sxsrf=ALeKk033RlkBVDjqYzlt-5gYlh-e5qmxEQ%3A1597554987770&ei=K8E4X8fELsWQtQW_4ofgDQ&q=bart+mcdowell+national+geographic&oq=bart+mcdowell&gs_lcp=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-gFY8JUCYJqgAmgBcAB4AIABuQGIAZUPkgEEMC4xNJgBAKABAaoBB2d3cy13aXq4AQLAAQE&sclient=psy-ab

- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49253540/hobart-kelliston-mcdowell/flower

- https://www.google.com/search?q=Hobart+K.+McDowell+Jr.+national+geographic&rlz=1CARJNJ_enUS803&sxsrf=ALeKk03Gl0HUFYysAf_hcCd1GgLwysiMAw:1597554709135&ei=FcA4X9HaB8yE5wLFtJiICw&start=0&sa=N&ved=2ahUKEwiRucmH-57rAhVMwlkKHUUaBrE4ChDy0wN6BAgMEC4&biw=683&bih=609

- http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2005/jul/13/obituary/

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_A._Burklund

- https://www.librarything.com/author/mcdowellbart

- https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/25/national-geographic-writer-bart-mcdowell-dies-at-8/

- https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Vatican-Bart-McDowell-1991-11-30/dp/B017MYKOXO (includes picture of McDowell on back cover) - look up more books on amazon to get more back cover pictures