Handbook N-P - Fulton County Public Library
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Jack Overmyer, who for the past two months has been employed as managing editor of<br />
The News-Sentinel, resigned his position Saturday and went to Bloomington, Ind., today, where<br />
he has accepted a position as athletic publicity representative of the Indiana University News.<br />
Jack started his duties with the I.U. staff today and will enroll as a junior in the<br />
University’s journalism course which starts as of September 13th. No successor for the post<br />
vacated on The News-Sentinel’s staff by Overmyer has been selected.<br />
[The News-Sentinel, Monday, August 30, 1943]<br />
OVERMYER HEADS SPORTS STAFF AT INDIANA UNIV.<br />
W. F. Fox, Jr., sports writer for the Indianapolis News in his Yarnin’ Basket column<br />
Saturday, stated:<br />
“The publicity department at Indiana University has organized a special wartime sports<br />
service staff, composed of Jack Overmyer, Paul Wagner and John Stempel, all able sports writers,<br />
who will cover games for newspapers unable to send correspondents to Bloomington during the<br />
football season.”<br />
Jack, who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Overmyer of this city, was former city<br />
editor of The News-Sentinel. He worked on the editorial staff during his vacation months this<br />
summer.<br />
[The News-Sentinel, Monday, September 20, 1943]<br />
J. OVERMYHER ELECTED PRESIDENT OF S.A.E.<br />
Jack K. Overmyer, sophomore at Indiana University, and former editor of The Rochester<br />
News-Sentinel, was elected president of Sigma Alpha Epsilon social fraternity, October 18, at a<br />
dinner meeting at 7 p.m. in the Colonial tearoom.<br />
Other newly elected officers are Walter Gadient, junior, vice-president; Don Martin,<br />
Freshman, secretary; and Don Bock, sophomore, corresponding secretary.<br />
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, October 26, 1943]<br />
PLEDGE J. OVERMYER TO BLUE KEY AT I.U.<br />
Jack Overmyer, of Rochester, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Overmyer, is among the 12<br />
Indiana University male students recently pledged to Blue Key, national service fraternity, for<br />
outstanding service to the University.<br />
Overmyer, former editor of The News-Sentinel and at the present a junior at Indiana U.,<br />
is the editor of the Indiana Athletic Review, president of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon social<br />
fraternity, member of the Skull and Crescent, honorary organization, and of the interfraternity<br />
Council. He is sports editor of the Arbutus, campus yearbook, and is Athletic <strong>Public</strong>ity<br />
Representative for the Indiana University News Bureau.<br />
[The News-Sentinel, Thursday, November 18, 1943]<br />
OVERMYER HONORED<br />
Bloomington, Ind., March 8. - Jack Overmyer of Rochester, junior student at Indiana<br />
University, has been elected to membership in Sphinx Club, honorary social organization<br />
composed of men from each fraternity. Overmyer is a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon social<br />
fraternity.<br />
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, March 8, 1944]<br />
PICTURE IN TRIBUNE<br />
Two pictures of Jack Overmyer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Overmyer, city, appeared in<br />
Sunday’s edition of the Chicago Tribune. Both were in the Tribune’s feature “Youth on the<br />
Campus,” showing various students at Indiana university where Overmyer is enrolled. One<br />
picture was in the Pictorial Revue and the second included Jack in a group photograph in the<br />
Graphic section.<br />
[The News-Sentinel, Monday, August 7, 1944]