April 29, 2004

Sissors memorial is May 5

A memorial service for Jack Z. Sissors, professor emeritus of journalism, will be held at 4 p.m. Wednesday, May 5 in Alice Millar Chapel. A reception will follow in Parkes Hall 122.

Mr. Sissors, who retired from the Medill School of Journalism in 1992, died March 22 at the age of 84 in the Illinois Veterans Home in Manteno.

Mr. Sissors entered the Army after high school and attended the Medill School on the GI bill, earning a bachelor’s degree in 1951 and a master’s degree in 1952.He received a doctorate in education from Northwestern in 1957. An expert on media planning and an author, he was named to the Medill Hall of Achievement in 1997.