somewhat controversial move the trustees interpreted this clause loosely and declared that the merger would be the only way to prevent the corporation from suffering a long-term loss of value. Honors and awards Received honorary degrees from Wabash College, Indiana University, Huntington College, Franklin College, Indiana Technical College, Vincennes University, Arizona State University, Baker University, and Norwich University. Elected an honorary president of the national Sigma Delta Chi journalism society in 1959; named a Sigma Delta Chi fellow in 1967; awarded the Wells Key, Sigma Delta Chi's highest honor for members, in 1969. Named an honorary member of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants Union of North America in 1965. Named a trustee of William Allen White Foundation at the University of Kansas in 1966. Inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame in 1966. Received the John Peter Zenger Award for Press Freedom from the University of Arizona in 1965. Received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1968. The Eugene C. Pulliam Fellowship for Editorial Writing, a program of the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation, was introduced in 1977 with funding from his widow, Nina Pulliam, to provide an annual cash award (US$75,000 in 2019) to editorial writers and columnists working at a news publication in the United States. Inducted into DePauw University's Media Hall of Fame in 1995, along with his son. Selected published works South America, Land of the Future, Jewel of the Past (1951). The People and the Press: Partners for Freedom (1965), coauthored with Frederic S. Marquardt The Unchanging Responsibility of the American Newspaper in a Changing Society (1970) References External links Eugene C. Pulliam Collection, at the Indiana State Library, Indianapolis 1889 births 1975 deaths People from Ulysses, Kansas DePauw University alumni Editors of Indiana newspapers American newspaper chain founders People from Kansas City, Missouri Methodists from Kansas Kansas Republicans Arizona Republicans Pulliam family Quayle family