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Karl R. Wallace Papers
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Biographical Note
Professional Activities:
- Speech Association of America. President, 1954; Executive Council, 1945-1960; Chairman, Committee on Nature of Field of Speech, 1963; Member, Wingspread Conference, Jan.25-27, 1970; Chairman, Finance Board; Member, Administrative Committee; Editor, Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1945-1947.
- Member, Eastern Speech Association, Southern Speech Association, central States Speech Association, Western Speech Association, Massachusetts Speech Association, New England Speech Association.
- American Association of University Professors. President, Illinois Chapter, 1957-1958.
- National Council of Teachers of English. College Conference on Composition; NCTE-SAA Committee on Rhetoric and the Teaching Thereof, 1964-1968.
- The Renaissance Society of America.
- Philosophy and Rhetoric, Editorial Board, 1968-1973.
Author of:
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Francis Bacon on Communication and Rhetoric, 1943.
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Studies in Speech and Drama in Honor of Alexander M. Drummond, Eds. D.C. Bryant, B.W. Hewitt, K.R. Wallace, and H.A. Wichelns., 1944.
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Fundamentals of Public Speaking, with D.C.Bryant, 1947, 1953, 1960, 1969, 1974.
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Oral Communication, with D.C. Bryant, 1948, 1954, 1962.
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Background Studies in the History of Speech Education in America, Editor-in-Chief, 1954.
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Francis Bacon on the Nature of Man: The Faculties of Man's Soul, 1967.
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An Historical Anthology of Select British Speeches, Eds. D.C. Bryant, C.C. Arnold, F.W. Haberman, R. Murphy, K.R. Wallace, 1967.
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Understanding Discourse: The Speech Act and Rhetorical Action, 1970.
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Lectures Concerning Oratory by John Lawson, Ed. with E. Neal Claussen, 1972.
For further bibliographic information on these books and for a list of the many articles by Wallace see the Biography folder in Box 1.
Biographical Note
| 1905 |
Born November 10, Hubbardsville, New York. Parents Lew and Rena (Dart) W. |
| 1923 |
Graduated Westfield, Pennsylvania, High School. |
| 1927 |
B.A. Cornell University in English and Public Speaking. |
| 1927-1930 |
Instructor, Assistant Professor of Speech, Iowa State College. |
| 1929 |
Married Dorothy M. Pierce, August 27. |
| 1931 |
M.A. Cornell University in Rhetoric, Drama. |
| 1931-1933 |
Assistant and Instructor in Public Speaking, Cornell University. |
| 1933 |
Ph.D. Cornell University in Rhetoric and Public Address, Drama and English History. |
| 1933-1936 |
Assistant Professor of Speech, Iowa State College. |
| 1933, 1934 (summers) |
Assistant Professor of English, University of Missouri. |
| 1936-1937 |
Assistant Professor of English in Charge of Speech, Washington University, St. Louis. |
| 1937-1947 |
Associate Professor, Professor of Speech; Chairman, School of Speech, 1937-44; Chairman, School of Speech and Drama, 1944-47, University of Virginia. |
| 1947-1968 |
Professor of Speech; Head, Department of Speech and Theater, University of Illinois. |
| 1954 |
President, Speech Association of America. |
| 1954 (summer) |
Professor of Speech, University of Michigan. |
| 1956-1972 |
Advisory editor in Speech, Dodd, Mead and Company. |
| 1968-1973 |
Professor of Speech, University of Massachusetts Amherst. |
| 1973 |
Died October 1973, Amherst, Massachusetts. |
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