Pulitzer Greats:

                       

Don Mellett

         
Don Mellett was born on September 26, 1891 in Elwood, Indiana to a family of journalists. His father and five siblings became journalists. After graduation from high school he entered Indiana University where he edited The Daily Student. As editor he began a reform campaign to improve the water system of Bloomington and succeeded. After a stint with the Indianapolis News, and The National Enquirer, a prohibition newspaper, he moved his family to Akron, serving with the Akron Press. There he met James Cox , former Governor of Ohio , and Democratic candidate for President. Cox persuaded him to come to the Canton Daily News. In several articles he called for reform in education, reform in hospitals, and reform in government. His attacks on underworld activity led to threats upon his life. On July 16, 1926, he was shot while putting his car in the garage. The ensuing reform led to the awarding of the Pulitizer Prize to the Canton Daily News in 1927. He is honored in the cornerstone of the Canton Daily News Building now housing the Canton Repository. He was entered into the Indiana Journalist Hall of Fame in 1969.
            
 
Charles R. Macauley

Charles was born in Canton, Ohio in 1871 and attended the public schools here. In 1890 he won an award for best cartoon in the Cleveland Press.He began his journalistic career with the Canton Repository, publishing cartoons in 1893 while he was working at the Hampden Watch Company in Canton. He published several cartoons for the Canton Repository in 1894 and 1895. And moving to Philadelphia, he published cartoons for the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1899, and 1900.In 1904 he moved to New York and published numerous articles for the New York Times, cartoons for Judge Magazine and for the old Life. That year he published his illustrated novel, Fantasmaland, a work similar to Alice in Wonderland. From 1906 to 1916 he was creating daily political cartoons for the New York World. He illustrated books for Joseph Conrad and Arthur Conan Doyle. He published another novel, Red Tavern, in 1914. Five years later he created a company, Charles R. Macauley Photoplays, which company produced movies. One of his films, When Bearcat Went Dry, is one of the two oldest films surviving, now at the American Film Institute. And in 1929 while working with the Brooklyn Eagle he cartooned a criticism of the Treaty of Versailles for which cartoon he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1930. He died in November of 1934.

    
   
 
 
Dale Raymond Wright
 
   
 
 
Born in Monongahela, Pa. Dale moved with his family to Canton and graduated from McKinley High School in 1941. After serving as a Marine in World War II, he returned to the United States and with the G.I. Bill attended Howard University and in 1950 graduated from Ohio State's School of Journalism. After stints as associate editor of Jet Magazine and Ebony Magazine he pursued courses in communication and business at NYU, Columbia University and the State University of New York. He wrote for the New York World Telegram ten articles on migrant work which led to reform in New York and New Jersey, and which led to a finalist for the Pulitzer in 1962. The articles were published later in the book, They Harvest Despair:The Migrant Farm Worker. He served as director of public relations for Mayor Koch, Senator Javits and Governor Nelson Rockefeller and while director of his own firm, Dale Wright Associates, he provided support for minority businesses in New York. He provided leadership for New York Commissions of Abuse Control, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity. Although he did not receive the Pulitzer, he was given Columbia's other prestigious Paul Tobenkin Memorial Award, the Society of the Silurian's Award, and the Gentry Award for news writing.