5/13/98
News directors, editors: Ohio University's College of Communication will honor Ralph Izard, retiring director of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, in the John Wilhelm Amphitheater outside Scripps Hall at 4:30 p.m. Friday, May 15. Izard will speak at 5 p.m.
Izard has been with the university for 32 years and the director of Scripps since 1986. After retiring July 1, Izard will spend two years with the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center in New York City as the coordinator of the Forum's International Consortium of Universities.