DEATHS

Thursday, August 28, 1997; Page B07
The Washington Post

O.W. `TOM' RIEGEL

Journalism Professor

Oscar Wetherhold "Tom" Riegel, 94, an authority on propaganda who was a journalism professor emeritus at Washington and Lee University, where he served from 1930 to 1973, died Aug. 22 at Stonewall Jackson Hospital in Lexington, Va., after a stroke.

In addition to teaching, he served as director of the university's journalism and communications department from 1934 to 1968.

Mr. Riegel, a Pennsylvania native, was a 1924 journalism graduate of the University of Wisconsin and received a master's degree in American literature from Columbia University. Before joining Washington and Lee, he worked for the Paris bureaus of the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News and taught English at Dartmouth College.

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