O. W. (Tom) Riegel Biographical Materials
Note: The following three biographical documents are taken verbatim from his files.
1. Curriculum Vitae
I was born in Reading, in the Pennsylvania Dutch country of eastern Pennsylvania. My antecedents were Old American and impeccably bourgeois. Both pairs of grandparents were well-to-do. My maternal grandfather was a banker, Republican politician, and patriot. My paternal grandfather was a cigar manufacturer. I was the younger of two children of high-minded and loving parents. My mother was ambitious for knowledge for herself and intellectual lives for her children. My father was first an owner then manager of cigar factories in the Middle West. Sensitive, thoughtful, and methodical, he was ill-suited for business, and my parents often lived on the edge of poverty.
We lived at Maryville, Missouri; Burlington, Iowa; and Neenah, Wisconsin. In Neenah I had a brief season of celebrity as a guard on the great Neenah High School basketball team of 1920. There I began journalism as linotype operator, pressman and reporter for the Neenah Daily News.
I attended Lawrence College in Appleton two years, then transferred to the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where I belonged to Wisconsin's literary Bohemia. I loved women and art. After a year as a reporter on the Tribune at Reading, I went to France and worked between 1925 and 1927 on the Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune and New York Daily News, discovering years later that I belonged to the Lost Generation.
I was a reporter and editorial writer for the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, News Journal, then taught English two years at Dartmouth College. I spent a year in New York acquiring an M. A. degree in American literature at Columbia University. In 1930 I took a job as Assistant Professor of Journalism at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, and married.
During the 1930's my wife and I spent summers in Mexico, Guatemala, and the Caribbean, but mostly we kept returning to Europe, to France, Germany, Austria, Italy and the Soviet Union, attracted by the suicidal march of nationalism. I published books and articles, served on the Editorial Board of The Public Opinion Quarterly, and wrote reams of unpublished fiction and poetry to add to the bulging boxes and file drawers of notes, sketches and fiction accumulating since my freshman year in high school.
A month after Pearl Harbor I joined Robert Sherwood's Foreign Information Service of the Office of Strategic Services. A few months later the FIS was severed from GSS and became the Overseas Branch of the Office of War Information, headed by Elmer Davis. I was a propaganda analyst in New York and Washington, a specialist on Central and Southeast Europe in the Office of Control, and then Chairman of OWI's New York Review Board, which was charged with assuring the political purity and literacy of the torrent of multilingual broadcasts, pamphlets, books and films that passed through the New York office to comfort our friends and confound our enemies.
In January of 1945 I flew to Rome as the first OWI representative in the Mediterranean Theater of War with civilian status ( and a simulated rank of Colonel). Between V-E and V-J Days, five months after the lifting of the siege of Budapest, I flew into Hungary to join the thin band showing the American flag within the so-called "sphere of Soviet influence." I lived within a Soviet military enclave. As Cultural Attach? and Information Officer at the American Legation, I met with Magyars across the length and breadth of that shattered land, and did what I could to promote a cultural dialogue and an American cultural presence.
I returned to my academic post in 1946. In 1950 the Department of State commissioned me to go to Germany to assess the state of public opinion polling, which our government regarded as a democratizing instrument and therefore a useful tool for the "re-education" of Germans. Provided with an Army sedan and a German driver, I visited every public opinion and market research agency, academic and commercial, from Kiel to Munich and in West Berlin.
The following year Princeton's School of Public and International Affairs sent me to Belgium to make a study of the long-term effects, if any, of exchanges of persons; i. e., whether there was any detectable difference between the attitudes of Belgians who had sojourned in the United States with fellowship and scholarship grants and those who had not. From my command post in the Place Broekere, aided by a Brussels polling agency, I criss-crossed the land probing for secrets of the Belgian mind.
In 1950 I was made Curator of the Alfred I. DuPont Awards in Radio and Television, which involved me with the American broadcasting industry and a woman of great wealth, Mrs. Alfred I. duPont ("Miss Jessie"). and her Byzantine court that fired me a dozen years later.
As a Fulbright Fellow I spent another year in France. We lived a village life at Wissous, a few miles south of Paris, surrounded by farms and under a flight-path of Orly.
In the 1960's and 70's we spent much time in Eastern Europe, attracted by the strains and pageantry of emerging new societies. We sojourned in all the countries in the Soviet bloc and returned often to Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Jugoslavia.
Somewhere along the way I discovered European film festivals, to which I became addicted not only because I enjoy seeing and writing about films but also because international film festivals are incomparable as windows on the changing values, hopes, anxieties and obsessions of peoples and nations.
I continued to reflect, with growing pessimism, on the politics of power, writing and speaking on nationalism in propaganda, the flow of information and images between nations, and the new satellite technology. I attended international meetings and observed the institutions and personalities of communications in Washington, London, Paris and Geneva, seeking ways to resolve the contradictions of power.
At my base in Lexington I was a teacher and department head, nourishing and being nourished by generations of students, and guiding my division of the university through the shoals of academic politics and complex relationships with owners and practitioners of publishing, broadcasting, and film.
All the while I tended the garden of my long love affair with my wife and watched the growth of our five children. I became more and more preoccupied with an expanse of farm and woodland in the Valley of Virginia, restoring, ordering and embellishing it for our pleasure. There we had society or solitude at command, trees and flowers, wild and domestic animals, and springs and lively streams of clear water.
2. Resume of Oscar Wetherhold Riegel
A. B. Degree, University of Wisconsin, 1924; A. M. Degree, Columbia University, 1930.
Professional Career
-- Neenah, Wisconsin Daily News, 1918-22; Reading Tribune 1924-25; Paris Edition, Chicago Tribune and New York Daily News, 1925-27; Lancaster, Pa. News-Journal 1927.
-- Instructor in English, Dartmouth College, 1927-29
-- Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor, Washington & Lee University, 1930-73.
-- Director, Lee Memorial Journalism Foundation, Washington & Lee University, 1934-68.
-- On leave to serve in Overseas Branch, Office of War Information, 1942-45.
-- Cultural Attache, Public Affairs Officer, American Legation, Budapest, Hungary, 1945-46.
-- Professor Emeritus, Lee Memorial Journalism Foundation, Washington & Lee University, 1973-present.Other Professional Activities
-- Director, Southern Interscholastic Press Association, 1934-68.
-- Associate Editor, The Public Opinion Quarterly, 1936-44. Member of the Advisory Board, 1944-54.
-- Curator, Alfred I. DuPont Awards Foundation for Radio, TV and Allied Sciences, 1951-66.
-- Established WLUR radio station at Lexington, Virginia, 1967. Served as Exec. Vice President.
-- Numerous consultantships and administrative activities related to journalism, propaganda, public opinion and communications.
-- Membership in over thirty professional organizations and working committees.
-- Board of Directors, American Federation of Film Societies, 1971-74.
-- International Association for Mass Communication Research (Bd. of Directors, 1957-59; Executive Committee, 1968-76)
-- Science Service Board of Trustees, 1938-present. Served on the Executive Committee as Treasurer 1941-57, and as Secretary 1966-78.
-- Author of two books from Yale University Press; one reprinted.
-- Author of four monographs and chapters in six books on public opinion, journalism and communications, and author of over sixty articles in various professional journals.
-- Numerous addresses, presentations and seminars on communications, propaganda, media and journalism in national and international forums.
-- Produced numerous documentary films.
-- Frequent travel to Europe and Asia.Honors and Awards
-- Mobilizing for Chaos selected by the Nation as one of the fifty most important books of 1934. Sigma Delta Chi Research Award for best research in the field of journalism, 1935.
-- Awarded five grants-in-aid and fellowships for travel and research. Fulbright Research Grant, Paris, France, 1957-58.
-- Honorary Life Member, Quill and Scroll Society; Peter Pazmany Medal, University of Budapest, July, 1946; Recipient of Virginia Press Association plaque "in appreciation for services to Virginia newspapers through journalism education," 1967; Richmond Professional Chapter of Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award, 1968; Southern Interscholastic Press Association Distinguished Service Award, 1969; Golden Crown Certificate (Gold Key) of the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, 1975; Southern Interscholastic Press Association Distinguished Service Award (silver cup), 1985; Included in Outstanding Educators in America, 1970.
-- O. W. "Tom" Riegel Telecommunications Laboratories. Laboratories dedicated at Washington and Lee University, May 7, 1982.
-- Member of Virginia Communications Hall of Fame, 1988.
3. Vita, Accomplishments, Awards, Chronology, Memberships
Oscar Wetherhold Riegel
University professor. Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, December 26, 1902; son of Lewis Edgar and Florence Edna (Wetherhold) Riegel. Married Jane Cordelia Butterworth of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 27, 1930. Children: Kurt, Cordelia, Hunt, Mark, Quentin.Education
Public Schools in Burlington, Iowa; Reading, Pennsylvania; Neenah, Wisconsin.
Studied at Lawrence College, Appleton, Wisconsin, 1920-1922.
A. B. Degree from University of Wisconsin, 1924. Major: Journalism.
Studied at the University of Paris, 1925-1926.
M. A. Degree from Columbia University, 1930 (American Literature).Professional Career
Began career as a member of the staff of the Neenah, Wisconsin Daily News, 1918-1922.
Reading Tribune 1924-1925.
Paris Edition, Chicago Tribune and New York Daily News, 1925-1927.
Lancaster, Pa. News-Journal 1927.
Instructor in English, Dartmouth College, 1927-1929
Assistant Professor, Lee Memorial Journalism Foundation, Washington & Lee University, 1930-1936.
Associate Professor, Lee Memorial Journalism Foundation, Washington & Lee University, 1936-1941.
Professor, Lee Memorial Journalism Foundation, Washington & Lee University, 1941-1973.
Director, Lee Memorial Journalism Foundation, Washington & Lee University, 1934-1968.
Leave of absence, 1942-46:
Coordinator of Information, U. S. Government, Principal Propaganda Analyst, Washington and New York, 1942.
Overseas Branch, Office of War Information:
Control Editor and Regional Specialist for Central and Southeast Europe, 1942-1944.
Chairman, New York Review Board, 1944-1945.
General Representative for Policy, Italy and Balkans, Rome, Italy, 1945.
Cultural Attache and Public Affairs Officer, American Legation, Budapest, Hungary, 1945-1946.
Visiting Lecturer, University of Budapest, Hungary, Spring term, 1946.Professor Emeritus, Washington & Lee University, 1973-present.
Other Professional Activities
Director, Virginian Publishing Company (Journalism Laboratory Press), 1934 D
Director, Southern Interscholastic Press Association, 1934-1968.
Technical Consultant, Council for Democracy, 1940-1941.
Co-Director, Promotion and Propaganda Archives, Washington and Lee University, 1941-1942.
Associate Editor, The Public Opinion Quarterly, 1936-1944. Member of the Advisory Board, 1944-1954.
Representative of the American Association of Accredited Schools and Colleges of Journalism at the National Conference on the Occupied Countries, sponsored by the American Council on Education's Special Commission on Occupied Areas in cooperation with the Department of State, Washington, D. C., c. 1948.
Consultant for Department of State on Public Opinion Research and Training in West Germany, 1950.
Director of Cultural Contacts Project (Western Europe) for Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 1951 (grant from the Rockefeller Foundation).
Curator, Alfred I. DuPont Awards Foundation for Radio, Television and Allied Sciences, 1951-1966.
Visiting Lecturer, University of Strasbourg, France, 1957.
Established WLUR radio station at Lexington, Virginia, 1967. Served as Executive Vice President.
Coordinator, Symposium on the Contemporary Motion Picture, April 13-14 and 20-22, 1970.
Invited to review recent Hungarian films as guest of Hungarofilm, Budapest, Hungary, Sept. 17-23, 1978.
Member of Jury, Federation Internationale de la Presse Cinematographique, Mannheim Film Festival, Mannheim, West Germany, October, 1981.
Member of the jury selecting films for CINE, September, 1990.
Honors and Awards
Mobilizing for Chaos selected by the Nation as one of the fifty most important books of 1934.
Awarded grant-in-aid by Social Science Research Council, 1935. Subject: Economic factors affecting newspapers and press associations in Western Europe.
Sigma Delta Chi Research Award for best research in the field of journalism, 1935 (for Mobilizing for Chaos).
Honorary Life Member, Quill and Scroll Society.
Peter Pazmany Medal, University of Budapest, July, 1946.
John M. Glenn Grant-in-aid award, 1953. Subject: Government organization and training in psychological warfare and international information.
John M. Glenn Grant-in-aid award, 1955. Subject: Technological advances in the mass media.
Fulbright Research Grant, Paris, France, 1957-1958. Subject: The Politics of Communications.
John M. Glenn Grant-in-aid award, 1964. Subject: The politics of communications in Eastern Europe.
Ford Foundation travel and research grant, 1966 (Poland and Yugoslavia).
Recipient of Virginia Press Association plaque "In Appreciation For Service To Virginia Newspapers Through Journalism Education," 1967.
Richmond Professional Chapter of Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award, 1968.
Southern Interscholastic Press Association Distinguished Service Award, 1969.
Included in Outstanding Educators in America, 1970.
John M. Glenn Grant for study-travel, 1972.
Golden Crown Certificate (Gold Key) of the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, 1975.
O. W. "Tom" Riegel Telecommunications Laboratories. Telecommunications laboratories dedicated at Washington and Lee University, May 7, 1982.
Southern Interscholastic Press Association Distinguished Service Award (silver cup), 1985.
Inducted into the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame, Richmond, Virginia, March 31, 1988.
Honored, with Mrs. Riegel, at a dinner organized by friends and former students at the National Press Club, Washington, D. C., April 15, 1988.
Presented with the Lynchburg Citation by alumni of Washington and Lee University at Lynchburg, Virginia, April 28, 1988.
Organizations and Committees
Admissions Committee, The Washington Journalism Center, Washington, D.C. 1969-1972.
Advisory Board of The Public Opinion Quarterly.
American Association for Public Opinion Research. Honorary Life Member.
American Association of Teachers of Journalism (Vice President, 1936-1937).
American Association of University Professors.
Arts Council of Washington and Lee University, 1971-1973.
Awards Committee, Saturday Review Annual Advertising Awards, 1969-1971.
Awards Committee, The Advertising Club of Washington, 1971.
Board of Directors, American Federation of Film Societies, 1971-1974.
Board of Directors, Princeton Listening Center.
Chairman, Committee for the Lee Editorial Award, 1937-1941.
Committee on Pressure Groups and Propaganda of the Social Science Research Council, 1935.
Cosmos Club, Washington, D. C.
Council on Research in Journalism.
Executive Committee, Princeton Study of the Political Use of Radio, 1939-1941.
Executive Reserve, United States Information Service, 1954 D
Federation International de la Presse Cinematographique (FIPRESCI), 1975 D
International Association for Mass Communication Research (Bd. of Directors, 1957-1959; Executive Committee, 1968-1976)
International Committee "Jean Milo", to mark the 70th birthday of the Belgian painter, 1975-1976.
International Institute of Communications, 1975 D
International Press Institute.
National Committee for Adequate Overseas U. S. Information Program, 1955 D
National Conference of Editorial Writers.
National Press Club, Washington, D. C.
Omicron Delta Kappa.
Overseas Press Club, New York (Charter member). Treasurer, 1943-1945.
Overseas Writers, Washington, D. C.
Phi Beta Kappa.
Phi Delta Theta.
Pi Delta Epsilon.
Science Service Board of Trustees, 1938-present; Executive Committee Member, 1938-1978; Treasurer, 1941-1957; Secretary, 1966-1978; Honorary Trustee, 1989 D
Sigma Delta Chi.
Council on Research of Sigma Delta Chi.
Historical Sites Committee of Sigma Delta Chi.Trustee, Trends Research, Inc., Washington, D. C.
UNESCO Liaison Committee, Association for Education in Journalism.
Virginia Social Science Association.
Washington Literary Society.
Books
Riegel, O. W. Mobilizing for Chaos: The Story of the New Propaganda. Yale University Press, 1934. Reprinted by Arno Press, 1972.
Riegel, O. W. Crown of Glory: The Life of James J. Strang, Moses of the Mormons. Yale University Press, 1935.
Chapters:
Riegel, O. W. How to Read Foreign News. Yearbook of the National Council for Social Studies, 1937.
Riegel, O. W. Making World Opinion D Mobilizing Propaganda. In Brown, F. J., Hodges, C. and Slabey, J. (Eds.), Contemporary World Politics. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1939
Riegel, O. W. Articles on the press and propaganda. Reprinted in Bird and Merwin (Eds.), The Newspaper and Society. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1942.
Riegel, O. W. Nationalism and Communications. In Mass Media and International Understanding. Ljubljana, Yugoslavia: School of Sociology, Political Science and Journalism, 1969.
Riegel, O. W. Satellite Communication and National Power. In Gerbner, G. (Ed.). Mass Media Policies in Changing Cultures. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1977.
Riegel, O. W. Posters of World War I and World War II. Introduction for Posters in the George C. Marshall Research Foundation. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979.
Riegel, O. W. The Anatomy of Melville's Fame. In On Melville: The Best from American Literature, Duke University Press, 1988.
Monographs:
Riegel, O. W. Public Opinion Research and Training in West Germany. (Monograph) Washington: United States Department of State, 1950.
Riegel, O. W. Long-term Effects of Exchange of Persons. (Monograph in three volumes) Washington: Cultural Contacts Project, 1951 (In Belgium).
Articles
Riegel, O. W. Articles on the French Press. Editor and Publisher, 1927.
Riegel, O. W. The Anatomy of Melville's Fame. American Literature, May, 1931.
Riegel, O. W. An Analysis of the Contents of Some Virginia Daily Newspapers. (Brochure) Virginia Publishing Company, 1932.
Riegel, O. W. Propaganda and the Press. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, May, 1935.
Riegel, O. W. Will We Stay out of the Next War? The Propaganda Balance Sheet. New Republic, Aug. 14, 1935.
Riegel, O. W. Articles on European economic and political conditions. Richmond Times Dispatch, July and August, 1935.
Riegel, O. W. The Road to War. The Southern Review, Winter, 1935.
Riegel, O. W. Puppets of Propaganda: Efforts to Seal Europe's News Sources Making Mental Robots of Millions. The Quill, November, 1935. Reprinted in The Digest and Review, January, 1936.
Riegel, O. W. Robert Lansing and the World War. The Southern Review, Summer, 1936.
Riegel, O. W. Propaganda versus Intelligence in Social Planning. Proceedings of the Virginia Social Science Association, 1936.
Riegel, O. W. Education for Journalism. Bulletin of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association, June, 1936.
Riegel, O. W. The Press in a Changing World. Bulletin of the Virginia Press Association, March, 1937.
Riegel, O. W. Press, Radio, and the Spanish Civil War. The Public Opinion Quarterly, January, 1937.
Riegel, O. W. New Frontiers in Radio. The Public Opinion Quarterly, January, 1937.
Riegel, O. W. Hispano-American Press Congress. The Public Opinion Quarterly, April, 1937.
Riegel, O. W. Nationalism in Press, Radio and Cinema. American Sociological Review, August, 1938.
Riegel, O. W. Transatlantic. The Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn, 1938.
Riegel, O. W. News and Social Control. Proceedings of the Virginia Social Sciences Association, 1938.
Riegel, O. W. Press, Propaganda and the Public. Proceedings of the Institute of Public Affairs, University of Virginia, 1939.
Riegel, O. W. Notes on the Broadcasting Code. The Public Opinion Quarterly, October, 1939.
Riegel, O. W. Press, Radio, Films: A Quarterly Survey of Communications. The Public Opinion Quarterly, March, 1940.
Riegel, O. W. Our Pathological Fear of All Propaganda. (Review of War Propaganda and the United States). New York Herald Tribune Books, July 7, 1940.
Riegel, O. W. Propaganda of Disintegration. (Review of Fifth Column in America) New York Herald Tribune Books, January 12, 1941.
Riegel, O. W. Radio-Press News Exchange, The Public Opinion Quarterly, March, 1941.
Riegel, O. W. Vital Statistics of the Press. The Public Opinion Quarterly, June, 1941.
Riegel, O. W. Eavesdropping on Europe at War. The Public Opinion Quarterly, Fall, 1942.
Riegel, O. W. Hungary D Proving Ground for Soviet-American Relations. The Public Opinion Quarterly, Spring, 1947.
Riegel, O. W. Newspaper Designing. The Linotype News, November, 1947. Reprinted in School Press Review, January, 1948.
Riegel, O. W. Erziehung zur Journalistik in den Vereinigten Staaten. Universitas (Tuebingen, Germany), December, 1950.
Riegel, O. W. Residual Effects of Exchange of Persons. The Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. 17, 3, 1954.
Riegel, O. W. An Information Program for Peace. Christian Science Monitor, July 30, 1956.
Riegel, O. W. The French Political Crisis. The Richmond Times Dispatch, June 2, 1958.
Riegel, O. W. Journalism and Law D Areas of Conflict. The Virginia Publisher and Printer, Vol. 44, 10, 1960.
Riegel, O. W. "Management" of News: An Unsolvable Dilemma? The Alumni Magazine of Washington and Lee University, Summer, 1963.
Riegel, O. W. Why Newspapering is not Attracting More Young People. Nieman Reports, Vol. 17, 3, 1963.
Riegel, O. W. The Kennedy Story. Nieman Reports, Vol. 18, 1, 1964.
Riegel, O. W. Impressions of Eastern Europe. The Alumni Magazine of Washington and Lee University, Spring, 1965.
Riegel, O. W. The Muted Trumpet of the Press. College and University Journal, VII, 3, 1968. Reprinted in The Bulletin of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, November, 1968.
Riegel, O. W. Little in Prague Suggested Coming Crisis. The Richmond Times Dispatch, September 1, 1968.
Riegel, O. W. Nacionalismo y Communicacion. Revista Estudios de Informacion, Madrid, Spain, No. 9, 1969.
Riegel, O. W. Some Thoughts on Student Films. Film Comment, Vol. 5, No. 4, Winter, 1969.
Riegel, O. W. The News in Megalopolis (review). The Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 2, Summer, 1969.
Riegel, O. W. The First Freedom (review of Bryce W. Rucker's book). The Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 4, Winter, 1969-70.
Riegel, O. W. Berlin '70. Film Society Review, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1970.
Riegel, O. W. Karlovy Vary. Film Society Review, Vol. 6, No. 3, 1970.
Riegel, O. W. Karlovy Vary (continued). Film Society Review, Vol. 6, No. 4, 1970.
Riegel, O. W. Venice. Film Society Review, Vol. 6, No. 5, 1971.
Riegel, O. W. Communications by Satellite: The Political Barriers. Quarterly Review of Economics and Business, Vol. 2, No. 4, 1971.
Riegel, O. W. Communications and Nations. In Studies of Broadcasting. Book of the Culture Research Institute, Nippon Hoso Kyokai, Tokyo, No. 8, 1972.
Riegel, O. W. Berlin D The Three Headed Bear. Film Critic, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1972.
Riegel, O. W. Karlovy Vary D The Persistence of (re)Vision. Film Critic, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1972.
Riegel, O. W. Riegel Remembers. Lost Generation Journal, Vol. I, No. 1, 1973.
Riegel, O. W. Memorandum: In Re Ralph Jules Frantz. Lost Generation Journal, Vol. II, No. 3, 1974.
Riegel, O. W. Animation at Zagreb. Jump Cut, No. 3, 1974.
Riegel, O. W. View Through a Crack in the Tower. The Masthead, Quarterly Journal of the National Conference of Editorial Writers, Washington, D. C., Spring, 1975.
Riegel, O. W. May Day / Some Spring Fancies on Choice of Abode. The Alumni Magazine of Washington and Lee University, May, 1975.
Riegel, O. W. Direct Satellite Broadcasting and International Research. Der Anteil der Massenmedien bei der Herausbildung des Bewsstseins in der sich wandelnden Welt. Leipzig, DDR: Karl-Marx Universitat, 1975.
Riegel, O. W. Medical Device Failures and Publicity. MDDI Reports, Vol. I, No. 45, 1975.
Riegel, O. W. The Politics of Satellite Communication. Journal for the Center for Advanced TV Studies, London, Vol. IV, No. 1, 1976.
Riegel, O. W. What is Hungarian in the Hungarian Cinema I / A Search for a Nation. The New Hungarian Quarterly, Autumn 1976.
Riegel, O. W. What is Hungarian in the Hungarian Cinema II / A Search for a Nation. The New Hungarian Quarterly, Winter 1976.
Riegel, O. W. What is Hungarian in the Hungarian Cinema III / A Search for a Nation. The New Hungarian Quarterly, Spring 1977.
Riegel, O. W. Letter From Professor Riegel. Journal of the Centre for Advanced TV Studies, Vol. V, No. 1, 1977.
Riegel, O. W. The Reflective Eye: Hungarian Cinema. Osiris, Spring, 1979.
Riegel, O. W. Medicine and the Press. Social Responsibility: Journalism, Law, Medicine. Vol. X, 1979.
Riegel, O. W. How to Deal With Propaganda in the Age of 'Informatics'. Richmond Times Dispatch, August 31, 1980.
Riegel, O. W. Propaganda Reconsidered. Published under various titles in The Masthead, Quarterly Journal of the National Conference of Editorial Writers, Washington, D. C., Winter, 1980-81; The Journal of Women Journalists; Richmond Times Dispatch; etc.
Riegel, O. W. The Editorial Writer as Propagandist. The Masthead, Quarterly Journal of the National Conference of Editorial Writers, Washington, D. C., Winter, 1980-81.
Riegel, O. W. The Satanic Controversy. Alumni Magazine of Washington and Lee University, Spring, 1989.
Trussel, Tait. Political Propaganda D The Best Defense is Scepticism: An Interview with O. W. Riegel. Bay City Times, July 28, 1988, and other newspapers served by the Maturity News Service.
Riegel, O. W. Foreword to Riegel, Jane Butterworth, Summer of 1966: A Journal. A keepsake for family and friends, December 25-27, 1993.
Addresses and Presentations
Seminar on the Motion Picture of the American Council on Education held in connection with the Second New York Film Festival, 1964.
Nationalism and Communications. Paper presented at the Symposium on Mass Media and Understanding, Ljubljana, Jugoslavia, September, 1968.
Communication by Satellite: The Political Barriers. Paper presented in symposium on satellite communication at the International Association for Mass Communication Research, Konstanz, West Germany, September, 1970.
Media Responsibility. Paper and panel presented at AAMI/FDA Conference on Medical Device Regulation, Washington, D. C., November, 1975.
Seminar Leader, Washington and Lee Institute on the Ethics of Journalism, November, 1976.
The Challenge of Satellite TV. Address to the 27th General Assembly of the International Press Institute, Canberra, Australia, March, 1978.
Medicine and the Press. Paper presented at the Medical School of the University of Virginia, 1978.
Propaganda Reconsidered. Address for the Blue Ridge Chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, 1980.
Packaging America's Wars. Consultant and panelist for WBRA-TV television production for PBS, 1982.
Propaganda. Paper presented at the Alumni College of Washington and Lee University, 1984.
The Contemporary Motion Picture. Panel discussion at Washington and Lee University Alumni Reunion, 1987.
Fog Alert! Propaganda and Politics 1987. Paper presented at the Alumni College of Washington and Lee University, 1987.
Slide lecture on the Posters of World War I and World War II, on the occasion of Founders Day at the George C. Marshall Research Library and the opening of a new exhibition of war posters, Lexington, Virginia, November 11, 1991.
Other
Small acting part in Tout Peut Arriver, feature motion picture produced by Parc Film, Paris, France. Directed by Philippe Labro, 1969.
Member, Rockbridge County Democratic Committee, 1975; Delegate to Sixth District Convention and State Party Convention, 1976; Publicity Chairman for the Democratic candidate (Ninth District) for the Virginia House of Delegates.
Collector of political posters, with nearly 3,000 posters presently in the collection. In 1991, Tuff Stuff, a Richmond trading card publisher, photographed 685 of the posters, and in 1992 published the first of a projected series of fifteen-card sets featuring the political posters.
Produced Documentary Films:
Marion Junkin. The work of a Lexington artist, 1954.
Wissous. Documentary on life in a French farming village, 1958.
Forma Viva. The wood sculpture of Yugoslavia, 1964.
Stones of Horice. Stone sculpture in Czechoslovakia, 1968.
Pierre Daura. The life and work of a Spanish-American artist., 1983.
And others.Included in: Outstanding Educators in America, 1970;
Who's Who in America;
Dictionary of International Biography, London, 1972; 1975;
International Scholars Directory, 1972.Travel
1925-27 France and Central Europe
1932 Italy and Central Europe
1933 Central Europe
1935 France, Germany, USSR, Finland, Scandinavia, England
1936 Mexico
1937 Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico
1939 Canada
1940 Guatemala and Honduras
1945-46 Italy, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Germany, France
1950 Germany, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, France
1951 Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, France, England
1957-58 Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, France, England, Jugoslavia, Spain
1963 Mexico
1964 Belgium, Germany, France, Greece, Jugoslavia, Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Rumania
1966 West Germany, East Germany, France, Jugoslavia, Italy, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria,
1968 Germany, France, Jugoslavia, Hungary, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Austria, England, Belgium
1970 England, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Switzerland, France.
1972 England, Germany, Italy, Jugoslavia, Austria, Czechoslovakia, France, Switzerland.
1974 England, Hungary, Jugoslavia, Belgium, France.
1976 England, Belgium, Switzerland, France.
1978 New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Hawaii
1978 (Fall) England, Hungary, West Germany, France, Belgium
1979 Germany (West Berlin), Belgium, England
1979 (Fall) England, Wales, France
1980 England, Belgium
1981 England, Germany, France
1982 Peoples Republic of China, Hong Kong, Japan
1983 Canada, United Kingdom (Scotland and England)
1984 Iceland, Luxembourg, Belgium, France, Switzerland, England
1985 Ireland, Wales, England
1986 France, Germany, Austria, Italy, England
1987 Arizona and Southern California.
1989 France and England
1991 England