1966 Championship Winners
Writing Winners
| First Place | Joseph A. Eszterhas, Ohio University |
| Second Place | Dottie Lillard, University of Texas at Austin |
| Third Place | John C. Lott, Pennsylvania State University | Fourth Place-tie | Curtis A. Moore, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Fourth Place-tie | Philip W. Sema, University of Oregon |
1965-66 Monthly Competition Winners
October 1965 General News Writing
Lynn R. Dunson, Indiana University, 1
John C. Lott, Pennsylvania State University, 2
Joseph A. Eszterhas, Ohio University, 3
David J. Hadley, Indiana University, 4
Guillermo Martinez, University of Florida, 5
Rick Skinner, San Jose State University, 6-tie
Gerald G. Segroves, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 6-tie
Priscilla Ann Mullins Hogan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 8
Andrew B. Myers, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 9
Dottie Lillard, University of Texas at Austin, 10
November 1965 General News Writing
William Curry, Ohio State University, 1
Mike Allee, University of Missouri, 2
Donald L.F. Snider, Indiana University, 3
Robert V. Stover, Indiana University, 4
Jean Lange, Kansas State University, 5
Susan M. Atwater, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 6
Marvin R. McNeff, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 7
R. Donald Strickland, University of Georgia, 8
John S. Brinkerhoff, Ohio University, 9
John A. Zeh, University of Kentucky, 10
December 1965 Feature Writing
Charles T. Powers, Kansas State University, 1
Gary Williams , University of Florida, 2
Joel D. McNally, Indiana University, 3-tie
Jim D. Patten, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 3-tie
Fred Robinson Harwell, Jr., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 5
Joyce McKeever, Pennsylvania State University, 6-tie
Dottie Lillard, University of Texas at Austin, 6-tie
Thomas Seslar, Ohio State University, 8-tie
Thomas Michael DeFrank, Texas A&M University, 8-tie
Erik V. Peterson, University of Washington, 10
January 1966 Editorial Writing
Jonathan V. Foreman, University of Arizona, 1
Charles Hunter, Ohio State University, 2
Walter M. Grant, University of Kentucky, 3
Carol Rubright Richards, Syracuse University, 4
Mel Ziegler, Pennsylvania State University, 5
Andy Marein, Michigan State University, 6-tie
Ernest S. McCrary, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 6-tie
Robert D. Ewegen, University of Colorado, 8
Charles Hardwick, University of Missouri, 9
Philip W. Semas, University of Oregon, 10
February 1966 Investigative Writing
Dallas Murphy Cronk, University of Iowa, 1
Philip W. Semas, University of Oregon, 2
Donald Leroy Towns, Kansas State University, 3
Gary Brown, California State University, Fresno, 4
David Provan, San Jose State University, 5-tie
Fred W. Thomas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 5-tie
Diana Stover Tillinghast, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 7
Douglas C. Balz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 8
Jeff Smoller, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 9
Paul E. Muehring, Kansas State University, 10-tie
Nicholas C. Proffitt, University of Arizona, 10-tie
March 1966 General News Writing
Kit M. Murphy McNally, Indiana University, 1-tie
Sammy Lynn Lowery, Louisiana State University, 1-tie
Charles S. Bullard, Iowa State University, 3
Curtis A. Moore, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 4
Carolyn Watt, University of Florida, 5
R. Eric Morgenthaler, Jr., University of Kansas, 6
Edwin M. Freakley, Jr., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 7
Mary Gordon, Ohio State University, 8
Alex Ward, Pennsylvania State University, 9
John C. Lott, Pennsylvania State University, 10
1966 April Spot News Writing
Gwendolyn G. Drake Asher, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1
Curtis A. Moore, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2
Francis Michael Lorz, Ohio State University, 3
Norman Williams, Pennsylvania State University, 4
Joseph A. Eszterhas, Ohio University, 5-tie
Judy Burton, University of Texas at Austin, 5-tie
Hanay Geiogamah, University of Oklahoma, 7-tie
Robert Maxwell Ford, University of South Carolina, 7-tie
Powell Sigmon Huitt, Jr., University of South Carolina, 9
Kenneth R. Hoskins, University of Kentucky, 10

