Biography of Nelson B. Wadsworth
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Nelson B. Wadsworth is a professor emeritus at Utah State University. He retired from active teaching in 1994 and currently resides in the Village III Condominium complex in Salt Lake City. He taught journalism and photojournalism at three Utah universities and has been in the journalism profession for more than 50 years. His professional experiences include general assignment and beat reporting for daily newspapers in California and Utah, regional correspondent for Time Magazine, Life Magazine, People Weekly and Dow Jones' National Observer, and staff reporter for the Associated Press, Intermountain Bureau. He is founding editor of the Utah Journalism Review, editor and contributing author of the Utah Media Law Handbook and editor of the National Press Photographers Association regional magazine, The Rangefinder. Book credits include Through Camera Eyes (BYU Press, 1975), Utah (Oxford University Press, 1984), History of the Mormons in Pictures (St. Martin's Press, 1989) and Set in Stone, Fixed in Glass (Signature Books, 1992). Wadsworth has been in university education for 42 years, having held faculty teaching positions at the University of Utah (1966-1971), Brigham Young University (1971-1982) and Utah State University (1982- 1994). He serves as professor emeritus at Utah State University and associate editor of The Rangefinder, the regional magazine for members of the National Press Photographers Association. He is an avid collector of antique photographica and specializes in the early photographic processes. Since his retirement from active teaching, he has operated Archival Photography, DBA, a company that preserves and restores photographs using wet darkroom processes and techniques, as well as computerized, digital enhancements. He is the recipient of the Morris Rosenblat Award conferred by the Utah Historical Society in 1972, the Clifford P. Cheney Service to Utah Journalism Award in 1983, the Outstanding Publication Award conferred by the National Press Photographers Association in 1991 and the Service to Journalism Award conferred by the Department of Communications at the University of Utah in 1996. In 1964 Wadsworth served as public relations director for the LDS Church at the Mormon Pavilion at the New York World's Fair. After returning to Utah he worked as a freelance writer/photographer for 12 years and published numerous articles on Utah topics in national magazines and media outlets. He is a native of Martinez, California, was graduated from Alhambra Union High School in 1948, served as a radio operator in the First Marine Division in the Korean War in 1951, received his undergraduate degree at San Jose State College in 1954 and his master's degree at the University of Utah in 1970. He is married to the former Gayle Forsyth, a registered nurse from Teasdale, Utah. The couple has three children, all of whom are now grown adults living in Salt Lake City. Nelson and Gayle currently have five grandchildren. |
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