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BOULDER, Colo. – W. Scott Tyler, former news editor of the Champaign-Urbana Courier, died March 16, 2007, in Boulder, Colo. He was 87.
A native of Augusta, Ga., Scott Tyler graduated from Dwight Township High School in Illinois, in 1936 and in 1940 from the University of Illinois School of Journalism with the Sigma Delta Chi Scholarship Award, starting as a reporter for the Champaign-Urbana Courier later that year.
He enlisted in the Navy in 1941, serving in the Pacific as a tactical radar officer and night fighter director, and returned to the Courier when the war ended in 1945. Married in 1949 to Nancy Jane Blewett, also a University of Illinois graduate, Tyler was named news editor of the Courier in 1950, a position he held until 1958 when he left to become editor of the University of Illinois Alumni News. The family moved to Boulder in 1961 when he took up the job of director of Public Affairs for the University of Colorado, managing the university's public relations through the turbulent decade of the 1960s.
In 1971, Tyler was offered the position of press secretary to Sen. Gordon Allott, R-Colo., and they moved to the Washington, D.C., area, returning to Boulder after Allott's unexpected defeat in the 1972 election. From 1973 until his retirement, Tyler served as public information officer for the Federal Energy Administration in Colorado.
His wife, Nancy, died in May 2006. He is survived by his daughter, Jenny Lee Tyler, son-in-law, Lindsay Judson and granddaughters, Anna Penelope and Ellen Elizabeth of Oxford, England; and by his niece, Jacqueline Treece of Jacksonville, Fla., and her family.
Funeral arrangements were through Crist Mortuary of Boulder, with interment at Louisville Cemetery in Louisville, Colo.
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Bob McCandless
June 18, 2007
Scott was my first eity editor on the Courier in 1956. He was a solid newsman who did not put up with any foolshness as concerned the publishing the daily paper. He had a keen eye for photography, but was still of the old school leaning toward the 4x5 Speed Graphic rather than the smaller format cameras. He utterly detested the 35mm. We never could convince him. He was one of the best guys to work under as I continued my photo-journalism career. He will be missed.
Bob McCandless
May 22, 2007
Even though I have not been in touch for years, I shall miss a darn good newspaper man. I was a former photographer for the Courier.
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