David E. Sumner Collection, 1926-2026
Collection context
Summary
- Extent:
- 0.46 Linear Feet 2 Standard Archival Boxes
- Language:
- English
Background
- Scope and content:
This collection contains primarily copies of articles that were researched in the writing of The Rise, Fall, and Future of Florida's Citrus Industry. This includes information spanning over one hundred years of this citrus industry's history, with its focus on origin, failure, and success. It also includes manuscript and edited copies of sections of the book itself, as well as annotations and outlines of research.
- Biographical / historical:
David E. Sumner is Professor Emeritus of Journalism at Ball State University. During his 25 years of teaching, he taught feature writing, magazine writing, magazine editing and management, opinion writing, religion reporting, and literary journalism. He is internationally recognized for his scholarship and has spoken or taught at conferences in Honduras, Istanbul, and numerous journalism conferences in the U.S. and Canada. He has received the "Magazine Educator of the Year" award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and a Distinguished Faculty Alumnus recognition from the University of Tennessee College of Communication and Media.
Prior to entering the academic world in 1986, he was director of communications and editor of Interchange for the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio in Cincinnati, where he covered reporting assignments in Lagos, Nigeria; Geneva, Switzerland; and more than a dozen states.
Besides his books, he was a freelance magazine writer for the In Trust Center for Theological Schools from 2016-2021 and his articles may be found at https://www.intrust.org/authors/david-e-sumner. He wrote articles for the Encyclopedia Britannica Book of the Year from 1989-2006 and contributed articles to the Florida Historical Quarterly, Georgia Historical Quarterly, and Tennessee Historical Quarterly. Other articles have appeared in dozens of books, journals, or newspapers, including the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, Knoxville News-Sentinel, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Cincinnati Enquirer, and Indianapolis Star.
Sumner, a 5th-generation Floridian, earned the PhD in Communication from the University of Tennessee; a master's in church history from the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee; a master of divinity from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, NC; and a B.A. from Stetson University in DeLand, Florida. This information was pulled from the Sumner Books Website at https://sumner-books.com/home/ .
- Acquisition information:
- This collection was donated by David E. Sumner in the year 2026.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
This collection is open for research. Researchers must contact McKay Archives in advance for access to unprocessed born digital materials in this collection. Collection restrictions, copyright limitations, or technical complications may hinder the archives' ability to provide access to unprocessed born digital materials.
- Terms of access:
This collection is owned by Florida Southern College and is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
- Location of this collection:
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Florida Southern College111 Lake Hollingsworth Dr.LakelandFL33801USA
