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Items in this series are relevant to the Dupont Awards, which were given to Television stations, Radiostations, and commentators who have contributed to the field in their performance on the air. Award winners received $1,000, and most used the money to fund a journalism scholarship. Within this series are correspondence between award winners, judges, the Dupont estate, Washington and Lee University, members of the Federal Communications Commission, public relations firms, and O.W. Riegel, photographs of the award winners and annual awards dinner, publications by the Dupont Awards foundation, and published statements by various awards winners. Some items and subjects of note include a draft of a couple of the physical awards, letters discussing the conclusion of Washington and Lee's Association with the awards in 1967, and some resumes of different journalists and Judges' comments on various radio and television stations. Three scrapbooks are contained wtithin the collection, but are not in folders. They are listed in the appropriate sub-series. Major correspondents and speakers include: O. W. Riegel, FCC Chairman Rosel Hyde, and Jessie Ball Dupont.

Items in the Journalism Department series are based in the time period when Riegel was a member and later director of the department. sub-sections of this series include correspondence within the department, course materials, department seminars, accreditiation discussions,the Lee Memorial Journalism Foundation, the maintenance of the department's library, and publicity related to the department and its faculty. some items of note include some student work for classes, including a project by Phillipe Labro, a cartoonist awards program with signatures from various cartoonists including Charles Shultz, and various surveys related to higher education and journalism.

Items in this series pertain to Riegel's personal correspondence between himself and colleagues, friends, and family. Some material is related to or mentions his work, but the majority of the material is about his or other people's personal lives, opinions, and thoughts around world events.

Items in this series consist primarily of articles, bulletins, memos, and programs which are in reference to O.W. Riegel and his career achievements. The material spans the majority of his professional carreer and makes reference to his published works, acts as a staff member of Washington and Lee, and personal achievements. The publicity material is primarily newspaper clippings selected by Riegel himself.

Materials in this series consist of items Riegel acquired while traveling after World War II. Riegel went to several european nations during the Cold War including Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Italy, East Germany, Germany, and Britain. Throughout his journeys, Riegel retained numerous maps, brochures, publications, and pamphlets of places and events he attended.

Items in this series are relevant to O. W. Riegel's involvement with propaganda materials from World War I through the Vietnam War. Within this series are correspondence between Riegel and his co-workers at the Office of War information, a variety of war leaflets, war themed news letters, foreign magazines, ephemeral propaganda materials, a few posters, Viet Cong banners, and German Newspapers. Some items and subjects of note include Hand made propaganda from the Viet Cong, A book of official japanese war leaflets, records from the Office of War Information, and pictoral records of the Spanish Civil War and the Second Sino Japanese War.

This series consists of items related to Riegel's work with the Public Opinion Quarterly, an academic journal that focuses on forms of media and their effects on the public, primarily via Radio, the Press, and Movies. The bulk of material in this series consists of correspondence between Riegel, editors for the Public Opinion Quarterly, and prospective article writers.

Items in this series are relevant to the Southern Interscholastic Press Association. Within this series are correspondence between speakers for the conventions and O.W. Riegel, photographs of the annual convention, SIPA programs, Quill and Scroll Banquet artifacts, and speech excerpts from the various speakers. Some items and subjects of note include correspondence regarding the permission of black delegates during the process of desegregation, a scrapbook of events during the 1959 SIPA convention, a scroll from the 1954 Quill and Scroll Banquet, and a penant commemorating the SIPA conference. Major correspondents and speakers include: Cartoonists Ken Bald and John Mendelsohn, Congressman John Moss, James P. Warburg, Ferdinand Kuhn, and Abe Jones.