Theodore Clevenger Jr.: 1929–1995

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Many people contributed to this essay, including especially Ruth Clevenger Reynolds and Libby Clevenger Lewis, Gary Heald, and Ken Andersen. Thanks are also in order to all of those whose comments about Ted are included.

Notes

[1] Gary Heald, Eulogy for Ted Clevenger, April 1995. Typescript.

[2] The organization has undergone a number of name changes in the past 100 years. Most recently, it was called the Speech Association of America (SAA) from 1947 to 1969, the Speech Communication Association (SCA) from 1970 to 1997, and the National Communication Association (NCA) from 1997 to the present.

[3] Theodore Clevenger Jr., “The Critical Listener: A Study in Knowledge and Candor,” Southern Speech Journal 18 (1953): 237–41.

[4] Theodore Clevenger Jr., “Alben W. Barkley's Use of Humor in Public Speaking,” Western Speech 20, no. 1 (1956): 15–22.

[5] Theodore Clevenger Jr., “A Definition of Stage Fright,” Central States Speech Journal 7 (1955): 26–30; Theodore Clevenger Jr., “A Synthesis of Experimental Research in Stage Fright,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 45, no. 2 (1959): 134–145; Theodore Clevenger Jr., “The Effect of a Physical Change in the Speech Situation upon Experienced Stage Fright,”Journal of Communication 9 (1959): 131–135; Theodore Clevenger Jr. and Gregg Phifer, “What Do Beginning College Speech Texts Say about Stage Fright?,” Speech Teacher 8, no. 1 (January 1959): 1–7; Theodore Clevenger Jr. and Thomas R. King. “A Factor Analysis of the Visible Symptoms of Stage Fright,” Speech Monographs 28, no. 4 (1961): 296

[6] Theodore Clevenger Jr., “Frequency of Labial Phonemes in Sentence-Completion Responses with and without Labials in the Stimulus Phrases,” Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 2, no. 3 (1963): 272–74.

[7] Theodore Clevenger, Jr., “Developing the Empirical Scholar,” Western Speech Journal 31 No. 2 (Spring 1967): 77–84; 86–88. This essay is one of four that comprise an exchange between Ted Clevenger and Sam Becker.

[8] Theodore Clevenger Jr., “Some Uses of Computers in Rhetoric and Public Address,” Speech Journal 5 (1969): 29–33.

[9] “The Selling of the Pentagon: Was CBS the Fulbright Propaganda Machine?” (QJS, 1971).

[10] Theodore Clevenger Jr., “Can One Not Communicate? A Conflict of Models,” Communication Studies, no. 4 (1991): 340–53.

[11] GSR is a method of measuring the electrical conductance of the skin, which varies with its moisture level. This is of interest because the sweat glands are controlled by the sympathetic nervous system, so skin conductance is used as an indication of psychological or physiological arousal. From Wikipedia.

[12] Mark Hickson III, Don W. Stacks, and Jonathan H. Amsbary, “Administrator-Scholars in Speech Communication: An Analysis of Research Productivty, II” Association for Communication Administration Bulletin, 79 [1992] 66–74.

[13] Mark Hickson III, Don W. Stacks, and Jonathan H. Amsbary, “Active Prolific Scholars in Communication Studies: Analysis of Research Productivity, II” Communication Education 42, no. 3 (1993): 227.

[14] Frederick Haberman, March 12, 1962, courtesy of Ruth Clevenger Reynolds

[15] Renee Edwards, April 1988, College of Communication archives [now College of Comunication and Information].

[16] Norm Medoff, quoted in the Tallahassee Democrat, April 1995.

[17] Michael T. Motley, 28 January 1994, letter, College of Communication archives.