AllenH. SwartzellBA'49Allen H. Swartzell died March 4, 2019, at the age of 93. He began his lifelong work in newspapers selling The LaPorte Herald-Argus on a street corner as a child. After serving in various other part-time youth roles at the paper, he became sports editor while in high school. After graduating from IU, he worked as a police reporter for the Elkhart Truth before returning to LaPorte to report on local government and politics. Swartzell served as national advertising manager and promotion manager, then advertising director and assistant publisher.

He was general manager of the Bloomington Herald-Times newspaper and then general manager of Hearst newspapers in Boston.

Swartzell then served as associate director of the American Press Institute in Washington, D.C., before returning to active newspaper work as general manager of the Colorado Springs Sun. After a stint as general manager of a newspaper in El Dorado, Kansas, Swartzell moved to East Lansing, Michigan, in 1982 to serve as general manager of The State News, the student newspaper at Michigan State University, before retiring in 1994.