A.P. Executive

CLAUDE A. JAGGER '24 is one of the top executives of the Associated Press, of which he has been a staff member for the past twenty years. At present he is on a year's leave of absence from the A.P. in order to serve as Associate Director of the American Press Institute at Columbia University, which is conducting a series of seminars for working newspaper men.

Mr. Jagger left Dartmouth at the end of junior year to enroll in the Columbia School of Journalism. Before going with the Associated Press in 1927, he was a reporter and for one year city editor of the Providence Evening Bulletin. His first assignment with the A.P. was that of night city editor in New York. In 1930 he became New York financial editor and in 1935 general financial editor, until recently he served as assistant general manager, in charge of promotion, editorial personnel and A.P. features.

With other A.P. writers, Mr. Jagger collaborated in the writing of Free MenAre Fighting, which appeared in 1945. He was president of the Columbia Journalism Alumni Association in 1936.