{"id":1864,"date":"2019-08-24T21:09:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T01:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/?page_id=1864"},"modified":"2026-02-05T15:10:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:10:47","slug":"dallas-tex-higbee","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/hof\/dallas-tex-higbee\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas \u201cTex\u201d Higbee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"w-full xl:container mx-auto px-6\">\n<h3 class=\"lead\">Class of 1939<\/h3>\n<div class=\"marsha-row mt-4 mb-4 flex flex-wrap -mx-2 lg:-mx-6  justify-start border-0 border-gray-100 first:mt-0\"><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-4\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\"><div class=\"\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/files\/HOF-Higbee-300x415.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot image of Dallas \u201cTex\u201d Higbee\" width=\"300\" height=\"415\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-8\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\"><div class=\"\">\n<p>Dallas Higbee worked for the\u00a0<em>Huntington Herald-Dispatch<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0<em>Logan Banner<\/em>\u00a0during 1939, the year he graduated from Marshall. But it was at the\u00a0<em>Charleston Gazette<\/em>\u00a0that he made his career. He joined the\u00a0<em>Gazette<\/em>\u00a0in 1940, became executive news editor in 1956, executive editor in 1962 and retired in 1980. His expertise in newspaper design was nationally recognized. He served on the Associated Press Managing Editors Association Board of Directors for six years and as treasurer for three years.\u00a0 Higbee served as president of the West Virginia Press Association and the state Associated Press Association.<\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class of 1939<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":0,"parent":1654,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-legacy.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1864","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3135,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1864\/revisions\/3135"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}