[1] Five years later, the Edoms with their daughter Verna Mae "Vme", moved to Aurora, Missouri, for Cliff to study under renowned photographer Charles S. Martz at Tasopé and he went on to serve as educational director of TASOPE, the Aurora School of Photo-Engraving, as well as editor of its magazine The Tasope News, later PIX.
[2] In 1943, Frank Luther Mott, dean of the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri at Columbia, recruited Edom to head the new photojournalism sequence.
He also enrolled as an undergraduate; teaching classes he wasn't able to take until his junior year, and finally completed his Bachelor of Journalism in 1946.
[5] Roy Stryker, Russell Lee, Angus McDougall, among many other of America's leading newspaper and magazine photographers and editors, have served as faculty at the workshop.
"[5] In 1955, Edom received the Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award from the National Press Photographers Association, which is "the highest honor in the field of photojournalism.