Many newspaper editors and owners objected saying that reporters should follow the traditional apprentice route for training.

[4] In 1902, Williams traveled to 27 nations on four continents to publicize the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair to the international press.

In 1915, he was elected president of the Press Congress of the World; and led its first formal sessions in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1921.

However Williams became increasingly concerned they would not adhere to the same high journalistic standards and professionalism being taught at "Mizzou".

He took over the leadership when Mizzou, like many other American institutions of higher learning, was struggling with funding issues due to the Great Depression.

[4] His health began to fail as his presidency wore on, and he died while still holding the position in July, 1935, of pneumonia after a diagnosis of prostate cancer.

A World War II Liberty ship, SS Walter Williams (hull MC No.

The Walter Williams Club is the name of the alumni association of University of Missouri Journalism School graduates.