ABSTRACT
Gray (1949) persuasively argued the case for studying the history of communication education in the United States:
A more complete examination of the route we have traveled in coming from our beginning … to our present position is well worth the undertaking. … It will give us a still deeper understanding and appreciation of that position, in the same way that any study of history may provide the basis for a better orientation as an aid in determining the direction we should proceed. (p. 156)
