Reese Cleghorn (78), dean of the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism from 1981 to 2000 has passed.

The longest sitting dean on the University of Maryland campus when he stepped down, Cleghorn was associate editor of the Detroit Free Press when he was named to the journalism position.

Cleghorn was instrumental in bringing the national monthly magazine American Journalism Review (then Washington Journalism Review) to the college in 1987, and and has since served as president, and then publisher of AJR.

For more information on Cleghorn and memorial services, visit UMD's site here.