Lyman L. Bryson

(1888-1959) born at Valentine, Cherry County, lived in Omaha. Educator, author, journalist, radio and television commentator, traveled worldwide for a decade as an administrator for children's program sponsored by the Red Cross, pioneered weekly Columbia Broadcasting System adult-education programs on radio and television in the 1940s and 1950s, authored 10 books and published articles in popular and scholarly journals, worked to create conditions of freedom beneficial to the individual and the social good. Consult Omaha World Herald Magazine, September 17, 1950, p. C-24 and Current Biography (1951) 68-70 and New York Times obituary, November 26, 1959, p. 37 and Dictionary of American Biography, Sup 6 (1980) 82-84.

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