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A University of Nevada track champion in the mile run, Leonard was editor of the Nevada State Journal in Reno from 1957-1972. He championed what was good for Reno and diligently worked to eradicate the bad.
From an announcement by the Reynolds School of Journalism in 2007 on the establishment of the Paul A. Leonard Chair in Ethics and Writing in Journalism and the Paul A. and Gwen F. Leonard Memorial Scholarship:
Paul Leonard, a University journalism graduate in 1936, started his career as a reporter at the Elko Daily Free Press. After military service during World War II, Leonard became editor of the Ely Daily Times. He joined the Reno Evening Gazette and later became editor of the Nevada State Journal, where he remained until his retirement in 1972. The papers merged, under the Spiedel Corporation, as the Reno Gazette-Journal in 1977.
The University named Leonard a Distinguished Nevadan in 1971.
Gwen Leonard, graduated from the University in 1937, and was a patron on the arts and a member of numerous community organizations. She received the University’s President’s Medal in 1989.
Gwen Leonard established several endowments at the University including the Professor James Hulse Scholarship in History, the Leonard Endowment for Philosophy, and in the journalism. The endowed chair has been renamed in honor of Paul and Gwen Leonard.
