Former 'Chicago Tribune' Editor Squires Donates His Papers to Vanderbilt

By: E&P Staff Jim Squires, the distinguished journalist who edited the Chicago Tribune and the Orlando Sentinel, has donated his papers to Vanderbilt University Library?s special collections department. Squires, now of Versailles, Ky., grew up in Nashville, where Vanderbilt is located, and began his journalism career as a reporter for The Tennessean there in 1962.

?That a university with the stature of Vanderbilt would be interested in the hard evidence of my existence is yet another amazing event in a life of extraordinary good fortune,? Squires said.

In 1972 Squires became a national political correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and later served as its Washington, D.C., bureau chief. He became editor of the Orlando Sentinel in the late 1970s before returning to the Tribune in 1981 as editor. During his tenure as editor, the Tribune was awarded seven Pulitzer Prizes.

Squires bought a farm near Lexington, Ky., to raise thoroughbred horses 1992. Monarchos, winner of the Kentucky Derby in 2001, was born at his Two Bucks Farm.