By: E&P Staff Malcolm F. Mallette and Walter Everett, both former American Press Institute executive directors, have died in the past week. Mallette, 83, died Nov. 25 at his home in Durham, N.C., and Everett, 95, died Nov. 28 at his home in Middletown, R.I.
"Both men were giants in the industry, true pioneers, and left a real legacy of achievement," Andrew Davis, API's president and executive director, said in a statement.
Mallette, who was with API for 21 years, served as an associate director, managing director, director, and director of development. He retired in 1987. Before joining API, he worked as a sports reporter and then sports editor for the Asheville (N.C.) Citizen Times and was sports director of the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal. He also became the latter paper's managing editor.
Before he became a journalist Mallette was a minor-league baseball pitcher for seven years, appearing in the major leagues in two games with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1950, where he played with Jackie Robinson and pitched batting practice for Joe DiMaggio.
Everett worked for API for 26 years, during which he oversaw API's move from Columbia University in Manhattan to its current headquarters in Reston, Va. Before joining API he worked for 15 years at daily newspapers, beginning in 1933 as reporter with The Providence (R.I.) Journal. He eventually became city editor, a position he held for eight years. He also worked on the news staff of The Salt Lake Tribune in Salt Lake City, and served as city editor of the Greenwich (Conn.) Times.
Everett took a leave of absence from API to serve on the staff of President Harry Truman's International Development Board, headed by Nelson Rockefeller. He was active in planning and conducting special seminars for foreign journalists held in the United States by API under grants from the Ford and Rockefeller foundations.
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