Series I includes materials pertaining to Dr. Bentel’s professional life, including awards and honors, articles, news clippings, notes and texts for talks, and correspondence. The majority of the correspondence and news clippings center around Dr. Bentel’s accomplishments as a professor of journalism and the success of the SJSU Department of Journalism.

A small portion of this series contains correspondence with and/or pertaining to George E. Stone, an Assistant and Associate Professor in Journalism from 1934 through 1956. Although this correspondence is mostly personal in nature, it was included with the professional materials due to professional relationship between Dr. Bentel and Professor Stone and the position both men held as members of the SJSC faculty. Materials relating to Professor Stone date from 1951 -1964 and include a portion of an autobiographical manuscript.