Southern Methodist University Press.

Southern Methodist University opened for classes in 1915, but it was not until twenty years later when interest in establishing a university publishing group culminated in the creation of SMU Press in 1937. SMU English professor John McGinnis was the driving force behind the initiative, and he directed the Press for its first few years of operation. Donald Day took over as editor for a brief period after him.

Along with McGinnis, SMU President Umphrey Lee, Bishop A. Frank Smith, history professor Herbert Gambrell, English professor Henry Nash Smith, and university promoter Eugene McElvaney (later chairman of the Board of Trustees) were several of the prominent SMU administrators and faculty who helped create the first university press in Texas.

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