A “mystery sweater man” is causing consternation for a journalism lecturer who’s set up his memoirs on the internet.

The response to Gerry Kreibich’s website Memoirs of a pioneer journalism lecturer has been strong, with more than 3,000 pages views since it was launched.

Gerry launched his memoirs following demand from former students at Richmond (later Stradbroke) College in Sheffield, where he taught journalism.

They were pioneering days for journalism training in the 1970s and 1980s, and Gerry’s online work is called Memoirs of a Pioneer Journalism Lecturer.

But a number of photos sent in by former students have groups of classmates still to be identified, and Gerry is appealing for more old friends to get in touch and put some names to faces.

Gerry said: “A couple more old photographs have turned up and I have just put them on the site, as ‘Picture gallery 2′.

“They are accompanied by a complete list of the students that year, with some information about the papers they joined – though the ‘students’ could be all over the place by now, of course!

“Given that quite a few papers are named, there would probably be some interest in those quarters – some of those pictured will obviously be out of the newspaper scene by now, but others must still be in it somewhere, and I’d love to think that someone would get in touch, just for the fun of it.”

As well as the gallery pictures, the picture in the “Classroom scene” page is also needing names. Apparently in the photo – among others – are Derby Telegraph editor Steve Hall and Mike Davies (ex Northampton Chronicle and Echo, Scarborough, Birmingham, Oxford and Bedfordshire).

Gerry Kreibich was one of five journalism lecturers at Richmond College, Sheffield, throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

He says on the website: “In those pioneering days the simple aim of the National Council for the Training of Journalists was to impart editorial skills that would enable students to join provincial newspapers and immediately be useful. What happened to those students after that was up to them… and many are now prominent people in newspapers, magazines, radio and television.”

There’s also a letters page, if readers scroll down the index column, and you can get in touch with Gerry at [email protected] and [email protected]