COLUMBUS — Walter W. Seifert, a retired Ohio State University journalism professor who was a prolific writer of letters to newspapers, died Saturday of cancer at his home in suburban Upper Arlington. He was 87.

        Mr. Seifert said he wrote more than 4,600 published letters to newspapers nationwide. The Guinness Book of World Records cited him in 1990, crediting him then with having 1,600 letters published.

        Mr. Seifert was a reporter for the Akron Beacon Journal and King Features Syndicate before joining the Navy in World War II, during which he edited a naval magazine. He worked in public relations for 16 years after the war, and in the early 1960s began a teaching career that lasted 29 years, including 25 at Ohio State.

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