Missouri Press News, April 2014 www.mopress.com Convention is a time to remember friends Make plans to attend this year's Hall of Fame banquet oplin Globe editor and past Mis- on behalf of the Association comes time to see old friends, make new souri Press Association presi- to mind. The details of which I won’t ones and learn about innovative Jdent Carol Stark died Aug. 14. get into here, but I will forever be ideas in our industry. Condolences go out to the Globe staff endeared to Carol. I’m privileged to * * * and Carol’s family. have known this remarkable person The year is speeding along and be- Losing friends and family is nev- as a colleague and friend. God speed fore we know it the State Legislature er easy. Remember the many good Carol. will be back in session. Take time to times over the years, though, seems * * * meet with your State Representatives to help a bit. At least I’ve found that Speaking of Carol, she will be in- and State Senators now. We will need so. ducted into the Missouri Newspaper their help as the ongoing fight to Carol was highly intelligent and Hall of Fame at the convention in keep legal notices where they belong, courteous. Her word was her bond. Kansas City on Sept. 27. Please make in newspapers, comes up in 2020. She loved newspapers, was a con- plans to attend. * * * summate wordsmith and always saw The event will be held at Harrah’s It’s time to wrap this up. Take care the “good” in people, even when oth- in North Kansas City and will kick off of yourselves and I’ll see you in Sep- ers did not. And she knew how to with a Gangsters and Flappers’ Night tember. take things with a sense of humor on Sept. 26. The event will benefit the * * * and a sense of levity. Missouri Press Foundation. ’Til Next Time: A trip to Washington D.C. with her Our annual convention is a great J.M.W. Continuing a time-honored tradition for members of the Missouri Press Association Board of Directors, Carol Stark presents James White with a new briefcase during the Association's Jan. 30 meeting in Jefferson City. The presentation of the briefcase by Stark, 2018 MPA president, to 2019 MPA Presi- dent White is symbolic of the passing of leadership between presidents of the board. Stark died Aug. 14 after a long battle with cancer. (Staff photo) PRESIDENT: James White, DIRECTORS: Benton County Enterprise, Warsaw Mary Wilson, Jackson County Advocate, Grandview FIRST VICE PRESIDENT: Trevor Vernon, Donna Bischoff, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Eldon Advertiser Roger Dillon, Shannon County Current Wave, Eminence SECOND VICE PRESIDENT: Liz Irwin, Julie Moreno, Independence Examiner Missouri Lawyers Media, St. Louis Bryan Jones, Versailles Leader-Statesman SECRETARY: Hannah Spaar, The Odessan, Odessa Kevin Jones, St. Louis American TREASURER: Amos Bridges, Springfield News-Leader Beth Durreman, Perry County Republic-Monitor, Perryville PAST PRESIDENT: Carol Stark, The Joplin Globe Tianna Brooks, Mountain View Standard News EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Mark Maassen NNA Represenative: Sandy Nelson, The Courier-Tribune, ADVERTISING DIRECTOR: Ted Lawrence Liberty EDITOR: Matthew Barba MISSOURI PRESS NEWS (ISSN 00266671) is published every other month for $15 per year by the Missouri Press Association, Inc., 802 Locust St., Columbia, MO 65201-4888; phone (573) 449-4167; fax (573) 874-5894; email [email protected]; website www.mopress.com. 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POSTMASTER: Please send changes of address to Missouri Press Association, 802 Locust St., Columbia, MO 65201-4888. www.mopress.com Missouri Press News, April 2014 Missouri Press Association 153rd Annual Convention Harrah’s North Kansas City Thank you to our sponsors & trade show exhibitors Platinum Sponsor Morning Session Sponsor Summer Internship & Hall of Fame Reception Sponsor Gold Sponsors Lanyard & Name Tag Sponsor B RANSO N • MISSOURI Silver Sponsors Bag Sponsor News Café Sponsor Session Sponsors Thursday Night Event Sponsors Trade Show Reception Sponsor Sponsors: Exhibitor / Trade Show Friday Sept. 27th 8 am - 4 pm Amplified Digital • Associated Press • Central Trust Company • Columbia Missourian Corning Publishing • Creative Circle Media Solutions • Family Features Independent Colleges and Universities of Missouri • Interlink • Maneke Law Group Missouri Beverage Association • Missouri Community Action Network Missouri Newspapers in Education • The Newspaper Manager • Newz Group Our Hometown • Pelcro • Publication Printers Corp. • Silver Dollar City The State Historical Society of Missouri • Visit KC Missouri Press News, September — October 2019 www.mopress.com 3 153rd Convention has five inductees joining Newspaper Hall of Fame New members include Phil and Kathy Conger, Thomas Benton White, Francis Stufflebam and Carol Stark By Missouri Press Staff have earned numerous awards for the Missouri Press News newspaper. A group of five newspaper people, which includes one couple and two — Carol Stark — former Missouri Press Association presidents, will be inducted in Sep- A groundbreaker and trendset- tember into the Association’s News- ter, Carol Stark was known by many paper Hall of Fame. throughout the newspaper industry The induction reception and ban- for her leadership, judgment, passion quet are scheduled for 6 p.m. Friday, and compassion. Since her first jour- Sept. 27, during MPA’s 153rd An- nalism job in 1977 at The Carthage nual Convention and Trade Show at Press, and continuing on to her work Harrah’s North Kansas City Hotel. at the Globe beginning in 1983, Stark This will be the 29th group to be in- at the newspaper in high school and remained a ducted into the Newspaper Hall of would go on to receive a journalism champion of Fame, which was established by MPA degree from the University of Mis- local news, in 1991. souri, where he met his future wife, believing that This year’s inductees are the late Kathy Stroup. even though Thomas Benton White, founder and Phil and Kathy married in July 1969 the work publisher of the Benton County En- and she joined the newspaper family is not easy, terprise; the late Francis Stufflebam, afterward, doing tasks as needed and the effect lo- editor and publisher of the Bolivar eventually selling advertising. Today, cal news has Herald; former MPA President Phil she is the newspaper’s advertising on the com- and Kathy Conger, owners and pub- manager. munity can lishers of the Bethany Republican- Through the years, Phil and Kathy never be re- Clipper; and the recently deceased have worked as a team to keep their placed. Carol Stark, long-time editor of the communities informed and help ad- From her Joplin Globe and former MPA presi- vertisers reach an audience that can beginnings at the Globe, Stark worked dent. be spread wide across northern Mis- her way up the newsroom, becoming Hall of Fame inductees or their fam- souri. With four Iowa newspapers, metro editor in 2003 and then execu- ilies receive Pinnacle Awards in hon- they jointly operated a commercial tive editor in 2007. She was the first or of the inductees’ service to the Mis- printing plant for 40 years. While woman in the newspaper’s 110-plus souri newspaper industry and their they have always recognized the chal- year history to hold that position. In communities. Inductees’ plaques will lenges that come with publishing a 2018, the same year she served as join the permanent display of induct- small-town newspaper, the Congers president of Missouri Press Associa- ees in the MPA office in Columbia and have also embraced ideas that repre- tion, her role was expanded further as in the student lounge in Lee Hills Hall sent the future of digital publishing. she was named regional editor for the at the Missouri School of Journalism. Phil was Missouri Press Associa- Globe’s parent company, CNHI tion president in 2012 and remains Following the May 2011 Joplin tor- — Phil and Kathy Conger — a director on the Missouri Press Ser- nado, Stark and her newsroom were vice Board. He also was president of thrust into the national spotlight as The quintessential small newspa- Northwest Missouri Press Associa- the newspaper led editorial coverage per team, Phil and Kathy Conger rep- tion in 1974. Kathy, a director for the of the aftermath of one of Missouri’s resent the third generation of family Missouri Press Foundation, is also worst natural disasters. Through their ownership for the Bethany Republi- the de facto secretary for Northwest hard work and dedication, the Globe’s can-Clipper. Phil succeeded his fa- Press Association. She also served as staff earned the respect of the com- ther, Vincent, as publisher in 1978. president of Northwest Press in 1992. munity for its coverage of the events, His grandfather, Erwin, purchased They continue to be very active in despite suffering its own losses. the paper in 1927. He started working various Missouri Press functions and Continued on Page 5 4 www.mopress.com Missouri Press News, September — October 2019 Continued from Page 4: Hall of Fame banquet is Sept. 27 In leading her staff, Stark encour- will set the up his promise in the very first edition aged them to utilize the newest tools type, each of his ownership of the newspaper to tell stories and inform the com- week for you,” with an offer to provide a scholarship munity, but she also stressed that the was the open- to Southwest Baptist College for the tenants of proper journalism have not ing statement child who sold the most paid yearly changed. White used to subscriptions. It would not be the first Stark was a longtime advocate of let Warsaw’s time he would work with the college, helping young journalists break into early resi- and the relationship between publish- the profession, including being an dents know er and school would culminate with adviser to Missouri Southern State his family the naming of the college’s original University’s The Chart; working with would work campus after him to commemorate Joplin High School students on their hard for the his efforts to revitalize and sustain newspaper, The Spyglass; running community.