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NEWS
Nordmark president of NDNA
Jason Nordmark of Rolla, publisher of nine North Dakota weekly newspapers, has been elected president of the North Dakota Newspaper Association. The association’s members are the 10 daily and 80 weekly newspapers in the state.
Nordmark’s election came at the 122nd annual meeting of the association in Dickinson May 9. He succeeds Tony Bender, publisher of the Ashley Tribune.
Nordmark was born and raised in Rolla and attended the University of North Dakota and Minnesota State University Moorhead where he received a degree in print journalism in 1993. He worked at the Watertown (S.D.) Public Opinion and the Mason City (Iowa) Globe-Gazette before purchasing the Turtle Mountain Star at Rolla in 1997.
In 2005, Nordmark and his wife, Audrey, started a newspaper, the Lake Metigoshe Mirror in Bottineau County. They also purchased the community newspapers in Oakes, Ellendale, Park River, Towner, Medora and Beach in 2005 and in early 2008 bought the Towner County Record Herald at Cando.
The Nordmarks and their daughters, Bryjett, 12, Samantha, 9, and Joslyn, 4, live in Rolla where the Nordmarks are active in various community activities.
NDNA members also elected three persons to the association’s Board of Directors. Elected to two-year terms were Jill Freisz, publisher of the Grant County News, Elgin, and the Carson Press; and John Irby, editor of the Bismarck Tribune. Elected to a one-year term was Kathleen Leinen, editor of the News-Monitor which is published at Hankinson.
Other officers of the association are First Vice President Jon Flatland, publisher of the Griggs County Courier, Cooperstown, and Steele County Press, Finley; Second Vice President Kevin Grinde, managing editor of the Grand Forks Herald; and Third Vice President Wanda Olaf, advertising director of the Williston Herald. Jackie Thompson, publisher of The Walsh County Record, Grafton, also serves as a director of the association.
Additional information is available from Roger Bailey, NDNA Executive Director, 1-866-685-8889.
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Fargo teacher recognized for
teaching
with newspapers
Virginia Deitz of Fargo, a teacher completing her 37th year in the classroom, has been recognized as North Dakota’s “Newspaper in Education (NIE) Teacher of the Year.”
Deitz was presented the honor at the 122nd annual convention of the North DakotaNewspaper Association on Saturday, May 10 in Dickinson.
A fourth grade teacher at Bennett Elementary School in Fargo, Deitz uses newspapersin the classroom as an important component of what she calls “a balanced literacy readingand writing program.”
Deitz and her husband, Frank, are the parents of six grown children and grandparents of10. Virginia Deitz grew up on a farm near Wahpeton. She and her husband own a historic1904 home in Buffalo. She was the recipient of the 2001 North Dakota TeachersAssociation Award for Teacher Excellence; she served on the North Dakota EducationalAdequacy Study Panel in 2003; was chosen as the Fargo-Moorhead River Keepers“Teacher of the Year” award in 2006 and in 2007 was named Conservation Educator of theYear by the North Dakota Wildlife Federation. She is involved in many communityorganizations and activities.
Judges of the NIE competition said, “What an example for other teachers to follow. Dietzis a dedicated teacher and one willing to share with others. NIE programs can reallyhelp newspapers and when a teacher like Deitz comes along, we call benefit.”
For more information, contact Roger Bailey, NDNA Executive Director, 866-685-8889.
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NDNA Education Foundation
elects officers, directors
The North Dakota Newspaper Association Education Foundation has re-elected SteveAndrist as its president and Don Frye as its vice president. Andrist is the publisher of TheJournal at Crosby and the Tioga Tribune. Frye, a resident of Carrington, is the economicdevelopment consultant for North Dakota for Otter Tail Power Co. of Fergus Falls,Minnesota.
The members of the foundation also elected three new directors at its annual meetingSaturday, May 10 in Dickinson. Jill Denning Gackle, general manager of BHG, Inc., a groupof 12 weekly newspapers headquartered at Garrison, Alan Reed, managing editor of TheDickinson Press, and Mark Strand, chairman of the Mass Communications Department atMinnesota State University Moorhead, were elected to three-year terms. Carryover membersof the board are Jack McDonald of Bismarck, James Boberg, general manager of TheForum of Fargo-Moorhead, Bill Devlin of Finley and Mike Jacobs, editor and publisher ofthe Grand Forks Herald.
Representing the North Dakota Newspaper Association on the foundation boardare Jason Nordmark of Rolla, NDNA President, and NDNA Past Presidents Patty WoodBartle of Edgeley, Tony Bender of Ashley and Terry Schwartzenberger of Napoleon.
The foundation has as its members the 90 community newspapers in North Dakota. TheFoundation provides approximately $20,000 annually in scholarships and internships forjournalism students and sponsors educational seminars for working journalists andadvertising personnel at North Dakota newspapers. The foundation is also one of themajor sponsors of the annual North Dakota Spelling Bee.
Additional information is available from Roger Bailey, NDNAEF secretary-treasurer, 1-866-685-8889.
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