NPW elects Ruth Brown president

CENTRAL CITY – Nebraska Press Women chose a university professor to lead the organization for the next two years. Meeting Oct. 11, 2008, at Timberlake Ranch Camp near Central City, the group elected Ruth Brown of Lexington president. Brown is an associate professor of advertising at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Other officers elected are as follows:

Vice president: Emily Springer McCreery, sports editor for the North Platte Telegraph;
Secretary: Lyn Messersmith, freelance writer from Alliance; and
Treasurer: Sherry Thompson, freelance writer and editor from Omaha.

Other board members and their responsibilities are:

Achievement Award: Cheryl Alberts Irwin, UNL IANR communications specialist
Communications Contest: Bette Pore, copy editor,Grand Island Independent;
and Barb Micek, editor. Nance County Journal
High School Contest: Mary Pierce, news editor, Keith County News
Historian: Kristen Friesen, Nebraska Life writer, Grand Island
Legislative/First Amend-ment: Diane Wetzel, city reporter, North Platte Telegraph
Member Services: Lori Potter, agriculture/natural resources reporter, Kearney Hub
Membership: Jan Thompson, University of Nebraska lecturer, Overton
Newsletter: Andrea Cranford, UNL Alumni Association communications director, Lincoln
Parliamentarian: Judy Nelson, UNL IANR communications specialist, Lincoln
Past President/ 2011 convention: Stephanie Geery-Zink, communications coordinator, Center for People in Need, Lincoln
Publicity: Doreen Pfost, communications specialist, Rainwater Basin Joint Venture, Kearney
Scholarship: Barb Batie, freelance writer, Lexington

All officers and board members will serve a two-year term.

In addition, Brown appointed a President's Advisory Council, to generate new ideas for the organization. Members of this new group are Terri Hahn, Grand Island Independent feature editor; Glennis Nagel, UNK marketing director; Mary Pat Finn-Hoag, Norfolk Daily News ag editor; Rita Brhel, Sutton freelance writer; Sara Giboney and Betsy Friedrich, both Kearney Hub reporters.