Current Inductees
CLASS of 2025
KATHRYN DUERFELDT
Raised in Gordon, Neb., Kathryn Duerfeldt (1900-1981) began her journalism career in the late 1930s at the Gordon Journal. During World War II, she was editor of that weekly newspaper, holding it together when staff was short. She later was an editorial assistant for the Lincoln Journal and was the first woman to be named Nebraska Journalist of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi. While in Lincoln, she was known for championing the causes of the poor, the young and people unable to fight for themselves.
MARTHA STODDARD
Martha Stoddard earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and began her career as a daily news reporter in 1985. Known for her ability to communicate complex issues, she covered health care and education for the Lincoln Journal-Star before being assigned to report on state government, the Unicameral and higher education. She later worked for the Omaha World-Herald, covering state services and state government. During her four decades of reporting, she mentored many young journalists.
CLASS of 2024
VELMA PRICE
Velma Price (1903-1991), an Osceola native, was honored for her 35 years as editor and publisher of the Newman Grove Reporter and for being Nebraska’s first president of the National Federation of Press Women. Price earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Nebraska in 1935 and 1938. She was a teacher until 1942 when she married the owner/publisher of the Reporter which she took over following his sudden death in 1955, just days after she was elected NFPW president.
GLENNIS NAGEL
Glennis Nagel has been a journalist since the day she became editor of her high school newspaper in Goodland, Kan. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Kansas while working at newspapers there. Moving to Nebraska, she was the first female hired as city editor at the Kearney Hub. After a stop at KGFW Radio, she became director of the first Kearney State College News Bureau, a position she held until her retirement at the University of Nebraska-Kearney.
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