Author: Paul Wahlstrom
Sam Blair passed away peacefully on December 11, 2022 at the age of 90. At alma maters Woodrow Wilson High School and The University of Texas at Austin, he thrived at writing for the school newspapers. He parlayed that love into a 41-year career at The Dallas Morning News as columnist and sports editor, wrote […]
Press Club Legend, Past President, Mayor of Dallas by Everton Bailey, Jr. Dallas Morning News, December 14, 2022 Wes Wise, who served as Dallas’ mayor for most of the 1970s and previously worked as a sports broadcaster, died Friday of natural causes. He was 94. Wise recently had been at a nursing home recovering from […]
January 5, 1934 -November 25, 2022 Pierce Morriss Allman, faithful husband, father, granddaddy, entrepreneur, community leader, preservationist and philanthropist, died peacefully November 25th with his beloved family at his side. Pierce achieved many accomplishments and accolades, but he found his greatest joy in his love of Christ. His deepest devotion was to his wife Allie […]
11-16-1941 – 11-25-2022David was born in Dallas to Howard Dunnigan and Thelma (Stem) Dunnigan. He graduated from Sunset High School in 1959 and the University of North Texas in January 1964 with a BA in Journalism. David began his career as a staff reporter for the Galveston Daily News until he was drafted into the […]
Legends of North Texas: Scott McCartney, Karen Blumenthal John Lumpkin – “It was a night to celebrate journalism – which seems ever more important these days.” So began an email from Scott McCartney, former AP national reporter and retired Wall Street Journal correspondent and columnist, about the induction of him and his late wife Karen Blumenthal into the Legends of North […]
Paul Wahlstrom – I would like to thank the following who helped make the 10th Legends of North Texas Journalism a success: Paula Aynesworth (sponsorships), Janet St. James (biographies, script finalizing), Greg Ruuska (Dallas College/North Lake, video presentation and recording), Ashton Campbell (the Texas Theatre). PHOTOS – JOHN “DOC” STRANGE – SELIG POLYSCOPE
Press Club Announces 2022 Student Scholarship Recipients DALLAS, TX – October 1, 2022 – The Press Club of Dallas Foundation Scholarship Fund has awarded three college scholarships to Dallas area students for the upcoming, academic 2022-23, school year. The Fund is administered by Communities Foundation of Texas. Vanesa Trejo (Skyline High School graduate), who will […]
Press Club of Dallas to Honor 2022 Legends in Journalism October 13 DALLAS – September 15, 2022 – Eleven North Texas journalists will be recognized with the industry’s prestigious lifetime excellence award, the Legends of North Texas Journalism, from the Press Club of Dallas “We will celebrate the talent and endurance of 11 extraordinary people” […]
Bestselling biographer Jane Wolfe will be in discussion with Jerome Weeks about her new book Burl at Interbang Books on Thursday, September 8th at 6:00 PM. The riveting biography of Burl Osborne, former chairman of The Associated Press and publisher of The Dallas Morning News, who waged and won one of the last great newspaper wars in […]
Press Club of Dallas board member Barry Hoffman has died. He was 79 years old. Barry Hoffman was a journalist, editor and communications executive with more than 50 years’ experience in wire service, print and broadcast news. A Dallas native he spent his entire journalism career in the Northeast. He moved back to Dallas ten years ago. He was a […]
Efforts Underway for 10th Legends of North Texas Journalism Awards DALLAS – March 26, 2022 – The Press Club of Dallas has begun preliminary work to bring back the Legends of North Texas Journalism, the industry’s prestigious lifetime excellence award. Thanks to financial support from the Dallas Press Club Foundation, a committee of pastLegends will consider […]
