Senate Journal: Page 1094: Thursday, April 10, 1997

  1094 JOURNAL OF THE SENATE 88th Day
  Senator Hammond escorted Mr. Gartner to the well of the Senate
  and the following resolution was read:

  1                        SENATE RESOLUTION 7
  2 by: Hammond, Vilsack, Dvorsky, Kramer, And Gronstal
  3      (Companion To LSB 2765hh By Doderer)
  4  A Senate Resolution honoring Mr. Michael Gartner for
  5 winning the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing.
  6  WHEREAS, Mr. Gartner's maternal grandfather, Dr.
  7 John Charles Gay, edited the Waterloo Morning Tribune
  8 and Mr. Gartner's father, Mr. Carl Gartner, was an
  9 editor for the Des Moines Register for more than 40
  10 years, ensuring that the pundit's genetic code spelled
  11 out "newspaperman"; and
  12  WHEREAS, whenever Mr. Gartner's education and
  13 career paths led him from Iowa, his self-professed
  14 love for this state eventually enticed him to return;
  15 and
  16  WHEREAS, Mr. Gartner's educational path took him to
  17 Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, and New
  18 York University where he received his juris doctorate
  19 degree; and
  20  WHEREAS, 14 years with the Wall Street Journal as a
  21 reporter and editor, including five years as a page
  22 one editor, prepared him for further career successes
  23 as executive editor, and subsequently editor and
  24 company president of the Des Moines Register and
  25 Tribune; general news executive and subsequently
  26 editor of the Gannett Company's Louisville Courier-
  27 Journal and Times; president of NBC News; and for his
  28 current full-time duties as editor and part-owner of
  29 The Daily Tribune of Ames; and
  30  WHEREAS, as a columnist for USA Today and the Wall

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  1 Street Journal, commentator for Iowa public radio and
  2 the Voice of America, and as a fellow at the Institute
  3 of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government at
  4 Harvard University, Mr. Gartner has ably represented
  5 this state to the rest of the country; and
  6  WHEREAS, Mr. Gartner has been praised for
  7 transforming The Daily Tribune into a lively, well-
  8 received community newspaper by emphasizing local news
  9 and writing expressively about the problems of the
  10 community of Ames and this state; and
  11  WHEREAS, in an address to the joint convention of
  12 the General Assembly on Pioneer Lawmakers' Day, March
  13 28, 1995, the inveterate logophile described Iowa as
  14 open, clean, and honest and observed that Iowans
  15 believe in education, hard work, equality, and

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