Anderson, Kathie Ryckman, 1950-

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Kathie Anderson graduated from the University of North Dakota with a B.S. in English in 1972, and from the University of North Dakota with an M.A. in American Literature in 1981. Kathie Anderson is currently in graduate school at Texas Tech University in the School of Mass Communication. She began her teaching career at Grand Forks Central High School in 1972. She taught all areas of English, speech and journalism courses, and was adviser for the school newspaper and literary publications. In 1979 she became a graduate teaching assistant for UND's Department of English. By fall of 1982 she was lecturer in the Department of Journalism. She also taught for the School of Communications and coordinated the introductory communication writing skills lecture and computer labs. Anderson is the author of Dakota; The Literary Heritage of North Dakota and has written numerous articles for UND Alumni Review, North Dakota Horizons, and North Dakota History. Anderson has been recognized in Who's Who in North Dakota and was selected as 1975 outstanding young career woman in Bismarck and North Dakota. She was a member of Delta Kappa Gamma and Phi Delta Kappa educational honorary societies, Kappa Tau Alpha journalism scholarship society, North Dakota Press Women, and a council member of North Dakota Council on the Arts.

From the description of Papers, 1971-1990. (University of North Dakota). WorldCat record id: 23184374

William Bowling "Bo" Byers was born in 1920 in Miami, Missouri.

After moving to Austin to live with an aunt and uncle, Byers graduated from Austin High School in 1936 and the University of Texas at Austin in 1941, where he received a Bachelor of Journalism degree. His first news story appeared in the Austin American-Statesman in December 1932.

Byers volunteered for the Army Air Corps and was inducted in September 1942.

He flew 30 missions as a B-17 navigator in the 351st Bomb Group, 8th Air Force, England, and was separated from service in September 1945. He worked for the Marshall News-Messenger and received a fellowship to teach journalism at UT, but left the fellowship after one semester to join the Associated Press Capitol Bureau in Austin, for whom he worked for 10 years. He joined the Houston Chronicle's Austin Bureau in 1957, became bureau chief in 1961, and continued reporting, writing, and directing the bureau until his retirement in 1983. He then went on to report at the state government level, and also served as a deacon and elder in Central Presbyterian Church as well as five years on the City of Austin Parks and Recreation board.

Kathie Anderson interviewed Byers for a Qualitative Measures course at the University of Texas at Austin and produced a paper, "Bo Knows: Fifty Years of Texas Journalism."

From the description of Byers, Bo, Oral History Collection, 1992 (University of Texas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 659573131

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