Miriam Ottenberg Newsroom hits $13,000 mark

The Daily Cardinal Alumni Association is pleased to tell you our Miriam Ottenberg Memorial Newsroom Fund has reached $13,000 as alumni have pledged their support toward a goal of $60,000.

This past July, the DCAA launched the first of its fundraising efforts, and its first major target is to revamp the Cardinal's newsroom to make the Cardinal's mission of teaching newsgathering easier.

We are honored to be able to make this effort in Miriam Ottenberg's name, and hope to raise a total of $60,000 for the Miriam Ottenberg Memorial Newsroom Fund.

Miriam Ottenberg represented the best of what the Cardinal has always prided itself: a sense of justice, a dedication to excellence, and a fearlessness that seemed to take the word no as a dare.

Ottenberg graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1935 with a bachelor's degree in journalism, and began her distinguished career in 1937 as the first female news reporter for The Evening Star in her hometown of Washington, D.C.

At a time when female journalists were usually pigeonholed as society writers and feature writers in the "women's section," Ottenberg broke the mold. By the end of World War II, she was covering major murder cases.

Alumni have pledged $13,000 so far to meet needs such as computers and photography equipment to replace old and substandard machinery, as well as adequate office furniture and a new telephone system. Our goal of $60,000 is in sight but cannot be reached without alumni support.

For information on how to donate, watch your mailbox for further appeals or see page 7 of this newsletter.