Mary McGrory - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist - August 22, 1918 – April 20, 2004

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Born in Boston's Roslindale neighborhood, McGrory began her career in journalism at the Boston Herald before transferring in 1947 to The Washington Star as a book reviewer. In 1975, she won the Pulitzer for her coverage during the Watergate scandal. She stayed with the Star until it went out of business in 1981.

Murray J. Gart, 79, Last Editor Of The Washington Star - March 31, 2004

Mr. Gart became editor of the Star in 1978, shortly after his employer, Time Inc., bought it for $20 million and vowed to spend millions of dollars to pull it out of the financial difficulties that it had been suffering for a decade.

Michael DeMond Davis

Michael DeMond Davis (January 1939 to November 13, 2003) was an award winning journalist who co-authored the Thurgood Marshall Biography. He was a pioneer in African American jounralism, opening the doors for many African-American writers.
Early Life He was born in Washington, D.C., the son of John P. Davis and Marguerite DeMond Davis. Mike D. Davis grew up in the bosom of the dignified black middle class of Washington D.C. and New York New York. His father, John P. Davis was a graduate of Harvard Law School and his mother , Marguerite DeMond was a graduate of Syracuse University. John P. Davis became prominent for his work with the Joint Committee on National Recovery and the founding of the National Negro Congress in 1935. He went on to found Our World magazine in 1946, a full-size, nationally-distributed magazine edited for African American readers. He also published the American Negro Reference book covering virtually every aspect of African-American life, present and past. Mike Davis was the grandson of Dr. William Henry Davis and the Reverend Abraham Lincoln DeMond.

Charles B. Seib, the former ombudsman of The Washington Post - October 23, 2003

A former managing editor of The Evening Star in Washington and ombudsman at The Washington Post, died on Thursday at a medical center here. He was 84.

Tom Yorke, 73, Sports Writer - October 17, 2003

Tom Yorke, who reported and wrote about sports, people and entertainment for three Washington daily newspapers for more than 53 years, died of congestive heart failure Oct. 17 at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis.

Zang Auerbach , cartoonist, Washington Star , 1921 - February 13, 2003

Brother of the renowned NBA legend, Red Auerbach. Zang created a painting for his brother Red that shows just a hand, a cigar, and the smoke spelling out "Red." Zang Auerbach also painted the leprechaun that graces center court of the parquet at the FleetCenter.

Sidney Epstein - at 81; last editor of Washington Star - September 15, 2002

ROCKVILLE, Maryland -- Sidney Epstein, who began his almost five-decade journalism career as a copy boy at one Washington paper and rose to editor of The Washington Star, has died. He was 81.

Jim Castelli - Religion Editor, The Washington Star - July 6, 2002

From 1974 to 1979 Castelli was federal reporter for National Catholic News Service, now Catholic News Service.

Lawrence A. Still, 78, Black Press Journalist, Howard U. Journalism Chair - 2001

A reporter who covered racial attacks in the South for JET Magazine during the '60s and later became a Howard University communications professor, died in Washington. He was 78.

Eileen Shanahan, 77, Former Times Reporter - November 3, 2001

In addition to her work at The Times, from 1962 to 1977, Ms. Shanahan was an assistant managing editor at The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Washington Star, and she was a reporter for The United Press, the Research Institute of America and The Journal of Commerce.

Charles McAleer - Washington Star Metro for 44 years - July 2, 2001

Remembering Charlie McAleer, 82, who worked for the Star for 44 years, died July 2 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He had diabetes. A Star contingent including Ludy Forbes, Steve Aug, Tom Love, John Mathews, Sheilah Kast and Jody Beck joined Charlie’s family and Rep. Connie Morella, R-Md., at the July 5 funeral. Ludy told our group a story about how Charlie used those plastic cards that automatically dialed the telephone numbers of local police departments from his phone in the newsroom.

Alden B. “Bucky” Summers, 62, June 14, 2001

Sports editor at the Daily News and assistant sports editor at the Star, died in Houston. He was 62. A newspaperman for more than 40 years, Bucky also worked at the Frederick News-Post and the Houston Chronicle.

Steve Green , 60, Star Metro and Veteran Copley journalist - May 8, 2001

At the Star, he covered a zoning bribery scandal in suburban Fairfax County and a struggle to launch the Washington subway -- now a well established, but still expanding feature of the city's transportation system.

Barbara Taylor - Washington Journalist, Bluegrass Supporter - November 2000

Barbara Taylor, longtime friend of bluegrass music in the Washington, DC area and mother of Leigh Taylor formerly of Patent Pending, died of cancer in her home in Arlington, Virginia. Barbara was an assistant managing editor at the Washington Times and has been a Washington journalist since 1967.

Frank R. Getlein Dies; Evening Star Art Critic May 7, 2000

Frank R. Getlein, 79, a noted art critic with the old Washington Evening Star newspaper and the author of more than 30 books on topics ranging from contemporary culture to the painter Mary Cassatt, died of cancer May 7 at his home in Alexandria.

Mr. Getlein worked at the Star from 1961 to 1976. Although he was primarily an art critic, he also wrote about film, the theater, books, politics and life in America in general. From 1959 to 1968, he was the art critic for The New Republic magazine, and over the years he wrote for numerous other magazines.

He had a reputation for commentary that was both caustic and good- humored. A case in point was his 1971 book "Playing Soldier," …

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Editorial Cartoonist Gibson Crockett; February 18, 2000 Drew for Washington Evening Star

Gibson Crockett, 88, a longtime political cartoonist for the Washington Star who was known to use humor and kindness to satirize the events of his time, died of heart ailments Feb. 18 at Montgomery General Hospital. He lived in Rockville.

Mr. Crockett, a native of Kingsport, Tenn., sought to improve his self-taught drawing skills when he joined the Washington Evening Star in 1933 as an apprentice to cartoonist James Berryman.

After working as a sports cartoonist, Mr. Crockett began producing illustrations for the editorial page in 1948, alternating days with Berryman. He became the page's sole cartoonist when Berryman retired in 1965.

Attribution: Washington Post www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-510251.html

Theodore W. Noyes; January 26, 1858 - July 4, 1946, Editor in chief of the Star for thirty-eight years

Theodore W. Noyes followed in his father's footsteps. As the successor to Crosby Noyes in the editor's chair at the Washington Evening Star, Theodore Noyes exhibited the same driving dedication to objective reporting and to the improvement and development of the nation's capital that had brought his father fame and the Star its position of dominance among Washington newspapers. Noyes was editor in chief of the Star for thirty-eight years, only two years less than his father, and had been long involved in the editorial leadership of the paper before his father died in 1908.

Longtime Columnist John M. McKelway; 72 - June 1, 1998

John M. McKelway, who wrote "The Rambler" column for the Washington Evening Star and then for the Washington Times and was a fixture in the lives of two generations of area newspaper readers, died of cancer June 1 at his home in Kensington.

C. Belmont Faries - Washington Star News Editor - January 19, 1998

C. Belmont Faries, 85, a retired Washington Star news editor who for 26 years wrote the newspaper's popular Sunday stamp column, died of complications from pneumonia Jan. 19 at a health and rehabilitation facility in Livingston, Mont. He had been in declining health since a series of strokes began in 1990.

Newbold Noyes Jr., 79, Ex-Editor Of The Washington Evening Star - December 18, 1997

Born: August 10, 1918
Newbold Noyes Jr., who as editor of The Washington Evening Star from 1963 to 1975 was the last member of four generations of his family to lead the newspaper, died yesterday in Sorrento, Me. He was 79. The Noyes family co-owned The Star from 1867 to 1975, when control of its parent company was sold to Joe L. Allbritton, a Houston businessman. The paper ceased publication in 1981.

Charles W. Puffenbarger; June 28, 1997, principal assistant city edito

Charles W. Puffenbarger, 70, a journalism professor at George Washington University, a retired editor at The Washington Post and a past president of the Washington Newspaper Guild, died of cancer June 28 at his home in Washington.

In a career that began nearly 50 years ago, Mr. Puffenbarger, who was known as "Puff" to friends and colleagues, worked for the Virginian Pilot newspaper in Norfolk, the Associated Press in Annapolis and the old Washington Evening Star, where he was principal assistant city editor. From 1965 until he joined The Post in 1969, he taught journalism at the University of Illinois.

Willard G. Volz, 67, Times photographer; July 26, 1995

Willard G. Volz, 67, an award-winning news photographer in Washington for more than 45 years who retired from The Washington Times, died Wednesday night at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring. He had cancer. The longtime Washington-area resident, born Nov 08, 1927, affectionately called "Willie"by his friends, had a knack for relaxing his subjects with his affable manner, his peers recalled. That talent elicited numerous awards from several photojournalism organizations.

Morris (Mo) Siegel; Veteran Sportswriter Dies at 78 - June 2, 1994

Morris Siegel, 78, a sports writer and columnist for four Washington newspapers whose sense of humor and quick wit also made him a popular speaker and master of ceremonies, died of cancer yesterday at George Washington University Hospital. Most recently a sports columnist for the Washington Times, he also worked at several Washington television and radio stations during a career in the nation's capital dating from 1946. Known as Morrie or Mo, Mr. Siegel was a raconteur who could keep friends and acquaintances entertained long into the night.

Jeremiah O'Leary - An American newspaper reporter and columnist - December 19, 1993

After the war, he was a reporter for the Washington Star-News (later called the Washington Star), focusing on defense and foreign policy issues. When the Star folded in 1981, O'Leary joined the Reagan Administration as press secretary for National Security Advisor William P. Clark, Jr. Soon after the founding of the Washington Times in 1982, he joined that paper as a White House correspondent, became president of the White House Correspondents Association, and ended his career writing a weekly column focused on nostalgic reminiscences of the past.

Harriet Griffiths, October 17, 1992 Washington Star Editor

Harriet Eleanor Griffiths, 71, a retired reporter and editor who had worked for the Washington Star newspaper from the early 1940s until the paper closed its doors for the last time in 1981, died Oct. 17 at Alexandria Hospital. She had undergone surgery for a brain tumor earlier in the week.

She joined what then was the Washington Evening Star during World War II when the paper, like most others across the country, was losing much of its newsroom staff to war work and military service. Women, who had been restricted to work in newspaper libraries and women's sections, suddenly seemed to be covering the world.

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Eleni Sakes Epstein - Fashion and beauty editor, at the age of 65 - 28 January 1991

Eleni Epstein, fashion and beauty editor of the Washington Star for more than three decades, was born Helen Sakes to Greek immigrant parents in Washington, D.C., in 1926. She spent her formative years in Washington, D.C., and later attended George Washington University and Columbia University.

Thomas Ewing Noyes, October 28, 1989 Actor And Journalist, Dies at 67

Thomas Ewing Noyes, a Broadway producer who later became a reporter and an editorial writer and a radio commentator, died of heart disease on Saturday at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington. He was 67 years old.

Mr. Noyes was a co-producer of several plays in New York in the 1950's, wrote for The Washington Star from 1964 to 1972 and was a commentator on National Public Radio, appearing regularly on its weekend evening program ''All Things Considered.''

He began his Broadway career as a supporting actor and then co-produced ''Take a Giant Step,'' a 1953 play that introduced the actor Louis Gossett, then 17 years old. His other productions included ''Portrait of a Lady,'' starring Jennifer Jones, ''Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure'' and ''Copper and Brass,'' a musical starring Nancy Walker.

Mr. Noyes, a native of Washington, was a graduate of Yale University and a Navy flight instructor in World War II. In later years, he wrote for several publications and was a board member of the National Music Theater Network.

After college, World War II naval service and his years on Broadway, Mr. Noyes returned to his native Washington in 1964. For the next three years, he was a general assignment reporter for what was then the Washington Evening Star.

Attribution: NYTimes www.nytimes.com/1989/10/31/obituaries/thomas-noyes-67-broadway-producer-and-newspaperman.html

John R. Bowden Jr.; November 24, 1988, News and Fashion Photographer

John R. Bowden Jr., 44, a former news and fashion photographer for The Washington Star who later operated his own commercial photography studio, died of an aneurysm Nov. 24 at a nursing home in Elizabeth City, N.C. After The Star closed, Mr. Bowden began to do editorial and commercial photography. He renovated an old warehouse on Capitol Hill and opened "The John Bowden Studio."

Mr. Bowden, who lived in Washington, was stricken on Oct. 23 while traveling in Culpeper, Va. He was taken to Elizabeth City last week for long-term care.

A native of Dayton, Ohio, Mr. Bowden grew up in the Washington area and attended American University. He began working part-time for an Arlington photographer as a youngster and continued through his college years.

Attribution: WashingtonPost.com

Crosby Noyes, 67, Dies; Ex-Reporter in Europe

AP - Published: April 10, 1988

LEAD: Crosby S. Noyes, a longtime reporter and editor for The Washington Star, died Thursday after a heart attack. He was 67 years old and lived in Bethesda, Md.

Crosby S. Noyes, a longtime reporter and editor for The Washington Star, died Thursday after a heart attack. He was 67 years old and lived in Bethesda, Md.

Irving Lowens; Washington Star music critic (19 August 1916-14 November 1983)

Irving Lowens was a polymath who possessed an extraordinary intellect and boundless energy. A musicologist of first rank, he made seminal contributions to the study of music in America.

James T. Berryman - Pulitzer Prize Winner 1950 - August 1971

Died. James T. Berryman, 69, longtime political cartoonist of the Washington Evening Star; in Venice, Fla. Berryman was working as the paper's sports cartoonist when his father Clifford Berryman, the Star's political cartoonist, fell ill in 1935. James filled in, stayed on to become half of the foremost father-son team in cartoon history.

John Harry Shannon (aka "The Rambler") 1870-1928

Fort Lincoln Cemetery, Brentwood, MD, 11/04. As "The Rambler", Shannon wrote about local history for the Washington Star in the teens and early 1920s. From 1912 - 1927 J. Harry Shannon, known as "The Rambler," published articles on Washington and vicinity in The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C. The following files are transcriptions of articles that refer to individuals or families interred in Congressional Cemetery.

Joseph A. Fox - Star's White House correspondent from April 1943 to February '54

Newspaper reporter from 1913 to 1956. Worked for the Washington Evening Star, March 1924-August 1956. He was the Star's White House correspondent from April 1943 to February '54 and its national correspondent, 1954-56. Served in the Information Service of the Department of Commerce, 1957-67.

Oral History Interview with Joseph A. Fox

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Attribution: The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum

Samuel H. Kauffmann Dead; Washington Evening Star Proprietor a Well-Known Art Connoisseur (October 26, 1893 - May 5, 1960

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Monday, Dec. 29, 1952 The Press: The Old Lady of Washington

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Howard S. Fisk - Star Automotive Editor - December 20, 1961

Howard S. Fisk was employed by the Evening Star newspaper in the District of Columbia for 66 years. He was hired as a copy boy at about age 15 on August 21, 1893, and retired on August 21, 1959 as a respected reporter after one of the longest journalism careers in United States history. His death came at home after a brief illness on December 20, 1961, at age 83.

Clifford K. Berryman - April 2, 1869 - December 11, 1949 - Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist with the Washington Star from 1907-1949.

Photo: Shorpy Historic Photos

Circa 1915. "Harris & Ewing. Posing Cliff Berryman." Political cartoonist Clifford Berryman at the Washington, D.C., photo studio founded in 1905 by George Harris and Martha Ewing. Harris & Ewing glass negative.

Gladys Brannigan, 1882-1944

Gladys Ames Brannigan was born June 14, 1882 in Hingham, MA. When she was seven years old, her family moved to New Hampshire. By 1900 Brannigan was living in Washington D.C., where she attended Georgetown University, earning her B.A. in 1903 and M.A. in 1904, and later studied at the Corcoran College of Art and Design. In 1910 she exhibited at the WCC, and in 1911 with the Society of Washington Artists, of which she was a member. She also worked as an artist on the staff of the Washington Evening Star. By 1921 Gladys had married Robert A. Brannigan, a patent lawyer, and was residing in New York City, where she studied at the Art Students’ League and the National Academy of Design with H.B. Snell.