Don Batie award
- Nebraska Press Women photo by Lori Potter
On behalf of Barb Bierman Batie, Don Batie accepts a commemorative plate from Nebraska Press Women Vice President and Hall of Fame Director Bette Pore of Grand Island at the organization’s spring banquet in Lincoln April 25. Longtime Midwest Messenger contributor Barb Batie was inducted into the Marian Andersen Nebraska Women Journalists Hall of Fame. Her portrait will hang at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Journalism and Mass Communications.
Nebraska Press Women photo by Lori PotterAs featured on
Midwest Messenger writers received several awards at the Nebraska Press Women’s spring conference in Lincoln April 25, but no recognition was as high as the honor given to the late columnist and reporter Barb Bierman Batie, who died of cancer on Christmas Day last year.
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