The Clarendon Enterprise received 14 awards and a former local publisher was recognized at the 114th annual Panhandle Press Association Convention in Canyon last weekend.
Competing in Division One for weekly newspapers, Sandy Anderberg won First Place for the Enterprise for Sports Writing, and the crew of Tara Allred, Ashlee Estlack, and Roger Estlack won First Place for Advertising Initiative for ads created for the Chamber of Commerce, the Clarendon Lions Club, and the Saints’ Roost Museum.
Serious Columns by Benjamin Estlack and Roger Estlack won first place.
The Enterprise was also first place in Front Page Layout, News Writing, Spot News Photos, Society & Lifestyles, Feature Stories, Special Section, Editorials, and Website.
The Enterprise won second place honors for Sports Photos by Elaina Estlack, Human Interest Photos by Elaina and Roger Estlack, and Headline Writing.
The General Excellence in Division One went to the Enterprise this year as well.
During a luncheon on Friday, former Clarendon publisher the late Carroll Koch was inducted into the PPA Hall of Fame. Koch began her newspaper career working in the office of the Quanah Tribune-Chief for her husband J.A. Koch, who was the editor and publisher. Upon his untimely death in 1956, Koch took over the reigns as editor and publisher and became the caretaker of the news for Quanah.
In 1958, with the hiring of Ed Eakin as editor, Koch focused on being a working publisher until her retirement and sale of the Quanah Tribune-Chief in 1978.
Koch along with Eakin and Dean Singleton launched The Clarendon Press in 1972 and purchased The Donley County Leader and The Clarendon News in 1974, merging all three papers under the Press nameplate in 1975. Singleton left the partnership in 1976, and Koch and Eakin sold the paper that eventually today’s Enterprise to Helen Woody in 1978.
Jim Steiert of Hereford was also named to the Hall of Fame.
PPA officers for the coming year are President Tim Ritter of the Canyon News, Vice President Tara Huff of the Eagle Press in Fritch/Borger, Immediate Past President Jeff Blackmon of Hereford, and Secretary Roger Estlack of Clarendon. They are joined on the board by directors Shane Lance of Quanah, Shannon Cook of Canyon, Mary Dudley of Perryton, Suzanne Bellsnyder of Spearman, and Michael Wright of Dumas.
Attending this year’s annual Panhandle Press Association convention from Clarendon were Roger, Ashlee, Benjamin, and Elaina Estlack and Tara Allred.
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