Consider the Source: Good lessons, grand characters and great fun from covering Iowa for 45 years - Chuck Offenberger
Date/Time: | Wednesday, 01 Feb 2006 at 5:00 pm |
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Location: | Gold Room, Memorial Union |
Cost: | Free |
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Phone: | 515-294-9934 |
Channel: | Lecture Series |
Categories: | Lectures |
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A long-time columnist for the Des Moines Register, Offenburger wrote a 2005 book about the history of high school athletics in Iowa. It is titled "Bernie Saggau & the Iowa Boys/The Centennial History of the Iowa High School Athletic Association." The IHSAA turned 100 years old in 2004. Saggau served as executive director for 37 years.
Offenburger is working on a biography of former Cyclone all-America Gary Thompson, who recently retired as a basketball analyst covering the Iowa State and the Big 12.
Now writing from his home near Cooper in Greene County, Offenburger began his journalism career when he was 13 as a sports writer for the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel. He received a journalism scholarship to Vanderbilt University before returning to the Sentinel as managing editor. In 1972, he moved to the Des Moines Register as a general assignment reporter. In 1977, he began the "Iowa Boy" column, which continued until July 1998. He was co-host of RAGBRAI for 16 years.
Sponsored by the ISU Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication