| Date Span: | 1942-1959 |
| Creator: | Starzell, Frank (1904-1994) |
| Extent: | 4.00 items. |
| Collection Number: | MSC0231 |
| Repository: | University of Iowa Special Collections |
| Summary: | General manager of Associated Press. The scrapbooks contain photographs, speeches, press releases, and articles from his career with the Associated Press. |
Access: This collection is open for research
Use: Copyright restrictions may apply; please consult Special Collections staff for further information.
Acquisition: This collection was given to the University of Iowa by Mr. Starzel in 1971.
Preferred Citation: Frank Starzell Papers, The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, Iowa.
| Repository: | University of Iowa Special Collections |
| Address: | Special Collections Department University of Iowa Libraries Iowa City, IA 52242 |
| Phone: | 319-335-5921 |
| Curator: | Greg Prickman |
| Email: | lib-spec@uiowa.edu |
| Website: | http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/sc |
Chief executive officer of the Associated Press, Frank Starzel, was born on February 29, 1904, in LeMars, Iowa. He began his newspaper career by working on his father's paper, the semiweekly LeMars Globe Post. By age thirteen, he had learned typesetting and printing and was writing articles. Starzel attended the University of Notre Dame and the University of Iowa before quitting school to take a job as the managing editor of the Iowa City Press Citizen. From Iowa City, he moved to Des Moines where he was assistant syndicate manager and later assistant to the managing editor. He held other positions before he joined the Associated Press in 1929. By 1948, he had become general manager of the Associated Press news service. He retired as chief executive officer in 1962. Frank Starzel died in 1994 at the age of ninety.
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