Mark Ferree

<p>Ferree To Be NPPA Guest Friday Night Mark Ferree Mark Ferree, president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, will be principal speaker at the National Press Photographers Association awards banquet Friday evening, July 1, in Rapid City. Ferree also is executive vice president and general business manager of Scripps-Howard Newspapers with headquarters in New York City. His address and presentation of awards will, conclude convention activities of NPPA. Awards will be presented to those who have contributed the most -to advance ment of photojournalism , during the past year. An advocate of "prepared opportunism," Ferree is a self-professed, practical realist who started in the newspaper profession while in grade school.. . He covered news in mgn scnooi and worked on the Indiana University college newspaper while attending that institution from 1922 to 1924. Ferree worked for the Evans- ville, Ind. Courier as telegraph editor, reporter and feature writer before joining the Miami, Fla., Herald where he was a reporter, copy editor and Sunday editor for two years. Following a stmt in puDiiciiy work, Ferree first became asso ciated with Scnpps-Howara newspapers in an advertising capacity in 1933. His present post encompasses many corporate offices and directorships. He is president, director and member of the executive committee of the New Mexico State Tribune Co., Albuquerque, N.M.; Memphis Publishing Company, WMC Broadcasting Company, Memphis; vice president and director of the Albuquerque Publishing Company and holds executive positions in Allied Newspapers, Inc.: El Paso Herald-Pest; Pittsburgh Press Company; Birmingham Post Company; Scripps-Howard Supply Company; Fort Worth, Tex. Press; Houston, Tex. Press; Indianapolis Times Publishing Company; Washington Daily News; Knoxville, Tenn. News-Sentinel; Evansville, Ind., Press; Apex Publishing Company, San . Francisco, Callf.l'NEA Services, Inc. Newspaper Printing' Corp., El Paso. Tex.; Newspaper Realty Corp., El Paso, Tex., and United Press Associations. . : He has held a wide variety of civic and professional association positions. Within ANPA, Ferree became a board member in 1955; treasurer in 1957 and vice president in 1958. Ferree is not given to pontificating or offering gratuitous advice, but will bring a forceful message to NPPA members.</p>