Last Updated: May 20, 1999
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ASNE on the move
Former ASNE president Norman Isaacs dies
Norman E. Issacs, who was president of ASNE in 1969-70, died
March 7 in an Alzheimer’s clinic in California. He was 89.
He was executive editor and vice president of The Courier-Journal and
Louisville (Ky.) Times when he headed ASNE. He previously worked for the
Star-Times in St. Louis and The Indianapolis Times. He came out of retirement
to be president and publisher of The News-Journal in Wilmington, Del.
Isaacs is survived by his wife Mildred, a daughter, and his son Steve,
who is on the journalism faculty of Columbia University in New York.
