User:Timothy Raymond Matas
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Attended St. John's Lutheran School, 1006 Bluff St., Beloit, K-6
Roosevelt Junior High School
Beloit Memorial High School
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater 1968, 1970 --- B.S. degree. First journalism major to graduate from UW-W
Training schools is police science, fire protection, radio, insurance . . . . Eight years of classes in agriculture, four years of part-time intensive religious studies.
Newspapers worked at include: Editor of the Royal Purple (WSUW), the Beloit Daily News, the Delavan Enterprise, the Rockford Morning Star, the Dubuque Telegraph-Herald, the Freeport Free Press, sports editor of the Cherokee Daily Times, sports editor the Dodge City (Kan.) Daily Globe, agricultural + regional editor the McCook (Neb.) Daily Gazette, owner of the Chapman Advertiser/Enterprise Journal, owner the Kaw Valley Shopper, stringer the Herington Times -- temporary stints or articles written for the Janeville Gazette, the Fond du Lac Commonwealth-Reporter, several other papers.
Awards in writing and photography from the Associated Press, service award from VFW, first recipient of the Soil Stewardship Award from the state of Nebraska Conservation Association.
Memberships (past and present): Society for Professional Journalists, Society for the Preservation of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America, Arbor Day Society, Lions Club and a member of the Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod. (At various times a member of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, when a local congregation exists.)
Married 6-29-69 to Carol Ann Stroede, a parochial school teacher who is now a social services designee at Chapman Valley Manor, a nursing home.
Children: Timothy Paul Matas, 12-21-77, former employee of the state of Nebraska attorney general's office, a graduate of the University of Nebraska currently a second year law student at UNL. Carol Marie Matas Park, 11-13-80, a graduate of UNL and Washburn University School of Law. Employed as an attorney in Hays, Kan.