Former Club secretary Stolberg of E.W. Scripps dies

David Stolberg, who was secretary of the Club while he served as managing editor of the old Washington Daily News from 1968 to 1975, died in Southingham, Conn., May 24. He was 83.

Stolberg retired from the E.W. Scripps Co. in 1990 after 38 years in the news division that culminated in the post of assistant general editorial manager that allowed him to oversee news quality for the entire company.

His father, mother and stepfather had newspaper careers, as did his daughter, Mary.

Beginning his career as a reporter and city editor for the Arlington, Va., Daily, Stolberg joined an experimental Army public information program during the Korean War. He landed in Korea just after the Inchon invasion and wrote from the North Korean capital of Pyongyang before the Chinese invaded and drove the Americans back south.

After leaving the Army, he wrote for the Rocky Mountain News, a Scripps paper, winning honors for investigative reporting. He became city editor and had several foreign reporting assignments.

After being transferred to Washington, Stolberg joined the Club and led a committee that reorganized its luncheon speakers program, which has been the Club signature program since 1932.

In 1975, he was transferred to Scripps corporate offices in New York and then followed their move to Cincinnati two years later. He founded the Society of Environmental Journalism, which gives an annual award in his name.