DeKALB The Northern Star Alumni Association has announced the establishment of a $50,000 endowment to fund staffer’s salaries. The endowment is to be named after NIU alum and longtime Chicago journalist Phil Kadner. The Northern Star/Phil Kadner Endowment for Student Journalists Fund will help pay the salaries of staffers and editors at the Northern.
Longtime Daily Herald journalist Diane Dungey and long-ago Herald copy editor Kathleen Gosnell Seiler will be inducted next month into the Northern Star Alumni Hall of Fame at Northern Illinois University.