City Council Meeting October 28, 2015
TRIBUTE TO LATE DOROTHY DeVERDERY STORCK
WHEREAS, Dorothy DeVerdery Storck has been called to eternal life by the wisdom of God at the age of 88; and
WHEREAS, the Chicago City Council has been informed of her passing by Alderman Ameya Pawar; and
Whereas, Dorothy Storck was born in 1927 in Buffalo, New York; and
WHEREAS, Ms. Storck in 1951 earned a BA degree in English Literature from Bernard College of Columbia University, and in 1962 earned an MS degree in TV journalism from Syracuse University; and
WHEREAS, from 1951 through 1965, Ms. Storck served in the United States Air Force and achieved the rank of Major; and
WHEREAS, she finished her Air Force career as Chief of Public Relations for the Secretary of the Air Force's Midwest Office in Chicago; and
WHEREAS, in 1965 Ms. Storck began working as a national reporter and columnist for Chicago's American newspaper and continued with the paper when its name was changed to Chicago Today; and
WHEREAS, at these newspapers she covered important national news events including the 1968 and 1972 presidential campaigns; the trial of Sirhan Sirhan, who assassinated presidential candidate, Robert Kennedy; NASA's Apollo 10, 11, and 13 voyages; and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her coverage of the Detroit riots; and
WHEREAS, from 1974 through 1991, Ms. Storck was a feature writer, national reporter and columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer where she shared a Pulitzer Prize for public service reporting with the Inquirer staff for its 1979 coverage ofthe Three Mile Island nuclear power plant disaster; and
WHEREAS, her Inquirer columns were distributed by the Knight Ridder-New York Daily News-Chicago Tribune wire service to more than 250 newspapers; and
WHEREAS, in 1989 the Philadelphia Inquirer assigned Ms. Storck to live in London, England to cover politics and government under Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; and
WHEREAS, in 1992 Ms. Storck returned to Chicago t...
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