David Lipman will be honored April 12

Missouri Professional Communicators, in affiliation with the National Federation of Press Women, will present its 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award to David Lipman, a former managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Virginia Betts White Quest Awards program will be at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, April 12, at Ces and Judy’s, Le Chateau Village, 10405 Clayton Road, Frontenac. A reception for honorees will precede lunch.
Other honorees will be Joan Berkman, Christine Buck, Roberta Duyff, Ruth Ezell, Barbara Pierce and Mike Shipley.
Lipman was president of Missouri Press Association in 1997, and he was inducted into the Missouri Newspaper Hall of Fame in 2002.
Tickets for the awards program are $50 each. Tables of 10 are available. Reservations should be made by April 4.
Send reservations to Fran Mannino, 133 Wilson Ave., Kirkwood, MO 63122. Make checks to NFPW-MPC.
For more information call Susan Fadem at (314) 991-1099 or Marge Polcyn at (314) 416-4074.