Lidia Cherie Wasowicz-PringleWriter, editor
Born Krakow, Poland, Apr. 3, 1951; daughter of Kazimierz (born Poland) and Janina Wronska W. (born Poland); married Douglas Hall P.; children: Alexandra Judith, Christina Janine.
Education: Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), honors in journalism, University of Utah; certificate, Sherwood Music School, Chicago, IL; certificate, Stanford University School of Law; Stanford University School of Medicine. National Endowment for Humanities Fellowship. Professional Journal Fellow.
Languages: English, Polish, French.
Career: Youth section correspondent, Deseret News, Salt Lake City 1969-72; copy desk editor Salt Lake City Tribune, 1972-73; reporter, UPI 1973-75; broadcast editor, UPI, San Francisco 1975-78; news reporter/editor, UPI, San Francisco 1978-81; scientific editor, UPI, San Francisco 1983-.
Honors: Two nominations for Pulitzer Prize, 1st place Lincoln Steffens Journalism Award; 1st place, Sigma Delta Chi Award; 5 Outstanding Coverage Awards, UPI; 1st place, Best Newspaper Series, Peninsula Press CIub; 1st place, California State Fair Media Award; 1st place series written in 2 or more segments, Peninsula Press CIub; Certificate of Merit, Peninsula Press CIub; Finalist Livingston Award; Rotary CIub Scholarship; Maude May Babcock Scholarship; Minute Women Scholarship, Westminster College Scholarship, Sherwood Music School Scholarship, Marriott Scholarship in Journalism, Professional Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University.
Author: co-author, Violence in the '70s.
Member of: president, Phi Beta Kappa Mortar Board, Association of Professional and Executive Women, Women in Communications, secretary/treasurer, Sigma Delta Chi, National Scientific Writers Association, Kappa Tau Alpha, Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
Mention in: Who's Who in America, Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in the East, Who's Who in California, Dictionary of International Biography, Book of Honor, Community Leaders of America, The American Registry, Personalities of the West and Midwest, Outstanding Young Women of America, World Who's Who of Women.
Resident: San Rafael, CA.
From: "Polish Americans in California, Vol. II," National Center for Urban Ethnic Affairs & Polish American Historical Association. California 1995.