Publicity & Editorial Committee

The Monthly Progress newspaper was founded in 1946 by Ted Kereczmann. It was published for 76 volumes under the following editors:

Bernard A. Stoffel†
1946-1947

Ted Kereczmann†
1947; 1958-1966

Adam Weber†
1947

Nicholas J. Shad†
1947-1949

Frank Hellmann†
1950-1952

Frank Ellmer†
1952

Susan F. Hellmann†
1954-1956

Richard J. Amtmann†
1957

Emily Fricker
1957-1958
1981-2014

Rudy Rack†
1961-1968

Edna Silcox†
1967-1971

Francis P. Weber†
1971-1978

Rosalie C.F. Braun†
1978-1981

Michael N. Fricker
2014-present

Ted Kereczmann was named “Editor Emeritus” in 1966.

In 2001 our website was first launched at the address we still use today: www.ughclub.us. By 2004 the newsletter Monthly Progress was circulated mostly through electronic means, though a few members still received it by mail.

In 2021 we redesigned our website implementing a blog feature so that articles could be posted in a timely manner. The goal was to move our news and history, our perpetual record to an up to date distribution method that still maintained the tradition, rhetorical excellence, and relationship to our community we’ve had since the 1940s.

The experiment paid off and though we no longer publish under the masthead, the spirit and voice of the Monthly Progress continues in a medium for our time.