Hall of Honor Recipient

Bill Wundram
Class of 1943
Inducted in 2000

Bill Wundram, newspaper columnist and author, is a 1943 graduate of Davenport high where he was president of the senior class. In 1989 wundram a member of the charter board of directors when the Hall of Honors was founded at Central High School.

Wundram is one of the communities biggest cheerleaders and is the only known columnist in America who writes locally seven days a week. For over 20 years he has written about 8,000 columns and five books. He has been named Master Columnist by the Iowa Press association, and doesn't limit his writing to columns. He has covered Popes and Presidents. Of the latter, he covered Hoover, the campaigns of Truman through Eisenhower and Kennedy's up to the present. he has been a reporter, city editor, associate editor, Sunday editor and lifestyle editor. in his reporting years, Wundram once swept every category in the annual Iowa Associated Press (features division) writing competition. While lifestyle editor, his department's entries won national rating of best in the nation in its circulation niche six times in the Penny-University of Missouri workshops. The university/Penny Awards program for lifestyle pages names him one of the four top editor-in all circulation's-in America.

He is a contributor to national publications and has authored five books. his 240 page "A Time We Remember", is now in its third printing and is expected to ultimately reach 20,000 copies his latest fifth book is to be published in the spring. In November, Davenport Public Library honored Wundram as "Author of the Year."

Beyond column writing, Bill Wundram is a Quad-City personality. He is a presenter, preaches in churches, emcees, cuts ribbons, judges pie contest, is a commencement speaker and on occasion is a clown for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Wundram has also found time for community service. Wundram, along with the mayor of Davenport and a musician, were the three organizers of the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Society, and its nationally know Bix Jazz concerts in Davenport, which gave birth to the Quad-City Times Bix 7, with 20,000 runners and one of America's major road races. For 17 years he was the chairman of Davenport's Halloween Mardi Gras. he was the organizer and chairman of the first professional division of United Way and he formed the Midwest's first version of Friends of the Library and served as its president. Its format has been copied by the National Library Association as a reading awareness and fund raising arm. Long ago, when Scott County had no effective handle on its homeless pet problem, he and several lawyers and do-gooders formed the County Humane Society. Wundram has been president of the Friends of Art, chairman of the Beaux Arts Ball and Grand Gallery Ball. In 1999, he was named Citizen of the Year by the Moose Lodges of Iowa. Bill Wundram has been in the newsroom fro 56 years. Bill Wundram was nominated by Lynda Moldinski.


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Hall of Honor Recipient

Bill Wundram Class of 1943 Inducted in 2000

Bill Wundram
Class of 1943
Inducted in 2000