Gloria Olman
Inducted in 1997
adviser, Utica High School
To those who know her, Gloria Olman is scholastic journalism. As a newspaper adviser at Utica High School since 1977, she has built one of the strongest journalism programs in the state, if not the nation. Olman earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Michigan State University in 1963 with a minor in journalism and a Master of Arts degree in reading from Oakland University in 1978. She also has taught summer courses for high school publication advisers at MSU School of Journalism and as organized and taught many summer journalism workshops for high school students. Olman has been a board member of the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association since 1984 and served as president during the 1989-1990 school year. She also has been active nationally with the Journalism Education Association, and through that organization is certified as a Master Journalism Educator. The recipient of numerous awards, Olman was named National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year in 1992 by the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund. “I can think of no other person who has had more impact on journalism education at the state level,” said Bob Button, assistant director of Information Services for the Virginia High School League and former adviser of the Grosse Pointe South High School journalism program. “If scholastic journalism is embodied in any one person in Michigan today, it is Gloria Olman.”