Obituary: Jack Hagerty (Jack U. Hagerty) , 78, retired editor of the Grand Forks Herald died June 13, 1997, in the Mandan hospital. Mr. Hagerty and his wife, Marilyn, are residents of Grand Forks but had been staying in the Bismarck-Mandan area since the Flood. A prayer service is being held in Bismarck at 4:30 p.m. Sunday at the Church of the Good Shepard. Arrangements are being made for a memorial service at the Calvary Lutheran Church in Grand Forks in August. Jack Hagerty was born Dec. 14, 1918, in Aberdeen S.D., near the family home at Monango, (Dickey Co.) N.D. and got is start in the newspaper business as a student working for the Aberdeen-American News. He attended Northern State Teachers College before transferring to South Dakota State College in Brookings S.D., where he graduated in 1940. He was editor of the college newspaper, The Collegian. He spent one summer as acting editor of the Lemmon, S.D. Leader. He was a veteran of Would War II when he served on a U.S. Coding Board in Brazil. Following the War, he worked briefly for the Aberdeen South Dakota "Aberdeen American-News " and the Grand Junction Colorado "Daily Sentinel." He returned to this area in 1946 as a correspondent for the Bismarck North Dakota "United Press." In 1953, he became Minnesota manager for United Press and was based in Minneapolis before going to Grand Forks in 1957 as news editor of the Grand Forks Herald. He retired in 1983. During his years with the Herald, the newspaper won two national awards from the Associated Press. He was chairman of the News Executives Conference of the University of Minnesota, president of the North Dakota Associated Press, president of the North Dakota Chapter of Sigma Delta Chi which is the Society of Professional Journalists. He chaired the North Dakota Fair Trial-Free Press Commission and the UND Journalism Advisory Committee. In 1985, he was honored by the North Dakota Newspaper Association for 50 years in the newspaper business. He was honored in April as distinguished alumni from the Communications Department at South Dakota State College. A lectureship was established by the Grand Forks Herald in his honor at the UND Journalism Department. The Hagerty Lectures have brought leading journalists to Grand Forks to talk on current issues of the profession. Mr. Hagerty continued writing a "This Reminds Me" column following his retirement early this year. He also wrote a biography , "The Reformer: George B. Winship" the founder of the Grand Forks Herald as one of the North Dakota Mini-Biography Series for the North Dakota Heritage Center. Survivors include his wife, Marilyn Hansen Hagerty, a columnist for the Grand Forks Herald; two daughters and one son.