STANNIE ANDERSON, dayside assistant city editor and writing coach of The Capital-Journal, retired Oct. 2, 1991. She had been employed by the the staff in February 1958 as health writer.

In 1971 she was named assistant city editor of the Topeka State Journal and in 1977 became city editor. When that newspaper merged into a single newspaper with The Topeka Daily Capital and became The Topeka Capital-Journal in 1978, she was named assistant city editor. A year ago she became dayside assistant city editor and writing coach of the newspaper.

Anderson is a native' of Morgantown, W. Va. She studied journalism at West Virginia University, Morgantown, where she won the “Best Woman Reporter" award in 1948. She was society editor of the Beckley (W.Va.) Post-Herald in 1950-51.

Anderson earlier this year won the metropolitan dailies category of the Kansas City Press Club Heart of America contest for writers in eastern Kansas and Western Missouri.

Her earlier awards included the Kansas Bar Association Award in 1961 for a series of articles on the Kansas court system and sentencing of first offenders; the Marian Moore Downey Award for mental health reporting in 1965; and second place in the National Mental Health Bell Award competition in 1965 and in 1969.

Anderson received the "Friend of Mental Health Award" from the Mental Health Association of Shawnee County in 1970; a citation in 1970 from Topeka VP; Hospital Kansas veterans.

She also received a plaque from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 1983 for a series of articles on adoptable but hard-to-place children, and based on the same series The Capital- Journal won the Stauffer Communications Founder's Cup Award in 1983 for outstanding community

service.

She also won several Associated Press and Kansas Press Association awards for feature writing.

Anderson has a son, Michael, who lives in Arlington, Va. She plans to remain in Topeka, where she will do free-lance writing.