Robert Dvorchak:
CLASS OF 1967
Uniontown High SchoolClass of 1967
Uniontown, PA
Robert's Story
The grandson of Slovak immigrants, Robert Dvorchak worked as a journalist for 47 years and covered major news and sports events around the country and around the world, including the first war with Iraq.
Dvorchak, 67, worked in various positions for Uniontown Newspapers Inc., The Associated Press and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. For eight years, he was an AP national writer based in New York City. He left the Post-Gazette in 2012 and now writes on his own.
Among the news stories he has chronicled were the original outbreak of Legionnaires Disease in Philadelphia, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, the earthquake in San Francisco that disrupted the 1989 World Series, Desert Storm, the Jeffrey Dahmer serial killings and the Oklahoma City bombing.
He has authored four books, including Milwaukee Massacre on Jeffrey Dahmer and Game Over on the Jerry Sandusky scandal at Penn State.
A 1967 graduate of Uniontown Area High School, he was inducted to his school’s Hall of Fame with the inaugural class in 2013. He attended Penn State's Fayette Campus for two years and earned a degree in English from California University of Pennsylvania in 1972, working his way through college at the Uniontown newspaper.
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Army's 82nd Airborne Division as a pool reporter during the ground war. Recently, he was made an honorary member of a parachute infantry company that participated in the invasion of Iraq.
A resident of the Pittsburgh suburb of Penn Hills, Dvorchak has won numberous local, state and national awards. He was awarded the national Jesse Laventhol Prize by the American Society of Newspaper Editors for team deadline reporting with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 1998. He earned a Keystone Press Award from the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association in 2000 for a series of stories he did on the funding of Pittsburgh's sports stadiums.
In addition, he has received four Golden Quills from the Western Pennsylvania Press Association along with the Ray Sprigle Memorial Award for Excellence in Print for an eight-part series on the history of the Steelers.
His other books include Someone Is Stalking Me and Battle For Korea, a history of the Korean War.
A veteran of the U.S. Army, Dvorchak is one of nine children of Marcella and the late Edward Dvorchak. He and his wife, the former Patricia Vig, have two daughters, Stacie Lynn and Rebecca Marie. They have five granddaughters -- Olivia Marie, Claire Elizabeth, Ellery Grace, Jocelyn Patricia and Molly Katherine.
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