Past Inductees

Frank & William Sadlier Dinger
Chairman of the Board
President
William H. Sadlier Inc.
2008

Bio | Acceptance Speech | 2008 Inductee Interviews

William H. Sadlier, Inc. is an educational publishing company based in New York City. Since 1991 Frank Sadlier Dinger has served as Chairman of the Board, and William Sadlier Dinger has been President. These two brothers are the great-grandsons of William H. Sadlier, whose uncles, Denis and James Sadlier, founded the family-owned publishing company in 1832. During the tenure of Frank and Bill as the company's top executives, Sadlier has grown significantly in the number and diversity of titles it has published, increased sales volume, a greater number of employees, and innovative technological applications for its products and Web sites.

Frank Sadlier Dinger
Frank Dinger's career began in 1964 as a purchasing agent in Sadlier's manufacturing department. He subsequently was the Director of the Art and Production Department, Comptroller, Treasurer, and Chief Operating Officer, prior to being elected Chairman of the Board. He has been a member of the Board of Directors at William H Sadlier, Inc. since 1975. Frank continues to apply his forty years' experience to all facets of the company's operations, including product development, design and production.

He also shares the fruits of his long experience through his work with several educational and publishing groups. Frank has been an active member of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), a member of the International Reading Association's "Issues in Literacy Assessment Committee," a participant in the Annual Meetings of the Advisory Commission on Textbook Specifications, Inc. / National Association of State Textbook Administrators (ACTS/NASTA), and a judge for the 2006 New York Bookbinders' Guild Book Show. In 2006 St. John's University School of Education honored Frank with their Leadership in Education Award.

Before working for Sadlier, Frank was commissioned as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army in 1961. He served with the 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, Korea, in 1962-63 and was a Captain in the U.S. Army Reserve, 11th Special Forces Group (Airborne) from 1964-68.

Born in New York City, Frank holds a B.B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and an M.B.A. from St. John's University. He and Bea currently reside in Larchmont, NY. They have four children and one granddaughter.

William Sadlier Dinger
Bill Dinger joined Sadlier in 1963. Prior to becoming president, Bill served the organization as a sales representative, sales manager, Director of Marketing, and National Sales Manager. He has been a member of the Board of Directors since 1975.
Bill is active in many educational organizations, such as the Early Literacy Development Commission of the International Reading Association. He serves on the advisory board for Families Achieving New Standards Literacy Project at Rutgers University. In the fall of 2007 he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Mid-Atlantic Schools Consortium.

Among the numerous awards Bill has received are the Leadership Award from the University of San Francisco Institute for Educational Leadership, and the MAC Award from the New York State Conference. Additionally, in September 2007, Bill and his wife, Maureen, received the Child of Peace Award from the Guardian Society and Home Bureau of New York.

Active in the New York community, Bill has arranged for handicapped children from the Manhattan Occupational Training Center to work in Sadlier's New York City offices in order to provide work experience for the future. He has also participated in the "Principal for a Day" program for New York City Public Schools, and has volunteered at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. In the aftermath of Katrina, Bill organized a task force that traveled to Mississippi and Louisiana to replace much-needed school books in those hurricane-ravished communities.

William Sadlier Dinger was born in New York City and grew up in Searington, NY, where he lived with his family for 20 years. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1963 with a degree in Business Administration, and resides in New York City with Maureen. They have two married sons, Bill, Jr., and Michael, and two grandchildren, Andrew and Grace.