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3:5 image(s) by permission of David B. Martucci
image(s) from American City Flags,
Raven
9-10 (2002-2003), courtesy of the North American Vexillological Association,
which retains copyright.
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Text and image(s) from American City Flags, Raven 9-10 (2002-2003), courtesy of the North American Vexillological Association, which retains copyright. Image(s) from American City Flags by permission of David B. Martucci.
Bismarck’s flag is a horizontal bicolor, 3 units by 5 units.
The stripes are white over red, each of 1.25 units, and are surrounded
by a yellow border .25 units wide, except at the hoist, where the border
is .5 units wide. Centered on the white stripe is the legend BISM✩RCK,
in dark blue letters .4 units high. The five-pointed star that replaces the
“A” in the name is distorted slightly so that the top point is slightly
longer than the others; it has a gold interior, with the outline of the star
in dark blue. Set at the hoist is a large dark blue disk 1.25 units in
diameter, half of which is on the white stripe, and half on the red stripe.
Within the disk, and almost to its inner edge, is a circle formed of a
gold wheat stalk, the stem of which starts at 9 o’clock; the grains of
wheat begin at 6 o’clock and complete the circle. Within the circle thus
formed by the wheat is a large five-pointed white star, two points of
which extend toward the edge of the wheat stem at 9 and 7 o’clock.
The points at 12 and 3 o’clock extend to where the wheat grains join
the stem. The remaining point, which would be at 5 o’clock, is hidden
by a red-edged yellow ribbon that issues narrowly from the upper part
of the star’s point at 9 o’clock and swirls down across the star and on out
horizontally across the red stripe, gradually widening to three-quarters
of a unit, to join the yellow frame’s edge at the fly. The ribbon, which at
its horizontal position is nearly 0.25 units from the top of the red stripe,
bears the legend NORTH DAKOTA in dark blue letters that are about
half the size of the letters on the white stripe.
John M. Purcell, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10, 2002-2003
Mayor Marlan Haakenson and the city commission
held a contest to design a new city flag. The city commissioners
appointed a “Betsy Ross Committee” to judge the entries. Its members
were Fran Gronberg, Mary College; Dorothy Jackman, Bismarck Public
Schools; Karen Syvertson, Bismarck Arts and Galleries Association;
Nancy Hart, homemaker; and Susan Anderson, a Bismarck free-lance
photographer.
Flag adopted: September 1986 (official).
John M. Purcell, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10, 2002-2003
The winner of the contest and the $100 prize was Mark
Kenneweg, a commercial production manager at KXMB-TV, with a
degree from Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio.
John M. Purcell, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10,
2002-2003
An obituary in the 20 Dec 2005 online edition of the Bismarck Tribune states: "In 1986 he [Mark Kenneweg] won a contest, sponsored by the Tribune, to design the Bismarck city flag. The flag hung for many years in the Bismarck Civic Center, and one still adorns a wall in the mayor's office."
Ned Smith, 5 February 2008
