Last Updated: May 20, 1999
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Birthday: Aug. 2, 1924
Hometown: Born Winfield, Kan., went to elementary through high
school in Wichita and El Dorado, Kan., attended college in Colorado and
called Denver home for 30 years
Children: Three living, one (Rolf) deceased; six grandchildren
Self portrait: Avuncular, bellicose, contrarious and overweight
Newsroom motto: Get it right — to hell with getting it first!
Inspiration: James Madison and Thomas Jefferson for the U.S.
Constitution and the Bill of Rights
Greatest feat: Winning the right to cover court trials by cameras
and microphones before the Colorado Supreme Court in 1956 (Canon of Judicial
Ethics 132 Colo. 591, 296 p. 2d 465)
Bad habit: Talk too much and am a chronic worrier
Pet peeve: People who talk too much and are chronic worriers
Luxury defined: Flying first class on airlines
Most admired editor: Every member of ASNE
Most admired writer: Every member of ASNE
Favorite publication: The American Editor
Favorite comic: Michael Gartner
Favorite columnist: The current ASNE president in The American
Editor (This, of course, changes annually.)
Best part of job: Representing ASNE
Worst part of job: Representing ASNE
Vacation spot: Colorado
Books at bedside: "Mutual Contempt : Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy,
and the Feud That Defined a Decade", by Jeff Shesol; "Freedom’s Moment:
An Essay on the French Idea of Liberty from Rousseau to Foucault," by Paul
M. Cohen
Last words: "What are the dates of the next ASNE convention?"
