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Headlines---
Louis
Schneider Seriously Injured
Classified
Ads---Controllers/Contract Administrators
Mission
Statement-Reader's Survey
by
Christopher Menkin, Editor/Publisher
Weekly
Bulletin Board Complaint Report
######## surrounding the article denotes it is a “press
release”
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Louis
Schneider Seriously Injured
Just wanted to ask
that anyone who knew Louis Schneider my husband and once the half owner
of Preferred Capital send prayers.
He was in a very
serious ATV accident on Sat. In took 5 hours for search and rescue to
find him and he has been in and out of surgery since. Myself and his
2 year old daughter Madison have not left his side.
To all of his friends
this is the best way I know how to contact you, I know you all read.
Please send you prayers
he needs then . He is not out of the woods yet. Among some of his issues
Broken eye sockets, Femurs and head injury.
Sincerely, Christina
and Madison Schneider
Christina Schneider
Huntington Beach
CA,92647
717-403-5429
clpenner@earthlink.net
Classified
Ads---Controllers/Contract Administrators
Controller:
Seattle, WA
CPA w/ 15 years management
exp. as CFO/ Controller/5 yrs w/ PriceWaterhouse Coopers. Extensive
exp providing accounting/ tax guidance for the equipment lease industry.
Willing to relocate. Email:bltushin@hotmail.com
Controller:
Southeastern, MI.
Controller &
Management experience w/ equip lessors &broker. MBA, CPA w/ extensive
accounting, management, securitization experience with public and private
companies. Willing to relocate.
Contract Administrator:
Chicago/Naperville
18+ years experience
in leasing US/Europe, as both lessee and lessor. Am versatile and adaptable
to lessee, lessor, or lender career opportunity. Email:kris_k11@yahoo.com
Contract Administrator:
Lewisville, TX. 2 1/
2 Years banking experience
& almost 3 years Leasing experience. ( Contract Admin.) hard Worker,
learns quickly & willing to relocate. Email: talbotjtalbot2@aol.com
Contract Administrator:
Los Angeles, CA Documentation Manager; 25+ years experience; strong
documentation skills; solid reputation for submitting complete funding
packages consistently resulting in same day fundings; will consider
reasonable commute.Email: sgrigs@netzero.netsgrigs@netzero.net
Contract Administrator:
Portland, OR.
6+ years small ticket
leasing/financing. Documentation/funding
Policy development
&implementation, management &training, process mapping, customer
service, broker, vendor, portfolio experience. Email: susanc777@hotmail.com
Contract Administrator:
Ridgewood, NJ.
Organized person
with two years leasing experience to document and book deals. Work with
customers, vendors and funding sources to process, fund and track leases.Email:
twslevin@ffcsi.com
Contract Administrator:
San Diego, CA.
16 years experience
with Capital Equipment and Semiconductor Manufacturing equipment leasing
for Asia/Europe/US. Strong communication, documentation, management,
negotiation, and training skills.
Email: pcgaynor@adelphia.net
Contract Administrator:
Schaumburg, IL
10 yrs. small/mid-ticket
leasing. Proficient in documentation, funding and legal. Worked with
brokers, portfolio purchases, vendor programs, municipal transactions.
Prefer to stay in Suburban Illinois. Email:sophie1900@msn.com
The full list is available at: http://64.125.68.90/LeasingNews/JobPostings.htm
To place a free job wanted ad, please go to: http://64.125.68.90/LeasingNews/PostingForm.asp
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Mission
Statement—Reader’s Survey
by Christopher
Menkin
Editor/Publisher
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The 452 readers who
responded to our survey want us to “stay the course.”
There were two anonymous
messages, and a few other signed messages,
that centered around
“cronyism.”
While it is natural
for me to print e-mail from old friends, and promote
those who gives us
“leads” and “inside information,” I got the message.
In 2004, it is my
intention to limit the repeat e-mail of the “regulars”
or “old friends,”
and strive more to get a “new mix.”
It also appears the
overwhelming majority wants press releases: want us
to continue the candor;
less leasing association news, as they get it direct;
and had some recommendations,
such as putting press releases
in one area near
the end, and not knocking ourselves
out by
going “to press”
every day.
There were very few
negative comments, almost 100% positive and encouraging.
This has renewed
my faith in my original purpose of sending an e-mail about
what was happening
in the leasing industry.
The last year I have
been taken to task by attorneys on the telephone and in depositions,
one lasted a full
day with not only a court reporter, plus it was video taped with a bright
light in my face
as if I was being interrogated. The attorneys all seem to begin with
this question: What is the purpose
of Leasing News? To me, they
all seemed surprised that I answer quickly. It was not a difficult question. The answer is right on top on the
Leasing News web
site. It is also included in each e-mail edition in our “masthead.”
The answer is to
provide:
“Independent, unbiased and fair news about the Leasing
Industry.”
We do not represent
any leasing association or special interest, nor are we
seeking any financial
benefits, except for advertising to help meet expenses.
The subscription
has always been free. We did eliminate a “click on the
headline” html edition
as we only had 28 paid readers. We
have an estimated
7,500 “free” readers.
The publication grew from a casual e-mail to friends to where it is
today.
The policy, or terms
and conditions, if you will, of Leasing News is also on the web site.
And it is printed in every e-mail edition.
http://www.leasingnews.org/policy.htm
The Leasing News
Advisory Board is chosen by the publisher.
They are not financially
compensated. They participate
in the overall
direction of our
electronic newspaper. As with
a printed newspaper, it is the editor's sole discretion as to what is
printed and not printed; not the board of directors or any
advisory board.
We also follow the
printed newspaper policy that if an opinion or viewpoint is expressed,
the writer or writers will be named in the by-line of the article. Opinions and viewpoints are allowed when the article is signed by
the writer.
Leasing News will
continue to be a crusader of ideas; a provocateur
of thought. I am presently interviewing leaders in the
leasing
industry to replace
those who have recently resigned or retired, and
will review those
who would like to support us with the entire advisory
board.
Thank you readers
for responding to our survey. You
have encouraged
the staff here at
Leasing News to continue to provide information, act as an
ombudsman, answer
specific questions that readers may have, help provide
solutions, sources,
contacts, tools, resources, and make available the truth
of what is really
happening in the leasing industry.
“Don’t Ever Give
Up!”
Christopher "Kit"
Menkin,
Editor/Publisher
January 13,2004
The Mission of “The
World” newspaper
“An institution which
should always fight for progress and reform; never tolerate injustice
or corruption; always fight demagogues of all parties; never belong
to any party; always oppose privileged classes and public plunder; never
lack sympathy with the poor; always remain devoted to the public welfare;
never be satisfied with merely printing the news; always be drastically
independent; never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy
or predatory poverty.”
October 30,1911 Frank J.
Cobb, editor, “The World”
Reader’s Survey
“Stay the Course”
Your unbiased, genuine,
fresh and honest reporting is greatly
appreciated, especially
by the " non- institutional " segment of your
reader\audience.
Alex Nowicki,pres.
Chesterfield Financial Corp.,
St. Louis, Mo
--
I get your news letter
and do appreciate what it provides the industry - a
fairly well organized
grapevine. I liken it to the
"Drudge Report" of our
industry.
Regarding the criticism
of your reporting, when you air complaints in
public before they
are resolved I guess that opens the door to criticism
all the way around.
Scott
J. Scott Walstrom-Vangor
Vice President, Capital
Markets
People's Capital
and Leasing Corporation
--
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I enjoy your newsletter. I
think the
press releases are
important. If people don't want
to read them, they can
skim past them. The key to your newsletter is the "Cronyism"
and "Good ol'
boy Network." I worked at Orix in Pasadena for 10 years and
in reading your
newsletter, I come
across people that I have worked with or dealt with all
the time. In our business, it is the contacts that you
make that measures
how you have done.
Also, keep "This
Day in American History."
Thanks for the service
that you provide.
Jim Krug
Operations Manager
Edson Financial,
Inc.
--
I admire not only
your chutzpah in standing up to your
detractors but also your willingness to publicly admit your mistakes.
This takes courage
Pat Byrne
Balboa Capital
Unfortunately, it
seems like you are only getting negative feedback, and I'm
certain that there
are many like myself that enjoy your insight and
experience in the
leasing industry.
With regard to so-called
cronyism and criticism that you are receiving, as
my Mom says (and
countless other Moms, I'm sure), you can't please all of
the people all of
the time.
Keep up the good
work..
Stephen Gramaglia
Eastern Funding LLC
570 7th Avenue
NY, NY 10018
__
I encourage you to
retain your current format
I for one greatly
appreciate the efficiency of reading a one-stop industry publication
like The Leasing News. Over the years I have established great funding
source
contacts as a result
of following up on a number of your Press Releases.
Our market intelligence
briefing (a.k.a. Leasing News) has continued to be of great value to
me. Recently I received a verbal for a seven figure funding from a investment
banker as a result of my following ups' to several of your press releases
and feature articles. Your news letter has helped me: to understand
the perspective of those that make key industry decisions, to more precisely
understand the problems and allow my focus and efforts to be on the
"Best" solutions for my enterprise.
Regardless of who
says what about Leasing News- I look forward to each report.
Richard Vara
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Press
Releases—Reader’s Opinions
Keep printing press
releases! I find them helpful.
Peter Matera
KMSR Financial Services
I like keeping up
with basic leasing news and thus enjoy your newsletter
for that purpose.
For those that complain
about the press releases. Why
don't you lump all
releases at the bottom
of your newsletter. That way
people who don't care
to see/read them
can stop once they've reached the first release.
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Clark Wicker
District Leasing
Manager
--
I guess I'm in the
minority, I like the press releases.
I enjoy reading about companies
that are growing,
and adding people. Sometimes
I recognize the names, but
not often.
What I enjoy the
most is reading both sides to a story or event.
I don't
get that from the
Monitor. I appreciate that you
print negative and unflattering
comments, along with the "old crony" stuff.
Keep up the fine
work.
Doug Dawkins, CLP
--
I like your press
releases. It helps me keep informed of what other
companies and perhaps friends that I have lost touch with are doing.
Ross Guilford
Citicapital
---
I think Leasing News
is pretty darn good. Sure, some issues and press releases are more important
than others, but I can look at it in
less than a minute and decide if there is something that is useful
to me. Heck, that's why they make the "delete"
button.
Keep up the good
work.
Richard A. Baccaro
American Equipment
Finance LLC
I have always enjoyed
the fact that I can get information from Leasing
News that I do not
find in other places but the fact that press releases
are printed in the
same place as insider commentary gives Leasing News a
unique voice in the
industry.
You give context
as well as insight. Take out the press releases and the
reading is much less
informative.
The vocal minority
ruins a lot of good things ... Stick to what you
believe is best.
If you followed the herd over the years no one would be
reading your newsletter!
Hugh Swandel
Swandel and Associates
Consulting Services
for Lessors, Brokers and Technology Providers in the
financial services
industry.
----
I just want to take
a moment and thank you for all of your hard work.
Collecting news,
writing articles, organizing stuff, following up on leads
and responding to
all of the complaints every day is a labor of love.
I am
one of the people
that reads the Leasing News on a regular basis as a means
of keeping in tune
with the news that happens behind, next to, underneath
and on the other
side of the news.
Keep up what you
are doing. And by the way, I
appreciate your including
press releases from
smaller companies. In many cases,
these are the events
from people that
we all know and want to keep in touch with and/or hear
about.
Regards
Tim Szczygiel
President
SalesChain LLC
---
I enjoy reading your
newsletter every day. I feel
that your publishing press
releases provides a service to
the leasing industry. There would be no other forum
for this information to get to the leasing public.
The Monitor simply re-releases
the information that is
distributed to the major financial news sources .If
someone doesn’t' like this then that is why there
are scroll keys on a keyboard.
I hope you don't make any dramatic changes to your
structure. I like to "read between the lines" of the
lively discussions that have surfaced over the
years. Its easy to take shots
at individuals, such as
yourself, when your efforts to relay the news puts
you in such exposure. It's
also apparent that when
people who live in glass
houses have stones thrown back at
them that they cry "foul" and skirt the real issues.
Thank you again for providing very informative
information.
Dave Johnson
--
I have personally
always liked the press releases that you provide.
I think
yours are more complete
and you become the single source for the releases.
I agree that the
monitor sometimes does not always print releases if they
are of smaller companies.
From my perspective, it is vital to keep my
finger on the pulse
rate of the industry. Press
releases are an important
component of that. Of course I consider that these releases are
putting
the corporation's
spin on it. The editorial section
supplements that with
what is really going
on. Just my personal opinion. Thanks for asking.
John McCue
McCue Systems
---
Reading "Leasing
News" is one of my first tasks of the day and I feel
it provides a necessary
and different perspective of the20
industry. We don't need
more "press releases".
We need you, or someone, to be like that
reporter "embedded
with the Fourth Infantry Division reporting on what is really
going on as the troops are entering Bagdad."
Do you really need
to publish every day, if you are not printing
"press releases".
Perhaps a weekly format is adequate
unless there is breaking news. Is
an” Ask the experts" column
something similar,
a consideration.. Maybe you could offer sponsorship
opportunities
to Leasing News. Say 4-5
sponsors per edition @ $250.00 each.
Ted Parker
California Capital
Leasing
--
Personally, I like
to read these press releases, since this gives
me a feel for who
is doing what in the market today.
If I want to find out
what GE or Boeing
Capital is doing, I can read the Wall Street Journal or
The Monitor Daily. I do not consider either of those two publications
to
give me a good “pulse”
of what’s happening in my marketplace, the small to
lower middle market
independent lessor/broker community.
But, by reading
the various and sundry
press releases in The Leasing News gives me a good
pulse on
whats happening and who is making it happen.
Furthermore, we run
a lot of press releases in your publication to
compliment to various
help wanted ads that we run. To
be quite honest with
you, we have received
more “action” from the press releases than we have the
help wanted ads. Nonetheless, we will continue running advertisements
into
the third quarter
of next year. We currently have
15 sales reps (Territory
Managers) o staff
of which we “hired” all but 3 of them through ads through
The Leasing News. Our objective is to reach a total of around
25 “reps”
before we begin “phase
two.”
Regards,
Bruce Larsen
National Sales Manager
-----
I have always enjoyed
the fact that I can get information from Leasing
News that I do not
find in other places but the fact that press releases
are printed in the
same place as insider commentary gives Leasing News a
unique voice in the
industry.
You give context
as well as insight. Take out the press releases and the
reading is much less
informative.
The vocal minority
ruins a lot of good things ... Stick to what you
believe is best.
If you followed the herd over the years no one would be
reading your newsletter!
Hugh Swandel
Ph. 204.477.0703
Fax. 204.453.5044
Cell. 204.799.7823
Swandel and Associates
Consulting Services
for Lessors, Brokers and Technology Providers in the
financial services
industry.
--
In response to your
request about press releases, I for one like seeing them
AND I enjoy the commentary
and opinions. As far as what
is really going on
and whatever may
be hidden in a corporate press release.
Of course, as
usual, I speak as
an outsider to the industry these days, one who is looking
through the window. As you know, I do not belong to any leasing
association
any more and I have
a limited amount of daily reading time so I have to
chose what I read
carefully. Leasing News is high
on my list. For the
leasing industry,
very little else is. I suspect
I am not alone in my
thoughts. I like to see as much as you can provide on
industry happenings
and would like to
be my own judge of its value.
Perhaps you can isolate
the press releases and bundle and run them once or
twice a week. As with anything else, your readers can pick
and chose what
they want to read
and ignore what they do not. For
those who complain
about your format,
especially now that you will once again be providing a
pro bono product,
just remind them how much they are paying for the inside
scoop.
Looking forward to
the 2004 issues.
Hal
Hal T. Horowitz
Financial Placements
Wingate Dunross,
Inc.
30851 Agoura Road,
Suite 301
Agoura, CA 91301
Part II---Tomorrow
Readers comment on
the Bulletin Board Complaint and the “candor” of
Leasing News.
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Weekly
Bulletin Board Complaint Report
This headline is a misnomer, as the reports have become monthly.
It was
our intention to
issue them more often, and it is not that we don’t have
complaints to work
on, it is just not enough time as they are “fluid.”
- “I am writing as a warning on a current scam
taking place by ************. I found this company on the internet
under a search for equipment leasing & financing at ************.
The website was very professional and prompted me to call. I talked
with rep ******** who seemed very knowledgeable
about leasing and did not pressure sell. He told me that in order
to start the lease process that I would have to send an up front deposit
which would apply toward my first payment if approved and would be
returned if I was denied financing. I questioned this practice and
he assured me this was an industry standard practice and that they
needed a monetary commitment, so I would not take my business elsewhere
after they put in all the effort on my lease. So I was still skeptical
and called the Better Business Bureau and Chamber of Commerce that
are listed on their literature about their membership status. ******checked
out as a long time member in good standing, so I felt confident that
I could send the deposit, and felt that it would speed up the process.
I was then sent several faxes from *********** on his requirements
to proceed with the lease i.e. financial statements, tax returns,
equipment list etc. Everything seemed to be on the level. I then tried
countless times to contact ****** regarding the status of the lease.
I began this process in the middle of Sept and today is Nov 25 2003,
and I still have not spoken to ******. This company has a receptionist
and very professional image on the surface, but I now know that it
is all a lie. Someone needs to shut this companies web site down,
so there are no more victims. I am also concerned about what they
will do with some of my confidential information that was sent to
them in good faith. Please let me know if you have any other suggestions
regarding this matter.”
- This started in early December and concerns a
major leasing company
California who’s
salesman approved a lease for $150,000 for a company with
a proposal letter. Only $36,000 was funded, and through a third
leasing company,
not theirs, and they
later denied the remaining amount.
The problem stems
that the vendor received a copy of the approval, shipped the
equipment, received
$36,000 for one part of the system, and now is suing
the “lessee” for
the remainder.
The complaint centers
around whether the leasing company actually made an approval
to the lessee for
$150,000. Whether the vendor should have shipped on an
approval, or
order for part of
the system, is not the complaint.
- From late December: A broker has a signed commitment
letter and was successful in getting the lease approved, but the approval
is not the same as the commitment letter. It is higher. The price
of the equipment changes, and so did the lease rate.
The
broker says he earned the money because he got the lease approved.
- On the advice of our legal counsel, the names
and places have been
changed
to protect the “innocent:”
“In
the December 2, 2003 edition of Leasing News I noticed a Help Wanted
advertisement from **************. I responded directly and
found
the ad was placed by ****t. We
met, had several conversations and
ultimately agreed on employment. ***** was reluctant to provide current
business references until he actually resigned
from his employer, ****** where
he was employed as a *******.
“We
respected his wishes and didn't contact that company.
******
was to start work this Monday. He
was a no show. No call, no
letter,
no email. We have subsequently
discovered that ***** hasn't worked for
*******
for over two years, he was never a ******** and apparently doesn't live
where he claims he does. We
have left several massages without the courtesy of a reply.
We suspect that *****
may not be the person he represented himself to be and likely has accepted
or is seeking employment at some other leasing company
in the (SouthWest.)
“
I am writing you so you can alert your readers to carefully investigate
this
person if he has applied for a position.”
Richard Wilbur
Managing Partner
Media Capital Associates, LLC
rick@mediacap.com
(480) 941-8558 ext #104
(
In the early days, we would post these alerts, but due to all the legal
issues
we have been exposed to since we started, we are afraid to post this
“complaint” or “alert.” This
is a discussion for our advisory board, along with our
legal
counsel, on how to report such things, particularly if it comes
from
one of our classified ads. We
do not pre-screen those who post
an
ad for employment. We are presently
up-dating and verifying
classified
ad listings list. editor)
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that Wine"
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Network and Wine
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This Day in
American History
1733-
James Oglethorpe and 130 English colonists arrive at Charleston, SC
http://georgiahistory.i-found-it.net/georgiahistory1.html
http://www.virtualmuseumofhistory.com/internationalhall/worldleaders/JAMESOGLETHORPE.COM/
http://ourgeorgiahistory.com/people/oglethorpe.html
http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/jeo300/savanna1.htm
1794-Congress
authorizes an “act making an
alteration in the flag of the United States... that from and after the
first day of May,1795, the Flag of the United States be fifteen stripes,
alternated red and white; and that the union be fifteen stars, white,
in a blue field. The change
was made so that Vermont and Kentucky would be represented on the flag. A law passed on April 4, 1818, reduced the
number of stripes to 13 to represent the original 13 states, as in the
first American flag, and provided one star for each state. A new star
was to be added on the Fourth of July following the admission of each
new state.
1807- Birthday of Union General Napoleon Bonaparte Buford, born
in Woodford, Kentucky. Buford held many commands in the west and was
a hero at the Battle of Belmont early in the war. Buford attended West
Point and graduated in 1827, sixth out of 38 in his class. After a stint
with the frontier military, he was given leave to study law at Harvard.
He taught at West Point before leaving the service to become a businessman.
He was an engineer and banker in Illinois during the 1840s and 1850s.
When the war began, the 54-year-old Buford raised his own regiment,
the 27th Illinois. He was commissioned as a colonel, and his unit was
sent to Cairo, Illinois, and placed in General Ulysses S. Grant's army.
On November 7, 1861, Grant attacked a Confederate camp at Belmont, Missouri,
and quickly drove the Rebels away. But Grant's men became preoccupied
with plundering the area, and a Confederate counterattack nearly turned
to disaster for the Yankees. Buford's regiment was nearly cut off from
the main Union force. He rallied his men and they fought their way out
of the Confederate trap. Buford was commended for his bravery After
Belmont, Buford participated in the capture of Island No. 10, a Confederate
stronghold in the Mississippi River, and Buford was left in command
after its capture. Buford and his regiment fought at Corinth in October
1862, but the colonel fell seriously ill from sunstroke. He left field
command and sat on the court martial of General Fitz John Porter in
Washington. Buford returned to the west and was promoted to Brigadier
General in charge of the District of Eastern Arkansas. He remained there
for the remainder of the war, although his main military action came
in chasing off Confederate raiders in the area. Buford generated controversy
in his dealings with black troops. He had drawn earlier criticism for
not helping refugee slaves, and now he proclaimed his preference for
commanding white troops. He justified it by saying that black troops
were not as well trained and they were more likely to fall prey to drawn
attention from southern bushwhackers. It was also true that Confederate
soldiers
went out of their
way to attack units with Black soldiers, killing all wounded
men on the field
and shooting prisoners. Buford silenced some of the criticism by implementing
programs for freed slaves in Arkansas that generally succeeded in taking
care of their immediate needs. Poor health forced his resignation in
March 1865, just before the end of the war. He was brevetted to major
general following his retirement. He worked in a variety of businesses
after the war and died in Chicago in 1883. Napoleon Bonaparte Buford
was the older half-brother of John Buford, a Union General who commanded
the Union force that first engaged the Confederates.
1808-Birthday of Salmon Portland Chase, American statesman, born
at Cornish, NH. US senator, secretary of the treasury and chief justice
of the Supreme Court. Salmon P. Chase spent much of his life fighting
slavery ( he was popularly known as “attorney general for runaway Negroes.”)
He was one of the founders of the Republican Party and his hopes for
becoming a candidate for president of the US in 1856 and 1860 were dashed
because his unconcealed antislavery view3s made him unacceptable. Died
at New York, NY, May 7, 1873.
1832- President Andrew Jackson wrote Vice
President Martin Van
Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of
federal authority.
South Carolinians
agreed and planned to use armed force to prevent duty collection in
the state after February 1, 1833. The Nullification Crisis of 1832-1833
was resolved without bloodshed in March 1833. Henry Clay and John C.
Calhoun, who left the vice presidency at the end of 1832 to serve South
Carolina in the Senate, drafted a reduced tariff agreement that pacified
South Carolina while allowing the Federal government to stand firm.
( lower half of:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jan13.html)
1834-Birthday of Horatio Alger, American clergyman and author of
more than 100 popular books for boys ( some 20 million copies sold).
Honesty, frugality and hard work assured that the heroes of his books
would find success, wealth and fame. Born at Revere, MA, he died at
Natick, MA, July 18,1899.
1850-Birthday of Charlotte R. Ray, the first
black lawyer in the United States
who was also a woman
and certified as the first woman admitted to practice in Washington,
D.C., many say because she signed the application C.R. Ray without
using her first name.
By 1878, in the face of overwhelming sexual
and racial prejudice when not even black men would consult her, she
returned to teaching
in Brooklyn, NY. Died January 4,1911 at the age
of 61 from acute bronchitis.
http://www.womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_ray_charlotte.htm
http://www.law.howard.edu/alumni/legalgiants/huslgiantoct2k.htm
http://www.stanford.edu/group/WLHP/papers/CharlotteRay.pdf
1864
- Composer Stephen Foster was found critically ill in his hotel room
three days earlier, and on this date, died in Bellevue Hospital, New
York, at age 37. He only had 35 cents in his pocket, along with a little
slip of paper on which he had written, "Dear friends and gentle
hearts." While never a great composer, Foster wrote many of the
popular songs of the era which remained a part of Americana for more
than a century, including Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair, Oh!
Susanna, My Old Kentucky Home, and Old Folks at Home, also
known as Swanee River. Many of his songs - including "Oh!
Susanna," "Camptown Races" and "Old Black Joe"
- are written in black dialect. Foster gained much of his knowledge
of blacks through his early experience in traveling minstrel shows.
He became a heavy drinker, suffered from tuberculosis, and lapsed into
obscurity. His last song, Beautiful Dreamer, which he penned
just a few days before his death, joined his earlier classics
1869-First Convention of the Colored National Labor Union, the
first Black labor convention.
http://www.uwm.edu/Course/448-440/national.htm
http://www.afscme.org/about/aframlink.htm
1873-P.B.S. Pinchback ends service as first black governor of Louisiana.
http://www.africana.com/Articles/tt_1153.htm
http://www.sec.state.la.us/46.htm
http://www.huarchivesnet.howard.edu/9911huarnet/pbs1.htm
http://www.gnocdc.org/orleans/11/73/snapshot.html
http://66.216.8.84/CreoleCulture/famouscreoles/Pinchback/pinchback.htm
1884-Grand entertainer
Sophie Tucker was born in Poland. She was known as "The Last of
the Red Hot Mamas" and her career in stage, film, cabaret, radio,
TV and recording lasted more than 60 years, beginning with an appearance
at her father's cafe in Hartford, Connecticut in 1905. Tucker's most
famous songs were "Some of These Days," recorded in 1926,
and "My Yiddish Momma," cut two years later. Sophie Tucker
died in 1966.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jan13.html
1885-Birthday of Alfred Carl Fuller, founder of the Fuller Brush
Company, born at Kings County, NS, Canada.
In 1906 the young brush salesman went into business on his own,
making brushes at a bench between the furnace and the coal bin in his
sister’s basement. Died at Hartford, CT, Dec. 4, 1973.
1909-Birthday of trombonist Quentin “Butter” Jackson, born Springfield,
OH. With Duke Ellington from
1948 to 1959.
1910-Radio pioneer and electron tube inventor Lee de Forest arranged
the world’s first radio broadcast to the public at New York, NY. He succeeded in broadcasting the voice of Enrico
Caruso along with other stars of the Metropolitan Opera to several receiving
locations in the city where listeners with earphones marveled at wireless
music form the air. Though only
a few were equipped to listen, it was the first broadcast to reach the
public and the beginning of a new era in which wireless radio communication
became almost universal.
1912-Delta Sigma Theta, sorority, founded on the campus of Howard
University.
1926-Birthday of arranger/trombonist Melba Liston, Kansas City,
MO, Died April 23, 1999
http://hardbop.tripod.com/liston.html
http://elvispelvis.com/melbaliston.htm
http://www.jazzreview.com/articledetails.cfm?ID=438
1926-Birthday of Gwen Verdon, born Culver City, Los Angeles, CA. One of Broadway’s premier female dances and actresses, many of her
most successful roles were choreographed by her husband Bob Fosse. She won Tony Awards for Can-Can, Daman Yankees,
New Girl in Town and Redhead. She also acted in movies, including Cocoon
and the film adaptation of Damn Yankees. She starred
in the original Broadway
production, which my mother and father took me to see and I will never
forget her performance, especially being a Brooklyn Dodger fan.
http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0893862/
http://www.povonline.com/cols/COL317.htm
1929-Birthday of guitarist Joe Pass
http://www.riffinteractive.com/expguitar/JoePass1.htm
http://www.classicjazzguitar.com/albums/artists_albums.jsp?artist=55
http://www.gould68.freeserve.co.uk/JoePass.html
1930 - The comic strip "Mickey Mouse" debuted in American
newspapers, with Floyd Gottfredson as its ghost writer.
1933 - Making her first professional basketball appearance, Babe
(Mildred) Didrikson scored nine points as the Brooklyn Yankees defeated
the Long Island Ducklings.
1936- Baptist clergyman B.B. McKinney, 50, wrote the words and
tune to the gospel song, "Wherever He Leads, I'll Go," a few
days before the opening of a Sunday School convention in Alabama.
1938 - For Victor Records, singer Allan Jones recorded "The
Donkey Serenade", which became the song most often associated with
him. Allan also sang and acted in several Marx Brothers films including:
"A Night at the Opera", "A Day at the Races". The
film that made him a star was the operetta, "Firefly" with
Jeanette MacDonald. Singer Jack Jones is the son of Allan and his actress
wife, Irene Hervey ("The Count of Monte Cristo", "Play
Misty for Me"). .
1941 - The four Modernaires came to sang with the Glenn Miller
Band on a full time basis. In 1946, they had a ‘solo’ hit with "To
Each His Own".
1941-Charlie Spivak records with own band first time. Okey label.
1942 - Henry Ford patented the plastic automobile, which decreased
the weight of a car by 30%.
1949---Top Hits
Buttons and Bows - Dinah Shore
On a Slow Boat to China - The Kay Kyser Orchestra (vocal: Harry Babbitt
& Gloria Wood)
A Little Bird Told Me - Evelyn Knight
I Love You So Much It Hurts - Jimmy Wakely
1953-Don Barksdale becomes
the first Black person to play in an NBA All-Star Game.
http://sports.insidebayarea.com/top50.asp?story=Don_Barksdale
http://thisweek.kqed.org/segments/390/
1955 - Chase National Bank (founded in 1877) and the Bank of Manhattan
Company (founded in 1799 as a water company) agreed to merge, becoming
the second largest bank in the U.S.
1957 - The Wham-O Company developed the first plastic Frisbee.
The most popular theory as to how this flying disc came to be dates
back to the 1920s when Yale students invented a game of catch by tossing
around metal pie tins from the Frisbee Baking Company in nearby Bridgeport,
Connecticut. They would frequently shout “Frisbieeeee” to warn passersby
of the oncoming pie plate. Building inspector Fred Morrison puttered
with and refined a plastic flying disc that he sold to WHAM-O (for $1
million) on this day in 1955. The disc was introduced to the consumer
market in 1957 as the Pluto Platter (the name inspired by the U.S. obsession
with UFOs). Wham-O changed the name to Frisbee in 1958, upon hearing
the Yale pie-tin story. (Mattel now owns the rights to Frisbee, which
has become an American icon.)
1957 - For Victor Records in Hollywood, California, Elvis Presley
recorded "All Shook Up" and "That’s When Your Heartaches
Begin"; which became Elvis’ ninth consecutive gold record.
1957---Top Hits
Singing the Blues - Guy Mitchell
The Banana Boat Song - The Tarriers
Moonlight Gambler - Frankie Laine
Singing the Blues - Marty Robbins
1961 - In the first round of the Los Angeles Open golf tournament,
golfing great Arnie Palmer scored an embarrassing 12 strokes on one
hole.
1962 - Singer Chubby Checker set a record, literally, with the
hit, "The Twist". The song reached the #1 position for an
unprecedented second time -- in two years. "The Twist" was
also number one on September 26, 1960. The song, widely considered one
of the most successful singles of all time, was on the Top 100 charts
for 39 weeks, longer than any other single except "Red Red Wine"
by UB40. When an early recording of "The Twist" by Hank Ballard
and the Midnighters became the top dance song on Dick Clark's American
Bandstand but failed to get much radio play, Clark suggested that
a new artist should record a cover. Singer Ernest Evans of Cameo Records
recorded the song and changed his name to Chubby Checker as a takeoff
on Fats Domino. The song hit the charts in 1960 when it became immensely
popular with teenagers, but adults started buying the record in 1962,
after Chubby Checker sang "The Twist" on Ed Sullivan's October
22 show.
1962-First Operation Farm Gate missions flown .
In the first Farm
Gate combat missions, T-28 fighter-bombers are flown in support of a
South Vietnamese outpost under Viet Cong attack.
By the end of the
month, U.S. Air Force pilots had flown 229 Farm Gate sorties. Operation
Farm Gate was initially designed to provide advisory support to assist
the South Vietnamese Air Force in increasing its capability. The 4400th
Combat Crew Training Squadron arrived at Bien Hoa Airfield in November
1961 and began training South Vietnamese Air Force personnel with older,
propeller-driven aircraft. In December, President John F. Kennedy expanded
Farm Gate to include limited combat missions by the U.S. Air Force pilots
in support of South Vietnamese ground forces. By late 1962, communist
activity and combat intensity had increased so much that President Kennedy
ordered a further expansion of Farm Gate. In early 1963, additional
aircraft arrived and new detachments were established at Pleiku and
Soc Trang. In early 1964, Farm Gate was upgraded again with the arrival
of more modern aircraft. In October 1965, another squadron of A-1E aircraft
was established at Bien Hoa. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara approved
the replacement of South Vietnamese markings on Farm Gate aircraft with
regular U.S. Air Force markings. By this point in the war, the Farm
Gate squadrons were flying 80 percent of all missions in support of
the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). With the build up of U.S.
combat forces in South Vietnam and the increase in U.S. Air Force presence
there, the role of the Farm Gate program gradually decreased in significance.
The Farm Gate squadrons were moved to Thailand in 1967, and from there
they launched missions against the North Vietnamese in Laos.
1962-Center Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors set
an NBA regular season record by scoring 73 points in a game against
Chicago. Chamberlain had scored 78 points in the previous December,
but that game had gone into three overtime periods.
1964 - Capitol released in the United States The Beatles' single
I Want to Hold Your Hand/I Saw Her Standing There.
1965---Top Hits
I Feel Fine - The Beatles
She’s a Woman - The Beatles
Love Potion Number Nine - The Searchers
Once a Day - Connie Smith
1965-After the NBA All-Star
game in which San Francisco Warriors center Wilt Chamberlain scored
20 points and grabbed 16 rebounds, the Warriors shocked the basketball
world by announcing that they were trading Chamberlain to the Philadelphia
76ers for three minor leaguers and !150,000.
1966 - On "Bewitched," Elizabeth Montgomery’s character,
Samantha, gave birth to her first child, Tabitha. The witch's daughter
could wiggle her nose with her finger and cause problems for daddy,
Darin, just like mom.
1967 -- The Dead, Junior
Wells' Chicago Blues Band, & the Doors at the Fillmore, San Francisco,
California.
1968- Johnny Cash recorded a live album at Folsom Prison. The
LP was on the Billboard pop chart for 122 weeks, and from it came the
chart-topping country single "Folsom Prison Blues."
1968-In a game between the Minnesota North Stars and the Oakland
Seals, Minnesota rookie center Bill Masterton was checked into the boards
and fell heavily on his head. He
suffered massive brain damage and died two days later, the only fatality
in NHL history.
1973-
Eric Clapton came back from his three-year heroin addiction problem
with a concert at the Rainbow club in London. Clapton, helped and encouraged
by Pete Townshend of the Who, was back on the album charts in 1974 with
"461 Ocean Boulevard."
1972-Nixon announces additional troop withdrawals President Nixon
announces that 70,000 U.S. troops will leave South Vietnam over the
next three months, reducing U.S. troop strength there by May 1 to 69,000
troops. Since taking office, Nixon had withdrawn more than 400,000 American
troops from Vietnam. With the reduction in total troop strength, U.S.
combat deaths were down to less than 10 per week. However, Nixon still
came under heavy criticism from those who charged that he was pulling
out troops but, by turning to the use of air power instead of ground
troops, was continuing the U.S. involvement in Vietnam rather than disengaging
from the war. The last American troops would be withdrawn in March 1973
under the provisions of the Paris Peace Accords.
1973 - Carly Simon’s "No Secrets" was the #1 album in
the U.S. for the first of five weeks. The tracks: "The Right Thing
to Do", "The Carter Family", "You’re So Vain",
"His Friends are More Than Fond of Robin", "(We Have)
No Secrets", "Embrace Me You Child", "Waited So
Long", "It Was So Easy", "Night Owl" and "When
You Close Your Eyes".
1973---Top Hits
Me and Mrs. Jones - Billy Paul
Clair - Gilbert O’Sullivan
You’re So Vain - Carly Simon
She’s Got to Be a Saint - Ray Price
1974-A Gallup poll on religious worship showed
that fewer Protestants and Roman Catholics were attending weekly services
than ten years earlier, but that attendance at Jewish worship services
had increased over the same period.
1974- 37 people were injured in a melee outside the Tower Records
store in Los Angeles after the crowd discovered that singer Steve Miller
was not going to be at a post-concert party at the store. The organizers
forgot to invite him. Miller's single and album "The Joker"
were riding high on the charts at the time.
1974
- Super Bowl VIII (at Houston): Miami Dolphins 24, Minnesota Vikings
7. The Dolphins win their second straight Super Bowl. Fran Tarkenton
and the Vikings are the victims. MVP: Dolphins’ RB Larry Csonka. Tickets:
$15.00.
1976 - Sarah Caldwell, The Divine Miss Sarah,
founder of the highly successful and artistically marvelous Boston Opera
Company, the second woman in the history of the New York Philharmonic
to conduct its orchestra (1975) became the first woman to conduct an
opera at the Metropolitan, Verdi's La Traviata. Devoted to her
Boston Opera company and opera in general, she uses off-beat methods
to draw customers by using stage innovations which included such things
as motorcycles and circus acts. She was born 03-05-24.
http://www2.worldbook.com/features/whm/html/whm068.html
http://www.smithsonianassociates.org/programs/cassettes/caldwell.HTM
1981---Top Hits
(Just Like) Starting Over - John Lennon
Love on the Rocks - Neil Diamond
Hungry Heart - Bruce Springsteen
I Think I’ll Just Stay Here and Drink - Merle Haggard
1982 - Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737, attempted to take
off from Washington’s National Airport in one of the worst blizzards
in history. Ice had built up on the wings of the jetliner as it waited
its turn to take off, preventing it from gaining altitude. After crashing
into the 14th Street Bridge, the plane fell into the Potomac River.
74 of the 79 people on the aircraft were killed in the accident. Four
people on the bridge were killed.
1984 - Wayne Gretzky extended his consecutive scoring streak to
45 games, but the Edmonton Oilers winning streak ended at an unlucky
13 when Gretzky and company lost to the Buffalo Sabres 3-1.
1985-While
not a date in American history, Otto Bucher of Switzerland became the
oldest golfer to record a hole-in-one when he aced the 12th
hole at a golf course in Spain. Burcher was 99 years old.
1986 - NCAA member schools
voted overwhelmingly in convention to adopt Proposition 48, a controversial
attempt to raise the academic performance of student-athletes. Prop 48 required incoming freshmen to score
700 or more on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) or 15 on the American
College Testing (ACT) exam or graduate from high school with a 2.0 grade
point average in order to be eligible for athletics during freshman
year.
1986 - For the first time in about 10 years, "The Wall Street
Journal" broke with tradition and printed a real, honest-to-goodness
picture on its front page. The story was about artist O. Winston Link
and featured one of his works.
1989---Top
Hits
Every Rose Has Its Thorn - Poison
My Prerogative - Bobby Brown
Two Hearts - Phil Collins
Hold Me - K.T. Oslin
1992 - United States serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer pleaded guilty
but insane to the murders of 15 young men and boys. He had kept parts
of his victim in his refrigerator, and also claimed to be a cannibal. He was later murdered in
by an inmate who
said, “ God had told me to do this.”
1994--
GTE, in the midst of a massive
restructuring program designed to "streamline" its operations
for the dawning "multimedia age." announced that it was taking a $1.8 billion
pretax charge for the fourth quarter of 1993 and, in the process, planned
to slash its staff by some 17,000 jobs. GTE chairman Charles R. Lee
declared the moves necessary for the company's future, noting that without
a "competitive structure" GTE would likely "blow up."
However, this logic didn't mollify GTE's primary union, the Communications
Workers of America, which derided the lay-offs as "yet another
example of a highly profitable company eliminating...the people who
helped build the company and created its technology to further enhance
the bottom line."
1996-The Medals of Honor were awarded to African-American servicemen
for service in World War II by President William Jefferson Clinton at
a ceremony in the White House, Washington, DC. None of the 1.7 million African-Americans who served in World War
II had received a Medal of Honor despite the many documented cases of
bravery that were presented to officials of the armed forces. Of the seven servicemen who received the medal at the ceremony,
the only one still alive was Vernon Baker, a 77-year-old retired career
Army officer. Medals were awarded
posthumously to staff Sergeant Edward A. Carter, J., of Los Angeles,
First Lieutenant Charles L. Thomas of Detroit, Private George Watson
of Birmingham, AL, First Lieutenant John R. Fox of Boston, Private First
Class Willy F. James, Jr., of Kansas City, KS, and Staff Sergeant Ruben
Rivers of Tecumseh, OK.
1999-“The Sopranos” TV Premiere. The thinking viewer’s mob drama,” The Sopranos” features James Gandolfini
as Tony Soprano, who’s panic attacks drive him to seek out a psychiatrist
( Lorraine Bracco). The HBO drama revolves around Tony’s home and crime
lives. TV Guide has named the
series one of the greatest TV shows of all time.
http://www.hbo.com/sopranos/
2000
- Microsoft chairman Bill Gates announced that he would be stepping
down as Microsoft chief executive and handing over the reins to longtime
friend and company president Steve Ballmer. Gates assumed the title
of ‘chief software architect’.
Superbowl Champions This Date
1974 Miami Dolphins
While he never won a Superbowl, losing in 1985 to the 49ers, Dan
Marino just joined as head of football operations and is considered
the most prolific passer in NFL history, holding league records with
61,361 yards passing and 420 touchdown passes
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/games/2004-01-12-marino_x.htm
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