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Leasing Books
Classified Ads---Help Wanted
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Sales Makes it Happen-by Linda Kester
“Never Give Up!”
May housing starts rebound 5%
500 Ghz Chip
Textron battles IRS: lease shelters
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Renault Winery (resort and golf club, too) Egg Harbor City,
Galloway Township, New Jersey *
Atlanta, GA
Experienced leasing exec looking for next challenge. Various asset types, deal sizes and channels. Turn-around or expansion opportunity.
Email: akimicata@mindspring.com
Baltimore, MD
25 year veteran of commercial and equipment leasing seeking a senior management position with leasing or asset based financing company in the southeast (Florida preferred)
Email: kellogg_md@yahoo.com
Chicago, IL
25 + yrs. exp. 18 w/ two captives. Currently SVP captive started for Japanese multi-national distributor. Looking to do same w/another mfg. or distributor.
Email: pilot13@sbcglobal.net
Denver, CO
Fortune 500 GM/SVP wants to team up with aggressive lender looking for Western expansion mid-market equip. finance/leasing. 20+ years experience within Rocky Mountain/Southwest and Ca markets.
Email: legal@csotn.com
Hope, NJ
25 years in optimizing call center operations, collections, billing, and back end revenue generation. Experienced in $7 + billion dollar portfolios. Verifiable achievements.
E-mail: cmate@nac.net
Irvine, CA
Credit executive, portfolio manager and syndication facilitator. Extensive business building experience in small and mid-ticket operations. Highly innovative. Fortune 100 audit and technology skills. Bottom-line manager.
Email: lenhubbard@bigfoot.com
Jacksonville, FL
15+yrs Collections/Customer Service Expert. InfoLease, CARMS,managed staffs excess 100 VERY successfully - will relocate WITHIN Florida for right position ~ SIMPLY THE BEST
Email: rafftink@aol.com
Lawton, OK.
Twenty years, I have been the President of Cash Financial Services. I sold my loan portfolio. Resume.
http://www.geocities.com/bobbybenmoore/
email: bobmooreok@email.com
Long Island, NY
Degree Banking/Finance. 13 years leasing exp. Now prez young leasing company where promises were not met. Interested in joining established firm with future.
Email: bob33483@yahoo.com
New York, NY, NJ, Ct Tri-State
Top Exec. middle and big ticket, top skills treasury, funding, ops,transaction detail, syndication, ready to max profit, help build quality operation. right now!
E-Mail: leasefinance@optonline.net
Orange County, CA
25+ years experience large ticket equipment finance companies and commercial banking. Operations, documentation, legal, credit, workouts, portfolio management. $2+Billion portfolio. Seeking CFO, COO or similar.
Email: finance1000@cox.net
Philadelphia, PA
27 yrs. exp. sales, ops., credit, strategy, P&L mngmet. Most recently created & executed the biz plans for 2 highly successful Bank-owned small ticket leasing subsidiaries.
email: mccarthy2020@comcast.net
Portfolio Management Consultant ;
25+years experience in Collections, Customer Satisfaction, Asset Management, Recoveries, Continuous Process Improvement, Back end Revenue Generation, Cost per Collection Analysis. $5+Billion Portfolio expertise.
Email: efgefg@rogers.com
Salt Lake City, UT
GM in Sales, Marketing & Operations for Several technology captives. Seeking new adventure in Western States. Consultant of full time.
Email: stevegbdh@hotmail.com
San Francisco, CA
25 years experience w/global leasing company, sales,marketing,business dev., P&L responsibility, asset mgmt, brokering and re-marketing. Interested in joining an est. firm with a future.
Email: rcsteyer@yahoo.com
Sausalito, CA
Sr. Corp. officer, presently serving as consultant, fin. service background, M&A, fund raising, great workout expertise, references
Email: nywb@aol.com
Syracuse, NY
Int. equip. leasing exec. 25 yrs global P&L sr. mngt., including corporate turnarounds, strategic planning, new biz dev., structure finance, contract neg., vendor leasing specialist.
Email: jimh356094@aol.com
Wilmington, DE
Over 15 years experience managing Credit, Risk Management and Fraud operations for large Financial Institution. Proven Results. Anywhere between NYC and DC for right opportunity.
Email: cklous@comcast.net
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June 21, 2000-Our Anniversary
by
Christopher “Kit” Menkin,
President, Leasing News, Inc.
Editor/Publisher
Leasing News was incorporated by the State of California
on June 21, 2000. Barry Dubin of Cooper-White-Cooper, San Francisco, and his staff did all the paperwork to make it possible.
Barry and I go back over 25 years, also when I performed “Legal Expert” work for his partner, the late Jeff Wong. In reality, they worked very closely together on all equipment leasing matters at their firm, originally Dinkelspiel and Dinkelspiel.
Barry has come a long way as evidenced by the view of the San Francisco Bay from his office in down town San Francisco, right near the Embarcadero.
Originally Leasing News started as an e-mail to friends in the leasing industry, grew to over 1,000, so I had the idea of creating a web site and started to save the e-mails around April, 2000.
In a discussion with Barry Dubin, he advised we incorporate the “web site” primarily for liability reasons, get insurance, and also get an advisory board, not a board of directors. He said he didn't want to be on it, and as a gift, the work incorporating was quite nominal. He also never charged me for his time discussing this, with the proviso: he would not serve on the advisory board. I believe he would have had conflicts of interest with his clients, but he never told me that, just said he was personally too busy to be on the advisory board.
One of the reasons I found Barry such good counsel was he was a “business attorney.” He not only told you the law, estimated the cost, always trying to use his staff time, but was quick to advise: “Pay the two dollars,” meaning it doesn't matter who is right or wrong legally or ethically, who wins or loses, the expenditure of time and money was not worth it.
I used to view attorneys as having a “taxi meter,” until I met Barry. Since then I have met others, such as Ken Greene, to name one, who does serve on the Leasing News Advisory Board, one of our original members.
The old adage, you better have a plan, or you won't know where you are going. Well, we really never did have a plan. I kept the “newsletter” in text format, did the mailing list, all the writing and editing (basically still do) and we just experimented. The advisory board came up with ideas, some that worked, others that didn't, and readers also contributed their suggestions, and contributed “insider” news.
In reality, we never planned or thought we would have so many readers, or graphics or an HTML layout, as the basic premise was to get the readers to supply the news, the information, and participate. It was like a “ham radio” but in type. This was the days before list server or blogs or the leasing associations having active web sites.
I personally was one of the first 100 members of AOL and remember my first experience in a “chat room,” also was active on CompuServe, active California ISDN users, and went to a T1 line as soon at it was less than a $1,000 a month. I think having our own full-time IT person, web interns from the colleges, and clients here in Silicon Valley, we found the world wide web fascinating. Still do.
We hope you continue to read Leasing News and pass it on to your colleagues.
Leasing News |
Chairman, Advisory Board |
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Teichman Financial Training, Sausalito, CA. |
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| Bob Baker, CLP. |
Wildwood Financial Group, Ellisville, Missouri |
| Edward Castagna |
Nassau Asset Management, Westbury, NY. |
| Steve Crane, CLP |
Bank of the West, Walnut Creek, CA. |
| Phil Dushay |
Global Financial Services, Manhattan, NY. |
| Steve Gabriel |
Porter Novelli-Advanced Tech Division, Campbell, CA |
| Ken Greene, Esq. |
Larkspur, California |
| Theresa M. Kabot, CLP |
Kabot Commercial Leasing, Seattle, WA. |
| Robert S. Kieve |
Empire Bradcasting, San Jose, CA. |
| Bruce Kropschot |
Kropschot Financial Services, Vero Beach, FL. |
| Fred St. Laurent |
SFBI Recruiters, Atlanta, GA. |
| Andrew Lea, M.A. |
McCue Systems, Inc. Burlingame, CA. |
| Armon L. Mills, CPA |
San Diego Business Journal, San Diego, CA. |
| Dan Pulcrano |
Metro Newspapers, San Jose, California |
| Steve Reid, CLP |
Pacific Capital Bank, Santa Barbara, CA. |
| Shawn D. Halladay |
The Alta Group, Salt Lake City, UT |
| Ginny Young |
Brava Capital, Orange, CA. |
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Joins “Funder List”
Funder - Update
A -Accepts Broker Business | B -Requires Broker be Licensed | C -Sub-Broker Program
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(JJ) Greystone Equipment Finance Corporation ("GEFC") is a small ticket funding source for B and C quality credits. We handle a wide variety of equipment, including titled vehicles with an original cost between $15K and $150K for terms up to 60 months. All business is self funded and held for our portfolio. We originate our business primarily through brokers, and secondarily through vendors and private label programs with community banks. GEFC is an affiliate of Greystone & Co., Inc., a financial services and private investment group that together with its affiliates has 30 offices nationwide and over $10 billion under ownership or management.
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Imperial Capital merges with Maverick Leasing.
Maverick Leasing was founded in 1996 in Highland Heights, Ohio where it is still headquartered. Annual local sales are approaching 3 million and with the merger, they definitely plan to not only expand locals sales, but reach out of their geographic area for national business. The company currently has seven employees and considers all equipment over $5,000 minimum.
Scott A. Mills, VP of Maverick said Imperial Capital's Brian Bobo will become the vice-president of Vendor Relations.
"Brian proudly served in the Air Force for 7 ½ years, " he said. "Brian is a graduate of Wildwood Financial Group and created Imperial Capital in 2005. Brian has over 4 years of Finance experience. He has lived in Richmond Heights for over 5 years along with his wife, Felecia and their two children Jordan and Sierra" Mills will remain as vice-president, New Business Development.
Ann Marie Mills, President will take on the additional duties of CFO.
The mission of the merger, according to Scott Mills, "...is to firmly establish Maverick Leasing as a leader in Ohio area, while allowing the company to create a larger presence in the equipment leasing market place."
“Broker/Lessor” List
Third Column: YES - Year Company Started | YELB - Years in equipment Leasing Business
Business Reports: Companies listed may make any netiquette comment about their company or reports or other information in the footnote section of their listing. Leasing News recommends readers also view the footnote as well as the section itself or searching reports on the business.
It also should be noted that if a BBB report listing is found by a reader, as there may not have been one when this was last up-dated, please send the link to maria@leasingnews.org so Leasing News may up-date this section.
BBB - Better Business Report | CBB - Leasing News Complaint Bulletin Board
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A - City Business License | B- State License | C - Certified Leasing Professional |
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Leasing Books
Books on Equipment Leasing by Source:
Master Index
Books
Direct Purchase
Certified Leasing Professional (CLP) Foundation
Equipment Leasing Association
Equipment Leasing and Finance Foundation Reports
United Association of Equipment Leasing
Library Research from Home
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Account Executive
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Salt Lake City, Utah
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Sausalito, CA
To start, $45M-60M per year depending upon experience and qualifications, small office in great community, work w/seasoned
professional; Banking or financial or leasing background required, opportunity to increase skills and knowledge: call Steve Pickens at 415-331-1725
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Costa Mesa, CA
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Sales Make it Happen
“Never Give Up!”
By Linda Kester
People have told me that I'm a natural born salesperson. In fact, one of my performance reviews stated, “Linda could sell ice to an Eskimo.”
That's garbage!
I started my career selling photocopiers. The ten months I spent in that job were the longest and most disheartening months of my life. I hated to prospect. My heart would pound, my hands would shake, and I felt like a nuisance. I would go out to prospect and I would end up at the mall.
I began to think I was never cut out for sales.
Then two things happened, almost simultaneously. First, a friend gave me an audio tape of The Psychology of Winning by Dr. Denis Waitley. Second, I was offered a job at Advanta Leasing Corp. Since my copier sales job was straight commission and the Advanta job offered a base salary ($13,500 + commission) I took the leasing gig.
I listened to that Psychology of Winning tape over and over again (truth be told, my car radio was broken—only the cassette player worked) The four biggest things I learned were:
1. Act enthusiastic until you become enthusiastic
2. Continually ask yourself “What is the best use of my time right now?”
3. Commit to yearly, quarterly and weekly goals.
4. Implement a calendar planning system, or a to-do system
I started to understand that if we narrow down the business of prospecting it's just one thing…talking to people. The best use of my time was to become successful at my job. To be successful I had to make myself call on vendors.
Then an amazing thing happened. I fell in love with leasing. My first day at Advanta Leasing, a fellow sales rep, John Forsythe, looked me up and down and said: “If you really sold copiers, you'll feel like you died and went to heaven in this job.” You know what? It was like I died and went to heaven. I loved selling leasing!
I still got nervous while prospecting and to combat this I started studying sales techniques. To maintain my dignity I did my homework before making a prospect call. This is so much easier today with the internet. Thank God for the internet! You can get a contact name, and qualify a vendor just from their web site.
Simply stated to maintain your dignity while prospecting vendors or lessees:
1. Believe in your leasing services.
2. Gather as much information as you can before talking to a decision maker.
3. Ask everyone you talk to how decisions about leasing are made.
4. Have two objectives set before making a call. For example one objective could be to obtain their email address, a second objective would be to have them go to your web site.
5. Listen to the prospect—listen to understand—if they take the conversation to a different place than you wanted the conversation to go—just go with it. The goal is to establish a relationship.
6. Bring something of value to each prospect call. A new idea, sales tips, an interesting article or web site to visit. It's not about you—it's about them.
7. Ask them “What is most important to you in a leasing company?”
8. Make your calls with confidence and enthusiasm. I became eager and anxious to make calls because I had thought about the vendor, I studied their situation, and had some ideas I believed might be of value to them.
9. Find out what your prospects want and help them get it.
10. Never give up!
I believe I really helped my vendors sell more equipment. I was inspired to find creative ways to get difficult lessees approved. And that's what helped me succeed. I fell in love with what I was offering and I sold my enthusiasm to vendors.
Do I still get the butterflies while prospecting? Sometimes. I'm putting myself out there, and that is still a little frightening. However, I believe so strongly in my product that it's OK if they hang up on me. It's OK if they say no.
I just keep going because I know that there is an abundance of business out there and my services will be a match for lots of companies. We will create a win-win situation for all parties involved.
Linda Kester helps leasing companies obtain more volume. For more information please visit www.lindakester.com |
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May housing starts rebound 5%
by Al Schuler, US Department of Agriculture
Enough bad news – In my opinion, this is still a solid housing market that is simply correcting to more sustainable levels (i.e., based on demographics). Yes, single family starts will weaken, but multi family demand will strengthen as 1st time buyers rent instead of buying. E.g., multi family starts were up 20% this month. And, the higher rates will wean the market of excess speculation.
Thanks in part to good weather, May housing starts rebounded 5%, to 1.957 million (SAAR). Single family starts were up 2.1% to 1.586 million (SAAR). The Midwest pulled back 15.8% while the other regions increased ( NE up 1.7%; south up 8.5%; and West was up 15.8%). Permits, a good indicator of what may happen in the next two to three months, fell 2.1%.
Analysis and outlook: Housing starts reversed a three month downward trend thanks to good weather in the West and South where almost 75% of the starts originate. However, there are increasing signals that the “party is over”. First, the fixed rate mortgage keeps ticking upward, reaching 6.63% for the weekending June 16th - up 14% or 79 basis points from the 5.84% average during the previous 36 months. In fact, the rate increased only 6 basis points over the three year period between 2003 – 2005.
The bond market, where long term mortgage rates are determined, is simply responding to increasing inflation concerns. Second, the labor market is tightening (unemployment rate below 5% and falling) and incomes are increasing faster than inflation which also happens to be picking up steam.
This week's PPI report shows that inflation at the wholesale level was up 4.3% year over year (YOY) and consumer price inflation (CPI) was up 4.1% YOY. The core CPI (excluding food and energy) was up 2.4% YOY, which is above the upper limit of this key inflation benchmark used by the Fed. Furthermore, as we mentioned last month, industrial production continues to strengthen with capacity utilization reaching 81.9% for all industry groups combined and 80.8% for the manufacturing sector – these are the highest rates since mid 2000.
Third, home prices are too high in 71 cities, according to a recent study by Global Insight (http://www.globalinsight.com/). For example, houses are deemed overvalued if prices are far higher than justified based on income, employment and other ‘affordability variables”. The study suggests that the costliest properties – ones most at risk of price correction - are located in Florida and California.
One of the impacts of rising rates is that more people are getting caught, particularly new homeowners that opted for adjustable mortgages. These adjustable mortgages (many “sub prime” or high risk) are now being reset to the new rates, and foreclosures are increasing. Additionally, the higher rates are prompting some speculators to dump their houses onto the market, and this will speed up the price declines in the most overvalued areas.
A consensus of six forecasts (banks, consultants, etc.) has starts down 7% this year and another 7% in 2007 –that is not too bad considering that the housing market has been on a tear for the past five years.
Note: This article shows that in California the construction industry was very important to the total economy of the state:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/14827109.htm
Courtesy of:
Carl Villella, CLP
President
Acceptance Leasing and Financing Service, Inc.
Airport Corporate Centre
894 Beaver Grade Rd.
Moon Township, Pa. 15108
412-262-3225 Phone
412-262-1154 Fax
CVillella@acceptlease.com
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500 Ghz Chip
By JOHN PACZKOWSKI
Siliconvalley.com
Don't expect this technology to find its way into your home any time soon - unless you're Ted Williams. Scientists from IBM and the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a semiconductor that operates at 500 GHz - about 100 times faster than chips commonly used today - by freezing it to near absolute zero.
At room temperature, the chips, crafted from silicon germanium, operate at about 350 GHz. But chilled to 451 degrees below zero Fahrenheit - just nine degrees above absolute zero - they'll run at frequencies above 500 GHz. Bernie Meyerson, chief technologist at IBM Systems and Technology Group, says the breakthrough proves we've not yet tapped the limits of silicon performance.
"This redefines the performance limits of silicon-based semiconductors," he says. "When very cool, these chips would occasionally just stop, but we have designed them so that instead of shutting off they run faster and faster." Faster indeed.
Computer simulations suggest that the silicon-germanium technology IBM uses in these chips could ultimately support operational frequencies of up to 1,000 GHz, even at room temperature.
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Textron, IRS embroiled in tax battle over lease shelters
http://accounting.pro2net.com/x53583.xml
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American Indian Casinos 2005 Revenue Grew
http://www.ajc.com/business/content/shared-gen/ap/Finance_General/
Indian_Gambling.html
New Census Report—Ten Fastest Growing Cities
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/census/2006-06-21-census-figures_x.htm
Southwest Airlines to test assigned seating
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-060620southwest-story,1,4471673.
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Millionaires' club isn't so exclusive anymore
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/business/stories.nsf/story/
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Wade Leads Miami to Its First NBA Championship: Heat 95, Mavericks 92
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/21/
AR2006062100025.html
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/
062106dnspomavslede.17fa853.html
White Sox produce 11 runs in third inning, pound Cardinals 20-6
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/games/2006-06-21-white-sox-cardinals_x.htm
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“Gimme that Wine”
Sonoma Wine grapes huge 2005 harvest, dominate industry
http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060620/
NEWS/606200306/1033/NEWS01
Head to the Finger Lakes for dozens of wineries, great restaurants and charming inns
http://www.newsday.com/travel/am-finger0618,0,4483651.story?coll=ny-travel-headlines
A Sip, a Smile, a Cheery Fizz- Prosecco di Conegliano-Valdobbiadene
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/21/dining/21wine.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Frost on the Sun: Summertime Cocktails
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/21/dining/21cocktail.html
Wine Prices by vintage
http://www.winezap.com
http://www.wine-searcher.com/
US/International Wine Events
http://www.localwineevents.com/
Winery Atlas
http://www.carterhouse.com/atlas/\
Leasing News Wine & Spirits Page
http://two.leasingnews.org/Recommendations/wnensprts.htm
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Calendar Events This Day
Baby Boomers Recognition Day
As baby boomers, we'll never forget the Beatles, Vietnam War and other sixties events. However, many of us accomplished a great deal becoming successful in business, education, medicine and other fields. This special day commemorates our contributions.
www.coolboomers.com
Cancer the Crab
June 21-July 22. In the astronomical/astrological zodiac, which divides the sun's apparent orbit into 12 segments, the period June 21-July 22 is identified, traditionally as the sun sing of Cancer, the Crab. The ruling plane is the moon.
Cuckoo Warning Day
Greenland: National Day
Midsummer
One of the “Lesser Sabbats” during the Wiccan year, celebrating the peak of the Sun God in his annual cycle. Annually, on the summer solstice.
Peaches and Cream Day
Summer
June 21-September 23. In the Northern Hemisphere summer beings today with the summer solstice, at 8:26am EDT. Note: that in the Southern Hemisphere today is the beginning of winter. The sun of daylight is maximum (12 hours, 8 minutes at equator, increasing to 24 hours at the Arctic Circle.)
Vegan World Day
Celebrated annually on the first day of summer-the day of most light and most hope—is designed to recognize the benefits of the vegan (completely vegetarian) lifestyle and its positive impact on human and environmental health, world hunger and animal suffering. People are asked to go vegan on this day and not consume or wear any animal products and avoid entertainment based on animal exploitation.
www.goveganradio.com
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Today's Top Event in History
1964- James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner left Meridian, MS, at 9AM to investigate a church burning at Philadelphia, MS. They were expected back by 4 PM. When they failed to return, a search was begun. Their murdered bodies were found on Aug 4.
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This Day in American History
1731-the birthday of the “first lady,” Martha Dandridge Custis Washington, wife of George Washington, first president of the US. born at New Kent County, VA. Died at Mount Vernon, VA, May 22,1802.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/mw1.html
http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/served/martha.html
1788- US Constitution in effect: by a vote of 57 to 47, New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the Constitution. With this ratification, the Constitution became effective for all ratifying states, as the approval of nine states was required for the Constitution to go into effect. The fishing colony, first settled in 1623, and named in 1630 by Captain John Mason after his Hampshire, England home, was a part of the Massachusetts colony. Then, in 1679 it became a separate royal colony. Concord, the capital of the Granite State, was also central to much of the Revolutionary War. The official state bird is the purple finch, and has a matching state flower, the purple lilac.
http://www.visitnh.gov/
1821 ---The African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zion Church was formally constituted in New York City. Nineteen clergymen were present, representing six African-American churches from New York City; Philadelphia; New Haven, CT and Newark, NJ.
1856-John Durkee of the Committee of Vigilance led a raid on the schooner "Julia" and hijacked the muskets aboard that were destined for the militia at San Francisco. He took the arms to the Committee's headquarters on Sacramento St. State Supreme Court Justice David Smith Terry was arrested by the Committee of Vigilance for stabbing vigilante policeman Sterling A. Hopkins on Jackson St. between Dupont and Kearny. Hopkins, who was the hangman for Cora and Casey, was in serious condition. Hopkins was stabbed when he attempted to arrest a member of the militia who was testifying in court about John Durkee's seizure of arms destined for the militia.
1858--- Louisiana chess prodigy Paul Morphy arrives in Europe.
He won the first American Championship in 1857 in New York with a perfect score, and then went on to Europe, financed by his admirers, and played the best in Europe and won every match.
http://www.starfireproject.com/chess/morphy.html
http://batgirl.atspace.com/index.html
1859-Birthday of Henry Ossawa Tanner, one of the first black artists to be exhibited in galleries in the US. He was born at Pittsburgh, PA. He died May 26, 1937, at Paris.
http://sheldon.unl.edu/HTML/ARTIST/Tanner_H/SSIII.html
http://www.doupine.com/tanner.htm
http://www.nbmaa.org/Gallery_htmls/tanner.html
1882 – Birthday of American illustrator Rockwell Kent, Tarrytown Heights, New York.
http://organizations.plattsburgh.edu/museum/kentkent.htm
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/kent_rockwell.html
http://www.artline.com/galleries/aaron/prints/kent/kent.html
1893 - On the first day of summer the temperature at Dodge City, KS, soared to 106 degrees during the midst of a blistering heat wave. The heat wave initiated a severe three year drought in the Central Plains Region. Ironically, at about the same time, heavy rains in the Mississippi Valley were causing the river to swell to its highest level of record at New Orleans, LA.
1922-Massacre of strikebreakers by union members began at the Southern Illinois Coal Company's strip mine near Herrin, IL. During a nationwide strike by the United Mine Workers (UMW), a group of recruited strikebreakers arrived at the mine. Fighting broke out, and one striker and two strikebreakers were killed. The mine was quickly surrounded by armed UMW members. On June 22, approximately 60 strikebreakers inside the mine surrendered to union members, who marched them to a barbed wire fence and gunned them down. A few who managed to escape were hunted down and slain in a nearby cemetery. Twenty-one strikebreakers and one mine official were killed, and most of the rest were severely wounded.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/7847/massacre.htm
http://www.wvculture.org/history/minewars.html
http://www.prairieghosts.com/bloody_will.html
http://www.egyptianaaa.org/SI-HerrinMassacre.htm
http://www.geocities.com/apwualbany/laborhistory1920.html
1928 - Mary Pickford cut off her 18, nearly waist-length, golden curls. She had reigned in films as "America's Sweetheart" for nearly 25 years, and wanted to make the transition in films to play more mature roles. At age 35, she put scissors to the tresses that locked her into her film ingénue image, and styled her hair in a more fashionable short bob. Few fans went to see her new, grown-up sound films. After only four sound films, Pickford retired from the screen, knowing that she would never be accepted by the public as anything but the little girl that she had successfully portrayed during the silent film era.
1929 singer Helen Merrill birthday
http://www.warnerclassics.com/finlandia/fa/biogs/merrill.htm
http://museum.media.org/ella/carnegie/artists/merrill.html
1932-Jack Sharkey won a 15-round split decision over Max Schmelling to capture the world heavyweight championship in a fight in New York. Schmeling had won the title two years before by defeating Sharkey on a foul. Sharkey kept the title for one year before being knocked out by Primo Carnera.
1932-Birthday of TV and movie composer Lalo Schifrin.
http://www.schifrin.com/biography.htm
1936-Birthday of singer O.C. Smith, Mansfield, LA Died 2001
http://home.earthlink.net/~deankay/O.C.Smith.html
http://www.tsimon.com/ocsmith.htm
1942- The movie "Little Tokyo, U.S.A." is released by Twentieth Century Fox. In it, the Japanese American community is portrayed as a "vast army of volunteer spies" and "blind worshippers of their Emperor, " as described in the film's voice-over prologue.
1943 -- Supreme Court rules on the Hirabayashi & Yasui cases, upholding the constitutionality of the curfew & exclusion orders against Japanese- Americans.
http://www.janm.org/clasc/resources.htm
1943—Federal troops put down race riots in Detroit, Michigan. Disorders first appeared on southern military posts, where white residents clashed with northern black soldiers, who did not proffer the customary subservience. But the most severe race riots occurred in the cities: Harlem; Philadelphia; Mobile, Alabama; El Paso and Port Arthur, Texas; Springfield, Massachusetts; Hubbard, Ohio. A two-day guerrilla war between blacks and whites in Detroit during the summer of 1943 left twenty-five blacks and nine whites dead, seven hundred of both races injured, and $2 million property damage. The riot only ceased when six thousand troops occupied the city. Two weeks later, during the famous zoot- suit riots in Los Angeles, white servicemen terrorized the city's Mexican-American sections for four days as the city police, the Military Police, and the Shore Patrol all looked the other way. The only factor which kept violence against Japanese-Americans at such a low ebb was their forcible removal.
http://info.detnews.com/history/story/index.cfm?id=185&category=events
http://www.detnews.com/history/riot/riot2.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eleanor/peopleevents/pande10.html
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1979/2/79.02.04.x.html
http://www.newnation.com/Archives/NNN-poll-06.html
1945-the Battle of Okinawa ended with American grenades exploding in the background, inside the Japanese command cave at Mabuni the battle for Okinawa was ended when Major General Isamu Cho and Lt. General Mitsuru Ushijima killed themselves in the ceremonial rite of hara-kiri. In the long battle that had begun April 1, the American death toll reached enormous proportions by Pacific battle standards---7,613 died on land and 4,907 in the air or from kamikaze attacks. A total of 36 US warships were sunk. More than 70,000 Japanese and 80,000 civilian Okinawans died in the course of the battle. It was this event that lead President Harry Truman to authorize the atomic bomb to end the war with Japan as he realized how many Americans would be lost in the invasion of the main land.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jun21.html
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/okinawa-battle.htm
1948---Top Hits
Nature Boy - Nat King Cole
Toolie Oolie Doolie - The Andrews Sisters
You Can't Be True, Dear - The Ken Griffin Orchestra (vocal: Jerry Wayne)
Texarkana Baby - Eddy Arnold
1948- Columbia Records, Bridgeport, CT, introduced to the public at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York city long-playing microgroove phonograph records. CBS engineer Peter Goldmark was the inventor of the non-breakable Vinylite plastic disks, which played at a speed of 33.3 revolutions per minute. One side of a 12-inch “LP” played for 23 minutes, compared to 4 minutes for a one side of a standard 78-rpmrecord; 78s were quickly supplanted by the new technology. In 1952, I joined the Columbia Record Club and have been a member ever since.
1955 - Johnny Cash's first single, "Cry Cry Cry," is released.
1956---Top Hits
The Wayward Wind - Gogi Grant
I Almost Lost My Mind - Pat Boone
Transfusion - Nervous Norvus
Crazy Arms - Ray Price
1956 -- Playwright Arthur Miller, appearing before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), refuses to betray his left-wing associates. He will appear again in1957 & be convicted for contempt, which is overturned on appeal in 1958. John Steinbeck defends Miller in the June 1957 Esquire.
http://ocean.otr.usm.edu/~wsimkins/trial.html
1964- James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner left Meridian, MS, at 9AM to investigate a church burning at Philadelphia, MS. They were expected back by 4 PM. When they failed to return, a search was begun. Their murdered bodies were found on Aug 4.
1964-Jim Bunning of the Philadelphia Phillies pitched a perfect game against the New York Mets, winning, 6-0. Since Bunning had previously pitched a no-hitter for the Detroit Tigers, his effort against the Mets gave him a no-hitter in each league. Gus Triandos became the first catcher to handle a no-hitter in each league.
1964---Top Hits
Chapel of Love - The Dixie Cups
A World Without Love - Peter & Gordon
I Get Around - The Beach Boys
Together Again - Buck Owens
1965-Arthur Ashe, tennis champion, leads UCLA to NCAA tennis championship
1965 - Gary Player won the U.S. Open golf tournament to become only the fourth winner to earn all four top pro golf titles. Player from South Africa was the first non-American to achieve the feat. The Grand Slam of golf, incidentally, includes the U.S. Open, the British Open, the Masters and the PGA Championship. The other professional golfers who have won all four events are Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, and Gene Sarazen. The winningest golfer: Sam Snead.
1966 -- Summer Haight Ashbury: Shops opening, dances every weekend, HIP merchants, Diggers. Morning Star Ranch, owned by Lou Gottlieb of the Limelighters, along with Ramon Sender, open the land (32 acres) to anyone who wants to live there.
http://www.diggers.org/homefree/hfh_int.html
http://www.ic.org/morningstar/home.html
http://www.napafest.com/limeliters.html
1967 -- Solstice party in Golden Gate Park: an estimated 30-50,000 boogie.
http://www.sftoday.com/enn2/summerlove.htm
1967 -- "First day of summer": New Buffalo founded near Taos, New Mexico (9 miles south of Lama).
http://www.summeroflove.org/law.html
1970-the first major league baseball player to make seven consecutive hits in seven times at bat in the same game was Cesar Dario Guiterrez, shortstop for the American League Detroit Tigers, who in the second game of a double header with the Cleveland Indians at Cleveland,OH, hit a single in the first, third, fifth, eighth, tenth, and twelfth innings and a double in the seventh inning, Detroit beat Cleveland, 9-8.
1972---Top Hits
The Candy Man - Sammy Davis, Jr.
Song Sung Blue - Neil Diamond
Nice to Be with You - Gallery
The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A. - Donna Fargo
1972-Hurricane Agnes hit the eastern seaboard for five days, wreaking havoc across seven Atlantic Coast states. Casualties included 118 lives and 116,000 homes, leaving more than 200,000 homeless after Agnes dumped 38.1 million gallons of water over 5,000 square miles.
1972 - Billy Preston received a gold record for the instrumental hit, "Outa-Space". Preston, who played for gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, back in 1956, was also in the film "St. Louis Blues" as a piano player. He was a regular on the "Shindig" TV show in the 1960s; and recorded with The Beatles on the hits "Get Back" and "Let It Be". Preston also performed at "The Concert for Bangladesh" in 1969. Many well-known artists have utilized his keyboard talents, including Sly & The Family Stone and the Rolling Stones. 1985 - Ron Howard directed his first music video. The TV star of "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Happy Days" also directed the film "Cocoon", which included "Gravity", the song used in the video. Michael Sembello, a guitarist who played on Stevie Wonder's hits between 1974 and 1979 was responsible for "Gravity".
1975 - The Captain and Tennille's Love Will Keep Us Together jumped into the Number 1 slot on Billboard's record charts, and stayed there for 4 weeks.
1975-Elton John headlines a bill at Wembly Stadium that also features the Eagles, The Beach Boys, Rufus and Joe Walsh. The crowd favorite was the Beach Boys, who played a 90 minute set.
1978 - Evita, a musical about the life of Argentine popular idol Eva Perón, opened in London. The music was by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice and it was directed by Harold Prince. The play was an instant hit.
1980---Top Hits
Funkytown - Lipps, Inc.
Coming Up - Paul McCartney & Wings
Biggest Part of Me - Ambrosia
One Day at a Time - Cristy Lane
1982 -- New edition of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage is published, restoring cuts made by his editor in 1895.
http://www.columbia.edu/ cu/libraries/indiv/rare/guides/Crane,S/navigator.html
1988 - The first full day of summer was a torrid one, with afternoon highs of 100 degrees or above reported from the Northern and Central Plains to the Ohio Valley. Sixty-nine cities in the north central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. The high of 110 degrees at Sioux Falls, SD, was an all-time record for that location. Highs of 103 degrees at Des Moines, IA, 102 degrees at Fort Wayne, IN, 109 degrees at Huron, SD, 108 degrees at Sioux City, IA, and 101 degrees at South Bend IN were records for June.
1988---Top Hits
Together Forever - Rick Astley
Foolish Beat - Debbie Gibson
Dirty Diana - Michael Jackson
I Told You So - Randy Travis
1986-President Ronald Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments. One June 17 he had announced that Warren E. Burger would retire as chief justice of the Supreme Court effective July 10. The president named Associate Justice William H. Rehnquest as Burger's successor, and also named Antonin Scalia, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Clubia, to the Court. The changes were interpreted as a gain for conservative judicial philosophy.
1986—Excedrin is taken off the shelf. On June 19 it was declared the cause of death of two persons in the Seattle, Wash., area. Both had taken Extra-Strength Excedrin capsules containing the poison. Bristol-Myers, the makers of Excedrin, responded by announcing they were taking all the bottles off the shelves. The person or persons who had broken the seal and poisoned the bottles were never caught. Bristo-Myers destroyed all bottles, introducing a new seal and plastic wrapping became common on all over-the-counter drugs.
1987 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)," Whitney Houston.
1988 - The first full day of summer was a torrid one, with afternoon highs of 100 degrees or above reported from the Northern and Central Plains to the Ohio Valley. Sixty-nine cities in the north central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. The high of 110 degrees at Sioux Falls, SD, was an all-time record for that location. Highs of 103 degrees at Des Moines, IA, 102 degrees at Fort Wayne, IN, 109 degrees at Huron, SD, 108 degrees at Sioux City, IA, and 101 degrees at South Bend IN were records for June
1989 -- Supreme Court rules it's a-ok to burn the US flag as a political expression.
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/stan/FlagBurner.html
1992 - Tom Kite beat fought fellow golfers and the elements as he won the U.S. Open. Scoring records had given way to survival at Pebble Beach, California. Howling winds made the greens as hard as concrete. Kite's final-round even-par score of 72 was enough to give him a two-stroke victory over Jeff Sluman.
1995 - Microsoft and Netscape officials met at Netscape headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Notes taken by Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen indicate that Microsoft offered to buy a share of its rival if Netscape would stop making Navigator for the Windows market. The Andreessen notes would be used later in the U.S. government's massive antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. (Microsoft founder Bill Gates was painted as the master string-puller in a no-holds-barred plan to destroy Netscape Communications Corp. when it refused to collaborate on a plot to divide the market for Internet browser software. At the time Netscape had the monopoly with almost a 80% share of the marketplace. The opposite is true today.)
1997-The Women's National Basketball Association opened its inaugural season with three games. The Houston Comets beat the Cleveland Rockers, 76-56, the New York Liberty defeated the Los Angeles Sparks, 67-57, and the Sacramento Monarchs beat the Utah Starzz,70-60. Two teams, the Charlotte Sting and the Phoenix Mercury, began their season the following day with Phoenix Mercury began their season the following day with Phoenix defeating Charlotte, 76-59. Each team in the WNBA, a summer league operated by the NBA, played a 24-game schedule.
1999 - America Online announced its investment of $1.5 billion in DirecTV creator Hughes Electronics Corp. The agreement gave AOL new high-speed options and expanded ties between the world's largest Internet provider and the leading U.S. satellite TV service. A combination of AOL's Internet services and Hughes' digital TV system would help increase DirecTV's subscriber base while boosting the market for AOL's interactive TV and high-speed Internet services.
1999 - The album Millennium, recorded by The Backstreet Boys, was certified gold.
http://www.thebackstreetboys.com/
http://www.backstreet.net/
2001--- Returning to major leagues after a stint with Newark Bears of the independent Atlantic League, Jose Canseco starts as the designated hitter for the White Sox. The former All Star, who has 446 career home runs (23rd all time), didn't get any offers after being released by the Angels in the spring. In 2005, his book is a “tell all” on how many players were using steroids, he and his team mate Mark McGuire, included, he claims.
NBA Finals Champions for this Day
1988 Los Angeles Lakers
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