Napoleons
Biographies
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John E. Hauser – LXXXI
Dennis J. Lafferty – LXXXII
Dennis John Lafferty was born June 19, 1929, in New Rochelle, NY. While living in Reading, PA he was employed as an insurance agent. He died May 8, 2005, in Baltimore.
(Julie McKuras)
Edward M. McCormick – LXXXIII
Dr. Robert C. Kimberly – LXXXIV
Robert Clyatt Kimberly was born July 20, 1909, in Catonsville, MD. He graduated from Yale University in 1930 and Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1934. After serving as a resident surgeon at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal for three years, in 1940 he was the assistant dispensary surgeon at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and instructor in surgery at the Johns Hopkins Medical School. In February 1941 he joined the Maryland National Guard and was the “commander of Company H, 104th Medical Regiment. During World War II, he was chief of surgery in several Army hospitals overseas.” Postwar he reorganized the 104th and in 1959, as commanding officer, he was an organizer of the 136th Evacuation Hospital for Maryland. In a 1961 Evening Sun article about medical preparedness for the military, he was cited as a practicing surgeon and medical researcher in addition to acting as a staff instructor at the Hopkins Medical School. He toured many European military hospitals to assess their preparedness during the 1960s and was elected president of the Society of Medical Consultants to the Armed Forces, a group composed of former medical officers of the armed services, in December 1966. Kimberly died on December 5, 1995, in Anne Arundel County.
(Julie McKuras)
Rev. James Hannan – LXXXV
The Rev. James F. Hannan, O.F.M., Cap., was born May 18, 1923, in Rochester, PA. A graduate of St. Fidelis College (Herman, PA) and the Capuchin College in Washington D.C., he took his first vows as a Capuchin Franciscan Friar in July 1944 and perpetual vows in 1947. Hannan was ordained to the priesthood in June 1950. In 1951 he was named vocation director for the Teacher Apostolate School and Lay Brothers Instructor at St. Augustine Church in Pittsburgh, a post he held until 1965, and taught religion during this period at Villanova. Rev. Hannan became pastor of St. Martin’s Church in Baltimore from 1970-1974 after serving at St. Mary Friary in Herman PA and as the order’s local superior and director for new brothers at Saints Peter and Paul Monastery and Church in Cumberland MD. He was also a “chaplain at veterans’ hospitals in Martinsburg, WV, Coatesville PA, and Washington.” Pursuing his calling, he was awarded his Doctor of Ministry from Vanderbilt University in Nashville TN in 1978. He returned to St. Augustine Church in 1991. Father Hannan died November 16, 1992, in Pittsburgh.
(Julie McKuras)
John M. Bond – LXXXVI
John Meredith Bond was born March 3, 1918, in Baltimore. He graduated from Polytechnic Institute and served in the U.S. Army until his discharge in 1943. That year he became the co-owner of Bond Brothers, a commercial photography firm. During the early 1950s he pursued further studies at Loyola University and went to work in “public relations and as an industrial editor for the American Cancer Society and Goucher College before joining Peterson, Howell and Heather”, a fleet leasing firm, in 1960 where he was an editor in their publications department until his 1983 retirement. Bond was a director of the Middle Atlantic Association of Industrial Editors and a member of the Baltimore Publication Relations Council. He collected the works of H.L. Mencken and acted as the Mencken Society’s treasurer for 20 years. His daughter described him as a voracious reader who “had a particular interest in Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes, Mark Twain, and, most recently, Dorothy L. Sayers.” He loved to read newspapers and was a frequent contributor of letters to the editor in addition to collecting comic strips and cartoons from the period following WWI. Bond became interested in organ music and played the keyboard by ear, caring for an unused organ he found in his retirement community. He enjoyed all types of music, but his favorite was Gilbert and Sullivan.
Bond died July 19, 2008, in Baltimore. The curator of the H. L. Mencken Collection at the Pratt Library wrote in Bond’s obituary that “He valued the life of the mind, and he had a great sense of humor.”
(Julie McKuras)
Edward A. Ellison, Jr. – LXXXVII
Edward Augustine Ellison, Jr. was born December 1, 1928, in Quincy, MA. He served in the U.S. Navy 1946 -1948 and after his discharge graduated from Loyola College in 1954 with a degree in political science and obtained his degree in law from the University of Baltimore in 1962. He worked for Baltimore Gas and Electric, the Department of Justice, and the New York Life Insurance Company before joining the life insurance department of Tongue, Brooks and Company as manager in 1968. He was part of the life insurance industry’s Million Dollar Round Table in 1974. Ellison co-authored the book “Prosperity Restored Through the State Rate Tax Plan” and was a member of Save-a-Patriot and Liberty Works Radio Network He was active politically, running for Congress 3rd in 1986. He died July 23, 1999 in Baltimore.
(Julie McKuras)
William H. Faidley – LXXXVIII
William Henry Faidley was born October 26, 1908, in Baltimore. He graduated from Polytechnic Evening High School in 1933, and his marriage notice in 1935 indicates he was employed by the U.S. Government. He stated on his World War II draft card that he was working as Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing. In the post-war years he was active with the Boumi Temple of the Shrine. Faidley died March 1, 1983, in Baltimore.
(Julie McKuras)
William F. Fleischauer – LXXXIX
William Ernest Fleischauer was born November 11, 1926, in Harrisville MD. He was a member of the U.S. Army from 1945-1962 and achieved the rank of Master Sergeant. He “served in Military Intelligence in Iran, Austria, and Switzerland.” After retiring from the Army, he was a Management Analyst with the Social Security Administration.
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Fleischauer joined the Six Napoleons in 1966. He contributed “Who was Huret” to the September 1971 Baker Street Journal and in 1972 was awarded the investiture of “Josiah Brown” from the Baker Street Irregulars. Fleischauer died suddenly on February 3, 1976, in Baltimore and was buried with full military services in Arlington National Cemetery. Fellow Napoleon Steve Clarkson wrote of his passing that “Bill was one of only three persons who held all possible offices in The Six Napoleons.”
(Julie McKuras)
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Peter Reppert – XC
Peter Fleming Reppert was born September 19, 1947, in Baltimore, the son of Napoleon Ralph Reppert. Legally blind since birth, his mother read his school lessons to him and his father inspired him to join the Boy Scouts where he attained the rank of Eagle Scout. After graduating from high school, he took classes at community colleges and “became very knowledgeable about computers.” He was also interested in music and collecting ducks. He “operated several refreshments stands under the Maryland Workshop for the Blind – at Social Security in Woodlawn and at the State Office Buildings in Baltimore.” Reppert died March 31, 2005 in Flint MI.
(Julie McKuras)
Joseph T. Sinnott – XCI
David C. Fisher, Jr. – XCII
J. Frank Gillen – XCIII
J. Frank (James Francis) Gillen was born September 14, 1898, in Boston MA and moved to Maine while a young child. Gillen served in the U.S. Army during World War I, remaining stateside. He attended the University of Maine and later “graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1921” with a B.S. in Economics. He began his career as an administrator in the Department of Commerce before he started in the hearing aid business while living in Boston. Gillen “later continued it in Richmond and White Plains, N.Y. before moving to Baltimore” in 1943. He spent the last 25 years of his life in Baltimore where he operated his hearing aid business on North Liberty Street. His obituary noted “He was interested in a variety of civil and social activities among which were the Baker Street Irregulars and the Star-Spangled Banner Flag House Association. He was also active in the Baltimore Alumni Chapter of the University of Pennsylvania.” Gillen died July 19, 1968, in Baltimore.
(Julie McKuras)
Rev. Dr. Charles J. Harth – XCIV
Rev. Charles John Harth was born May 22, 1899, in Vienna, Austria. He received a doctor of law degree from the University of Vienna and later took an appointment as “a judge in civil court and eventually became an Austrian civil servant. After the Anschluss of Nazi Germany with Austria, Dr. Harth left his native country and went to Hong Kong” in 1938 where he acted as secretary to the Anglican Bishop of the Diocese of Hong Kong and south China. The bishop was visiting the United States when Japanese forces occupied Hong Kong and, in his place, Harth served for “for 44 months – during the Japanese occupation of that city – [and] held the only English services of worship there while working with refugees and prisoners of war.” He was referred to as the “sole trustee for the Church of England in Hong Kong during World War II” in a June 1951 newspaper article. After the war, he pursued theological studies in England and returned to Hong Kong to serve as associate priest of St. John’s Cathedral. He came to U.S. in 1950 to work at the General Theological Seminary in New York, then in 1951 relocated to Baltimore as associate rector of St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in Baltimore. Harth then served as rector of the city’s Church of Our Savior for six years, then as rector of the St. Barnabas Episcopal Church. While living in Baltimore he was a chaplain of Concordia Masonic Lodge No. 13 and the Episcopal chaplain at the City Jail. He retired and moved to Rome, Italy where he died on March 3, 1968.
(Julie McKuras)
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Robert C. Prem – XCV
Robert Curtis Prem was born May 10, 1929, in Baltimore. He graduated from Baltimore City College in 1947, received his bachelor’s degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1950, and earned his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1953. He clerked for two chief judges of the Maryland Court of Appeals before entering private practice. A member of the firm Niles, Barton and Wilmer for forty years, he established his own firm Prem and Dumler in 1985. It dissolved in 1996 and he went on to act as counsel to Prem, Saltzman and Jablon, Inc. Prem was considered an “expert in estate planning, probate and trust administration” according to his obituary. His fellow attorneys remembered him as extremely smart and patient, with a self-deprecating sense of humor. Prem followed in his father’s footsteps and was a longtime member of the Republican Party, serving on the State Central Committee. He unsuccessfully ran for the state Senate seat for the 3rd District in 1966 and ran the campaigns for Baltimore mayoral candidate Samuel A. Culotta. He was active in a number of civic groups including the Legal Aid Bureau for Baltimore City, the Junior Association of Commerce, and belonged to the Lawyers Counseling Committee of the Maryland State Bar Association as well as his church. He was appointed to the Baltimore City Jail Board in 1963 and served until 1966, acting as President of the group. Prem belonged to a chess club that met monthly at the Johns Hopkins Club.
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He was a member of the Six Napoleons for thirty years. Fellow Napoleon Philip Sherman described him as a “dedicated and ardent Sherlockian” who always had a question related to Holmes whenever they met. Prem died on July 3, 1999, in Baltimore.
(Julie McKuras)
John Owen – XCVI
Dr. David F. Musto – XCVII
David Franklin Musto was born January 8, 1936. In Tacoma, WA He received a bachelor’s degree in classics in 1956, and “studied the history of science and medicine at Yale on a fellowship and was awarded a master’s degree there in 1961.” He then earned a medical degree from the University of Washington in 1963 and completed an internship and psychiatric residency. Named a special assistant to the director of the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda MD, he became interested in drug issues.
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Musto taught at Johns Hopkins University for one year before taking a position as a professor of child psychology in Yale School of Medicine’s Child Study Center and a professor of the history of medicine. While at Yale he was “a fellow of Davenport College, a member of the editorial advisory committee of the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, an active member of the Beaumont Medical Club, and curator of historical scientific instruments at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.” He also curated exhibits such as one on Children’s Nature Books. In 1973 he published The American Disease: Origins of Narcotic Control, considered a ground-breaking work in the examination of drug use and the government’s drug policies, drawing attention to the link between drugs and minorities. When President Nixon created the Drug Enforcement Administration, Musto was named a consultant to the president. “President Carter appointed him to the White House Strategy Council on Drug Abuse” in 1978. He appeared on various television programs discussing methods to stop alcohol abuse. As Dr. Robert Katz wrote in “The Stand Upon the Terrace” for Musto, he “was one of the world’s leading authorities on issues of drug addiction was probably the leading expert on the history of drug addiction in America.”
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In April 1968 Musto’s article “A Study in Cocaine: Sherlock Holmes and Sigmund Freud” appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Author Nicholas Meyers acknowledged Musto in his The Seven-Per-Cent Solution. He received the investiture of “Dr. Anstruther” from the Baker Street Irregulars in 1969 and was one of the six founders of The Cornish Horrors.
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Musto died October 8, 2010, in Shanghai, China where he was being celebrated for the donation of his books and papers to Shanghai University.
(Julie McKuras)
Kenneth Adelman – XCVIII
Ken Adelman was born on June 16, 1946, in Chicago and earned his bachelor’s degree from Grinnell College in Iowa and both of his master’s degree and doctorate from Georgetown University.
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Adelman began working for the U.S. government in 1969, before living in Africa from 1972–1975, where he translated for Muhammad Ali during the 1974 “Rumble in the Jungle” heavyweight championship fight and then was a member of the Zaire River Expedition in 1975, venturing down the Congo River on the 100th anniversary of Sir Henry Morton Stanley’s legendary exploration. Returning to government service in 1975, he would serve Presidents Ford, Reagan, Bush and Obama.
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A national editor of Washingtonian magazine for 20 years, author of six books as well as a professor of Shakespeare at Georgetown University, he now teaches executive leadership through the wisdom of William Shakespeare with his wife.
(Greg Ruby)
Robert S. Fertitta – XCIX
Robert S. Fertitta attended Baltimore City College and the University of Maryland, graduating in 1962, and from its law school in 1964 where he was assistant editor of the Maryland Law Review. He was “a law clerk for former Judge C. Ferdinand Sybert, of the Maryland Court of Appeals” from 1964-65. In 1966 he entered the Maryland state attorney’s office. He took a two-year leave of absence to act as a research attorney for the American Bar Foundation before accepting the role of chief of the organized crime division for the state attorney’s office. In 1971, at the age of 30, Fertitta took the position of “assistant dean of the National College of District Attorneys at the University of Houston,” and later dean. He relocated to South Carolina.
(Julie McKuras)
Barry S. Frame – C
Barry Sylvan Frame was born May 13, 1940, in Baltimore. He attended Baltimore City College, the University of Maryland College Park where he was active in Sigma Alpha Mu and received his law degree from the University of Maryland in 1965. He also took classes at the McCoy Evening College of Johns Hopkins University. He worked as a deputy clerk in the Court of Common Pleas and in August 1966 was named an assistant State’s Attorney for Baltimore city. He later went into private practice, specializing in labor law and representing the Teamsters, and frequently lectured at labor law symposiums. Frame loved to play tennis and read and was a financial supporter of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, The National Aquarium, and the Baltimore Zoo. He died on August 15, 1993, in Baltimore.
(Julie McKuras)
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Norman M. Davis – CI
Norman M. Davis was born October 13, 1936, in Philadelphia. Davis received a B.A. in English from American University in 1958 and spent the next four years in the U.S. Navy and then worked as a reporter and editor for the United Press International as well as a free-lance writer. He worked for the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development 1982-1991 and then for United Blood Services 1996-1998, living in Chicago and Washington DC. Davis was a man with many interests especially coin collecting. He wrote two editions of The Complete Guide to United States Coin Collecting and wrote a syndicated coin column for several years. Another interest was poetry. He was a member of the Maine Writers and Publication Alliance and was recognized in Who’s Who in America for his poems. With his wife Linda Crane, he moved to Caribou Maine in 2001. A program for “Autumn in Baker Street” noted that Davis became a Sherlockian in the mid-1960s. His article “Sherlock Holmes – First ‘Man from U.N.C.L.E.’” appeared in the June 1972 Baker Street Journal and he was the author of Amusing Holmes. He wrote many papers and edited Pun My Word and The Grimpen Mire Gazette. Davis belonged to The Pawky Humourists, Paget’s Irregular Horse, The South Downers where he edited the South Downs Journal, The Six Napoleons where he served as Commissionaire, The Scotland Yarders, The Criterion Bar Association, The Red Circle, and Hugo’s Companions. He joined The Hound in 1979. In 1972 he received the investiture of “The Grosvenor Square Furniture Van” in The Baker Street Irregulars. He was awarded the 1992 Illinois Sherlockian of the Year Award. Davis died on April 7, 2004, in Caribou ME.
(Julie McKuras)
Robert C. Ozer – CII
Robert Charles Ozer was born January 9, 1943 in Philadelphia. He graduated in 1964 from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was noted as a “dedicated musician,” and received his law degree from the University’s Law School in 1967. He joined the state attorney’s office in Baltimore and from 1969-73 served as an attorney for the organized crime strike force in Philadelphia and then headed the Buffalo strike force” as a Federal Special Prosecutor. In 1976 he was appointed as Maryland’s chief counsel for investigations and prosecutions. That same year he became a staff counsel for the Select Committee on Assassinations of the House of Representatives. “Mr. Ozer has jailed gamblers in Baltimore, crime figures in Philadelphia and Buffalo and public officials in Houston, Detroit and Orlando, Fla. His dogged pursuit of evidence and innovative use of criminal statutes have elicited high praise from some prosecutors and judges.” (Baltimore Sun, January 16, 1977) In May 1978 he resigned his job as assistant attorney general in Maryland and moved to Colorado to head a special Medicaid fraud unit, a post he held for a few years. He then opened his own law firm in Colorado Springs until his retirement. Ozer died on August 8, 2005, in Manitou Springs, CO. His obituary noted in addition to his years as an accomplished attorney, he enjoyed “global escapades by motorcycle.”
(Julie McKuras)
Leonard Feinberg – CIII
John T. LaVia – CIV
John Thomas Lavia was born July 9, 1939, in Elizabeth, NJ. A student at Rutgers University, he was named a Henry Rutgers Scholar for the 1960-61 academic year. He graduated from Rutgers in 1961 and received his doctorate in English literature from Duke University in 1965. He taught at several institutions including the University of North Carolina, the University of Maryland, and in 1970 was named an assistant professor at Rutgers University. He taught at St. Mary’s Dome Academy and from 1990 – 2000 he taught at Moorestown Friends School where he was chairman of the English Department. He retired in 2000. He began birding in the late 1960s while at the University of Maryland. After relocating to the Delaware Valley area in 1979 he joined the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club in 1971. He was the Editor of their newsletter, a past president, and a birder on 6 continents. Lavia died September 9, 2000, while birding in Attu, Alaska.
(Julie McKuras)
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Aaron Naron – CV
Aaron Naron was born September 29, 1914, in Baltimore. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in September 1941 indicating he’d completed 3 years of college. A certified public accountant, he taught Financial Analysis for Non-Profit managers at Loyola College. Naron died on August 10, 1997, in Baltimore.
(Julie McKuras)
Hilary D. Caplan – CVI
Hilary D. Caplan was born in Baltimore on July 7, 1935, where he attended Forest Park High School. After serving in the US Army, Caplan attended Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland School of Law before being admitted to the bar in 1962. Serving as an Assistant State’s Attorney in Baltimore from 1967-1972, he would then become an Associate Judge for the District Court of Maryland from 1976-1984 before being appointed to the Baltimore City Circuit Court where he served until 1995 when he entered private practice.
(Greg Ruby)
Francis S. Brocato – CVII
Francis S. Brocato received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University (AB, Honors Program) and then received his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1965, where he was Vice-Chairman of Moot Court Board. He was an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Maryland from 1969 to 1973 and is currently in private practice.
(Greg Ruby)
Ted Busch – CVIII
Christopher Gaul – CIX
Christopher Robin Gaul was born May 16, 1940, in Wallasey, Cheshire, England. He and his mother emigrated to the United States in 1953 after she married an American and moved to Santa Fe, NM. He was educated at “the Merchant Marine College in London before continuing his studies at what was then St. Michael’s College” in Santa Fe. After his discharge from the U.S. Army in 1959 he worked for the Harford Democrat (Aberdeen MD) before joining the Baltimore Sun. At the newspaper and then WJZ (then the ABC station in Baltimore) he covered civil rights and social issues affecting African Americans, including a series about real estate developers exploiting the poor, and the Baltimore Mafia. His wife described him as “drawn to stories where he thought he could make a difference.” In 1974 he began working at the National Public Affairs Center for Television in Washington where he covered the White House 1976-1978. Beginning in the 1980s he worked as an “on-air medical reporter for WBAL in Baltimore” and was awarded the Medical Reporter of the Year Award from the National Foundation for Ileitis and Colitis. A convert to Catholicism while a teenager, Gaul joined the Catholic Review in 1995 as a writer and managing editor and was known for the “tradition of holding the noon Angelus prayer in the office.” He retired in 2005 and was interested in training Weimaraner dogs. Gaul died on October 19, 2012, at his home in Essex, MD.
(Julie McKuras)
Donald K. Pollock – CX
Donald Pollock was born in Seattle in 1925, raised in Portland, Oregon and was introduced to the Canon as a kid when his mother gave him a copy of the Doubleday Complete Sherlock Holmes. He acquired degrees from the University of Washington, The Merchant Marine Academy, and American University, and after a brief career as a bench physicist at the Redstone Rocket Base in Huntsville, Alabama, he moved to the Washington. D.C. area where he worked for several government agencies over the next 30 years. He joined the Six Napoleons in the late 1960s. He died in 2014, satisfied at having been retired for several years longer than he had worked.
(Don Pollock, Jr.)
Ralph Hopkins – CXI
Philip Nathanson – CXII
Philip Nathanson contributed the article “Mycroft as a Computer: Some Further Input” to the June 1969 Baker Street Journal in which he wrote “The dream Charles Babbage and Sherlock Holmes shared – that of the perfect analytical reasoner – was destined to remain until ENIAC made its first hesitant deduction in the University of Pennsylvania laboratories in 1946.” The Whodunit stated he was “A member of the Six Napoleons, is a graduate of the U of CA. He graduated from the University of California in 1968 with a degree in Economics. Since 1964 he had a variety of jobs with the Social Security Administration, and at present he writes speeches and article for top officials of that organization.” His hobbies are “perusal of the Sacred Writings, music, and cooking.” The following year the December 1969 Journal reported he was living in California and was the “Deerstalker” of the new scion The Agony Column of Pasadena. By 1970 he was reported back in Baltimore. In 1986 he was listed as the director of Health Standards and Quality Bureau of the Health and Human Services Department in Baltimore. He worked on enforcing Medicare standards. Nathanson later took the position of an assistant vice president at Aetna Life & Casualty Co. in Hartford.
(Julie McKuras)
Arthur J. Gutman – CXIII
Arthur Joseph Gutman was born in Baltimore on September 15, 1911. A graduate of City College in 1928, he earned a law degree from the University of Baltimore. He worked for two local department stores “Hutzler Brothers and Joel Gutman and Co.” as he noted in a 1995 newspaper article before entering the insurance industry in 1931. His civic involvement started two years later when he was named president of the Council of Jewish Youth and worked with the Maryland Democratic Party. When World War II broke out, Gutman was employed by Prudential Insurance. He enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1942 and was stationed in the Middle East, then in Europe; a 1948 newspaper report noted that he “was in one of the lead planes of the American bombing group that bombed Munich, Germany, for the first time in April, 1944.” He left active duty as a staff sergeant and was a member of the National Guard until 1950. Gutman remained in the insurance industry until his 1977 retirement as vice-president of the Warfield-Dorsey Insurance Agency.
Gutman was a collector of books, maps, and prints related to Maryland. He was a chairman of the Maryland Historical Society’s library committee and helped promote their oral histories project. He was a member of The Arthur Mencken Society, serving as president of the group 1979-1999, and a supporter of Baltimore Museum of Art and Walters Art Museum. A frequent contributor to the editorial pages of the Baltimore Sun, he and his wife enjoyed traveling the world.
Gutman died November 27, 2012, in Baltimore at the age of 101. The Arthur J. Gutman of Menckeniana is held by the University of Maryland Libraries and includes writings, correspondence, and clippings related to Mencken.
(Julie McKuras)
John E. Carroll – CXIV
Arthur J. Dzura – CXV
Arthur Julius Dzura was born on November 25, 1911, in Jersey City, NJ, the son of recently arrived Polish immigrants. He was a bookkeeper before enlisting in the Army where he served from November 1942 until his discharge in January 1946. In a 1974 presentation “Ethics in Action” held at the Johns Hopkins Office of the Chaplain, Dzura was listed as a speaker and “a former Federal Government Official.” During the 1970s and 80s he was a frequent contributor of letters to the editor in the Baltimore Sun, with subjects ranging from nuclear weapons, books, the Concorde jet, France, prison escapes, world hunger, China, the Viet Nam memorial, and sex education. He also wrote book reviews. Dzura died December 21, 1998, in Baltimore.
(Julie McKuras)
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James Stewart Hill – CXVI
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Jack Wilgus – CXVII
Jack Frederick Wilgus was born November 12, 1943. Raised in Chicago, he received a graduate degree in photography at the Institute of Design in Chicago. Wilgus started teaching at the Maryland Institute College of Art “in 1968 and served as Department Chairperson for many years until he retired in 2008. He currently lives in Dallas, Texas.” He lists his interests as “Sherlock Holmes, hard boiled mysteries, and cyber punk fiction, especially William Gibson.” He and his wife collect “photographs, daguerreotypes, cameras and just about anything else you can think of relating to photography.” The Wilgus Gallery at the Maryland Institute College of Art is named in his honor. Wilgus passed away June 12th of this year.
(Julie McKuras)
Frederick Hendricks – CXVIII
Donald K. Pollack, Jr. – CXIX
Donald Pollock, Jr. joined The Six Napoleons in the late 1960s and was invested in the BSI as “The Anthropological Journal” in 1990. While working in the Chicago area, he was a member of Hugo’s Companions, The Hounds of the Baskervilles (sic) and President of the Criterion Bar Association. Currently, Pollock is a member of 140 Varieties of Tobacco Ash in Indianapolis, as well as The Five Orange Pips and the John H. Watson Society. An editor of the late Baker Street Miscellanea. More recently he is also an editor of the new Saturday Review of Literature. Pollock recently retired as an Associate Professor of Anthropology at University of Buffalo and is widely published in that field.
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Paul C. Cline – CXX
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