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Classified
Ads--Sr. Credit Officer/Sr. Management
Pictures
from the Past---1983-Bob Jacobson
Broker
to Vendor Funding Source-3 Separate Incidents
ELA
Testimony to House Ways & Means Committee
Cyence,Ivory,and
Senour Develop "F.I.T.S"
Cartoon---Getting
a Loan at the Bank
UAEL
So. Calif. Round Table March 9th
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Classified
Ads--Senior Credit Officer/Senior Management
Senior Credit Officer
experienced in middle- market leasing; structured, vendor and 3rd party
to the fortune 1000. Proactive team builder, originations capable with
strong work ethic. Email: kyletrust@hotmail.com
Senior Management:
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
Senior Management:
Chicago, Illinois
Twenty plus years.
Senior sales and marketing management most recently Building "businesses"
from scratch. Leveraging leadership, administrative, operations, financial,
auditing background. WANTED: challenging new opportunity. Email: edok@sbcglobal.net
Senior Management:
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
Senior management:
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
Senior Management:
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
Senior Management:
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
Senior Management:
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
Senior Management:
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
Senior Management:
Somerville, NJ.
28 year veteran in
Construction Equipment/ Transportation.
Full P&L responsibility,
profit driven, team builder, sales manager, strong portfolio management
skills. Will consider relocation. email: leasingman_95@hotmail.com
Senior Management:
Tampa FL.20+ years of small to middle ticket finance, operations and
sales management experience. Outstanding record of revenue enhancement,
operational improvement and team development. Email: rlindcpa@earthlink.net
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Pictures
from the Past---1983—Bob Jacobson
http://two.leasingnews.org/photos/Jackson,bob.jpg
In 1983, Robert S.
Jacobson, III, was the Western Association of Equipment Lessor vice-president. At the time he was vice-president, National
Broker Division, Tri-Continental Leasing Corporation, a division of
Bell Atlantic, a major telephone company.
A WAEL Leasing Conference was not the same without him. He had
served as vice present and member of the Executive Committee. In 1984
he
would become president
of the association now known as the United Association of Equipment
Leasing.
He was recruited
by Don Smith and Hy Bren of Interlease, San Francisco in 1974, from
Union Bank. Don died of a heart attach while playing tennis in Tiburon,
and his then partner Hy Bren went on to form his own company, finally
joining Matsco, Emeryville, California, where he was a star salesman
and sales personnel recruiter,
retiring last year.
Bob learned from
the great advertiser/promoter Don Smith at Perry’s on Union Street about
“discounting” to start his own leasing company in 1975, which was sold
to a holding company where he remained president until forming Leasing
Acceptance. where Ben Millerbus was the sales manager. They had a direct
sales force. In the next downturn of the industry, 1978, the company split up:
Millerbus left to start Pentek Leasing, San Jose, California. He later
he sold it in 1982 to Alaska Pacific Bancorporation, which in turn was
sold to a large Upstate New York bank. Millerbus didn’t stay retired
long, forming Pentech Financial Services in Campbell, California with
the backing of John Otto, plus was co-founder of Silicon Valley Bank
( he has recently formed a group to start a commercial bank again ).
Jacobson, well-known
for his late night poker games, set up a broker “private label” operation
called Tri-Continental Leasing, then located in Mountain View, California.
In one of the next economic down turns, the telephone company divested
itself of this division, shutting down their branch operations. Bob
then went to work for Amembal, Deane & Associates doing lease training
across the country. From memory, he was here about a year before he
left the leasing business to join Hewlett-Packard, reformed, reportedly
doesn’t gamble, and last heard was involved in managing an engineering
department. He and his family live in the Half Moon Bay area, California,
where he commutes to work (just like John McCue of McCue Systems, Inc.)
Attempts
to reach Jacobson him for a statement of the industry have gone unanswered.
He has been “annoyed” at Kit Menkin for several years for not attending
his birthday party, and that’s Bob.
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Broker
to Vendor Funding Source—Three Separate Incidents
#1
“As a board member
of a local company, I have recently taken on the task of helping to
get some equipment financing arranged for them. I am not acting
as a broker in this, but just as an a representative of the company.
I have to say, it is a real eye-opening experience to see the "leasing
world" from this perspective! I have already encountered
many of the questionable business practices that I often heard about
when I was still in the industry. One of the company's we worked
with on a prior lease is now working through a vendor to get deals done
at HP.
”You are welcome to publish any info from me but please do not use my
name since it may have a negative effect on my efforts.”
Name With Held
(highly reliable
person )
(HP/Compaq at one
time accepted broker business, until they discovered they were being
taken advantage of with the no personal guarantee provision and “easier”
credit approval procedure. It
appears, some brokers have found there way back to HP/Compaq.
Works simple, vendor raises the price of the equipment to be
financed and splits this “profit” with the broker. This is also allegedly
a standard practice with Citibank, GE Vendor, and ILC.
#2
(Leasing News has learned a private investigator is looking into
past problems reportedly regarding kickbacks
between a vendor
and broker in Southern California. Apparently the broker has been
accused of providing false information to leasing companies in order
to fund transactions. Several of the funding sources claim the sales
representatives from these companies were referring the business and
splitting the overpricing of the product with the broker. As the
story develops, Leasing News may be able to print names with more details.
#3
(Perhaps the largest of these three incidents allegedly involves
a company called Closets Unlimited, San Carlos, California and Naum
Morgovsky. A long time company,
who advertised in the Sunday papers and most magazines, installing both
bedroom and garage closets at very low prices. The company also had
offices in San Jose, California. Both telephones did not answer, but
it appears several leasing companies are actively pursuing all those
involved in transactions in the last few years regarding alleged double-financing,
triple-financing, over-pricing, and other manners that a vendor and
lease broker reportedly defrauded the leasing companies.
These are allegations and a court of law will determine the “reps
and warrants,” the intention, and whether it was misrepresentation or
outright fraud. editor)
(When
the action goes to court, the allegations will become public and Leasing
News will then be able to publish all the names and both sides of the
story. editor )
Greg Sale Passed Away
GREG SALE, 48, of Douglasville died Saturday. The funeral was held
at the Jones-Wynn, Douglas
Chapel on Tuesday.
Atlanta Journal
From Fred St. Laurent:
“He
and I have been off again on again friends for almost 9 years. Greg
is the one who got me into this business.
”It just so happens that we had a couple of great conversations the
week that he died. We were "on again".
”Greg made a tremendous impact on small ticket leasing over the years
and was recently working in the wealth management realm. We were head
to head competitors...
”Some how recruiting won't be as much fun without knowing I am competing
against Greg...
”Very tragic, I thought you should know. Greg had many friends and
many people who didn't care for him... but he got the job done and
most leasing professionals knew who he was.
”I don't know what you want to print, maybe just that he died Saturday
and had worked in the Leasing Industry for many years and will be
missed?”
### Press Release
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Equipment Leasing Association Submits Written Testimony
to House Ways & Means Committee Hearing Expressing Strong Opposition
to Bush Administration Budget Proposals
Anti-Leasing Proposals
Questioned
Arlington, VA——The
Equipment Leasing Association (ELA), a non-profit association representing
the $220 billion equipment leasing and finance industry, today submitted
a statement to the House Ways & Means Committee to express its strong
opposition to certain “anti-leasing” tax proposals in the Administration’s
FY 2005 budget. The House Ways
& Means Committee is conducting a hearing on Administration proposals
that would negatively affect leasing to tax-exempt entities.
ELA called attention
to the following three serious consequences for tax-exempt entities
as a result of the Treasury’s proposals in the FY 2005 budget:
· The options available to tax-exempt organizations
for acquiring equipment and raising capital are reduced. This loss of
flexibility makes efficient management more difficult. Strategies such
as privatization and public-private financings will be severely limited.
· The cost of acquiring equipment and raising
capital will increase for tax-exempt entities. The results will include
delayed or deferred capital expenditures, personnel layoffs and increases
in fares / costs for services.
· Tax-exempt entities, organizations that
make up a significant portion of the economy and provide needed services,
will not have the necessary access to productive modern equipment.
In its testimony
to the committee, ELA reiterated that the tax principles involved in
leasing have been developed and reviewed by the Congress, successive
Administrations and courts over decades in legislation, regulations
and court decisions.
“No major policy
change with such broad effect should be made without careful consideration
of the impact on a significant sector of the economy: the people who
rely on tax-exempt organizations for quality service, on a major financial
services industry and on the manufacturers of equipment and software,”
said ELA President Michael Fleming. The association also expressed its
willingness to work with Congress as it considers legislation in the
tax-exempt leasing area.
“Congress has historically
recognized that it is contrary to sound public policy for the cost of
capital for cities, hospitals, public transit systems and other tax-exempts
be substantially higher than that of private entities,” said Fleming.
“We encourage the committee to continue to uphold the option of leasing
for tax-exempt entities to stimulate investment in capital goods, and
reject the Administration’s poorly-conceived budget proposals.”
To get a copy of
ELA’s full statement to the House Ways & Means Committee, visit
http://www.elaonline.com/GovtRelations/Federal/PDFs/ELATestimony.pdf
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New
Alliance Creates a First for the Leasing Industry:
An Integrated System
for
End-to-End Financial
Transaction Processing
Cyence, Ivory, and
Senour Designs Join Forces to Develop “F.I.T.S”
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA,—Senour
Designs, Inc. has announced the formation of a strategic alliance with
Cyence International, a provider of financial collaboration software
and Ivory Consulting, a provider of pricing analysis software to create
a first for the equipment leasing and finance industry: an integrated
lease and loan transaction processing system designed from the front
end to the back end.
The alliance led
by Senour Designs is positioned to develop a full-featured financial
origination, credit, and accounting engine, called the Financial Instrument
Tracking System (F.I.T.S.). The alliance expects to have a beta release
of the core processes by this Fall. The product will be based on extending
and integrating the industry-leading software packages of Cyence and
Ivory with the innovative accounting designs of Senour Designs, developed
from over 30 years of industry experience.
“Typically, industry
transaction software has been created from an accounting perspective,”
said Steven Hays-Lohrey, vice president and owner of Ivory Consulting
Corporation, Walnut Creek, Calif. “This
perspective has sometimes constrained sales processes or caused friction
between front-end and back-end personnel.”
With F.I.T.S., he explained, leasing executives can collaborate
throughout the lifecycle of a transaction at all levels using consistent,
accurate, industry-specific metrics. Information can flow automatically from the
sales and pricing departments to the booking and accounting functions
of a leasing or lending institution and every one involved will be working
from the same template.
“Cyence has been
at the forefront of integrating the leasing and lending process systems,”
said Lohrey, “and Ivory’s pricing software sets the standard in pricing
analysis that provides consistent and accurate information that can
be used at strategic levels throughout a transaction.”
“Our alliance leaders
have been talking about this venture for years,” said Greg McIntosh,
the chief operating officer of Cyence.
“We realized technology was reaching a stage that could accommodate
the seamless flow of pricing information into accounting processes.”
Each company will
play a key role in F.I.T.S. development, said Steve Jones, vice president
of Senour Designs. “Cyence will
provide its applications as the base core of the new product; Ivory
Consulting will provide its SuperTrump application as the engine behind
the pricing and accounting functions; and Senour Designs will coordinate
the design, development, and testing of F.I.T.S.”
“Cyence is no stranger
to Senour Designs,” said Steve Jones, who had worked with Cyence during its original international implementations
of Cyence’s Web Services origination software.
F.I.T.S. has been
designed to include support for international applications, with multi-currency
functionality and for international accounting standards, but the original
development is directed to the North American market, Jones explained.
These features, combined with Ivory’s new Web service-based engine,
will leverage millions of dollars of previous state-of-the-art development
based on years of incorporating industry best practices. F.I.T.S supports
customer-based activities such as customer servicing and collections
and its accounting tools will support customization of entries affecting
the General Ledger. The new system will also extensively support
audit functions with superior field-level security and full audit trail.
“We’ve spent the
last 17 years listening to our customers’ desire for this type of application,
and we believe we have designed a product to ensure ease of use at a
lower cost,” Jones stated. “In
sum, our three companies are putting our experience to good use in creating
this revolutionary new system.”
For more information
on F.I.T.S. and the alliance, call:
· Steve Jones, Vice President, Senour Designs,
Inc., at Steve.Jones@senourdesigns.com
· Greg McIntosh, Chief Operating Officer,
Cyence International Inc., at
· Steven Hays-Lohrey, Vice President/Owner
of Ivory Consulting Corporation, at www.ivorycc.com
About Cyence International
Cyence International
Inc. is a leading provider of Web Services software solutions for the
world’s banking, manufacturing, and equipment finance markets. Its flagship products, are origination applications
that imbed industry best practices and enable real-time, online collaboration
in the end-to-end finance process. From Origination to Credit Adjudication, Document Management to
Auditing, Funding, and Booking, the Cyence solution has everything needed
to streamline financial transactions and achieve operational excellence.
About Senour Designs,
Inc.
Senour Designs, Inc., of Indianapolis, Indiana, was organized in
1991 to provide customized technical support to the leasing industry. S.D.I.’s knowledgeable staff brings in excess
of 30 years of industry experience to the company’s wide range of customers.
About Ivory Consulting Corporation
Since 1983, Ivory
Consulting Corporation, of Walnut Creek, California, has provided state-of-the-art
lease analysis software for the leasing industry. SuperTRUMP was the
first PC-based analysis model to provide portfolio analysis and linear
programming optimization and provides connectivity for automating workflow
management. Over 2,000 people in more than 150 companies use Ivory’s
software. Its customers are among the world's leaders in finance and
leasing—from banks to captives, to independent lessors, and lessees.
Cartoon---Getting
a Loan at the Bank
http://two.leasingnews.org/Cartoon_Bank/OK_folks.jpg
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announcement **************************************
UAEL
So. Calif. Round Table March 9th
United Association
of Equipment Leasing Round Table
When: Tuesday, March 9th, 2004 (1 PM -4:30 PM)
Where: Experian Building,
Orange County, CA
Event: Roundtable Discussion "How To Successfully
Market Customers & Vendors in today's economy"
Who should attend?:
Members of your Credit
Team & Sales Team
Roundtable Topics?:
How to understand
a credit bureau and how to use that knowledge effectively when selling…
How to request a
Financial Package from a Lessee…
How to market future
business by utilizing a Lessee's Financial Data…
How to "close"
competitive, high rate, or structured transactions…
Lenders will discuss
"what makes a good credit package" …
How to establish
and market vendor programs…
Cost: No Charge to
UAEL Members ($10.00 Fee Non-UAEL
Members )
Please Reserve your
ticket via email at: giacono@westoverfinancial.com
Event Hosted by UAEL
Southern California Regional Committee
***
announcement ***************************************
News Briefs---
Economy Is Improving,
Fed Chairman Says http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/12/business/12fed.html
Intel Reports a Research
Leap to a Faster Chip
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/12/technology/12chip.html?pagewanted=all
Tyco ex-CFO says
trip had purpose
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/manufacturing/2004-02-11-tyco-wed_x.htm
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“Gimme that Wine”
Digital Dionysus/Leo
McCloskey claims he has divined
the secret to making
great wine
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4217030/
A New Vintage of
Wine Lovers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30617-2004Feb10.html
Sonoma County grape revenue falls 18%
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/local/news/11grapes_a1.html
Bad Grape News in San Joaquin and elsewhere/ 2003 not worth toasting
http://www.recordnet.com/daily/business/articles/021104-b-1.php
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This
Day in American History
1709- Alexander Selkirk,
Scottish seaman is rescued after 4+ years from Fernandez Island (inspiration
for Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe")
http://www.ini.ethz.ch/~tobi/alex/alex.html
1733-General James Edward Oglethorpe,with some 100 other Englishmen, landed at
what is now Savannah, GA. Naming
the new colony Georgia for England’s King George II, Oglethorpe was
organizer and first governor of the colony and founder of the city of
Savannah.
1793-As states in New England began
outlawing slavery, the Southern states pushed through Congress the “Fugitive
Slave Law: No person held to service or labor in one state, under the
laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law
or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but
shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or
labor may be due.” As the underground railroad began, more and
more states enacted statues of bounty and fines for those assisting
“runaway slaves.”
1809- Birthday of Abraham Lincoln, 16th president
of the US (Mar 4, 1861-Apr 15, 1865) and the first to be assassinated
(on Good Friday, Apr 14, 1865, at Ford's Theatre at Washington, DC).
His presidency encompassed the tragic Civil War. Especially remembered
are his Emancipation Proclamation (Jan 1, 1863), his Gettysburg Address
(Nov 19, 1863) and his proclamation establishing the last Thursday of
November as Thanksgiving Day. Born at Hardin County, KY, he died at
Washington, DC, Apr 15, 1865. Lincoln's birthday is observed as part
of Presidents' Day in most states, but is a legal holiday in Illinois
and an optional bank holiday in Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Pennsylvania,
Washington and West Virginia. Birthday now celebrated along with George
Washing as "Presidents' Day," (Feb 16).
1831 --
Nat Turner's revolt in Virginia begins with divine signal --
solar eclipse.
He
decides the only way to be free is to revolt and sees this as a sign
to raise an army of salves.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p1518.html
1837- birthday of artist Thomas Moran.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/feb12.html
1870- the women in the Utah Territory were granted the right to vote
in political elections---50 years before the 19th Amendment was ratified.
1883- coronation on territory that would
later become part of the Untied States: King Kalakaua and Queen Kapiolani
were crowned king and queen of the Hawaiian Islands at Iolani Palace,
Honolulu.
1873-
a routine coinage act of Congress omitted all silver currency because
silver was so scarce it brought more as bullion than as dollars. Three
years later, when Nevada mines were producing unprecedented quantities
of silver mine owners demanded that the government buy their product
for coinage. At that time, the coinage act became known as the Crime
of '73 as all coins were gold.
1877- the first telephone news dispatch
was called into the Boston Globe in Boston from Salem, Massachusetts,
using equipment provided by Alexander Graham Bell.
1879-A gala carnival was present at the
opening of the first indoor ice skating rink, built by Thomas L. Rankin
at Madison Square Garden, New York.
I t has 6,000 square feet of surface.
1887- Frederick Winthrom Thayer of Waverly,
MA, captain of the Harvard University Baseball Club, obtained a patent
for a “face guard or safety mask.”
He had a tinsmith in Cambridge, MA, make it.
Louis Truschke, catcher of the Foster Baseball Club, Lawrence,
MA, who had been hurt by a pitched ball, adopted the mask. It became very popular among catchers and was eventually manufactured
by Peck and Snyder, New York City.
1889- John Lewis, American labor leader
born near Lucas, IA. His parents came to the US from Welsh mining towns,
and Lewis left school in the seventh grade to become a miner himself.
Became leader of United Mine Workers of America and champion of all
miners' causes. Died at Washington, DC, June 11, 1969.
1898- Roy Harris, born at
Chandler, OK, Harris was one of the most important composers of this
century. He was known for his use of Anglo-American folk tunes. He composed
more than 200 works, including 13 symphonies, several ballet scores
and much chamber and choral music. His best-known work is his Third
Symphony (1939). He died at Santa Monica, CA, Oct 1, 1979.
1899-
on the edge of the greatest arctic outbreak of all-time, a vicious blizzard
pounded the mid-Atlantic and New England states. 20 inches of snow fell
at Washington, DC and 34 inches fell at Cape May, New Jersey. The central
pressure of the storm was estimated to be 966 millibars (28.53 inches)
just southeast of Nantucket, Massachusetts. it was the coldest morning
ever in the eastern Great Plains and eastern Texas. Kansas city, Missouri
bottomed out at 22 degrees below zero. Fort Worth, Texas dropped to
8 degrees below. Camp Clarke, Nebraska recorded 47 degrees below zero.
In the east, Washington, DC recorded 15 degrees below zero and Charleston,
South Carolina received 3.9 inches of snow.
1900-Birthday of guitarist Pink Anderson,
Laurens, SC, Died October 12, 1974
http://www.io.com/~tbone1/blues/ECblz/pinkan.html
http://www.wirz.de/music/andepfrm.htm
1903-Birthday of Milton Rackmil, co-founder
Decca records and president
of Universal Studios ,New York City, NY
http://www.carygrant.net/autobiography/autobiography7.html
http://archives.studio.universalstudios.com/timeline1959.html
(
see 1951-- http://archives.studio.universalstudios.com/smallframe4.html)
1907 – Anna T. Jeanes bequeaths $1,000,000
to the Jeanes Supervisors. Anna T. Jeanes, a Quaker from Philadelphia,
was one of ten children in a wealthy family. She was a well-to-do single
woman in the 1800s who was interested in the causes of her day. None
of her brothers and sisters left heirs. So in time, she inherited a
great deal of money. Around the turn of the century, she began to donate
her fortune to charity, and in 1907, shortly before she died, she gave
one million dollars to a fund of income-bearing securities, to provide
education to black students in rural areas of the South. This fund,
based on an original gift of over a million dollars, was set up for
the improvement of rural elementary schools for African Americans. Jeanes
teachers were hired to travel to all the schools in a county, helping
the local teachers organize classes in domestic science, gardening and
carpentry.
The
Jeanes teachers contributed to the schools in other ways, often serving
as informal social workers. For thirty years they provided a precious
ingredient, hope, to small black communities. In 1937, the Jeanes Fund
merged with the Slater Fund to found the Southern Education Foundation,
which has continued to do much good work. She is buried at Fair
Hill
http://www.fairhillburial.org/famous.php
Burial Ground at Germantown Avenue and Cambria Street.
1908 - The famous, New York-to-Paris automobile
race started via Seattle and Yokohama, Japan. The race began in Times
Square, New York City, with six automobiles entered in the race: three
French, one Italian, One German, and one American. The race was won
by George Schuster, driver, George J. Miller, mechanic, and Montague
Roberts, assistant mechanic, in a car made by the
E.R.
Thomas Motor Company, Buffalo, NY. The cars drove across the North American
continent, took a boat across the Pacific and then raced across Siberia
and Europe to the City of Lights. One
car dropped out on the starting day; after a while, only two remained.
The
average daily run was 152 miles, the longest daily run 420 miles. A team of Americans reached Paris on July
31, four days after a German team, but the Americans were declared the
winners because of a handicap imposed on the Germans.
The Americans traveled 13,341 miles in 170 days, 88 of which
he spent driving . The race was sponsored by the New York Times and
the Paris newspaper Le Matin.
Second
entry: http://www.springvillechamber.com/Historical_Society/favorite_sons.htm
http://www.thegreatautorace.com/update.htm
1909- On the 100th anniversary of Abraham
Lincoln's birth, a call for an organizational meeting was issued for
what was to become the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP). The National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People was founded by W.E.B. Dubois and Ida Wells-Barnett, with 58 others,
to wage a militant campaign against lynching and other forms of racial
oppression. Its legal wing brought many lawsuits that successfully challenged
segregation in the 1950s and '60s. Today, the membership of the NAACP
exceeds 500,000.
1910-Birthday
of tenor sax player Paul Bascomb, Birmingham, AL
http://www.alamhof.org/bascombp.htm
http://www.hoyhoy.com/bascomb.htm
1913- Raymond “Ray” Dandridge, Baseball Hall
of Fame third baseman born at Richmond, VA. Dandridge was a standout third baseman in the Negro Leagues.
He was 35 years old when Organized Baseball called, but he never
played a day in the major leagues. Inducted into the Hall of
Fame
in 1987. Died at Palm Beach, FL, 1994.
1913 --
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones leads a protest of conditions
in the West Virginia mines and is arrested. (On May 8, newly-elected
Governor Hatfield releases her from jail.) A government official once
called Mary Jones "The most dangerous woman in America." She
was dangerous to the established order because she was fearless in her
defense of the oppressed working class. For 60 years she went into mining
towns where men often feared to go, organizing unions. The miners called
her "Mother" Jones. She was still out there at age 83. No
rockin' chair for her...
God,
if You had but the moon
Stuck in Your cap for a lamp,
Even You'd tire of it soon,
Down in the dark and the damp.
Nothing
but blackness above
And nothing that moves but the cars. . . .
God, if You wish for our love,
Fling us a handful of stars.
---Louis
Untermeyer
excerpt from Caliban in the Coal Mines,
from Challenge, 1914
(This poem is based on the Few Clothes Johnson, the character played
by James Earle Jones in John Sayles' film Matewan.)
UMWA
miners on Paint Creek in Kanawha County demanded wages equal to those
of other area mines. The operators rejected the wage increase &
miners walked off the job today, beginning one of the most violent strikes
in the nation's history. At the age of 83, Mother Jones was convicted
by a military court of conspiring to commit murder & was sentenced
to 20 years in prison. The event created such a furor that the U.S.
Senate form a committee to look into conditions in the West Virginia
coalfields.
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1914-Birthday of sax player “Tex” Beneke,Fort
Worth,TX Died May 30,2000
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1915-Birthday of Lorne Greene, the actor
who played Ben Cartwright on the immensely popular television Western
Bonanza, is born in Ontario, Canada. An only child, Greene later
said he based his portrayal of Ben Cartwright on his own father, Daniel
Greene. Greene’s rise to national stardom in Bonanza did not
come until relatively late in his career. He first began acting as a
student at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, where he abandoned
his major in chemical engineering to follow the more exciting lure of
the stage. For several years he worked in the theater in New York City,
but he won his first major position in 1939 as an announcer for the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. His deep, warm voice soon earned
Greene the title, "The Voice of Canada." During World War
II, he served as a flying officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force. When
he returned to Canada, Greene began to win more acting roles in the
fledgling Canadian television industry. In 1954, he made his big screen
debut as the Apostle Peter in The Silver Chalice. Greene’s big
break came in 1959. The American TV producer David Dortot spotted Greene
playing a small role in the Western Wagon Train. Dortot was in
the midst of creating a new TV Western based on the adventures of a
rancher father and his three sons. He thought Greene would be perfect
for the role of "Pa"-Ben Cartwright. Greene agreed to take
the role. His three TV sons (each by a different wife) were the thoughtful
and mature Adam (Pernell Roberts), the gentle giant Hoss (Dan Blocker),
and the hot-blooded young romantic Little Joe (Michael Landon). Bonanza
debuted on NBC in 1959 and remained on the air until 1973, making it
one of the longest running TV Westerns ever. Somewhat unique among the
many other TV Westerns of the time that emphasized solitary cowboys
and gunmen, Bonanza focused on the strong familial bonds between
Ben Cartwright and his three sons. The silver-haired Greene created
a Ben Cartwright who was an ideal father. Strong, compassionate, and
understanding, "Pa" shepherded his sons through tough times
with a grace and wisdom that won him the affection of millions of viewers.
Besides offering appealing characters and interesting story lines, Bonanza
was also popular because it was the first network Western to be televised
in color. After Bonanza
was canceled in 1973, Greene acted in several other short-lived TV shows,
including Battlestar Galactica. He died in 1987 at the age of
72, still best remembered by millions as "Pa" Cartwright.
1917- birthday of Dominic “Dom” DiMaggio,
former baseball player, San Francisco, Ca.
1923-Birthday of drummer Art Mardigan, Detroit,
MI
http://www.jazzvalley.com/musician/art.mardigan http://www.ipl.org.ar/exhibit/detjazz/BlBiSlSh7.html 1924 - Bandleader Paul Whiteman presented
his symphonic jazz at New York's Aeolian Hall. The concert was the first
public performance of George Gershwin’s "Rhapsody In Blue"
with Gershwin, himself, at the piano. 1924 - Calvin Coolidge, known as the ‘Silent
President’, gave the first presidential political speech on radio from
New York City. The speech was broadcast on five radio stations, and
some five million people tuned in to hear the President. 1925-The Arbitration law was enacted by Congress:
“...to make valid and enforceable written provisions or agreements for
arbitration of disputes, arising out of contracts, maritime transactions
or commerce among the state or Territories or with foreign nations.”
1926—Trumpet player Buddy Childers born in
St. Louis, Missouri. 1926- birthday of Joe Garagiola, broadcaster
and former baseball player, St. Louis, Mo. 1934-Birthday of basketball Hall of Fame
center and former coach William Felton (Bill” Russell, born, Monroe,
LA. http://www.geocities.com/dblimbrick/russell.html http://www.nba.com/history/russell_bio.html 1935- birthday of singer/song composer Gene
McDaniels, Kansas City, KS http://www.tsimon.com/mcdaniel.htm 1935-Birthday of Ray Manzarek, keyboards
player with the Doors, was born in Chicago. Manzarek met Doors' lead
singer Jim Morrison at the UCLA film department, and together they conceived
the group which was to become famous as much for Morrison's exhibitionism
as for its music. The Doors, with Robby Krieger on guitar and John Densmore
on drums, had a number-one hit with "Light My Fire," a song
taken from their debut album in 1967. Several more hit singles and albums
followed, until Jim Morrison's death of heart failure in 1971. Ray Manzarek
took the band on to record two more albums, but the Doors split up in
1973. 1938 – Birthday of Judy Blume, breakthrough
author of realistic books for children. http://www.edupaperback.org/authorbios/Blume_Judy.html http://falcon.jmu.edu/~r
1940 - Mutual Radio first broadcast the comic-strip
hero, "Superman". For six years the identity of the man from
Krypton was unknown to listeners. Eventually word got out that Superman’s
voice was that of Bud Collyer, who later hosted the television program,
"To Tell the Truth" on CBS. 1942 - On Decca Records, Mildred Bailey recorded
"More Than You Know". 1944-Wendell Wilkie (R)
enters presidential race He
had been talked into running against FDR in 1940, and was more sincere in this race; however, the Republicans had become more interested in the conservative Governor Thomas Dewey from New York. Wilkie was the
1940 Republican nominee, but he had several heart attacks, finally succumbed, dying on October
8, 1944 at age fifty-two. FDR was reelected president on November 7,
beating Gov. Dewey 25,602,504 to 22,006,285; electoral votes 432 to
99. http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/abouteleanor/q-and-a/glossary/wilkie-wendell.htm 1945- San Francisco selected
for site of UN Conference. 1947—Top Hits 1950-Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett is born
in England. Hackett joined the group in 1970, after their first album
had been released in Britain. Under the leadership of Peter Gabriel,
Genesis was an art-rock band with an elaborate stage show and a dedicated
cult following. But after Gabriel left in 1975, the band gained a wider
audience with singer Phil Collins up front. By the time Genesis gained
its first gold album, "And Then There Were Three," in 1978,
Steve Hackett had left for a solo career. 1951- Gil Moore, vocalist and drummer with
the Canadian hard rock band Triumph, was born. The other members of
the trio, formed in Toronto in 1975, were vocalist and guitarist Rik
(correct) Emmett and keyboardist and bassist Mike Levine. Triumph's
hits from 1979 to 1986 included "Hold On," "Magic Power"
and "Somebody's Out There." 1955- McGuire Sisters'
"Sincerely" single goes to #1 & stays #1 for 10 weeks
http://www.singers.com/jazz/vintage/mcguire.html Sincerely
- McGuire Sisters 1955 – U.S. agrees to train the South Vietnamese
Army. President Dwight Eisenhower
sends first US advisors to South Vietnam. ROCK & ROLL RECON The
only "good morning" there ever was in Vietnam was
the day we left. Armed
Forces Radio did keep the killers hopping
to rock-&-roll. We'd
recon the Que Son Valley in two
light airplanes everyday. Now
I won't bullshit you: it was no Ashau, but
it was badder than Leech Valley--- a
real Charles County, Marlboro Country. Bad
things grew in the valley &
the Jolly Green Giant was a rescue
chopper in Danang. Above
the smoking vills, the burned-out tanks, we
bopped along with the Four Seasons, "Working
my way back to you, babe." The
Mamas & the Papas were "California Dreamin" and
so were our pilots as they waggled their
wings in time to the music. Only
on Xmas did we get serious. We'd
sing songs like "Wake
the town & kill the people." — The Poetry of Ben D. Trail 1956- rock 'n' roll eccentric Screamin'
Jay Hawkins recorded "I Put a Spell on You" for Okeh records,
which became his best known song. He toured with revues organized by
disc jockey Alan Freed, and often concluded his act by being carried
off in a flaming coffin. He died Feb 13,2000. http://ohiobio.org/hawkins.htm http://www.salon.com/people/obit/2000/02/18/hawkins/ 1957- the Coasters recorded "Young
Blood," a tune written by two white songwriters and independent
record producers, Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller. It became the first
big hit for the group. The flip side, "Searchin'," was also
popular. 1958-Argo Records releases the Monotones'
doo wop classic, "Book of Love" backed with "You Never."
Rising to the Top Five on both the pop and R&B charts, "Book
of Love" will be the only success for the vocal sextet from Newark,
New Jersey, who built their song on the jingle from a Pepsodent toothpaste
commercial 1959 -- Carl Sandburg, poet/socialist, addresses
joint session of the US Congress on 150th anniversary of Lincoln's birthday. http://www.tsimon.com/boone.htm http://www.patsgold.com/index.php3?Pats_Session=31adaca78d4728b7d79b6947164a0a1d 1961- "Shop Around" by the Miracles
became the first million-seller for Motown Records. 1962-Bus boycott starts
in Macon GA http://www.ibiblio.org/uncpress/chapters/burns_daybreak.html 1963—Top Hits 1964 - The Beatles ended a successful American
tour by playing two concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York City. 1966 -- Rock For Peace at the Fillmore Auditorium
in San Francisco, California, with The Great Society, Quicksilver Messenger Service,
& Big Brother & the Holding Company. Benefit for Democratic
congressional candidates & the Viet Nam Study Group. Meanwhile,
it's Lincoln's Birthday Party with Sopwith Camel
at the Firehouse, former quarters of Engine Co. 26 & Truck Co. 10,
3767 Sacramento St. The Charlatans also appeared. http://www.stores.ebay.com/peacerockposters http://bayarea.citysearch.com/profile/900590/ http://www.sopwithcamel.com/history.html 1966-The Rolling Stones fly to New York to
tape an appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show," which is on
the next evening. 1967 -- Benefit at the Fillmore for the Council
for Civic Unity. Moby Grape, & Sly & the Family Stone perform.
http://www.classicbands.com/sly.html
http://www.cd-bootleg.com/Jimi_Hendrix.htm 1970-Joseph L. Searles becomes the first
Black member of the New York Stock
Exchange. 1972 - Al Green’s "Let’s Stay Together"
took the top spot from "American Pie" on the music charts.
The record stayed at #1 for one week, before Nilsson’s "Without
You" knocked it out. In 1980, Green returned to his gospel roots,
and is now a minister in Memphis, Tennessee. Green recorded 14 hit songs,
six of which made it to the Top 10. 1973 - The first group of United States
prisoners of war were freed from North Vietnam. 1974, LaBelle played
the unofficial opening concert for the legendary New York club the Bottom
Line. The headliner for the official opening the next night was Dr.
John. Stevie Wonder and Johnny Winter joined him for a jam session. 1973- metric distance markers were put up
by the Ohio Department of Transportation, the first state to
do so, on Interstate 71 between Cincinnati and Columbus and between
Columbus and Cleveland. The
signs showed the distance in both miles and kilometers. 1974-New York's legendary rock club, The
Bottom Line opens in Greenwich Village. LaBelle played the unofficial
opening concert for the legendary New York club the Bottom Line. The
headliner for the official opening the next night was Dr. John. Stevie
Wonder and Johnny Winter joined him for a jam session. http://www.b 1 975 - The Stepford Wives, starring
Katharine Ross, a film about women in a small town being turned into
passive robots, opened to theaters. 1979—Top Hits 1968 - Ramparts published Eldridge Cleaver's
Soul on Ice. 1973-The release of U.S. POWs begins in Hanoi
as part of the Paris peace settlement. The return of U.S. POWs began
when North Vietnam released 142 of 591 U.S. prisoners at Hanoi's Gia
Lam Airport. Part of what was called Operation Homecoming, the first
20 POWs arrived to a hero's welcome at Travis Air Force Base in California
on February 14. Operation Homecoming was completed on March 29, 1973,
when the last of 591 U.S. prisoners were released and returned to the
United States. 1985
- Johnny Carson surprised "Tonight Show" viewers and live
audience members by shaving his beard. Carson joked: "I had to
do it when a little old lady said that she had confused me for one of
the Smith Brothers." The studio audience was silent, until Johnny,
timing it perfectly said, "You know, the cough drop guys."
Laughter. 1987—Top Hits 1989 -- Tiny Tim declares himself a New York
City mayoral candidate. 1990- Sting, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon
and Don Henley performed at a benefit in Beverly Hills, California for
the Rainforest Foundation. More than one-million dollars was collected
from such celebrities as Don Johnson, Billy Crystal, Barbra Streisand
and Goldie Hawn to save the Amazon rain forests and the Indians who
live there. 1992- Sharon Kowalski finally went home.
After an eight-year battle to gain custody of her life partner who was
badly injured in an accident, Karen Thompson was named Sharon's guardian
and took her home. Karen had fought for the right of guardianship claiming
Sharon's father - who would have nothing to do with her before the accident
- only gave her warehousing, custodial care on the money awarded Sharon
for her accident and insufficient medical care. Karen showed that because
of the lack of physical therapy Sharon's muscles were shortening crippling
her further. And Sharon, though brain damaged, made it clear she wanted
to go with Karen. In the decision, the Minnesota Court of Appeals said
that the women were "...a family of affinity which ought to be
respected." 1994- Celine Dion became the first Quebec
artist to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart when "The Power of Love"
made number-one. 1997- Fred Goldman says
he will settle for a signed murder confession from O J Simpson in lieu
of his $20.5 million judgment. http://www.cnn.com/US/9702/12/simpson/index.html 1998 - The handwritten lyrics to Elton John's
funeral tribute to Princess Diana, the revised balled "Candle in
the Wind 1997," sold for $442,500 at a Beverly Hills auction benefiting the Princess's charities. The lyrics
were revised from the 1970's hit tribute to Marilyn Monroe, and were
both written by Elton's longtime collaborator, Bernie Taupin. 1999-Clinton is found “not guilty” in breaking
any Federal laws. The five-week impeachment trial of Bill Clinton comes
to an end, with the Senate voting to acquit the president on both articles
of impeachment: perjury and obstruction of justice. In November 1995,
Clinton began an affair with Monica Lewinsky, a 21-year-old unpaid intern.
Over the course of a year and a half, the president and Lewinsky had
nearly a dozen sexual encounters in the White House. In April 1996,
Lewinsky was transferred to the Pentagon. That summer, she first confided
in Pentagon co-worker Linda Tripp about her sexual relationship with
the president. In 1997, with the relationship over, Tripp began secretly
to record conversations with Lewinsky, in which Lewinsky gave Tripp
details about the affair. In December, lawyers for Paula Jones, who
was suing the president on sexual harassment charges, subpoenaed Lewinsky.
In January 1998, allegedly under the recommendation of the president,
Lewinsky filed an affidavit in which she denied ever having had a sexual
relationship with him. Five days later, Tripp contacted the office of
Kenneth Starr, the Whitewater independent counsel, to talk about Lewinsky
and the tapes she made of their conversations. Tripp, wired by FBI agents
working with Starr, met with Lewinsky again, and on January 16 Lewinsky
was taken by FBI agents and U.S. attorneys to a hotel room where she
was questioned and offered immunity if she cooperated with the prosecution.
A few days later, the story broke, and Clinton publicly denied the allegations,
saying, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky."
In late July, lawyers for Lewinsky and Starr worked out a full-immunity
agreement covering both Lewinsky and her parents, all of whom Starr
had threatened with prosecution. On August 6, Lewinsky appeared before
the grand jury to begin her testimony, and on August 17 President Clinton
testified. Contrary to his testimony in the Paula Jones sexual-harassment
case, President Clinton acknowledged to prosecutors from the office
of the independent counsel that he had had an extramarital affair with
Ms. Lewinsky. In four hours of closed-door testimony, conducted in the
Map Room of the White House, Clinton spoke live via closed-circuit television
to a grand jury in a nearby federal courthouse. He was the first sitting
president ever to testify before a grand jury investigating his conduct.
That evening, President Clinton also gave a four-minute televised address
to the nation in which he admitted he had engaged in an inappropriate
relationship with Lewinsky. In the brief speech, which was wrought with
legalisms, the word "sex" was never spoken, and the word "regret"
was used only in reference to his admission that he misled the public
and his family. Less than a month later, on September 9, Kenneth Starr
submitted his report and 18 boxes of supporting documents to the House
of Representatives. Released to the public two days later, the Starr
Report outlined a case for impeaching Clinton on 11 grounds, including
perjury, obstruction of justice, witness-tampering, and abuse of power,
and also provided explicit details of the sexual relationship between
the president and Ms. Lewinsky. On October 8, the House authorized a
wide-ranging impeachment inquiry, and on December 11 the House Judiciary
Committee approved three articles of impeachment. On December 19, after
nearly 14 hours of debate, the House approved two articles of impeachment,
charging President Clinton with lying under oath to a federal grand
jury and obstructing justice. Clinton, the second president in American
history to be impeached, vowed to finish his term. On January 7, 1999,
in a congressional procedure not seen since the 1868 impeachment trial
of President Andrew Johnson, the trial of President Clinton got underway
in the Senate. As instructed in Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution,
the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (William Rehnquist at this
time) was sworn in to preside and the senators were sworn in as jurors.
Five weeks later, on February 12, the Senate voted on whether to remove
Clinton from office. The president was acquitted on both articles of
impeachment. The prosecution needed a two-thirds majority to convict
but failed to achieve even a bare majority. Rejecting the first charge
of perjury, 45 Democrats and 10 Republicans voted "not guilty"
and on the charge of obstruction of justice the Senate was split 50-50.
After the trial concluded, President Clinton said he was "profoundly
sorry" for the burden his behavior imposed on Congress and the
American people.
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For Sentimental Reasons - Nat King Cole
Ole Buttermilk Sky - The Kay Kyser Orchestra (vocal: Mike Douglas &
The Campus Kids)
A Gal in Calico - Johnny Mercer
So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed - Merle Travis
Hearts of Stone - Fontane Sisters
Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So) - Perry Como
Let Me Go, Lover! - Hank Snow
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1960 -- Pat Boone earns a
gold LP for "Pat's Great Hits."
Hey Paula - Paul & Paula
Loop De Loop - Johnny Thunder
Up on the Roof - The Drifters
The Ballad of Jed Clampett - Flatt & Scruggs
Knock Three Times - Dawn
One Bad Apple - The Osmonds
Rose Garden - Lynn Anderson
Joshua - Dolly Parton
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Da Ya Think I’m Sexy? - Rod Stewart
Y.M.C.A. - Village People
A Little More Love - Olivia Newton-John
Every Which Way But Loose - Eddie Rabbitt
Open Your Heart - Madonna
Livin’ on a Prayer - Bon Jovi
Change of Heart - Cyndi Lauper
Leave Me Lonely - Gary Morris
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