July-August, 1969 - Milwaukee Road Archive

LAST DAY AT MILWAUKEE SHOPS. Elmer Liebnow, clerk in the district general cor
foreman's office at Milwaukee, receives best wishes from a group of fellow workers at
a coke and coffee get-together in the office of the general superintendent of the cor
deportment marking his retirement on May 29. Mr. Liebnow hod 49 years of service
with the railroad.
could recite poetry as easy as ordinary
conversation, composing it without effort
as he recited ... D. E. "Smitty"
Smith died suddenly of a heart attack
at his home in IVlarvin. S. D., on May
11. Smitty was a cat operator and had
been working ou t of Twin City Terminals
. . . Retired Section Foreman
Chris Peterson passed away at Alpena,
S. D., in April ... Retired Agent-Operator
John Dangel died at his home
in ,Voodburn, Ore., in April . . .
"Butch" Mathis, weed mower operator,
died suddenly at Aberdeen in
April.
Nick, the son of Conductor George
Solberg, who is employed by the U. S.
Government as an electronics engineer,
has been installing radios in Germany,
and while there, browsed
around in antique shops to find spoons
for his mother's collection. In his wanderings,
he stumbled on a spoon that
bore the coat of arms of the Von
Schulberg family, wh ich rang a bell.
Georga recalls that his great-grandfather
was a Von Schulberg, and all this
resulted in digging into past history,
which proved migh ty interesting.
Engineer Tom Quinn has been confined
to Asbury Methodist Hospital,
where he underwent lung surgery.
Paul Kroebush, Minneapolis roundhouse
caller, has been confined to St.
Mary's Hospital in Minneapolis with a
heart condition.
Mary Ann Shea, the daughter of
Conductor Jim Shea, who is a student
at Holy Angels Academy in Richfield,
won th e Crisco Award for 1969 for
being the outstanding student in home
economics at the Academy. Her particular
skill is sewing.
Brakeman Bruce Mars. reports the
arrival of Angela Cathryn on June 22.
T. J. Hilt, track foreman at Zeeland,
N. D., and Retired Track Foreman Ted
Bagaus, Summit, S. D., have received
39-year Superior Service awards, in
recognition of the fact that no member
of their crews over that period had
been involved in a reportable injury.
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Terre Haute Division
M. K. Verdeyen, Correspondent
Yardmaster, Terre Haute, Ind.
Vicky J 0 Powell,
danghter of Section
Foreman and
Mrs. Harl')' M.
Powell, St. Anne,
Ill., has won a
General Mills
Scholarship to
Kankakee Comm
u n i ty College.
She plans to go
Vicky Jo Powell into food service,
and will study to
become a dietician. Vicky comes from
a three generation railroad fam ily. Her
father has his headquarters at Delmar.
Of all the months in the year, I
think May and June are the most significant.
In May we pay homage to the
mothers of the world. I especially congratulate
the mothers and wives of
railroad men. The qualities of these
women are beyond my vocabulary.
Many endure loneliness and uncertainties
with ease. Responsibilities are
many: raising children, handling the
budget, and being an all-around mechanic.
In June we honor the fathers of the
world. Being a father of six children,
it was a wonderful day, even if it did
rain all day long. It made me recall
other fathers who work on the Milwaukee-Wallace
Jordan, John Ball,
Joe Martin, Clay and Muriell Wilkinson,
Ralph Pound, and others too numerous
to name.
I would like to thank the many people
who have commented and congratulated
me on my student trip into the
field of journalism. I had an especiallY
nice letter from Walter Bates, who is
retired and resides in Milwau kee. He
is a former traveling engineer and assistant
master mechanic, and was on
the Terre Haute Division from 1927 to
1933. Another retired engineer who
brought back memories is_Carl Lewis.
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He is in good health and enjoying the
pension. Also, John Craig, who dwells
in St. Petersburg, Fla., is in good
health. Many of you remember, too,
Marley Fanis, freight agent \\>ho retired
in 1945. We had an enjoyable
conversation in recalling his many
years of service with the railroad.
L. D. McCrocklin, yardmaster at
Latta, is exuberant over his new
grandson.
L. F. Shanahan, former assistant superintendent,
paid us a visit on his vacation.
He is now assistant snperintendent
working out of Savanna, Ill.
Assistant Superintendent G. A.
Chamberlain has purchased a home in
the Southwood subdivision of Tene
Haute.
Doug Stevenson, yard clerk at Bedford,
has taken his physical for the
Armed Service. Also, Mike Bedwell,
clerk at Latta, has been accepted in
the Air National Guard.
Our sympathy to the family of
Harry J. Richard, retired roundhouse
foreman, who passed away May 17. The
Reti.red Railroadmen's Association
conducted a memorial service, which
was followed by Requiem Mass in St.
Patrick's Church. Burial was in Calvary
Cemetery.
I read someplace that a man, in his
pursuit of a living, should have a
hobby that is the opposite of his
profession. T. R. Anderson, car foreman
at Latta, has such a hobby. It is
photography. This is not a ma.tter of
snapping a lens on a Brownie camera
-he has several cameras and his own
developing room. His Christmas cards
are of his own design. The pictures he
has taken of weddings indicate the
many years of experience that have
gone into this hobby.
La Crosse Division
WISCONSIN VALLEY
Mildred G. Conklin, Correspondent
Trainmaster's Office, Wausau
At the special program for seniors
at Wausau East High School, Nancy
Porter, daughter of Sales Representative
and Mrs. Gene L. Porter, was
awarded the Future Secretaries Club
Scholarship. She plans to attend
Spencerian College in Milwaukee beginning
in September.
Several parties/showers preceded
the marriage of Miss Sharon Tapper
and Fireman Robert Zimmerman,
which took place June 7 at Zion Lutheran
Church, Wausau. The bride
wore a traditional fioor length gown
fashioned by her mother. Her two
tiered full length veil was a duplicate
of her grandmother's bridal veil, and
was secured to a headpiece of imitation
orange blossoms originally worn by a
bride 65 years ago. Dinner was served
at the church hall, and a reception and
dance were held at the Marathon Co.
Fish and Game Club. The groom's parents
held a rehearsal party at their
home the evening prior to the wedding.
Retired Car Foreman John Zander,
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