November-December 2005 NEWSBOY Page 1 VOLUME XLIII NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2005 NUMBER 6 2006 Convention Preview Omaha welcomes you! Things to see and do Registration form Schedule of events Hotel information -- See Page 3 The Nursery Tales of Horatio Alger -- See Page 7 Page 2 NEWSBOY November-December 2005 1234567890123456789012345678901212345678901234567890123456789012123456789 1234567890123456789012345678901212345678901234567890123456789012123456789 1234567890123456789012345678901212345678901234567890123456789012123456789 1234567890123456789012345678901212345678901234567890123456789012123456789 1234567890123456789012345678901212345678901234567890123456789012123456789 HORATIO ALGER SOCIETY 1234567890123456789012345678901212345678901234567890123456789012123456789 1234567890123456789012345678901212345678901234567890123456789012123456789 1234567890123456789012345678901212345678901234567890123456789012123456789 1234567890123456789012345678901212345678901234567890123456789012123456789 To further the philosophy of Horatio Alger, Jr. and to encourage the 1234567890123456789012345678901212345678901234567890123456789012123456789 1234567890123456789012345678901212345678901234567890123456789012123456789 1234567890123456789012345678901212345678901234567890123456789012123456789 spirit of Strive and Succeed that for half a century guided Alger’s 1234567890123456789012345678901212345678901234567890123456789012123456789 1234567890123456789012345678901212345678901234567890123456789012123456789 1234567890123456789012345678901212345678901234567890123456789012123456789 undaunted heroes — younngsters whose struggles epitomized the 1234567890123456789012345678901212345678901234567890123456789012123456789 1234567890123456789012345678901212345678901234567890123456789012123456789President's column 1234567890123456789012345678901212345678901234567890123456789012123456789 Great American Dream and inspired hero ideals in countless millions 1234567890123456789012345678901212345678901234567890123456789012123456789 1234567890123456789012345678901212345678901234567890123456789012123456789 1234567890123456789012345678901212345678901234567890123456789012123456789 of young Americans for generations to come. 1234567890123456789012345678901212345678901234567890123456789012123456789 1234567890123456789012345678901212345678901234567890123456789012123456789 OFFICERS What a wonderful day here in Michigan, as the ROBERT R. ROUTHIER PRESIDENT temperature is approaching 48 degrees! It isn’t sunny, MICHAEL MORLEY VICE-PRESIDENT but quite nice. Last week the temperature also climbed CHRISTINE DeHAAN TREASURER a bit and a couple of golf courses allowed the golfers to ROBERT E. KASPER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR play — 45 degrees, a little cold for me. If the temperature isn’t around 55 degrees, forget it, as I am totally a fair- BART J. NYBERG (2006) DIRECTOR DAVID J. YARINGTON (2006) DIRECTOR weather golfer. ARTHUR W. SMITTER (2006) DIRECTOR Jeanette and I just finished having part of the exterior of LAWRENCE R. RICE (2007) DIRECTOR our house taken off and replaced, as the West side of this ROBERT G. SIPES (2007) DIRECTOR old farmhouse was leaking like a sieve. We had it stripped KEN BROADIE (2007) DIRECTOR down to the bare 2x4’s and new insulation, OSB, weather THOMAS KLINE (2008) DIRECTOR rap and new cedar siding. Believe me, it is a lot nicer and we LEE SWITZER (2008) DIRECTOR are hoping that it will cut down on the fuel bill. MILTON F. EHLERT (2008) DIRECTOR Jeanette is working a lot of long hours at school, and LEO “BOB” BENNETT (1932-2004) EMERITUS sometimes we hardly see each other. She is some teacher, RALPH D. GARDNER (1923-2005) EMERITUS and her students really like her. She is really great with PAST PRESIDENTS the students and likes what she does — and it shows. KENNETH B. BUTLER D. JAMES RYBERG Me, I am fully retired and pretty much sell books on JACK ROW GEORGE W. OWENS the net, clean house, do dishes etc, but I have some time DR. MAX GOLDBERG WILLIAM R. WRIGHT for bowling and golf in season. This winter I have been STEVE PRESS ROBERT E. KASPER able to edit my Alger and Optic collections and I have JUDSON S. BERRY MARY ANN DITCH been selling some of the excess books that I don’t really LEO “BOB” BENNETT JOHN CADICK need. It gets to a point that there just isn’t any place to put JERRY B. FRIEDLAND CARL T. HARTMANN them. BRADFORD S. CHASE ARTHUR P. YOUNG ROBERT E. SAWYER CAROL NACKENOFF I sincerely hope that everyone had a great Holiday EUGENE H. HAFNER ROBERT G. HUBER Season. Please keep in mind the upcoming convention in Omaha, Nebraska — April 27th-30th. Send Mary Ann Newsboy, the official newsletter of the Horatio Alger and Bart Nyberg your convention registration form Society, is published bi-monthly (six issues per year). (enclosed with this issue) and call “NOW” and make Membership fee for any 12-month period is $25 ($20 for those hotel reservations! seniors), with single issues of Newsboy $4.00. Please make We are looking forward to seeing everyone. Please remittance payable to the Horatio Alger Society. be sure and try to contact fellow members, asking Membership applications, renewals, changes of address them to join us at the convention — a new friend is just and other correspondence should be sent to Horatio Alger a phone call away. It would be very nice if each of us Society, P.O. Box 70361, Richmond, VA 23255. would just pick up the phone and call one of the new Newsboy is indexed in the Modern Language members (they are listed in your new roster, and in Association’s International Bibliography. my last President’s letter I mentioned those who have You can visit the Horatio Alger Society’s official Internet joined the Horatio Alger Society in 2004 and 2005). If site at www.ihot.com/~has/ nothing else, please welcome them to the Society and Newsboy ad rates: Full page, $32.00; one-half page, $17.00; see if there is anything that we could help them with one-quarter page, $9.00; per column inch (1 inch deep by approx. in their Alger collecting. 3 1/2 inches wide), $2.00. Send ads, with check payable to Horatio Also, please don’t forget to bring books to sell at the Alger Society, P.O. Box 70361, Richmond, VA 23255. The above rates apply to all want ads, along with ads offering consignment and donation auction. Of course, the auction non-Alger books for sale. However, it is the policy of the Horatio is NOT just for books, as you may bring something you Alger Society to promote the exchange of Alger books and related made — jelly, afghan, quilt, craft items, etc., and donate Alger materials by providing space free of charge to our members for the sale only of such material. Send ads or “Letters to the them to the Society. We can ALWAYS use the additional Editor” to Newsboy editor William R. Gowen (PF-706) at 23726 N. (Continued on Page 6) Overhill Dr., Lake Zurich, IL 60047. E-mail: [email protected] November-December 2005 NEWSBOY Page 3 2006 H.A.S. convention preview Omaha welcomes you! By Bart and Mary Ann Nyberg Magadalene, which is located at 109 S. 19th Street. In addition, Omaha boasts the restored Art Deco e are eager to welcome our Horatio Society Union Pacific Station, which now houses the Durham friends to Omaha in April 2006! Omaha is Western Heritage Museum. The main floor has been the home of the Union Pacific Railroad, great restored to a beautiful 1930’s train station lobby com- Wrestaurants, great steaks, and friendly people. We hope plete with an operating soda fountain. The lower floor this will be a memorable convention! houses many Omaha historical displays, plus an old The 2006 convention will be Thursday, April 27th train for visitors to walk through. It also has the Byron through the farewell breakfast on Sunday, April 30th. Reed old coin and currency collection. The convention has been moved back to the last week- Another attraction is the Joslyn Art Museum, which end of April as displays a perma- Omaha becomes nent collection of full to the brim with Western American people from around art, in addition to ro- the world during tating traveling ex- the first week of hibits. May attending the You may also Warren Buffett/ wish to visit the Stra- Berkshire Hathaway tegic Air Command stockholders’ mee- Museum, which is ting. (Bill Gates just a 20-minute sometimes attends drive west of Om- also. A local restau- aha, right off Inter- rant where they have state 80. eaten has a sign up Several addi- stating “2 Billion- tional points of in- aires Served.” The terest will be de- restaurant is Pet- scribed in the next The Omaha Doubletree Suites, official hotel for the 2006 Horatio row’s for those who issue of Newsboy. Alger Society convention. Photo by Bart Nyberg wish to go there!) If you drive to the The Henry Doorly Zoo has been rated the number one convention from east or west, I-80 goes right through zoo in the United States by Family Magazine, and boasts Omaha. The hotel is located on 72nd Street, so drivers one of the largest indoor rain forests, complete with should take the 72nd Street exit (No. 449), turn north, swaying rope bridges and some free-ranging birds and and proceed to the hotel, which is just one mile north, animals. one light past Mercy Road. Use the tall Travel and Rosenblatt Stadium, which hosts the College World Transport building, which is just south of the hotel, as Series each June, is the home of the Triple A Kansas City your guide. The Doubletree Suites is on the west side Royals farm team. Only a few minutes from the stadium of the street. is the Old Market district of Omaha, a charming area of Omaha’s Epply