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Lebanon County Edition

May 2012

Vol. 7 No. 5

Diving Into a 50-Ton Passion Former Banker Now Dedicated to Whale Conservation, Videography By Alysa Poindexter Dan Knaub may seem like an ordinary guy from Central Pennsylvania, but underneath that cap and behind that cheery disposition is a man with an extraordinary job as a marine biologist, videographer, and activist birthed from a fascination with some of the largest creatures on Earth: 50-ton whales. From full-time banker to full-time founder and president of the Whale Video Company—amongst many other notable titles—Knaub’s zeal for whales has allowed him to take a dive into a thriving career centered on these gigantic yet mysterious ocean dwellers. He has created more than 50 programs on humpback whales used by some of the nation’s largest whale nonprofit organizations, including the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS), the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), and the Cetacean Society International (CSI). It was Knaub’s first deployment trip to Vietnam in 1959—only days after officially gracing adulthood—that he had his first whale encounter. “I was 18 years and 2 days,” said Knaub. “I figured it was a great time to see some things and do some things before I went to college.” He had no idea that some of those “things” would include witnessing a pod of sperm whales between San Francisco and Hawaii on a journey that please see PASSION page 18 Dan Knaub has spent many hours on the open water over the course of hundreds of whale-watching trips.

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Construction Tri-Valley Contractors (717) 277-7674 Emergency Numbers Poison Control Center (800) 222-1222 Food Resources Food & Clothing Bank (717) 274-2490 Food Stamps (800) 692-7462 Hope/Christian Ministries (717) 272-4400 Lebanon County Area Agency on Aging Meals on Wheels (717) 273-9262 Salvation Army (717) 273-2655 Health & Medical Services Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Association (717) 651-5020 American Cancer Society (717) 231-4582 American Diabetes Association (717) 657-4310

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American Lung Association (717) 541-5864

Environmental Protection Agency Emergency Hotline (800) 541-2050

Bureau of Blindness and Visual Services (717) 787-7500 CONTACT Helpline (717) 652-4400

Medicare (800) 382-1274

Office of Aging Lebanon County Area Agency on Aging (717) 273-9262

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Housing Assistance Hope (Helping Our People in Emergencies) (717) 272-4400 Housing Assistance & Resources Program (HARP) (717) 273-9328 Lebanon County Housing & Redevelopment Authorities (717) 274-1401 Insurance Medicare Hotline (800) 638-6833

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Don’t Forget the Cash Yard sales are not like a quick trip to the convenience store. You will need more than just your keys, cell phone, and credit card. You need coins and small bills in order to take home the best from a yard sale. Don’t ask a yard sale seller to break a $50 bill; it could be the end of your negotiations. Don’t Sell Everything Some things aren’t supposed to be sold on the front lawn. Don’t sell original art or jewelry at yard sales. There are not enough people shopping at a local yard sale to attract high prices. Yard sales are not the place to get big bucks for your heirlooms.

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Don’t Get Up Early! I have made it a lifelong rule that there is no good reason, other than a house fire, to get up before 8 a.m. Don’t get up at the crack of dawn to try to beat everyone to a yard sale. You won’t miss a thing. In fact, you can get the best prices around lunchtime as most yard sale hosts are ready to call it quits. By noon, sellers are exhausted, and they don’t care what you pay for that Wedgewood cachet pot as long as you take it with you. It is a great time to negotiate or even get stuff for free. Don’t Buy Damage Condition is a key to value. If you pick up a tattered linen from a yard sale, thinking that it is some fabulous antique Amish quilt, you are probably paying hard-earned money for the same rag that you might use to wax the car. Someone else’s tattered piece isn’t automatically a wonderful antique. Don’t fantasize about a yard sale find. If it is in poor condition, leave it on the lawn.

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“These heroes are dead. They died for liberty—they died for us. They are at rest. They sleep in the land they made free, under the flag they rendered stainless, under the solemn pines, the sad hemlocks, the tearful willows, and the embracing vines. They sleep beneath the shadows of the clouds, careless alike of sunshine or of storm, each in the windowless place of rest. Earth may run red with other wars—they are at peace. In the midst of battle, in the roar of conflict, they found the serenity of death. I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead.” – Robert G. Ingersoll www.50plusSeniorNewsPA.com

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Should Seniors Get Discounts? Walt Sonneville

hy should seniors get discounts? The practice of senior discounts is widespread. They are offered, for example, at fast-food establishments, museums, movie theaters, Amtrak, Southwest and United airlines, Disneyland, some colleges and universities, and, thanks to the “Golden Age Passport,” seniors receive free entry into national parks. From mid-life through the “Golden Age,” median income declines as we get older. The U.S. Census Bureau reported that in 2007 the median income of households headed by a person 45 to 54 years old was $65,476. Median income for householders 55 to 64 years old declined to $57,386. For those 65 years and older, it fell to $28,305. But don’t seniors have offsetting “compensation” through paid-up

mortgages and minimal clothing and transportation expenses? They do, but they also have higher healthcare expenses. The average annual expenditure for healthcare in the period 2005-2007, according to the Census Bureau, rose from $2,792 for individuals 45 to 54 years of age to $4,967 for those 65 to 74 years of age (prescription and nonprescription drugs are included). Poverty knows no age distinction, so why not allow discounts to others? It happens that discounts are offered to easily recognizable groups—for example, the military, children accompanying their

parents for lodging and meals (“kids eat free”), and the aged. Senior discounts can create an awkward moment when patrons are offered a discount at the cash register but hesitate to admit they are in their senior years. They would hope to be carded when purchasing alcoholic beverages— an unlikely event—or asked if the adult daughter “is your sister?” Deference is extended to seniors in considerations other than discounts offered by retailers. Some electric utilities will suspend turning off power to seniors with past-due accounts during extremely hot or cold periods. The IRS and AARP

have programs to assist low-income seniors in tax preparation. Meals on Wheels provides food to seniors with limited mobility. Interestingly, that organization, in its 2008 study, found that “seniors age 80 and over were less likely to be food insecure compared to 60- to 64-yearolds.” One program that does not discriminate by age is Medicare. It provides benefits to needy children, disabled individuals, and low-income seniors. Walt Sonneville, a retired market-research analyst, is the author of My 22 Cents’ Worth: The Higher-Valued Opinion of a Senior Citizen, a book of personal-opinion essays, free of partisan and sectarian viewpoints. A Musing Moment: Meditative Essays on Life and Learning, was released in January 2012. Contact him at waltsonneville@earthlink.net.

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May is Better Hearing & Speech Month Is Stigma Keeping You From Getting a Hearing Aid? wearing hearing aids at the first sign of hearing loss. If your brain gets used to not processing sounds, you will have a harder time adjusting when you do get a hearing aid.

According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, only one out of five people who could benefit from a hearing aid wear one. Some simply don’t know that they need one. Others associate hearing aids with their grandparents and don’t want to feel old. But much of the stigma surrounding hearing aids rings false.

“Hearing aids won’t work for me.” You may have heard friends say that they gave up on hearing aids, but that doesn’t mean the devices won’t work for you. Look for hearing aids that offer a wide range of features that might be right for different listening situations.

“Hearing aids will make me look old.” Modern hearing aids are sleeker, betterlooking, and more effective than the clunkers you remember your grandparents wearing. And nothing makes you seem old like constantly asking people to repeat themselves or speak louder. “Hearing aids will make me hear screeching noises.” This problem, called “feedback,” is caused when the microphones in the hearing aid amplify

“Hearing aids will make my hearing worse.” A properly fitted and maintained hearing aid will not damage your hearing. Visit an audiologist to make sure you purchase a hearing aid that will work for you. one another. Some hearing aids offer features that prevent feedback.

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May is Better Hearing & Speech Month Good Samaritan Helps You Connect With Your World Hearing and speech are vital to communicating with the world around us. The effects of age, illness, or injury can cause losses to hearing and speech that are either slow and progressive or sudden. It is hard to put a value on hearing and speech until you experience a loss of ability. When that loss is slow, you may find yourself beginning to withdraw from your normal activities without even realizing it because you are struggling to communicate. The Good Samaritan Hospital in Lebanon offers evaluation and treatment options for hearing loss, speech issues, and even swallowing problems to help you connect with your world. If you or a loved one are missing conversation or avoiding activities you once enjoyed, hearing loss may be to blame. Trust the expert Good Samaritan audiology team to evaluate your hearing and determine if a hearing aid can

reconnect you with the people and world around you. Hearing evaluations are conducted at The Good Samaritan Hospital and can be conveniently scheduled by physician referral or by calling (717) 270-7812. If it is determined that your hearing loss requires a hearing aid, Good Samaritan prescribes nationally recognized, currentmodel hearing devices from the leaders in hearing aid research. And you will get a fair deal, because our staff doesn’t earn commission and all discounts are passed on to you. Unlike many others who sell hearing aids, our state-licensed audiologist, Dr. Carla Pielmeier, AuD, has both a master’s and doctorate in audiology, so she understands what causes hearing loss and prescribes the right hearing aid for your condition. She then ensures the customized settings are performing properly for you with computerized

verification of the hearing aid fitting. The clinic also offers assisted listening devices, customized hearing protection, and swim plugs as well as repair of hearing aids. In addition to comprehensive diagnostic audiological evaluations, The Good Samaritan Hospital Audiology Clinic provides other services such as speech/cognition therapy following a stroke or accident, treatment for swallowing difficulties including VitalStim® Therapy, and voice therapy to improve weak voice or sound of your voice. Our speech/language pathologists at Good Samaritan are licensed by the state of Pennsylvania to treat speech, language, and swallowing disorders. If hearing or speech problems are keeping you from doing the things you love or communicating with the world around you, let the Good Samaritan team help you reconnect. Good

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Lebanon County Senior Games Back for 2012 The 27th annual Lebanon County Senior Games are set to take place May 30 to June 5 with a full schedule of events for county residents 50 and older. The games will be held at different sites throughout the county.

The Lebanon County Senior Games, organized by the Lebanon YMCA, promote physical fitness and fellowship through participation in competitive and noncompetitive activities. Participants are divided into several age divisions and will

compete for one of three top-place awards in each age division for every event. The games’ five-day span will include walking, golf, shuffleboard, bingo, billiards, and more. Scheduled events for 2012 are as follows: Wednesday, May 30 8 a.m. – 1.5-mile walk or half-mile walk, Lions Lake 9:30 a.m. – Miniature golf, Watering Hole Golf Course 1:30 p.m. – Bowling, Cedar Lanes Thursday, May 31

This Month in History: May

8 a.m. – Golf, Blue Mt. View Golf Course

Events • May 9, 1862 – During the American Civil War, General David Hunter, Union commander of the Department of the South, issued orders freeing the slaves in South Carolina, Florida, and Georgia without congressional or presidential approval. The orders were countermanded by President Abraham Lincoln 10 days later.

Friday, June 1 8:30 a.m. – Pinochle, Senior Center of Lebanon Valley 9 a.m. – Table tennis, Senior Center of Lebanon Valley 12:30 p.m. – Swimming, freestyle; 100-meter free/fly/breast, Lebanon VA (YMCA) 1 p.m. – Bingo, Senior Center of Lebanon Valley

• May 14, 1804 – Meriwether Lewis and William Clark departed St. Louis on their expedition to explore the Northwest. They arrived at the Pacific coast of Oregon in November of 1805 and returned to St. Louis in September of 1806, completing a journey of about 6,000 miles. • May 31, 1889 – More than 2,300 people were killed in the Johnstown flood in Pennsylvania. Heavy rains throughout May caused the Conemaugh River Dam to burst, sending a 75foot-tall wall of water pouring down upon the city.

Monday, June 4 8 a.m. – Badminton, singles and doubles, Lebanon VA (YMCA) 10 a.m. – Basketball foul shooting, Lebanon VA (YMCA) 11 a.m. – Softball throw, Lebanon VA (YMCA) 12:30 p.m. – Bocce ball, age 70-79 and 80+, Lebanon VA (YMCA) 2 p.m. – Bocce ball, age 50-59 and 6069, Lebanon VA (YMCA) Tuesday, June 5 8:30 a.m. – Billiards, Senior Center of Lebanon Valley 12:30 p.m. – Shuffleboard, Senior Center of Lebanon Valley The entry deadline is May 11, and official registration forms can be sent to Lebanon YMCA (Mark Hubbard) at 201 N. Seventh St., Lebanon, PA 17046. There is a registration fee per individual registration. For more information, call the Lebanon YMCA at (717) 273-2691. Sponsors for the Lebanon County Senior Games are Lebanon County Area Agency on Aging, Lebanon YMCA, and 50plus Senior News.

Birthdays

For Lebanon County Residents Age 50+

• May 1 – American labor leader Mary “Mother” Jones (1830-1930) was born in County Cork, Ireland. She endured misfortune early in life as her husband and four children died during the yellow fever epidemic of 1867. She also lost all of her belongings in the Chicago Fire of 1871. She then devoted herself to organizing and advancing the cause of labor, using the slogan, “Join the union, boys!” She also sought to prohibit child labor. She remained active until the very end, giving her last speech on her 100th birthday.

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• May 8 – International Red Cross founder and Nobel Prize winner Henri Dunant (1828-1910) was born in Geneva, Switzerland. He was also a founder of the YMCA and organized the Geneva Conventions of 1863 and 1864. • May 19 – African-American playwright Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) was born in Chicago, Ill. She is best known for A Raisin in the Sun (1959) a play dealing with prejudice and black pride. The play was the first stage production written by a black woman to appear on Broadway. She died of cancer at the age of 34. A book of her writings, entitled To Be Young, Gifted, and Black, was published posthumously.

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Easy Vegetable Frittata By Pat Sinclair As summer approaches, I’m always looking for nutritious recipes that require little effort. An Italian frittata is a complete meal the way I prepare it. Fresh asparagus celebrates spring and abundant zucchini heralds the end of the season. Try topping it with sliced tomatoes before adding the cheese. There are endless variations, and it’s a great way to use up small amounts of leftover vegetables. Eggs provide healthy protein, and you can replace two eggs with egg substitute or egg whites if you are limiting cholesterol. Not all frittatas contain potatoes, but adding them makes the meal more substantial. Just add some fresh fruit and dinner’s ready! Makes 2 servings 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil 1/4 cup chopped onion 1/4 cup diced red pepper 1 1/2 cups refrigerated hash browns or frozen shredded hash browns, thawed 8 spears asparagus, cut into 2- to 3-inch pieces 1 cup fresh baby spinach leaves 1 clove garlic, minced 4 eggs 1/4 cup milk 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon pepper Hot pepper sauce, if desired 1/2 cup shredded Mexican blend cheese or cheddar cheese Heat the butter and olive oil in a 9-inch nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add the onion and red pepper and cook two to three minutes or until softened. Add the potatoes and cook about five minutes or until the potatoes begin to brown. Add asparagus and continue cooking about three minutes until bright green. Add the spinach and garlic and cover. Cook one minute until the spinach is wilted. Beat the eggs, milk, salt, pepper, and a few drops hot pepper sauce in a medium bowl until smooth. Pour over potatoes. Cook five to eight minutes, lifting edges and allowing uncooked egg to flow underneath. Heat the broiler. Sprinkle frittata with cheese and broil two to four minutes or until center is set. Cut into four wedges to serve. Tip: For variations, include experiment with fresh vegetables. When I use zucchini, I chop it and cook it with the onion. For leftover vegetables, add them with the spinach.

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pheromones, which purportedly make you attractive to lovers. This generous gift of the universe contains more glutathione than other produce. It assists cells in breaking down toxic peroxide and other oxygen-rich compounds, preventing them from destroying DNA. Glutathione repairs damaged DNA, stimulates immune function, recycles vitamins C and E back to their active forms, and removes toxins. In 1991, an Italian researcher reported a compound found in asparagus that had shown some antiviral activity in test-tube studies. The root contains compounds called steroidal glycosides, which may have anti-inflammatory properties to ease the pain of arthritic-related conditions. Without getting busted by the grocery cops, bend a stalk and select a bunch that is firm with tightly closed buds. The thickness of the stalks makes no difference. The color should be bright green with subtle purple hints. Discoloration and fading can guarantee it’s old. After cooking, if your asparagus has gone limp, you’ve blown it. All of asparagus’s delicious cosmic healing qualities are ruined by cooking too long; raw is best. Steam it for one minute. Pay attention; over-cooking deserves a good flogging. “As quick as cooking asparagus” was a Roman saying, meaning something had to be accomplished rapidly. To steam: Place washed, whole, trimmed asparagus on a steamer rack over rapidly boiling water. Cover and begin timing. Serving suggestions: • Try asparagus with minced, fresh garlic and lemon juice squeezed over the top. • Chop it up raw and toss it into a salad. • Drizzle it with soy sauce, toasted sesame oil, and chopped green onions. • Yogurt, low-fat mayonnaise, or non-fat sour cream are easy toppings. please see TIPS page 17

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Salute to a Veteran

He Spent 93 Days as an Evadee Behind Enemy Lines Robert D. Wilcox n Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese carrier planes, without warning, dropped the bombs on Pearl Harbor that were to involve the United States in the largest war the world had ever seen. Two days later, Donald B. Wren went to the recruiting station in Chicago to enlist. He says he’ll never forget that day. The freezing-cold wind blew strongly down the several-block-long line of men waiting to enlist. Then, for Wren, it was off to Santa Ana, Calif., on a troop train for basic training. For many of them, who had never been farther than Chicago, that was a life-changing experience. And after five days and nights, they arrived at Santa Ana. After much training, Wren was chosen on May 19, 1942, to become an aviation cadet. That was followed by months of flying training, after which he won his wings as a pilot and was assigned a crew of five other men and shipped to Baltimore, where he picked up a brandnew B-26 Marauder twin-engine bomber from the factory. The B-26 was already called the “Widowmaker” due to its high rate of accidents during takeoff and landings. It had to be flown at exact airspeeds, particularly on final approach and when one engine was out. Its usual approach airspeed of 150 miles per hour then had to be strictly maintained or it would stall out and crash. Wren and his new crew then flew to Miami. The next day was Christmas, when they were awakened at 6 a.m.,

the name of the town and had no idea where it lay, but I kept my mouth shut and pointed straight ahead. When they left, I scampered back to the room I had left. Somehow, the room no longer seemed boring or confining.” There were other close scrapes. Once he was eating in a small restaurant with the underground when some German officers came in and shook hands all around. “I just shook hands and grinned,” he says, “and my rescuers got me out of the place quickly.” After 93 days behind enemy lines, the Allied troops went by, and Wren was safe at last. He met up with his radio operator, and they got an old German motorcycle operating again. They drove from one American camp to another, gathering up food supplies that they could take to the people who had cared for them. They finally reached an American airfield, and a flight took them back to England. Since they had been behind the lines, they were promptly flown to the U.S. for intelligence debriefing. Later, he was a flight instructor and saw combat in Korea and Vietnam. “But that,” he says, “is another story.” Wren retired from the Air Force as a colonel in 1976, and later he and his wife, Mariann, came to Central Pennsylvania to enjoy life in a retirement community, never far from thinking of the hazards he faced as a B-26 pilot in Europe in our nation’s greatest war. Colonel Wilcox flew a B-17 bomber in Europe in WWII.

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hedgerows, and in given a bag of oranges haystacks. and a pat on the back, “Food consisted of and sent off on the the carrots, green beans, long flight to Europe peas, and radishes that via South America; could be ‘liberated’ at Ascension Island, a tiny night from local dot halfway across the gardens, but my weight Atlantic; Africa; and went down to 137 finally to England, pounds. where they were “I awakened one assigned to the 554th th Bomb Squadron, 386 morning with a French Bomb Group. milkmaid standing over There Wren was to me. She turned out to fly 97 combat hours have family in the on 29 combat French underground, so Captain Donald B. Wren in 1950. missions, participating she ran off to get her in the Normandy and father. And from then Air Offensive European campaigns. on, the underground took care of me.” Many of those missions were knocking Wren buried his uniform clothes and out bridges in preparation for the D-Day was given appropriate civilian clothes, a invasion. Did his crew suffer any French beret, a work card, and even casualties? wooden-soled shoes. The only thing he “Yes,” he says quietly, “we sure did. kept was his dog tags. He and other My co-pilot was killed, our bombardier evadees were transferred from one suffered flak damage to his right eye and farmhouse to another. Once, after was removed from the crew, our flight spending 30 days in one room, alone engineer ‘went to pieces’ and was with nothing to occupy his time or grounded, and a flak burst below the mind, he climbed out of a window and belly of the plane put enough metal in was on his own. our waist gunner’s butt to land him in While walking down a dirt path, he the hospital. heard a motorcycle with two Germans “Then, on my 29th mission, on May aboard approaching. There was no time 31, 1943, we were shot down and had to to hide, so he kept walking. The bail out over France. My radio operator motorcycle stopped in front of him, and and I had had ‘double E’ training (escape the Germans looked him up and down. and evasion), so we made it to the trees, “I felt sure that they could read a sign where I spent the next 13 days hiding on my chest saying, ‘I am an American,’” out in the countryside under fir trees he says. “They asked the way to a nearby whose branches swept the ground, in town. I couldn’t understand more than

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Silver Threads

They Led Three Lives W.E. Reinka n early 1950s television, Richard played in orchestras to put himself Carlson starred in I Led Three Lives. through Penn State, where he studied Each episode started with a dramatic architectural engineering, not music. voiceover: “This is the fantastically true His engineering knowledge stood him story of the Herbert A. Philbrick, who, in good stead as he helped work out the for nine frightening years, did lead three kinks in another inventor’s basic blender lives—average citizen, member of the design. Voila! The Waring Blender was Communist Party, and counterspy for born. the FBI.” Hedy Lamarr shocked European I always thought if we could count movie-goers by skinny dipping in the “average citizen” as one of our lives, we 1933 Austrian-Czech film Ecstasy. In all could claim at least two—for instance, Hollywood she is remembered as much average citizen and for turning down housewife or average what became Ingrid citizen and pipe Bergman roles in fitter. Gaslight and It may be a Casablanca as for stretch to call starring in such celebrities average pictures as Samson citizens, but if we and Delilah and do, several from past The Strange Woman. and present have led But the woman three lives, just like Louis B. Mayer PHOTO: DAVE BONTA Herbert A. once called “the Fred Waring exhibit at Penn State. Philbrick. most beautiful girl Take Dorothy in the world” was Rodgers, wife of composer Richard not just another pretty face. Back in Rodgers, who always fought being 1942, Lamarr shared a patent for a summarized as “wife and mother.” She “secret communication system” that was wrote books on home decorating and designed as a guidance device for U.S. invented a toilet cleaning “jonny mop,” torpedoes. The invention, based on which she sold to Johnson & Johnson. “frequency hopping,” was so far ahead of Jamie Leigh Curtis, daughter of Janet its time that the military couldn’t use it Leigh and Tony Curtis, and a movie star until the 1960s. In today’s digital age, it in her own right, holds the patent on a helps keep cell phone calls secure. disposable diaper that comes with a Even ardent baseball fans may have moistened baby wipe attached. trouble recalling journeyman catcher New Yorker writer Ian Frazier often Moe Berg. A defensive specialist, Berg writes about fishing, but his patent is for got in just 662 big-league games during a different kind of pole—one that 15 seasons in the 1920s and ’30s. removes debris stuck in trees. Berg’s I.Q. might have been higher Ever yearn to write, but say you than his batting average. He graduated haven’t the time? Draw inspiration from from Princeton with honors, and then Edward Streeter. Streeter retired from his earned a law degree from Columbia 37-year banking career in 1956, a couple while playing big-league ball. Players of years after his novel, Mr. Hobbs’ used to joke, “Moe Berg can speak seven Vacation, hit the bookstores. Later it was languages, but he can’t hit in any of transformed into a hit movie starring them.” Jimmy Stewart and Maureen O’Hara. One of those languages was Japanese, But Streeter already knew about which might explain how a ball player Hollywood. You see, back in the ’40s, he who hit only three homeruns in his first made time to write Father of the Bride 10 seasons got selected, along with bona despite his daily commute to New York’s fide stars like Babe Ruth and Lou Fifth Avenue Bank. Gehrig, for a 1934 traveling all-star team Anyone with more LPs than CDs that visited Japan. Berg charmed his remembers the choral harmony of Fred hosts into letting him take home movies Waring and His Pennsylvanians. Waring from the top of Tokyo’s tallest building,

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would be the beginning of his military career as well as the spark for an infatuation that would evolve to greatly influence his life. “They just fascinated me,” Knaub said of the whales. He always believed he would be in the banking industry, having pursued it very early on. After he attended the US Naval Academy, Knaub acquired a BS in accounting from Elizabethtown College and his MBA in banking from Shippensburg University. He was able to work in Harrisburg with two large banking institutions. However, Knaub’s interests began to float back into the world of whales after discovering whale watching— a practice of observing whales in their natural environment—in Provincetown, Mass., during a 1985 trip with a group of friends. It was not until the very last day of their three-day journey that they were able to witness their first whale. “It was foggy,” Knaub recalled, “and then someone [on the boat] with the microphone announced, ‘There’s a whale!’” What he witnessed that day was the tail— also known as the fluke—of the whale, which would become a notable symbol in his company’s logo. “After eight hours on the boat we thought it was the most amazing thing.” The following year, he brought his wife along to whale watch and they both witnessed two humpback whales that came directly up to their boat, slapping their flukes in the water—an action called lobtailing. “They really excited me and fueled my passion to be a marine biologist,” Knaub said.

Having brought along his personal camera, many other whale watchers would ask Knaub for copies of his videotapes. “That was the light-bulb moment for me,” said Knaub. It would also be the beginning of his Whale Video Company. During six months in 1988, he took 175 whalewatching trips, recording everything he saw. According to Knaub, a lot of planning goes into a whale-watching trip and capturing video, including anticipation of bad weather, being prepared for seasickness, preparing backup equipment, and knowing how to spot a whale. In Knaub’s videos, there is a distinct enthusiasm not only from the whale watchers, but from the whales as well. The videos show whales blowing ring bubbles and breeching, which is when whales launch themselves out of the water in an incredible display. “Humpback whales are 50 tons of fun,” he laughed. Knaub’s videos—digitized and annotated by him— have become known as the world’s largest video documentation archive of dolphin and whale behaviors. They serve as some of the first notations of certain whale behaviors. “We have about 500 [whales] identified on video,” Knaub said. “[The] whales have names and personalities and an interest in us.” His vast collection of videos caught the attention of Google, making Knaub one of the official contributors to Google Earth and Google Ocean. Knaub also has videos posted to YouTube that have accumulated thousands of views.

Knaub said that it simply takes one trip to excite individuals about whales. “You would think someone who went on tens of thousands of trips would be immune, but it’s as if it is their first time—there is something magical about a whale,” he said. That magic seems to have Knaub completely captivated as he has made several connections with the whales he has videotaped, knowing about 100 on sight. “It was their amazing stories that got me away from banking,” Knaub said. Quite a few of these whales have become celebrities amongst whale watchers and fanatics. The most notable are Salt and Colt. Salt, a humpback whale, was the first whale to be treated as an individual and given a name. She is the most sighted whale in the whale world, being spotted every year. Marine biologists estimate that she is 43 to 44 years old (most humpback whales live to be about 75). Salt is also a mother of 12 calves and eight known grand-calves. Scientists are able to keep track of whales by their markings and scars. Many are even named after such markings. Colt is a 30-year-old humpback whale who is well known for his singing talents; he has been dubbed “the Frank Sinatra of the whale world.” “Colt has a little black mark that looks like a handgun,” laughed Knaub. When it comes to selecting names, “you have to use your imagination.” Both Colt and Salt are whales that are available for adoption through a CSI program that Knaub helped to

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establish. Through this organization, your “My company wants to show the donation goes toward protecting whales beautiful side of whales,” he emphasized. against inhumane hunting, known as Knaub remembered an example of such a whaling, and toward environmental side when a mother whale briefly left her conservation. calf by his boat for a few hours. “Why Those who choose to adopt are sent a would a mother want to bring its calf to package that includes a DVD of the us even when they are treated badly? They adopted whale that displays Knaub’s are more trusting than most people will fascinating whale videos. Whale fans are be. also able to take “They deserve direct action by our protection.” signing petitions Interested in against the hunting getting involved and consumption of with a few of whales or by Knaub’s noncontacting state profit legislatures on the organizations? CSI website. Whale adoption “If we tell you and cetacean about them and preservation Salt blows near a calf. show you stories information can about their be found on the personalities, it’s like they become CSI website at www.csiwhales friends,” Knaub explained. alive.org or by calling (203) 770-8615. Knaub also takes his vast knowledge to To donate to a whale and dolphin senior communities and elementary charity, visit the WDCS International schools across the nation, giving lectures Charity page at www.wdcs.org or call that drown out the negative stereotypes their toll-free number, (888) 699-4253. whales are often given: that they are For more information on the preservation dangerous creatures responsible for the of all animals, visit www.ifaw.org or reach decline in fish and other ocean life. them at (202) 296-3860.

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