Pilot Media - 150th Anniversary 2015

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NOTE TO READERS PAT RICHARDSON PUBLISHER

ODAY The Virginian-Pilot turns 150. For decades, we have been honored and proud to be your local news source covering and engaging the community in ways not even imaginable 150 years ago. Who would have thought in 1865 that by the 150th anniversary The Virginian-Pilot would reach 554,200 adult readers in print weekly and have over 9.5 million page views a month on our website – with about 40 percent of those coming from mobile devices?

work with better photo and video displays throughout the site. While the platforms are changing, our role is not. Whenever, wherever and however you choose, we will continue to provide you news and information that matters to you whether in print, on our website, a mobile app, video or through social media. This year has been Who would have thought re-engage this community a special time for us to pause and reflect on what and to include readers in that we would be engagThe Virginian-Pilot has ing our readers not only on the conversation. meant to our readers. What this means for us our own platforms but also We’ve used this mileis developing a richer unwhere they are on social stone anniversary achievederstanding of our readmedia? ment as an opportunity to ers’ priorities, values, Back in 1865, The Nortravel back in time to reexperiences and perspecfolk Virginian (The Virmind readers of the bigtives to provide news and ginian-Pilot’s predecesinformation that resonates gest stories, events and sor) defined its mission people that have affected and helps our readers to “to stimulate immigraour coverage and our comlive better lives. tion, to attract capital munity. Just about two weeks and to awaken the enerOur trip down memoago we launched Pilotongy and enterprise of our line.com on a new, respon- ry lane recalled the rich fellow citizens.” Today at history of our area told sive platform. With this The Virginian-Pilot we through the lens of the milchange we have made it see our role as serving as easier for you to access the itary, arts, sports, crime, your trusted source of lodisasters, politics and news you care about and cal news and information to inform, improve and in- find the stories that every- noteworthy people. When we started celeone is talking about and spire this community. sharing with their friends. brations in February, kickWe have helped shape ing off monthly themes We have a rich history this region, and you helped and reproductions of origshape us. As we look to the of award-winning design and photography from phe- inal front pages readers future we know it is critibegan to reach out to us nomenal photographers cal for us to keep in mind and artists, and our new what matters to our readers, to look for new ways to site now celebrates this See Richardson, Page 6

Editor: Bernadette Kinlaw Designer: Sam Hundley Researchers: Jakon Hays and Maureen Watts

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Focus turns to the future paper is the backbone that brings people, information and ideas together and to share their stories and helps to enhance the qualimemories of growing up ty of life of a community. with The Pilot. The work our journalists I remember one particular conversation with a lo- do matters and it matters now more than ever. It is cal business leader about the experience being a Pi- hard for me to imagine 150 years from now a thriving lot carrier while growing up. Often these conversa- community without The tions would evolve to ques- Virginian-Pilot in some way, shape or form. tions about the future of Our challenge for the futhis, and all, newspapers. What would strike me in ture is not the journalism but finding the right ecothese conversations was the level of expressed con- nomics to support it. We are optimistic about the cern for our future and future of The Virginianhow would we survive. Pilot and our industry. While we are in an unToday, as we celebrate precedented time in our industry fighting to ensure 150 years of publication we have compiled for you the future of our journala special collection of the ism we are also evolving. A strong and vibrant news- Pilot’s biggest stories of Continued from page 4

each decade, significant milestones and key people who are an important part of our personal history, as well as other stories and photos that capture the essence of who we are and where we’ve been. I hope you enjoy this special package we have put together for you, our valuable readers, as we come to a close of our yearlong anniversary celebration and continue our focus on the future – embracing innovation and change to ensure The Virginian-Pilot lives on another 150 years for the next generation of Pilot readers. Thank you for your support.

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HISTORIC FIRSTS

GET THE INSIDE SCOOP ON OUR PAPER’S MILESTONES By Jakon Hays and Maureen Watts The Virginian-Pilot

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NE OF THE FIRST FEMALE REPORTERS to work for the Ledger Dispatch was Stella Andrews Upshur. She began working for the paper in 1918, at age 51, as a general assignment reporter and later entered the women’s department of the newsroom, covering society and women’s activities in Norfolk. Upshur worked for the Ledger for nearly four decades, retiring at age 89. The first African American to work on the news staff of the Virginian-Pilot was George Linyear. He was hired July 5, 1963, to work as a graphic touchup artist for the news department. The first Afri-

can American reporters on staff were Coatie L. Brinkley Jr., for the Ledger and Marvin Leon Lake for the Pilot. Both started working for the papers in 1969. Ledger-Dispatch first

published color comics on Sept 28, 1907. The Virginian- Pilot was the first and only newspaper to report on the news of Orville and Wilbur Wright’s astonishing feat of a manned, powered flight on Dec. 17, 1903, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. News of the flight was leaked to reporters at The Virginian-Pilot hours after it happened. Working off the tip, Pilot newsmen rushed to report the event and the original story published on Dec. 18, 1903, contained many errors. A century later, on the anniversary of the flight, The Pilot ran a front page story, correcting many of the errors that appeared in the original story. Virginian-Pilot reporter Edward Keville Glennan was the first to photograph Eugene Ely’s successful See Firsts, Page 10

EDWARD KEVILLE GLENNAN | VIRGINIAN-PILOT FILE PHOTO

Eugene Ely’s first flight off a ship, in 1910, from the deck of a ship, which was anchored near Old Point Comfort off the coast of Norfolk.

Your company’s goals/vision for your future: We want to continue to offer the best quality food at competitive prices to the Tidewater area and hope to expand to new areas by the promotion of our franchise opportunities. What’s unique about your business: Our business has been family owned and operated since it’s 1st day of operation and our goal has never changed to prepare and serve the best tasting food possible with the idea that our customers are our most important asset. The Pollard family was born and raised in Tidewater.

POLLARD’S CHICKEN & CATERING Owners: John C. Pollard, Sr., President and Mrs. Betty Ann Pollard Gravely, Vice President Date Established: February, 1967 for the restaurants. 1953 Catering. How did your business get started? Our mother started catering in 1953 making everything in her kitchen. In 1967, we started looking for a part-time business and Mom wanted a commercial kitchen. We found a restaurant for sale on Little Creek and it became our first Pollard’s Restaurant with our whole family working.

The smartest thing you’ve done for your business: Insured continued growth with our franchising capability and hired honest, loyal employees many of who have been with Pollard’s up to 40 plus years. We don’t burnout our managers like other restaurants. The Pollards managers only work 45 hours a week instead of the 50 – 60 + hours at most other restaurants. We have had 3 of our managers retire with over 100 years combined service with Pollards! We presently have two managers with over 30 years each!

Achievements that you’re most proud of: a. Close to 50 successful years in the Restaurant business b. Over 62 years Catering to the Tidewater area c. Many valued long-term repeat customers d. Earning many awards for our food including “Best of” awards in Chesapeake, Norfolk and Virginia Beach for 23 years straight! e. Also earning the “Best Caterer” and the Best of the Best” Your role model: We have to give the credit for our success to our Mom & Dad, Betty and Clyde Pollard. Mom was a wonderful cook and Dad had a great head for business. They were hard workers, great providers and shared their knowledge with us.

Your best lesson learned in the business: That always providing the best quality food served by pleasant and friendly employees is the real reason for the success of Pollard’s Chicken & Catering. Pollard’s chicken is never frozen, like most others.

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the paper’s first Washington correspondent in 1882. The Virginian-Pilot won attempt at making a ship-to its first Pulitzer prize in -shore flight. The civilian 1929 for Louis Isaac Jaffe’s pilot made history on the editorial entitled “An Unmorning of Nov. 14, 1910, speakable Act of Savagery.” when he flew his airplane The first computer, an off a ramp attached to the IBM 1620 computer system deck of the Birmingham. was installed to speed the Glennan witnessed the typesetting operations. The event and took the picture. Virginian-Pilot and Ledger The first Parade magazine was added as a supple- Star were among the first 20 of the nation’s 1,700 daily ment to the Sunday edition of the Virginian-Pilot in Au- newspapers to use the IBM computer system, in August gust 1951. 1964. The first female managThe Pilot produced its ing editor was Sandra M. first full color special adRowe, in November 1983. The first African-Ameri- vertising section in Septemcan publisher was Maurice ber 1963. The 12-page full color ad for Home FurniJones, in April 2008. The first female publish- ture Company marked the er was Patricia Richardson, first time a newspaper in Virginia had produced such in September 2014. a section in full color. The Virginian-Pilot’s The Virginian-Pilot first staff photographer opened a state capital news was Charles Borjes. He started work at the paper in bureau in Richmond. It was the first bureau opened 1913 and shot pictures for by a newspaper headquarabout 40 years before retered outside of that city. A tiring. direct teletype connected Norfolk Landmark rethe Richmond bureau with porter Watson Boyle was

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Charles Borjes, the first staff photographer at the Virginian-Pilot, standing next to the first company car, around 1920. SARGEANT MEMORIAL

the Virginian-Pilot newsroom in Norfolk in September 1963. The Virginian-Pilot publishes its first tabloid magazine targeted at teens in August 1966. “Action” magazine was published every other Saturday and was devoted to reporting news and features of special interest to young people. For the first time, the Sunday edition of the Virginian-Pilot was sold at newsstands in Hampton, Newport News and Williamsburg in March 1977. The tabs , which expanded and emphasized local news were introduced city by city: Virginia Beach Beacon in March 1962; Continued on Page 12

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HISTORIC FIRSTS Continued from Page 10

Norfolk Compass in March 1976; Suffolk Sun in 1976; Currents in 1977. The first newspapers rolled off the presses at the newspaper’s new building on Brambleton Avenue on Oct. 18, 1937. The first female newspaper carriers started delivering papers in the fall of 1972, after the Virginia state code under child labor law was changed to allow girls older than 13 to be newspapers carriers. Newspaper veteran Richard J. Gonder was named the paper’s first public editor in September 1974. Gonder was responsible for monitoring accuracy and fairness in news content of the Virginian-Pilot and Ledger Star. In the early months of 1981, the Virginian-Pilot and Ledger Star joined 10

The VirginianPilot newspaper office at 207 High St. in downtown Portsmouth is photographed on March 3, 1932.

other newspapers in an experimental program to deliver “electronic editions” of their product to customers who owned computers. The experimental service was provided by CompuServe Inc. and ended in June 1982. In December 1994, The Virginian-Pilot begins publishing top local stories and classified advertising to Pilotonline.com, the paper’s supplement for computer users. On April 8, 1975, the linecasting machines, which set type in hot metal, fell silent in the paper’s composing room. For the first time at the Virginian-Pilot and the Ledger Star, type for the April 9 edition of the papers was processed 100 percent by computers and reproduced photographically.

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Frank Batten

“ONE OF THE GREAT VIRGINIANS OF THE CENTURY” In the past 25 years, The Pilot family has lost some giants. To honor Frank Batten, Guy Friddell and George Tucker in this anniversary issue, we’re re-running abridged versions of their staff-written obituaries. This originally ran on Sept. 11, 2009. By Earl Swift The Virginian-Pilot

He was a son of privilege, the heir to a family fortune, a man whose life, in other hands, might have been measured in dollars and cents. Instead, Frank Batten forged a legacy not on what he made but what he created. From errand boy he rose to publisher of The VirginianPilot and its afternoon sister, then parlayed his newspa-

pers into an adventuresome media company with global reach. He helped lead the fight for integrated schools in Norfolk, midwifed Old Dominion University into being, commanded The Associated Press and its far-flung correspondents, and defied a legion of doubters to create The Weather Channel. He also lavished endowments on schools and universities and co-founded a

scholarship program that guaranteed college educations to inner-city children. And with a resolve that characterized all he did, he survived throat cancer and overcame the loss of his voice, then persevered through a succession of ailments and injuries late in his life. Batten, who was 82, died Sept. 10, 2009. He left behind a region significantly changed by his presence. “He could very easily have just led the good life and not dealt with the problems of the city and the state,” said Harvey Lindsay, a Norfolk real estate developer, civic leader and friend of Batten’s for nearly 60 years. “But he chose to become very involved and to do things that have helped so many people. “I think he was certainly one of the great Virginians VIRGINIAN-PILOT FILE PHOTO of the century.” Louis D. Boccardi, retired Frank Batten in the pressroom of The Virginian-Pilot.

president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press, called Batten “a teacher and a leader and a visionary.” Bruce Bradley, retired publisher of The VirginianPilot, called him the embodiment of “hard work, humility and innovation.” Until its partial breakup in 2008, Batten’s Landmark Communications Inc. was one of the country’s largest privately held media companies. At its height, the company employed more than 10,000 people throughout the United States and Europe, and annual revenues approached $2 billion. Such measures of success were never Batten’s, however. “The thing I think I’m most proud of,” he said in a 2000 interview, “is developing what I think is a first-rate See Batten, Page 18

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paper in town. Childless, Slover raised Frank as his own, imbuing the boy with his passion for news and news-papering. “He was the biggest influence on my life,� Batten said decades later. “It was not so much his style but his values that influenced me. He had a lot of simple but very strong values — about truthfulness, the way you deal with people, being straightforward.� Batten became publisher of The Virginian-Pilot and the Ledger-Dispatch in 1954. He was 27 years old. “It was a much smaller company at the time, but it was enough for me,� Batten

said. “I thought it was General Motors.� If his view of the company was outsized, so were its problems. Each day’s editions were seat-of-the-pants productions. News and advertising staffs were oblivious to each other’s needs and routines. Turf wars were common. Neither the Ledger-Dispatch nor The Virginian-Pilot had a personnel department, or formal hiring standards, or a retirement program. Batten imported a cadre of pedigreed editors and began professionalizing the papers’ business side. He also bought his only

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papers, and two daughters, Mary Elizabeth — Betsy, to the family — and Dorothy. The late 1950s brought one of his greatest tests as a newspaperman. Virginia had struggled Continued on next page

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competition — the afternoon Portsmouth Star — and folded it into what soon became the Ledger-Star. He sought another merger as well. Among the newsroom’s staff was Jane Parke, who was both secretary to Managing Editor R.K.T. “Kit� Larsen and a lab technician in the photography department. Batten asked her out, and romance bloomed — “step by step, rather than like a lightning bolt,� as he later put it. They married in 1957. Before long the couple had a son, Frank Jr., destined to follow his father into news-

with school desegregation for years when, in September 1958, Gov. J. Lindsay Almond Jr. ordered six Norfolk secondary schools shut down to block the court-ordered admission of black students. The deed capped the state’s officially mandated “Massive Resistance� to integration, a stand that made Virginia an international synonym for intolerance. The Ledger supported the Massive Resistance doctrine. The Virginian-Pilot, alone among major Virginia papers, opposed it; its editor, Lenoir Chambers, showed up the policy as incoherent in an unflinching series of editorials. “Those were pretty rough days,� Batten recalled in a 1987 interview. “We got a lot of bitter letters. We would have racist things spray-painted on the building rather frequently

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and occasionally had bomb threats.� Gene Roberts, a VirginianPilot reporter who went on to become a dean of American journalism in Philadelphia and New York, recalled that Batten initially “seemed to take pride that the two papers could go their different ways. “But ultimately,� he said, “he felt that the Ledger’s position was reinforcing the closing of the schools.� When the Ledger’s editorial staff proved unable to effectively change the paper’s position, Batten did it himself. “I would never ask an editor to write something he didn’t believe in, but also, if I thought the paper was being irresponsible, I was going to either write it myself or get someone else to write it,� Batten said. “I think it’s the only time I’ve ever had to... make a rad-

“Newspapers live entirely on the bounty of the public. The ability of journalists to report and to comment is based upon a unique grant of freedom from the public. Thus our duty is clear: It is to serve the public with skill and character, and to exercise First Amendment freedoms with vigor and responsibility.� – Frank Batten

ical reversal on the editorial page.� He also helped organize a full-page advertisement, signed by dozens of Norfolk’s social leaders, calling for the schools to reopen. Norfolk’s schools reopened peacefully in February 1959. Chambers’ editorials won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize. It wasn’t long before the company began aiming for bigger opportunities. It found its first in Roanoke Rapids, N.C., where, in 1964, Batten launched a cable television system called TeleCable Corp. that over the following three decades built cable networks in 15 states.

In 1967, Norfolk Newspapers Inc. became Landmark Communications Inc., amid a growth spurt in which it bought North Carolina’s Greensboro Daily News and Greensboro Record, The Roanoke Times & World-News, a host of non-daily papers, and several TV stations. Now the chairman of a fast-growing media empire, Batten wrote a platform for his papers, presaging the mission statements embraced by corporate America years later. “Newspapers live entirely on the bounty of the public,� the document opened. “The ability of journalists to report

and to comment is based upon a unique grant of freedom from the public. Thus our duty is clear: It is to serve the public with skill and character, and to exercise First Amendment freedoms with vigor and responsibility.� Landmark papers had a duty to “be aggressive in publishing the news,� to publish editorials of “vigor and courage,� to “present a faithful and accurate picture of the life of their communities.� Their independence “is not for sale,� he wrote. “There are no sacred cows. No territory of legitimate public interest is off limits to fair and competent report

tion that I will learn to talk again.� And so he did, devoting months to “taming and disciplining an ungoverned burp to shape it into a new voice.� Private though he was, Batten’s recovery was remarkably public. “The minute he was ready to get out of bed, he went into the office,� said Walter Rugaber, former president and publisher of The Roanoke Times and past president of the Landmark Publishing Group. “And really, right out there in front of everyone, he transformed himself from the initial stages of having lost his larynx to the point that a couple years later, as the chairman of AP, he’d get up and deliver speeches.� Batten told readers the following June that he was proud of his new growl. His determination came

and comment.� In 1977, Batten — blessed with a fast-growing company, a loving family, long-standing friendships, a beautiful home, a private jet — learned he also had cancer. After two years of radiation treatments, he lost his larynx to surgery. Afterward, he was mute and breathed through a hole in his neck. “The idea alone scared me stiff,� he wrote in The Virginian-Pilot a month after the operation. “The enforced silence has been the most difficult adjustment.... What sustained me is an abiding convic- Continued on next page

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to the fore most publicly in 1982, when Batten embarked Landmark on its most audacious venture: the creation of a coast-to-coast, 24-hour cable TV channel that broadcast nothing but weather information. The Weather Channel became Landmark’s highestprofile property and a mainstay of cable systems around the country. When the company announced plans to sell the channel, its website and an associated weather data firm in January 2008, it made headlines around the country. The sale to NBC Universal and two private-equity firms reportedly netted $3.5 billion. As bold as that endeavor was, Batten may have matched it in 1988, with his role in creating the Access College Foundation. With auto dealer Joshua

Darden Jr., he founded a program that helped acquire college scholarships for Norfolk and Portsmouth high school students in need who earned decent grades, had good attendance and stayed off drugs through high school. It also provided qualified students with cash awards to meet expenses not covered by scholarship money. The foundation’s potential client list was daunting. “Money’s always an issue when you have a program that is promising a college education for an unlimited number of people for an unlimited time,� said Anne Shumadine, a past foundation chairwoman. “But when you help people grow and improve themselves, everyone benefits. That’s one thing that Frank has really impressed upon me.� Over 20 years, the program has helped more than 70,000 graduates from South Hampton Roads obtain $200

million in college aid. Batten also created the Landmark Foundation, which has funneled millions of dollars to educational charities and other nonprofit organizations. His philanthropy reached a peak in his last years, during which he donated $100 million to U.Va. — the largest gift in the university’s history — to create its first new school in more than half a century, the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. His 2008 gift of up to $70 million to Culver Academies followed an earlier donation of $20.8 million; taken separately, let alone together, they were among the largest ever to an American secondary school. He contributed $20 million toward a new Norfolk library and $7 million to the Virginia Zoo. His largesse also boosted U.Va.’s Darden Graduate School of Business Adminis-

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Frank Batten, left, then publisher of Norfolk-Portsmouth Newspapers Inc. (now Landmark Communications) with Charles T. Lipscomb Jr. at a meeting of the Directors of the Bureau of Advertising, A.N.P.A., in 1965.

tration, to which he donated $60 million, and numerous other colleges and charities. In March 2003, Batten made contributions totaling $170

Pilot writer Dave Mayfield contributed to this story.

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Guy Friddell

HIS LYRICAL COLUMNS WERE A COMMUNITY’S CONSCIENCE This article was originally published on July 21, 2013

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He found poetry in tomatoes, corn bread, in old dogs and the scent of magnolia blossoms. He found romance, adventure and inspiration in the past and its stories. He found dignity, and decency, in practically everyone he met. And in a newspaper career that spanned 60 years, Guy Friddell found a place in history: He died July 20 at age 92, one of Virginia’s favorite contemporary writers. Literary, lyrical and uncompromisingly liberal, Friddell’s

thousands of columns for The Virginian-Pilot and its late sister, the afternoon Ledger-Star, earned a wide and devoted following and established him as his community’s conscience. His subjects included politics, which he developed into an expertise in Richmond before joining The Pilot in 1963, as well as the pleasures of family, the wonders of nature, the genius of the Founding Fathers — and, by no means least, his own legendary misadventures. Those wearied by war, crime and pestilence found respite in his words and loved him for them. So prized were his columns that for decades they appeared in both the Nor-

folk and Richmond papers, through an arrangement unheard-of for competitors. Friddell attracted a passel of national and state honors, won the General Assembly’s official thanks, and was namesake to the Virginia Press Association’s top writing award. He was also a popular speaker, the author of eight books, and a mentor to generations of journalists. He was as impressive, if not more so, off the page. “He’s a great American,” said Marjorie Mayfield Jackson, executive director of the Elizabeth River Project and Friddell’s friend for decades. “Just on how to live — full-out in generosity, in courage, in taking full delight in the good things about life. To hold nothing back.” “He focused on what was important,” the second of his three sons, Malcolm P. “Mac” Friddell, said, “on figuring out what was right, and doing it.” “He is, by nature, very gen-

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tle, but when something was important to him, he was ferocious, and very, very stubborn,” said his oldest son, Guy R. “Rusty” Friddell III. “He would not compromise. He wouldn’t let go. He’d just bash into it until he got it to yield.” Friddell, who had suffered from dementia and declining

physical health for several borhood. He obtained his first formal newspaper training at years, died in his sleep. Henry W. Grady High School Guy Raymond Friddell Jr. for Boys and, after his parents was the first of two children moved north in 1936, at Thomborn to an Atlanta insurance as Jefferson High School in salesman and his homemak- Richmond. On the eve of World War er wife, and by age 10, Junior was producing his own weekly II, Friddell started classes newspaper for the residents of his family’s suburban neigh- See Friddell, Page 23

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Unconventional though they were, Friddell’s accounts of the family’s dramas struck a resounding chord with readers, no doubt in part because of the pains he took with his writing. “He had no hobbies, ever,” Rusty said. “No personal pursuits of any nature. Never went out to play cards, play golf. It was either something involving us, that would improve our lot, or it was the work.” Friddell’s first book, “Jackstraws” (1961), amassed a few dozen of his early Richmond columns. Two other collections, “I Hate You I Love You” (1965) and “Opinions of an Old Contrarian” (1997), were to follow. In 1963, The Virginian-Pilot lured him to Norfolk. His columns soon became a hit. Considering their brevity — most ran 800 words or less — they had a remarkably unhurried air. Even those on politics were steeped in folksy gentility, a conversational calm that belied Friddell’s firebrand leanings. He strayed from his subjects, often as not, to illustrate a point or play on words or recount some long-faded historical footnote, and it was in these detours that the breadth of his learning became apparent. One 1994 column, ostensibly about tomato sandwiches, traipsed through Einstein’s theory of relativity, the great physicist’s grooming, maintaining good relations with one’s spouse, plate tectonics and a reference to architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Friddell’s reputation rested not only on his yarns, but on his scattershot, completely ad hoc approach to life. He was perpetually distracted. He’d Continued on next page

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The Friddell of those columns, and those of the next half-century, was well-intentioned, kindly, even innocent, an everyman whose troubles sprang from a barrage of distractions. “Just blame it on the day, balmy, almost to the point of being a summer’s day,” a March 1979 column opened, “so that the sun played across your shoulder blades and made you think about laying off and doing nothing, which I was aiming to do, starting out the door, when my wife thrust $10 at me and said pick up a rib roast for the company coming to dinner. “And I sincerely meant to do it, but, on the way to the store saw a vegetable stand and, because the day was so sunny, instinctively turned the car that way, my hand acting almost on its own accord.” Gin starred in many, serving as Greek chorus, an admonishing voice of common sense, a stern arbiter of justice. Regular readers shared her exasperation and savored Friddell’s “rope-a-dope” defenses. The literary Guy regarded her with a blend of affection, respect and mild fear. The flesh-and-blood Friddell may have done the same, though above all, he clearly adored her: She figured in virtually every conversation on which he embarked. In time, the couple’s three sons were added to the cast — Rusty, born in 1951; Mac, in 1952; and Winn Cullen, in 1955. It was not a Norman Rockwell household: The boys called him Guy or “Guybo,” and her Gin, from the start. In his parenting, Friddell was more a co-conspirator than a disciplinarian. When a firmer hand was required, he was apt to take a back-door approach. Thus, when Winn grew his hair long at college, Friddell didn’t tell

him to cut it, he merely told him that he looked like Elizabeth Barrett Browning. “That prompted me to make one of my first trips to the library to look her up,” Winn said, “and the resemblance was uncanny, unfortunately.”

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show up at the office in mismatched socks (assuming he’d found socks to wear) or two right shoes, or shoes of obviously different color and construction, or bedroom slippers reinforced with duct tape. His shirts were often buttoned incorrectly. Several times he appeared in public wearing his trousers inside-out. Bear in mind, this was in his physical and intellectual prime. After the family moved into Norfolk’s Algonquin Park neighborhood in 1966, Friddell never mowed the backyard. Ever. Those who knew him well were apt to forgive Friddell’s lapses, for they were far outshone by another quality: That great man was generous. “All my life I’ve dreamed of carrying fifty or so thousand dollars around in my pocket,” he wrote in a Richmond column, “and, when someone

impressed me in passing as being good-hearted and longsuffering, peeling off five grand and handing it over with a wave of the hand, saying: ‘Here, old boy. No sweat. Pay off the mortgage.’ “ Those weren’t just words. Friddell resisted letting any dining companion pick up the check, never stopped at a vegetable stand without buying enough for his friends, pressed cash on strangers he deemed needy. “We went to Doumar’s and we ordered limeades, and he tipped $50,” Jackson said. “He did that sort of thing all the time. Loved doing it. I’m sure that waitress will remember that all of her life.” He could be obstinate: To deny his beneficence was to provoke a fight. Once, while dining at a restaurant on the Eastern Shore, Friddell realized that son Winn had intercepted the check. A scuffle erupted. “He had some strength that was

surprising, and the scuffling went from the dining room out into the hallway, neither one of us relinquishing our hold on the credit card,” Winn said, “and as we bopped and bumped down the hall, we hit one of those swinging doors into the kitchen, and we fell into the kitchen, both of us still holding onto the card.” Friddell, who earlier in the meal had offered to pay his grandchildren if they’d behave, wound up with the check. In the end, of course, it is his writing that will last. And more than his musings on politics, his beloved Thomas Jefferson, his own foibles, even the joys of family, Friddell will be best remembered for the wonder with which he beheld nature and its bounty. He waxed about Virginia’s mountains, her rivers, the delicate architecture of leaves, flowers and snowflakes. He and his readers eavesdropped

on songbirds and murmuring surf. He luxuriated in a cool breeze and the cadence of rain. The redbud, he wrote in 1994, “stands out as a demure curtsy against the massed, wintry dun trunks of larger hardwoods, a child in pink with gray-suited adults on a Sunday after church.” A field covered in a January 2003 snowfall was “as smooth and white as a freshly laundered bedsheet pulled tight.” His attention often lingered on nature’s contributions to his diet. Columns celebrated the taste and texture of buttered corn on the cob, decried the indifference accorded to okra, referred to black-eyed peas as if old friends. Apples, peaches and plums, squash and strawberries, pumpkins, onions, leeks — if it grew, Friddell ate it, loved it, and wrote about it. Two fruits held special

rank in his heart and stomach. Scores of his columns enumerated the merits of the watermelon, instructed the reader on how to pick a good one, or featured one as a central player in the narrative. His feelings for the tomato, however, bordered on exaltation. “ With spr i ng c om i ng and summer close behind, thoughts of tomatoes tend to occupy my mind,” he wrote in March 1998, a year in which his byline appeared over 10 columns praising his favorite fruit — a tally he matched in 1990 and 1991, and topped with 12 in 1995. “Improve the tomato?” he wrote another day. “How can one perfect perfection?” Left to his own devices, Friddell might have lived on tomato sandwiches: “Has it crossed your mind,” he wrote in August 1994, “that to eat a tomato sandwich, as well as build it, is a work of art?

“The tomato sandwich is not, by nature, a safe sandwich to put together and devour. Containing in its simplest form two slippery elements — sliced tomatoes and mayonnaise — it is more of a sandwish. Take care or you may end up with a piece of sandwish on your tie.” Dogs, too, earned his frequent attention. He was resolute about his column. He didn’t miss one for decades. On vacation, he filed. Hospitalized, he phoned it in. Snowbound, he dictated to a newsroom secretary. Hurricanes, physical maladies, the deaths of close friends — nothing stood in his way. Even after his output slowed to a stop, he’d talk about his next. So ends a story 92 years in the making, that of a man who truly lived his life on his own terms and who, thankfully, shared it with the rest of us.

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George Holbert Tucker, the elegant and irreverent writer who for nearly five decades brought the wonders and warts of history to life in The Virginian-Pilot, April 7, 2005. He was 95. A lifelong Norfolkia n with enormous pride in his Berkley pedigree, Tucker’s career eclipsed that of a newspaperman, although he cherished that calling. He also was an internationally acclaimed literary scholar, the author of nine books, and a jovial, sassy boulevardier who could discuss Jane Austen’s life and works, relate an arcane episode of Virginia’s past and take delight in reciting a salty limerick, all in a five-minute conversation. Those who met him often expressed wonder at his vigor, which at times seemed that of a man half his age. He continued to write a popular Sunday column and held court in The Pilot’s newsroom and cafeteria almost every day before his death of a heart attack at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. He often accompanied the punch line of a joke with a backslap so forceful it hurt. His quick, acerbic put-downs prompted one colleague to dub him “Malice in Wonderland.” Tucker was born Sept. 14, 1909, one of four children by Olive Virginia (Marshall) Tucker and Lawrence Holbert Tucker , a paint manufacturer for the Navy. Even as a child, George displayed an aptitude for eavesdropping and an unfailing ability to remember

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a further formal education bother me,” Tucker wrote in a 1996 biographical résumé. “I continued to read extensively, particularly in the fields of local and statewide Virginia history, both being among my favorite subjects.” World War II intervened. Tucker enlisted in the Navy in February 1942 and spent his four-year hitch stateside, packing tools and equipment to be used in the South Pacific. Discharged as a firstclass aviation storekeeper, he returned to Norfolk, went to work at a downtown music store and in his free hours haunted local history rooms. He found numerous treasures among the stacks. In 1955, he married Elizabeth Braxton Williams, a Norfolk city librarian. They were inseparable until her death in 1994. Tucker joined the newspaper as a freelancer in 1947, “writing carefully researched articles on various phases of local and Virginia history.” His first piece was

“I did not let the denial of a further formal education bother me. I continued to read extensively.” George Tucker

drawings. In it, he not only introduced his readers to the area’s aristocrats but also uncovered many of the skeletons in their ancestral closets. In his column, as in life, Tucker relished the rascals and embraced the ribald, and bristled at the slightest hint of pretentiousness. He retired in 1974, having reached the paper’s then-mandatory retirement age of 65. A few months later, his byline was back atop weekly Landfall columns. “Retirement is for the birds,” he explained on January 6, 1975, in his first column back. “To come to the point, nobody in his right mind who has known me for any length of time would ever accuse me of being a retiring person.” It was a trait he said he inherited. He often recounted a story about his mother getting cornered after church by a preacher she didn’t like. “How did you like my sermon?” Tucker said the preacher asked, “and she

a feature story on Edgar Allan Poe’s appearance at the old Norfolk Academy. In time he was hired onto the regular staff, where he wrote everything from church notes to obituaries. “Why, if I didn’t write your obituary,” he told Pilot writer Bill Ruehlmann in a 1983 profile, “you didn’t amount to anything. The boys in the city room used to call me ‘Death in the Afternoon.’ “ He found his lasting niche in 1956, with a regular column c a lled “ T idewater Landfalls” — an often irreverent but always meticulous examination of local lore, told with an almost Elizabethan flourish and illustrated by his pen-and-ink Continued on next page

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responded, ‘I don’t believe my own damn lies, much less yours!’ “ He always finished the story: “So you can see where I got it.� He was always a walker. Rotund, bordering on the spherical, Tucker didn’t move fast, but he often could be seen sauntering through downtown with one of his many walking sticks in flamboyant outfits and caps, many of which he found in regular visits to local thrift shops. Former Pilot editor Kay Tucker Addis said, “He was a wonderful historian, a gifted writer, an amazing artist, a stupendous storyteller and a generous spirit.� Tucker was forced to give up the column again in 1976, this time by the prospect of losing his Social Security check because he earned too much income. The Pilot

asked him to resume writing about Virginia history for the weekly Commentary section nine years later. In the meantime, Tucker went off to England to research the first of his Jane Austen books, “A Goodly Heritage: A History of Jane Austen’s Family,� which was published in 1983. His second book on the English author — “Jane Austen the Woman: Some Biographical Insights� — appeared in 1994, to glowing reviews: British historian Paul Johnson wrote in London’s Daily Telegraph that he’d thought he knew all there was to know about Austen, but found a new fact on every page. It was the beginning of a series of accolades for Tucker. In 1996, Norfolk city officials recognized his contributions to the region. The following year, the General Assembly presented him with a resolution lauding his

career as a researcher, historian and biographer. In 1998, Old Dominion University made formal what scholars already knew, awarding him “the degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa.� The self-taught Tucker was especially proud of that, and again in 2001, when the Norfolk Historical Society established the George Holbert Tucker Award for the best high school essay on the city’s history. Tucker , the society proclaimed, was “one of Norfolk’s leading historians.� In all, Tucker authored some 2,500 historical pieces for the newspaper. Fellow Pilot columnist and friend Guy Friddell once asked Tucker to describe Jane Austen. His reply could just as well have been autobiographical. “A combination of the milk of human kindness,� Tucker said, “with a jaundiced eye.�

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News briefs from the Nov. 23, 1865, copy of The Norfolk Virginian, one of the oldest examples on file.

X Hampton Institute is opened by ex-Union officer Samuel Armstrong (1868) W Gen. Robert E. Lee visits Portsmouth/Norfolk on his Southern tour (1870) Moore’s Bridges Pumping Station is built in Princess Anne County, now Norfolk. It remains in operation today. (1873) The Norfolk Portsmouth Cotton Exchange is established (1874)

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1866 First impregnation by artificial insemination takes place

1867 U.S. buys Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million

1868 The 14th amendment, which defines U.S. citizenship, is ratified

1869 Transcontinental Railroad is completed Suez Canal opens

1870 The 15th Amendment, which guarantees all citizens the right to vote, is ratified

1870 Donkey is first used as Democratic Party symbol in political cartoons

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1871 Great fire of Chicago devastates the city National Rifle Association is organized

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THE PILOT’S HISTORY IS ONE FOR THE BOOKS A few excerpts from “Salt Water & Printer’s Ink. Norfolk and Its Newspapers, 1865-1965”

constrained to it by the large increase in our circulation.” Pilot ambitions

By Lenoir Chambers and Joseph E. Shank

A paper grows The Virginian was feeling more confident and maybe a little cocky. It asserted in May of 1871 that its circulation, daily and weekly, “is greater than that of any other papers published in Tidewater Virginia. Its city circulation is almost double that of any other Norfolk paper.” In June of 1872

Hoover

Roosevelt

Truman

Eisenhower

it announced that for nearly two months the presses of the Virginian have been worked by steam....We have at last learned to write serenely over our engine, which puffs and snorts in the most astonishing manner.” The Virginian could say that is was “the only paper in Norfolk and one of the few in the state worked by steam... Of course, this improvement has been made at considerable cost,” but “we are glad to say we have been

Kennedy

Johnson

On November 12, 1896, the Public Ledger reported that Albert H. Grandy and W. Thompson Barron had bought the Pilot. ... Most of the Pilot’s initial statement followed the vogue of the times. ... The Jeffersonian principles of democracy in which our free institutions are founded and through which the liberty and development will be cherished and defend-

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Ford

ed by the Pilot at all times, without partizanry, however, and without bitterness, the right of all men and all parties to their opinions being cheerfully recognized as a necessary part of the consent in which government alone can find a sure title.... The Pilot hopes to see the day when a Greater South will find here a Greater Norfolk cooperating and developing greatness and glory with the Pilot on deck to guide, to warn, to comfort, cheer and bless. The next sentence got down to something different. It declared flatly that

Carter

Reagan

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Bush

“the New Pilot now has ample means combined with experience and resolute business energy and will lack nothing to make it a first class newspaper.” “Now has ample means” was something no earlier newspaper in Norfolk could say. The words marked the dividing line between the numerous small newspapers that could spring into being in the 1870s and 1880s, and earlier, because it cost little to do so, and, on the other hand, the machine-equipped newspapers under skilled management, that were pointing the way of the future.

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HE Virginian-Pilot has recorded my family business and my life for more than 60 years. The first article was printed on March 1, 1953: “Unique Gadgets Help Success of Norfolk’s Noodle Factory” by Georgiana Taliaferro. I didn’t know this article existed until spring 2014. It was kept in a scrapbook that one of my brothers, David Wong, had. When my brother David passed away a couple of years ago, my sister-in-law, May Wong, gave the scrapbook to me. Needless to say, this yellow, aged newspaper article is very sentimental and priceless to me. I was only 2 when this article was written, and it was 61 years before I read it for the first time. This article made me very proud of my father, who came to this country from Canton, China, in 1926. He studied electrical engineering in Bos-

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ton and returned to China, where he married my mother. They had my three brothers, Arthur, Edward and David. My father came back to Norfolk and started the noodle factory, not knowing anything about making noodles. My mother and brothers had to stay in China for about 10 years because of the immigration laws. When they all arrived to the states, they worked there, too. It was a familyrun business for almost 40 years. I am sure that anyone in the Tidewater/Hampton Roads and down south area who has had Chinese food has tasted my family’s Chow Mein noodles, Yocka-Mein noodles and fresh egg noodles. Other items were manufactured at the factory, including egg roll and wonton wrappers. Years later, more articles were written about the Norfolk Noodle Factory by George Tucker and Larry Bonko. I remem-

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ber these two exceptional writers for their friendly, warm personalities. When I was 10 or 11, I remember I would enter the Virginian-Pilot Young Hobby Club contest. I was excited when I won the national contest. The article on June 2, 1962, was “Bird Puzzle: No Puzzle- Winner to Fly High.” This was the beginning of my love of art. During my teen years, I did a number of fashion modeling and promotional ads for the Virginian-Pilot. Some of my fondest memories were of meeting and being interviewed by Cammy Sessa, Larry Bonko and John Sheally. On February 5, 1981, at the ripe old age of 30, in the Virginia Beach Sun, I was the Sunshine Girl — “Beacher Jenny Wong wants her own business and to do more art.” After raising my two children and taking care Continued on next page

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of aging parents, my hobby of art became a business. Now, I have an art website, www.Jennywongart.com, and my work is in several art galleries in Norfolk and Virginia Beach. In 1985, my son, Sean Slaughter, at age 3 with the bushy Dutch boy haircut modeled for The Pilot Joy Fund Ad. My daughter, Alana Slaughter, 11, was modeling with me for a promotional ad for “I Love the Beach” ad in 1998. Thank you for the professionalism of your staff at the Virginian-Pilot for so many wellwritten articles and photographs about my family history and life. Thank you again and Happy 150th Anniversary!

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MOVED to Norfolk’s Colonial Place with my parents back in 1978, and my first job was delivering The Ledger-Star after school and on weekends. Back then, there were two editions, The Virginian-Pilot in the morning and the Ledger-Star in the afternoon. My younger brother, John, and I both delivered the afternoon papers about 5 p.m. Monday to Friday, rain or shine. I can’t remember whether Saturday had two editions, but Sunday was only mornings. On Sundays, we were up at 5 a.m. We would ride our bikes around to the drop-off location, pick up our papers and go back to our house, sit on the front porch, fold and rubber-band each paper. When we were done,

Street from Llewellyn Avenue to Colley Avenue. Then I would go up and down Michigan, Georgia, Carolina and Virginia avenues. Those were the good old days. Everyone was so friendly at collection time. I would ride around with my collection book. I would tear out that little square and hand one to each customer as they paid me and gave me an extra 50 cents as a tip for delivering the newspaper to their porch everyday. Some may think that a 50-cent tip wasn’t a Patricia Rodriguez as a teen, lot for two weeks of delivtop, and now. ering the paper, but it added up. And back in the ‘70s, that we would squeeze as many was a lot to a 16-year-old. newspapers into the basAlso, delivering all those ket on the front of our bikes papers gave me a pretty as we could, and off we’d good throwing arm. I really go. I delivered papers to enjoyed being a paper girl. homes starting on 38th

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HAVE MANY fine memories of The Virginian-Pilot and Ledger-Star from my childhood. I began delivering the Ledger-Star’s afternoon paper and the Sunday Virginian-Pilot in 1964. The big bucks I received: 1.5 cents for a daily paper and 4 cents for the Sunday paper. Rain or shine, I delivered the paper. We had a sales contest, and I was one of the lucky winners. The winning carriers from each district received a vacation to Miami Beach over the Thanksgiv-

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the way in Virginia Beach. After I got out of the Army in the early ’70s, I worked for the Ledger-Star as a district manager. I learned the job from the other side and had a great time working with the young carriers and all the fine folks in the circulation department. I want to thank Landmark Communications for the life lessons and discipline that have carried me through life.

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1876-1885

Industrial age z Charles Colonna establishes the first private shipyard in Hampton Roads (1879) z Cape Henry Lighthouse is the first cast-iron lighthouse completed (1881) z First carload of coal arrives in Norfolk and is noted as a significant economic event by William L. Lamb, Norfolk’s mayor at the time (1883) z First complete rail trip from Broad Creek in Norfolk to the Oceanfront includes a carload of officials and guests (1883) z First overnight accommodations at Virginia Beach are offered at The Virginia Beach Hotel. Visitors are impressed by the gas lighting, lavatories and sophisticated chemical sewage system (1884) CHARLIE MEADS (INSET) AND STEVE EARLEY | VIRGINIAN-PILOT FILE PHOTOS

N AT ION & WORL D 1876 Central Park opens in New York Mark Twain writes “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”

1876 In the Battle of Little Big Horn, also known as “Custer’s Last Stand,” Indians massacre Lt. George A. Custer and 225 troops

1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone

1877 First Easter Egg roll takes place in Washington 1878 First bicycles in America are manufactured by A.A. Pope

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There are many within the family. Our Monticello location founder George Doumar was an innovative businessman who would work hard up until a week before he died in 1974. His son Victor would continue in his footsteps along with his brother Albert, and both would continue the hardworking example set by their father. Both would also work up until days before they departed this life in 1986 and 2014 respectively.

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STARTED carrying the Pilot shortly after my 12th birthday in 1958. My route was in Williams Court in the Cradock section of Norfolk county, later Portsmouth. Because most of the customers were Navy civilians, they left for work early and wanted the paper early. I got up at 4:30 a.m. and rode my bike to the Beasley Center, where the papers were dropped off. At one point, I had 151 customers. Paperboys also had to collect payment from their customers, so Thursday nights, Friday nights and sometimes Saturdays were spent trying to catch people at home. We had to pay the paper whether we collected the weekly amount or not, and those who said they didn’t have 30 cents for the weekly, or 50 cents including the Sunday, sometimes for week after week, taught me

some things about human nature. Carrying the paper also matured me in many ways. I developed a sense of independence and confidence out there in the dark, and while interacting with the many households. No one worried, apparently, about young boys getting hurt out there that early and that late, and the most dangerous things I encountered were dogs that chased Harvey Bryant as a teen. me. We would usutomer drives and contests. ally see our adult manThe prize I remember getagers only on Saturdays ting most often for new when our cash payments were due. My manager was customers was a French Apple Pie. Once, howevW.C.Barlow. We would see them often during new cus- er, I won a big one: a train

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trip to Chicago for 3 nights and 4 days. Other boys who had qualified from around Tidewater also went. I was 15, maybe 16, at the time. We stayed in a nice hotel in downtown, and, except for two tours and a White Sox game, did not see our chaperone/managers until departure. We were on our own for meals and most everything else. One of the days, I took the subway/train to visit Northwestern University. I didn’t tell anyone, and no one asked where I had been that day! After a couple of years, I switched routes to a neighborhood a little closer to mine with fewer subscribers, which meant I could sleep until 5:30 a.m. The customers paid and tipped more regularly, too. I used the money I made to buy my lunch at school, buy See Bryant, Page 43

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er happened. I also dream from time to time that I haven’t collected from my paper route for weeks and now owe a lot of money I can’t pay. Carrying those papers and all it involved morning after morning for five years helped me realize I could overcome a difficult schedule and tasks and still succeed as well or better than those who didn’t have to work like that. I believe it helped me get through Infantry Officer Candidate School in 1969 when, some days, everything in me wanted to give up. But I could think back to when I’d had days just as long as a pre-teen and teenager. Thanks for asking!

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Gary Nelson, Virginia Beach

OUR REQUEST for stories on the role of the newspaper in your readers’ lives came at an interesting time. I guess I’ve reached an age when memories of my past are so much more nostalgic. In the early 1960s, I delivered the evening Ledger-Star and Sunday morning Virginian-Pilot newspaper in part of Princess Anne Plaza from age 12-16. I am thankful for that time, and I learned many things. I learned about customer service. My job was to make sure my customers got their newspapers when expected and in good condition, whether it was a

hot and rainy summer or a cold and snowy winter. And I remember some really cold winters. I learned about finances. I had to collect from my customers and pay my bill each week. If I did not collect enough, I had to make up the difference. I made no money until I collected from everyone. I learned about salesmanship. At that time, the newspaper sponsored regular subscription contests. Carriers were taught how to solicit new subscriptions and were encouraged to contact residents along their route who did not subscribe to the newspaper. We were regularly taken to different neigh-

“I learned how much it means to be complimented by customers and managers for a job well done.”

borhoods to solicit for new customers on the routes of other carriers. Prizes were awarded for the best salesmen, and, at the end of the contest, the top carriers in sales won trips to places such as Miami Beach and the New York World‘s Fair. I learned how much it means to be complimented by customers and managers for a job done well, and I always try to remember to acknowledge others around me who do well. I honestly can say that my experience as a newspaper carrier for The VirginianPilot/Ledger-Star taught me things that helped me in every job I had after that, and I carry those lessons with me to this day.

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ACCESS College Foundation Alzheimer’s Association American Heart Association American Red Cross Beach Health Clinic Big Brothers Big Sisters of Hampton Roads Boy Scouts of America Tidewater Council Boys & Girls Clubs of SEVA Business Consortium for Arts Support Catholic Charities of Eastern Virginia Chesapeake Bay Foundation Chesapeake Care Free Clinic Chesapeake Service Systems Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters Chrysler Museum of Art Citizen’s Committee to Protect the Elderly CIVIC Leadership Institute Community Alternative Management Group Crispus Attucks Cultural Center Cultural Alliance of Greater Hampton Roads Edmarc Hospice for Children Eggleston Services Endependence Center Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia ForKids, Inc. Friends of the Chesapeake Public Library Friends of the Norfolk Juvenile Court Friends of the Norfolk Public Library Friends of the Portsmouth Juvenile Court Services Friends of the Portsmouth Public Library Friends of the Virginia Beach Public Library Girls Scouts Colonial Coast Goodwill Industries Governor’s School for the Arts Hampton Roads Automobile Dealers Assoc. Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce Hampton Roads Economic Development Alliance HER Shelter Hope House Foundation

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Naval resurgence

1886-1895

z The Retreat for the Sick, a forerunner of Norfolk General Hospital, is founded by Women’s Christian Association. It has 25 beds (1888)

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N AT ION & WORL D 1886 An Earthquake in Charleston, S.C., damages 90 percent of the city. The quake is felt 1,000 miles away

1887 Congress passes the Dawes General allotment bill, which allotted land to American Indians individually, rather than

parceling out reservation acreage by tribe The elevator is invented by A. Miles

1889 Floods in Johnstown, Pa., kill more than 2,200 people and cause more than $10 million in damage.

1890 U.S. troops kill 200 Indians at Wounded Knee in South Dakota

1891 Basketball is invented by James A. Naismith

1892 Ellis Island becomes the reception center for immigrants

1895 King C. Gillette invents the safety razor

1895 Booker T. Washington delivers his “Atlanta Compromise” address at the Cotton Exposition.

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1896-1905

Twentieth century

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z James G. Gill’s company, a gourmet coffee processor, is founded in Norfolk (1902) z The Temple Ohef Shalom is dedicated at Freemason and Monticello Streets in Norfolk. (1902)

z St. Christopher’s Hospital, a private sanitarium in Norfolk, opens near Freemason and Duke streets. (1902)

z Local eatery owner Abe Doumar introduces ice cream cones at the St. Louis World’s Fair (1904)

z Otto Wells, an amusement entrepreneur from Richmond, takes over the amusement park in Norfolk’s Ocean View. (1904)

1901 Queen Victoria dies after more than a half century reign. She is succeeded by her son Edward VII

1901 President McKinley is shot by Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition. He dies and Vice-President Theodore

N AT ION & WORL D 1896 First modern Olympics are held in Athens, Greece

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1898 SpanishAmerican War

1899 President McKinley signs a peace treaty with Spain

1900 First Brownie Box camera is introduced by Eastman Kodak Co. for $1

1900 Hurricane and tides destroy Galveston, Texas. About 6,000 were killed and damage is estimated at $100 million

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Roosevelt, 43, becomes the youngest person to take the presidential oath.

1901 Picasso begins his “blue period,” focusing on loneliness and despair.

1903 Wright Brothers make the first successful airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C.

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1906-1915

Technology ups and downs

z President Roosevelt opens the Jamestown Exposition in Norfolk. It is an early world’s fair to commemorate the 300th anniversary of America’s first permanent English settlement (1907) z President Theodore Roosevelt visits Portsmouth on Memorial Day (1906) z Bernard P. Holland is Virginia Beach’s first mayor (1906) z Princess Anne Hotel, the flagship of the oceanfront resort, is destroyed by fire. Two hotel employees are killed. (1907)

z Alfred Ward opens a combination grocery store and filling station. This is the start of Wards Corner in Norfolk (1910)

z Virginia Beach’s Seaside Park is opened by Norfolk & Southern Railroad to provide resort entertainment (1912)

1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his wife are assassinated

1914 May 12 marks the first national recognition of Mother’s Day

N AT ION & WORL D 1906 San Francisco is rocked by a major earthquake, and fires destroyed most of the city. Up to 1,000 people are burned to death or crushed.

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1908 Ford makes the Model T. The “Tin Lizzy” seated two and cost $850.

1909 Cmdr. Robert Peary plantes the U.S. flag at the North Pole on April 16 after a 36-day trek

1910 First Father’s Day is celebrated on June 19

1912 The Titanic strikes an iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage. At least 1,500 are killed

1913 The 16th Amendment is adopted, allowing federal income tax

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1915 A German submarine sinks the British passenger ship Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans

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1916-1925

Disasters z The U.S. Naval Operating Base in Hampton Roads is commissioned Oct. 12 at the Jamestown Exposition Grounds (1917) z Fire destroys the Monticello Hotel and three other buildings on Granby Street. (1918) z The airship “Roma” explodes after hitting high tension wires at the Hampton Roads Army Airbase in Norfolk, killing 34 people. (1922)

z WTAR, Virginia’s pioneer radio station, presents its first formal broadcast (1923) z The first automobile comes off the assembly line at the new Ford motor plant in Norfolk (1925)

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1917 The United States declares war on Germany Apr. 6

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1917 The Bolsheviks (Communists) seize power in Russia

1918 U.S. Army newspaper, “The Stars and Stripes” starts publication

1918 Daylight savings time is introduced in the U.S.

1919 Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th U.S. president, dies

1920 Babe Ruth is sold by the Red Sox to the New York Yankees for $125,000, which was the largest sum paid for a player at the time

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1924 After 3,000 years, King Tut’s tomb is opened

1922 The Lincoln memorial is dedicated in Washington

1925 Adolf Hitler publishes “Mein Kampf”

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1926-1935

Hard times in the nation

z Norfolk’s Peoples Drug Store offers a 25-cent lunch special that includes a sandwich, pie a la mode and a drink (1929) z The Mariner’s Museum in Newport News opens and becomes the first maritime museum in the country (June 2, 1930) z Virginia’s unemployment rate is 19 percent (1932) z Norfolk bankers and councilmen are alarmed at the city’s financial position. They draft Samuel Slover of Norfolk Newspapers Inc. as ex-officio mayor. He serves March 1933 to January 1934.

z First fullscale wind tunnel for testing airplanes begins operations at Langley Field in May (1931)

z Employees at the Navy yard in Portsmouth are forced to take a 15 percent pay cut because of the Depression (1933)

N AT ION & WORL D 1926 Ibn Saud becomes king of Hejaz and renamed it Saudi Arabia

1926 Harry Houdini, magician and escape artist, dies of peritonitis at age 52

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1927 Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic Ocean alone

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1928 First animated talking cartoon, “Steamboat Willie” with Mickey Mouse, is shown in New York City

1929 “Black Thursday” marks the worst stock market crash is history. Nearly 13 million shares trade hands. Losses are in the billions

1929 The first Academy Awards are presented

1930 The planet Pluto is first identified

1931 The Empire State Building is completed

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1935 President Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act (Aug 14) Persia changes its name to Iran.

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Virginian-Pilot, I wouldn’t have thought of using journalism as back-up major just in case pre-med studies didn’t go well. My family was featured on The Ledger-Star in 1993. The article was written by Elizabeth Thiel. She did a great job writing about my family’s new journey to my world of silence. In 1992, I was diagnosed with progressive hearing loss. Ms. Thiel wrote, “Beach family gets free help for school for the deaf.”

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1936-1945

World War II

z Norfolk native Margaret Sullivan wins the New York Film Critics’ Awards for best actress in “Three Comrades” (1939)

z Norfolk’s population doubles as WWII defense activities increase and hundreds of families move to the area.

z The first POWS reach z The Norfolk housing authority is established (1940) Norfolk (1942) z A season membership for Norfolk’s Little Theatre costs $4.

z The Cavalier Hotel in Virginia Beach is used by the Navy as a radar school, commissary and dispensary (1942) z It is a misdemeanor to throw away a tin can in Norfolk (1943) z Norfolk Navy Yard’s production in WWII exceeded it work in all other wars combined (1943) z DePaul hospital opens (1944) z Norfolk Navy Yard changes its name to Norfolk Naval Shipyard (1945)

N AT ION & WORL D 1936 The first Volkswagens are manufactured in Germany 1937 San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge is dedicated

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1937 Insulin is first used to control diabetes 1939 Germany invades Poland 1937 American aviator Amelia Earhart vanishes over the Pacific

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1939 Nylon stockings go on sale in the U.S.

1941 Japanese planes bomb Pearl Harbor in Hawaii – U.S. declares war on Japan (Dec 8) and Germany and Italy (Dec. 11) 1942 Sugar, gasoline and coffee rationing begins in the U.S.

1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected to a fourth term as U.S. president 1945 WWII ends VE Day is proclaimed after Germany surrenders (May 7) and Japan surrenders (Aug. 14)

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Post-war era

z Virginia Beach Hospital is dedicated as a private 25-bed undertaking of three Princess Anne County Doctors (1948)

z A liberty launch is swamped on its journey from the Norfolk Naval Station to the carrier Kearsarge, killing 28 servicemen (1948)

z Willard Theatre opens in Norfolk. It is air-conditioned. Matinees cost 30 cents and evening shows, 40 cents (1949) z The Norfolk Municipal Airport terminal opens, costing $1 million to construct (1951) z First bridge-tunnel (now known as the downtown tunnel) crossing the Elizabeth River opens (1952) z Young Park public housing in Norfolk is erected on 31 acres (1952) z Supreme Allied Command Atlantic, SACLANT, the western branch of NATO, is established in Norfolk (1952) z First annual International Azalea Festival is held in Norfolk (1954) z The Norfolk-Portsmouth ferry service is discontinued because the “downtown” tunnel opened three years before (1955)

N AT ION & WORL D 1946 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that segregation in public transportation was unconstitutional

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1947 Dead Sea Scrolls, dating from 22 B.C. to 100 A.D., are discovered

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1947 Jackie Robinson is the first black to sign a contract with a major league baseball team when he joins the Brooklyn Dodgers

1949 George Orwell writes “Nineteen Eighty-Four”

1950 General Motors Corp. has earnings of $656.4 million, the largest profit to date of any corporation

1951 Atomic bomb test conducted underground in Nevada

1952 Elizabeth II becomes Queen of Great Britain

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1953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are the first civilians executed in the U.S. for espionage. They are executed at Sing Sing, N.Y.

1953 Air Force Maj. Chuck Yeager establishes a new speed for airplanes, flying a Bell X-1A faster than 1,600 miles per hour

1954 The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional

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Emily S. Washington, Norfolk Gary Ball, Chesapeake

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WAS BORN in the ’40s, before television. When we went to the movies, we could see the headlines. Few people traveled. When people did travel to a foreign country, they would return with slides, and all the friends and neighbors would excitedly come to watch the slides and hear about these exotic places. Otherwise, newspapers were our only real source of information. My family took the newspaper and, like them, I read the paper daily. My mother would remind me to wash my elbows before going to school. I always read the paper on the floor and the printer’s ink would rub off and leave black smudges. Later came high school, college and marriage. Wherever we lived, we always subscribed to the newspaper. On television in the ’60s, we had respected news reporters, but even then the TV stations usually only had time for the highlights.

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To get the in-depth news, I still needed to rely on my newspaper. As newlyweds. we moved to Norfolk in 1965 and just naturally got our Virginian-Pilot and Ledger-Star subscription started. We never questioned that we would do otherwise. For a medium-sized community, we have a world-class newspaper. The editors consistently bring the quality

news – even when it’s not the most popular but the most honest – to my door each day. I am an early riser and anxiously await the thump of the paper arriving. I know I am getting valuable headlines and background details. Thank you to The Virginian-Pilot, as we have been continuous subscribers for 50 years, so it is our anniversary as well!

HE PILOT — or more exactly, the LedgerDispatch – meant a lot to me and some of my fellow Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity brothers back in the late ’60s, when we worked there while attending Old Dominion College. I was lucky enough to work a few hours a day in the circulation department as a radio dispatcher for the shortage drivers. Shortage drivers drove around local cities and dropped off papers to delivery people (almost always teenage boys back then), who had not received all the papers they needed to deliver that day. The deliverers would call in, tell us how many papers they were short

and where to deliver them, then I would relay the info to the drivers. Most of the shortage drivers were my frat brothers. I had gotten my job through a frat brother’s referral, and I helped a number of my brothers get jobs in turn. The job, which lasted from about 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays, fit into our school schedules well, helped us pay our fraternity dues and provided just enough cash to fuel a modest social life. My job behind a radio in the Circulation Department also featured attractive co-eds who took the calls from delivery boys and customers who needed papers. The only downside was having to work every other weekend, which meant

getting to the office by 5:30 a.m.(!) on Sunday. Often I would arrive to find fraternity brothers draped over chairs and asleep on desks after just dropping dates off or coming in from late parties. Despite hangovers and sleeplessness, we always managed to get the papers out, though. Nobody ever got in a wreck and we kept the customers and bosses happy. All in all, working at the paper was a great way for frat boys to dip our toes into the waters of adult responsibility and get exposed to a large, well-respected company, while still leaving time for studying, and, of course, the classic Pi Kappa Alpha parties.

We congratulate The Virginian-Pilot as they celebrate 150 years of serving the community with award winning journalism. We are proud to be a supporter and advertising partner for over 50 years. Since 1955

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HE VIRGINIAN-PILOT has had a big impact in my life. Big time. On June 23, 2002, I was on the front page of the Sunday Virginian-Pilot. I want to thank you guys for having all the stories you printed on this date and many before by a wonderful lady named Liz Szabo. With all her hard work, she completed the story “Operating Behind Closed Doors.” It helped many people like me. The public needed to know about doctors who

have made costly mistakes, even deadly in some cases. Liz made me cry for joy when she contacted me. She was not even sure if I was still alive. She was a caring, powerful lady with a very powerful story. Great job. Thanks to all, but most of all to Liz. Editor’s note: Virginian-Pilot staff reporter Liz Szabo wrote an article about a doctor who eventually had his medical license suspended. Glenn Gunter had been a patient of his.

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Post-war era

z First Boardwalk Art Show runs in Virginia Beach (1956) z Hampton Roads BridgeTunnel opens (1957) z Kirn Memorial Library in Norfolk opens (1962) z Ash Wednesday storm’s 30-foot waves and 7-foot tides batter sections of the Virginia Beach coast, damaging hundreds of homes (1962) z City of Virginia Beach forms when the town of Virginia Beach merges with Princess Anne County (1963) z Chesapeake is formed when South Norfolk merges with Norfolk County (1963) z Chesapeake Bay-Bridge Tunnel opens (1964)

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N AT ION & WORL D 1957 Civil Rights Act of 1957 is signed by President Eisenhower

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1957 Federal troops escort nine black students to classes at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas

1957 U.S.S.R. launches the first satellite, “Sputnik” into space The Frisbee is introduced by Wham-O-Co.

1958 Explorer I, America’s first satellite is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida

1959 Alaska becomes the 49th state and Hawaii the 50th state

1961 East Germany builds the Berlin Wall

1962 John Glenn is the first American to circle the earth in space

Alan Shepard becomes the first U.S. man in space with his 15-minute suborbital flight.

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1963 President Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas on Nov. 22. Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as President. Lee

Harvey Oswald is shot and killed by Jack Ruby as America watches the incident on television

1963 Martin Luther King Jr. gives his “I Have a Dream Speech” U.S. postmaster introduces ZIP codes

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Vietnam and Watergate

z Virginia Wesleyan College, a four-year college, coeducational, liberal arts institution, opens in Norfolk with 74 students (1966) z Norfolk’s first open heart surgery is performed at Norfolk General (1967) z The aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy is christened in Newport News by Caroline Kennedy, the late president’s daughter (1967) z Norfolk-based nuclear submarine Scorpion with a crew of 99 is lost near the Azores (1968) z Joseph A. Jordan is the first black elected to Norfolk’s City Council under its at-large system (1968) z Old Dominion College becomes a university and Norfolk State College becomes independent from Virginia State College in Petersburg (1969) z President Nixon crowns his daughter Tricia as Queen Azalea XVI (1969) z The $30 million Scope and Chrysler Hall open in Norfolk (1971)

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z The Portsmouth Seawall is completed (1971)

z The Nimitz, the first nucle- z Eastern Virginia Medical ar- powered aircraft carrier, is School opens in Norfolk launched from Newport News (1972) Shipbuilding (1972)

z After workers layer garbage and soil for five years, Mount Trashmore Municipal Park opens (1974)

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1967 The first heart transplant is performed by a team of South African physicians headed by Christian N. Barnard

Caroline Kennedy christens the carrier John F. Kennedy. At left are President Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy Jr. and Jacqueline Kennedy.

1968 Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is shot and killed in Memphis, Tenn. James Earl Ray is charged

1968 Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, a Democratic presidential candidate, is assassinated in a Los Angeles hotel. Sirhan Sirhan is arrested

1969 Neil Armstrong is the first man to walk on the moon (1969)

1970 Four students are killed at Kent State University when National Guardsmen broke up a protest against the Vietnam War

1970 Rock stars Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix die of drug-related causes (1970)

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1973 U.S. signs a cease-fire agreement with Vietnam. U.S. troops withdraw from Vietnam, and the North Vietnamese release American POWs

1973 Abortion is legalized in the landmark Roe v. Wade decision

1974 President Nixon, faced with impeachment after being

named co-conspirator in Watergate, resigns. 1975 Arthur Ashe is the first black to win Wimbledon singles

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When considering her approach for the Art Outside the Box contest, Elizabeth City’s Michelle Hatfield found inspiration in the evolving news industry. “How over the years have we received our newspapers?” wondered Hatfield, a self-proclaimed Navy brat who teaches stained glass at the College of the Albemarle. “The newsboy; the child riding a bike and delivering it door to door; the loyal and loving dog bringing it in; and the present and future online delivery by tablet.” This evolution is brought to life in her intricate mosaic design. “I was trying to create realism, and futurism, with the online newspaper headlines,” Hatfield said. “First and foremost, I hope people who view my work see something beautiful. I like my work to hold your attention, that you keep looking and see something different every time.”

Jim Knox’s design for the Art Outside the Box contest literally sings. “I created the xylophone from electrical conduit, and tuned it to a haunting pentatonic scale, hopefully truthful in spirit,” said Knox, who operates a photography studio, Knox Studios in Chesapeake, with his wife. “I encourage all to play it!” The piece, titled “May Our Words Ring True,” plays a note that will be music to the ears for all Pilot Media employees. “The feeling I hoped to inspire was one of an appreciation of the importance of The Virginian-Pilot over the years, as well and the dedicated work that went on to produce the paper,” Knox said. “The xylophone tones hopefully will leave people with a whimsical smile.” The core of Knox’s design is a vintage typewriter, which represents “truth flowing out from the box into the community.”

One thing you’ll find in “Mosaic Tile Box” is a nod to Hatfield’s two bulldogs, Rhayban and Zeus.

While the design is playful--again, literally--Knox’s design is laced with reverence for the profession of journalism.

“The dog delivering the paper was my way of including a bit of my world into the art work,” she said.

“It’s a deeper feeling that the powerful words of a newspaper should rise above the level of political emotion” “and provide truth to us all,” he said.

The material list for Brandon Thompson’s “Top Story: One-Horned Monster Invades Hampton Roads” starts out normal enough, with wood, acrylic paint and spray paint, but from there gets as wild as the design itself. Silverware. Stove burner cover. And--wait for it--real deer horn. “Being a mixed media artist, I wanted to use as many found/ common objects as I could,” said Thompson, a kindergarten teacher for Virginia Beach Public Schools. “I use a lot of bent silverware in a lot of my pieces, so I had to do it with this piece.” While most of the artists who entered the contest viewed the newspaper boxes as canvases for their work, Thompson had a different initial reaction. “It just screamed ‘MONSTER,’ Thompson said. “I just envisioned this old newspaper box on the street. Someone goes up to it and gets ready to get a paper out of it, and all of a sudden the box transforms into a monster and sends the patron running and screaming down the street.” Don’t worry, folks. The art doesn’t bite. Written by Jesse Scaccia

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1976-1985

“Tidewater” becomes “Hampton Roads”

z Granby Mall is christened by Norfolk Mayor Vincent Thomas (April 1 1976) z Four bars of ivory soap cost 52 cents. A six-pack of Budweiser costs $1.49 (1976) z CBN University, now Regent University, is founded (1978) z ODU Lady Monarchs, playing to record crowds, win the national women’s basketball championship (1979)

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z Norfolk’s Pernell “Sweetpea” Whitaker becomes a hometown hero after winning the gold medal in his boxing division at the Olympics (1984)

z Second driest summer on record in area results in water-rationing in Norfolk and Virginia Beach ( 1980) z Jacques Cousteau’s Society moves from New York to Norfolk (1980)

z Norfolk resident John A. Walker Jr. is arrested and charged with espionage. His son, Michael, is also arrested (1985)

z Norfolk celebrates its 300th birthday (1982) z The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star merge news staffs (1982) z Norfolk’s Waterside Festival Marketplace opens (1983) z U.S. Postal Service changes Tidewater postmark to Hampton Roads (1983)

N AT ION & WORL D July 4, 1976 Americans celebrate the bicentennial of U.S. independence.

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1976 North and South Vietnam are reunited as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam after 22 years of separation

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1977 Gary Gilmore is the first U.S. man executed in 10 years The TransAlaskan pipeline opens, marking the completion of the $7.7 billion project.

1978 More than 900 followers of Jim Jones commit mass suicide by drinking cyanidelaced juice in Jonestown, Guyana.

1978 Louise Brown, the first “test-tube baby” conceived outside the human body, is born to a British couple

1979 U.S. and China establish full diplomatic relations with each other

1980 Eight people die when Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, creating a 60,000foot tower of ash

Iranian students take 53 hostages at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran

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1980 John Lennon, former Beatle, is fatally shot by Mark Chapman outside Lennon’s apartment in New York City

1981 President Reagan is shot in the chest by John Hinckley Jr. Press Secretary Jim Brady is critically wounded, and a secret service agent is also shot

1981 First woman on the U.S. Supreme Court is Sandra Day O’Connor Argentina invades Falkland Islands (1982)

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1986-1995

Troubles and triumphs

z A Navy A-6E jet crashs on Oceana Boulevard in Virginia Beach, killing the jet crewmen and a woman in a car (1986) z HOV lanes open on the Virginia Beach-Norfolk expressway (1986) z More than 200 dead dolphins wash up at Virginia Beach (1987) z The $13 million Central Library in Virginia Beach opens. (1988) z Rioting erupts at the Oceanfront during Greekfest. Losses are reported at $1.4 million, and 158 people were arrested (1989) z Doug Wilder is the first black elected state governor in the U.S. (1989) z The area’s first heart transplant is performed at Norfolk General (1989) z Virginia slides into recession, creating a $1.4 billion budget shortfall (1990) z The renamed Norfolk Tides (nee Tidewater Tides) move into a new stadium Harbor Park, along the Elizabeth River (1993)

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z Meyera Oberndorf is Virginia Beach’s first directly elected mayor (1988)

z Nauticus, a maritime museum, opens on the downtown Norfolk waterfront (1994)

Meyera Oberndorf makes her acceptance speech in Virginia Beach for Mayor after defeating Lou Pace.

N AT ION & WORL D 1986 The space shuttle Challenger explodes 74 seconds after liftoff, killing all 7 people aboard

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1988 A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people aboard

1989 San Francisco Bay Area earthquake kills at least 62 people. Damages reach $5.6 billion The Berlin Wall, built in 1961, is opened

1989 An explosion on the Norfolk-based Iowa kills 47 sailors 1990 South Africa’s Nelson Mandela is freed from prison after 27 years

1991 The World Health Organization estimates that entering the 21st century, 30 million adults and 10 million children worldwide will be infected with the AIDS virus.

1992 Rioting sweep South Central Los Angeles after 4 police officers are acquitted of charges of assault and use of excessive force in the arrest of Rodney King

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1993 At least 50 people are killed and 70,000 are left homeless after the “Great Flood of 1993,” which tore through nine midwestern states.

1994 Ex-football great O.J. Simpson is arrested on charges of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.

1995 A car bomb near the Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Okla., kills 169 people. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted.

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Tom Morrisette, Norfolk HAD ALWAYS wanted a paper route, and my friend Dan had the afternoon route in our neighborhood for several years. I would substitute for him occasionally, but it was apparent that Dan would never give it up. He was saving for college and eventually we roomed together at University of Virginia. (He became a doctor, and I am an architect.) I also subbed for my friend Buzzy on the morning route, and when he got more involved in sports, he recommended me as his replacement. The route was in my immediate area (Meadowbrook), and all I had to do was peddle up to the fire station, where 125 stacked newspapers would be delivered each morning, fold them in the warmth of the station vestibule, load up my basket. Then, off I would go. Nearly every house or apartment took the morning paper, so I could be finished in an hour and be home for breakfast and off to school. The hard part was collecting, which I generally did on Friday nights. Only three or four customers paid for the newspaper directly, so I spent a lot of my time trying to catch people at home. I often heard, “Come back later. I don’t have any cash right now.” It was a good experience that helped me achieve some independence, learn the value of money and interact with the older generation. Once I got to the end of the route, where the last house was that of my high school principal, Ed Lambert. (He later became superintendent of schools when I was architect for the School Administration Building.) He had a long, raised front porch with a roof. The upper bedroom windows were just beyond the sloped roof. My final toss of the day caught

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1996-2005

Terrorism z People for the Ethical Treatment for Animals, PETA, moves its national headquarters from Rockville, a Washington suburb, to the former CI Travel building on Front Street in downtown Norfolk (1996) z The $10 million, 1,900-seat L. Douglas Wilder Performing Arts Center opens on the campus of Norfolk State University (1996) z The GTE Virginia Beach Amphitheater opens with a first season of 34 shows. (1996) z The Virginia Zoo’s new African exhibit, the Okavango Delta, opens. The $15.8 million project was the largest expansion in the zoo’s 101-year history. (2002) z Trials for Lee Boyd Malvo and John Allen Muhammad, the men charged in the D.C. sniper shootings, play out in Chesapeake and Virginia Beach courtrooms. (2003) z Hurricane Isabel, one of Virginia’s costliest hurricanes, strikes the area (2003) z Ground is broken for the $116 million second phase of Town Center in Virginia Beach. It includes a 14-story, 341-unit apartment building, restaurants, shops and a public parking garage. (2004)

N AT ION & WORL D 1996 TWA Flight 800, traveling from New York to Paris, explodes and crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off Long Island, killing all 250 people aboard.

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1996 Theodore Kaczynski is indicted as the so-called Unabomber, in connection with a series of mail bombs that killed 3.

1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, is killed in a Paris car crash. Researchers in Scotland introduce Dolly the sheep, the first mammal successfully cloned from a cell.

1999 In Littleton, Colo., 2 teens fatally shoot 12 students and a teacher, at Columbine High School, before killing themselves.

2000 George W. Bush wins the presidency after the U.S. Supreme Court halts the Florida recount in the election

2001 Terrorist hijackers crash 2 airliners into New York’s World Trade Center and one into the Pentagon. One plane crashes in a field near Shanksville, Pa.

2001 Apple introduces iTunes for storing and playing digital media

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2003 Space Shuttle, Columbia, breaks apart on re-entry, killing all aboard

2004 Facebook.com is founded by Mark Zuckerberg and fellow students at Harvard University

2005 Hurricane Katrina devastates the Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama Gulf Coast

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z The Tide, a 7.4 mile light rail line and the first light rail system in Virginia, opens in Norfolk. (Aug 19, 2011)

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z Old Dominion University plays its first football game in 69 years, against Chowan, defeating them 36-21, in front of a packed house of 19,782 at Foreman Field. (Sept. 5, 2009)

z An earthquake 5.8 on the Richter scale shakes the Hampton Roads region. The epicenter was located near Mineral, Va., about 135 miles northwest of South Hampton Roads. It’s the biggest to hit Virginia in more than 100 years (Aug. 23, 2011)

z A two-seat Navy F/A-18D Hornet fighter jet from Oceana Naval Air Station plunged into the Mayfair Mews apartments off Birdneck Road in Virginia Beach shortly after takeoff. The two pilots eject before the crash and survive, and no fatalities occur on the ground. (April 6, 2012)

z A 40-foot “Rubber Duck” from artist Florentijn Hofman floats in the Hague Inlet at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk drawing crowds to the museum, which has been closed for 16 months for its most significant expansion and renovation project in 25 years, a $24 million project. (May 2014)

z Arthur Walker, 79, of the Walker family spy ring, dies in an N.C. prison in July 2014. His brother John A. Walker Jr., 77, dies a month later, at the same prison, just nine months before his release date. For 18 years, John sold U.S. secrets to the Soviets, both as a crypto custodian in the Navy in Norfolk and after he retired.

2008 Barack Obama is elected U.S. president

2010 In the Gulf of Mexico, a gas explosion and fire on a drilling platform causes an oil leak that BP can’t stop for nearly 3 months. Up to 5 million barrels of oil pollute the region.

2011 In Japan, a 9.0 earthquake generates a tsunami, killing at least 16,000 and causing a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

2012 A weakened Hurricane Sandy hits New Jersey and devastates the U.S. northeast.

N AT ION & WORL D 2006 Oil prices surge, pushing the average U.S. gas prices past $3.00 a gallon in July.

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2007 33 people and the gunman are killed at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., in the worst school shooting in U.S. history.

At the summer Olympics in China, U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps wins 8 gold medals.

2010 On Aug. 31, U.S. President Obama declares an end to the U.S. combat mission in Iraq.

2010 A 7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes Haiti. More than 220,000 die.

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2011 Osama bin Laden is killed by a CIAled squad of U.S. Navy SEALs in Pakistan.

A gunman kills 20 children and six adults before killing himself at Sandy Hook

Elementary Schools in Newtown, Conn. 2013 Two bombs explode near the finish line of the Boston marathon. Two brothers of Chechen origin are identified as the bombers.

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Foresighted citizens of the region took the bold step in 1940 to address pollution by voting to approve the referendum that established the Hampton Roads Sanitation District. Over the past 75 years, HRSD has developed into one of the premiere wastewater treatment organizations in the nation, respected for its outstanding record of compliance with its environmental permits and its commitment to innovation.

The Talent Management Department recruits new employees, administers benefits, oversees training and ensures employee safety.

Army Base Treatment Plant, HRSD’s first facility, was recently recognized for 27 consecutive years of perfect permit compliance, a record unmatched in the nation.

The Customer Care Center is responsible for billing, collections and answering customer calls.

The Information Technology Department oversees HRSD’s computer systems, communication systems, cyber security and data management functions.

The Accounting Division is part of the Finance Department, which is responsible for HRSD’s general business functions including budget preparation, financial reporting and procurement.

Today, a workforce of 800 true environmentalists continues the legacy. They operate 13 treatment plants and a system of more than 500 miles of pipelines and pump stations that serve 17 cities and counties in Coastal Virginia. While they come from diverse backgrounds, and perform different duties to help protect public health and area waterways, HRSD employees share one vision: Future generations will inherit clean waterways and be able to keep them clean.

The Laboratory Division uses the latest technology to provide analytical support for research and regulatory purposes.

Electricians and Instrumentation Specialists play important roles in the operation of HRSD’s facilities.

The Technical Services Division, part of the Water Quality Department, conducts environmental monitoring, specialized sampling and research studies.

Atlantic Treatment Plant, which can treat up to 54 million gallons of wastewater a day, is HRSD’s largest facility.

The South Shore Interceptor Systems Division operates and maintains the pipelines and pump stations in south Hampton Roads that convey wastewater from the locality owned and operated collection systems to an HRSD treatment plant.

The HRSD Commission, appointed by the Governor of Virginia, is charged with managing and controlling the functions, affairs and property of HRSD.

The Pretreatment and Pollution Prevention Division, part of the Water Quality Department, monitors wastewater conveyed to treatment plants and implements industrial permit regulations.

The Engineering Department handles planning and analysis, design and construction, and facility asset management.

Read the fascinating history of HRSD’s creation by public referendum at www.hrsd.com/history

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Jim and Bob Thompson, Portsmouth

YRTLE THOMPSON, whose family lived in Portsmouth, writes: Our family of seven had returned home from being missionaries in Pakistan in 1968. We lived in Park View, Portsmouth. It did not take long to realize the cost of living in that Asian country didn’t compare to the dollars we needed in America. Two of our sons had bicycles, and they applied for jobs delivering the newspaper. Jim, 14, delivered in downtown Portsmouth. Bob, 12, delivered in our neighborhood. I think both learned the work ethic delivering the Pilot. They proved to be responsible and successful in what they were doing, sometimes receiving a small tip for their good work. Jim is now a doctor in Illinois. When Bob had saved $75, he bought a

Bob Thompson’s recollections: In 1968, our family came home from missionary service in Pakistan. On the front porch of our rental home at 56 Riverview Ave., we found a shiny new bicycle for each of us that our Uncle Benny and Aunt Carol had given us. It wasn’t long before I attached a wire basket to the front of that bicycle so I could carry newspapers in it. Each afternoon I would meet the other carriers at a vacant lot on Leckie Street, unwrap our bundles of the Ledger

United States, our oldest son, Doug, was mugged in an unprovoked incident. The public was interested in the story, especially because we were missionaries. The paper kept current the outcome of this tragic incident. The articles about those sad days are probably in your archives. Jim Thompson’s recolDoug never delivered lections as told to his mothpapers, but in spite of his er: very serious visual handiI enjoyed my first job, cap, he has also done very delivering papers. The people paid up on time and well in the field of telecommunications. sometimes, told me what Through these many a good job I was doing and years some reporters have gave me a tip. I had to remember what money went written friendly articles to the newspaper and what about our career as missionaries. My husband was the tip. It was a good passed away in 2013. I am learning experience. still healthy and active and very thankful for the opMore from Myrtle portunities America has Thompson: afforded our family. Incidentally, the Pilot has been kind to us as a family. In 1968, shortly after we returned to the of that year, money I used to buy a lawnmower. That mower, in turn, became the asset around which I created my next career – mowing lawns, undoubtedly for some of the same customers who had read the papers I tossed daily on their porch.

lawnmower and added that to his workload in the summer. He is now the senior pastor in a Hickory, N.C., church. Thanks to the Pilot for letting two young boys find a way to earn and learn. – Mrs. Myrtle V. Thompson, Suffolk

Jim and Bob in 1968 or ‘69.

Star, and tie rubberbands around the paper. Then I would ride through the neighborhood tossing them on the ubiquitous front porches, spacious enough for a row of shiny bicycles or for a 12-year-old boy to land a newspaper from 20 feet without slowing his pace. On Sundays we rose early to deliver The Vir-

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ginian-Pilot. I only carried the paper for about a year, as I recall. But the newspaper company taught me an early and crucial lesson by requiring or encouraging (I can’t remember which) that a portion of my earnings as a carrier be deposited in a savings account. I had saved $75 by the end

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At times, nationalities are confusing. TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1991

Yes, Dan Quayle played it safe by talking about meat instead of potatoes. But we misquoted him, saying we wouldn’t “take the meat ax to the fence,” whatever that means.

Mother Teresa is a native of Yugoslavia and a citizen FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1992 of India. She was incorrectDuring his appearance ly identified as an AmeriMonday at Newport News can in The Daily Break on Shipbuilding, Vice PresiMonday. dent Dan Quayle said, “We would not take the meat ax to defense.’’ Quayle was To be fair, this recipe would misquoted in a story in have been popular if the Tuesday’s Local News secno-carb movement had tion. started a bit earlier. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1992

The recipe for Orange Glazed Cake that appeared in Thursday’s Flavor section includes four cups of flour. The ingredient was inadvertently omitted.

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At times, we were in denial about departed celebrities. MONDAY, JULY 12, 1993

Actor Fred Gwynne died last week and should not have been listed Saturday among those marking birthdays.

Photos have tripped us up A couple of times we defied logic in our weather re- a number of times. porting. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1994 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1993

For Thursday, the high was 52 degrees, the low 63; on Friday, the high 53, the low 62. The highs and lows were reversed.

In some editions of Saturday’s Television Week section, a photo from the show ‘‘Babylon 5’’ was mistakenly printed with a front-page description of ‘‘Gone With the Wind.’’

To be fair, recent studies have shown that having lit- Animals of all sorts have given us trouble tle kids around older people can be beneficial. Maybe we were thinking ahead. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1995 Loggerhead turtles are marine reptiles, not mamWEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1994 mals, as stated in a Metro Marian Manor RetireNews story Thursday. ment Community in Virginia Beach was erroneously included in a Tuesday Daily Break listing of summer camp programs.

Sometimes our sources tell At times, a simple typo can make a huge difference. us things to be funny, and we don’t realize they’re joking. TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1996 At the first annual India Fest at Old Dominion UniTHURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1994 versity on Saturday, venThe Portsmouth Police Department does not dump dors sold Asian rugs, not drugs. The error was in a confiscated guns in the Elizabeth River, as noted in Daily Break story that day. a story Monday about Virginia gun dealers and police weapons.

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1963 Virginia Eye Consultants was established in 1963 by John W. Dickerson, Norfolk’s first ophthalmic pathologist and oculoplastic surgeon. In 1979 Dr. Bruce I. Bodner joined Dr. Dickerson, adding his corneal specialty expertise to the practice.

Pioneered minimally invasive glaucoma surgery, or MIGS, in Hampton Roads. Constance Okeke, M.D was the first to perform Trabectome and the first in the country to combine this technology in glaucoma along with femtosecond laser, the cutting edge technology in cataract surgery.

An Eye on Excellence for over

2010 Listed in Forbes Magazine’s Top 10 LASIK Surgeons in the U.S.

50 years! 2011

2012

We were the first practice in Virginia and the 13th in the nation to offer the latest advancement in cataract laser surgery. First practice in Hampton roads to offer the FS200 – the most advanced femtosecond laser for performing customized LASIK procedures

Awarded Hampton Roads Small Business of the Year and voted America’s Best Small Business in the Southeastern U.S. by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

2012 Celebrated our 50 year anniversary.

2014

2015

Recognized by the 2014 Hampton Roads Health Care Heroes for community based charity services.

Elizabeth Yeu, M.D recognized as 2015 Top 40 Under 40 - Ophthalmologist power list

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15O YEARS AND COUNTING! MACY’S salutes

THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT ON A CENTURY AND A HALF OF JOURNALISTIC EXCELLENCE!

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