11th Annual Veterans History Project Breakfast

72 in all attended a library signature event on Friday morning, November 3, as 24 veterans participated in the Roll Call.  The Sweet Reminder Duet as the Andrews Sisters provided the musical finale.

 

The veterans appearing in the picture are from left to right in the first row: Mike McNulty (wheelchair), Mort Elenbogen, and Max Kolpas. In the first row seated in chairs on the stage from left to right are Rudolph Hazucha, Kenneth Lee, Matt Wojtaszek, Charles Matz, Arthur Shapiro, David Besser, Ira Graham, and Bill Shipp. Seated in the second row from left to right are Pat Gerard, Richard Englund, Judith Carlson (for Norman Berkman), Roger Salamon, Bill Kroller, Fred Ziegler, and Ray Marchetta. Standing in the last row from left to right are Don Cronberg, Don Gloor, John Bugajsky, Gary Warner, Russell Zapel and Jack Weinberg. Library Director, Susan Lempke, welcomed the veterans and also acknowledged Mr. Hazucha as being the first President of the Niles Library Board of Trustees in 1959.