| Authors |
| Christopher Butler |
| Butler worked as a free-lance radio and print journalist for WCPN
90.3 and the West Times. His book, Across Many Fields: A Season of Ohio High
School Football emerged from his interest in cultural trends in the U.S. Butler
has an M.A. in American Studies. He lives in Morris, Minnesota. |
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| Daniel J. Cook |
| Native Clevelander Daniel J. Cook is a co-founder of Cleveland
Landmarks Press and co-author of four of its books, including Cleveland’s
Towering Treasure, one of the company’s latest releases. Cook earned a business
degree in marketing from Cleveland State University and has spent most of his
professional career in business-to-business publishing. He was district manager
for the Chemical and Engineering News and Plastics Technology journals, as well
as publisher for a number of other trade magazines for Corcoran Communications
and Babcox Publications. Cook currently works for Comparison Marketing in
Solon, Ohio. He and his wife Kathryn are the parents of three grown children.
Dan and Kathy Cook live in Independence, Ohio. |
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| Gregory G. Deegan |
| A native Clevelander, Deegan is the co-author of CLP's 1997
release Cleveland Stadium: The Last Chapter, and the 1999 release The Heart of
Cleveland: Public Square in the 20th Century. He is a partner in Cleveland
Landmarks Press. He has contributed articles in academic journals and as a
reporter in Columbus. He earned his master's degree in history and currently
Deegan teaches history and Cleveland public policy at Beachwood High School. He
lives with his wife Liz and three children in University Heights, Ohio.
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| Blaine S. Hays |
| Hays has been associated with the public transit industry ever
since returning to Cleveland from college studies in Pittsburgh. He worked for
the old Cleveland Transit System, the Shaker Heights Rapid Transit, and retired
in August 2001 from the Rail Division of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit
Authority. A frequent speaker on transit-related topics and a Cleveland native,
Hays has authored or co- authored five books dealing with public
transportation, and the sixth is currently underway. Cleveland's Dynamic
Transit Heritage and Horse Trails to Regional Rails: The Story of Public
Transit in Cleveland. Hays is married and the father of one. He and his wife
Joanie live in Parma, Ohio. |
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| Richard E. Karberg |
| Karberg is co-author of Euclid Avenue: Cleveland's Sophisticated
Lady, 1920-1970, coming in November and now available for pre-order. He is also
the author of Silver Grille: New and Expanded Edition, The Silver Grille:
Memories and Recipes and The Higbee Company and The Silver Grille. He was a
member of the arts and humanities faculty at Cuyahoga Community College for 35
years and has since retired. He is now working as a consultant for the
Cleveland Botanical Garden. Karberg and his wife Judith, a former nurse at
Metro Health, live in Shaker Heights. They have two children. |
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| Michael G. Poplar |
| Poplar first became involved with the Cleveland Browns in 1965 as
part of his company’s annual audit of the team’s books while working for Arthur
Andersen. From 1973 through 1996 he served as the vice president and treasurer
of the Cleveland Stadium Corporation which was then operating under a lease
with Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell. The records he kept of those years
formed the documentary basis of his book, Fumble! The Browns, Modell, and the
Move, which spent almost two months on the Cleveland best seller list when it
first made its appearance in 1997. After a valiant battle with cancer, Mike
Poplar passed away in March 2005. He is survived by his wife Sunnie and five
children. |
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| Jennifer Rothchild |
| Rothchild is the photographer for Across Many Fields: A Season of
Ohio High School Football. She is an assistant professor of sociology at the
University of Minnesota at Morris and has photographed subjects in Asia and
Europe as well as the United States. |
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| James R. Spangler |
| James R. Spangler, a native Clevelander, grew up in an area of the
city well served by several streetcar lines. Following high school and a stint
in the armed services during World War II, he was employed by the Cleveland
Transit System as a traffic checker, and in that capacity came to know the
system from end to end. He then moved on to the U.S. Postal Service where he
spent the next 35 years until retirement. He joined the Euclid Railfans Group
and together with several good friends began to photograph the system. Over the
years he has accumulated a large collection of photographs documenting the
city’s streetcar heritage. He has presented programs before many Cleveland
groups, and for years has been a fixture at most of the areas railfan
gatherings. Spangler is a member of the Northern Ohio Railway Museum. He has
co-authored three books on Clevelaznd transit and contributed to many others. A
father of two and grandfather of six, he lives in suburban Mayfield Heights. |
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| James A. Toman |
| James A. Toman was born in a southeast suburb of Cleveland. At an
early age, he became fascinated with streetcars, and his first college research
paper was on the history of the streetcars in Cleveland. With time, his
interests broadened to encompass many aspects of Cleveland history. One result
of that interest was his co-founding Cleveland Landmarks Press in 1980 to
publish books about the city’s history. He has authored or co-authored 17 books
on various Cleveland topics, particularly those relating to the downtown
district and to public transportation. An inveterate collector of Cleveland
streetcar photographs, he has also photographed most of the streetcar, light
rail, and subways systems in North America. He holds a doctorate in education
and has been involved in the teaching field for 42 years. He is currently the
director of the Social Sciences Division at Lorain County Community College. He
lives in Cleveland.
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| George N. Vourlojianis |
| George N. Vourlojianis earned his doctorate in history, with a
specialization in 19th century American Studies, from Kent State University. He
currently is associate professor of history at Lorain County Community College
and campus advisor to the college's Phi Theta Kappa chapter. He also serves on
the adjunct faculties of Kent State University and John Carroll University
where he teaches upper-level history courses. In 1999, he received the
Distinguished Teaching Award for Arts and Sciences at Kent, and in that year he
was also designated a U.S. Military Academy Fellow. A previous book, The
Cleveland Grays: An Urban Military Company 1837-1919, was published by
Kent State University Press in 2002. He lives with his wife Sally in Elyria,
Ohio. |
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