Ross M. Dick
Born(1912-10-04)October 4, 1912
Moline, Illinois, United States
DiedFebruary 3, 1994(1994-02-03) (aged 81)
Alma materBeloit College
OccupationJournalist
Years active1937–1978
EmployerThe Milwaukee Journal
OrganizationSociety of American Business Editors and Writers

Ross Melvin Dick (October 4, 1912 – February 3, 1994) was an American journalist who helped to found the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and served as the organization's fourth president.

Early life

Dick was born on October 4, 1912, in Moline, Illinois, to Frances and Ross C. Dick.[1][2] Ross, born January 21, 1884, in East Moline, was a machinist for Root & Vandervoort.[3][4][5] Dick had a brother, Ronald R., and a sister, Barbara.[6] Barbara was born on November 26, 1922, in Moline.[7]

In 1923 the family moved to Clinton, Iowa, when Ross joined the Climax Engineering Company as a production engineer.[4][8] They moved to Beloit, Wisconsin, by 1926.[9]

Dick graduated from Beloit College in 1937, where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.[10][11]

Career

Dick began his journalism career as the Beloit correspondent for the Star and Register-Republic in Rockford, Illinois.[10]

Dick joined The Milwaukee Journal in 1946, serving as the state news editor before becoming the business and financial editor later that year.[12][10] He retired in 1978.[10]

Dick helped found the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing.[10] He served as the organization's treasurer in 1967, and fourth president in 1968.[11][13]

Dick and his wife, Shirley, traveled around South America on a Wisconsin trade mission in the 1960s.[14]

Personal life

Dick married Shirley Kretschmer on July 21, 1940, in the Delta Gamma sorority house at Beloit College in a ceremony presided over by college president Irving Maurer.[11][6] Shirley, born on July 21, 1914, graduated from Beloit College in 1936 with one of the first bachelor's degrees in archaeology/anthropology awarded to a woman in the United States.[11][14]

The couple lived in Dick's Rockford apartment until they moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, when Dick started at the Journal in 1946.[6][14] They moved to Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, in 1953.[14]

The couple had three children – daughters Susan and Mary, and son Ross.[14]

Dick died on February 3, 1994.[14] Shirley died on April 12, 2016, in Waupaca, Wisconsin.[12]

References

  1. ↑ "East Moline". Moline Daily Dispatch. Vol. 35. October 5, 1912. p. 16. Retrieved August 10, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ↑ "Obituaries – Funerals". Independent. Vol. 32, no. 174. August 28, 1973. p. C-10. Retrieved August 10, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ "Death Notices". Morning Democrat. Vol. 6, no. 169 (Quad-City ed.). Davenport, Iowa. June 14, 1957. p. 8. Retrieved August 10, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. 1 2 "Ross Dick Joins Clinton Company". Moline Daily Dispatch. Vol. 46 (5 O'clock ed.). August 18, 1923. p. 12. Retrieved August 10, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "R. & V. Head Has Unrest Solution". Moline Daily Dispatch. Vol. 46 (5 O'clock ed.). December 1, 1919. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. 1 2 3 "Chicago Girl Is Married to Ross Dick in Beloit". Moline Daily Dispatch. Vol. 62. June 24, 1940. p. 13. Retrieved August 10, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "In The Hospitals". Moline Daily Dispatch. Vol. 45. November 22, 1922. p. 7. Retrieved August 10, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "East Moline and Silvis Personal". Moline Daily Dispatch. Vol. 47 (5 O'clock ed.). September 11, 1924. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "East Moline and Silvis Personal". Moline Daily Dispatch. Vol. 48 (5 O'clock ed.). April 19, 1926. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 "Ross M. Dick, helped start writers group". Pottsville Rebublican. Vol. CCXIX, no. 84. Associated Press. February 5–6, 1994. p. 2 – via Newspaper.com.
  11. 1 2 3 4 "Kretschmer-Dick Nuptials Will Be Event of June 21". The Daily Times. Vol. LIV, no. 157. June 18, 1940. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. 1 2 "Former Journal business editor dies". The Sheboygan Press. Vol. 87, no. 49. Associated Press. February 5, 1994. p. A7 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ↑ "American Business Writers Elect New Slate of Officers". San Fernando Valley Times. Vol. 31, no. 116 (Home ed.). May 13, 1968. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Dick, Shirley Kretschmer". Waupaca County News. April 27, 2016. Retrieved September 5, 2022.
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