| Show THE UTAH NEWSPAPER HALL OF FAME earnedscholarship to Cal Berkeley Which is where he was when his father asked him to return to the paper Like all members of the family heworked at the Chronicleas youngster and had both mechanical and business sense Frank his family called him Boyd for vague reasons and he was later known as Fuzz also had card sense He augmented his college spending money by extracting poker winnings from his Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity brothers His return to the Chronicle was probably the newspaper salvation Within two years after he became mechanical foreman and business manager both Delta banks failed Soon the nation plunged into the Depression of the 30s But the family-operated Chronicle survived In fact thrived We were swamped with legals paid for at the legal rate Frank remembered And typically finding something humor ous in the situation he added These bank failures did not hurt us in any way because we had no money to put in banks Even his family didnescape his light-hearted jesting Reminiscing in1953 article he wrote Between fishing trips married Wanda Peterson in 1939 and we have four children Susan who can dofair job on the folder andpoor job of sweeping Mary Jane Deborah and the last one Collins months who up to now has done nothing around the Chronicle but keep the humidity high The father-and-son publishing team guided the Chronicle through the depression and World War II with its shortages of materials and help Frank unlike his father moved through the officer structure of the Utah State Press Association and became its president in 1942 Later he served six added years 1950-56 asdirector It was afterstate press meeting that he wrote tongue in cheek of newspaper people Reading their papers one would get the mis impression that they are almost human kind of deluded but harmless set of cusses so befuddled that they stick by preference toslim picking instead of getting into some respectable business where an honest dollar might be won at half the work But no once in the rut there they stick 429 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
