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...hundred family members, friends, colleagues, and students gathered yesterday afternoon at the University Lutheran Church, 66 Winthrop St., to mourn Walter F. Frese, who was Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Accounting, Emeritus at the Business School...
This can-do optimism is a trait that Simon inherited from his father Martin, who died of leukemia in 1969. Martin and Ruth Simon were Lutheran missionaries in China before Martin accepted a pastorate in Eugene a month prior to the birth of their oldest son Paul in 1928. In the early 1930s, the Simons began publishing religious pamphlets out of their home, as well as a monthly magazine called the Christian Parent. Ruth Simon recalls, "When we went into business, we didn't have a dime of our own." A monthly treat was a Sunday after-church lunch...
...that Arthur later fulfilled. But Paul's dreams were shaped by reading the autobiography of William Allen White, the publisher of the Emporia (Kans.) Gazette. "In grade school," Arthur says, "Paul began talking about owning a weekly newspaper and going into politics." To this day, Simon remains a devout Lutheran layman...
...quest of a more central location for their business, the Simons moved to Highland, Ill., some 35 miles from St. Louis, in 1946. Paul enrolled at Dana College, a Lutheran school in Blair, Neb. He was a little more than a year short of graduation when his parents discovered that the weekly paper in nearby Troy, Ill., was about to fold. With the help of a $3,600 loan guaranteed by the local Lions Club, Paul Simon, 19, was the publisher and owner of the Troy Tribune. "I wanted to be the Walter Lippmann of my generation," he explains...
...regret over abandoning her dream of becoming a judge. Their respective religions were a more serious problem -- for the parents. Martin Simon was initially opposed to the match. At one point, his son asked, "Dad, if I married the worst drunk in the county and she was a Lutheran, then would it be all right...