About the project
This project has been supported by the work and private donations of the following people:
John Barton
Margaret Bauman
Former society, entertainment and religion editor for the Anchorage Times. Joined UPI at Charleston, W.Va. in 1960s after briefly working for The Associated Press in Pittsburgh, PA. Later worked for UPI in Milwaukee and Newark. Also worked for CBS News in New York, the AP in Denver, finally returning in 1990 to worrk in Alaska as a journalist. Graduated Michigan State University, 1964.
Dotttie Brooks
A news professional with nearly 60 years of experience, until her retirement Dottie was a principal in Paradigm News, an Internet feature syndicate. She is a former Vice President of Member Services and Director of New Services for P.R. Newswire, a leading commercial news release company. Her news career started in 1943 at the Tarrytown Daily News. From 1945 to 1987 she worked in the financial news department of United Press and then of United Press International, after UP's merger with the International News Service. She served as UPI's world-wide Business and Financial Editor and Director of Financial Services.
Maria Jose Lopez DeArenosa
John DePrez Jr.
Tom Foty
Richard C. Gross
Gross joined UPI in Boston in February 1967, where he covered the State House until August 1969, when he left UPI. He rejoined UPI in New York in March 1970, working on the General Desk, the Metro Desk and the Cables Desk. Subsequently worked in the Tel Aviv bureau starting in May 1972 and then the Belgrade bureau in January 1976, as chief Balkan correspondent with responsibility for Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania. He returned to Tel Aviv in April 1977 as bureau manager. Gross transferred to Washington in January 1981 as Pentagon reporter. He became deputy foreign editor in October 1987 and was foreign editor from 1989 until October 1990. He was assistant and then deputy foreign editor of The Washington Times, from November 1990-June 1999. He worked as a desk editor for Bridge News from June 1999 to April 2000. Gross retired after working as opinion page editor of The Baltimore Sun from April 2000 to July 2006.
Patrick Harden
Harden worked for UPI from 1960-1979 and for United Press Canada from 1979-1982 in Knoxville, Nashville, Montgomery, Mobile, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Memphis, London (news), The Hague, London (pictures), Brussels, Zurich, Detroit, Montreal and Toronto. He served as bureau manager in Jacksonville and Memphis; manager and regional executive for Holland, Flemish Belgium and the UK (The Hague and London); European newspictures manager (London and Brussels); senior manager, new European headquarters (Brussels); regional executive for Michigan (Detroit). General manager, UPI of Canada (Montreal and Toronto). Created and served as first general manager of United Press Canada, a successor to UPI and UPI of Canada Ltd. General manager, The Edmonton Sun, Edmonton, Alberta, 1982-84; publisher 1984-92 (vice president, Toronto Sun newspapers, 1989). Vice president & Washington bureau chief, Toronto Sun Newspapers, 1992-94. Freelance, Washington, 1994-1998; Washington bureau chief, LRP Publications, 1998-2006. Now retired.
Ed Hart
John Hlavacek
Gary Haynes
Haynes joined United Press International as a photographer in Detroit in 1958. By 1969 he was UPI's assistant managing editor of photos in New York, and later that year joined the New York Times as the newspaper's first national picture editor. He became assistant managing editor for photos and graphics at the Philadelphia Inquirer and for 20 years directed staff photographers who won two Pulitzer Prizes and shared a third. As a UPI photographer and editor in six cities, Haynes spent eleven years on the world's news fronts. He recently published Picture This! The Inside Story and Classic Photos of UPI Newspictures, with foreward by Walter Cronkite.
Didi Hunter
Karl Kramer
David Lewis
Lewis was the city editor of the North Shores Sentinel in San Diego from 1965 to 1969 and the night bureau manager for UPI in San Diego from 1969 to 1975.
Lewis Lord
Lord began working for UPI in 1955 in Jackson, Miss. Covered Freedom Riders, filibusters, and Ole Miss football. In 1962, South Carolina news manager in Columbia. In 1966, S.C. sales rep. In 1968, Southern Division news editor in Atlanta, in charge of 8-state news operation. In 1972, sales rep in Nashville, traveling Tennessee and Mississippi. In 1976, news desk in Washington. In 1977, after 22 years with UPI, hired as writer at U.S. News & World Report in Washington. Quarter century there as a "floater," working in every section but News You Can Use. Ran and edited national, foreign, culture and front-of-book sections. In final 10 years with magazine, specialized in writing articles on history. Left staff in 2002 but remained on masthead as a "contributing editor."
Jerry McGinn
Martin "Marty" McReynolds
McReynolds worked 20 years for UPI as reporter, photographer and editor, starting in September 1961 as a freelancer in what was then called Ciudad Trujillo, capital of the Dominican Republic. Hired full-time after a few months of covering news and photos as a stringer, he spent two years in UPI Headquarters in New York 1962-64, moving from Local Desk to General Desk and Cables. After that, it was back to Latin America, with assignments in San Juan, Panama, Lima, Buenos Aires, Miami, back to Buenos Aires and then Bogota. His two periods in Buenos Aires were spent as South American newspictures editor 1967-70 and South American news editor 1973-78. Stories he covered included the aftermath of Dictator Trujillo's assassination in the Dominican Republic, the U.S.-led invasion of the same country in 1965, the final term of office of Juan Domingo Peron in Argentina, followed by the ill-fated government of Isabel Peron and the Dirty War under a military dictatorship. Winding up his UPI career in Bogota as manager for Colombia-Venezuela-Ecuador, he jumped to the Miami Herald. During 18 years at the Herald, he covered stories in the Caribbean, Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela but spent most of the time as copy editor on the Foreign Desk. Marty retired in 2000 and moved to Santa Rosa, CA.
Ted Marks
Marks started work with UPI in Hartford in 1968. He later worked in Boston and Tokyo as a reporter and correspondent, then in Hong Kong as an editor and Bangkok as bureau manager. He returned to Tokyo as manager for North Asia and then moved to New York as Executive Assistant to UPI President Rod Beaton. Later he was vice president for New England, based in Boston. Later he worked for Knight-Ridder, until 1990 when he found his own company, Marks & Frederick Associates.
Tony Miller
John Milne
Milne is a news reporter and editor who covered politics and government for more than 40 years (not counting the time he sneaked into a JFK press conference during the 1960 primary campaign). He has asked a question of every president in his lifetime because Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower spoke at Grinnell College during the time he was a student. John joined United Press International in 1967 and worked in bureaus in Raleigh, N.C., Boston, Concord, N.H. and Washington. Between 1978 and 1982 John wrote editorials and edited news stories for The Miami Herald. John returned to New England in 1983 to become editor of the weekly New Hampshire Times. He joined The Boston Globe in 1984, where he covered regional and national politics.
John was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma in 1997 and lived through a stem-cell transplant in 1998. He is now a political columnist for the New Hampshire circulation of The Eagle-Tribune of North Andover, Mass., and The Caledonian-Record of St. Johnsbury, Vt. He serves as editor of the Concord Historical Society’s history of Concord, N.H. in the 20th Century.
John is married and has two adult children. He lives in Concord, N.H., a short walk from the State House.
Sue Morgan
Morgan started her career with the Thomson Newspaper group and then joined United Press International, working in the Charleston, West Virginia, and Philadelphia bureaus. She is currently Senior Web Content Developer for Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Allan Papkin
Carolyn Petersen
Allan Priaulx
Dave Rosso
Rosso joined United Press International in December 1969, working for the company until 1993. He returned to UPI in 1996 and left again in 1999. He started at the company as a switchboard operator and dictationist, but quickly worked his way up to a position with UPI's Washington Capital News Service. From there he moved to UPI's Washington Desk.
Mark Scheinbaum
Scheinbaum is a managing director of LF Rothschild LLC, members of the Boston Stock Exchange, NASD and SIPC. He served five years as a board member of the National Association of Radio Talk Show Hosts and his local and nationally syndicated talk shows have won two A.I.R. awards over a 10-year span. He worked for United Press International from 1969-74 and was chapter president of the Miami branch of the Wire Service Guild.
Irvine "Pinky" Vidacovich
Ken Whitehurst
Whitehurst is executive director (acting) of the Consumers Council of Canada. He is a former editor-in-chief for Metroland North Media, where he led the redesigns of the group's information and e-commerce web sites and of its flagship community newspaper The Barrie Advance and regional lifestyle magazine. For eight years, as a member of the senior management team of mutual fund company Global Strategy Financial Inc.—associated with the N.M. Rothschild Group of companies—he devised and directed that company's innovative media program for investment professionals. Prior to this, Whitehurst was General Manager of Standard Broadcast News, a national broadcast news service in Canada operated by Standard Broadcasting Corporation; General Executive and Manager for Canada of United Press International; Communications Manager of United Press Canada; and a reporter and national desk editor for United Press Canada. In 1978, he was a founder of the University of Toronto's independent community newspaper named the newspaper, a student-operated, self-financing weekly which has been in continuous publication on the U of T campus for 30 years. Whitehurst administers this web site.
Participation in The Downhold Project is open to former employees of United Press International and to faculty and students of qualifying colleges and universities.
John Barton
Margaret Bauman
Former society, entertainment and religion editor for the Anchorage Times. Joined UPI at Charleston, W.Va. in 1960s after briefly working for The Associated Press in Pittsburgh, PA. Later worked for UPI in Milwaukee and Newark. Also worked for CBS News in New York, the AP in Denver, finally returning in 1990 to worrk in Alaska as a journalist. Graduated Michigan State University, 1964.
Dotttie Brooks
A news professional with nearly 60 years of experience, until her retirement Dottie was a principal in Paradigm News, an Internet feature syndicate. She is a former Vice President of Member Services and Director of New Services for P.R. Newswire, a leading commercial news release company. Her news career started in 1943 at the Tarrytown Daily News. From 1945 to 1987 she worked in the financial news department of United Press and then of United Press International, after UP's merger with the International News Service. She served as UPI's world-wide Business and Financial Editor and Director of Financial Services.
Maria Jose Lopez DeArenosa
John DePrez Jr.
Tom Foty
Richard C. Gross
Gross joined UPI in Boston in February 1967, where he covered the State House until August 1969, when he left UPI. He rejoined UPI in New York in March 1970, working on the General Desk, the Metro Desk and the Cables Desk. Subsequently worked in the Tel Aviv bureau starting in May 1972 and then the Belgrade bureau in January 1976, as chief Balkan correspondent with responsibility for Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania. He returned to Tel Aviv in April 1977 as bureau manager. Gross transferred to Washington in January 1981 as Pentagon reporter. He became deputy foreign editor in October 1987 and was foreign editor from 1989 until October 1990. He was assistant and then deputy foreign editor of The Washington Times, from November 1990-June 1999. He worked as a desk editor for Bridge News from June 1999 to April 2000. Gross retired after working as opinion page editor of The Baltimore Sun from April 2000 to July 2006.
Patrick Harden
Harden worked for UPI from 1960-1979 and for United Press Canada from 1979-1982 in Knoxville, Nashville, Montgomery, Mobile, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Memphis, London (news), The Hague, London (pictures), Brussels, Zurich, Detroit, Montreal and Toronto. He served as bureau manager in Jacksonville and Memphis; manager and regional executive for Holland, Flemish Belgium and the UK (The Hague and London); European newspictures manager (London and Brussels); senior manager, new European headquarters (Brussels); regional executive for Michigan (Detroit). General manager, UPI of Canada (Montreal and Toronto). Created and served as first general manager of United Press Canada, a successor to UPI and UPI of Canada Ltd. General manager, The Edmonton Sun, Edmonton, Alberta, 1982-84; publisher 1984-92 (vice president, Toronto Sun newspapers, 1989). Vice president & Washington bureau chief, Toronto Sun Newspapers, 1992-94. Freelance, Washington, 1994-1998; Washington bureau chief, LRP Publications, 1998-2006. Now retired.
Ed Hart
John Hlavacek
Gary Haynes
Haynes joined United Press International as a photographer in Detroit in 1958. By 1969 he was UPI's assistant managing editor of photos in New York, and later that year joined the New York Times as the newspaper's first national picture editor. He became assistant managing editor for photos and graphics at the Philadelphia Inquirer and for 20 years directed staff photographers who won two Pulitzer Prizes and shared a third. As a UPI photographer and editor in six cities, Haynes spent eleven years on the world's news fronts. He recently published Picture This! The Inside Story and Classic Photos of UPI Newspictures, with foreward by Walter Cronkite.
Didi Hunter
Karl Kramer
David Lewis
Lewis was the city editor of the North Shores Sentinel in San Diego from 1965 to 1969 and the night bureau manager for UPI in San Diego from 1969 to 1975.
Lewis Lord
Lord began working for UPI in 1955 in Jackson, Miss. Covered Freedom Riders, filibusters, and Ole Miss football. In 1962, South Carolina news manager in Columbia. In 1966, S.C. sales rep. In 1968, Southern Division news editor in Atlanta, in charge of 8-state news operation. In 1972, sales rep in Nashville, traveling Tennessee and Mississippi. In 1976, news desk in Washington. In 1977, after 22 years with UPI, hired as writer at U.S. News & World Report in Washington. Quarter century there as a "floater," working in every section but News You Can Use. Ran and edited national, foreign, culture and front-of-book sections. In final 10 years with magazine, specialized in writing articles on history. Left staff in 2002 but remained on masthead as a "contributing editor."
Jerry McGinn
Martin "Marty" McReynolds
McReynolds worked 20 years for UPI as reporter, photographer and editor, starting in September 1961 as a freelancer in what was then called Ciudad Trujillo, capital of the Dominican Republic. Hired full-time after a few months of covering news and photos as a stringer, he spent two years in UPI Headquarters in New York 1962-64, moving from Local Desk to General Desk and Cables. After that, it was back to Latin America, with assignments in San Juan, Panama, Lima, Buenos Aires, Miami, back to Buenos Aires and then Bogota. His two periods in Buenos Aires were spent as South American newspictures editor 1967-70 and South American news editor 1973-78. Stories he covered included the aftermath of Dictator Trujillo's assassination in the Dominican Republic, the U.S.-led invasion of the same country in 1965, the final term of office of Juan Domingo Peron in Argentina, followed by the ill-fated government of Isabel Peron and the Dirty War under a military dictatorship. Winding up his UPI career in Bogota as manager for Colombia-Venezuela-Ecuador, he jumped to the Miami Herald. During 18 years at the Herald, he covered stories in the Caribbean, Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela but spent most of the time as copy editor on the Foreign Desk. Marty retired in 2000 and moved to Santa Rosa, CA.
Ted Marks
Marks started work with UPI in Hartford in 1968. He later worked in Boston and Tokyo as a reporter and correspondent, then in Hong Kong as an editor and Bangkok as bureau manager. He returned to Tokyo as manager for North Asia and then moved to New York as Executive Assistant to UPI President Rod Beaton. Later he was vice president for New England, based in Boston. Later he worked for Knight-Ridder, until 1990 when he found his own company, Marks & Frederick Associates.
Tony Miller
John Milne
Milne is a news reporter and editor who covered politics and government for more than 40 years (not counting the time he sneaked into a JFK press conference during the 1960 primary campaign). He has asked a question of every president in his lifetime because Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower spoke at Grinnell College during the time he was a student. John joined United Press International in 1967 and worked in bureaus in Raleigh, N.C., Boston, Concord, N.H. and Washington. Between 1978 and 1982 John wrote editorials and edited news stories for The Miami Herald. John returned to New England in 1983 to become editor of the weekly New Hampshire Times. He joined The Boston Globe in 1984, where he covered regional and national politics.
John was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma in 1997 and lived through a stem-cell transplant in 1998. He is now a political columnist for the New Hampshire circulation of The Eagle-Tribune of North Andover, Mass., and The Caledonian-Record of St. Johnsbury, Vt. He serves as editor of the Concord Historical Society’s history of Concord, N.H. in the 20th Century.
John is married and has two adult children. He lives in Concord, N.H., a short walk from the State House.
Sue Morgan
Morgan started her career with the Thomson Newspaper group and then joined United Press International, working in the Charleston, West Virginia, and Philadelphia bureaus. She is currently Senior Web Content Developer for Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Allan Papkin
Carolyn Petersen
Allan Priaulx
Dave Rosso
Rosso joined United Press International in December 1969, working for the company until 1993. He returned to UPI in 1996 and left again in 1999. He started at the company as a switchboard operator and dictationist, but quickly worked his way up to a position with UPI's Washington Capital News Service. From there he moved to UPI's Washington Desk.
Mark Scheinbaum
Scheinbaum is a managing director of LF Rothschild LLC, members of the Boston Stock Exchange, NASD and SIPC. He served five years as a board member of the National Association of Radio Talk Show Hosts and his local and nationally syndicated talk shows have won two A.I.R. awards over a 10-year span. He worked for United Press International from 1969-74 and was chapter president of the Miami branch of the Wire Service Guild.
Irvine "Pinky" Vidacovich
Ken Whitehurst
Whitehurst is executive director (acting) of the Consumers Council of Canada. He is a former editor-in-chief for Metroland North Media, where he led the redesigns of the group's information and e-commerce web sites and of its flagship community newspaper The Barrie Advance and regional lifestyle magazine. For eight years, as a member of the senior management team of mutual fund company Global Strategy Financial Inc.—associated with the N.M. Rothschild Group of companies—he devised and directed that company's innovative media program for investment professionals. Prior to this, Whitehurst was General Manager of Standard Broadcast News, a national broadcast news service in Canada operated by Standard Broadcasting Corporation; General Executive and Manager for Canada of United Press International; Communications Manager of United Press Canada; and a reporter and national desk editor for United Press Canada. In 1978, he was a founder of the University of Toronto's independent community newspaper named the newspaper, a student-operated, self-financing weekly which has been in continuous publication on the U of T campus for 30 years. Whitehurst administers this web site.
Participation in The Downhold Project is open to former employees of United Press International and to faculty and students of qualifying colleges and universities.
