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Calvin S. Holm *

      Cal started out in radio at WTMJ in Milwaukee in 1950. In 1954, he went to Europe as a radio reporter for the Armed Forces, covering the NATO meeting in Paris and the nine-power conference in London . Then in 1956, he was employed by WAKR in Akron , as a newscaster and remained at WAKR until 1967. During his hours of duty in the newsroom at WAKR, he put the bulletin on the air of President Kennedy’s assassination. He had also been on duty on the Sunday that the Russian ship turned back to end the Cuban Missile Crisis and, perhaps, the threat of imminent war. Cal served on the committee that revised the Akron City Charter. He retired in 1982 from his Milwaukee ’s WTMJ radio and television career to join the staff of Mayor Henry Maier. He died in May of 2001.