[PRCo] Re: Wisconsin and PRC (now we're on topic!)

Donald Galt galtfd at att.net
Mon Jun 4 03:09:14 EDT 2001


On 3 Jun 01, at 8:53, Bob Rathke wrote:

> 
> The dedication program has a nice bio on Joe -  he was born
> in Madison WI on 10/28/51, attended college there and then
> spent his career in public transit in WI.   He became
> Kenosha's Transportation Director in 1991, and worked on his
> dream of bringing trolleys to the city. The trolley line
> opened on 6/17/00, and Joe died unexpectedly a couple of
> months later.

My apologies for not having known about him. Especially since I 
have been following the Kenosha story - sort of.

Born in 1951, he was basically too young ever to have experienced 
the era named after him. Bet he heard about it, though!

Don




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