Siegrist Trivia

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SEACRIST: The Rescue Steam Fire Engine and Hose Company No.4 - 1894; Assistant Pipeman: H. Seacrist, Adam Seacrist, George Seacrist, Harry E. Seacrist, Henry Seacrist, Jacob K. Seacrist.; Source: The Pennsylvania Traveler, Vol. 7, No.3; February 1971
The Early York Fire Departments - York County, pgs. 50-52

SECHREST, Robert E.: Born: Poplar Bluff, Butler Co., MO.; The following is extracted from an American Republic, Poplar Bluff, newspaper from the mid 1980s:
Bob graduated from Poplar Bluff High School where he played football and basketball. After college he coached basketball, baseball, and volleyball for four years at Van Buren, Carter County, Missouri. In 1956 he coached football at Thayer, Oregon County, Missouri. From 1957 to 1962 Bob coached football and basketball at Flat River High School. In 1962 he became head basketball coach at Flat River Junior College, today known as Mineral Area College. Upon his 1986 retirement as basketball coach, he remained as athletic director of Mineral Area College.; The following were among his achievements:
Bob was elected Coach of the Year three times by Region XVI of the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) and served as director of that region for over 16 years. For eight years he was a member of the NCAA Basketball Rules Committee. He served on the basketball player selection committees for the U.S. teams in the 1979 Pan American Games and the 1980 Olympics. Also, he was one of the basketball coaches at the first Olympic development camp in 1978 and was an assistant coach of the gold medal U.S. team in the 1979 World University Games in Mexico City. Bob assisted with the U.S. team which won the Governor's Cup in the 1975 Brazil-Argentina Games and helped conduct clinics in Denmark and Sweden. Bob developed the NJCAA basketball playoff system -- called the "Sechrest Plan" -- and served as president of the NJCAA Basketball Committee for at least six years. In the 1980s Bob was named to the NJCAA Hall of Fame.

SECHRIST, Charles W.: Born: 6 FEB 1896, in Meriden, Jefferson Co., KS; Died: 5 JUL 1965, Flagstaff, Coconino Co., AZ. On 14 May 1918, Charles enlisted in the U.S. Navy, serving in France.; Flagstaff, AZ's best known citizens for 30 years from 1935 to 1965, were Charles W. Sechrist and his wife Ethel.; Beginning in 1935 Charles, his wife Ethel, and associates established and operated the Flagstaff Hospital (a private hospital), on Beaver Street. Its doors opened 1 January 1936. In 1955 he deeded this hospital to a group of certificate holders and it was renamed the Flagstaff Community Hospital. In December 1987 the new Flagstaff Medical Center, across the street from Charles' hospital, had a wing Sechrist Wing named in his honor.; Additionally, for many years Charles was a member of the Flagstaff School Board, and at death was a member of the Arizona House of Representatives. Flagstaff's Sechrist School and Sechrist Hall, one of Northern Arizona University's major dormitories, are named in his honor.; In 1915, Ethel received a BS in home economics at the University of KS. During WWI she worked in Washington, D. C. as a U.S. Department of Commerce home economist, earning a Certificate of Acheivement from the then-Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover. Prior to her marriage she also taught in high school and college in Kansas and Missouri.; Ethel was one of the associates, with her husband, who founded the Flagstaff Hospital. She was a longtime advocate of civic beauty, devoting her life to beautifying and maintaining the hospital grounds. As a leader of the Flagstaff Alpine Garden Club, Ethel worked hard on a variety of civic beauty projects. For her beautification efforts, she was named in 1964 an Arizona Daily Sun Citizen of the Year and the new Flagstaff Medical Center's Atrium is named in her honor.

SECRIST, Horace: Born 9 OCT 1881, Farmington, Davis Co., UT. He was raised in Provo, UT; The following information is from Who's Who in America, 1935.; Horace earned his A.B. degree from the University of WI in 1907, his A.M. degree in 1909, and Ph.D. degree in 1911.; He was an instructor in economics at the University of WI in 1910-11, an assistant professor of economics during 1912-16, and a professor after 1918; he was statistician for the WI Industrial Commission during 1911-12; he was director of the Bureau of Business Research during 1919-1933 at Northwestern University; Director of Research, Claremont (CA) College, 1928-30. In 1909 he was a U.S. Census Bureau specialist; a member of the U.S. Commission of Industrial Relations, 1914; he was statistician in the tonnage section, Division of Planning and Statistics, U.S. Shipping Board, 1918; supervising statistician for the U.S. Railroad Labor Board, 1920-21. In 1935 his office was at 339 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL.; He was a fellow at the American Statistical Association; member of the American Economics Association, Association of University Professors, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Kappa Psi, and the Manchester Statistics Society in England.; Horace authored the following:
"An Economic Analysis of the Constitutional Limitations on Public Indebtedness", 1914;
"An Introduction to Statistical Methods", 1917 and 1925;
"Statistics in Business", 1920;
"Costs, Merchandising Practices, Advertising and Sales in the Retail Distribution of Clothing" (6 vols), 1921;
"Selling Expenses and Their Control", 1922;
"The Widening Retail Market", 1926;
"Banking Standards under the Federal Reserve System", 1928;
"Margins, Expenses and Profits in Retail Hardward Stores", 1928;
"Banking Ratios",1930;
"The Triumph of Mediocrity in Business", 1933.

SIEGRIST, Charles C.: In 1933, Charles of Kansas, was granted a patent for a stringed musical instrument with pedals.

SIEGRIST, Donald D.: Born at Chillicothe Hospital, Chillicothe, MO; raised on his parents' farm three miles north-east of Meadville, Linn Co., MO. Don received his B.S. and M.A. degrees in Administration from Northeast MO State University, (now known as Truman State University); and his Specialist's degree from Central MO State University.; As a School Administrator / Superintendent for 27 years with the Platte Co. RIII Schools, Don retired in 1996. In honor of his service to the School District, the new Siegrist Elementary School was dedicated the following year.; Don's wife, Charlene has been an elementary school teacher in the Platte City School District for many years also.

SIEGRIST, Paul L.: In 1878, he received a patent in NY for a loom.

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