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Remembering Troy's Newswriters Dinner and Gridiron Show
A retrospective on Troy's annual Newswriters Dinner and gridiron show 1933 1963. It recalls the central figures Joseph J Horan Leo Curley Julius Heller and John Givney Sr and the tradition of lampooning politics to unite reporters and community members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troy
J. Givney, Sr
John Buckley
Republican Council
Joseph J. Murphy
Democratic Party
Bowen
Joe
Murphy
Joseph J. Horan
Old Troy Times
New York State Travel Bureau
Horan
James F. Baker
Sanford
Shim) Epstein
Telegraph
Times Record
Leo F. Curley
The
Julius J. Heller
Joseph R. Snyder
Norman F. Bowen
William W. Skirving
John E. Mitchell
Cyrus B. Dingman
Albert A. MacNaughton
John J
Pussy) Hayden
Herbert A. Calkins
John F
Jiggs) Dillon
James J. Hart
Edward Walker
Frank Sullivan
Samuel Q
Bud) Hobart, Jr
Almer H. Rockefeller
Melvin Gonick
William Higgins
William
John J. Givney, Sr
Don MacNaughton
Ernest W
Deac) Russell
Roy E. Shudt
Bob Fusco
William R. Browne
C. Carlton Carroll, Sr
Edward Maxwell
Marvin G. Nailor
Archie Appie
Donald C. Schneider
William F. Murray
James M. Flynn
Gary G. Perkinson
Marvin Pike
James Powers
Gil Roy
John Dingman
Ronald Birnback
Harold Ellis
William Monahan