WQLNPublicMedia

Title: Erie Hall of Fame | Orange Merwin | 2011
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Thank you for supporting WQLN PBS NPR, the Lake Erie region’s passport to a wider world—a world of discovery, exploration, lifelong learning, and an ongoing respectful exchange of ideas.

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Title: Erie Hall of Fame | Peter Mennin | 2011
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Thank you for supporting WQLN PBS NPR, the Lake Erie region’s passport to a wider world—a world of discovery, exploration, lifelong learning, and an ongoing respectful exchange of ideas.

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Title: Erie Hall of Fame | Reed Family | 2011
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Thank you for supporting WQLN PBS NPR, the Lake Erie region’s passport to a wider world—a world of discovery, exploration, lifelong learning, and an ongoing respectful exchange of ideas.

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Title: Erie Hall of Fame | William Scott | 2011
Date posted: 14 years ago
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Title: Erie Hall of Fame | Lewis Walker | 2011
Date posted: 14 years ago
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Title: Erie Hall of Fame | Mother Borgia Egan | 2010
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Catherine Egan was born on the feast day of Saint Benedict, the patron saint of students. She was a teacher and an advocate for the higher education of women.

Her dream was to open a college for women, which she did by first sending her "Pioneer" Sisters of Mercy to college, raising the money for the new school, buying land and opening the doors to both Mercyhurst Preparatory School and Mercyhurst College and seminary in 1926.

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Title: Erie Hall of Fame | Hugh Compton Lord | 2010
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Hugh C. Lord was a renaissance man. Orphaned at 12, he grew to become a lawyer, specializing in patent law. Curious about all things Lord firmly believed that an inventive mind and practical scientific application could solve all problems -- especially the squeaky, screeching sounds of traffic in front of his home on busy West 5th Street.

The noise of traffic became so intolerable that Lord developed rubber suspension mounts for cars. The mounts were so successful that General Electric soon bought them for their trains. Today Lord Corporation builds devices and systems to manage mechanical motion and control noise and vibration in vehicles that travel on and under water; on land; in the air and out in space.

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Title: Erie Hall of Fame | Harry Kellar | 2010
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Harry Keller was an explosive kid -- and he was a kid who played with explosives. His sport was playing chicken with passing trains. At 12 he stowed away on one of those trains and left Erie to become the world's most famous magician.

In an era before television, radio and movies Keller's acts were so explosive that he became the most celebrated personality on the planet. Still with all his explosive fame, he never forgot Erie and would return often to perform.

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Title: Erie Hall of Fame | Robert Kolbe | 2010
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Kolbe was born a fisherman. He came from a long line of fishermen. His father ran one of the largest fish processing companies on the Great Lakes. At the time the single biggest challenge of a processing company was to keep the fish fresh from lake to market.

That's why in 1923 Kolbe's father decided to send Robert to Rensaleer Polytechnic Institute in New York to acquire the scientific knowledge needed to develop a freezing process for fish. Robert invented that process and today his flash freezing invention is used in almost all food industries to preserve foods for delivery from mass producers to consumers all over the world.

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Title: Erie Hall of Fame | H.O. Hirt | 2010
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Henry Hirt was a teacher, a grocery clerk and a salesman. He liked people and by all accounts, people liked him. He had an innate ability to understand their wants and desires, and their hopes and fears. When Hirt opened his insurance company in 1925 he used what he knew about people to define his new company's method of operation.

"Treat people the way you would like people to treat you." Today that company, ERIE Insurance has grown to become one of the largest writers of auto and property-casualty insurance, Erie's third largest employer, and as a Fortune 500 company.

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