Friday, March 21, 2025

Meet Harry Wade of Amherst – May 1970

We'll close out the week here on the blog with an article that I found after I did my post about the iconic Lorain Journal clocktower. It's one of the popular "Bill Scrivo's People" features that ran in the paper regularly for years. In this edition, we meet 64-year-old Harry H. Wade of Amherst.

The Journal clocktower is behind him in the photo for a reason: he climbed it so that he could take panoramic views of the city from it (photography was his hobby). The article reveals much more about him, including his long career at the American Bridge Division of U.S. Steel, his deep religious faith and his opinions about what was going on in the country at that time.

In the years following the publication of the "Scrivo" profile, Mr. Wade contributed the occasional Letter to the Editor or question for the Hot Line column. The letters were always interesting and always reflected his keen interest in the subject at hand.

Feb. 12, 1979

He passed away in September 1992.