Category Archives: People Who Made A Difference

Thanking Seniors: The Week The LPGA Played For Nothing

…They frequently slept five to a hotel room to save money. They caravanned from city to city, and if one car got a flat tire, everybody stopped to help… by Dave Riley Every March since 2011 players from the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) have competed in what has become known as the JTBC Founders […]

William Staub: Patron Saint of Gym Rats

“Millions are living longer, healthier lives because he looked out the window … one morning in the sleet and rain, and thought to himself, ‘ There’s got to be a better way.’” By Dave Riley When William Staub died two years ago in Clifton, New Jersey, where he had lived for more than seventy years, […]

Making A Difference: Robert Macauley, The $12 Billion Man

“He was motivated by the belief that if you act quickly you have more impact and save more lives, than if you act slowly.” by Dave Riley Forty years ago this month Saigon fell, which is why this week newspapers and networks are running stories about that era.   Here is one you may not have […]

The Arnie Chronicles: Arnie’s Dad

From The Arnie Chronicles, the semi-fictional biography of Joshua Bateman Arnold. by Dave Riley Mrs. R and I came home from a movie after dark one night last week, and as we got out of our car we spotted our neighbor Arnie staring off into the distance. “What are you looking at?” I asked him. […]

Making a Difference: How Robert Butler Changed Life for Millions

“His work established that the old did not inevitably become senile, and that they could be productive, intellectually engaged, and active — sexually and otherwise…” by Dave Riley In 1810 a fellow in Great Britain named Peter Durand was awarded a patent for inventing a method that preserved food in a can. Wonderful, we might […]