The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 42, October 17, 2004, Article 1

DICK JOHNSON VISITS THE E-SYLUM

  Your Editor was pleased to host frequent E-Sylum
  contributor Dick Johnson and his wife Shirley the evening
  of Friday October 15.  They flew in to Pittsburgh that
  afternoon, and I picked them up at their hotel after work.
  We joined my wife and three kids for dinner at a nearby
  restaurant.   Later, back at the house after the kids were
  in bed, the Johnsons and I spent a pleasant few hours in
  my library looking over numismatic books and ephemera.
  Dick peppered me with questions about The E-Sylum,
  and we may see an article in the future.

  Saturday night was another pleasant affair - the Johnsons
  were in town to attend "A Century of Heroes," a gala
  celebration of the centennial of the Carnegie Hero Fund
  Commission.  Dick was a consultant to the organization
  as they sought a new manufacturer for the Carnegie Hero
  medal.  I helped the Hero Fund and Carnegie Museum
  create the special exhibit of hero fund medals at the
  American Numismatic Association convention this summer,
  and my wife Dee and I were invited to the affair as well.

  The event was opened with a speech by author and
  historian David McCullough, followed by a short film about
  the fund and its awardees.  This took place in Carnegie
  Music Hall in the Carnegie Museum complex.  Afterwards,
  a dinner was held in Architecture Hall.  Our table included
  McCullough's brother and his wife, Shirley and Dick Johnson,
  and Kendy and Luigi Badia, the sculptor who designed the
  centennial version of the Carnegie Hero Medal.

  I was pleased to meet David McCullough after dinner,
  and tell him how much I enjoyed his book on the Johnstown
  Flood, which was his first.   Local celebrities such as
  Republican Party stalwart Elsie Hillman were in attendance
  as well, making for interesting people-watching.  After the
  ANA convention, it was nice to simply attend an event
  without having to help run the darned thing.  The organizers
  did a wonderful job, creating an appropriately tasteful event
  celebrating a noble institution and the heroes it honors, many
  of who were in attendance.

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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