Good morning.
It’s a warmer day ahead for Whitewater today, with a high of eighteen, and a forty percent chance of flurries. We will have 9h 38m of sunlight, and 10h 39m of daylight. Tomorrow will have about two minutes more light.
Downtown Whitewater’s board meets today, at 8 AM. Among the agenda items under consideration at that meeting is a discussion item to “Clarify board seats up for election; identify new board candidates; prepare slate of officers.” The item is set for ten minutes of discussion.
The DTWW Board is free talk about that topic for whatever time it might like. Still, identifying new board candidates is no ordinary item; much depends on a good team. Not a team from among those who’d like to pad a résumé, but a team that can make a difference for Whitewater’s downtown. The city’s undergone a reorganization among a few related organizations, and committed to significant funding for another year.
At the end of the year, one should be able to see how that amounted to something tangible.
On this day in 1973, Pres. Nixon announced an agreement to end the Vietnam War.
On 1.23.1957, a creative Wisconsin athlete passed away:
1957 – Edward Bulwar Cochems Dies
On this date Edward Bulwar Cochems died. Cochems is credited with developing football’s forward passing attack. He was also considered one of the University of Wisconsin’s finest athletes at the turn of the century. In response to a 1906 mandate from football’s rule committee that allowed forward passing and required a team to gain ten yards in 3 downs, Cochems invented an aggressive forward passing strategy that revolutionized the sport. He coached at North Dakota, Clemson, and St. Louis University. He is buried in Madison’s Resurrection Cemetery. [Source: Bishops to Bootleggers: A Biographical Guide to Resurrection Cemetery, pg. 218]
Google-a-Day throws out an intricate pop culture question: “What is the stage name of the man who is the father of the actor who played the journalist Jane Craig was attracted to?”