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IN
MEMORIAM
This is a list of our members now deceased
John A. Carnahan
Birthplace:
Cleveland, Ohio
Education:
Duke University, B.A., J.D.
Career:
Practice of Law
Honors, Public Service:
Editor, Duke Law Journal
President, Board of Directors, Columbus Cancer Clinic
Governing Board, Hannah Neil Mission, Inc.
Outstanding Young Men in Columbus, 1965
President, Columbus Bar Association
President, Ohio State Bar Association
House of Delegates, American Bar Association
Ritter Award for Contribution to Administration of Justice
Professionalism Award, Columbus Bar Association
Selected Publications:
Ohio Lawyer, First Chairman, Board of Editors
Kit Kat Essays:
• It Could But Wound Your Very Soul (pioneer woman Mary Draper Ingles)
• Madge and the Grand Dragon (Dave Stephenson, 1920’s Ku Klux Klansman)
• Master Iconoclast, H.L. Mencken
• A Judgment for Mankind (Nuremberg Trials)
• Singing for the Unsung (three obscure Americans) (November 1996)
Philosophy, Values, Dreams:
Love of history and literature, attachment to New River Valley, Virginia
A Quotation That Brings Kit-Kat To Mind:
In re-reading Thomas Carlyle's famous The French Revolution, I came across this brief passage that called to mind our Kit-Kat gatherings: "Dinners are defined as the ultimate act of communion; men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine."
John A. Carnahan
Member since
1975
Birthplace:
Cleveland, Ohio
Education:
Duke University, B.A., J.D.
Career:
Practice of Law
Honors, Public Service:
Editor, Duke Law Journal
President, Board of Directors, Columbus Cancer Clinic
Governing Board, Hannah Neil Mission, Inc.
Outstanding Young Men in Columbus, 1965
President, Columbus Bar Association
President, Ohio State Bar Association
House of Delegates, American Bar Association
Ritter Award for Contribution to Administration of Justice
Professionalism Award, Columbus Bar Association
Selected Publications:
Ohio Lawyer, First Chairman, Board of Editors
Kit Kat Essays:
• It Could But Wound Your Very Soul (pioneer woman Mary Draper Ingles)
• Madge and the Grand Dragon (Dave Stephenson, 1920’s Ku Klux Klansman)
• Master Iconoclast, H.L. Mencken
• A Judgment for Mankind (Nuremberg Trials)
• Singing for the Unsung (three obscure Americans) (November 1996)
Philosophy, Values, Dreams:
Love of history and literature, attachment to New River Valley, Virginia
A Quotation That Brings Kit-Kat To Mind:
In re-reading Thomas Carlyle's famous The French Revolution, I came across this brief passage that called to mind our Kit-Kat gatherings: "Dinners are defined as the ultimate act of communion; men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine."
W. Sidney Druen
Member since
2007
Birthplace:
Farmville, Virginia
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Education:
Hampden-Sydney College
University of Virginia Law School
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Career:
Retired Senior Vice President and General Counsel
Nationwide Insurance Companies
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Honors, Public Service:
Ohio Chamber of Commerce - Former Board Member
Columbus University Club - Former Board Member and Former President
Franklin County Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health (ADAM) Former Board Member
Public Affairs Council, Washington, D. C. - Former Board Member
Ohio Insurance Institute Executive Committee - Former Member
National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies - Former Board Member
Conference Board of Chief Legal Officers Council - Former Board Member
Development Council for the Ohio Historical Society - Current Member
Program 60 Association at The Ohio State University - Current Trustee
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Kit Kat Essays:
Tess, We Hardy Knew You, March 2009
peas & queus, Annual Meeting Essay May 2017
Mission, Values, Dreams:
To be the person my dog thinks I am.
J. Richard Emens
Member since
1995
Birthplace:
Jackson, Michigan
Education:
DePauw University, B.A.
University of Michigan, J.D.
Career:
Partner, Emens & Wolper Law Firm
Law practice focuses primarily on corporate, family business, energy and oil and gas law, and governmental relations. Counseled numerous clients on business planning, acquisitions and mergers, financing, family business succession and estate planning, establishing new entities (e.g. limited liability companies, limited partnerships) and director governance matters. Represented clients before state and federal regulatory agencies.
Previously Partner at Chester, Willcox and Saxbe LLP and Managing Director of another law firm for twelve years.
Honors, Public Service:
Board Member and Vice President of Audubon Ohio
Director of Ball State University Foundation and Founder of the Emens Scholars Program at Ball State University
Trustee and past Chair of the Board of Trustees of Franklin University
Former Trustee and President:
Friends of the Libraries of The Ohio State University, Battelle Youth Scholars, and the Eastern Mineral Law Foundation
Selected Publications:
Written and spoken extensively on corporate, family business, and energy and oil and gas law, as well as law firm management
Book Co-Author: Family Business Basics: The Guide to Family Business Financial Success (2000)
Kit Kat Essays:
• Did Nostradamus Do Scenario Planning? (October 1996)
• Innate, Manufactured, or Serendipitous (April 2005)
Philosophy, Values, Dreams:
Family, friends, long-range planning, education, travel, reading and fishing
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Mark G. Feinknopf, Jr.
Member Since:
1987
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Birthplace:
Columbus, Ohio
Education:
Yale, B.S.
Harvard, Masters in Architecture (#1 in class)
Career:
Architect. Major projects include the Conservatory
of Music at Capital University, Renovation of the Southern Theatre, Franklin County Courts and Administrative Building (interiors), Columbus City Center Parking Garage, and the North Market.
Urban design: Lindbergh City Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Honors, Public Service:
Tri-Chair, Together 2000
Executive Committee, Downtown Columbus, Inc.
Executive Committee, Columbus Museum of Art
Chair, Ohio Historical Foundation
President, Torch Club
President, Columbus Architecture Foundation
Chair, Ohio Foundation on the Arts
President, American Institute of Architects, Columbus Chapter
Chair, Development Committee of Greater Columbus
Chair, Downtown Action Committee, Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce
Trustee, Columbus Academy
Executive Committee, Temple Israel
Selected Publications:
Columbus Citizen-Journal, visiting columnist (two years)
Kit Kat Essays:
• Not With a Bang, But a Whimper (1989)
• Community Panel on Healthy Cities (November 1995)
• To Be or Not to Be (December 2001)
Philosophy, Values, Dreams:
I see the world whole, not a series of parts. My thinking tends to be circular, not linear. And I dream of an energetic oneness which holds us in a divine space filled with unconditional love.
George W. Paulson, M.D.
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Birthplace:
North Carolina
Education:
Yale, B.S.
Duke, M.D.
Career:
Neurologist, Academician and Practitioner
Former Chairman, Department of Neurology, The Ohio State University
Retired from active practice; consult at State Hospital
Honors, Public Service:
N.C. Citizen of the Year
Former Chief of Staff, The Ohio State University
Teacher of the Year, The Ohio State University and Riverside Methodist Hospital
Medical Advisor for Parkinson’s, Alzheimer, Epilepsy, Multiple Sclerosis and Huntington’s Disease Boards
Selected Publications:
Over 250 in medical journals, three books (Therapy of Parkinson’s Disease) 350 page history of The Ohio State University Medical Center
Kit Kat Essays:
• Monumental Columbus (review of the statues in Columbus) (November 1994)
• Meals I Wish I’d Attended, or Eat Your Heart Out Christopher Katt (November 1998)
• Alas! Poor Yorick, I Knew Him, Horatio… To What Base Uses We May Return, Horatio! Grave Robbers of Ohio (January 2001)
• Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Done Stole My Lover Away (January 2003)
• Time And Change Will Surely Show: A Century of Kit Kat, (Centennial Annual Meeting, May 2011)
Philosophy, Values, Dreams:
Attempt to be both competent and compassionate as a physician and useful and loyal as a man. Most recent efforts for the Medical Heritage Center at The Ohio State University.
Michael C. Scanlon
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Birthplace:
Columbus, Ohio
Education:
University of Notre Dame, B.A., 1954
Ohio State University, College of Law, J.D., 1957
Career:
Retired
Formerly Senior Vice President – Investments, Paine Webber, Inc.
Kit Kat Essays:
• Thirty Five Years Later – Some Reflections (Father Theodore Hesburgh)
• The Old Man and SEC (Ernest Hemingway Contest)
• Red, White, and Orange (Red Smith) (February 1995)
• Commander’s Palace (Jacques Cousteau) (January 1998)
• Always a Borrower or a Lender Be (October 2002)
• A Penny For Your Thoughts (October 2006)
Philosophy, Values, Dreams:
Hearing our members discuss subjects distant from what they do for a living has always been a special pleasure. The added note should be made to relish the enjoyment of our own Bard (Al Kuhn).
Kit Kat offers the opportunity to broaden and improve our understanding on a wide variety of topics.
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Warren Tyler
Birthplace:
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Richard M. Wolfe
Birthplace:
Columbus, Ohio
Education:
The Ohio State University (Electrical Engineering)
Harvard Business School
Career:
President of two commercial TV stations and two radio stations. More recently (15 years) in Hollywood. Served as leader in technology, video theatres, etc. In charge of all of 20th Century Fox films, etc.
Honors, Public Service:
Served on boards of Banc Ohio, Columbus Dispatch, and Agricultural Lands, Inc.
Selected Publications:
As one of the worlds experts for film-to-tape transfer, he has overseen many publications.
Kit Kat Essays:
Served as guest lecturer May 9, 1996 for annual festivities.