SIDNEY NICOLAS STROTZ. A world center for sports is not the least among the claims advanced for Chicago's premier place among the great cities of the world. Nowhere does amateur or professional sportsmanship receive a more spontaneous patronage and applause. Within the past decade Chicago, largely due to the public spirited activity of groups of citizens or individuals, has presented for the sport loving world unsurpassed facilities for their exercise. These facilities include magnificent racing tracks, the great Soldiers Stadium on the lake front, and perhaps greatest of them all, because it affords perfect arenas and immense auditorium for indoor sports of all kinds, the wonderful stadium at 1800 West Madison Street.
For this magnificent institution the sport loving world owes a great debt to Sidney N. Strotz, president of the Chicago Stadium Corporation. Mr. Strotz is a young man, prominent and successful in business, and has found a means of expressing his public spirit through the institution which he helped create and of which he is now the head. Mr. Strotz was born in Chicago April 26, 1898, son of Charles N. and Clara A. (Heinemann) Strotz. His mother still lives in Chicago. His father, who died in 1928, was at one time a member of the tobacco manufacturing firm of Grady & Strotz, but for many years before his death was connected with the American Tobacco Company at New York.
Sidney N. Strotz attended the public schools of Chicago, continued his education in St. John's Military Academy, and was a student of Cornell University when he left college to join the colors during the World war. He enlisted as a private, became a member of the Three Hundred and Twenty-sixth Battalion of the Tank Corps, and spent eighteen months overseas. While there he was advanced to sergeant, first class, in the Engineers. For six years after the war Mr. Strotz was connected with an automobile supply company. He then organized and became president of the American Sales Corporation, and later was one of the organizers and became vice president of the Wrap-Rite Corporation of which he is now vice president and of which he was general manager until he was called to the office of president of the Chicago Stadium Corporation.
Mr. Strotz and his brother, Harold C. Strotz, handled most of the work of financing the building of the great stadium on West Madison Street, and they have been leading figures in the development of the stadium for its complete service to the world of sport and entertainment and as the most perfect convention hall in America. Mr. Strotz is a member of the Chicago Athletic Club, Rotary Club, Steuben Club, National Auditorium Managers Association, and the American Legion. His home is at 483 Illinois Road in Lake Forest. Mr. Strotz married Frances Vyse, a native of Chicago and daughter of Arthur J. Vyse. Their three children are Shirley, Charles Nicolas II, and Sandra. ("ILLINOIS, The Heart of the Nation" by Hon. Edward F. Dunne, Volume IV, 1933, Transcribed by Kim Torp)
Highlights are that he was the president of the Chicago Stadium Corporation and was one of the key figures in having it built. The bio does not include that in the 1950's he went on to become a Vice President of NBC and head of NBC East Coast Programming, (See below)
Former VP for NBC, Strotz joined NBC in Chicago in 1931 and in 1940 was transferred to Hollywood as the West Coast's VP and served in that post until he resigned in 1953, Strotz and others bought the Coca-Cola franchise in Pittsburgh and later in San Jose. (Courtesy of FAG member 372)
For this magnificent institution the sport loving world owes a great debt to Sidney N. Strotz, president of the Chicago Stadium Corporation. Mr. Strotz is a young man, prominent and successful in business, and has found a means of expressing his public spirit through the institution which he helped create and of which he is now the head. Mr. Strotz was born in Chicago April 26, 1898, son of Charles N. and Clara A. (Heinemann) Strotz. His mother still lives in Chicago. His father, who died in 1928, was at one time a member of the tobacco manufacturing firm of Grady & Strotz, but for many years before his death was connected with the American Tobacco Company at New York.
Sidney N. Strotz attended the public schools of Chicago, continued his education in St. John's Military Academy, and was a student of Cornell University when he left college to join the colors during the World war. He enlisted as a private, became a member of the Three Hundred and Twenty-sixth Battalion of the Tank Corps, and spent eighteen months overseas. While there he was advanced to sergeant, first class, in the Engineers. For six years after the war Mr. Strotz was connected with an automobile supply company. He then organized and became president of the American Sales Corporation, and later was one of the organizers and became vice president of the Wrap-Rite Corporation of which he is now vice president and of which he was general manager until he was called to the office of president of the Chicago Stadium Corporation.
Mr. Strotz and his brother, Harold C. Strotz, handled most of the work of financing the building of the great stadium on West Madison Street, and they have been leading figures in the development of the stadium for its complete service to the world of sport and entertainment and as the most perfect convention hall in America. Mr. Strotz is a member of the Chicago Athletic Club, Rotary Club, Steuben Club, National Auditorium Managers Association, and the American Legion. His home is at 483 Illinois Road in Lake Forest. Mr. Strotz married Frances Vyse, a native of Chicago and daughter of Arthur J. Vyse. Their three children are Shirley, Charles Nicolas II, and Sandra. ("ILLINOIS, The Heart of the Nation" by Hon. Edward F. Dunne, Volume IV, 1933, Transcribed by Kim Torp)
Highlights are that he was the president of the Chicago Stadium Corporation and was one of the key figures in having it built. The bio does not include that in the 1950's he went on to become a Vice President of NBC and head of NBC East Coast Programming, (See below)
Former VP for NBC, Strotz joined NBC in Chicago in 1931 and in 1940 was transferred to Hollywood as the West Coast's VP and served in that post until he resigned in 1953, Strotz and others bought the Coca-Cola franchise in Pittsburgh and later in San Jose. (Courtesy of FAG member 372)
SIDNEY NICOLAS STROTZ. A world center for sports is not the least among the claims advanced for Chicago's premier place among the great cities of the world. Nowhere does amateur or professional sportsmanship receive a more spontaneous patronage and applause. Within the past decade Chicago, largely due to the public spirited activity of groups of citizens or individuals, has presented for the sport loving world unsurpassed facilities for their exercise. These facilities include magnificent racing tracks, the great Soldiers Stadium on the lake front, and perhaps greatest of them all, because it affords perfect arenas and immense auditorium for indoor sports of all kinds, the wonderful stadium at 1800 West Madison Street.
For this magnificent institution the sport loving world owes a great debt to Sidney N. Strotz, president of the Chicago Stadium Corporation. Mr. Strotz is a young man, prominent and successful in business, and has found a means of expressing his public spirit through the institution which he helped create and of which he is now the head. Mr. Strotz was born in Chicago April 26, 1898, son of Charles N. and Clara A. (Heinemann) Strotz. His mother still lives in Chicago. His father, who died in 1928, was at one time a member of the tobacco manufacturing firm of Grady & Strotz, but for many years before his death was connected with the American Tobacco Company at New York.
Sidney N. Strotz attended the public schools of Chicago, continued his education in St. John's Military Academy, and was a student of Cornell University when he left college to join the colors during the World war. He enlisted as a private, became a member of the Three Hundred and Twenty-sixth Battalion of the Tank Corps, and spent eighteen months overseas. While there he was advanced to sergeant, first class, in the Engineers. For six years after the war Mr. Strotz was connected with an automobile supply company. He then organized and became president of the American Sales Corporation, and later was one of the organizers and became vice president of the Wrap-Rite Corporation of which he is now vice president and of which he was general manager until he was called to the office of president of the Chicago Stadium Corporation.
Mr. Strotz and his brother, Harold C. Strotz, handled most of the work of financing the building of the great stadium on West Madison Street, and they have been leading figures in the development of the stadium for its complete service to the world of sport and entertainment and as the most perfect convention hall in America. Mr. Strotz is a member of the Chicago Athletic Club, Rotary Club, Steuben Club, National Auditorium Managers Association, and the American Legion. His home is at 483 Illinois Road in Lake Forest. Mr. Strotz married Frances Vyse, a native of Chicago and daughter of Arthur J. Vyse. Their three children are Shirley, Charles Nicolas II, and Sandra. ("ILLINOIS, The Heart of the Nation" by Hon. Edward F. Dunne, Volume IV, 1933, Transcribed by Kim Torp)
Highlights are that he was the president of the Chicago Stadium Corporation and was one of the key figures in having it built. The bio does not include that in the 1950's he went on to become a Vice President of NBC and head of NBC East Coast Programming, (See below)
Former VP for NBC, Strotz joined NBC in Chicago in 1931 and in 1940 was transferred to Hollywood as the West Coast's VP and served in that post until he resigned in 1953, Strotz and others bought the Coca-Cola franchise in Pittsburgh and later in San Jose. (Courtesy of FAG member 372)
For this magnificent institution the sport loving world owes a great debt to Sidney N. Strotz, president of the Chicago Stadium Corporation. Mr. Strotz is a young man, prominent and successful in business, and has found a means of expressing his public spirit through the institution which he helped create and of which he is now the head. Mr. Strotz was born in Chicago April 26, 1898, son of Charles N. and Clara A. (Heinemann) Strotz. His mother still lives in Chicago. His father, who died in 1928, was at one time a member of the tobacco manufacturing firm of Grady & Strotz, but for many years before his death was connected with the American Tobacco Company at New York.
Sidney N. Strotz attended the public schools of Chicago, continued his education in St. John's Military Academy, and was a student of Cornell University when he left college to join the colors during the World war. He enlisted as a private, became a member of the Three Hundred and Twenty-sixth Battalion of the Tank Corps, and spent eighteen months overseas. While there he was advanced to sergeant, first class, in the Engineers. For six years after the war Mr. Strotz was connected with an automobile supply company. He then organized and became president of the American Sales Corporation, and later was one of the organizers and became vice president of the Wrap-Rite Corporation of which he is now vice president and of which he was general manager until he was called to the office of president of the Chicago Stadium Corporation.
Mr. Strotz and his brother, Harold C. Strotz, handled most of the work of financing the building of the great stadium on West Madison Street, and they have been leading figures in the development of the stadium for its complete service to the world of sport and entertainment and as the most perfect convention hall in America. Mr. Strotz is a member of the Chicago Athletic Club, Rotary Club, Steuben Club, National Auditorium Managers Association, and the American Legion. His home is at 483 Illinois Road in Lake Forest. Mr. Strotz married Frances Vyse, a native of Chicago and daughter of Arthur J. Vyse. Their three children are Shirley, Charles Nicolas II, and Sandra. ("ILLINOIS, The Heart of the Nation" by Hon. Edward F. Dunne, Volume IV, 1933, Transcribed by Kim Torp)
Highlights are that he was the president of the Chicago Stadium Corporation and was one of the key figures in having it built. The bio does not include that in the 1950's he went on to become a Vice President of NBC and head of NBC East Coast Programming, (See below)
Former VP for NBC, Strotz joined NBC in Chicago in 1931 and in 1940 was transferred to Hollywood as the West Coast's VP and served in that post until he resigned in 1953, Strotz and others bought the Coca-Cola franchise in Pittsburgh and later in San Jose. (Courtesy of FAG member 372)
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