David Skylar was born July 11, 1925 in Bronx, New York, the son of Meyer and Anna Sklarsky. He died March 15, 2016 age 90 after suffering a stroke in 2004, They lived at 26150 Village Ln. in Beachwood, Ohio.
He married in Columbia, Missouri, March 20, 1949, Marilyn (nee Miller) a journalism graduate he met at U. of Missouri.
THEIR CHILDREN:
* Claudia (James Mastro) Skylar of Chicago
* Dean (Christine Ledbetter) Skylar of Arlington, VA
* Stephanie (Eric Hench) Skylar of Lima, OH
DAVID'S SISTER: Sylvia Grossman of Bridgeport, CT
DAVID'S FATHER: Mayer E. Sklarsky born Feb 13, 1892 in Kovno, Russia, died April 24, 1947 age 55 in Manhattan, NY a resident of Bronx, NY and WWI US Army veteran.
David met presidents and movie stars, traveled internationally and was a Cleveland civic leader, with a booming voice, a blue blazer and sky-blue eyes, he looked like Paul Newman. He was a passionate writer, known as "the Green Hornet" by his employees, for his creativity and craftiness.
After serving in the US Army Air Corps during WWII from 1943 to 1946, he attended the University of Missouri, Columbia, studying journalism. He worked for the Columbia Missourian; the Columbia radio station and the student newspaper, where a front-page story about the search for two escaped convicts brought him recognition from university faculty.
In 1949 after their marriage, he and Marilyn relocated to her hometown of Shaker Heights. Mr. Skylar became an associate account executive in public relations with Griswold-Eshleman Co., one of Cleveland’s most prestigious advertising agencies and Marilyn worked for the Cleveland Press and later the Cleveland Plain Dealer. At age 87, she wrote a memoir "Tales from a Mad Man's Wife".
During the 1950s, Griswold-Eshelman became Cleveland’s largest advertising agency, and David often conducted business during martini lunches and leisurely golf games.
He sponsored the first national television appearance of pianist, Liberace, for Cleveland-based Society National Bank (now Key Bank). His 1952 campaign promised a free Liberace 78-rpm record to anyone opening a savings account. Thousands of people stormed Society’s branch offices, bringing Society millions of dollars in new accounts.
At age 33 in 1958, Mr. Skylar became Griswold-Eshelman’s youngest vice president; elected to it's board of directors in 1962, and then executive vice president, supervising Griswold-Eshelman’s $20 million portfolio of high-profile advertisers, including Society National Bank, B.F. Goodrich, May Co. and Cleveland Zoo, for which the agency received worldwide recognition for a 1962 radio campaign featuring Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and other Looney Tunes cartoon characters.
David left advertising in 1968, and with Howard Metzenbaum, formed ComCorp, a small media company which acquired Sun Newspapers, with a circulation of more than 270,000 serving Cleveland area communities in 1969.
Mr. Skylar resigned in 1976 as chairman of ComCorp and became campaign manager for Metzenbaum who won three terms in the US Senate. He was chairman of Metzenbaum’s 1982 campaign and principal adviser in 1988.
In 1983, Mr. Skylar co-founded AdPro, doing consulting work for Cleveland companies, including Revco Drugs and Turner Construction, as well as for media companies, including Cox Communications’ New Orleans Times-Picayune and other newspapers.
In 1989, Mr. Skylar became chairman of Allen Broadcasting Co., operator of radio stations in Ohio until 1997.
He worked on George Voinovich’s 1990 governor’s race and was appointed to the Ohio Lottery Commission from 1991 to 2001. He served as grand jury foreman in Cuyahoga County from 1976 to 1977, spearheading investigations into the fraudulent billing practices of a Cleveland doctor and several of the county’s hospitals, and the effectiveness of drug laws on curbing crime.
Mr. Skylar was a president of the Cleveland Advertising Club and elected to the Cleveland Advertising Hall of Fame in 1987. An ambitious golfer, he helped bring Cleveland its first major professional golf tournament, the Cleveland Open, in 1963.
He also promoted the city of Cleveland in the Soviet Union during a 1965 tour there by the Cleveland Orchestra.
David's funeral was Sunday March 20, 2016 at Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, 23737 Fairmount Blvd. Beachwood, OH. Interment in Mayfield Cemetery.
Sources: David Skylar's obituary, Cleveland Jewish News, March 18, 2016; Who's Who in Advertising, 2nd edition; Edited by Robert S. Morgan. Rye, NY: Redfield Publishing Co., 1972; US WWII Draft Registration Cards; NY Abstracts of WWI Military Service; Social Security Applications and Claims Index, "Tales from a Mad Man's Wife" by Marilyn Skylar; etc.
He married in Columbia, Missouri, March 20, 1949, Marilyn (nee Miller) a journalism graduate he met at U. of Missouri.
THEIR CHILDREN:
* Claudia (James Mastro) Skylar of Chicago
* Dean (Christine Ledbetter) Skylar of Arlington, VA
* Stephanie (Eric Hench) Skylar of Lima, OH
DAVID'S SISTER: Sylvia Grossman of Bridgeport, CT
DAVID'S FATHER: Mayer E. Sklarsky born Feb 13, 1892 in Kovno, Russia, died April 24, 1947 age 55 in Manhattan, NY a resident of Bronx, NY and WWI US Army veteran.
David met presidents and movie stars, traveled internationally and was a Cleveland civic leader, with a booming voice, a blue blazer and sky-blue eyes, he looked like Paul Newman. He was a passionate writer, known as "the Green Hornet" by his employees, for his creativity and craftiness.
After serving in the US Army Air Corps during WWII from 1943 to 1946, he attended the University of Missouri, Columbia, studying journalism. He worked for the Columbia Missourian; the Columbia radio station and the student newspaper, where a front-page story about the search for two escaped convicts brought him recognition from university faculty.
In 1949 after their marriage, he and Marilyn relocated to her hometown of Shaker Heights. Mr. Skylar became an associate account executive in public relations with Griswold-Eshleman Co., one of Cleveland’s most prestigious advertising agencies and Marilyn worked for the Cleveland Press and later the Cleveland Plain Dealer. At age 87, she wrote a memoir "Tales from a Mad Man's Wife".
During the 1950s, Griswold-Eshelman became Cleveland’s largest advertising agency, and David often conducted business during martini lunches and leisurely golf games.
He sponsored the first national television appearance of pianist, Liberace, for Cleveland-based Society National Bank (now Key Bank). His 1952 campaign promised a free Liberace 78-rpm record to anyone opening a savings account. Thousands of people stormed Society’s branch offices, bringing Society millions of dollars in new accounts.
At age 33 in 1958, Mr. Skylar became Griswold-Eshelman’s youngest vice president; elected to it's board of directors in 1962, and then executive vice president, supervising Griswold-Eshelman’s $20 million portfolio of high-profile advertisers, including Society National Bank, B.F. Goodrich, May Co. and Cleveland Zoo, for which the agency received worldwide recognition for a 1962 radio campaign featuring Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and other Looney Tunes cartoon characters.
David left advertising in 1968, and with Howard Metzenbaum, formed ComCorp, a small media company which acquired Sun Newspapers, with a circulation of more than 270,000 serving Cleveland area communities in 1969.
Mr. Skylar resigned in 1976 as chairman of ComCorp and became campaign manager for Metzenbaum who won three terms in the US Senate. He was chairman of Metzenbaum’s 1982 campaign and principal adviser in 1988.
In 1983, Mr. Skylar co-founded AdPro, doing consulting work for Cleveland companies, including Revco Drugs and Turner Construction, as well as for media companies, including Cox Communications’ New Orleans Times-Picayune and other newspapers.
In 1989, Mr. Skylar became chairman of Allen Broadcasting Co., operator of radio stations in Ohio until 1997.
He worked on George Voinovich’s 1990 governor’s race and was appointed to the Ohio Lottery Commission from 1991 to 2001. He served as grand jury foreman in Cuyahoga County from 1976 to 1977, spearheading investigations into the fraudulent billing practices of a Cleveland doctor and several of the county’s hospitals, and the effectiveness of drug laws on curbing crime.
Mr. Skylar was a president of the Cleveland Advertising Club and elected to the Cleveland Advertising Hall of Fame in 1987. An ambitious golfer, he helped bring Cleveland its first major professional golf tournament, the Cleveland Open, in 1963.
He also promoted the city of Cleveland in the Soviet Union during a 1965 tour there by the Cleveland Orchestra.
David's funeral was Sunday March 20, 2016 at Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, 23737 Fairmount Blvd. Beachwood, OH. Interment in Mayfield Cemetery.
Sources: David Skylar's obituary, Cleveland Jewish News, March 18, 2016; Who's Who in Advertising, 2nd edition; Edited by Robert S. Morgan. Rye, NY: Redfield Publishing Co., 1972; US WWII Draft Registration Cards; NY Abstracts of WWI Military Service; Social Security Applications and Claims Index, "Tales from a Mad Man's Wife" by Marilyn Skylar; etc.
David Skylar was born July 11, 1925 in Bronx, New York, the son of Meyer and Anna Sklarsky. He died March 15, 2016 age 90 after suffering a stroke in 2004, They lived at 26150 Village Ln. in Beachwood, Ohio.
He married in Columbia, Missouri, March 20, 1949, Marilyn (nee Miller) a journalism graduate he met at U. of Missouri.
THEIR CHILDREN:
* Claudia (James Mastro) Skylar of Chicago
* Dean (Christine Ledbetter) Skylar of Arlington, VA
* Stephanie (Eric Hench) Skylar of Lima, OH
DAVID'S SISTER: Sylvia Grossman of Bridgeport, CT
DAVID'S FATHER: Mayer E. Sklarsky born Feb 13, 1892 in Kovno, Russia, died April 24, 1947 age 55 in Manhattan, NY a resident of Bronx, NY and WWI US Army veteran.
David met presidents and movie stars, traveled internationally and was a Cleveland civic leader, with a booming voice, a blue blazer and sky-blue eyes, he looked like Paul Newman. He was a passionate writer, known as "the Green Hornet" by his employees, for his creativity and craftiness.
After serving in the US Army Air Corps during WWII from 1943 to 1946, he attended the University of Missouri, Columbia, studying journalism. He worked for the Columbia Missourian; the Columbia radio station and the student newspaper, where a front-page story about the search for two escaped convicts brought him recognition from university faculty.
In 1949 after their marriage, he and Marilyn relocated to her hometown of Shaker Heights. Mr. Skylar became an associate account executive in public relations with Griswold-Eshleman Co., one of Cleveland’s most prestigious advertising agencies and Marilyn worked for the Cleveland Press and later the Cleveland Plain Dealer. At age 87, she wrote a memoir "Tales from a Mad Man's Wife".
During the 1950s, Griswold-Eshelman became Cleveland’s largest advertising agency, and David often conducted business during martini lunches and leisurely golf games.
He sponsored the first national television appearance of pianist, Liberace, for Cleveland-based Society National Bank (now Key Bank). His 1952 campaign promised a free Liberace 78-rpm record to anyone opening a savings account. Thousands of people stormed Society’s branch offices, bringing Society millions of dollars in new accounts.
At age 33 in 1958, Mr. Skylar became Griswold-Eshelman’s youngest vice president; elected to it's board of directors in 1962, and then executive vice president, supervising Griswold-Eshelman’s $20 million portfolio of high-profile advertisers, including Society National Bank, B.F. Goodrich, May Co. and Cleveland Zoo, for which the agency received worldwide recognition for a 1962 radio campaign featuring Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and other Looney Tunes cartoon characters.
David left advertising in 1968, and with Howard Metzenbaum, formed ComCorp, a small media company which acquired Sun Newspapers, with a circulation of more than 270,000 serving Cleveland area communities in 1969.
Mr. Skylar resigned in 1976 as chairman of ComCorp and became campaign manager for Metzenbaum who won three terms in the US Senate. He was chairman of Metzenbaum’s 1982 campaign and principal adviser in 1988.
In 1983, Mr. Skylar co-founded AdPro, doing consulting work for Cleveland companies, including Revco Drugs and Turner Construction, as well as for media companies, including Cox Communications’ New Orleans Times-Picayune and other newspapers.
In 1989, Mr. Skylar became chairman of Allen Broadcasting Co., operator of radio stations in Ohio until 1997.
He worked on George Voinovich’s 1990 governor’s race and was appointed to the Ohio Lottery Commission from 1991 to 2001. He served as grand jury foreman in Cuyahoga County from 1976 to 1977, spearheading investigations into the fraudulent billing practices of a Cleveland doctor and several of the county’s hospitals, and the effectiveness of drug laws on curbing crime.
Mr. Skylar was a president of the Cleveland Advertising Club and elected to the Cleveland Advertising Hall of Fame in 1987. An ambitious golfer, he helped bring Cleveland its first major professional golf tournament, the Cleveland Open, in 1963.
He also promoted the city of Cleveland in the Soviet Union during a 1965 tour there by the Cleveland Orchestra.
David's funeral was Sunday March 20, 2016 at Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, 23737 Fairmount Blvd. Beachwood, OH. Interment in Mayfield Cemetery.
Sources: David Skylar's obituary, Cleveland Jewish News, March 18, 2016; Who's Who in Advertising, 2nd edition; Edited by Robert S. Morgan. Rye, NY: Redfield Publishing Co., 1972; US WWII Draft Registration Cards; NY Abstracts of WWI Military Service; Social Security Applications and Claims Index, "Tales from a Mad Man's Wife" by Marilyn Skylar; etc.
He married in Columbia, Missouri, March 20, 1949, Marilyn (nee Miller) a journalism graduate he met at U. of Missouri.
THEIR CHILDREN:
* Claudia (James Mastro) Skylar of Chicago
* Dean (Christine Ledbetter) Skylar of Arlington, VA
* Stephanie (Eric Hench) Skylar of Lima, OH
DAVID'S SISTER: Sylvia Grossman of Bridgeport, CT
DAVID'S FATHER: Mayer E. Sklarsky born Feb 13, 1892 in Kovno, Russia, died April 24, 1947 age 55 in Manhattan, NY a resident of Bronx, NY and WWI US Army veteran.
David met presidents and movie stars, traveled internationally and was a Cleveland civic leader, with a booming voice, a blue blazer and sky-blue eyes, he looked like Paul Newman. He was a passionate writer, known as "the Green Hornet" by his employees, for his creativity and craftiness.
After serving in the US Army Air Corps during WWII from 1943 to 1946, he attended the University of Missouri, Columbia, studying journalism. He worked for the Columbia Missourian; the Columbia radio station and the student newspaper, where a front-page story about the search for two escaped convicts brought him recognition from university faculty.
In 1949 after their marriage, he and Marilyn relocated to her hometown of Shaker Heights. Mr. Skylar became an associate account executive in public relations with Griswold-Eshleman Co., one of Cleveland’s most prestigious advertising agencies and Marilyn worked for the Cleveland Press and later the Cleveland Plain Dealer. At age 87, she wrote a memoir "Tales from a Mad Man's Wife".
During the 1950s, Griswold-Eshelman became Cleveland’s largest advertising agency, and David often conducted business during martini lunches and leisurely golf games.
He sponsored the first national television appearance of pianist, Liberace, for Cleveland-based Society National Bank (now Key Bank). His 1952 campaign promised a free Liberace 78-rpm record to anyone opening a savings account. Thousands of people stormed Society’s branch offices, bringing Society millions of dollars in new accounts.
At age 33 in 1958, Mr. Skylar became Griswold-Eshelman’s youngest vice president; elected to it's board of directors in 1962, and then executive vice president, supervising Griswold-Eshelman’s $20 million portfolio of high-profile advertisers, including Society National Bank, B.F. Goodrich, May Co. and Cleveland Zoo, for which the agency received worldwide recognition for a 1962 radio campaign featuring Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and other Looney Tunes cartoon characters.
David left advertising in 1968, and with Howard Metzenbaum, formed ComCorp, a small media company which acquired Sun Newspapers, with a circulation of more than 270,000 serving Cleveland area communities in 1969.
Mr. Skylar resigned in 1976 as chairman of ComCorp and became campaign manager for Metzenbaum who won three terms in the US Senate. He was chairman of Metzenbaum’s 1982 campaign and principal adviser in 1988.
In 1983, Mr. Skylar co-founded AdPro, doing consulting work for Cleveland companies, including Revco Drugs and Turner Construction, as well as for media companies, including Cox Communications’ New Orleans Times-Picayune and other newspapers.
In 1989, Mr. Skylar became chairman of Allen Broadcasting Co., operator of radio stations in Ohio until 1997.
He worked on George Voinovich’s 1990 governor’s race and was appointed to the Ohio Lottery Commission from 1991 to 2001. He served as grand jury foreman in Cuyahoga County from 1976 to 1977, spearheading investigations into the fraudulent billing practices of a Cleveland doctor and several of the county’s hospitals, and the effectiveness of drug laws on curbing crime.
Mr. Skylar was a president of the Cleveland Advertising Club and elected to the Cleveland Advertising Hall of Fame in 1987. An ambitious golfer, he helped bring Cleveland its first major professional golf tournament, the Cleveland Open, in 1963.
He also promoted the city of Cleveland in the Soviet Union during a 1965 tour there by the Cleveland Orchestra.
David's funeral was Sunday March 20, 2016 at Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, 23737 Fairmount Blvd. Beachwood, OH. Interment in Mayfield Cemetery.
Sources: David Skylar's obituary, Cleveland Jewish News, March 18, 2016; Who's Who in Advertising, 2nd edition; Edited by Robert S. Morgan. Rye, NY: Redfield Publishing Co., 1972; US WWII Draft Registration Cards; NY Abstracts of WWI Military Service; Social Security Applications and Claims Index, "Tales from a Mad Man's Wife" by Marilyn Skylar; etc.
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