New Associate

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Title

New Associate

Alternative Title

New Associate

Subject

Veterans--Florida

Description

A newspaper clipping from The Miami News on May 24, 1962. Below a photograph of Otto Oscar Zwicker (1899-1992) is an announcement that he has joined the sales staff of Hamilton Realty, Inc.

Born in Wheeling, West Virginia, on April 7, 1899, Zwicker was drafted in the United States Army on November 4, 1918. He was discharged after serving a total of twenty-two days. He moved to Florida with his wife, Helen Mehen, in 1951. He worked in the furniture industry before selling real estate for the remainder of his working career. Zwicker died on October 20, 1992, and was interred at Florida National Cemetery in Bushnell.

In 2017, the University of Central Florida was one of three universities selected to launch the National Cemetery Administration’s Veterans Legacy Program Project. The program engaged a team of scholars to make the life stories of veterans buried in the Florida National Cemetery available to the public. The project engages UCF students in research and writing and fosters collaboration between students, faculty and local Central Florida schools to produce interactive curriculum for k-12 students. The corresponding website exhibit uses RICHES Mosaic Interface to create a digital archive of related data. The public can use the project-developed augmented-reality app at more than 100 gravesites at the Florida National Cemetery, where they can access the UCF student-authored biographies of veterans.

Creator

Miami News

Source

Digital reproduction of original newspaper article: "New Associate." Miami News, May 24, 1962.

Publisher

Miami News

Date Created

1962-05-24

Format

image/jpg

Extent

1.68 MB

Medium

1 newspaper article

Language

eng

Type

Text

Coverage

Miami, Florida

Accrual Method

Donation

Mediator

History Teacher

Provenance

Originally created and published by the Miami News.

Rights Holder

Copyright to this resource is held by The Miami News and is provided here by RICHES for educational purposes only.

Curator

Connolly, Lehman
Cravero, Geoffrey

External Reference

Abney, Barb. "VA Selects UCF Historians to Archive Stories of Deceased Veterans Veterans." UCF Today, March 13, 2017. Accessed August 9, 2017. https://today.ucf.edu/va-selects-ucf-historians-archive-stories-deceased-veterans/.

Citation

Miami News, “New Associate,” RICHES, accessed March 28, 2024, https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/items/show/10303.

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