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unusual facts about Byron F. Ritchie


Byron F. Ritchie

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress.


David Ritchie

David "Tarzan" Ritchie (born 1945), Shinty player and winner of 12 Camanachd Cup medals

Joshua H. Ritchie

He is the founder and director of the Refuah Institute in Jerusalem, a non-profit orthodox-Jewish center which provides training in therapy techniques, life-coaching, marriage and youth counselling based within the Jewish halacha.

Mount Ritchie

Named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE), 1970-71, after A. Ritchie, curator of fossils at the Australian Museum, Sydney, a member of the VUWAE party that discovered important sites of fossil fish in this Skelton Neve area.

Newtonmore Camanachd Club

Two of the greatest names in shinty history, goalkeeper Hugh Chisholm and David "Tarzan" Ritchie jointly hold the Newtonmore club record of twelve Camanachd Cup winners medals each.

Oscar W. Ritchie

He was also an active member of the Massillon Urban League and the Canton NAACP, which recognized his work as the leader of their local recruitment drive in the 1950s, that nearly doubled the size of their local membership.

In concert with some of his colleagues at Kent State he also co-founded the Portage County Family Planning, Counseling and Mental Health Center in Ravenna, Ohio with Dr. Dwight I. Arnold, a KSU Emeritus professor, and Dr. John Guidabaldi (Chairman, Associate Professor, Early Childhood Ed.), in 1962.

Somewhere along the line he found Sociology more to his liking and graduated in 1946, with a B.S. in Sociology, all the while working a full-time job at a steel mill in Massillon.


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