website watertownhistory.org
ebook History of Watertown, Wisconsin
Notes, Quotes, and Anecdotes
A collection of folksy historical stories based
on actual city newspaper articles
Compiled and
contributed by Ben
Feld [1922-2011]
Ben Feld in his
“scriptorium” 08 2008 Ken Riedl photo
ARTICLES:
Don’t
Try To Make A Fool Out Of Me
The
Best Damned Lawyer in Watertown: The
Bill Cody Story
Girls will be Girls
And Men will
be Men
And Women will
be Women
Ellen
McDermott ["Crazy Nellie"]
Peccadilloes
in the Police Department
Clever
Woman Outwits Merchants
What Happens
When You “Give Someone the Finger”
When
There is Work to be Done ‘tis Folly to Play
Saloon
Patron Bites The Bullet
From Mud
to Bricks or What Took Them So Long?
Above collection preserved as file
within Historical Society digitalization set as WHS_005_121
BOOK
AND VIDEO RECORDING:
- St. John’s
Lutheran Church, Watertown, Ben Feld slide show
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1962
11 27 STAFF ASSOCIATE AT UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
The
University of Chicago announced yesterday the nomination of Reuben A. Feld,
principal of Schurz School, as candidate for an appointment as staff associate
in the graduate school and department of education at the University of
Chicago. During the two year period of
this appointment, staff associates assume administrative degree. Mr. Feld is in the process of acquiring his
masters degree in education administration at the University of Wisconsin.
1967
04 20 TO APPEAR WITH
THE MILWAUKEE FLORENTINE OPERA CO
Reuben Feld, principal of the Schurz School
in Watertown, has been selected to appear with the Milwaukee Florentine Opera
Co. in the organization’s summer concert series in Milwaukee known as “Music
Under the Stars.” A true tenor, Mr. Feld
is well known in local music circles. He
is an active member of the choir of Immanuel Lutheran Church, and is president
of the Watertown
Municipal Chorus.
At Valparaiso University, where he studied voice under Dr. Richard Schoenbohm, he was soloist with the University Choir. Most recently he appeared locally as the male
lead in Curtain Club’s production of “Pajama Game.”
2002
07 20 MAMMOTH CLASS REUNION PROJECT
Ben
Feld is a 1940 graduate of Algoma High School.
On July 27 he will make the trek back to Algoma for his 62nd annual
reunion. He expects about 25 classmates from the 66 who graduated to be in
attendance. This year Ben is bringing
along a two-volume set of all the news items the Algoma Record Herald carried
from Aug. 28, 1936, to June 14, 1940, that pertained to his class. Being a
small weekly newspaper, school news was always given a good amount of space,
and as a result, his compilation is over 290 pages in length. Ben said it took him a year and a half by
using the Algoma paper's microfilm he received from an interlibrary loan
program. Gradually he went through all of those papers, page by page.
2007
02 24 GOLDEN OPTIONS VOLUNTEER
Reuben
Feld of Watertown, whose volunteer service to St. Coletta’s in Jefferson was
called “priceless” today by the facility’s officials, is retiring. Since 1998, Reuben, or “Ben,” as he prefers
to be called, has been a faithful volunteer at Golden Options, an adult day
services program of St. Coletta of Wisconsin.
For the past 10 years Feld has faithfully logged over 100 hours at Golden
Options presenting a monthly slide show of his travels across America and
overseas. Feld credits his late wife,
Ruth, for putting together the slide presentations that chronicle their world
travels throughout the course of their lives.
It almost appears a tribute to Ruth that these travels live on and bring
pleasure to others as it did for them.
The Felds traveled to Europe 12 times and organized and conducted tours
throughout the United States, visiting all but four states. It is from these adventures that their
stories come alive and are shared each month with his friends at Golden
Options.
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History of Watertown,
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