Ben B Schifman was a business journalist for The Kansas City Star who won a Gerald Loeb Award and served as the treasurer and president of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.
26 Facts About Ben Schifman
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Ben Schifman grew up in Kansas City, where he attended Humboldt School.
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Ben Schifman attended Manual Training High School, where he appeared in a production of the operetta Sunbonnet Sue in 1929.
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Ben Schifman dropped out of school before graduation to help support his family when the Great Depression hit.
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Ben Schifman later took night classes at Kansas City Junior College and a two-year course given by the American Institute of Banking.
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Ben Schifman started his career in 1930 working for the United Press.
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Ben Schifman became a financial writer and helped establish the St Louis financial relay for the company.
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In 1934, Ben Schifman began working for The Kansas City Star as a temp reporting on livestock, produce, and grain.
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Ben Schifman became a staff reporter later in the year.
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Ben Schifman received a Gerald Loeb special achievement award for a series of articles in 1961 on the stock market and related investment problems in which he predicted the 1962 stock market crash.
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Ben Schifman became involved in the business side of the employee-owned newspaper during the 1960s.
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Ben Schifman was appointed assistant treasurer in 1962, made investment manager of the newspaper in 1963, and elected treasurer in 1966.
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In 1972, Ben Schifman received a financial press fellowship from the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania.
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In 1952, Ben Schifman helped organize the Kansas City Society of Financial Analysts.
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Ben Schifman hosted the business news show Financial Pages of the Air that was broadcast on WDAF Radio in 1955.
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Ben Schifman was elected to two terms as the first treasurer of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers in 1964 and 1965.
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Ben Schifman was elected to one term as the second president of the organization in 1966.
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In 1981, a group of Kansas City businessmen led by Ben Schifman purchased the Superior Equipment Manufacturing Company from Tiffany Industries.
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Ben Schifman married Mary Lapin on June 6,1937, after a four-month engagement.
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Ben Schifman married Kathryn Lynn Greenwood, daughter of Paul S Greenwood, on March 30,1963, and they divorced in 1966.
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Ben Schifman married Paul Norman Gershon, son of Clarence Gershon, on August 31,1963.
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Ben Schifman was made a trustee of the congregation, served as vice president of the board, and was a director of the synagogue.
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Ben Schifman helped with the synagogue's Israel Bonds campaign, at one point serving as the campaign's chairman, and received a citation in 1962 from the national campaign headquarters.
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Ben Schifman was active with youth programs in the early 1960s.
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Ben Schifman served as a director and financial vice president of the Kansas City Junior Achievement program.
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Ben Schifman served as an area director for the Kansas City Boy Scout council and was a member of the Tribe of Mic-O-Say.