1. George McClelland Sebree III, better known as Mac Sebree, was an American journalist, writer and publisher whose area of expertise was urban mass transit, particularly urban rail transit.
16 Facts About Mac Sebree
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Mac Sebree was a businessman, being owner and president of the publishing company, Interurban Press, from 1975 until 1993.
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Mac Sebree was editor of the university's student newspaper from June to September 1954, and graduated from the university in 1956 with a bachelor of arts degree.
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Mac Sebree worked as a newspaperman from 1955 until 1982, including 20 years covering transportation for United Press International and the Scripps newspapers, the UPI stint lasting 11 years.
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Mac Sebree was employed as a reporter for two Albuquerque newspapers, the Albuquerque Journal and The Albuquerque Tribune, and for the Avalanche-Journal, of Lubbock, Texas.
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Mac Sebree began working for the Avalanche-Journal in August 1955.
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Mac Sebree later held an executive position at UPI's Houston, Texas office, moving in 1966 to its Dallas office.
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Mac Sebree moved to Southern California in the late 1960s.
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In 1975, Mac Sebree inherited from his friend Ira Swett a small publishing company named Interurbans, which published books about streetcars and interurban electric railways.
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Mac Sebree renamed the business "Interurban Press" and, after adding a partner, Jim Walker, expanded the company's output.
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In 1993, Mac Sebree retired from full-time work, sold Interurban Press to Pentrex and moved from southern California to Vancouver, Washington.
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Mac Sebree took on the job of editor of Motor Coach Age, the quarterly magazine of the Motor Bus Society, and held that position from January 1995 until fall 2003.
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Mac Sebree was the "International Editor" for the quarterly New Electric Railway Journal from fall 1996 until the cessation of publication of that magazine, in late 1998.
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In 2008 Mac Sebree donated $10,000, and pledged $90,000 more, to the Orange Empire Railway Museum to support the construction of a permanent library and archive building.
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Mac Sebree died on March 7,2010, at his home in Vancouver, Washington.
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Mac Sebree is buried at Fayette City Cemetery, in Fayette, Missouri.