Coral Gables Historical Archive
The Coral Gables Times
Thursday, May 24, 1962, page 9 (of 28)
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'Here's Stu Yuh!' Gentlemanly Hell Raiser With a 'Private Public'
EDITOR STU PATTERSON, ONE LAST PUFF AND BULLETIN By ADELE SITKIN Correspondent "We're lucky if he devotes as much as 25 per cent of his time to insurance," says the secretary of Stuart Patterson, a man who must make his living selling that service. "He's an insurance man with a hobby," says Mrs. Mary Scott, Patterson's girl Friday. How then does Stu, as almost everyone addresses him, spend the other 75% of his time? Working for the Kiwanis Club. "Well, you do get wrapped up in this sort of thing," he explained. One of Stu's duties is to issue a weekly newsletter to the members of his club. The "Gable Gram," as the bulletin is called, reflects this mildspoken man's very vivid opinions. Kiwanis is a service club devoting many of its projects to youth, and is "supposed to stay out of politics," - Stu's own words. Yet, to pick up almost any copy of Gable Gram, the reader would find such statements as this: "It beats me how the American Public can be so stupid as to still believe they can get something for nothing. You can't get anything out of Washington without Washington having to take it out of you two or three fold at some previous time." This comment referred to the medicare proposal. "As editor," Stu Patterson says, "I do take some liberties. The board has commended me on it (the bulletin) so I don't feel badly." Stu has been issuing the Gable Gram since June, 1956. Noting the 145 members in the club, Stu was asked if he ever got opposition. "Once in a while one of the members will raise the devil, but I always say, 'Do you want to get out the next bulletin?' I always stop them with that." One of the previous presidents of Kiwanis Club, Dr. Frank Rentz, said of Patterson: "He tries to be non-partisan as far as Republican or Democratic issues are concerned. His comments stimulate interest and thought. "If the members agree, okay; if not, we hash it out with Stu. He expresses a lot of concern about the encroachment of more government in business. Most businessmen will concur with this." Dr. Rentz would recommend that everybody take time to read the pointed opinions in the local Kiwanis Club bulletin. "Even though I get paid," Stu said, "it is pretty much a thankless job." Stu lives with his wife Eva and children, Janet, 19, and Jim, 15, at 5815 Maynada Ave. He has had experience in getting out newsletters before. When he was in New York, as Master of his Masonic lodge, he started a bulletin. The membership of the lodge increased 150% and the bulletin is still going. Stu said he doesn't write letters to the editor of local newspapers. "I write them to congressmen and the President of the United States, instead." Although concerned about government, Patterson doesn't have any political aspirations. The Kiwanis Gable Gram includes plugs for attendance, reminders, anecdotes and evidence of his personal crusading. Commenting on an Easter message, given at the club the previous Tuesday, he wrote in one bulletin: "I'll probably catch it for this, but I'll bet some of our own ministers learned some things from that message. "I know that Christ has got to come back to this earth just as the Bible states. The selfishness of the human will force his return for the same reasons he came before." At another time he wrote, "If the world is getting smaller, then now come postal rates are getting larger." Stu votes independently. He wrote a short while ago an editorial on the fallacy of our being the richest nation in the world: "We aren't; we owe more money than all the other nations in the world combined. We are burning up our substance. "Who's going to pay the national debt? In 1912 the Federal Government took in and spent $7 for every person. In 1960 this figure was $450." And so it goes with the 360-odd Gable Grams that Stu Patterson has put out for his private public to which he signs: "Here's 'Stu' Yuh!"
Concert Success
About 250 people turned out last Thursday night to hear the University of Miami band in concert on South Ponce de Leon Boulevard at Sevilla Avenue. Another estimated 100 people sat in their cars and listened. The concert was one of the highlights of Know Your University Week. The audience was enthusiastic in applause when asked if more concerts should be scheduled.
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