David E. Henes |
| Posted 2009-11-29 by Judy Wight Branson |
| The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Arizona Monday, January 6, 2003 David E. Henes, a retired newspaperman and former Detroit, Michigan resident, died peacefully on Friday, January 3, 2003. His newspaper career included working for seven newspapers over a span of four decades, and included five years at the Arizona Republic and Phoenix Gazette. He was the Promotion Director of the Detroit Free Press for 23 years before his retirement in 1982. He was transferred to Detroit in 1969 from Charlotte, where he was Promotion Manager of the Charlotte Observer, another Knight Newspaper, for three and a half years. For many years in Detroit he also was in charge of corporate advertising for Knight Newspapers and later Knight-Ridder Newspapers, Inc. Earlier Henes was employed by Phoenix Newspapers, Inc., to establish and organize a Promotion Department to serve both The Arizona Republic and The Phoenix Gazette. That was in 1950 when the newspapers abandoned its public relations department in favor of a Promotion Department with expanded responsibilities. He undertook the newspapers' first market research studies, its first political polls when Barry Goldwater initially ran for the U.S. Senate, its first readership surveys and helped open the 12-acre employee recreation area that became the Lazy R & G Ranch. Upon its opening he was also in charge of its operation. Henes entered the newspaper business as a Sports Reporter for the Arizona Daily Star just prior to his graduation from the University of Arizona in 1938. Subsequently, he worked on the news staffs of the Tucson Daily Citizen and the Milwaukee Journal before joining the U.S. Army just after the start of World War II. For two of his four years in service he was Editor of the camp newspaper. The Tower, at Fort Sheridan, Ill. Then after graduation from Transportation Corps Officer Candidate School in New Orleans, he was stationed at the Los Angeles Port of Embarkation and served first as a Cargo Security Officer aboard the C-2 ship Cape Sandy taking cargo and personnel to India and later was an Intelligence Officer. His only departure from newspapers before his retirement was for a period of three years following his separation from service when he was a Publicist for the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce and directed the activities of the Valley of the Sun Club, then the local tourist promotion group. A native of Milwaukee, he attened Marquette University for two years before transferring to the University of Arizona, from which he graduated in 1938. He was active in a number of newspaper groups and in 1961-1962 served as President of the National Newspaper Promotion Association, now the International Newspaper Marketing Association. Earlier, he had been President of both the Southern and Western regions of the association. In 1967 he received the association's Silver Shovel Award for outstanding service to newspaper promotion and to the association. He also was a frequent discussion leader at the American Press Institute at Columbia University and later at Reston, VA. In 1948 he helped found the now defunct Phoenix Press Club, served from 1951 to 1955 on the three-man Junior Traffic Patrol to supervise crossing guards at Phoenix public schools and was on the advisory board of the Desert Botanical Garden soon after it was started. He was a member of the board of directors of the Central Arizona Chapter of the American Red Cross in 1947 and President of the Phoenix Exchange Club in 1955 when he left Phoenix to accept a position with the Charlotte Observer. In Detroit, he was a life member of the Adcraft Club of Detroit, and also was a member of the Detroit Advertising Association, the Economic Club, the Detroit Press Club, the Michigan Press Association, the Public Relations Society of America, the Detroit Chamber of Commerce and the Lochmoor Country Club. After his return to Phoenix following his retirement, he served as a Marketing Consultant for Fortune Magazine and later Targeted Media, a subsidiary of Time, Inc. For seven years he served on the marketing committee of the Central Arizona Chapter of the American Red Cross, and was its Chairman in 1988. He served on the local Red Cross board of directors for the second time in 1987-88. From 1984 to 1987 he was on the board of directors of Foodbanking, Inc., headed by John Van Hengel, who founded the well-known St. Mary's Food Bank and was the forerunner of Second Harvest. Survivors include his wife, Kathleen; two daughters, Mrs. Charles (Susan) de Queljoe and Mrs. David (Martha) Fogler, both of Scottsdale; two sons, Stephen D. Birmingham, Michigan and R. Peers of Bronxville, New York; a sister, Mrs. Fred Schwantes of DeKalb, Ill. and eleven grandchildren. Visitation will be Monday, January 6, 2003 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., with Rosary at 7:00 p.m., at Whitney & Murphy Arcadia Funeral Home, 4800 E. Indian School. Funeral Mass Tuesday, January 7, 2003 at 10 a.m., at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, 11001 N. 40th Street, Phoenix. Burial will be at St. Francis Cemetery. In lieu of flowers donations can be made at Hospice of the Valley, 1510 E. Flower St., Phoenix, AZ 85014 or Christ Child Society of Phoenix, 4633 N. 54th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85018. |
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