Were you able to name this past Moscow Elks member from last weeks’ hints?
Harry Missildine
- born in Parsons Kansas — 1920
- grew up in Kansas, Colorado & Oklahoma
- graduated Tulsa Central High School — Tulsa Oklahoma
- attended University of Missouri
- graduated from Colorado College
- twice qualified for National Public Links Golf Tournamet
- United States Army Air Corps — 2nd Lietenant Army Medical Administrative Corps –1942-1945 — Iceland
- news writer — Spokane Chronicle — 1945-1948
- Washington National Guard — 141st Aircraft Control Squadron — Alaska
- sports writer / sports editor — Spokesman Review — 1952-1984
- spearheaded development of Esmeralda Golf Course — Spokane — 1952-1956
- two time winner of Spokane City Amateur Golf Championship
- named the “Big Sky” Conference — 1963
- Washington State Sportswriter of the Year — 1965
- wrote articles for Golf Digest
- sports writer — Daily Idahonian/Daily News — Moscow — 1984-2005
- Idaho State Sportswriter of the Year — 1984 & 1988
- Moscow Elks Sole Survivor winner — 1992, 1997 & 1999
- won 3rd Moscow Elks Sole Survivor at age 79
- carried a USGA handicap of 7 at age 83 — 2003
- died in Moscow Idaho — 2005
- Lifetime member of BPOE #249 — on lodge wall of remembrance
