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Zolton Ferency: A community legend
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| Contributor | Craverguy |
| Last Edited | Craverguy May 18, 2009 01:16pm |
| Category | Profile |
| News Date | Sep 00, 2004 12:00pm |
| Description | During a time when Enron and Worldcom are redefining white-collar crime at the expense of their employees, unemployment levels are drastically soaring, and concern for the environment is frequently cast aside, you can hear a phrase whispered by the down-trodden around East Lansing, “Where’s Zolton when you need him?”
If you have never heard of former MSU professor Zolton Ferency (1922-93), it would certainly benefit your spirit and energize your active side to read about this defender of innumerable causes. Whether you learn about him by talking to former Urban Options staff members, professors who taught alongside Zolton in previous decades or simply read the clippings and memorabilia of Zolton’s in special collections at the MSU library, it will certainly be time well spent.
Glowing remarks can always be said about this man of Hungarian descent. It was obvious at an early age that Zolton was a supporter of the public good as he grew up in Detroit, empathizing with the striking GM plant workers before he became a distinguished World War II veteran. Following World War II, he became a public defender and steadily rose in Michigan politics, culminating in his chairmanship of the Michigan Democratic Party from 1963-68. He would only lose this seat after bluntly telling President Johnson to end the Vietnam War. Sacrificing personal integrity for the sake of political gains was strictly out of the question for Zolton. |
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