E.J. Ganley

E.J. Ganley worked at the Franklin car factory.

Ganley got his first newspaper job because of his skill in golf , a sport he played most of his life.He had hired on in a steel mill and met a Syracuse Herald editor while caddying part time at Bellevue Country Club.

I asked him if there was any work at the newspaper , he recalled years later.There was - as a $ 12-a-week copy boy.He got a break as a writer with a story he did on his own time after a neighbor crashed his car into a pole and cut power in the West End.He wrote it up and handed it in.

The editor used it , he remembered.I kept that story for years..

He didn't go to journalism school.The city was my classroom , he said.

Syracuse history for years passed through Ganley's typewriter.

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Ganley served in the Army Air Forces in World War II , fighting in the South Pacific as an aerial gunner.

He was the first president of the Syracuse Press Club in 1951.

In December , the press club honored Ganley as one of 13 pioneers of Syracuse journalism on the club's first Wall of Distinction in the lobby of Mulroy Civic Center.