Leonard Otto Zick

Background

Zick, Leonard Otto was born on January 16, 1905 in St. Joseph, Michigan, United States. Son of Otto J. and Hannah (Heyn) Zick.

Education

Student, Western State University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Career

Senior partner, Zick, Campbell & Rose Accts. (and predecessor firms), South Bend, Indiana, 1928-1948; secretary, treasurer, C.M. Hall Lamp Company, Detroit, 1948-1951; president, 1951-1954; Chairman of the Board, 1954-1956; president, treasurer, director, Allen Electric & Equipment Company (now Allen Group, Inc.), Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1957-1961; finance vice president, treasurer, director, Chairman of the Board, Crampton Manufacturing Company, 1961-1963; manager corporation finance department, Manley, Bennett, McDonald & Company, Detroit, 1963-1968; manager, Leonard O. Zick & Associations, Holland, Michigan, 1968-1988.

Achievements

• Leonard Otto Zick has been listed as a noteworthy Accountant, manufacturing executive, consultant by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Former member Michigan Republican Center Committee. Trustee Young Men’s Christian Association Foundation, Clearwater, Florida, Richard E. Byrd Polar Center, Boston. Vice chairman Army-Navy Munitions Board, 1941-1942, assistant to vice chairman War Production Board, 1941-1943.

Chairman Greater Holland United Fund. Member Institute Management Accountants (past national vice president, director), Michigan Self Insurers Association (past president), Finance Executives Institute, Stuart Cameron McLeod Society (past president), Union League (Chicago), Society Automotive Engineers (chairman lighting committee), Rotary (Paul Harris fellow), Holland Country Club.

Connections

Married Anna Essig, June 27, 1925 (deceased May 1976). Children: Rowene (Mistress A.C. Neidow), Arlene (Mistress Thomas Anton), Constance Mae (Mistress Hilary Snell), Shirley Ann (Mistress John Vander Ley) (deceased). Married Genevieve Evans, November 3, 1977 (deceased November 1996).

Married Vera Helscher, December 6, 1997.

Father:

Otto J. Zick

Mother:

Hannah (Heyn) Zick

Spouse:

Genevieve Evans

Spouse:

Anna Essig

Spouse:

Vera Helscher

child:

Constance Mae Zick (Mistress Hilary Snell)

child:

Rowene Zick (Mistress A.C. Neidow)

child:

Shirley Ann Zick (Mistress John Vander Ley) (deceased)

child:

Arlene Zick (Mistress Thomas Anton)