Former TCA National President, Frank Hare passed away on Monday 11 August 2008. Frank was one of several past national presidents I got to know in the early days of my career as TCA Operations Manager. In our infrequent, too infrequent actually, discussions, I found him to be a true gentleman.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published Frank's obituary on Wednesday 13 August 2008. The link below will take you to that piece. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08226/903791-122.stm. I think it conveys a lot of what Frank was like.
I would like to thank Gary Rotstein, who wrote it and Diana Forsthoffer who helped me with the link to the article. She tells me that while on line newspapers are still evolving this article should be available for some time to come.