Bio

• Born in Detroit, Michigan. Graduate of University of Detroit Law School in 1933. Admitted to the bar in Michigan in 1933. Employed as a corporate attorney after 1933. Member of the firm of Cross Wrock 1936 to 1945 and partner after 1945.

  He was the ANA general counsel 1965 to 1969 and 1981 to present. He served on the Assay Commission for 1975. Served on ANA board of governors 1967 to 1973, vice president 1973 to 1975 and 1977 to 1979, and 41st ANA President August 2, 1979, to August 1, 1981. In 1982 he received the ANA Ferran Zerbe Memorial Award. Later he received the Medal of Merit in 1992, the Glenn Smedley Memorial Award in 1993 and Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994. He was named a Numismatic News Numismatic Ambassador in 1991.

  He had been president of the Grosse Pointe Numismatic Society in 1960, Lake Erie Exonumist Society 1963-64, Detroit Coin Club in 1964 and Michigan State Numismatic Society in 1964. He had been first vice president of TAMS and the Central States Numismatic Society. President of TAMS 1970 to 1972 and president of CSNS 1970 to 1972. He was honored by TAMS with a medal in 1972 struck by the Medallic Art Company. Items from the Hatie collection were sold at auction by NASCA in 1977, Bowers and Merena in 1983 and Presidential Coins in 1984. In 1992 he received the ANA Medal of Merit. He was inducted into the ANA Numismatic Hall of fame in 1996.

  He died in Grosse Pointe, Michigan

  bio: WWA 92-93 profile: NN/WWH 8/11/79; TAMS Journal V/2 Mar/Apr 1965 p 49 (photo) Interviewed 1/3/95 obit: 7/14/97

Fecha de nacimiento

• 1910-03-11

Lugar de nacimiento

• Detroit, Michigan

Fecha de muerte

• 1997-06-26

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