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This folder contains issues of The Lifeline, a bi-monthly publication of PATCO LIVES, and newspaper clippings regarding air traffic controllers and airline safety.

8 x 10 in. black and white photographic print of John S. Knight (left) speaking to then former Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Chairman E.J. Thomas as their wives, Betty Knight and Mildred Thomas, speak together in the background at the Bert Polsky Humanitarian Award ceremony held at Cascade Plaza in downtown Akron, Ohio.

8 x 10 in. black and white photographic print of Betty Knight at the Bert Polsky Humanitarian Award ceremony held at Cascade Plaza in downtown Akron, Ohio.

8 x 10 in. black and white photographic print of John S. Knight (left) posing with Akronite Elizabeth M. "Libby" Sammeth (1923-1984).

8 x 10 in. black and white photographic print of the crowd watching John S. Knight accept the 1975 Bert Polsky Humanitarian Award at Cascade Plaza in downtown Akron, Ohio. Betty Knight, Mildred Thomas, and E.J. Thomas can be seen sitting in the front row on the left.

8 x 10 in. black and white photographic print of John S. Knight (left) shaking hands with an unidentified man at the ceremony for the Bert Polsky Humanitarian Award held at Cascade Plaza in downtown Akron, Ohio.

8 x 10 in. black and white photographic print of a plaque dedicated to John S. Knight for his "service to mankind in all walks of life" from the citizens of Akron, Ohio. The plaque was given to him at a testamonial dinner honoring his 50 years in journalism held at the Sheraton Hotel in Akron, Ohio on November 16, 1964.

8 x 10 in. black and white photographic print of (from left to right) Betty Knight, her husband John S. Knight, Mildred Thomas, and her huband E.J. Thomas at the ceremony for the Bert Polsky Humanitarian Award held at Cascade Plaza in downtown Akron, Ohio.

8 x 10 in. black and white photographic print of John S. Knight (right) speaking with an unidentified woman at the ceremony for the Bert Polsky Humanitarian Award held at Cascade Plaza in downtown Akron, Ohio.

8 x 10 in. black and white photographic print of John S. Knight speaking to the crowd from behind a podium during the ceremony for the Bert Polsky Humanitarian Award held at Cascade Plaza in downtown Akron, Ohio.

8 x 10 in. black and white photographic print of John S. Knight (right) speaking with an unidentified man at the ceremony for the Bert Polsky Humanitarian Award held at Cascade Plaza in downtown Akron, Ohio.

8 x 10 in. black and white photographic print of two unidentified men at the ceremony for the Bert Polsky Humanitarian Award held at Cascade Plaza in downtown Akron, Ohio.

8 x 10 in. black and white photographic print of John S. Knight and his wife Betty Knight at the ceremony for the Bert Polsky Humanitarian Award held at Cascade Plaza in downtown Akron, Ohio.

8 x 10 in. black and white photographic print of Betty Knight (left) speaking with two unidentified people at the Bert Polsky Humanitarian Award ceremony held at Cascade Plaza in downtown Akron, Ohio. Akron landmarks Loew's Theatre and the Mayflower Hotel can be seen in the background.

8 x 10 in. black and white photographic print of John S. Knight (left) speaking with two unidentified men at the ceremony for the Bert Polsky Humanitarian Award held at Cascade Plaza in downtown Akron, Ohio.

8 x 10 in. black and white photographic print of John S. Knight (right) and retired Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Chairman E.J. Thomas (left) holding the 1975 Bert Polsky Humanitarian Award that was just awared to John S. Knight. The men stand in Cascade Plaza in downtown Akron, Ohio where the awards ceremony took place.

8 x 10 in. black and white photographic print of Betty Knight (left) speaking with her son, Charles Landon Knight II, and two unidentified people at the Bert Polsky Humanitarian Award ceremony held at Cascade Plaza in downtown Akron, Ohio. Akron landmarks Loew's Theatre and the Mayflower Hotel can be seen in the background.

5 x 7 in. black and white photographic print of a portrait of John S. Knight at the Bert Polsky Humanitarian Award ceremony at Cascade Plaza in downton Akron, Ohio.

8 x 10 in. black and white photographic print of John S. Knight speaking to the crowd during the ceremony for the Bert Polsky Humanitarian Award held at Cascade Plaza in downtown Akron, Ohio.

8 x 10 in. black and white photographic print of John S. Knight (right) shaking hands with an unidentified man. A portrait of his father, Charles Landon Knight, hangs in background.

7.5 x 9.5 in. black and white photographic print of an unidentified man standing with two unidentified women at a cocktail party. Lee R. Jackson, President of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, can be seen in the background at the right.

8 x 10 in. black and white photographic print of Stuart Symington (left) speaking with Ohio Governor Frank Lausche (right) and an unidentified man (center) as they take a break from a round of golf with John S. Knight and Poncet Davis. William Stuart Symington, Jr. was an American businessman and politician from Missouri who served as the first Secretary of the Air Force from 1947 to 1950 and was a Democratic United States Senator from Missouri from 1953 to 1976. Frank John Lausche was a Democratic politician from Ohio who served as the 47th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, as the 55th and 57th Governor of Ohio, and as a United States Senator from Ohio for two terms (1957–1969).

8 x 10 in. black and white photographic print of John S. Knight (right) standing with Stuart Symington. Symington was an American businessman and politician who served as the first Secretary of the Air Force from 1947 to 1950 and as a Democratic United States Senator from Missouri from 1953 to 1976.

8 x 10 in. black and white photographic print of John S. Knight (right, arms folded, with hat) standing in a crowd of unidentified people watching the first Rubber City Open golf tournament, later known as the Rubber City Open Invitational. The Rubber City Open was the first PGA Tour event to be held at the storied Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. The tournament, last played in 1959, was discontinued as Firestone gained national prominence and attracted bigger events beginning with hosting the 1960 PGA Championship, the American Golf Classic in 1961, and in 1962 the World Series of Golf, now known as the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. American professional golfer Thomas Henry "Tommy" Bolt stands in the foreground leaning on his club. Bolt won the first Rubber City Open winning $2,400 from a $15,000 purse.

8 x 10 in. black and white photographic print of John S. Knight (center) playing golf with Stuart Symington (left) and Poncet Davis (right). William Stuart Symington, Jr. was an American businessman and politician from Missouri who served as the first Secretary of the Air Force from 1947 to 1950 and was a Democratic United States Senator from Missouri from 1953 to 1976. Poncet "Ponce" Davis was a leader in the rubber industry and the head of his family’s firm, Robbins Tire & Rubber Co. (now Robbins LLC), located in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

8 x 10 in. black and white photographic print of John S. Knight standing in his office in the Akron Beacon Journal in Akron, Ohio with Abner Zook and D.M. Brown holding a Continuous Member Certificate for 40 years of service to the American Legion.

7 x 9 in. black and white photographic print of John S. Knight (right) with unidentified people at the 1969 American Golf Classic. The American Golf Classic was a tournament on the PGA Tour from 1961 to 1976. It was the third event to be played at the storied Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio after the Rubber City Open Invitational (1954–1959) and the 1960 PGA Championship.

8 x 10 in. black and white photographic print of John S. Knight (left) playing golf with John Clark.

8 x 10 in. black and white photographic print of (from left to right) Joe Magnus, Jack Searle, John S. Knight, and Poncet Davis at a golf outing. Poncet "Ponce" Davis was a leader in the rubber industry and the head of his family’s firm, Robbins Tire & Rubber Co. (now Robbins LLC), located in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Jack Searle was probably John Gideon "Jack" Searle (1901-1978), an American heir, businessman, and philanthropist who served as vice president and general manager of his family's pharmaceutical company G. D. Searle & Company (often referred to as Searle and now known as G.D. Searle, LLC, a wholly owned trademark of Pfizer) that is most notable for having developed the first female birth control pill and the artificial sweetener NutraSweet.

8 x 10 in. black and white photographic print of John S. Knight (center) playing golf with Ohio Governor Frank Lausche (left). Frank John Lausche was a Democratic politician from Ohio who served as the 47th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, as the 55th and 57th Governor of Ohio, and as a United States Senator from Ohio for two terms (1957–1969).

8 x 10 in. black and white photographic print of John S. Knight playing golf.

7.5 x 9.5 in. black and white photographic print of John S. Knight (standing on right) on an outdoor patio with a group of friends including a Mrs. Searle.

8 x 10 in. black and white photographic print of three unidentified golfers on a golf course. The men were playing in a golf tournament the same day as John S. Knight, Stuart Symington, and Poncet Davis with Ohio Governer Frank Lausche in attendance.

7 x 9 in. black and white photographic print of John S. Knight standing in his office at the Akron Beacon Journal in Akron, Ohio with Senator Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson. Jackson (1912-1983) was a U.S. Congressman and Senator from the state of Washington and an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972 and 1976. The photograph is inscribed to Knight with the words "To Jack Knight--a great journalist and businessman--and a great American" and is signed "H.M. Jackson."

8 x 10 in. black and white photographic print of (from left to right) John S. Knight, Nathan Cummings, and Sam McKeel standing in front of a piece of art at a dinner honoring Cummings held at the Akron Art Institute (now the Akron Art Museum) in Akron, Ohio. Nathan Cummings was a Canadian-born American businessman, investor, and philanthropist who founded Consolidated Foods. McKeel was a reporter and then personnel manager of the Charlotte Observer before becoming assistant publisher, vice president, and general manager at the Akron Beacon Journal. He later held the same positions with the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News until he was named president, chair, and publisher before joining the Chicago Sun-Times.

8 x 10 in. black and white photographic print of (from left to right) an unidentified man, His Royal Highness the Duke of Windsor, John S. Knight, Nathan Cummings, and an unidentified man taking their seats at a luncheon. The Duke of Windsor, Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David), formerly known as the Prince of Wales, was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire and Emperor of India from January 20, 1936 until his abdication on December 11, 1936 to marry Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee, causing a constitutional crisis. Nathan Cummings was a Canadian-born American businessman, investor, and philanthropist who founded Consolidated Foods.

8 x 10 in. black and white photographic print of (from left to right) John S. Knight, an unidentified man, and His Royal Highness the Duke of Windsor at a luncheon. The Duke of Windsor, Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David), formerly known as the Prince of Wales, was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire and Emperor of India from January 20, 1936 until his abdication on December 11, 1936 to marry Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee, causing a constitutional crisis.

8 x 10 in. black and white photographic print of (from left to right) an unidentified man, James L. Knight, and John S. Knight.

Myron Howard "Mike" Ross was born November 9, 1919 in New York City. He dropped out of school when he was seventeen and moved to Texas, where he worked on a farm. From 1936 until 1939, Ross worked in a bakery in North Carolina. In the summer of 1938, he attended the Southern School for Workers in Asheville, North Carolina. During the fall of 1938, Ross would attend the first Southern Conference on Human Welfare in Birmingham, Alabama. He would attend this conference again in 1940 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. From 1939 to 1940, Ross worked for the United Mine Workers Non-Partisan League in North Carolina, working under John L. Lewis. He was hired as a union organizer by the United Mine Workers of America, and sent to Saltville, Virginia and Rockwood, Tennessee. In 1940, Ross ran for a seat on city council on the People's Platform in Charlotte, North Carolina. During this time, he also married Anne "Buddie" West of Kennesaw, Georgia. From 1941 until 1945, Ross served as an infantryman for the United States Army. He sustained injuries near the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944. From 1945 until 1949, Ross worked for the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, then part of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), as a union organizer. He was sent to Macon, Georgia, Savannah, Georgia and to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he worked with the United Furniture Workers Union. He began handling arbitration for the unions. In 1948, Ross ran for United States Congress on the Progressive Party ticket in North Carolina. He also served as the secretary for the North Carolina Progressive Party. Ross attended the University of North Carolina law school from 1949 to 1952. He graduated with honors but was denied the bar on the grounds of "character." From 1952 until 1955, he worked for the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers as a union organizer, first in New Mexico (potash mines) and then in Arizona (copper mines). From 1955 to 1957, Ross attended the Colum