User:Frank Niro

Long time Wikipedia user continually in search of truth, looking to give back in a positive way wherever possible and for as long as I am able. Frank Niro (talk) 19:52, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

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Wiki Pages Edited
* Milford, Massachusetts * Final Four of College Chess * Bentley University * Wise Dan * Lev Alburt * Susan Polgar * Port Orchard, Washington * Ralph Lumenti * Ruby Hooper * Chess Life * Lew Burdette * Robert Haas (clergyman) * Paul Truong + photo added * Tescra * Maker's Mark Mile Stakes * Phil Hubbard * Restaurant: Impossible * Hank Steinbrenner * As Tears Go By (song) * Delilah (radio host) * Philadelphia Marathon * Rolanda Watts * Marianne Faithfull

Wiki Pages that I would like to Edit if I get time
* Big Dig * Eola, Oregon * Boris Baczynsky * John Curdo * Tim Redman * Medifast * Jane Olivor (add photo) * Franklyn Jenifer * Ron Laird * Chess as mental training * Adriaan de Groot

New Wiki Pages I would like to start
* Northwest Chess * Journal of Chess Research * The Susan Polgar Foundation * Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence (SPICE) * International Society for Chess Research * Helen Warren * North Medford Club * ECC + USA * Tom Derderian * Rick Bayko * Georgi Orlov * Josh Friedel * Norman Weinstein * Charles LoPresti * Morton Fink

CJA project notes and status
I joined Wikipedia in April 2013 as Interim President of Chess Journalists of America (link is in the next section below) with the intention of putting together a team of chess journalists to strengthen the accuracy and completeness of articles about American chess personalities and, where applicable, to add information concerning the notable journalistic achievements by our members and others in the chess community. Because of my schedule (I moved from Ithaca NY to Meridian ID to Lexington KY within a short period of time), I decided to be an observer for the first year to get a feel for how the Wikipedia process works. I was elected President of CJA (removing the Interim) at the annual meeting in Madison, WI in August 2013 for a 2-year term. I have access to back issues of The Chess Journalist, Chess Life, Chess Horizons and Northwest Chess. All are good secondary sources.

In November 2013, I visited the library at the U.S. Federation to research some history for the Chess Hall of Fame in St. Louis. While there I found the library to be in tact and accessible. (http://www.twchesssafari.blogspot.com/2013/11/my-key-to-city-of-crossville-still-fits.html) This, and the White Collection at Cleveland Public Library, the Princeton University Library and the SPICE Program Library at Webster University, will be my main hard copy resources. What I need now is help learning how to place scanned pages in a location on the Internet that can be linked from Wikipedia. <---suggestions welcome.

I am also actively working on projects listed here WikiProject Chess. Some of the best online secondary references, in my opinion, are http://www.theweekinchess.com/html/ and http://www.chessmail.com/research/ and http://www.chessarch.com/excavations/excavations.php.

I purposely registered using my own name (not usually a good idea, I am learning) in order to ensure transparency. Please return here for periodic updates.

The WP Page about me (once only a stub, now deleted)
* Frank Niro Note, that I did not create the article about me in the first place and I understand that it is not for me to argue whether any of this is notable.

references/possible citations:
 * http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2013/06/chess-journalists-appoint-new-president.html and http://www.chessjournalism.org/bio/Niro_Frank.htm, Frank Niro is Current President of Chess Journalists of America.


 * http://www.idahochessassociation.org/Frank%20Niro%20in%20Chess%20Life%20Magazine%20(2002-2003).pdf, Two-part Killigrew article/interview in "Chess Life Magazine" December 2002 and January 2003
 * Frank Niro's story is, well, inspiring. A serious marathon runner, Niro was struck by a car in 1967 while training for the Boston Marathon. Two years and 19 operations later, his running career ended, he was finally released from the hospital. His experiences with the care he received at the hospital were so bad that Niro vowed to become a hospital administrator to make sure that no one else has to go through this. Back to school he went and, at the age of 38, he became CEO of a hospital. - Brian Killegrew


 * http://twchesssafari.blogspot.com/2009/02/turnaround-hospital-administrator.html Frank Niro was selected as one of the Top 25 Turnaround Hospital Administrators in the U.S. by 'Healthweek' Magazine in February 1989. Note: Click on the page images to enlarge.


 * http://chesssafari.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_archive.html, Delilah (radio host)'s August 2006 Newsletter to her 10 million listeners.


 * 3-part interview by Jeffrey Roland in Northwest Chess magazine (2012) is here http://www.idahochessassociation.org/2012%20A%20Conversation%20With%20Frank%20Niro%20Interview.pdf
 * Note: the above article provides insight concerning the establishment of the 2004 Women's Olympiad Training Squad which led to the first-ever medal for American women's chess and to the relocation of the USCF corporate office from New Windsor, NY, to Crossville, TN.

Additional facts that can be verified:

FN was elected to the Bentley College (now Bentley University) Athletic Hall of Fame in 1991 primarily for his accomplishment as the youngest (at the time) American runner to complete an official full 26.2 marathon in less than 3 hours at the Atlantic City Marathon in October 1966 (age 18 yrs. 1 month) - certified, at the time, by H.Browning Ross of Long Distance Log and Nat Cirulnik in his Marathon Guide published by Road Runners Club of America.

FN is managing Editor of Journal of Chess Research (a new publication: first issue scheduled for Summer 2014), Founding President of International Society for Chess Research, former Executive Director of the United States Chess Federation and former President of the US. Chess Trust.

FN remains on the adjunct faculty of Cornell University, where he served as Executive-in-residence in the Sloan Graduate Program in Health Administration from 2011 to 2013 and lives in Lexington, KY, with his wife, Natasha.

This is what the page currently has: Frank Niro (born 1948), a former hospital administrator, was Executive Director of the United States Chess Federation in 2002 and 2003. Mr. Niro lives in Lexington, KY with his wife, Natasha. He serves as part-time lecturer and Executive-in-Residence in the Sloan Program of Hospital and Health Services Administration at Cornell University. http://twchesssafari.blogspot.com/2011/07/my-cornell-bio.html

Mr. Niro also plays chess. Additional information concerning Frank Niro is located here.
 * Official Blog of Frank Niro

At the suggestion of user:Randykitty, I will move these references over to the Talk:Frank Niro and let editors with no conflict of interest work on it.

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