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Samuel Resnic (March 1, 1899 – November 24, 1988) was an American attorney, land agent, and the thirty-fifth mayor of Holyoke, Massachusetts, and the city's first Jewish holder of that office. At the time of his election he was the largest individual tax payer in Holyoke. He would also serve as a member of the board of trustees to PeoplesBank for nearly 20 years, and as a member of the board of directors of the Boston and Maine Railroad after he left office.

first such since Whiting (citation needed)

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Legendary_Locals_of_Holyoke/mTcrBwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Samuel+Resnic%22+Holyoke&pg=PA75&printsec=frontcover

https://archive.org/details/qualityoflifeina0000unse/page/80/mode/2up?q=%22Samuel+Resnic%22

https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A137C4A333B6FC488%40GB3NEWS-13877169DE179AF7%402447491-13876BE8A145A3BD%4033-13876BE8A145A3BD%40?h=1&fname=&lname=&fullname=&kwinc=%22Samuel%20Resnic%22&kwexc=&rgfromDate=1/1/1987&rgtoDate=1/1/1989&formDate=&formDateFlex=exact&dateType=range&processingtime=&addedFrom=&addedTo=&sid=hxmkoxpteaplgzjpfwhaofflkiggsbaw_wma-gateway016_1632406506485

-3 term mayor -founder and senior partner of Resnic, Beauregard, Waite, and Driscoll, originally based on high st -3 term mayor, elected in wake of Seibel's death in 1957, did not rerun in fall of 63, retired from public service in Jan 1964. -elected by every ward in the city in first election, previously had been on the Board of Aldermen for 10 years -first mayor to paint shamrocks and green lines on Holyoke st's for the St. Patricks Day parade (which started in his term?) -marched in parade every year until suffering stroke 1985 -received St. Patrick's Citizenship Award 1968 as non-Irish contributions -began tradition of the mayor's reception held every year prior to the parade -developed Whiting Farms Road, lampooned during his tenure as "a road to nowhere" -1958 in first term invited sent an invitation to Nikita S. Khruschehev to visit Holyoke -1961 elected president of Mass Mayor's association, first of Holyoke to have title -March 1961 made official delegate of the US to the World Conference of Local Governments, sponsed by Internatioal Union of Local Authorities - founder of Adams Plastics Co., maker of "pakkawood" in 1950s, sold to American Home Products -February 1964 made director of Boston & Maine RR, also made director of the Boston Garden -1970s became president of Holyoke Industrial Properties Inc. -1964 received Human Relations Award from National Conference of Christians and Jews -born in Russian Empire, parents came to US in 1907 -Resnic lived in Holyoke since 1929 -also cofounded the Log Cabin Restaurant with Edna Williams -former trustee of Peoples Savings Bank -member of Mount Tom Lodge of Free and Accepted MAsons -member of Crestview Country Club -married Theresa "Babe" Hendel in ???? (btwn 1919-1933), had two sons, Harold and Burton

https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/bitstream/handle/2452/13105/1962acts0586.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y

Ross Ave --> Resnic Blvd.

Elected president of board of aldermen

boston and maine board of directors 1963 https://archive.org/details/bostonandmainerailroadannualreports/bostonandmaine1963/page/n1/mode/2up to 1968 at least https://www.bmrrhs.org/s/1968-BM-Annual-Report.pdf

Hubbell directory https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Martindale_Hubbell_Law_Directory/1OQ7AQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Boston+and+Maine%22+%22Samuel+Resnic%22&dq=%22Boston+and+Maine%22+%22Samuel+Resnic%22&printsec=frontcover

Nominating committee and community representative member for AJC http://www.ajcarchives.org/AJC_DATA/Files/1941_1942_10_AJCAnnualReport.pdf

Controversy of Mater Dolorosa school temporarily in public quarters http://www.ajcarchives.org/ajc_data/files/vol_62__1961.pdf

Holyoke Regional Business Dev Corp https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/bitstream/handle/2452/13105/1962acts0586.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y

https://archive.org/details/sim_employment-security-review_1960-09_27_9/page/12/mode/2up https://www.google.com/books/edition/Employment_Security_Review/bNpzJAqHEDYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Samuel+Resnic%22&pg=RA8-PA13&printsec=frontcover

https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A12AE9C35A497B0E8%40GB3NEWS-13316CC7B9D920F1%402443357-132E2669AFD348B8%408-132E2669AFD348B8%40?h=1&fname=&lname=&fullname=&kwinc=%22Samuel%20Resnic%22&kwexc=&rgfromDate=1970&rgtoDate=1980&formDate=&formDateFlex=exact&dateType=range&processingtime=&addedFrom=&addedTo=&sid=gbvaufozawjlulomhzublhuycddsdqpe_wma-gateway008_1632505274785

Early advocate of the Prospect Heights redevelopment plan, an urban renewal initiative that replaced 13.7 acres of land in the vicinity of Mater Dolorosa and Pulaski Park. One of last initiatives as mayor, faced defeat from aldermen at the time 8 to 3, with opposition of residents being the majority of those who spoke during meetings, even in subsequent efforts. Eventually HUD and Holyoke Redevelopment Association would pass the measure in 1968, 12 to 2. The mayor continued support thereafter his tenure, along with his successors Mayors Dibble and Taupier, and had a letter of support entered into the record.

https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinamerica0000unse_o4f4/page/576/mode/2up?q=%22Resnic%2C+Samuel%22 bio

https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A12AE9C35A497B0E8%40GB3NEWS-12F12894A52F09AB%402436813-12ECD929A3E809BE%4034-12ECD929A3E809BE%40?h=3&fname=&lname=&fullname=&kwinc=%20%22Resnic%22&kwexc=&rgfromDate=8/30/1959&rgtoDate=9/5/1959&formDate=&formDateFlex=exact&dateType=range&processingtime=&addedFrom=&addedTo=&sid=bnogmegvkmahtknzrvyhnjxbmvprbfaw_wma-gateway004_1633613721659 Sale of Land for Industry Area Okayed

https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A1448A28D6430363D%40GB3NEWS-14EEAF144629C402%402436149-14EAD3E7C31F8870%4023-14EAD3E7C31F8870%40?h=2&fname=&lname=&fullname=&kwinc=%20%22Samuel%20Resnic%22&kwexc=&rgfromDate=&rgtoDate=&formDate=&formDateFlex=exact&dateType=range&state%5B0%5D=connecticut&state%5B1%5D=illinois&state%5B2%5D=indiana&state%5B3%5D=michigan&state%5B4%5D=nebraska&state%5B5%5D=new-hampshire&state%5B6%5D=new-jersey&state%5B7%5D=new-york&state%5B8%5D=ohio&state%5B9%5D=rhode-island&state%5B10%5D=texas&state%5B11%5D=wisconsin&processingtime=&addedFrom=&addedTo=&sid=zhwzbywsizgcsoyetmtdqoeunvpecfcg_wma-gateway009_1633614170968 Victory

https://archive.org/details/sim_united-states-congress-hearings-prints-and-reports_january-22-23-26-28-1959/page/462/mode/2up?q=%22Resnic%22 Urban Renewal effort

https://archive.org/details/sim_traffic-world_1960-09-17_106/page/42/mode/2up freight forwarder welcomed

Khrushchev controversy in first term, 1959

unclear to what degree the matter had been merely disussed or if it had been announced by the mayor's office, in his obituary the purported invitation was still mentioned

remarks on Khrushchev, economy

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1961 election

while president of the aldermen, part of the dozen or so figures who reorganized the Chamber of Commerce, expanding membership, removing perpetuity of directors, 1954

Personal life
Samuel Resnic was born in the Russian Empire on March 1, 1899, spending his childhood years there before his family immigrated to the United States in 1907. After attending Boston University, he attended Northeastern University where he received his law degree in 1928. The following year he moved to Holyoke to start his own practice. While the exact year of their marriage is unavailable, around this time Resnic had married his wife Theresa "Babe" Hendel; the couple had two sons, Burton and Harold.

Prior to his involvement in city politics Resnic served on a number of local bodies, being a member of the public service committee of the Holyoke Lions Club in the early 1930s, and

married before 1933

YMHA - part of history pageant, gave a history and overview activities of the YMHA

JCC founding president http://www.ajcarchives.org/AJC_DATA/Files/1941_1942_8_DirectoriesLists.pdf

resigned from AJC general committee in 1945

William Whiting Lodge? http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsYear1959

was member in the 1930s

Mayor
plans to move more business to industrial park

part of a municipal initiative to support slow auto sales,

https://archive.org/details/economygrocerystopandshopannualreports/stopandshop1962/page/18/mode/2up?q=%22Holyoke%22 McNulty Park (later dedicated), given by Stop and Shop during admin

Whiting Farms Road

-damages consulted with William Whiting III (son of William F. Whiting) only after the completion of the road

during his 1961 campaign, the mayor faced mounting criticism from rival Representative Stephen T. Chmura, who posited that the mayor had a conflict of interest in his connection as a founding member of the Regional Business Development Corporation which had bought 65 acres from the city, and for which Whiting Farms Road had been constructed for, noting, the mayor was the city's largest individual taxpayer, however his only non-corporate property was his own home

ultimately with the completion of I-91 and construction of the Holyoke Mall and other commercial properties, the road would be seen as a lasting positive legacy for the mayor within a decade of its completion

loss of White & Wyckoff in 1963 with a purchase from Dayton, Ohio's Western Stationery and Tablet; however during administration saw opening of the Springdale Instrual Park by the Holyoke Water Power Company, where firms like Acme Chain and opened plants. as well as a $1 million dollar Presntiss Wire Mill of H. K. Porter Co., in West Holyoke Industrial Park, developed by the mayor's Regional Business Development Corp.; new high school was already in the works, expected to be completed in 1964. awaiting a boost from the construction of I-91 which had been laid out, Resnic closed his term as "cautiously optimistic"

-Resnic countered $300,000 of new sewer construction had been done in Ward 3

criticism included delays to I-91 plans in order to incorporate a Lower Westfield Road interchange, today the exit at Ingleside for the Holyoke Mall

sale of land in 1959; part of broader effort to shore up new employment amidst what what was to be a beginning of the city's worst decline to date. despite these efforts, from 1955 to 1975, Holyoke saw a decline of 50% in manufacturing jobs

Electoral history
The first mayoral primary held in Holyoke

Business career
member of board of directors of Boston Garden for some duration in the 1960s

Bought silk mill following its closure, first sold in 1961 by the Skinners to Indian Head Mills, then shuttered in 1963. sold to marcus in 1969

Development of Bemis Heights and Resnic Drive

Hotel Essex

Legacy
Today Resnic is remembered for his development of what eventually became the Holyoke Mall and the industrial area today located by Whitney Avenue. Indeed he would live long enough after his mayoralty to see Whiting Farms Road, opponents once dubbing it the "Road to Nowhere", become a major thoroughfare. Although some of his land speculations would ultimately see this area supplant the former commerce and industry of downtown, this trend continued both prior to and after Resnic's tenure. Resnic is better remembered for a second road today, his namesake Resnic Boulevard, which was dedicated posthumously in June 1993, in part to improve emergency responses from the more easily confused Ross Avenue name it had for decades prior.

Serving as mayor during the first regular Holyoke Saint Patrick's Day Parade, Resnic is also remembered for presiding over the first shamrocks to be painted on public streets, and began the traditional mayor's reception, held annually prior to the parade. Receiving the Citizenship Award in 1968 for his contributions to the annual event, he marched in every parade prior to a stroke in 1985.