What follows is at heart a UConn love story, one still going strong as it nears the half-century mark.<\/p>\n
It is excerpted from the recently\u00ad published \u201cDual \u00adIdentities: Living in Meier\u2019s Shadow\u201d by\u00a0Arthur M. Horwitz \u201976 (CLAS). In the memoir, Horwitz bookends his UConn story between tales of a childhood that includes delivering papers and mucking stalls in a tight-knit Jewish neighborhood of New \u00adHaven, Connecticut, and a newspaper career that \u2014 begun on said paper route \u2014 cycles through copyboy, reporter, bureau chief, and publisher stages to culminate in the establishment of the Arthur M. Horwitz Collection at the University of Michigan and the author\u2019s enshrinement in the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n
Layered throughout is the \u201cMeier\u201d of the title, the younger brother of Horwitz\u2019s mother who, unlike her, did not survive the Holocaust. His absent presence has permeated Horwitz\u2019s life and was one factor in his career choice.<\/p>\n
It also helped Horwitz recognize \u201ceven as a paperboy\u201d that every individual has a story to tell, and it is one of the things that made him \u201cfall in love even then with a profession\u201d focused on finding and telling those stories, on \u201cgiving voice to people whose voices are unheard or underrepresented. \u2026 As a child of a survivor,\u201d he considers, \u201cthat is six million individuals, each with a life, a path, a reflection.\u201d<\/p>\n