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Home Town Brookline, Massachusetts
Last Address New Canaan, Connecticut In addition to his ashes being interred in the cemetery, some will also be spread over Vineyard Haven harbor.
Date of Passing Apr 07, 2012
Location of Interment West Chop Cemetery - Tisbury, Massachusetts
LTjg Myron Leon Wallace, USNR Mike Wallace, journalist
Mike (Myron Leon) Wallace, whose family's surname was originally Wallik, was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, to Russian Jewish immigrant parents, Frank and Zina (Sharfman) Wallace. His father was a grocer and insurance broker. Wallace attended Brookline High School, graduating in 1935. He graduated from the University of Michigan four years later with a Bachelor of Arts. While a college student he was a reporter for the Michigan Daily and belonged to the Alpha Gamma Chapter of the Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity.
Mike joined the Navy in December, 1943, at the age of 25, and served on the USS Anthedon AS-24, in the Pacific, as a Submarine Force communications officer, and later as officer in charge of radio entertainment at Great Lakes. He returned to commercial radio in 1946, acting in and announcing a variety of programs. For a period of five years, he was known around Chicago as “Mr. Radio.”
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Awards for Journalism:
Wallace's professional honors included 21 Emmy Awards, among them a report just weeks before the 9/11 terrorist attacks for an investigation on the former Soviet Union's smallpox program and concerns about terrorism. He has also won three Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, three George Foster Peabody Awards, a Robert E. Sherwood Award, a Distinguished Achievement Award from the University of Southern California School of Journalism and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in the international broadcast category. In September 2003, Wallace received a Lifetime Achievement Emmy, his 20th. Most recently, on October 13, 2007, Wallace was awarded the University of Illinois Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism.
