People Remembered: Chick Squire

C. B. (Chick) Squire

C. B. (Chick) Squire, 88, an OPC member since 1961, died in his sleep January 4 in Asheville, North Carolina.

From 1940 to his death, Squire was an editor, author, correspondent or consultant for many news organizations including Newsweek, CBS News, the New York Daily News, Daily Star in Dar al-Hayat, Lebanon (founding editor), The New York Times, Religious News Service, McGraw-Hill publications, The Chicago Tribune and London Illustrated News.

During World War II, he served as a volunteer ambulance driver for the American Field Service with the British 8th and 14th Armies in the Middle East, North Africa, Italy and India.

Squire served in a number of political offices including a Connecticut justice of the peace and several Democrat party posts.

He was the author of Heroes of Conservation (1973), co-author of Oil Industry U.S.A. (1977), co-author and general editor of The Saga of Section Six (1994) and editor of The Liz Reader (2002), a collection of short works by his late wife, author Elizabeth Daniels Squire.