Testimonials

Vancouver WECC

2007-02-20 22:42:22 -0500

Arnie was one of the first people to befriend me when I joined WECCA. He always had a smile on his face and a bit of humour to pass along. I really enjoyed sitting beside him at meetings, he always

Ron Shindle

2007-02-20 22:39:31 -0500

It is about six years now since I first met Arnie. I had no idea that he was the Past President of the West End Community Centre. I had commented to him on the facilities’ short-comings and Arnie

Phil Burch

2007-02-20 22:26:04 -0500

When I think of Arnie Zucker,

one thing comes immediately

to mind – a man with

a thousand (or a million?) jokes,

some of them clean too.

What a man, what a memory!

— PHIL BURCH

Retired

Richard Jerome

2007-02-20 22:20:55 -0500

It’s been 16 years since I worked for Rutgers, and 16 since I last saw Arnie. I write for PEOPLE magazine now. But the Rutgers Newsletter was my first job, and Arnie’s office was across the hall. I

Phyllis Miller

2007-02-20 22:17:08 -0500

Arnie had the office across the hall from mine in Alexander Johnson Hall, when I was editor of the Rutgers Newsletter. Alii knew about him was that he had a vety important job: representing the

Herb Green

2007-02-20 22:01:53 -0500

I’m trying to work out my contribution so that it is not totally incoherent. It is not just the jokes that come to mind, they do, but I cannot remember a single one; it is your father’s unrelenting

Roger Cohen

Colleague & Friend

Arna: Putting it simply, your father was my role model. When I first met him in the summer of 1963 (working at the Radio Center), I fell in love with both of those jocular Jewish gents ... but dad

Nat Shoehalter

Longtime Colleague & Friend

The first Arnie I met was called Arnie Brooks. He was working at the local radio station where the use of one’s name was frowned upon. But he always managed to sneak it in when he did the newscasts.

Nina Shoehalter

Longtime friend

Memories of Arnie always include his velvety baritone voice on the phone or over the air. Then there was the wicked twinkle in his eye that always accompanied his vast store of jokes -groaners,

Harvey & Jan Trabb

Longtime friends

Arnie’s friendship was one of the great joys of my life. We were very close for years -- at Rutgers, in our monthly poker game, and in many other fun times, including those few special days he and

Larry Keene

Saying “Goodbye” to a friend, colleague, mentor, and respected Broadcaster is always difficult, at best. But Arnie is one of those who holds a special place in my heart because he was what might