J. Jack Stoehr
Director General
1953

Malcolm Giles' term as Director General was cut short when he suffered a heart attack and died, at just age 59, in September 1953. He was replaced on an interim basis by J. Jack Stoehr, the well-respected Director of its most successful geographic region, which included Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. For a permanent successor, the Order turned to the commanding presence of Schmitz, the Membership Director who in 19 years had nurtured the fraternity from a low of 240,000 members during the worst of the Great