Dick Greuel
Richard J. "Dick" Greuel (April 18, 1928 – December 3, 2013) was an American radio announcer, real estate businessman, and Democratic politician in the U.S. territory and state of Alaska. Greuel served as speaker of the Alaska Territorial House of Representatives during the last territorial legislature, and would also serve in the Alaska House of Representatives following statehood.
Biography
Richard Greuel was born in New Holstein, Wisconsin on April 18, 1928. Greuel came to Fairbanks, Alaska through his service in the U.S. Army and stayed there after leaving the Army. He spent a number of years working for Fairbanks radio station KFAR as an announcer and program director. He would later go on to work in real estate. Greuel was Presbyterian.
Political career
Greuel was a member of the Alaska Territorial House of Representatives from 1953 to 1958, serving as Speaker from 1957 to 1958. He was later a delegate to the 1960 Democratic National Convention that nominated John F. Kennedy for President of the United States. Greuel would later serve in the state House of Representatives in 1959. He also served on one of Governor William A. Egan's advisory redistricting boards.
Greuel
Greuel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Dick
Dick, Dicks or Dick's may refer to:
- Dick's Sporting Goods Park, a soccer stadium in Denver, Colorado
See also
Dick (slang)
Dick is an English language euphemism used for a variety of slang purposes, some generally considered vulgar. It is used to refer to the penis, and by extension as a verb to describe sexual activity. It is also used as a pejorative term for individuals who are considered to be rude, abrasive, inconsiderate, or otherwise contemptible. In this context, it can be used interchangeably with jerk, and can also be used as a verb to describe rude or deceitful actions. Variants include dickhead, which literally refers to the glans. The offensiveness of the word dick is complicated by the continued use of the word in inoffensive contexts, including as both a given name and a surname, in the popular British dessert, spotted dick, in the classic novel Moby-Dick, and in the Dick and Jane series of children's books. Uses such as these have provided a basis for comedy writers to exploit this juxtaposition through double entendre.
The word dick has had other slang meanings in the past. It was frequently used in mystery fiction to mean "detective", as with the 1940 W.C. Fields film, The Bank Dick (which was released in the United Kingdom as The Bank Detective). The word has sometimes been used to mean "nothing". Neither of these definitions were necessarily pejorative or related to the usual modern meaning of the word.
Dick (surname)
As a surname, Dick is the 1,513th most common name in Great Britain with 6,545 bearers. Although found in every part of Britain, the form Dick is especially common in Scotland, and it was from there, in the 17th century, that the surname was taken to Northern Ireland. It is most common in West Lothian, where it is the 78th most common surname with 1,742 bearers. Other notable concentrations include Northumberland (146th, 1,630), Tyne and Wear (335th, 1,738) and Berkshire (365th, 1,704) and in Norfolk.
Currently, in the U.S., it ranks at 1,388 out of 88,799 surnames.
