Who is this guy?

Where were you when President Kennedy was shot?  Alan Spector was in Mr. Fendelman’s English class at University City Senior High School in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. 
      Alan grew up in the back alleys and on the sandlots, playgrounds, and ball fields of the city of St. Louis and of suburban University City, and he went on to play football and baseball in high school.  He and his class of 600 attended U City High, which was widely recognized for its academics, athletics, arts, and activities.  
 

    He continued his academic and sports careers in college, where he earned his BS-Electrical Engineering and played four years of varsity baseball.  Upon graduation from college, Alan joined the Procter & Gamble Company and retired 33 years later, having enjoyed a successful management career. 

In retirement, Alan has continued to pursue two of the passions of his youth, baseball and books, while also applying the skills he acquired in his business career to help others.  In his early 60s, Alan still plays baseball, about 75 games each year in leagues and tournaments around the country and around the world.  In 2007, he published his first book, Baseball: Never Too Old to Play “The” Game, enjoyed by readers across the country.  The book captured the essence of continuing to play baseball while growing older at the same time.

Alan and Ann, his wife of 40+ years, spend relatively little time at home in Cincinnati.  They travel the country and the world to play baseball, visit family, sightsee, and visit classmates.  Frequent family visits include trips to their daughter, son-in-law, and two grandsons in St. Louis and to their son, daughter-in-law and one grandson in Boston.

When Alan is home, he volunteers as a management and quality assurance consultant for social service programs and community initiatives.  He has been on the Board and Executive Committee for Every Child Succeeds, a prominent Cincinnati program that addresses the needs of at-risk families having their first child.  Recognizing the work he does for this program, the Cincinnati United Way selected Alan as their Impact Leadership Award honoree in 2006.  He also volunteers with and is on the Leadership Team of the Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Violence.

As a result of his work to bring business systems and practices to non-profit social programs, Alan has been asked to speak at the RAND Corporation Promising Practices Network Conference in Denver, at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business Domestic Corps Conference, and at the Northern Ohio Violent Crime Consortium.  He has also appeared on numerous radio and television shows and spoken at many organization events associated with the promotion of his first book.

One of many areas of Alan’s focus in retirement is staying close to the hundreds of his high school classmates who stay connected electronically; come together at reunions, regional mini-reunions,  and on class cruises; and actively support those in need.  It is the closeness of his class and the desire to share their story that initially inspired his second book, Hail, Hail to U City High.

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