Rossman H. Wynkoop, Newsman, Dead; Bergen Evening Record Managing Editor.
Rossman H. Wynkoop,
Newsman, Dead;
Bergen Evening Record
Managing Editor.

Rossman H. Wynkoop, Newsman, Dead;
Bergen Evening Record Managing Editor

Rossman H. Wynkoop.

Rossman H. Wynkoop.

Special to The New York Times.

    HACKENSACK, N.J., April 25--Rossman H. Wynkoop, managing editor of The Bergen Evening Record since 1930, died this morning in Harkness Pavilion, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York. He had been in failing health for two years and was a patient at the hospital since early this week. He was 60 years old.
    Mr. Wynkoop, known as "Scoop" since his days as a sports writer, began his newspaper career on the sports staff of The Asbury Park Press more than forty years ago. After serving overseas in World War I with the United States Shipping Board, he became a salesman for the Public Service Electric and Gas Company in 1919.
    The next year he was named sports editor of The Record and was promoted to managing editor in 1930.
    Active in newspaper groups, Mr. Wynkoop served as chairman of the Sports Committee of The Associated Press Managing Editors Association, president of the New Jersey Associated Press and president of the New Jersey Legislative Correspondents Club, of which he was also a trustee.
    He was also a member of many civic and fraternal organizations here and of the Holland Society of New York.
    Mr. Wynkoop is survived by his widow, Hildegard; two daughters, the Misses Suzanne and Melanie Wynkoop, and two sisters, Mrs. William H. Haight of Langhorne, Pa., and Mrs. Willet Weeks of Ridgewood.


Source:

Unknown, "Rossman H. Wynkoop, Newsman, Dead; Bergen Evening Record Managing Editor," The New York Times, New York, Monday, 26 April 1958, p. 19.


Notes:

    If you're interested in reading a bit more about "Scoop," I'd like to heartily recommend the following charming memoir:

Miers, Earl Schenck, The Night We Stopped the Trolley, New York, Four Winds Press, 1969, [Crusty "Scoop" Wyncoop initiated him into the slam-bang world of journalism.]

    "Scoop" was quite a character, one I would have liked to know. From other newspaper reports I've read he was tenacious, pugnacious and unwilling to back down from a fight. That sounds like my kind of a hard-headed Dutchman!

    I will be publishing his entry from Who's Who and other newspaper articles in which he featured as time permits. When I'm sure of his family lineage I will publish that as well.

    In the meantime, enjoy your first introduction to Ross "Scoop" Wynkoop.

    Chris

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