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Walter (Jerry) Moss
January 25, 2024
In a recent essay on role models, I wrote this about Tony:
In my last year of high school I did, however, discover a role model, though I probably didn´t think of him as such back then. His name was Elmer (Tony) Strobl, and he was the co-owner of Deno´s Pharmacy in Cincinnati, where I worked part-time for five years. He was a pharmacist, a bachelor, and he had served four years in the Navy during WWII and fought in the battle of Midway. But he didn´t talk much about those years. Instead, besides waiting on customers and occasionally playing chess, we talked a lot about books. He loved to read and enjoyed reading philosophy.
During most of my years working at Deno´s I was a student at Xavier, where almost all students had to take numerous philosophy courses, mainly based on the thinking of St. Thomas Aquinas. Tony liked to read Aquinas, as well as Aristotle, upon whose thinking Aquinas based many of his ideas. He also enjoyed reading good fiction like Dostoevsky´s The Brothers Karamazov. I can remember long discussions with Tony about the novel, as well as about various philosophers like Aristotle. Tony often bought books, and sometimes surprised me with a gift of one, for example a book containing the poetry of Keats and Shelly.
Thus, probably inadvertently, Tony encouraged my love of books and thinkers. But he also reinforced another idea I had then, and have maintained ever since, and that is that it is good to balance that love with being active in sports. In addition to being a weight-lifter (he was once "Mister Cincinnati" because of that), he also enjoyed golf and tennis, and we occasionally played those two sports together.
Walter (Jerry) Moss
May 19, 2023
I worked for Tony when a college student at Xavier in the late 1950s. He was a great influence, encouraging my love of philosophy and literature, both of which we often discussed.
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