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C. Peter Jorgensen, Publisher of Fire Apparatus & Emergency Equipment Magazine, Passes Away
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Fire Apparatus & Emergency Equipment publisher C. Peter Jorgensen died of cancer at his home in Tunbridge, Vt., on Sept. 25 at age 68. He grew up in Arlington, Mass., where he joined the auxiliary fire department when he was 18.
During college he and friends ran a Boston news photo agency that supplied fire and emergency services photos to wire services and local newspapers.
He and his wife Kathryn, a Boston University journalism master’s program classmate, bought The Arlington Advocate in 1969. When they sold their company in 1986 they had six suburban weekly newspapers. He also published four Vermont and New Hampshire weeklies in the mid-1970s and The Commercial and Financial Chronicle in New York City, which he bought in 1973.
In 1986 Jorgensen and his wife started Historical Publications, which now publishes The Artilleryman, a quarterly magazine he founded in 1978; Civil War News, a current events newspaper started in 1988; and Fire Apparatus, the national fire service industry magazine Jorgensen started in 1996.
He owned Firetec Apparatus Sales from 1996 to 2002 and served on the Fire and Emergency Manufacturers and Services Association board of directors from 1998 to 2001.
Jorgensen was a dedicated first responder and carried his own jump kit and defibrillator. A highlight of his career came in May 2003 near Winchester, Va., when he revived a collapsed man with his defibrillator.
His varied interests and collections included military history, especially Civil War and World War II books and art, Mack fire trucks, cannons, John Deere tractors, bamboo fly rods and Civil War artifacts. He competed in carbine, musket, revolver, cannon and mortar events in the North-South Skirmish Association.
Jorgensen held an associate in arts degree and bachelor of science and master of science degrees in journalism from Boston University.
He is survived by his wife, Kathryn, of Tunbridge, a brother, sister and two nephews.
The funeral will be Saturday, Oct. 3, at 12 p.m. at the Tunbridge Church followed by a committal service and party, both at his 234 Monarch Hill Road home.
Memorial donations may be sent to the Tunbridge Public Library, PO Box 9, Tunbridge VT 05077; the Tunbridge Church, c/o Townsend Swayze, 56 Swayze Rd., Tunbridge VT 05077; or the Civil War Preservation Trust, 1331 H. St. NW, Suite 1001, Washington, DC 20005-4761.
Boardway & Cilley Funeral Home of Chelsea, Vt., is handling arrangements.
Fire Apparatus & Emergency Equipment publisher C. Peter Jorgensen died of cancer at his home in Tunbridge, Vt., on Sept. 25 at age 68. He grew up in Arlington, Mass., where he joined the auxiliary fire department when he was 18.
He and his wife Kathryn, a Boston University journalism master’s program classmate, bought The Arlington Advocate in 1969. When they sold their company in 1986 they had six suburban weekly newspapers. He also published four Vermont and New Hampshire weeklies in the mid-1970s and The Commercial and Financial Chronicle in New York City, which he bought in 1973.
In 1986 Jorgensen and his wife started Historical Publications, which now publishes The Artilleryman, a quarterly magazine he founded in 1978; Civil War News, a current events newspaper started in 1988; and Fire Apparatus, the national fire service industry magazine Jorgensen started in 1996.
He owned Firetec Apparatus Sales from 1996 to 2002 and served on the Fire and Emergency Manufacturers and Services Association board of directors from 1998 to 2001.
Jorgensen was a dedicated first responder and carried his own jump kit and defibrillator. A highlight of his career came in May 2003 near Winchester, Va., when he revived a collapsed man with his defibrillator.
His varied interests and collections included military history, especially Civil War and World War II books and art, Mack fire trucks, cannons, John Deere tractors, bamboo fly rods and Civil War artifacts. He competed in carbine, musket, revolver, cannon and mortar events in the North-South Skirmish Association.
Jorgensen held an associate in arts degree and bachelor of science and master of science degrees in journalism from Boston University.
He is survived by his wife, Kathryn, of Tunbridge, a brother, sister and two nephews.
The funeral will be Saturday, Oct. 3, at 12 p.m. at the Tunbridge Church followed by a committal service and party, both at his 234 Monarch Hill Road home.
Memorial donations may be sent to the Tunbridge Public Library, PO Box 9, Tunbridge VT 05077; the Tunbridge Church, c/o Townsend Swayze, 56 Swayze Rd., Tunbridge VT 05077; or the Civil War Preservation Trust, 1331 H. St. NW, Suite 1001, Washington, DC 20005-4761.
Boardway & Cilley Funeral Home of Chelsea, Vt., is handling arrangements.
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Permalink Reply by Sean McAdoo on
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I had the honor to know Pete long before I was in the fire service, as an occasional contributor to both the Artilleryman and Civil War News. I tried to emulate his journalistic success with my own periodic 'magazine.' When I joined the fire service, he and I had a few conversations on the matter, and my mentor again help provide a bit of guidance. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family; he will be missed.
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