This week's Vintage Chicago Tribune newsletter is all about Chicago Bears owner Virginia McCaskey who turns 100 today.
‘Just the odor. It was almost overwhelming because the circus had just left town.’
‘The only place my dad would permit me to go to school was to go live with Uncle Walter and his family.’McCaskey enrolled at Drexel University in Philadelphia in 1939 when she was 16 and lived with her Uncle Walter, who was the school’s football, baseball and basketball coach. She majored in secretarial studies, a department the school started in 1914. Her plans were to become her father’s secretary.
“No,” Virginia answered. “Don’t you realize my father will never let us get married if the Bears lose?”“He wasn’t very happy about that,” McCaskey said.‘I probably live in the smallest house of any NFL executive, but that’s what Ed and I were comfortable doing.’
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