Burick, Si

Simon "Si" Burick was born June 14, 1909, at the family home on Richmond Street in Dayton, Ohio. He was the oldest of seven children born to Rabbi Samuel and Lillian Burick. Si Burick attended Emerson Elementary School from kindergarten through eighth grade and Stivers High School.

During his junior year at Stivers, Burick began working as a correspondent for the Dayton Daily News, earning $2 per week for bringing Stivers High School sports reports to the newspaper. When Burick was only sixteen years old, he received his first byline for an article about Stivers High School football practice that appeared in the Dayton Daily News on August 26, 1925.

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