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CLEARWATER Kathy Marinello, who resigned from her position as president and CEO of car rental giant Hertz a week before the company filed for bankruptcy last May, has been named to the same positions at moving and storage company PODS.
Marinello, according to a statement, succeeds outgoing PODS President and CEO John Koch, who is retiring after more than eight years with the Clearwater-based company, a pioneer in portable moving and storage. Marinello held CEO posts at several other companies prior to Hertz, the release adds. The list includes Stream Global Services, Ceridian Corp., the Electronic Payments Group at First Data and the Fleet Commercial Finance, Consumer Insurance and Consumer Finance divisions of General Electric.
Farther Afield: Art the Old-Fashioned Way Brian Allen
Photograph courtesy of the Florence Academy of Art.
I’ve been intrigued by the Florence Academy of Art in Italy for years. It’s a small, prestigious art school that revived the kind of education Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, Abbott Handerson Thayer, and George de Forest Brush had, as well as hundreds of other Americans who studied in Paris in the late nineteenth century. It’s an atelier and draws on teaching principles once used in the best French art schools but also by the Old Masters. I visited in September. There are 130 students from thirty-five countries occupying what was once an old customs house a short walk from the Arno River and the historical center of Florence. This year is its thirtieth anniversary.
No one anticipated that Cleo Koch wouldn t pull through. Even though he was 102, he was in very good shape and COVID didn t seem to be making him that sick.
TREMONT At 102, Cleo Koch had survived a lot of things.
Koch was the subject of a Journal Star article which ran Nov. 24 on his 102nd birthday. The lifelong central Illinois resident was still exceedingly sharp, and he related memories of the area that few are left to recall.
Koch was born in 1918 on a farm in rural Tremont at a time when the fields were still plowed by horses. The Spanish Flu was raging around the world, and both he and his mother got sick.
“My mother caught it, and I wasn’t quite 2 weeks old,” Koch said. “She got it and she was nursing me, and her milk went bad. I wasn’t getting any nourishment, and the doctor said I wouldn’t make it. He didn’t tell her outright I wouldn’t live, but he said, ‘I wouldn’t give 25 cents for his chances.’ That’s pretty close to not worth much.”