[WIMom]

Any additional information, please post here. I just heard on the radio, he was found dead in a lake. That's all I know.

[Catspaw]

You're kidding. He DIED? And only weeks after the collapse of the building and the fire....

[Catspaw]

Just up on the Journal Sentinel website:

Quadracci dies in apparent drowning

From the Journal Sentinel

Last Updated: July 29, 2002

President and founder of Quad/Graphics, Harry V. "Larry" Quadracci, 66, died Monday in an apparent drowning in Pine Lake, near his Chenequa home. His body was discovered around 3 p.m. in about 4.5 feet of water after he had been missing all day, the Chenequa Police Department said. The cause of death was under investigation and the Waukesha County medical examiner will be conducting an autopsy.

[Jean S]

He lived on Pine Lake in Chenequa, WI. I wonder if that's the lake they found him in.
He had a cannon he used to fire into the lake, with live cannonballs, every year on the Fourth of July. His neighbors stopped it after years of complaining!
I'm so sorry to hear this, he was a good man and he did a lot for Wisconsin.

[quietolong]

bump

[Mike-o-Matic]

Wow, this is very sad news. The man built an empire and created a boatload of jobs.

Anybody know if he was having any health problems right after the fire (such as heart problems due to the stress)? That had to be really hard on his well-being.

[mafree]

OMG! I sure am shocked and sorry to hear this. He was a good businessman and corporate citizen. God rest his soul.

[WIMom]

Harry Quadracci

[Semi Civil Servant]

I'm often rabidly critical of corporate heads. The species has devolved over the decades into a group of jackals with loyalties to no one and nothing but themselves. (Yes, there are exceptions.)

In a time when we are witnessing the very worst in American business, Harry Quadracci represented the absolute best. He was a managerial genius who trusted his workers and let them decide their own economic fates. Quad/Graphics is one of the very few companies where "management" and the "workers" adore one another. Amazing.

If our corporate ruling class had followed the lead of Harry Quadracci -- instead of the parasite they chose to follow, "Chainsaw Al" Dunlap -- this country would be far better off today, and in more than an economic way.

Goodbye, Harry. You were one of the great ones.

[freebilly]

I publish 20+ coupon magazines/year that Quad Graphics prints. He's a legend in the industry....

[RFP]

Sad West Virginia pings from down the road from the Martinsburg plant. Quad is one of the largest employers here in the eastern panhandle.

[Solson]

Harry and his family wree scow sailors on Pine and other inland lakes. What a tragedy.

[1Old Pro]

We have a plant in Saratoga Springs, NY.

[Jhensy]

Never heard of him here in NY, but I know him now after reading these posts. A great American, RIP.

[July 4th]

Waukesha County bump. It's a big personal loss to the area - his company and donations have made a huge impact. My father has met him a few times, and said he was the most down-to-earth billionaire you'd ever find.

[Faraday]

A Waukesha County Coroner has issued a finding of accidental death by drowning. Mark Belling is raising questions as to why there was such a quick declaration of this given the circumstances--especially before toxicology reports are returned and reviewed.

[Faraday]

With both Harry Quadracci and Jane Pettit having died within the last 12 months, the cultural community in Milwaukee will be desperate. It will be interesting to see what provisions may have been made for their philanthropic wishes and who the non-profit sector beneficiaries might be.