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ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES SUNDAY, NOV. 20, 1994 9A McGuire things as they are and not as they might beThe group of people who worked on Pack Place are people who insisted on seeing things for Asheville as they might be," McGuire said. Several people among that group said McGuire's vision was the strongest, and it persevered through many setbacks. "It will be some time before people realize the depth to which he devoted his energies and re-' sources to the betterment of Asheville," said former Pack Place board member Sam Irvin. "I think we've lost the greatest, most gifted leader Ashevflle's ever had," said Sally Rhoades, a current board member.

"He was just a great visionary." McGuire put together the group that first proposed Pack Place, and was chairman of its board until he stepped down last year. He helped the institution weather the news that the old Plaza Theater, originally an integral part of plans for the complex, would have to be torn down, then helped raise the additional money needed when construction bids came in $2 million over estimates and still more money when the center experienced financial problems shortly after it opened. McGuire made "one of the largest (monetary) gifts to Pack Place, but his money didn't even begin to approach (the importance of) his personal effort," said Dur-ward Everett Pack Place's original treasurer. McGuire was also one of the sometimes controversial project's leading defenders. McGuire's efforts helped him recapture some of the excitement he felt as a child taking the streetcar from his outlying neighborhood to the downtown of his native Des Moines, Iowa.

"I've always loved that downtown, and every downtown where I've ever lived," he said in 1991. He left Des Moines to study journalism at the University of Missouri, and became involved in the company that published Progressive Farmer magazine after graduation, eventually becoming one of its top executives. He helped launch Southern Living magazine, directing adver tising sales for the magazine and later for its parent company during the 1960s and 1970s. In a 1993 interview, he remembered that experience as one of three "impossible" accomplishments Pack Place and his family's revival of a played-out farm when he was a boy were the other two'-he has been involved in. A memorial service will be held in the chapel at Warren Wilson College at 4 p.m.

Tuesday with a reception following. Staff writer Clarke Morrison contributed to this report Pre-Th an ksgi vi ng 35 oiHrVx 2- jt i 1 i(Ur 'l'): 'Z I) Tf Continued from page 1A jfarm in Riceville with his wife, Pat, became involved in a wide variety of civic projects. He worked for the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild playing a role in helping to i raise funds for the Folk Art Cen ter on the Blue Ridge Parkway -and was assistant to the president at Warren Wilson College for six years. He helped found Asheville Buncombe-Discovery, a group seeking to promote the quality of life in the Ashevflle area, served on the boards of the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina and the Arts Alliance, formed a company that turned an old Haywood Street building into shops and condominiums and became the guiding force behind Pack Place. I I think Roger was a compulsive good guy.

He had to do good in one form or another, said Phihp Morris, a long-time colleague who is editor at large of Southern Living. tie was raised to live nis me i 100 percent and to dream and to hope and to plan," his daughter MQm McGuire said. He saw the -potential of Asheville and he saw it as a diamond in the rough. He had a vision for what it could be and he tried to share that with people and bring people with him in that cause and he did it until the day that he went into the hospital." McGuire told an interviewer last year that his favorite quote was spoken by the character Don Quixote in the musical "Man of La Mancha." "He said, 'Madness is seeing ASHEVILLE Citizen-Times Telephone Extensions Switchboard 704-252-5611 Touch-Tone 704-252-5610 Advertising 252-5610, Ex. 481 Circulation 704-252-5622 Classified 704-252-5626 Extension Executive Editor 400 Editorial Page 405,406 Managing Editor 402 News Editor 414 Business 441 Entertainment 448 Features 429, 430 Library 408 Neighbors 425,403,417.420 Photo Department 407 Special Sections 404 Sports 470-474 WaynesvIM Office 452-1467 Brevard Office 884-9437 884-9487 Hendersonvtlle Circulation 1-800-800-4204, Ex.

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