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Chicago Tribune Business Section 2 Friday, January 23, 2015 7 OBITUARIES EDDIE ZOLNA 1929-2015 (Oiicaao Daily Sribune Legendary Chicago 16-inch softball player's name entwined with game 'You think of softball 16-inch, you think Eddie Zolna." Jake Jakobi, who played center field on most of Mr. Zolna's championship teams ON JANUARY 23 In 1542, England's King Henry VIII took the title of King of Ireland. In 1845 Congress decided all national elections would be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of each November. In 1920 Holland refused to surrender former German Kaiser Wilhelm II to the Allies for punishment as a World War I criminal. In 1937, 17 Communist leaders confessed in Moscow that they had conspired with Leon Trotsky to undermine Josef Stalin's regime.

The confessions came at a trial during Stalin's "great purge." In 1950 the Knesset, Israel's parliament, proclaimed Jerusalem the capital of the Jewish state. In 1968 North Korea seized the U.S. Navy vessel Pueblo in the Sea of Japan, killed one crew member and held the other 82 as spies for 11 months. In 1973 President Richard Nixon announced that an accord had been reached to end the Vietnam War. In 1977 the television mini-series "Roots," based on Alex Haley's novel, began airing on ABC.

In 1988 more than 50,000 Israelis demonstrated in Tel Aviv to protest the treatment of Palestinians in the occupied territories. In 1991, after 12,000 sorties over Iraq and occupied Kuwait, Gen. Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, announced allied forces had achieved air superiority in the Persian Gulf War. In 1993 Thomas Dorsey, widely acknowledged as the father of gospel music and the author of more than 1,000 songs, died in Chicago; he was 93. In 2004 a unanimous Illinois Supreme Court upheld the mass commutations granted by former Gov.

George Ryan before he left office in January 2003. In 2012 First-term Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, 52, of Illinois underwent surgery at Northwestern Memorial Hospital after suffering an ischemic stroke. CHICAGO TRIBUNE By Patrick M.

O'Connell Tribune reporter Known as "Mr. Softball" and "Eddie the Edge" Eddie Zolna assembled, managed and pitched for championship teams that dominated Chicago's 16-inch softball scene throughout the 1960s and 70s. Mr. Zolna's team, the Bobcats, won 12 national titles by collecting a group of talented players who won year after year under the direction of their competitive, charismatic player-manager. A pitcher in more than 5,000 games over a six-decade career, Mr.

Zolna is a member of the Amateur Softball Association's National Softball Hall of Fame. "In Chicago, when you talk about softball to anybody, the name that always popped up was Eddie Zolna," said longtime teammate Willie Simpson. "He wanted to be the best. He wanted to win. He hated losing; that's what drove him to be the way he was." Mr.

Zolna, 85, died of complications from Alzheimer's disease Tuesday, Jan. 20, at his home in Frankfort, said his daughter Jayne Zolna He used his semisidearm pitching style and knowledge of opponents to expose batters' weaknesses, and positioned his fielders strategically to match players' tendencies, guarding against dead-pull hitters or those who liked to slap the ball to the opposite field. He was a smart left-handed hitter who could hit with power, punch the ball into the hole or loft hits to the outfield, teammates said. He was a three-time MVP and six-time All- Eddie Zolna, shown in the 1970s, is a member of the Amateur Softball Association's National Softball Hall of Fame. School, his daughter said.

He was a Chicago police officer for about 10 years, then opened his own insurance agency. He met his wife, Lorraine, at a softball game. They were married for 62 years and raised four children in Palos Heights. Mr. Zolna, who was an avid bowler in the offseason, often played softball five days a week in multiple leagues.

"He just loved the game," his daughter said. In 1989, Mr. Zolna was the first 16-inch softball player inducted in the Illinois Softball Hall of Fame. That same year, he was inducted into the National Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City, where he is the only men's slow pitch player from Chicago inducted, according to the hall. He wrote the book "Mastering Softball" with former Tribune columnist Mike Conklin, published in 1981.

Mr. Zolna also is survived by his wife; son, Eddie Zolna two other daughters, Judy Zolna and Jeanne Dresden; a sister, Mary Zbella; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. A visitation is set for 3 to 9 p.m. Tuesday in Kurtz Memorial Chapel, 65 Old Frankfort Way, Frankfort The funeral will be private. poconnelltribpub.com Twitter pmocwriter WINNING LOTTERY NUMBERS INDIANA Jan.

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The next season, he was on Mr. Zolna's team. "I went wherever he went," Simpson said. "He was a winner. He'd recruit you.

He'd always be out playing somewhere." Mr. Zolna also was a master motivator and leader, his former teammates said, handling everything from arguments with umpires to sponsorship deals so his team could STACEY ELIZABETH 'NANA' SHINEFLUG 1935-2015 Chicago Moving Company founder wielded 'ability to recharge people' We understand the individuality of your loved ones. Let us assist you in creating something special. HUSBAND FATHER PETER L.OELPHOS 1915 1995 focus on playing. "He was like the hub on a wheel, everything revolved around him," said Jake Jakobi, who played center field on most of Mr.

Zolna's championship teams. "He was a terrific guy and a terrific person. He loved the competition. You think of softball 16-inch, you think Eddie Zolna" Mr. Zolna formed the Bobcats in 1951.

The team won its first national ASA tournament in 1964 and then titles 11 of the next 15 years. Mr. Zolna was born in Chicago, and his family ran Zolna's Tavern at 51st Street and Washtenaw Avenue. Mr. Zolna attended St.

Simon the Apostle grammar school and St. Rita High School before graduating from Gage Park High WESCOTTCHICAGO TRIBUNE 2003 graphic fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council, and the Chicago Dance Coalition's Ruth Page Award for lifetime service in the field. In addition to her private lessons and her work with the Chicago Moving Company, Ms. Shineflug taught dance and movement for more than 30 years in Columbia's interdisciplinary arts graduate program. "She was often working with people who had never danced, never tried to use their bodies," Abell said, referring to students who had backgrounds in the arts but might never have been in a dance studio before.

"Nana just would not take no for an answer, telling them, 'You can do this, you will do and so they did," Abell said. Farrell called her mother a force of nature and said audiences could sense her positive energy. "There was joy in everything she did in dancing," Farrell said. Ms. Shineflug, who was divorced, also is survived by four grandchildren.

A celebration of Ms. Shineflug's life is being planned for the spring. Elizabeth "Nana" Shineflug started the Chicago Moving Company in 1972. It has toured in the U.S. and worldwide.

By Graydon Megan Special to the Tribune Elizabeth "Nana" Shine-flug, the founder and artistic director of the Chicago Moving Company, one of the first modern dance troupes in the Midwest, touched the lives of hundreds of students as a teacher, and reached audiences around the world as a dancer and choreographer. "Nana had this ability to recharge people and give them a sense of self-empowerment," said Jeff Abell, program director of Columbia College of Chicago's interdisciplinary arts graduate program, where Ms. Shineflug taught movement. "Hundreds of people who'd worked with her or taken classes with her had this 'Nana changed my life' story," Abell said. "It's a gift Nana really had." A 2005 Tribune story called Ms.

Shineflug "den mother to countless Chicago dancers and dance enthusiasts." Ms. Shineflug, 79, died of cancer Thursday, Jan. 15, in her Glenview home, said her daughter, Lisa Farrell. Born Elizabeth Stroh-meier, she grew up in Ev-anston and always had a love of movement and dance, her daughter said. After attending Evanston Township High School, she received an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Northwestern University.

She also earned a master's from Columbia, her family said. Family members said she taught math for a time at New Trier High School. Some of her movement pieces showed the influence of her interest in math, as well as Far Eastern culture and religion. "Not a single piece that didn't tie back to her own life," said her son, Otto. Ms.

Shineflug started the Chicago Moving Company in 1972. "She was teaching actively in the Chicago community and wanted to have a place where she could perform and dance herself," said Kay LaSota, the troupe's managing director. The Chicago Moving Company began by performing existing works by other artists, LaSota said, but later shifted to perform Ms. Shineflug's choreography "She had a technique called 'the conscious body which had a lot to do with energy and the beauty of the person that's displayed in the dance as well as the movement," LaSota said. Since the mid-1990s, the company has been arts partner in residence at the Hamlin Park Fieldhouse Theater in Chicago's Lake-view neighborhood.

The company has toured extensively, in the U.S. and around the world, giving performances in Germany, Mexico and Brazil. In the past few years, it entered into an ongoing cultural exchange with the Arts Council of Mongolia that included a monthlong tour to Ulan Bator in 2010. Ms. Shineflug received a number of awards and honors, including choreo We have been providing superior quality, selection and service to all cemeteries and faiths since 1878.

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