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4D NAPLES DAILY NEWS Thurs, Feb. 6, 1975 CHARLES M. ODORIZZI Industrialist Feels Fulfillment in Life By HOWARD CARSWELL There is a mellow effulgence to the inner glow of fulfillment in the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Charles M.

Odorizzi of 3760 Fort Charles Drive in Port Royal. A heart-rending never-give-up devotion to an infant daughter led Mrs. Odorizzi to an ultimate reward of now being honored as Outstanding Volunteer of the Year by the Mental Health Association of Florida for her benevolent work role as founder of the My program to help children with learning difficulties. His career story is in the saga of Horatio Alger. From a boyhood teller in a small town bank in northernmost Wisconsin it is a chronology, step-by-step, from repairing of General Electric appliances through Montgomery Ward Co.

and on to the pinnacle as group executive vice president of the RCA in New Rockefeller Center. For 17 years he was on the board of directors of RCA as the top corporate parent is now known. (And lest we forget, he caught the biggest tarpon last year, 115 pounds, nearly six feet off Cape Romano). mounted form adorns a wall in their porch room.) DeDe Colenso and Charles Odorizzi grew up together in Hurley, Wisconsin. The economic bust of the 1930s depression had them in Chicago where they married in that panicky 1931 year.

He made $125 a month; she did bookkeeping for a fashionable haberdashery. His humble start was doing repairs and services for a Chicago distributor of G. E. appliances. IT WAS THE worry over her own baby girl that impelled Mrs.

Odorizzi into a lifelong participation in problems of retarded children. could have, but did not, give up on her as a baby says Mrs. Odorizzi. that time I could cope with her as a slow learner under kindergarten age. But I kept trying.

By the time she was in the fourth grade her IQ was average. I cried with joy when she graduated from high school with top scholastic honors. I vowed then to never give up on The daughter is now Mrs. Terri Lynn Latshaw, holder of the Phi Beta Kappa key and Phi Kappa Phi scholastic honors. Her husband is a professor at the University of Delaware.

The other two daughters are Mrs. Carol Rae Dillman, whose husband is a computer technician with RCA at Middletown, N.J., and Mrs. Linda Lee Rudolph, who, with her her husband, very with an art and office supplies store in Dunedin, Fla. TWO YEARS AGO the Odorizzis chaperoned a group of retarded children to see Walt Disney World at Orlando and this, PROFILE both say, quite an experience for us, Their latest kindness is a similar trip to the circus at Venice. Mrs.

Odorizzi has worked a hard 520 hours of volunteer duty for the Mental Health Association of Collier County, and has financed the Stone for children three to five years old. The My is now in 11 schools. The story of up-the-ladder climb has to be elided. From the hard times of sevicing G.W. appliances he moved onward, from 1937 to 1949, to be national service manager in Chicago for Montgomery Ward Co.

as organizer of consumer products throughout 1,500 retail stores and nine mail order houses He was vice president over the mail order division that had 22,000 employes and $400 million in annual sales. Being only 33 years old at the time, he recalls, grew a mustache to make me look HIS ABILITY STIRRED the summons in 1949 to New York with Radio Corp. of America. At the time of early retirement at age 60 his responsibilities covered 35,000 employes and accounted for $1 billion in annual sales. He was chairman over several of the 10 RCA subsidiaries over which he was group executive vice president.

This operation of RCA was worldwide for servicing repairs and maintenance of TV, radio and various electronic communication products. It was none other than the late General David Sarnoff, the dominating builder of Radio Corp. of America, who gave the cue to Odorizzi to get off the treadmill and take early retirement. last day in his office was he says. was old and in failing health.

He said to me, make the mistake I made. You have good health. You have all the success in worldly goods. Take it easy from here on. You should Actually, final termination from RCA was in 1973 following a Philippine stint and acqusition of RCA Alaska Communications Inc.

as his latest accomplishment. The Odorizzis support the Collier County Conservancy. He is board chairman of Southeast National Bank of Naples, and consultant to Investors Research Development Corp. He has the honorary degree of Doctor of Space Science awarded by Florida Institute of Technology. They have had many other honors, of course.

A Published Writer, Girl Is Only 12 NEW YORK (UPI) Alexandra Sheedy sat on a loveseat, giggling and chattering about the novel she just finished. that I have deadlines life is easier and I have more time for homework and she said. She is petite and has long, golden hair. She is 12 years old and her friends call her Ally. Her first book comes out this fall, published by McGraw-Hill.

Its title is Was Nice to Mice: The Other Side of the Character of Queen Elizabeth I Never Before Revealed by Previous The book, a historical novel narrated by a mouse, also will be published in England. During an interview, Ally occasionally scuffled with her best friend, Jessica Levy, 13, who is drawing the illustrations for the book. child who thinks he or she can write a book should do it, and give up because grownups think it can be Ally said should be able to do Besideswritmgandattending some of the things they think class at New York ungraded they can do books, be in Bank Street School, Ally takes movies and stuff they ballet lessons twice a week at live without adults and the American Ballet Theater they know it. KON Titii THEATRE 41 ai'tti Mil 3 6 WALT DISNEY FEATURES AT 6:30 AND 8:45 THE TOWERING INFERNO TECHNICOLOR? RANAVISION' Now Appearing at The Caxambas Bar NAPLES TWIN DRIVE IN THEATER 1 NOW SNOWING 7:00 dipto nneil THEIDVEUFE United Producers in Color 2 LAST TIME TONITI 7:00 10:20 IMPULSE TOUCH OF SATAN 8:45 P.G. CHILDREN 5-11 FREE BOTH SHOWS Box Office Opens 630 Davis Blvd.

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