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Did You Know? A Sports Moment in Rotary History, Charles Buschmann.

By on August 10, 2015

Excerpt from Gregg Doyel, gregg.doyel@indystar.com, IndyStar, August 8, 2015

buschmanDoyel: ‘Jim Thorpe of Indiana’ worth remembering
Before (Rotarian) Charles Buschmann was done — he died in 1964 at age 96, the oldest member of the city’s Rotary Club — he had won state medals in gymnastics, helped found the Indianapolis Athletic Club, carried a bowling average in the 170s into his 70s and was described in a 1947 newspaper story as “the Jim Thorpe of Indiana.”

Along the way he became business partners with Henry Severin, who built the Omni Severin in 1913. Charles Buschmann named his son after his business partner, and that son — Severin Buschmann Sr. — took the family into weird and wonderful directions. Read full story.

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