[Excerpts from an extremely long article (he was editor of this paper).]
William D. Reimert, president and executive editor of the Call-Chronicle Newspapers, died at 9:20 last night at Sacred Heart Hospital. He was 67.
Reimert, an editor for 40 years, was one of the great newspapermen of his time.
One of the great satisfactions of his life was the more than 20 years of service he was able to give to Ursinus College, from which, like his father before him, he graduated in 1924. He was named to the college's board of trustees in 1947 and since 1964 has been president of the board. For five years before he was vice president and for most of his tenure was a member of the executive and finance committees. The college awarded him the honorary degree of doctor of laws at its Founder Day observance in 1956, citing him for "his success in the newspaper field, his wise counsel in helping direct the affairs of the college, and his public spirited devotion to affairs in his own community." In 1964 his college classmates had his portrait painted and placed it in the Ursinus library.
Cedar Crest awarded him a honorary doctor of literature degree in 1967.
Reimert was born in Summit Hill where his father, the late Rev. William A. Reimert, was pastor of St. Paul's Reformed Church, now the United Church of Christ. His mother, who died last year at the age of 92, was the former Mary A. Snyder of Lynnville. When he was 11 weeks old his parents took him to China where they went as missionaries of the Reformed Church. Rev. Reimert, who was president of Huping Christian College at Yochow was killed in 1920 by Chinese bandit-soldiers as he was trying to protect the women and children who were seeking refuge in the mission compound during one of the periodic invasions by Chinese warlords.
He is survived by his wife, Virginia Moorman Reimert, whom he married in 1932, a brother, Samuel Reimert of Huntingdon; and two sisters, Marguerite, wife of Albert C. Helwig of Rydal, and Kathryn, wife of Dr. John A. King, Boerne, Tex.
