Brooklyn Footprints in Florida: David Sholtz

Another high profile Brooklyn Footprint in Florida would be that of David Sholtz, a Brooklyn native born to Jewish parents in 1891. Sholtz served as Florida Governor during the great Depression, from 1933 to 1937. We found the original article from a December, 1925 Brooklyn Daily Eagle that mentions Sholtz as a potential Governor for Florida At the time of the article Sholtz was living in Daytona Beach, Florida, where he had moved immediately following his graduation from Yale in 1914. hile reporting on the training camp of the Brooklyn National League Baseball Club in Daytona Beach several years prior to the 1925 article, the Brooklyn Eagle also mentioned the probability of David Sholtz one day being the first “Northern man” to become Governor of Florida. Eight years after the 1925 article Sholtz did just that, he was elected Florida’s 26th Governor in 1932. … Read More >Brooklyn Footprints in Florida: David Sholtz

Brooklyn Castle Interviews

“Seeing Brooklyn Castle changed my perspective as to the reality of using chess as an academic tool in the lower grades.”
Mayor Mike Ryan: Sunrise, Florida

The award winning documentary film Brooklyn Castle continues to inspire city government officials in Florida who are trying to incorporate academic chess programs into the lower grades because learning chess has proven to strengthen a child’s ability to exercise memory, pattern recognition, and decision making.

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