Obituary for Leonard Miscall (died Aug 23, 1980)
The Ithaca Journal, Aug 25 1980, P. 3 with photo
"Leonard Miscall, actor, naval officer, dies at 83
Leonard Miscall, 83, of 114 Parker St., engineer, retired Navy captain, and silent films bit-player, died Saturday, Aug. 23, 1980, in Tompkins County Hospital after a long illness.
A 1919 graduate of Cornell University, Mr. Miscall had a long and varied career that took him around the world, but maintained his home in Ithaca.
He served as an engineering consultant with the United Nations in Turkey, Germany, Equador and Mexico, and was a captain in the U.S. Navy during both World War I and World War II.
During his 63 years in Ithaca, he held what he referred to as "every non-paying job in the city and county," serving on the county planning board, the City Board of Public Works, the Ithaca Housing Authority, the Economic Opportunity Corporation, the Environmental Planning Commission, and a plethora of other public boards and committees.
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In his early career, Miscall became a partner in a small contracting business, putting up the steel for such buildings as the Tompkins County Courthouse, the law school and Warren Hall at Cornell.
He spent most of the 20s working for Robert Treman, supervising construction of the local state parks from Enfield to Taughannock and Buttermilk, although the parks didn't have names at that time.
During World War II, he was commander of a crack SeaBee battalion that cleaned up Pearl Harbor. In his engineering work with the U.N. after the war, he supervised such operations as carving mountains for road-ways, moving seaports and building highways and hospitäls from China to Equador and Europe.
Mr. Miscall was born in Albany, son of the late Leonard and Louise Pendell Miscall. He was a member of the American Legion.
He is survived by his wife of 59 years, Rovene (Brick) C. Miscall; a son, Jack L. Miscall of St. Michaels, Md.; a daughter, Mrs. H. Sidney (Marylnn) Eighmey of Salisburg, Md.; a sister, Mrs. Millicent Gordon of Great Neck and three granddaughters and a grandson."