2001
Table of Contents
Stories of Success Across Freedom
Letter from the President
Freedom Orange County Information Division Report
Freedom Community Newspaper Division Report
Freedom Broadcasting Division Report
Freedom Magazines Division Report
Operating & Corporate Executives
Freedom's Family of Information & Entertainment Providers
RAYMOND C. H. BRYAN. Most recently, Mr. Bryan was business manager for the Executive Intelligence Division at Freedom Technology Media Group (FTMG) in New York. Previously, he was executive director of destinationCRM.com at FTMG and special projects manager. He is the grandson of the late Harry Hoiles, a son of Freedom founder R.C. Hoiles, and is the only fourth-generation Hoiles family member presently on the Board of Directors. A graduate of Skidmore College, Mr. Bryan was also assistant circulation manager at P.O.V. Magazine. He previously was an owner/operator of World Gym in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Mr. Bryan is 31 and a shareholder director, and has served on the company's Board of Directors since March 2000.
BYRON C. CAMPBELL. Mr. Campbell, now retired, is a veteran newspaper executive. He was publisher of the Fort Lauderdale News & Sun-Sentinel, the Los Angeles Daily News and the Bergen County (N.J.) Record. He was also president of the suburban publishing and commercial printing operations of the Chicago Tribune in the mid-1970s. He has served as a director of several family-owned newspaper companies and continues as a director of Newspapers of New England Inc. Mr. Campbell is 68 and an outside director, and has served on the company's Board of Directors since March 2000.
JOHN F. BITZER, JR. Mr. Bitzer has been a consultant for ABARTA Inc. since 1997. He was president of Abarta Inc. from 1972 to 1997 and CEO of Abarta Inc. from 1987 to 1997. Directorships include Abarta (until 1997), Arthritis Foundation, Vintage Inc., Fountainhead Foundation, University of Pittsburgh Family Enterprise Center and the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania. Mr. Bitzer is 66 and an outside director, and has served on the company's Board of Directors since 1995.
SCOTT N. FLANDERS. Mr. Flanders has been the chairman and CEO of Columbia House since 1999. In 1998, he was co-founder of Telstreet.com, an Indianapolis-based e-commerce company specializing in helping consumers shop for wireless products and services. He serves on several corporate boards: iUniverse.com, EoExchange, esky.com, Aprimo, and the Gazelle Fund. Mr. Flanders is 45 and an outside director, and has served on the company's Board or Directors since April 2000.
J. ROGER FRIEDMAN. Mr. Friedman has been the CEO of Lebhar-Friedman Inc. since 1983. Lebhar-Friedman is an information and database company with business magazines in the retailing and food service industries. Mr. Friedman is 68 and an outside director, and has served on the Board of Directors since March 2000.
J. MICHAEL HAGAN. Mr. Hagan was chairman and CEO of Furon Co. from 1991 until the company was sold in November 1999. Mr. Hagan joined Furon in 1967 and served as general manager, vice president, president and chief operating officer. Mr. Hagan also serves on the Board of Directors of Ameron International, Remedy Temp, Pimco Funds and Saint Gobain Corp. He also serves on the boards of South Coast Repertory and Taller San Jose and is on the Board of Regents at Santa Clara University. Mr. Hagan is 62 and an outside director, and has served on the company's Board of Directors since 1995.
DAVID C. HARDIE. Mr. Hardie has served as chairman, president and general partner in Hallador Inc. and Hallador Venture Partners since 1979. He has served on the boards of six venture-backed companies and American Recreation Centers, a NASD company. Also a stockbroker with Beckman Securities, he has served on Freedom's Retirement Investment Committee and currently is chairman of that committee. Mr. Hardie also serves as the chairman of Hallador Petroleum Co., Denver, Colo., a NASD Bulletin Board company, (HPCO.OB), and treasurer and director of The Parkinson's Institute of Sunnyvale, Calif. He served on the company's Board of Directors from 1975 to 1999 and returned to the Board of Directors in April 2001. Mr. Hardie is 51 and a shareholder director.
DOUGLAS R. HARDIE. Mr. Hardie has been the publisher of the Valley Morning Star in Harlingen, Texas, since 2000. Before that he served as the publisher of the Brownsville Herald from 1980 to 2000 and with the company in various capacities since 1969, serving at the company's newspaper operations in Colorado Springs, Panama City, Fort Walton Beach and at The Orange County Register, where he was assistant managing editor. Mr. Hardie is 55 and a shareholder director, and has served on the company's Board of Directors since 1971.
TIMOTHY C. HOILES. Mr. Hoiles is a principal of Hoiles et Filles Ltd., manager/owner Yankee Iron LLC, and president of First Nevada Affiliates Inc. Previously, Mr. Hoiles has held various positions with the company as publisher of the Daily Press in Victorville (1978-1990) and publisher of the Pampa Daily News (1974-1978). Mr. Hoiles serves on the Board of Directors of The Colorado Springs School Foundation. Mr. Hoiles is 49 and a shareholder director, and has served on the company's Board of Directors since 1974.
JAMES N. ROSSE. Mr. Rosse served as president and CEO and director of Freedom from 1992 to 1999 and has been a member of the Board of Directors of Cowles Media Co. from 1990 to the present. Mr. Rosse was provost of Stanford University from 1984-1992. He joined Stanford's economics faculty in 1965 and served as a founding director of Stanford's Center for Economic Policy Research, associate dean of Humanities and Sciences, and chairman of the Department of Economics.
R. DAVID THRESHIE. Mr. Threshie was publisher of The Orange County Register from 1979 to 1999, and a vice president of the company from 1971 to 1999. Mr. Threshie was with U.S. Steel Corp. from 1956 to 1962 and joined the company at the Colorado Springs Gazette in 1962. He became assistant business manager of The Orange County Register, general manager in 1970 and publisher in 1979. He is a graduate of Pomona College and has an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a past president of the California Newspaper Publishers Association, past president of the California Press Association and has been a board member of the Newspaper Association of America, the Newspaper Advertising Bureau and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. He is on the boards of the Orange County Performing Arts Center and the Boys & Girls Club of Santa Ana, the Advisory Board of the Orange County Salvation Army, and is a trustee of Chapman University. Mr. Threshie is 70 and a shareholder director, and has served on the Board of Directors since 1965.
SAMUEL C. WOLGEMUTH. Mr. Wolgemuth has been the company's president and chief executive officer since October 1999. He was president of the company's Magazine division from 1995 to 1999. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Wolgemuth was president of Simon and Schuster's Business and Professional Group. Before that he was the chief operating officer for Reed Travel Group, and also spent 15 years with McGraw-Hill. He is a graduate of Taylor University in Upland, Indiana with a bachelor of arts degree in Philosophy and attended post-graduate business study at INSEAD (Fontainebleu, France) and Stanford University. Mr. Wolgemuth serves on the Board of Directors of the Newspaper Association of America, World Relief, Youth for Christ, International and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Wolgemuth is 58 and the sole management director on the company's Board of Directors, and has served on the Board of Directors since 1999.
RICHARD A. WALLACE. Mr. Wallace is the company's vice president of corporate affairs and secretary and has held such positions since 1968. Mr. Wallace was general manager of The Orange County Register from 1974 to 1992 and the publisher of the Anaheim Bulletin from 1968 to 1974. Mr. Wallace currently serves as a member of various boards including: the Business Advisory Board of Reason Foundation, Board of Trustees of the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, The Palmer R. Chitester Foundation and the Newsprint Technical Committee of the Newspaper Association of America. Mr. Wallace is 62 and a shareholder director, and has served on the company's Board of Directors since 1968.