Lecture on the decline of area steel industry

Staff report

LIBERTY

New Castle, Pa., author Dale Perelman will lecture on the decline of the region’s steel industry at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Kravitz Deli meeting room, 3135 Belmont Ave.

Admission is $6 ($5 for members of the sponsor organization, the William Holmes McGuffey Historical Society).

The event will include a raffle to benefit the society’s education mission and music by Dolores DePietro. Reservations are suggested.

For 35 years, Perelman served as president of King’s Jewelry, which was founded by his grandfather in 1914 in Wheeling, W.Va.

He received a bachelor’s degree from Brown University and a master’s from the Wharton School.

He has written seven books: “Mountain of Light – the Story of the Koh-I-Noor Diamond,” “The Regent Diamond,” “Centenarians,” “Lessons My Father Taught Me,” “Steel,” “The Scottish Rite Cathedral,” and his latest publication, “Road to Rust.”

Perelman has served as president of the Jewelers of America, Diamond Council of America, New Castle Playhouse, the Credit Bureau of Youngstown, the Greater New Castle Chamber of Commerce, Temple Israel and currently serves on the boards of the Jameson Hospital Foundation, Orchards Nursing Homes, George Junior Republic, Western Pennsylvania Dyslexia Association, New Castle Score and the Cathedral Foundation.

To reserve a seat for Perelman’s lecture, or for information, contact Richard S. Scarsella, WHMHS chairman, at 330-726-8277.