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""1957 "Coronation court" at Webster Groves High. Jack, top row 4th from right; Wagner 3rd from right; Lang, 4th from left; 2nd row, L to R, Whitehead, Oliver, Hawkins (infamous); "King Fin" on right.""

" Steve Lang wearing Jack's mask which he called "The Face." Jack once wore it when Cy was driving in south St. Louis. We noticed Stan Musial at a light next to us and Jack rolled down his window and said "Hi Stan," who cracked up in laughter."

[Fwd: Re: cars of our youth]The attached came from Pete Straub and Cy Perkins. Be sure to play the attachments. It is the result of an email I sent telling of being arrested thrice -- once going 134mph on the Oklahoma turnpike, once doing 95 through Talequah,OK at 2:30 a.m. and once doing 104 near Springfield, MO. All happened on the same weekend. It was on a trip from My home in a St. Louis suburb to _Dallas_ to see my then current girlfriend who was in college there. The time was June, 1958. I was 19. I told my mom I was going fishing and would be back Sunday, It was Friday afternoon. I was in the drag racing Chevy of My sister's boy friend. We left my home about six in th evening. We arrived home Sunday about the same time. There was hardly a moment that we didn' exceed 100 mph.

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you'll find this hard to believe, but on a Fall weekend in 1958, I was a driver-passenger in a souped up drag racer that was stopped for speeding three times -- once for doing 134 mph on the OK turnpike, once for doing 95 through downtown Talequah, OK and once for doing 104 near Springfield, MO. I was behind the wheel in the latter case. On Friday p.m. I'd told my mom we were going just going fishing and would be back Sunday afternoon. In actuality, we were headed for dates in _Dallas _I was going with a high school classmate who was attending Texas Womens U. about 30 miles north of big D. We were supposed to go to the Texas State Fair on Saturday. We made it --and we got back on time! l--Forwarded Message Attachment--From:

Subject: RE: cars of our youthDate: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:43:24 -0400 I have only a vague recollection of such things in Webster, but I drove acar back from LA for a family friend and stopped in Albuquerque for thenight. There was a huge auto show in town and I went to it. My eyes poppedout of my head. All those cars looked just like the ones in movies. I canstill remember the chopped tops that left about six inches of wind shield,and all the chrome and high gloss paint. I was mesmerized and became moreand more thankful for growing up in the Groves. Thanks for sharing, Cy. Pete Some of our cars and music. http://thefiftiesandsixties.com/CarsWeDrove.htm

Jacks Bio for Leslie Family reunion

John (Jack) Robbins LorenzPosted March 11, 1999
Leslie Reunion 1999 home page Start of family tree Lorenz page in family tree
Born in St. Louis on 3/14/39, I'll be 60 in a few days. I graduated from the University of Tulsa (where I met my wife, Margaret) in '61. We both majored in Journalism. While at TU I worked and lived at a boy's prepschool where I coached football, basketball and baseball.
My older brother, Andy, was a coach and teacher at the same school. After graduation, I returned to St. Louis and got in the real estate business. I was Executive Director of the Building Owners and Managers Assn. before joining a public relations consulting firm for one year. In 1966 I joined the PR staff of Falstaff Brewing Corp. where I started a national river clean-up initiative called Operation Clean America and helped create the "Pitch In" anti-litter program.
A life-long outdoorsman, I moved to the Washington, DC area in 1973 to become editor of OUTDOOR AMERICA, the magazine of the Izaak Walton League of America, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious natural resource conservation groups. A year later I was named Executive Director of the League, a post I held for the next 18 years. During my stint as CEO of the League, I was asked to the White House numerous times to advise Presidents Ford, Carter, Reagan and Bush. These were the halcyon days for the environmental movement, a period of accomplishment, which may never be surpassed in the future. I'll not go into detail about the many victories of that era. They involve clean air and water, protection of wilderness areas in the lower 48 and Alaska and establishment of many wildlife refuges, wild and scenic rivers passage of new laws to prevent pollution. I was very fortunate to be able to play a significant role in these achievments.
I suffered a major heart attack in '91 and, following quintuple by-pass surgery, was forced to step down from my post in '92. For the past seven years I have served as a consultant to the League and as a member of the boards of directors of several national and local conservation groups.
Margaret is also in the environmental field. She is with the National Marine Fisheries Service, where she is a senior specialist in the Endangered Species Division.
We have two sons, John, 33, and Steve, 30. John is a social worker in San Francisco. Steve manages a book store in DC.

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Up Start
Maud Mary Knower Feb 20, 1875 - Sept 1951 m Jan 8, 1902 Charles Herbert Lorenz Feb 16, 1877 - Oct 1946
John Andrew Lorenz Feb 17, 1903 - July 29, 1958 m Aug 10, 1935 Laura Louise Robbins Jun 2, 1912 - Mar 2, 1961
Andrew Kenyon Lorenz Jul 21, 1936 m June 3, 1961 Sally Elizabeth Price 1938
Patricia Lorenz Apr 2, 1962
Andrew Lorenz Jan 1, 1965
Elizabeth Lorenz Sept 18, 1969
John Robbins Lorenz Mar 14, 1939 m Oct 12, 1963 Margaret Caldwell
John Caldwell Lorenz Sept 30, 1965
Steven Lorenz July 23, 1968
Anne Lazelle Lorenz Aug 21, 1941 m Sep 9, 1962 William L. Sullivan III Jul 25, 1938
John William Sullivan Jul 1, 1963 m Michelle Dennis
John William Sullivan Jr. 1990-
Laura Anne Sullivan Aug 27, 1964
Mary Catherine Sullivan Mar 7, 1966
David Allen Lorenz Nov 3, 1944 m Jun 17, 1970 Margaret Mathews
Daniel Matthew Lorenz 1975-
Theresa Lazelle Lorenz 1976-
Catherine Louise Lorenz 1978-
David Andrew Lorenz 1983-
Mary Scott Lorenz Nov 18, 1946 m Bill Dettman
Nancy Fox Lorenz Jun 16, 1951
Charles Knower Lorenz Nov 15, 1904 - 1966 m Oct 17, 1943 Virginia McCormick Feb 19, 1916 (divorced 1955)
Charles William Lorenz Jul 20, 1943 m Nov 31, 1965 Marilyn Chesky
Craig Lorenz 1976-
Virginia Lorenz 1978-
Daniel McCormick Lorenz Oct 22, 1944 m Dec 30, 1970 Nancy Klimas; Colleen Driscoll
Jessica Lorenz 1972-
Michael Lorenz 1975-
William Knower Lorenz Sept 16, 1947 m Marianne
Herbert Alan Lorenz Jan 30, 1906 - Mar 1, 1977 m July 16, 1932 Reta Deslile Renneberg Jan 16, 1907
Judith Christine Lorenz July 15, 1933 m Feb 11, 1956 Frank William Zwygart, Jr. Jan 14, 1933 (divorced Jul 1980); Robert C. Green
Frank William Zwygart III Aug 30, 1957 m Susan Cheatham; Bertha
Erin Elizabeth Zygart 1985-
Susan Leigh Zygart
Susan Leigh Zwygart May 27, 1960
Mary Eleanor Lorenz Apr 2, 1909 m Sep 24, 1930 Charles Henry Luecking May 29, 1906 - Jul 14, 1958
Marcy Luecking Aug 30, 1932 m Feb 5, 1955 Gustavas A. Buder III (divorced 1966) m Gerd Bastion Huber 1937
Cristy Lane Buder Jan 1, 1956 m Kenneth Morris
Gustavus A. Buder IV Aug 15, 1957
Mary Leslie Buder Feb 12, 1959 m James
Mitchell 1988-
Erika 1990-
Douglas Luecking Buder Sept 14, 1962
Charles Luedking Buder Sept 29, 1969 m Melida 1970-
Krystian Pablo Huber 1995-
Sarah Jane Luecking Mar 9, 1936 m Jun 17, 1959 Robert Babers Stell Dec 27, 1930
Mary Christi Stell Nov 2, 1963
Andrew Babers Stell Sep 24, 1963 m Cathy
John Luecking Stell Mar 25, 1968 m Elizabeth
James Leslie Lorenz Jun 20, 1920 m Jeanne Marie Polk (divorced 1952) m May 22, 1953 Patricia L. Tolliver (divorced 1963)
Leslie Scranton Lorenz 1945 m Ernest Figari (divorced Nov 1981); Robert See
Ernest Figari
Robert See
James Bruce Lorenz Jan 19, 1948 - Jan 10, 1950
Margaret Scott Lorenz 1951
Timothy George Lorenz Jul 16, 1958 m Glenda; Susan
Aubry Lorenz
Leslie Lorenz
Sarah Lorenz
Marcy Lorenz
Jared Lorenz

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Jack Lorenz, former Izaak Walton League director, 69
Jack Lorenz, conservation leader and early advocate of catch-and-release fishing who served as the executive director of the Izaak Walton League from 1974 to 1992, died of a stroke March 2 at Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego, where he was visiting. He was 69 and lived in Woodstock, Va. In The Washington Post.
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He was my beloved brother and I am so proud to have had him in our family. Best damn story teller on the face of the earth. Now he's fishing with our dad, his dog Peter, his father-in-law and O, so many others who waited for him patiently to join them in the great beyond. The world is a better place because of him, and the heavens are now more perfected by his presence. I love you, Jack.Nan
Posted by: Nan Lorenz March 17, 2009 at 11:16 AM

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OWAA headquarters is sad to report the death of 41-year OWAA member Jack Lorenz. He died Tuesday while vacationing in California. Conservation giant Lorenz was the executive director of the Izaak Walton League of America from 1974 to 1992. First serving as the League’s editor, Lorenz in his second year was hired as its CEO. During his tenure, Lorenz was honored with the League’s highest honors. He was also co-founder of The Wildlife Habitat Council, and authored several books. A church service will be held at 11 a.m. March 28 at St. Rita’s Catholic Church in Alexandria, Va., with a reception to follow at 1 p.m. at the Alexandria Country Day School on Russell Road in Alexandria. More details about Lorenz’s death are forthcoming. ◊
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jasonmcgarvey says: March 6th, 2009 at 11:15 am
The thing I admired most about Jack was his sense of humor. We’re finding that less and less in the conservation community these days. If you get a moment, read this article he wrote several years ago: http://www.vabass.com/Features/2002/April.htm. I think it should be required reading for every young person starting a career in conservation.
jvance says: March 6th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Jack’s death is a real blow on many fronts–the loss of a friend, the loss of a Chief and the loss of someone who fought long and hard as the voice of the Ikes for what’s right. I know it’s especially sad for those of us who knew Jack from his Missouri days on. He was a great guy and a credit to OWAA and to the Chiefs. We will miss him, we will miss his funny emails and we will miss his sage council in the thinning ranks of the Chiefs. With him and Tony Dean gone in less than a year we have seen two pillars of the group knocked down. That means the rest of us need to buckle up and do our best. Hail to Jack and lift a Falstaff in tribute!
mailbox says: March 6th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
From Spence Turner:
I’m deeply saddened. Jack was one of my heroes, both in the conservation community and in the communication community. I first met Jack when he was still in school here at the University of Missouri, and we crossed paths frequently in the years that followed. I talked him into running for the board and was disappointed when he resigned for what he considered ethical violations.
He was one of the most ethical individuals that I’ve known. I will miss him and the conservation community will miss him even more.
Rest in peace Jack. You will be missed.
Bruce Matthews says: March 10th, 2009 at 6:54 am
I served with Jack on the OWAA Board and I served in the conservation community along with him. The very first conservation luminary to walk through the door of the brand new Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation offices was Jack Lorenz, bringing an armful of art he thought should grace our bare walls, and a handful of his infamous “spotted dowls.” Jack mentored me, inspired me, and set a higher bar for me as an outdoorsman, writer, conservationist, board member and association manager. His legacy is tangible and lasting, I suspect more than most of us will ever know.
Thank you, Jack Lorenz.

Jack Lorenz, 1939-2009: Environmentalist, sportsman led Izaak Walton League

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Jack Lorenz, 1939-2009: Environmentalist, sportsman led Izaak Walton League
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By Matt Schudel
The Washington Post

March 16 2009

Jack Lorenz, who became a nationally prominent advocate for nature preservation during 18 years as executive director of the Izaak Walton League, and who developed a code of ethics governing outdoor activities, died of a stroke March 2 at Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego, where he was visiting. He was 69 and lived in Woodstock, Va.

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Editor's Note: We received the following email from Jack Lorenz, the outstanding and longtime Executive Director of the Izaak Walton League of America. It's a great story...so good that I asked Jack's permission to reprint it here...and he graciously agreed. (Tony) Tony: I must tell you of one of my most memorable moments in conservation -- Do you remember Joe Linduska? Joe was a recipient of OWAA's Jade of Chief's Award, our highest conservation honor for communications, but he was also a winner of the Wildlife's Society's highest honor, the Aldo Leopold award, which is presented at the Society's annual banquet. That event closes the North American Wildlife Conference every March. Like the Jade of Chiefs award, the honoree's name is a secret until the banquet presentation. In March of '82, I was at the head table (Where all CEOs of conservation organizations are traditionally ensconced for the evening) and TWS president began to read the litany of accomplishments of the soon to be announced honoree. About halfway throughthe presentation, most of us had turned to watch Joe as his career was well known and he was a favorite of everyone in the room. It was one of those honors no one could argue with. When Joe's name was called, we all stood and gave him a standing ovation. Seated in the middle of the room, Joe, with his ever present pipe, strolled slowly towards the dais, taking time to shake hands with all seated there. Once at the microphone, Joe, sans emotion, gazed out over the then hushed crowd and turned his head very slowly side to side. He was trying to catch the eye of each person in the room. After a good two minutes, he bent for ward and spoke slowly and very clearly into the mike. He said, "Well...Its...about...goddamn....time!" The room erupted. People were on their feet clapping, hooting and even crying with joy. I was one of the cheerleaders. No one, other than Joe, who was always making people laugh and who looked like a bushy-browed Russian Commissar, could have pulled that off. Here it is, nearly 20 years later and I still laugh each time I think of that evening. I only wish I had the guts to do the same when I received the few awards I have on my wall. Joe passed away seven or eight years ago and was Lonnie Williamson's best friend. Joe will always be one of my all-time heroes. Man, could he write about the great outdoors! Just had to share that with you, Tony. Regards, Jack Lorenz

From the Columbia Missourian

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http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2009/03/15/environmentalist-jack-lorenz-69-dies/

Get Paid to Fish!by Jack

Jack Lorenz Showing off a Lake Winnipesaukee, NH Smallmouth
I wouldn't trade my nearly 60-year bass fishing career for anything, Not only have I chased the critters in every state and Canadian province where they swim, but, most often, I've been paid to do it!What's the secret? Get into conservation as a profession. That is not as hard as you might think. If you pursue a conservation career as intensely as you pursue that "hawg" of your dreams, you just might pull it off. I call it the PPPV formula for success. PPP&V is an acronym for "Perspectives, Priorities and Piss and Vinegar."Before I share some stories with you, lets look at those terms: "Perspectives" means knowing what makes aquatic habitats healthy and how we must (not can) strive to keep them that way. "Priorities" simply means that you give as much to resource conservation as you do to your gear and the endless stringer full of "BS" we all toss about so readily. Ask yourself, "Do I fish today, or do I spend a few hours improving the stream/lake/pond where that wall hanger waits for me? Being there picking up trash may not be the best investment of your conservation time. It could well be taking part in the activities of a group whose mission is defense of your favorite spot. And "Pand V" is nothing but your personal energetic action. The most committed angler-conservationist is a little more than a bottom feeder without some degree of personal involvement in habitat care. Look at it this way: would you expect to win a raffle if you never bought a ticket? Get involved. Make an investment -- and if there is no group protecting your "honey hole" -- start one! These stories will help illustrate my little lecture. In 1949, my father gave me a birthday present that literally decided the course of my life. He took me on a week-long float down the Buffalo river in Arkansas. Memories of that more than half century old trip remain as clear as they did when I was 10. Try this on: 246 smallies to four lbs. by noon of our second day out. (Kids keep count of such things.) Crystal clear water, hawks soaring above towering bluffs, deer, turkeys and other wild critters seemingly around every bend and a campfire on a gravel bar every night. If that isn't a sportsman's paradise, I don't know what is. A couple of years later, a proposal to obliterate that fishery with high dams was put forth. Though just in my early teens, I got into the campaign to "Save the Buffalo." Is it any wonder? That wild, spirited river flows today just as it did 53 years ago -- and by casting between the hundreds of canoes bobbing downriver each weekend, you can still catch many nice smallmouth. I went back there on the 50th anniversary of my first float and had a super day. While I know my efforts in the 50s were minimal, I still feel like my investment was worth every second I put into the fight. Beaver, Table Rock, Bull Shoals, Taneycomo and Norfork -- the chain of lakes on the White river, a watershed north in Missouri, are world famous as well. Both wild rivers and 50,000 acre impoundments are needed. Few places in the nation provide higher quality stream and flat water bass fisheries within a few miles of each other. If anyone ever runs a contest to find the dumbest things anglers do, I have a personal entry. When I was 19 I was invited to fish a farm pond that was reported to harbor big bass. It was a Saturday morn in April when I hit the 1/3-acre backyard impoundment at 6:30 a.m. with a big, shiny Rebel floater. I was off the pond three hours later with a stringer of nine largemouths. The smallest went 4.5 and the biggest weighed a hair over nine. I had a great time, impressed all my buddies -- and left the pond totally bereft of big fish. I had literally burgled the Fort Knox of bassing in that area of St. Louis County. I returned dozens of times to that tiny hole and never caught a fish over two lbs. again. Ever. Even the bluegill population became stunted after my idiocy. Understandably, my memories of that day are the opposite of those I have about the Buffalo. As is often the case with little private fisheries in the path of suburban sprawl, that little treasure is now far beneath the parking lot of a huge shopping center. That's progress? I think not. The conservation lesson from that little misadventure is twofold -- Put the fish back and don't pave over their homes. Guilt is a major factor in fund raising (something I've done a lot of) It also can be a conservation spawner. That lesson hit home in 1971 when, recalling my teenage ego trip, I wrote a catch and release program for my friend, Ray Scott. He considered it, sought the input of other fisheries leaders, honed the ideas and announced "Don't Kill Your Catch" in early 1972. As we are all well aware, "DKYC" became a permanent, and highly acclaimed, part of Ray's increasingly popular BASS tournament circuit. Scott's power as a promoter was matched only by his ability to see the impact he was having on both the nation's anglers and its fisheries. He knew that putting fish back was both good for the resource -- and his bank account. I have never doubted that my pangs of guilt over what I had done to that little pond sparked the creation of that catch and release proposal. Thus, both wonderful and regrettable outdoor experiences can lead to significant conservation initiatives. I have dozens, if not hundreds, more examples of how each of us can make a difference that will benefit the fish and the fisheries that produce them, but this is plenty for now. Just know this: The conservation field is always in need of new people, new ideas and most of all, more "P&V." Without a fresh infusion of all three, our fishing future will be far less bright than our bassing past. Copyright 2002 Jack Lorenz All Rights

Jack Lorenz, 63, is a nationally known retired conservation administrator, active outdoor writer and former guide on Missouri's famed Table Rock lake. Hailing from St. Louis, Jack is the former executive director of the Izaak Walton League of America and past president of the American League of Anglers. He currently serves on the boards of three conservation groups. His 40+ year writing career includes features in BASSMASTER, OUTDOOR AMERICA and a dozens of other journals. Jack has been a bass angler since his dad took him to the clear smallmouth streams and storied impoundments of the Ozark mountain country. A resident of Alexandria, VA for the past 30 years, Jack says, "my four decades of conservation work and story telling have allowed me to fish in 49 states and all Canadian Provinces -- and I owe that good fortune to a life-long passion for bass fishing."

Champion of Environmental Stewardship

Champion of Environmental Stewardship
By Matt SchudelWashington Post Staff WriterSunday, March 15, 2009; C08
Jack Lorenz, who became a nationally prominent advocate for nature preservation during 18 years as executive director of the Izaak Walton League, and who developed a code of ethics governing outdoor activities, died of a stroke March 2 at Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego, where he was visiting. He was 69 and lived in Woodstock, Va.
In 1974, Mr. Lorenz became leader of the Izaak Walton League, a conservation group long associated with fishermen, and made it a leading voice in the nation's environmental debates.
He was best known for establishing the league's outdoor ethics program, which is based on a simple but far-reaching credo: "We must leave our woods, waters and wildlife better than we found them, and we must dedicate ourselves to inspiring others to do the same."
He helped launch stream cleanup programs across the country, often with the participation of schoolchildren and senior citizens, and formed partnerships with businesses to preserve company-owned land in its natural state. He was a founder of an influential coalition of environmental organizations now known as the Green Group. As off-road vehicles became increasingly popular in the 1980s, Mr. Lorenz put pressure on manufacturers to change their advertising, which often depicted people barreling heedlessly through forests and streams.
"He was the nation's spokesman for many years on the ethical management of hunting, angling and off-road vehicle use," said Paul W. Hansen, who was executive director of the Izaak Walton League from 1995 to 2007. "He was one of the nation's most well known and popular environmentalists."
Affable and easygoing, Mr. Lorenz had the rare ability to find common ground among such disparate groups as the Sierra Club, National Rifle Association, businesses and recreational sportsmen. He denounced the thoughtless despoliation of the outdoors without condemning hunters or fishermen.
"When we silently countenance slob hunting in a friend," he said, "we become slobs ourselves."
A dedicated fisherman, Mr. Lorenz accomplished a lifelong goal of fishing in all 50 states and each of Canada's 10 provinces. But in the 1970s he challenged fellow members of the angling fraternity when he spoke out against killing fish caught during tournaments.
He was considered a kook at first, but he was quietly persuasive and helped popularize the slogan "Don't Kill Your Catch." Today, "catch and release" is an established practice in sport fishing, and virtually all tournaments require hooked fish to be returned to the water unharmed.
Mr. Lorenz's work was guided by the principle that every step into the wild should be taken with understanding and respect.
"Hunting, fishing, camping, birding, hiking or simply witnessing a spectacular sunset while strolling along a beach -- it's all worth preserving for ourselves and those who will follow us," he said in 1987. "We dare not take it for granted."
John Robbins Lorenz was born March 14, 1939, in St. Louis and grew up fishing on the rivers and lakes of Missouri and Arkansas. He graduated from the University of Tulsa in 1961 and worked early in his career for the Falstaff Brewing Corp. in St. Louis.
One of his jobs was to accompany Dizzy Dean, the Hall of Fame baseball pitcher and broadcaster, on public appearances for Falstaff.
"We talked a lot of baseball, but mostly we talked about fishing," Mr. Lorenz told the Charleston (W.Va.) Daily Mail in 1997. "Diz lived in Mississippi, and when I'd brag about the size of some fish I'd caught, Diz would say, 'Pardner, down in Mississippi we've got fish that are that big between the eyes.' "
In 1973, when Mr. Lorenz was named editor of Outdoor America, the publication of the Izaak Walton League, he loaded his family into a Volkswagen Beetle and drove to Washington. A year later, he became executive director of the league, which is named for the 17th-century author of "The Compleat Angler."
Mr. Lorenz rarely stepped into the world of politics, but he made an exception when President Ronald Reagan nominated James Watt as interior secretary in 1981.
"We've never done anything like this before," he said. "But our members simply can't see this man as a responsible steward of the environment. People say, 'He hasn't done anything yet.' But I don't have to see the body in the water if I can smell it."
After a severe heart attack, Mr. Lorenz resigned as executive director of the league in 1992 but continued to write for its publications and to refine its outdoor ethics programs. In 2004, he moved from Alexandria to a home on the North Fork of the Shenandoah River, which he considered one of the finest bass-fishing spots in the country. With a trip to Hawaii in 2007, he completed his personal quest of fishing in all 50 states.
Survivors include his wife of 45 years, Margaret Caldwell Lorenz of Woodstock; two sons, John C. Lorenz of Vallejo, Calif., and Stephen F. Lorenz of Accokeek; two brothers; three sisters; and a grandson.
Mr. Lorenz was a member of the Izaak Walton League's hall of fame and received the top conservation awards of the Outdoor Writers Association of America and Natural Resources Council of America. He was a co-founder of the Wildlife Habitat Council and was chairman of the Washington Conservation Roundtable.
When asked to describe the significance of Mr. Lorenz's contributions to the natural world, Hansen, his former Izaak Walton League colleague, said: "Jack's response was that gratitude of our children will be thanks enough for our work."