Jack D. Cravens; L.A. Press Club Co-Founder

Jack D. Cravens, 81, the last surviving founding member of the Greater Los Angeles Press Club. Cravens was a reporter at the tabloid Daily News when he and seven others from Los Angeles’ four daily newspapers organized the club Sept. 24, 1946. Cravens served as president of the group in 1949. Later, Cravens, who covered the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office, earned a law degree from Southwestern University School of Law and joined the office as a prosecutor. A native of Lincoln, Neb., he attended Los Angeles’ Fairfax High School, where he helped edit the Colonial Gazette. Cravens worked as a singing waiter in Palm Springs, in Avalon and at the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles’ Ambassador Hotel before studying journalism at Los Angeles City College. He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II. On Jan. 10 in West Covina of pancreatic cancer.