From the January 2008 Peg-Board

JACK ZANDER, the first president of the Screen Cartoonists Guild in 1938, died on December 17 at the age of ninety-nine.

Jack began at the Rohmer Grey Studio in 1930. He started at Schlesinger in 1933 on the day Friz Freleng threatened to take the entire staff out on strike if Leon didn't pay them their back wages!

He was one of the last surviving animators of the Hanna-Barbera MGM team who animated on the Tom & Jerry shorts. Jack was the first president of the Screen Cartoonists Guild, and he ran two of the most successful commercial animation studios on Madison Ave., Pelican and Zander's Animation Parlor...

Jack rode a Harley Davidson motorcycle, and rode his Hog across country to get his Annie Award when he was almost ninety years old. In my humble opinion, he gave one of the best Annie Award speeches ever:

"Getting this award at this great age kinda reminds me of the joke about the two old men walking down a road until one encountered a talking frog. The Frog said ëI am not a real frog but an enchanted princess. Kiss me and I shall turn into a beautiful woman and do any erotic thing your heart desires!' The man pocketed the frog and they walked on. After awhile the man's companion said to him: ëAren't you going to kiss her?' The old man replied: ëWhen you reach my age, some times you'd rather have a talking frog.' Thank you."

-- Tom Sito