Jackson County IA Archives Obituaries.....Scholl, John H. May 11, 1988
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Maquoketa Sentinel-Press
Date: 7/1/2010 at 22:50:47 

Maquoketa Sentinel-Press, May 14, 1988 

AUTHOR JOHN H. SCHOLL DIES 

John Scholl, a colorful personality and writer who worked for several 
newspapers and wrote a novel based on Maquoketa, died Wednesday, May 11, 1988, 
in San Diego, California. He was 65 years of age. A Maquoketa native, Scholl 
worked for the Stars & Stripes newspaper in Europe during World War II. After 
the war he worked briefly as editor of the Maquoketa Community Press, then 
owned by John Robinson, and shortly afterward for the competing Jackson 
Sentinel under Carlyle Brown. He again worked for the Sentinel and Press 
selling advertising during the mid-1950s, after the newspapers were sold to 
Robert Melvold and merged to a twin-weekly operation. Interspersed were stints 
with large metropolitan newspapers, including the Salt Lake City Tribune and 
Memphis Commercial Appeal. Scholl may be best remembered by longtime 
Maquoketans as the author of a book titled “The Changing of the Guard,” a 
fictional account of the changes and conflict in a small community brought 
about by the growth of a major industry and employer in the town. The book, 
published in 1963 by Simon & Schuster, a major New York publishing house was a 
thinly veiled portrait of Maquoketa at the time, as viewed by Scholl. The book 
created controversy in the community as readers linked characters in the book 
to Maquoketans. Scholl later worked for the Dubuque Telegraph Herald writing 
feature stories on communities in the tri-state region. While in Maquoketa 
Scholl also worked as a news correspondent for area daily newspapers. He moved 
to California several years ago to be near other family members. Services will 
be held at 10 a.m. Monday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Maquoketa. 



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