(12-28-2011 01:20 PM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  Easily the brightest light in the room whether it be in the real world or on-line. A damned good attorney and even a better person.

Best I can summarize, while he would be honored and genuinely touched that we would name the board in his honor, anyone who knew him knows that if he was here he'd be breaking us all down by now explaining why others were more deserving.

Fair winds and following seas, Captain.

That is hilarious and accurate as well. Glad to see you're still around as well Rathskeller.

(12-28-2011 02:55 PM)Bourgeois_Rage Wrote:  Here are some pictures from the last time I met up with Greg and some others on the board.

GTS was driving through Cincinnati and met to give him a UC sweatshirt as thanks for the work he did for the board. this was September 12th 2010. Too long ago.

Those guys make you look tiny B_R.

tnx for posting those pics b_r. i assumed gruehls had glasses, beard, and was also stroking it in a pensive, philosophical manner. but then again the g man never had to think, did he?

My condolences to gruehls family and to the Cincinnati Bearcat family. I thought gruehls was a very classy poster.

Condolences, our love and prayers for all the family. Greg was class personified, and will be missed.

I will really miss him on the Memphis board. He was a voice of reason on our tumultuous board.

Very sorry to hear this. Condolences to his family and friends.

=>Well, this is bad news. Always enjoyed trading jabs with him on http://www.miamihawktalk.com before Miami-UC football and basketball games.

It has been so many years. So many laughs, thoughts, ideas, conversations, too many to count really. Part of me just can't quite believe he is gone.

I will truly miss Greg Ruehlmann.

Here's another from back in 2004 just before midnight madness. Greg is on the far left with his wife, Jean. I only ever met him face to face a few times, but he was always welcoming to everyone.

I saw him a few other times, but do not have pictures. My other interactions on the board were through PM or phone calls and he was always top class. I've been reading all the threads on the different boards through the day and it is amazing to see all of the stories that have a similar tone.

Thanks for posting the pictures, Rage. Good to see that smiling face one more time. Treasured. The board, the world will not be the same without him. Terrible loss and of course my thoughts and prayers are with his wonderful wife and his family. So heartbreaking...

I just checked my voicemail on my phone and there's a saved one from him on it from about a year ago. I used to just flash past it because it has some information I need and haven't bothered to write down. I listened to it all the way through today. Strange.

Greg Ruehlmann, 56, 'didn't lose arguments'



MONFORT HEIGHTS — Greg Ruehlmann, an intense litigator with a kind heart, died suddenly Monday at his home. He was 56.

The son of former Cincinnati Mayor Eugene Ruehlmann, Mr. Ruehlmann lived for years with painful degenerative conditions in his back and knees.

But that didn’t quench his thirst for reading, for helping others or for spirited debates in the courtroom and at home, his family said.

“He was a litigator through and through,” his son Greg Ruehlmann Jr. of Chicago said. “He didn’t lose arguments.”

At 6-foot-3 and about 240 pounds, the former defensive tackle at St. Xavier High School and Northwestern University had a big personality and a big heart, family and friends said.

“Greg didn’t do anything small,” younger brother Mark Ruehlmann of Indian Hill said. “If my mom asked Greg to build a fire, it would be so big it would almost burn the house down.”

Greg Parson, a lifelong friend since meeting Mr. Ruehlmann at during first grade at St. Teresa of Avila School in West Price Hill, remembers debates that went on for days.

“He was persistent in his side and would fight tooth and nail so you would believe him,” Parson said. “And if you didn’t believe him, he’d mention it again the next time he saw you.”

But Mr. Ruehlmann’s back pain grew so intense that he retired from the Squire, Sanders & Dempsey law firm in 2010. On Christmas Day this year, the pain forced him to stay home rather than joining the family’s traditional Christmas gathering, said his sister Andrea Cornett of Milan, Ind.

Parson said Mr. Ruehlmann’s death was sudden, “but from my perspective, a blessing.”

“Over the last few years he’d been in severe pain,” Parson said. “Now the pain is gone, and for that I am most grateful.”

Mr. Ruehlmann graduated from St. Xavier and then went to Northwestern on a football scholarship, graduating in 1978. After earning his law degree in 1981 from Vanderbilt University, he returned home to practice law with his father.

Children Greg and Amanda Ruehlmann recall family trips to Hilton Head, S.C. and Gatlinburg, Tenn., and said their father was a voracious reader.

He loved listening to St. X games on the radio with the fire going in the fall,” Amanda Ruehlmann said.

Sister Cornett said her brother “could be intimidating because of his physical size, but if you knew him he was the kindest person you ever met.”

“I always saw him as my protector, both as a child and as an adult,” Cornett said.

Mr. Ruehlmann was preceded in death by his mother, Virginia Ruehlmann.

He is survived by his wife Jean Ruehlmann; father Eugene Ruehlmann; sons Greg Jr. of Chicago and Keith Ruehlmann of Columbus; daughters Amanda Ruehlmann of Delhi Township and Jennifer Terry of Dayton; and Adam Ruehlmann and Josh Hogan, to whom he was like a father.

He also is survived by sisters Ginny Wiltse of Delhi Township, Margie Straus of Green Township, Andrea Cornett of Milan, Ind.; brothers Pete Ruehlmann of Delhi Township, Jim Ruehlmann of Montgomery, Mark Ruehlmann of Indian Hill and Rick Ruehlmann of Mason, and dozens of nieces and nephews.

The family will host a visitation Friday at 10:30 a..m. at Meyer Funeral Home, 5864 Bridgetown Road, with the funeral to follow at 2 p.m. at St. Teresa of Avila Church at 1175 Overlook Ave. A private family burial will follow at St. John Cemetery in Delhi Township.

The family has requested donations to the Caring Response Madagascar Foundation, http://www.caringresponse.org or 1193 Balmoral Drive, Cincinnati, 45233; and Catholic Residential Services, 100 E. Eighth St., Cincinnati, 45202.

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20111...arguments-

When I finally figured out who Gruehls was, I realized that my wife (then girlfriend) worked with him for a couple years. He could come off as a tough poster, but my wife said he was the sweetest guy she'd worked with and really stood out in that way at that job (I remember one story about how his secretary got cancer and Greg gave her his parking spot and took her to lunch once a week, even while he was going through his own problems). He gave me a few rep points out of nowhere, so I gave him some back, saying he can seem like a badass but that I've heard he's really a softie. He PM'd me and couldn't have been nicer. My wife's pretty upset and she didn't even know him that well. Obviously one of those guys that touched many lives. RIP.

http://www.legacy.com/guestbook/cincinna...2&cid=full

I'll keep him in my prayers at the next Mass that I deacon. Although I never met him I know we have lost a good friend and fan.

The Greg in that picture is not the Greg I knew. Looks like he was going through some rough times at the end there. Very sorry to hear it. His wife Jean is a sweetheart as well, and was very nice to us the few times we met.

He was a real SOB on the internet, but one of the nicest people I ever met off of it. I'm still a little in shock and bummed about this. It is pretty awesome to read so many people that got to know him outside of his internet persona, because I know how easy it would be to misjudge him without knowing the person behind the screen name.

(12-28-2011 02:57 PM)Powerbait Wrote:  

(12-28-2011 01:20 PM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  Easily the brightest light in the room whether it be in the real world or on-line. A damned good attorney and even a better person.

Best I can summarize, while he would be honored and genuinely touched that we would name the board in his honor, anyone who knew him knows that if he was here he'd be breaking us all down by now explaining why others were more deserving.

Fair winds and following seas, Captain.

That is hilarious and accurate as well. Glad to see you're still around as well Rathskeller.

(12-28-2011 02:55 PM)Bourgeois_Rage Wrote:  Here are some pictures from the last time I met up with Greg and some others on the board.

GTS was driving through Cincinnati and met to give him a UC sweatshirt as thanks for the work he did for the board. this was September 12th 2010. Too long ago.

Those guys make you look tiny B_R.

Good times. Yeah, we look like B_R's offensive line.

Good to see you, too PB. Been way too long. BTW, I'm the one dressed like a tomato with what looks like glowing bike reflectors on the sleeves. Unkind camera.

Wow, condolences to his family. I liked him on the board and it sounds like he was definitely a great man.

We "Old Guys" would often get together and hoist a few on the West Side at the Roadhouse. There were 4 of us and in the end, he would make those get togethers that he could, and many that he couldn't saying he was having back pain. I believed him, and to this moment, don't think there were underlying problems, other than the obvious. I think in the end, the pain was just too much. God bless Greg. He will certainly be missed by those remaining.

http://ncaabbs.com/member.php?action=profile&uid=25444


I have moved gruehls into a new group -- Jersey Retired -- and appended to his signature.